I began watching your channel because of your Satisfactory playthrough. I'm incredibly excited for the new Satisfactory series coming up and I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

I've played Satisfactory since release. Gone through the crazy addict to burnt out phases several times. I've started new saves almost with every Update, only "completed" the game once, and never made factories as pretty as yours. Thanks for showing us your world, you've given me a lot of inspiration.

I discovered satisfactory from your series and have learned it from your series. I’ve actually been wishing you would start again as I felt I’d really enjoy the different choices you’d make. So stoked for the new game

You have no idea the rollercoaster of emotions I just experienced. Given the time that's passed since your last livestream, I was beginning to think you'd quiet quit. I also restarted in 8 and although I'll never recapture the sense of discovery, I've had a lot of fun and power towers are awesome! I got a little tear in the eye in your intro, because I feel like I've been on the journey and I remember to building all these!

Oh man. This is the series that inspired me to start my own Satisfactory KZfaq channel, so thank you! On one hand I'm super sad I wont see your big project finished, but on the other, a fresh start is sometimes the best thing you can do. I hope you really enjoy playing with lumen and I KNOW you'll love the blueprint dismantling and the lock and nudging of holograms. I'll be watching every single one of your episodes...again. :)

Found this channel while looking for a satisfactory let's play and stayed for so many others. This channel introduced me to Ixion, Anno, and Satisfactory and I'm glad to see this series getting a fresh face!

Sad to see this series end, but I understand completely! You inspired so much of my own work, it was great watching you learn and grow. Going to have my daughter follow your next series, she's starting to get addicted to satisfactory, and she will love your work. Looking forward to what's next!

So far your way of playing and explaining makes me feel like im there with you. I never thought id get hooked on a 1st person factory builder. Really looking forward to next satisfactory series. Thanks alot!

It's so awesome to see how other people progress, what mistakes they made and how they view them after longer play hours, how their aesthetics change over time. I'm about to start a brand new save after spending around 400 hours in my first save and I'm actually really excited to start over for Update 8

Your series got me into Satisfactory. I am so hyped for your new series, and I hope it goes well for you!

I remember following along for those early builds, you were my introduction to Satisfactory and to this day by far my favorite Satisfactory creator. Fell off the game and the let's play for a while, but I recently got back into it with Update 8 and I'm beyond excited for the new series! Eagerly waiting for next Tuesday :)

Just discovered your channel today with this video, and i am sincerely impressed by everything you have done. I can't express how much you have open my mind with the presentation of each factories. Of course you did put tons of hours into the creation of these factories so a single video of 1 hour can't represent the amount of effort and planning you have put into it. However I can tell that you have managed to unlock my desire to put a ton of effort like you did because it amazes me ! I hope one day my world would be as beautiful as yours :D PS: keep up the motivation, you are truely an amazing creator on Satisfactory !

Satisfactory is what drew me to your channel in the first place ^^ I really enjoyed your Let's Play with how beginner friendly it is, a place where I could come back to whenever I find the time and energy to play Satisfactory again ^^ I'll be eagerly awaiting your new Save File Let's Play of Satisfactory ^^

I'm glad you are going to give this game another go with a new save. I feel confident that you are going to get to the final research game on this next playthrough. It's cool seeing how far you came from your first iron factory to the fused frame factory. Looking forward to seeing how you approach the next series.

I really loved this series! Thanks for all your hard work, and I'm looking forward to the next one!

I started watching your channel quite some time after you started, so I never caught up to the end of this series. I think your play style is closest to mine of all the content creators I know of. Being able to start at the beginning and follow along is going to be incredibly exciting. I hope to be able to join the streams whenever I can.

Well, you've convinced me to start another new save, so thank you for that! Always enjoyed your content. Your videos make excellent nerdy ambiance while working and such. Wishing you the best and hope you feel better soon!

