But if they do that it has to look like the ones from the original Jurassic Park movie. You'll need to charge it then hit a button sequence every time you lose power.
Really a breath of fresh air compared to a lot of development studios. I'm still not used to it. Seeing this constant communication from them can still be surprising at times, lol.
These updates to power infrastructure is such a quality of life upgrade. It's gonna be less tedious to get started with far out factories, and late game the priority switch is just going to make it so you don't have to spend time running across the map to manage power. Great work! And seriously - don't stress about being late with the update. Thank you for being honest and taking care of your employees while still doing great work.
they might use a upgrade system so you could upgrade them like conveyor belts so kibits would only have to upgrade each are he put them in and assign a priority to each... still a major project but not like full rewiring
One thing that's still difficult to do is plot out smooth paths and curves, like when running power long-distance to a miner. It would be nice if some kind of "planning spline curve" could be added to the map interface, and it would somewhat guide power line, conveyor, and hyper-tube placement in the world. I definitely like the power towers, as it will make those long-distance runs look so much more believable!
@@Macolvayeah, 8 was thinking the same. the frame foundations, some beams, and some beam connectors/supports into concrete pillars acting as footers would be perfect for adding as much height to the towers as I want
What I see with the power switches and towers is a line of towers thats for long distances, with poles coming off from them into a switch which is connected to the specific segment.
Really looking forward to update 8, to start a whole new playthrough. I would still love it if you could add CURVES for roads and platforms, a girl can dream :)
Curves is a tricky part. There are big variety of radiuses, angles and inclinations. And what to do with paintings? Actually, roads are not exist. There are only foundations for clean up a factory
New players starting out after update 8 will never know the struggles! Amazing how these small additions will make such a huge difference. Thanks Coffee Stain Studios, helps a lot!
3:10 I *LOVE* how your build it then race the materials for it to the tower using zipline. That was hilarious. I was kinda hoping the towers would carry 2 individual lines and you could use them to run 2 different networks across the world. That would be even more helpful now that we have the priority power switches. But Im sure we can still manage with them as one, just takes a bit more planning ahead.
Thanks Coffee Stain Studios for designing such awesome features! Seriously -- this changes a LOT and will make me want to build big distributed factories again
All of my factories are already distributed. It will be awesome planning them out to where power load is managed properly. I basically generate far more power then I currently use and continue to do so. It will be awesome to set it up to where the passive power generation is enough to cold start other power generation factories. Also, I have been moving to centralize and the fuse system would allow for not having to do that.
The continual addition of amazing quality of life improvements just blows me away again and again. The power towers reaching further than normal lines is just so nice. Thank you folks!!
I already wire things with specific poles to act as cutoff points. This is like that but SO much better. This is such an awesome feature. I also love it that you made a power tower with a platform specifically for zipline purposes. Yet another 10/10 update.
Great news. What also would be great is when you could connect constructors and all the production stuff to the next one directly without a powertower in between!
Thanks CSS devs for all your powerful hard work you are pushing into Satisfactory. I think we all here already bought the game since Update 1, 2,5 or whatever and to be honest.. I would pay again when the 1.0 patch is coming out with story mode because you are the only studio I would support to do that if you keep your strategy like now to talk to us transparently. And as someone who creates something with UE5 as a hobby and worked already in another gaming company, I couldn't imagine a better studio like CSS. Not all heroes wear capes and you are truly one of them
Thanks Coffee Stain Studios for designing amazing features helps a lot! I've been running a wild network of switches connected to different things to sort of emulate this, genuinely excited to go tear it all up and make use of the vastly superior priority power switches :D it will be far less headache inducing to manage power, the title of "change the way you think about power" is absolutely accurate
These are awesome features. One thing that would be the ultimate cherry on top would be if the power towers had a mount point in them for belts/hypertubes. I know you'd need to lengthen max build distances for those objects as well, but man, that would be pretty sweet to get some free belt highway slots along with them.
I work in power generation. The priority power groups behave exactly like the grid load shed system I monitor, where the lowest priority groups are shed in sequence until the grid stabilises. Great job 🙂
This is really great, even just with a coal generator setup, to make its own power grid, you had to do a lot of adjustments with batteries just so you could walk by it with your hover pack on without tripping the fuse. This makes that all super simple.
