Satisfactory's first major update in a year brings back rain, adds fuel trucks and overhauls vehicle pathfinding, but Steam Deck players should approach with caution

It's been a long, dry year since Satisfactory last received a major update. Version 1.1 of Coffee Stain's hugely popular factory sim launched almost exactly twelve months ago, bringing proper controller support, an improved photo mode, better resource transportation, and more. Yet outside of a few hotfixes, that's been it for fans of building enormously convoluted assembly lines.

Now though, Coffee Stain is back. Update 1.2 is even more substantial than 1.1, adding one major new feature, one major returning feature, and a massive overhaul to an existing system.

The headline addition is rain, which was already added to Satisfactory once with Update 6 during early access. However, Coffee Stain has folded in a new, more advanced rain system that will now give buildings and characters a proper...