Hey everyone Rich here, designer of Junkpunk! Splatter thank you for showing JP to everyone! I've taken alot of notes and read alot of comments for the next JP update we will definately be introducing some of the features you have requested! Thanks for the support everyone! Best Rich
Having just watched Wall-E for the first time recently I think this game really hits a cord with me. It will be a contender for this months game budget for sure.
@@SilverionX yeah when i 1st seen wall-e was when i 1st thought it would make a good game, people enjoy transforming their game aesthetics from bad to good, other games that are transformative is wildmender(transform desert to magical rainforest) and plantcrafter(terraform a planet from inhospitable to life sustaining)
Imagine if the charging station could also be a base "hub" station, where you can manage everything connected to it from there. So you could make things while you charge back up. Turn that downtime into an opportunity! :D Also, that "wrist device" thing you were talking about. How about just modifying your robot body instead of just "adding an accessory on it like some fleshbag would"? :p In fact, could have different loadouts for your robot body. Maybe going so far as to having different bodies you could load your AI into.
Always good to see a dev take constructive criticism and run with it. I'd buy the game outright with this comment of yours if it wasn't for the fact that I bought it already due to splatter's video.
After all that buildup the super awesome death lazor just says: "I don't want to live on this planet anymore." I laughed so hard there's a tear in my eye. Thank you, Splatty.
Since you're a robot it might be cool to do different configurations of bodies like Star Wars: Droidworks too, maybe a tank kinda droid, or maybe a flying one that doesn't have a lot of cargo space, or something
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It's an interesting approach on resource gathering. Usually it makes me feel bad to see all the trees and what not disappear as I expand my base, while in this game the more you gather, the more you help the environment.
Yea! It would be nice if over time you could eventually start truly terraforming the planet. Water flowing, trees growing see the sky go from brownish-red to grey and blue.
Tier 2 adds drones that harvest the big scrap, new machines that add new component assembly lines, and there are 3 types of vehicles. The game plays up through the 2nd large tower. You finish tower 1 after you do the tech and biological keys. There is also an instant warp machine you can build in T2.
@@mikerodgers7620 Some times people just want to jump in, take a few looks at a game and see what it's like, and then move on. Nothing wrong with that. But a lot of people watch splat for splat he's an interesting and funny dude no matter what he's talking about.
6:51, that trash pile collapse animation when the trash pile mining is done feels so wrong. also looks like the robot is taking a plasma piss which is hilarious ;)
in regards to the stuff going on in the outside background, I would personally recommend using borderlands as a great example... in their main menu they have a set amount of animations it slowly randomly does while waiting. If they did something similar where, say, every minute or so it picks one of a random set of "things" would be absolutely amazing. like some drones drop off of a giant pile for a crane bot to pick it up and fly off, or a giant eyeball bot comes and stares at you for a few seconds before flying off, just random stuff that always ends with it looking the same as how it started so it all goes from to the other seamlessly. The random flying drones is really great, but adding little random things would add so much value.
You don't need to destroy and rebuild the turret to reposition the laser. You can manually reposition the laser via the interface. Doing so also repositions the auto-rotate point.
Like in Factorio which inspired Satisfactory which likely inspired this game, it looks like you have to automate all the things because of the sheer quantities of stuff involved to get anything done. Might be a nice twist that in this incarnation of the factory builder the player cleans and restores the ecosphere instead of destroying it.
Cool. But the fact that you turn in this big important "tech key" and nothing happens because the game is waiting on the Bio key is a missed opportunity, like Splattercat says. Think like the HUB from Satisfactory: it visibly builds up as you go through the tutorial stages, a little bit at a time.
I've been playing this one for quite a while... it's worth the money, even in early access. The description SplatterCat made of what kind of game this is was pretty spot on: it's Satisfactory meets Planet Crafter meets WALL-E.
33:10 - I think that's not a contrast problem. I think, developers don't know what are the difference between Gamma and Linear color corrections. If devs are reading this - please change your color correction to linear and you will get rid of "overexposed" look of your game. Also, please, tune you lighting and shadows! Game looks so "Unity 5" right now ;-) The idea of the game is fresh and promising!