So glad you're back and going to be starting a new world. I really enjoy your videos and how you explain and build. Thanks

I'm very glad to hear that you're starting a new play through. I was very much hoping that would be the case! I loved watching your videos but it did get a bit overwhelming. I havent played the game for a couple years and was planning on making a new start for update 8 so it will be great to watch along whilst I play

glad i was able to find your channel. was bingeing your Frostpunk series and i’m happy to see you play anything else; you’ve got some great charisma

I am looking forward to your next series. I enjoy your explanations of how you build stuff. Thank you for sharing how you build as I am always looking for different ways to build. Get better (cough) and please share your settings as I am impressed by how crisp your factories look even running lumen, as I chose not to use it at this point.

First thing I noticed when I started playing was just how beautiful the game was. I've only been playing about a week or two, I think? So it's nice seeing your old builds. Everything looks SO amazing! I had no idea what was even possible with Satisfactory until now. ^_^

I’m so happy you’re going to be starting over in update 8!

Started with your series when I bought satisfactory in series 7. Burned myself out many times in huge builds. I knew when you started your latest project you’d end up here as it was just huge. Going to try a new playthrough soon that’s mainly blueprint focused. End of an era for me watching this hahah

I've really enjoyed the series. Looking forward to the next one. Thank you for the excellent content!

Near the end of this video, you mentioned something about episode numbering, I thought I would drop my two cents down about that. I actually found your Satisfactory series from an episode somewhere in the mid-30's, at which point I went to your channel and watched them all from 1 -> now. So there are some of us out there who will want to watch the series in order. I, for one, would appreciate if they're still numbered. Thanks Darren!

Thanks for the lovely tour. looking forward to the next series❤

suggestion for the new series. I appretiate that you intend to make the builds a bit more condensed into one or two episodes. It would be nice to have a summary in the end where you say. Ok factory so-and-so is now done and it took me in total X hours to complete. I think that information could be useful. Looking forward to the new series.

Of course it is sad to hear this series has ended, and that we will never see Big Shell finished, but I will look very much forward to seeing a new Satisfactory series from you. Besides your Anno series, which is my WDP top favorite also due to your great story telling in that series, this has been a very great series from you, not so much in story telling but a lot of teaching while you learned yourself, so yes looking very much forward to a new WDP Satisfactory series 😄

I've enjoyed many of your playthroughs for this save, excited for the next one!

I love the idea of a new start; one thing I'd like to see is simple architecture early on that looks decent, so you can avoid big concrete cubes when you don't have access to quartz/awesome shop upgrades yet. I do agree that builds that stretch across episodes start getting burdensome to the viewer. In any case, you have had an awesome series thus far, and I look forward to a fresh start!

Great build. I'm on my sixth Satisfactory world myself. With either different starting locations or different philosophies of item (and pioneer) transport (currently avoiding trains as a challenge). I do prefer the early stages of the game myself (and yes, they do go by very fast), when things are a lot "tighter" in terms of what you have to work with. The only downside is the need to collect biomass again, which is just as irritating to do as ever. But then, you know the solution to that.

I always watched this channel for Satisfactory, and to see it return is great!

I second the mods. For example the larger inventory slots really helps with avoiding a ton of back and forths.

that overgrowth in some of the factorys can look really good would be nice if we could add plants in the future too.

Very sad to see this series go, it’s kind of like saying goodbye to a friend you know you’ll probably never see again. But I am excited to see what you have for us in the future.

If you're playing with Lumen on just slap a bunch of signs at full brightness (solid) color and they'll light the place up. Tons of creative ways to mount them/etc. Light your factories without having to use power 😊

If the focus of the series is building, and not exploring. Its now possible to start with all alternate recipes unlocked… it allows you to build the base and focus on the perfected build.. and not tear down and rebuild again and again each time you get a new vital alternate. Thats what ill do for my new playthrough. As im tired of exploring

Hi Darren. I first saw Satisfactory videos from other KZfaqrs. The game looked interesting and I looked for a series that started Satisfactory since the beginning. That is how I found your channel, since you just started one. I eventually bought the game and really enjoyed watching what you did and then adjusting it to my play style. I'm happy that you took the decision to reboot the series, because I had the feeling that the mega-build didn't really fit your series anymore, because everything took so much time and the edits became too big. I felt like I was missing out on important decisions and felt 'detached' from the story I felt part of since the very beginning. So very brave of you and I'm really looking forward on the second series - count me in!

ive seen a few of your videos, not sure if ive ever commented, but some amazing builds here. I definitely will watch the new series. you have yourself a new sub.

