Satisfactory launches in early access exclusively on the Epic Game Store 19th March. Well, meow about that? (No I'm not sorry!) Instead of seeing a scary spider you - and this is brilliant - see an image of a cat's face.

It doesn't turn spiders off but conceals them. This was causing a problem for people working on the game so an Arachnophobia Mode was added - and remains in the game still!Īrachnophobia Mode is a checkbox in the menu. announces the Unreal Engine 4 Integrated Partners Program (IPP), which brings together leading middleware technologies and software that are integrated with Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 game engine. There are spiders in Satisfactory, and although they're relatively small, they move in a flurry of knobbly-jointed legs, eerily like the real thing.

It's Swedish studio Coffee Stain, in new game Satisfactory - and very promising it is too. Imagine an RPG without spiders!īut how many developers stop to think, while eagerly tweaking their latest scuttling animation, about the effect it will have on a spider-phobic audience? Giant spiders, half-spider-people things, creatures inspired by spiders - caves many game worlds over are filled with them. Arachnophobia is no joke and it can be a real issue playing games. Point is: whereas I don't have much of a problem with spiders, many people do, and in some cases, the fear can be so strong as to become a phobia. Stop it Bertie! They'll never forgive you!) Look, I know this makes me horrible but I was a child! (Who invented the battle royale genre. Hands up how many of you used to pick spiders off their webs, and from dark corners in sheds, and plonk them overnight in a Millennium Falcon toy - with removable roof - so in the morning you could see which one emerged triumphant?

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