Contrast...I had a issue with saturation on a game and went into my amd console and was able to adjust almost every aspect of a specific game, including contrast. Thanks for the good video with good information and pleasant narration. Just enough fun and intelligence without goofy or annoying or too techy. thx. I will watch more from you.
This just reminded me of another title you might want to give a go: Foundry. The demo of their alpha build was released on steam a few days ago; would be interested to hear your thoughts about that one. Thanks for all your content (and keeping my wishlist filled)!
Has a lot of promise. I second cool vehicles with changeable model modules. So you can have a claw vehicle with a built in shredder, or container, or later a drone transport module. And add an animation of plugging in to various machines to enter first person or third person view directly from that machine. Instead of standing behind it, mostly occluded, pushing manual buttons like with the laser. You are a robot, why can't you plug in to some other machines camera and take a look around? Finally, as others have said, it would be cool if you could upgrade your chassis to have other components: Bigger battery, more armour (if they ever add danger zones), faster/stronger/better climbing legs, more storage, living greenhouse, auto smelter, better laser, camera drone dock, etc. But have the model change with it to reflect your new form. Modules could be exclusive, so you can have a second auto laser, upgrade your main laser, or have a camera drone, but not all 3. Give the player a sense of identity over time.
The human energy restoration chamber you're looking for is called the "Enertron." You get a full night's sleep in a few seconds. But you're still hungry.
Thanks for showcasing! ^^ Also, is that me or the moment were Splatt is saying it would be nice to add a transformation by the end of stage 1 maybe a moot point because of the objectives on the side glaring at us saying to "Activate" the transformation? I suppose it is a classic Splatt here.
His absolute lack of observational skill was so frequent i kind of thought it was a comedic bit, for content's sake. But this is instance its actively distorting his presentation of someone else's game in a negative way. Not cool.
@@DestructoMonkey Well, then you tell him and he learns. That's how discussions and exchange of information work. We fill in each others' blind spots. So, chill out and just voice your opinion without going "He's being negative and distorting how people will see this game, this isn't cool!" and acting like he's doing it on purpose with malicious intent. Please. People make mistakes, like your grammar errors. I'm not attacking you for them, I'm just pointing them out to prove to you that even you, with your judgement of someone else, aren't perfect, so maybe stop throwing them stones at those "wretches" that committed the same crime as you, that of being imperfect.
The funny thing is I would probably play the hell out of this cleaning up some random wrecked planet, but procrastinate the hell out of picking up the random tshirts laying on my floor for the last week or the dishes piling up in my sink for a few days...
Well, _this_ is actually fun. What amazes me are the games where you do an ordinary, menial job which you couldn't pay me enough (well, you _could,_ but you wouldn't) to do in real-life. :)
I've watched someone start up to the second or third tower in this game. The grind and the goals are indeed long, definitely could do with more smaller interactions to bolster that you are doing cool things. However basic terra formation is in, after you finish the plants, (sorry if spoilers!) the skies start to clear up, it starts turning more blue, the water puddles start clearing up and I think you see more, then grass and moss starts popping up. It's actually pretty nice and does really add to the effect of revitalizing the environment but I agree it feels far away from the start. However then you realize that there are 4 towers and you can go to each tower and I think at least number two does stuff or has UI. They're really far away so most people didn't want to travel to them or thought they were outside of the map, another thing to note, making it clearer that the goal is to definitely go to each of these and it's available.
This game does look promising. I like the idea of cleaning up the planet. With the laser mining turret I was thinking of an endgame eye of Sauron tower lasering all the junk piles in the horizon.
Maybe they can make 'Powered' flooring or walls to help with the cable running issue? Plug the machine directly into the floor or wall it's sitting on and power will just go through all powered floring/walls.
There is in fact another game where you "heal" the planet: Its name is "Green Project". It got released but in my opinion it felt like a little early to call it finished. The developer had decided otherwise though. So its pretty much on you to decide whether its a completed game.
currently doing a playtest for another automation game and like here you play as a robot but you can modify a lot of pieces like different tracks, arms, etc. Hopefully they can add features like that here, because I like what has been shown but the one thing that stood out was balance. As fast as you could easily break down mounds of trash, i didn't see much reason to build that turret. Minor stuff, but will still wait for next update or 2.