I'm super excited for the new series. I loved this play through but the big builds multi episode was a bit much. Great to hear!

Amazing stuff, i haven't gotten that deep into the game so this just blows my mind the scale of things and complexity, mustve taken ages

hey darren, always a hard choice to start over but im excited to see what you do with the new world

He’s baaaaack. Been going through your anno 1800 play through. Just got to investors, and love the game because I found your playlist.

Hell yeah brother, i be watching your series on Satisfactory, such a good game, different ideas and factories from people to learn from.

Found your channel though these satisfactory videos as whilst I enjoy creators like imkibitz and totalexclipse. I also really liked these long form not super optimised builds... rather then just biking stuff and being all "Hey build this, this way" this is more like playing along with a friend in Discord. Keep it up mate.

I'm currently at 400 hours in game, I finished Tier 8 in the Hub. I have only Space Elevator 4 left to manufacture. I haven't made any batteries yet, but I found some. So I haven't used drones yet, but plan on it. I have a few factories around the map making things like computers, heavy frames, modular engines, aluminum casings, but here's how I want to fill in the last Space Elevator order: I moved the Space elevator to 0, 0 on the map. I have a sushi belt running from a train station (soon to be replaced by a drone port) to a massive storage hub. The parts get sorted into their own container, all in one line of 100+ containers, and any excess get sent to the Space Elevator programmable splitter (which is set to remove Pasta, Magnetic Field Generators, Thermal somethings, and Assembly Director System) and then anything else not used goes to 1 AWESOME Sink for the whole map. Once the batteries are being produced, I'll replace the train station with a drone port and the drones will refill on batteries from this central hub only, then I'll put one drone port at each raw material (stuff like oil will be packaged on site and drone carried to the central hub to be unpackaged and used). I imagine it's going to be a mess waiting for items to sort from the sushi belt, but it is this exact chaos that I want to see happen. The shame of it all is that I do not have a good pc to be able to record it. I barely get to play at 12fps, in U7 because my pc can't handle U8 (I tried).

Have satisfactory running while watching this because of you Version 6 playthrough. Started watching your Version 8 already and always enjoy your vids. Only drawback is trying to find my own ways to tackle the game without just copying lol.

This Lets play was one of the best, I waited for the next episode impatiently every week. I Love big project and I was thrilled to see the result of THE BIG SHELL... :( I guess we never know. thanks again Darren for this series, all the work and inspiration. Lets Strat fresh from the beginning with U8, hope you fixed all PC issues. Keep goin ❤

dude, you're kinda amazing at this you came up with a lot of awesome designs

Not surprised, that last factory felt like a huge project. It looks great though, will be fun to watch how you do your playthrough!

Thank you for making this video... I had been waiting for more Satisfactory contact. It had been a while and was wondering if you gave up on it.

Seems like recent lumen update feets perfectly with your playstyle, all about esthetics and good looking !

I feel it is a shame that this series is ending, I was looking forward to seeing you take on Nuclear etc. I have been using your series to give me an insight into what is coming up on my own, Oh well will just need to plough on un guided now :) looking forward to the new series to start though :)

I can’t wait for you to start over you make me want to play again! Love your content and I need a starfield break so I think I’ll swap between the two lol keep doing great bro!

Excited about your next run on the game! What Video settings do you have in game? It looks so crystal clear, would be awesome to know! Thanks a lot, and keep up the great content!