Not only is the game exceptionally satisfactory, the consistency of updates and the brilliant updates are also exceptionally satisfactory. I have never been more satisfied.
I hope we get an Alarm that we can make sound if they're connected to power and that a new switch turns on or off when one of the Power values drops below or ries above another one or a set constant. That way you would get alerted before it's too late. A sensor for when a conveyor belt or pipe fills up, empties or goes below a certain throughput would also be great for fault detection.
Sweet buff to the zipline! I gotta say, when I saw the teaser, I was thinking "wouldn't it be cool to have a zipline cable car", and you did! :) So cool.
Thank you Coffee Stain Studios! I am overwhelmed by the spectacular features with the new Priority Power switch. So VERY happy to hear this made it into release plans, and with far more features than I ever expected. I truly look forward to building a new Satisfactory map with these items encouraging the expansion of new design approaches.
Hello, CS. I work in energy company. the main task is not only the quality and provision of sufficient energy for consumers, but also the safe transportation from producers to consumers. There are different voltage levels. e.g. 500kV, 220kV, 110kV, etc. When transferring a large amount of energy, there is a risk of overloading the line, the equipment cannot pass too much current, you have to build new lines or increase the voltage (to reduce the current strength) by adding new substations and transformers. Also, when delivering energy over long distances, there are big losses and sometimes it is more expedient to build separate stations for internal needs next to consumers (of course, reactive power is also to blame here). If there is at least some opportunity to implement at least some of this in the future, it would be great!)
There’s no game that comes out with actually cool and game changing features so consistently. I’ve always felt this way. Satisfactory is one of my favorite games probably of all time.
I love the powertowers. Ive been building Powerpoles with the same task as a powertower, but it always lacked a good visual difference to my casual powerpoles. Love the higher Cable range aswell.
I love that this is kind of a buff for the zip line. Always a great idea and something I would imagine doing when I was a kid riding in the car. So happy I can live my 5 year old dreams now 😂
I was thinking the same thing hehe. Love how all these machines must be capable of both generating and running on infinitely high voltage given the 0% loss over distance, and yet somehow still prevent the infinitely large resulting magnetic field around the cables from being absorbed by surrounding matter, which would render the loss near-100%. This is the kind of innovation that we need more in the world.
@@FrankyFeedlerin all fairness Satisfactory is not even close to attempting to be realistic / a simulation 😉 And I for one love it for not being like that. The world has plenty of overcomplicated games already 😋
I made a blueprint called Power Towers! It’s a stackable building segment that’s full of backup power chargers. Pile them on top of each other to make a tower. So happy to hear the name was good enough for Coffee Stain!
I was just thinking this week about writing and suggesting a power switch almost exactly like you have designed. Thanks for including that in update 8. That will solve many problems and make game play a lot more enjoyable. Kudos!
Last save I did 5 separate power lines for each facility: power production, materials production, non-critical awesome sinks, utilities (lights, radar, hypertube), and backup. This seems like it could just be one line, and the remote control to disable/enable distant facilities. Great work.
I've been building with this in mind from the day I was handed a breaker. Been waiting for this for so long, I will never again need to make the long walks to flip a switch, huzzah!
As an electrician, the power distribution network is my favorite part of the game. I'm definitely going to use these as switch gears to control different floors/processes within single factories. Absolutely great addition, but can they be isolated or is there only one master list of fuse priorities?
Those are some really great looking features. One, minor, suggestion: Having the remote priority power switches greyed out, in the fuse menu, makes it look like you can't interact with them. You may want to consider a different color scheme or a different way of distinguishing the switch you're at from the others. (Maybe just put a star next to it?)
I really love how you develop the game step by step and how you communicate with the players (us). Even if there is some delay or technical problem with videos, you tell everything clear which is rare.
Mind blown. I love both additions and I think both will change a ton of things in a good way. When I saw dude zipping on a fresh line, my jaw dropped. Life changer right there.