You should move the laser back further away, or put two side by side at two 90° angles to harvest a wider area at once. I wish the trash would regenerate, like for example some of those drones in the air could occasionally deposit some scrap so you dont run out of resources
That would add a really cool aspect to the gameplay. I wonder how they will balance the gameplay so it doesn't just become afk farming while also offering automation so people don't have to micromanage everything.
@@GameTimeWhy I think the objectives are one good one, another would be making it so you have to leave your base and scavenge for rare components... Transportation of materials, expensive automation, etc...
I'm interested in the idea of this, but based on this video and some of the reviews on Steam currently, I will wait to see if some of the issues get smoothed out. It sounds like there is a lot of fussiness with the build system that would drive me nuts. The weird hand-laser visual needs to be fixed, as noted by Splat. I laughed when the first thing the tower did was destroy its own power source because I also expected it to be smarter than that. Looks like there is also room for some QoL improvements, for example that large container could have input/output ports for conveyors on the long sides so that you don't have to wrap them around to the narrow ends.
I'm the kind of guy, who likes to watch washing machine doing its business, so I do think that this game was probably made by my kindred spirits (* * ;)
I really would have liked some greater capacity for automation in the game. At the moment you are still doing most tasks manually, even with the machines. For example in the early game you generally construct only need a single production line and then hit the switches to get the products you want. Some sort of intelligent splitter would be good, although the resource cost of the machines is rather high to set up actual factories (especially at Tier 2). On the other hand you could get around this by having a machine process whatever materials are in the input hopper (at least for the basic foundries and smelters). Although that runs into problems where you have multiple ways of treating a single resource. You need the bio key to get to Tier 2 btw (and it does open new story stuff), and getting it is pure grind and then seems to be abandoned. There does appear to be some variation of wind power with wind speed, although it only really has an effect if you are on the very limit of your network. Just add another rotor and you are safe. You can alter the aim of the laser turret from within its interface. This is actually easier than using autorotate. And whilst it has an output it's not really needed since most of what you can hit with it from any location will generally not fill the internal buffer. I had hoped that the drones could go get resources for you and bring them back to ease the grind, but they just appear to be defensive drones to intercept the hypothetical attacks from enemy drones. Tier 2 does add some important mining aspects from resource nodes (required to get to Tier 3), but grinding for scrap is still the core gameplay loop and is very expensive at Tier 2. Again the machine cost is too high to really create multiple factories and it's often easier to just transfer resources manually. Robot vehicles that travel between loading docks would also be quite nice. Again sorters would probably be needed to avoid clogging machine inputs with material it can't use. I'm not sure any of the major structures will be able to be disassembled, even at higher tiers, because that would require extensive reworking of the game. Machine costs (both in materials and footprint) are high, especially at Tier 2, making actual factories difficult to make. A drone factory would be nice (especially if they can fetch scrap), although this may be occurring later in the game's development cycle when they add the enemy drones. The ability to actually program each machine would be good, and differentiate it from the other factory style games. Such as only accept rubber scrap in input bin 1 and output rubber ingots to output bin 1. Although there would need to be an overflow output to avoid blocking. The game really is more focused on achieving the stated objectives by grind, rather than by making the grind easier as you advance.
The end game of this should be a robot on a perfectly flat clear plain or an otherwise cuboid landscape. Then the next game should be a person sculpting that planet for sale to a 3rd party. So you first play Satisfactory to full exploit all resources the world offers... then you play this to clean up the factory when all the usefully resources are tapped... then you play Planet Crafter to breathe life back into the world to sell as a resort or vacation home for the wealthy
Great video splat! This game sounds awesome. I agree with every suggestion. My own suggestion is that the video title doesnt really feel like it defines that game as well as usual. Thanks splat!
The scrapping laser turret should've been pilotable, like if your going to make the player manually point the laser at what you want at least make in interesting. Like really lean into the scrap built nature of it and have the inside look like an old turret shooter arcade machine. The ones where sit down and use the controls to turn shoot enemies on the screen around you. As well as maybe putting a green scrap built tractor beam that pulls the junk in after it's broken down. I basically want the machines and tier 1 tech to look like something an warhammer 40k Ork would be proud of. Other than that it just needs a bit more small detail polish and working on the clunky nature of it, they would have a solid game then.