Damn dude, the amount of time and effort oyu put into this! Your facotries look amazing, wish i had the patience to do this level of design

Good to see the Experimental branch is working for you now. Did you ever figure out what the problem was? Also, thanks for the video. For people who watched the whole series, it's good to have some closure.

found you while looking for a not 100%efficency anno lp, been playing satisfatory my self since update 2, loved you naive (not negative) playthrough, reminded me of my first time plying the game XD..., looking forward to series 2 [thumb upemogy]

The intro description of the pure terror of breaking your 13 car oil train every time you add on to it is one of the most perfect analogies to updating a codebase that both has dependencies and also other codebases are dependent on.

I'll always watch your Satisfactory, Cities Skyline and Starfield video's, I love watching them and love to see more.

i cant wait, your the only youtuber were its entertaining to watch a lets play of satisfactory

looking forward to the new series! :)

Very excited for a new Satisfactory series! I was afraid the big MGS build was going to burn you out.

I admittedly lost track of your videos on this particular series sometime after the original computer factory build. I suppose it was because your videos got buried in my queue of things to watch. Now that I'm back though I'm excited to see how the new series will play out.

I got burnt out when trying to make a factory that made all the computer goods (circuits, connectors, computers, oscillators, supercomputers and the radio thingies). It was annoying because you kinda need all of those for a lot of lategame things so you kinda need to overproduce most of these to make the rest... a complete mess and very annoying to make. I also HATED working with trains. So, by the time I got to the las elevator phase I was like "nah, I'm good" and moved onto playing a different game. It's a great game tho, and I can't wait to see how it plays in 1.0

Big shell made my game very slow when saving. Thanks cant wait for the next series. ❤

Hey Darren this let’s play is great. I have seen every episode except streams. Even if this let’s play is ending I can’t wait to watch the new one.

ngl when I saw the notification, I was worried that you were stopping playing satisfactory to play another game, but I think it's a good idea to restart. I did it myself, and I'm a lot happier with how my current world is turning out. So good luck to you on your fresh start

Really looking forward to the new series! I bought Satisfactory because of your videos, although I prefer watching you as I'm so terrible at it😂

Recently wanted to get back into Satisfactory, started a new save, already feeling that existential dread that I want to create some efficient machine, but I don't want to invest the time into experimentation and yet I don't want to just do the exact same thing as before.

We've all been there, getting some mods helps! Look for "quality of life" Mods that don't make it cheety.

Just starting the video but.. im sad about that season ending but i 200% agree with why... you know what you could do though, use SCIM to megaprint Big Shell and transfer it to a new file..... i really wanted to see that completed.. cheers tho man.. love your content

It's sad that this series had to end, but I get it. Consider starting next series on different map. I think it will be more refreshing.

Missed this series when it stopped.

The option to instantly unlock every alternative recipes is huge. I started the game over just because i knew i dont need to invest a roughly 10 hour into just collecting them.

Your Satisfactory world is insanely pretty.

Also love the updated graphics they could still take it further though

Its the same dilemma i had with Dyson Sphere Program, i knew nothing starting off, and 200 hours into the same world, i made a lot of progress, but man, if anyone other than me played that world, they would be completely clueless where anything is or goes haha A lot of my designs there were based on games like Staisfactory, which later on kinda damned me into following that design process without needing to build over from scratch. A lot of choices i made also kept me from making progress in the future, i.e placing my oil refineries in the middle of an already built area, effectively isolating that area, other designs built only to work with a few, then realizing my design is useless when i need to expand and so on lmao Tempted to start a new game with the things i know now, i genuinely wonder how fast i'll progress in comparison, or if i'll spend the same amount of hours fighting Prigression Paralysis xD

Really appreciate the time, effort, and support. Liked and subscribed and all that stuff :)

You should still stream it weekly!

The shell is a an amazing build! Finished or not!