One idea to add to the priority switch is an emergency spot so when the power shuts off it lets power go to the factory like if you have nuclear you can kick an emergency nuclear waste recycler or emergency fuel plant to start up a nuclear plant after a melt down
Thanks Coffee Stain Studios for finally adding Tops, Bottoms, and Switches, that's a feature I've been longing for since the alpha
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Making the fuse sequence tab an actual bank of circuit breakers / fuses would be cool looking.
Feels like this is definitely missing because there are some great breaker switches in other parts of the game already.
But if they do that it has to look like the ones from the original Jurassic Park movie. You'll need to charge it then hit a button sequence every time you lose power.
yah pls do this, some breaker animation that get red near break point and a clear indication of what is local and what is remote would also be cool.
like em clicky clackys when pressing
give them a chance to implement it then they can go back and rework the aesthetics of it
I literally love Coffee Stain. The constant updates, the communication, and the sheer LOVE they have for their game. It's wonderful.
You can absolutely tell they want to try out some crazy ideas that don't fit with the game as well. Whatever they make next is going to be insane.
Really a breath of fresh air compared to a lot of development studios. I'm still not used to it. Seeing this constant communication from them can still be surprising at times, lol.
Those new power towers will really 'dominate' the landscape, while the new breakers are more of a 'sub' system.
I cant decide if i hate or love this joke
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1000% !! 🎉
Thanks for commenting this first. I was feeling too lazy to type that out word-for-word, heh.
@@Headlock123456789 But your comment is even longer?
Agree
I concur.
Power top, Power bottom, Power Switch, and Jace sweating about power... Coffee Stain must have the wildest team building events ever :)
I misheard it as the Party Power Switch and I'm sticking with it.
Sounds fun to me. And hey, the platform is vaguely collar shaped…
Important when you want to connect sub...stations ;p
This ❤️
there is a lot of "power exchange" going on for sure!
To all the people that work at Coffee Stain Studios, making Satisfactory more and more awesome, I say thank you. Many many times.
These updates to power infrastructure is such a quality of life upgrade. It's gonna be less tedious to get started with far out factories, and late game the priority switch is just going to make it so you don't have to spend time running across the map to manage power. Great work! And seriously - don't stress about being late with the update. Thank you for being honest and taking care of your employees while still doing great work.
I love how human Coffee Stain Studios devs and community managers are. One of the few game studios that are for the people.
the whole industry was like this before the mega studios took over and bought up and shutdown the smaller ones.
And of the people... oh wait, wrong game!
For the people at epic maybe yes, gave 0 shits when they pulled it off steam for cash money.
Can't wait to see Kibitz running around and rewiring his entire factory... again. This is gonna be funny.
I had the same thought while watching jayce saying it lol
he won't. i reckon he'll just start a new season. aint no way he is gonna rewire
Kibitzs will forget to put the Nuke plant on highest priority. LOL
they might use a upgrade system so you could upgrade them like conveyor belts so kibits would only have to upgrade each are he put them in and assign a priority to each... still a major project but not like full rewiring
why? 1 wire each building, slap down a controller, done
One thing that's still difficult to do is plot out smooth paths and curves, like when running power long-distance to a miner. It would be nice if some kind of "planning spline curve" could be added to the map interface, and it would somewhat guide power line, conveyor, and hyper-tube placement in the world.
I definitely like the power towers, as it will make those long-distance runs look so much more believable!
So so freaking excited for this. I know it gets said a lot, but you guys are literally the best gaming dev company in existence.
I'm hoping the power tower is taller than it looks. If the power lines don't clear the top platform of a refinery that will be unsatisfactory
maybe they''ll make em in different sizes later on idk
If not, you could blueprint up a nice base pedestal
Could be cool if they did these power towers in the mk1, mk2 and mk3 format though.
The lines look like they would clear the refinery, but maybe not the smoke stacks.
@@Macolvayeah, 8 was thinking the same. the frame foundations, some beams, and some beam connectors/supports into concrete pillars acting as footers would be perfect for adding as much height to the towers as I want
What I see with the power switches and towers is a line of towers thats for long distances, with poles coming off from them into a switch which is connected to the specific segment.
Good thinking Batman!