Tried it a while back. Objectives ended when I delivered all the keys, we got fan spin and sky became blue-ish. It's basically a worse Planet Crafter. I wish they could combine forces.
they could add an evil AI robot hellbent on polluting the world and make it a playable character. Make it asynchronous gameplay it could be similar to the aliens in factorio a swarm robot AI that can be controlled by players via a rts like system. Building factories and burning coal to produce swarms or something like that. If theres no one to play them an AI similar to factorio could probably suffice or something.
There's a lot of good ideas in the comments to make this game better but I expect none will actually make it into the game lol I feel like this game is what it is and won't get much better.
"There is no other game like this where you heal instead of exploit the game world" Well, Splat, you should check out "No place like Home" than. its basically the same in a fantasy setting instead of a si-fi one.
Hey Splat, there was a game you showed a year or so ago, that was similar. In it ships would bring scrap and drop it on the planet and you had to process it. Would you remember the name? Can't seem to think of it and would like to see how that one progressed.
Hey everyone Rich here, designer of Junkpunk! Splatter thank you for showing JP to everyone! I've taken alot of notes and read alot of comments for the next JP update we will definately be introducing some of the features you have requested! Thanks for the support everyone!
Best
Rich
Having just watched Wall-E for the first time recently I think this game really hits a cord with me. It will be a contender for this months game budget for sure.
@@SilverionX yeah when i 1st seen wall-e was when i 1st thought it would make a good game, people enjoy transforming their game aesthetics from bad to good, other games that are transformative is wildmender(transform desert to magical rainforest) and plantcrafter(terraform a planet from inhospitable to life sustaining)
Imagine if the charging station could also be a base "hub" station, where you can manage everything connected to it from there. So you could make things while you charge back up. Turn that downtime into an opportunity! :D
Also, that "wrist device" thing you were talking about. How about just modifying your robot body instead of just "adding an accessory on it like some fleshbag would"? :p
In fact, could have different loadouts for your robot body. Maybe going so far as to having different bodies you could load your AI into.
Always good to see a dev take constructive criticism and run with it. I'd buy the game outright with this comment of yours if it wasn't for the fact that I bought it already due to splatter's video.
After all that buildup the super awesome death lazor just says:
"I don't want to live on this planet anymore."
I laughed so hard there's a tear in my eye. Thank you, Splatty.
Since you're a robot it might be cool to do different configurations of bodies like Star Wars: Droidworks too, maybe a tank kinda droid, or maybe a flying one that doesn't have a lot of cargo space, or something
I think that would definitely add some missing depth to this game.
I'm here for anyone who shows some love for SW Droidworks.
or maybe you unlock it tech levels. you start like a wall-le and move to eve design levels.
That would be cool, different upgrades changing your appearance and such.
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Lazer: "what is my purpose?"
Robot : "you burn scraps"
Lazer: "oh my gosh " *destroys own power source
that's not splattercat comment above
@@UtopssAKAPJ it's not a Rick and Morty comment.
@@rareraven that comment was to the bot
@@UtopssAKAPJ you think the bot doesn't have feelings?
@@rareraven 🤣 no
final impressions: 32:20
1 line opinion: 39:24
"It kind of effervesces the groin region ... I wish they had that for humans" - Splattercat, 2022
It's an interesting approach on resource gathering. Usually it makes me feel bad to see all the trees and what not disappear as I expand my base, while in this game the more you gather, the more you help the environment.
Yea! It would be nice if over time you could eventually start truly terraforming the planet. Water flowing, trees growing see the sky go from brownish-red to grey and blue.
Tier 2 adds drones that harvest the big scrap, new machines that add new component assembly lines, and there are 3 types of vehicles. The game plays up through the 2nd large tower. You finish tower 1 after you do the tech and biological keys. There is also an instant warp machine you can build in T2.
2:41 is where he actually starts playing.
The MVP. Gracie.
Thanks. I avoided the typical useless banter.
@@mikerodgers7620 I like the banter but each to their own. I always really like Splats ending thoughts, and his ideas for the game he reviews. =]
@@mikerodgers7620 Some times people just want to jump in, take a few looks at a game and see what it's like, and then move on. Nothing wrong with that. But a lot of people watch splat for splat he's an interesting and funny dude no matter what he's talking about.