Them: "I'm having a hard time in Satisfactory what do you suggest? Me: "Have you tried logging another 300 hour in game hours? That should do it"

You gave me so many great ideas! Thanks.

The devs intended this to be a "chill and relaxing" game. You should absolutely continue this map anytime you feel nostalgic - with no need to hurry. Nothing speaks against a new world, but just leaving this one to rot would be kind of sad.

all the signs with different "lines" and such is a brilliant idea... I always think about "oh I need signs it will make life so much easier" but yeah it is often only temporary signs and I never make a full factory signage... shame shame shame (on me)

I can't bring myself to restarting on a new save. I'd much rather just pool my resources and delete everything than start unlocking everything from the beginning. Do the saves typically transfer over to a new update? Or the upcoming release?

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but wouldn’t a bunch of energy storage batteries solve your potential 80-second oil delivery problem?

A thought: Smaller, but tilable, designs might work better: It's less work to build and record the first one, and then you can just tile it off-cam to meet supply demands.

Guys is it advised to make a main storage of all the crafting items or just leave the items at their separate factory and then feed those resources to other factories? Currently what im doing is if i unlock a new stuff that is required for buildings, i make a small production of it and lead the resource into a main storage, the problem with this is that i need to build the same factories all over again when i need to build a new factory that requires that material.

When I am looking at this, I seriously consider starting a new world. Mine looks like some surreal painting :D

This is so me lol, to not burn myself i decided to do 1 giga factory for production instead of many smaller ones.

I was begun 1 november 2023 with playing Satisfactory. I am very surprised by your film. Actually it would become an end goal for me.

@1:09 Nooooooo! @1:25 Yessssss!

Sorry Darren I’m too invested in Big Shell I don’t think I can watch a new series…….just kidding I get the same way, really looking forward to what you come up with in the new series! Also can’t wait to pilfer your blue prints, I really love your truck stations, rail bridges and walkways.

11:30 you mention parts going into the boxes (I presume that's containers), and then if the boxes are full, it goes into the AWESOME Sink. How do you do that? I thought boxes would start emptying as soon as they have an output conveyor. It seems like you said your box fills up, then only outputs stuff to the Sink once the container is full. How is that possible? I got back into Satisfactory again last week, after abandoning it around Xmas. Actually before then, buy I came back to see the Xmas specials. They were OK! I'd got as far as drones, oil, and starting on nuclear. But I just got bogged down with it, and everything was spaghetti, nothing was efficient or balanced properly. It was my first game, lasted months as I kept discovering new tech. But I'm starting again with a bit more patience and a plan to make actual buildings, at least for most things. Currently got a load of coal feeding a power station on concrete foundations. I'll put walls up when I feel like it, everything's within the limits, and spaced out pretty well if I do say so myself. Also got an early factory making one of the components for Smart Plating, also needs walls, but it's laid out and disciplined, not just splatted. Only found one hard drive so far! I might go exploring when I build a half-decent vehicle. Though really it's the jetpack / electric jetpack that's best, but that's not any time soon. My old map had mains cables going all over the place! Anywhere I've been, there's power available! I just fly with the electric jetpack (whatever it's called) and plop power poles as I travel.

me basically everytime i reach the first oil stages in satisfactory things become to complicated, parts to complex and logistics to complicated and time consuming to set up so i log off come back like 3 months later completely forgot what i was doing than when i find out the stuff i was trying to do and have to figure out how to do get overwhelmed and just end up deleting my save and starting new again repeating this exact cycle.

after 500+hours, you just confinced me to start over.

looking for ep 1 off season 8 mate i follow you from the begining

I am impressed at the sheer number of people who have no problem investing thousands of hours into making massive projects with loads of infrastructure cuz frankly it seems like in the real world a lot of people are just lazy as hell. And by comparison I am one of them. As much as I like the game I just cannot bring myself to design and construct those huge factories all over the map and funnel resources to make the late stage tiers or that stupid end game delivery of 10,000 ridiculous-level parts to the space elevator.