@@maksphoto78 this is the only thinking you'll see before I start doing Spaghetti belts and power poles all over the place heh
Really looking forward to update 8, to start a whole new playthrough. I would still love it if you could add CURVES for roads and platforms, a girl can dream :)
Yes please 🙏🙏🙏
Yes please. People doing all kinds of hacks and weird tricks to get curves. There is a need.
A Road building Tool Just Like in those train tracks ❤
@@mihauadam5760 yes this. Maybe even have different size roads like 2 lane/4 lane. With different materials available.
Curves is a tricky part. There are big variety of radiuses, angles and inclinations.
And what to do with paintings?
Actually, roads are not exist. There are only foundations for clean up a factory
New players starting out after update 8 will never know the struggles! Amazing how these small additions will make such a huge difference. Thanks Coffee Stain Studios, helps a lot!
back in my day, we had to run conveyors uphill both ways!
I never cease to be impressed with how much work Coffee Stain has put into this game. Especially given it's still Early Access!
3:10 I *LOVE* how your build it then race the materials for it to the tower using zipline. That was hilarious. I was kinda hoping the towers would carry 2 individual lines and you could use them to run 2 different networks across the world. That would be even more helpful now that we have the priority power switches. But Im sure we can still manage with them as one, just takes a bit more planning ahead.
Just imagine at what speed you'd have to throw out a cable in order to be able to zipline it before it's actually attached on the other end. Amazing!
Thanks Coffee Stain Studios for designing such awesome features! Seriously -- this changes a LOT and will make me want to build big distributed factories again
All of my factories are already distributed. It will be awesome planning them out to where power load is managed properly. I basically generate far more power then I currently use and continue to do so. It will be awesome to set it up to where the passive power generation is enough to cold start other power generation factories.
Also, I have been moving to centralize and the fuse system would allow for not having to do that.
The continual addition of amazing quality of life improvements just blows me away again and again. The power towers reaching further than normal lines is just so nice. Thank you folks!!
Haha Bottle I forgot that you also played Satisfactory funny seeing you here
Your fuse rating might be too little if it's blown out so often
Thanks Coffee Stain Studios for designing amazing features and thanks Jace, helps a lot!
I already wire things with specific poles to act as cutoff points. This is like that but SO much better. This is such an awesome feature. I also love it that you made a power tower with a platform specifically for zipline purposes. Yet another 10/10 update.
I am so Glad you added length to the big towers!! I made my own similar, but length of wire was always an issue! Stoked for this update to drop!
Jace, those Power Top, Bottom, and Switch jokes had me dying! Thanks as always for the information.
Great news. What also would be great is when you could connect constructors and all the production stuff to the next one directly without a powertower in between!
Thanks, Coffee Stain Studios, for designing amazing features! Helps a lot!
well that was..................................................empowering
Ah a fellow dad joke slinger I see
Thanks CSS devs for all your powerful hard work you are pushing into Satisfactory. I think we all here already bought the game since Update 1, 2,5 or whatever and to be honest.. I would pay again when the 1.0 patch is coming out with story mode because you are the only studio I would support to do that if you keep your strategy like now to talk to us transparently. And as someone who creates something with UE5 as a hobby and worked already in another gaming company, I couldn't imagine a better studio like CSS.
Not all heroes wear capes and you are truly one of them
Brill! Wish more studios where producing solid game improvments like this.
Who is Brill?
@@Adaephonable It's short for Brilliant
This changes everything! Being able to remotely switch on or off sections of factories? Yes, please!
Thanks Coffee Stain Studios for designing amazing features helps a lot! I've been running a wild network of switches connected to different things to sort of emulate this, genuinely excited to go tear it all up and make use of the vastly superior priority power switches :D it will be far less headache inducing to manage power, the title of "change the way you think about power" is absolutely accurate
3:11 that clip of runnning a zipline on not graphically yet constructed power tower looks sick tho.
These are awesome features. One thing that would be the ultimate cherry on top would be if the power towers had a mount point in them for belts/hypertubes. I know you'd need to lengthen max build distances for those objects as well, but man, that would be pretty sweet to get some free belt highway slots along with them.
Thanks Coffee Stain Studios Devs for designing (even more) amazing features, helps a lot!