@@mikerodgers7620 well you threw your own in, dkhd
6:51, that trash pile collapse animation when the trash pile mining is done feels so wrong. also looks like the robot is taking a plasma piss which is hilarious ;)
in regards to the stuff going on in the outside background, I would personally recommend using borderlands as a great example... in their main menu they have a set amount of animations it slowly randomly does while waiting. If they did something similar where, say, every minute or so it picks one of a random set of "things" would be absolutely amazing. like some drones drop off of a giant pile for a crane bot to pick it up and fly off, or a giant eyeball bot comes and stares at you for a few seconds before flying off, just random stuff that always ends with it looking the same as how it started so it all goes from to the other seamlessly. The random flying drones is really great, but adding little random things would add so much value.
You don't need to destroy and rebuild the turret to reposition the laser. You can manually reposition the laser via the interface. Doing so also repositions the auto-rotate point.
Like in Factorio which inspired Satisfactory which likely inspired this game, it looks like you have to automate all the things because of the sheer quantities of stuff involved to get anything done. Might be a nice twist that in this incarnation of the factory builder the player cleans and restores the ecosphere instead of destroying it.
The effect your looking for from the keys happens after you finish both the tech and bio key.
Cool. But the fact that you turn in this big important "tech key" and nothing happens because the game is waiting on the Bio key is a missed opportunity, like Splattercat says. Think like the HUB from Satisfactory: it visibly builds up as you go through the tutorial stages, a little bit at a time.
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I've been playing this one for quite a while... it's worth the money, even in early access. The description SplatterCat made of what kind of game this is was pretty spot on: it's Satisfactory meets Planet Crafter meets WALL-E.
33:10 - I think that's not a contrast problem. I think, developers don't know what are the difference between Gamma and Linear color corrections. If devs are reading this - please change your color correction to linear and you will get rid of "overexposed" look of your game. Also, please, tune you lighting and shadows! Game looks so "Unity 5" right now ;-)
The idea of the game is fresh and promising!
Contrast...I had a issue with saturation on a game and went into my amd console and was able to adjust almost every aspect of a specific game, including contrast. Thanks for the good video with good information and pleasant narration. Just enough fun and intelligence without goofy or annoying or too techy. thx. I will watch more from you.
"I'm just a robot, and life is a nightmare" feels strangely relatable.
This just reminded me of another title you might want to give a go: Foundry. The demo of their alpha build was released on steam a few days ago; would be interested to hear your thoughts about that one. Thanks for all your content (and keeping my wishlist filled)!
Looks like a fun game, added to wishlist for now but excited to check it out later
Imagine a game designed by Splattercat for a second.
Pure chaos
Shut up and take my money!!!
Pure trash or pure gold
@@gnoxgnomolos882 Why not both?
It'll have every mechanic known to man.
youve covered junkpunk! love this game and testing has been rewarding
"I'm just a robot and life is a nightmare!" god I'm old because this made me laugh.
Has a lot of promise. I second cool vehicles with changeable model modules. So you can have a claw vehicle with a built in shredder, or container, or later a drone transport module.
And add an animation of plugging in to various machines to enter first person or third person view directly from that machine. Instead of standing behind it, mostly occluded, pushing manual buttons like with the laser. You are a robot, why can't you plug in to some other machines camera and take a look around?
Finally, as others have said, it would be cool if you could upgrade your chassis to have other components: Bigger battery, more armour (if they ever add danger zones), faster/stronger/better climbing legs, more storage, living greenhouse, auto smelter, better laser, camera drone dock, etc. But have the model change with it to reflect your new form. Modules could be exclusive, so you can have a second auto laser, upgrade your main laser, or have a camera drone, but not all 3. Give the player a sense of identity over time.
The laser makes it look like the bot's taking a whiz.
No Place Like Home with Robots & Automation
The human energy restoration chamber you're looking for is called the "Enertron." You get a full night's sleep in a few seconds. But you're still hungry.
You've introduced me to quite a few games I've had interest in and I appreciate that, but god is it frustrating that most of them aren't finished.
