"When gamers and game critics talk about '4X games,' they're talking about games like Civilization, where the goal is to "Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate." Satisfactory is kind of a 4X game, too, though it's quite different from those turn-based affairs. In Satisfactory, your goal is to Explore, Exploit, Expand, Excel (for the profit of the Ficsit Corporation). Expanding--building out your factory--is how you'll spend the vast majority of time in your game."
"When building directly on the ground, whether you're placing a machine or a concrete foundation, Ctrl will lock you to the World Grid, which helps ensure that things can line up, even in wildly different areas of the map. Once you've set a foundation down, the next step is to place a building, and placement is crucial. The first-person perspective is great for Satisfactory, but when you're trying to do precise placement in tight quarters, it just isn't enough on its own."
"Getting a factory right means dismantling almost as much as building. You can hold Ctrl while selecting something with the dismantle tool to start selecting everything your cursor touches, but what if you want to, say, the indecipherable mess of power poles and power lines filling your factory floor? That's what the Selective Multi-Select Dismantle tool is for. This action is bound to your mouse thumb button by default. Once you've selected an item with your dismant"
Satisfactory reframes 4X as Explore, Exploit, Expand, Excel, with factory building as the primary activity. Players spend most time expanding by constructing production lines and infrastructure. When placing machines or concrete, holding Ctrl locks placement to the World Grid for consistent alignment across varied terrain. After laying foundations, precise placement matters: lock the hologram with H and nudge locked holograms with the arrow keys, including unbuildable holograms, to achieve exact alignment for conveyors. Aesthetic alignment simplifies conveyor routing and tracking. Dismantling is integral to optimization; hold Ctrl with the dismantle tool to select touched items and use the Selective Multi-Select Dismantle bound to the mouse thumb to remove clustered power poles and lines.
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