4:57 Load shedding! What a well thought out implementation of a very real world technique 👍
thanks coffee stain studios for designing amazing features, love you work!
OMG, I thought the video title "Change the way you think about power" was overselling it, but I was wrong. This is fantastic. Thank you, developers!
I work in power generation. The priority power groups behave exactly like the grid load shed system I monitor, where the lowest priority groups are shed in sequence until the grid stabilises. Great job 🙂
This is really great, even just with a coal generator setup, to make its own power grid, you had to do a lot of adjustments with batteries just so you could walk by it with your hover pack on without tripping the fuse. This makes that all super simple.
It's beautiful jace!
Give the team all our love!
Lots of smooches and high fives for all the homies!
I love that Jace does what he wants in these. He cannot be stopped! The power stuff looks great and I'm so excited!
Thanks, Coffee Stain Studios for designing amazing features. Helps a lot!
"Power top and power bottom "you just killed me 🤣
Not only is the game exceptionally satisfactory, the consistency of updates and the brilliant updates are also exceptionally satisfactory. I have never been more satisfied.
Thanks Coffee Stain Studios for designing amazing features helps a lot you can do that !
I hope we get an Alarm that we can make sound if they're connected to power and that a new switch turns on or off when one of the Power values drops below or ries above another one or a set constant. That way you would get alerted before it's too late. A sensor for when a conveyor belt or pipe fills up, empties or goes below a certain throughput would also be great for fault detection.
Sweet buff to the zipline! I gotta say, when I saw the teaser, I was thinking "wouldn't it be cool to have a zipline cable car", and you did! :) So cool.
Yes, Finally! Good job to the Satisfactory team!
Thanks Coffee Stain Studios for designing amazing Features it helps alot!
I wish we could link a priority power switch with storage, it would be nice to shut stuff off when we have enough of a thing.
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OMG Yes. A little less fear when it comes to lossing power to my pumps and extractors. Thank you Coffe Stain Studios for all the hard work.
Thank you Coffee Stain Studios! I am overwhelmed by the spectacular features with the new Priority Power switch. So VERY happy to hear this made it into release plans, and with far more features than I ever expected.
I truly look forward to building a new Satisfactory map with these items encouraging the expansion of new design approaches.
Hello, CS. I work in energy company. the main task is not only the quality and provision of sufficient energy for consumers, but also the safe transportation from producers to consumers. There are different voltage levels. e.g. 500kV, 220kV, 110kV, etc. When transferring a large amount of energy, there is a risk of overloading the line, the equipment cannot pass too much current, you have to build new lines or increase the voltage (to reduce the current strength) by adding new substations and transformers. Also, when delivering energy over long distances, there are big losses and sometimes it is more expedient to build separate stations for internal needs next to consumers (of course, reactive power is also to blame here). If there is at least some opportunity to implement at least some of this in the future, it would be great!)
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So wholesome to hear Jace fantasizing about long cables and power tops!
1:21 Jace, we love you, please never change 😂
There’s no game that comes out with actually cool and game changing features so consistently. I’ve always felt this way. Satisfactory is one of my favorite games probably of all time.
“There’s a power top… and a power bottom”
Don't forget the power switch ;)
I love the powertowers. Ive been building Powerpoles with the same task as a powertower, but it always lacked a good visual difference to my casual powerpoles. Love the higher Cable range aswell.
Thank you for the power dynamics. Now we can all indulge in power tops, power bottoms and power switches.
Great new features! Would love to see some "magic smoke" effects if the priority fuse trips on a particular breaker box
I love that this is kind of a buff for the zip line. Always a great idea and something I would imagine doing when I was a kid riding in the car. So happy I can live my 5 year old dreams now 😂
Coffee Stain I LOVE YOUUUUU you guys are just the best, all devs should STRIVE to be like you.
ahahahahhahahahahahahahh power bottom. Well done.
that was a power joke hahahaha
A request that probably is a super unwelcome change to the game: Add that you will lose power over long distance if you don't use the new towers.
Transformers that function similar to pumps?