Thanks for showcasing! ^^
Also, is that me or the moment were Splatt is saying it would be nice to add a transformation by the end of stage 1 maybe a moot point because of the objectives on the side glaring at us saying to "Activate" the transformation?
I suppose it is a classic Splatt here.
His absolute lack of observational skill was so frequent i kind of thought it was a comedic bit, for content's sake. But this is instance its actively distorting his presentation of someone else's game in a negative way. Not cool.
@@DestructoMonkey Well, then you tell him and he learns. That's how discussions and exchange of information work. We fill in each others' blind spots.
So, chill out and just voice your opinion without going "He's being negative and distorting how people will see this game, this isn't cool!" and acting like he's doing it on purpose with malicious intent. Please.
People make mistakes, like your grammar errors. I'm not attacking you for them, I'm just pointing them out to prove to you that even you, with your judgement of someone else, aren't perfect, so maybe stop throwing them stones at those "wretches" that committed the same crime as you, that of being imperfect.
Feels like a poor man's Satisfactory...
What I really want is a combination Satisfactory and The Long Dark.
Splat's Condensed Review: 31:36
This is exactly the kind of game I’m looking for
The funny thing is I would probably play the hell out of this cleaning up some random wrecked planet, but procrastinate the hell out of picking up the random tshirts laying on my floor for the last week or the dishes piling up in my sink for a few days...
Well, _this_ is actually fun. What amazes me are the games where you do an ordinary, menial job which you couldn't pay me enough (well, you _could,_ but you wouldn't) to do in real-life. :)
have you thought about featuring good obscure games that are actually complete? i"d love to see your recommendations
Thank you Splattercat! I watch your vids daily and you have introduced me to many great games that I enjoy! Including this one! Much Luvz! ❤
The character's fist is not necessarily what that laser appears to be coming out of.
It doesn't really look like a laser, either. It splashes what it hits, like some kind of liquid... :)
@@Bill_Garthright yyeeeaahhhhh.... 😬😂
I think removing the big scrap towers will really push the feel of the game.Youre not done till all the scrap is gone.
I've watched someone start up to the second or third tower in this game.
The grind and the goals are indeed long, definitely could do with more smaller interactions to bolster that you are doing cool things.
However basic terra formation is in, after you finish the plants, (sorry if spoilers!) the skies start to clear up, it starts turning more blue, the water puddles start clearing up and I think you see more, then grass and moss starts popping up. It's actually pretty nice and does really add to the effect of revitalizing the environment but I agree it feels far away from the start.
However then you realize that there are 4 towers and you can go to each tower and I think at least number two does stuff or has UI. They're really far away so most people didn't want to travel to them or thought they were outside of the map, another thing to note, making it clearer that the goal is to definitely go to each of these and it's available.
This game does look promising. I like the idea of cleaning up the planet. With the laser mining turret I was thinking of an endgame eye of Sauron tower lasering all the junk piles in the horizon.
Hi splatt been watching for years :) keep it up
Dropping processors don't break them in this game? Sounds like Linus's heaven.
Maybe they can make 'Powered' flooring or walls to help with the cable running issue? Plug the machine directly into the floor or wall it's sitting on and power will just go through all powered floring/walls.
The laser looks like he's urinating on the scrap. lol
Your robot should be able to build a golf cart to move quickly
Not gonna lie, bro....when you set up the death ray and it shot the wind generator almost immediately, I LOL'ed hard.
9:40, did he just make a simple plan joke/reference!
Also recharging the bot is like eating and drinking in any survival game
There is in fact another game where you "heal" the planet: Its name is "Green Project".
It got released but in my opinion it felt like a little early to call it finished. The developer had decided otherwise though. So its pretty much on you to decide whether its a completed game.
This game it's looking amazing i really like it!
I've loved this game since it was crap. I'm glad it's getting less crappy.
Use the vehicles in the game to carry more stuff and to save time running around. Using the big truck allows you to haul a lot of stuff.
No Place like Home does the 'planetary clean up' thing, but way less of the manufacturing thing.
8:20 You do NOT want Tiger Balm anywhere near you junk, punk... There is NO gritting your teeth and bearing through that.
