Satisfactory

Hi Pioneers!

Today it’s the release of our first content update since leaving early access and we would like to introduce you all to our newest features with our 1.1 update!

This update is available right now on the Experimental version of the game, so before trying it out it’s always good to BACKUP YOUR SAVES

This is how you can access the Experimental version:

Why Experimental?

Since the 1.0 release, we want to continue delivering a stable experience on the default version of the game

Using experimental allows us to polish everything up some more before releasing it to everyone and potentially including some side effects which might affect the current experience

Also, as usual this update is quite big in terms of changes as we’ve been working alongside with Fishlabs ( https://fishlabs.de ) for a few years now

They have designed and implemented the controller support in preparation for the Console release (Yes, Satisfactory is coming to consoles if you didn’t know already) with our blessing and collaboration

This update includes many years worth of work so as usual, if you find anything unexpected or something that was working before suddenly does not work anymore, please let us know over at our QA Site https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/

Your posts are incredibly helpful and your feedback is always appreciated, But for now let’s dive into the new content <3

1.1 New features:

Controller support

We are very excited to finally announce controller support available in Satisfactory, with both Xbox and DualSense™ controllers supported

To get started, connect your controller and go into the Options menu > Controls > General > Select Controls > Controller > Apply

Photo Mode

There’s been a major overhaul to the existing Photo Mode adding brand new UI and Settings

Including a multitude of new filters, effects, poses, frames, colour adjustments, camera lens controls to tweak to your liking, there’s a huge number of possibilities to get the ideal shot of you and your factories or you and your friends in multiplayer

There’s also a dolly mode so you can create small transitions and videos or anything your creativity allows, as well as multiple grid and crop settings for aspect ratios

You can also decouple the camera to move it around within a range of the pioneer and toggle visibility options for the Pioneer or even have the option to have the Pioneer’s helmet follow the camera around

Crash Site Dismantling

You will also now will finally be able to clean up debris from Crash Sites from your biomes and get some extra resources for your efforts by doing so

Just remember that you must open and retrieve the Hard Drive inside the Crash Site first to be able to dismantle everything

Personnel Elevator

To expand your traversal options for Pioneers in larger factories, you can now build and use the new Personnel Elevator

Once you do the initial elevator placement, you will be able to zoop vertically to desired your elevation and add as many Elevator Floor Stops as you wish to match with your factory design

You will be able to customize the names for each floor as well as the icons and colours for each button that you can press to access each floor so you can keep track of exactly where each stop leads

Advanced Game Settings

No Fuel setting

The highly requested “No fuel” option has finally been added to Advanced Game Settings, so you if you enjoy playing with AGS, you no longer have to do extra steps when using vehicles

Trains

Buffer Stops

We’re introducing a new mechanic for trains, when manually driving a Train and reaching the end of the railway, Trains will now derail entirely and you will have to interact with the train in order to get it back on the rail, similar to how Train Collisions work

To prevent this, you now must place Buffer Stops at the end of Railway paths, Including Train Stations, that you intend to manually drive through

QOL

Left-handed Path and Block Signals

Both Path signals and Block signals now have a “Left Side” and “Right Side” build mode that can be alternated by pressing R when having the hologram active