I was thinking the same thing hehe. Love how all these machines must be capable of both generating and running on infinitely high voltage given the 0% loss over distance, and yet somehow still prevent the infinitely large resulting magnetic field around the cables from being absorbed by surrounding matter, which would render the loss near-100%. This is the kind of innovation that we need more in the world.
@@FrankyFeedlerin all fairness Satisfactory is not even close to attempting to be realistic / a simulation 😉 And I for one love it for not being like that. The world has plenty of overcomplicated games already 😋
@@SyntheticFuture I know it was a joke 😊 If I want realism I’ll just go to work
I made a blueprint called Power Towers! It’s a stackable building segment that’s full of backup power chargers. Pile them on top of each other to make a tower.
So happy to hear the name was good enough for Coffee Stain!
Thanks Coffee Stain Studios for designing amazing features! Helps a lot!!!
I was just thinking this week about writing and suggesting a power switch almost exactly like you have designed. Thanks for including that in update 8. That will solve many problems and make game play a lot more enjoyable. Kudos!
Last save I did 5 separate power lines for each facility: power production, materials production, non-critical awesome sinks, utilities (lights, radar, hypertube), and backup. This seems like it could just be one line, and the remote control to disable/enable distant facilities. Great work.
I've been building with this in mind from the day I was handed a breaker. Been waiting for this for so long, I will never again need to make the long walks to flip a switch, huzzah!
Jace, I love the power top, bottom, switch innuendo. Well done, sir, well done.
Jace: "Power top, power bottom and power switch *giggle*"
Also Jace: "The power switch is a good little boy"
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The zip line is super important to me. I love building out power to a remote location and just being able to zip back.
As an electrician, the power distribution network is my favorite part of the game. I'm definitely going to use these as switch gears to control different floors/processes within single factories. Absolutely great addition, but can they be isolated or is there only one master list of fuse priorities?
Thanks, Coffee Stain Studios, for designing amazing features!
Thanks Coffee Stain Studios for designing AWESOME FEATURES! (Also thanks, Jace!)
Awesome! A must have! A total black out on an end game factory would be a catastrophe, taking hours to fix!
Jace, please NEVER change XD Great video and thanks for putting it together! Super excited for it!!
I can scrap my blueprints of endless towers with a zillion parts now. Whew! Great job, CSS!
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Those are some really great looking features. One, minor, suggestion: Having the remote priority power switches greyed out, in the fuse menu, makes it look like you can't interact with them. You may want to consider a different color scheme or a different way of distinguishing the switch you're at from the others. (Maybe just put a star next to it?)
2:30 oh my gooooooooooooooooooooooooooood that is amazing!!
Thanks Coffee Stain Studios for designing amazing new features! Helps a lot, you can do that! :)
Damn cool features. I love just the visual look of the big towers, but also not having a power pole every 20m or so makes them even more awesome.
I really love how you develop the game step by step and how you communicate with the players (us).
Even if there is some delay or technical problem with videos, you tell everything clear which is rare.
Thanks coffee stain studios for designing amazing features, helps a lot!
The fusebox is exciting. I look forward to a server I do with friends and renaming the fuses to other areas.😆
you guys are awesome. constantly making entire factory sections completely obsolete XD (it is a good thing)
The tower is actually gonna be a game changer. Running power long distance is such a chore at the moment
2:40
IRL : we dont want those here ruining our view!
SF : we do want those here enhancing our view!
the power priority will be so handy, I have been using separate grids to power the subordinate buildings to produce power for the main grid
You guys are so fucking good to the community! Thanks guys! Keep working hard we appreciate it
Mind blown. I love both additions and I think both will change a ton of things in a good way. When I saw dude zipping on a fresh line, my jaw dropped. Life changer right there.
This is such an awesome feature I never really thought I wanted until now. Massive QoL change, much appreciated.
One idea to add to the priority switch is an emergency spot so when the power shuts off it lets power go to the factory like if you have nuclear you can kick an emergency nuclear waste recycler or emergency fuel plant to start up a nuclear plant after a melt down
Are you real award person
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Bro. That's powerful AF, there will be no more grid failures once I get my hands on these!
You did everything I wanted from this game. The power tower + long distance wiring. Thank you guys so much. I can't wait for the update.