Love your content Splatter !! Thumps up!
Plot twist: Junkpunk takes place on a planet that was exploited by Ficsit from Satisfactory.
Indie Craft Sim : the youtube channel
there is things that help you move about the map in the tech tree, you just have to unlock them from the tec terminal.
currently doing a playtest for another automation game and like here you play as a robot but you can modify a lot of pieces like different tracks, arms, etc. Hopefully they can add features like that here, because I like what has been shown but the one thing that stood out was balance. As fast as you could easily break down mounds of trash, i didn't see much reason to build that turret. Minor stuff, but will still wait for next update or 2.
You should move the laser back further away, or put two side by side at two 90° angles to harvest a wider area at once. I wish the trash would regenerate, like for example some of those drones in the air could occasionally deposit some scrap so you dont run out of resources
That would add a really cool aspect to the gameplay. I wonder how they will balance the gameplay so it doesn't just become afk farming while also offering automation so people don't have to micromanage everything.
@@GameTimeWhy I think the objectives are one good one, another would be making it so you have to leave your base and scavenge for rare components... Transportation of materials, expensive automation, etc...
@@teddy5004 true. Hopefully the developer can balance all of these components.
NO PLACE LIKE HOME has a very similar gameplay concept, only a much more agoo art style.☺
I'm interested in the idea of this, but based on this video and some of the reviews on Steam currently, I will wait to see if some of the issues get smoothed out. It sounds like there is a lot of fussiness with the build system that would drive me nuts. The weird hand-laser visual needs to be fixed, as noted by Splat. I laughed when the first thing the tower did was destroy its own power source because I also expected it to be smarter than that. Looks like there is also room for some QoL improvements, for example that large container could have input/output ports for conveyors on the long sides so that you don't have to wrap them around to the narrow ends.
I'm the kind of guy, who likes to watch washing machine doing its business, so I do think that this game was probably made by my kindred spirits (* * ;)
The cleanup reminds me of No Place Like Home. Looks like it has promise
@SplatterCatGaming Dr. Who Ep name: "Sleep No More" Series 9 that's your answer for the rejuvenation pods
I really would have liked some greater capacity for automation in the game. At the moment you are still doing most tasks manually, even with the machines. For example in the early game you generally construct only need a single production line and then hit the switches to get the products you want. Some sort of intelligent splitter would be good, although the resource cost of the machines is rather high to set up actual factories (especially at Tier 2). On the other hand you could get around this by having a machine process whatever materials are in the input hopper (at least for the basic foundries and smelters). Although that runs into problems where you have multiple ways of treating a single resource.
You need the bio key to get to Tier 2 btw (and it does open new story stuff), and getting it is pure grind and then seems to be abandoned.
There does appear to be some variation of wind power with wind speed, although it only really has an effect if you are on the very limit of your network. Just add another rotor and you are safe. You can alter the aim of the laser turret from within its interface. This is actually easier than using autorotate. And whilst it has an output it's not really needed since most of what you can hit with it from any location will generally not fill the internal buffer. I had hoped that the drones could go get resources for you and bring them back to ease the grind, but they just appear to be defensive drones to intercept the hypothetical attacks from enemy drones. Tier 2 does add some important mining aspects from resource nodes (required to get to Tier 3), but grinding for scrap is still the core gameplay loop and is very expensive at Tier 2. Again the machine cost is too high to really create multiple factories and it's often easier to just transfer resources manually. Robot vehicles that travel between loading docks would also be quite nice. Again sorters would probably be needed to avoid clogging machine inputs with material it can't use.
I'm not sure any of the major structures will be able to be disassembled, even at higher tiers, because that would require extensive reworking of the game.
Machine costs (both in materials and footprint) are high, especially at Tier 2, making actual factories difficult to make. A drone factory would be nice (especially if they can fetch scrap), although this may be occurring later in the game's development cycle when they add the enemy drones. The ability to actually program each machine would be good, and differentiate it from the other factory style games. Such as only accept rubber scrap in input bin 1 and output rubber ingots to output bin 1. Although there would need to be an overflow output to avoid blocking.
The game really is more focused on achieving the stated objectives by grind, rather than by making the grind easier as you advance.
Like your suggestions, hopefully they'll implement some of them...
"we need to make sure this isn't in front of the laser"
_puts it right in front of the barrel_
"oh it destroyed it" _hmmmmmmmmm_
Humans junk planet.
Robots use junk to clean planet.
Humans junk planet again.
Robots rise up to junk humans.
Robots live happily ever after.
i was thinking that clown afro was the ai's human-like biological brain lol
My husband just nodded with a resigned face when I said I am going to check this out on Steam ... Splatt, if we need counseling ... I'll blame you :P
TH-cam justed pushed an add for The Ocean Cleanup Project to me, hail contextual advertising.
The end game of this should be a robot on a perfectly flat clear plain or an otherwise cuboid landscape.
Then the next game should be a person sculpting that planet for sale to a 3rd party.
So you first play Satisfactory to full exploit all resources the world offers... then you play this to clean up the factory when all the usefully resources are tapped... then you play Planet Crafter to breathe life back into the world to sell as a resort or vacation home for the wealthy
It also has a bit of kenshi into the environment
Great video splat! This game sounds awesome. I agree with every suggestion. My own suggestion is that the video title doesnt really feel like it defines that game as well as usual. Thanks splat!
The scrapping laser turret should've been pilotable, like if your going to make the player manually point the laser at what you want at least make in interesting. Like really lean into the scrap built nature of it and have the inside look like an old turret shooter arcade machine. The ones where sit down and use the controls to turn shoot enemies on the screen around you. As well as maybe putting a green scrap built tractor beam that pulls the junk in after it's broken down. I basically want the machines and tier 1 tech to look like something an warhammer 40k Ork would be proud of. Other than that it just needs a bit more small detail polish and working on the clunky nature of it, they would have a solid game then.
It's the planet from the film Soldier!
Lol the gathering looks like the robot is peeing :)
Tried it a while back. Objectives ended when I delivered all the keys, we got fan spin and sky became blue-ish. It's basically a worse Planet Crafter. I wish they could combine forces.
Makes me think of the planet from "Soldier'
they could add an evil AI robot hellbent on polluting the world and make it a playable character. Make it asynchronous gameplay it could be similar to the aliens in factorio a swarm robot AI that can be controlled by players via a rts like system. Building factories and burning coal to produce swarms or something like that. If theres no one to play them an AI similar to factorio could probably suffice or something.
I WOUDL SUGEST SINCE THIS IS A ROBOT FOR THEM TO ADD A THIRD ARM ON THE BACK WITH THE LASER MAYBE A BACKPACK KINDA OF THING
Time to name your bot Kurt Russel cuz you are now in the Movie Soldier :p
Underrated movie. One of my favorites.
Damn! This game couldnt be less for me.
That is a unique recharging system... kinky.
Also...probably worth putting that laser up on a platform so it doesn't shoot it's own power and output devices...lol
If the devs didn't get inspiration from the Kurt Russel movie Soldier, they're lying.
Is that uscrappable scrap really big? or are you just really really small>
I retract my gloomy prediction, the laser looks EXACTLY like you're... peeing on the garbage. White, pee.
So your base doesn’t get attacked? Can you make robots that act like npc’s that you can command or assign jobs?
Watching the video on a phone, it looks like he is pissing on the junk piles lol
Ok, I'll say it. You are peeing on the junk piles.
There's a lot of good ideas in the comments to make this game better but I expect none will actually make it into the game lol I feel like this game is what it is and won't get much better.
Can't wait for this games full release with Wall-e as second playable character! 😀
It looks like he’s pissing on the scrap.
So Satisfactory 2?
The robot is sent to clean up after the engineer that industrialized the planet in Satisfactory
"There is no other game like this where you heal instead of exploit the game world"
Well, Splat, you should check out "No place like Home" than. its basically the same in a fantasy setting instead of a si-fi one.
I like the idea very much, but the grafics are a bit to hard/clunky for my personal taste
There's a difference between silicone and silicon.
Hey Splat, there was a game you showed a year or so ago, that was similar. In it ships would bring scrap and drop it on the planet and you had to process it. Would you remember the name? Can't seem to think of it and would like to see how that one progressed.
If Wall-e had a cousin
Just wait until you get that bio key. Nice review though.