Space Engineers

[Mr_Burns]

Apologies if this has been posted my Search isnt working.

 

Downoaded an Alpha from Steam last night called space engineers.

 

It is very Alpha and gets boring pretty damn quick but looks like it could have potential.

 

As an Engineer you build your own ships, there is no depth in building it, just add blocks and from what I could tell, flying around in a vacuum means it doesnt matter how you place the shapes!

 

Guns dont work yet, mining equipment doesnt work yet and it is sandboxed so no multi player to interact with.

 

But, mining, piracy, space stations, trading, if it ends up like a kind of MMORPG or something it could be good.

 

Check it out here:

 

http://www.spaceengineersgame.com/

[cichlidfan]

I glanced at that recently and intended to take a closer look. Thanks for the info.

[VincentLaw]

Cool concept, but they cut too many corners for my taste. Their "a few sacrifices to “realism elitism” " is the understatement of the year. If I am playing a "physics-sandbox" in space, I want to be able to orbit planets. According to one video I watched, the max speed in the game is 70.1 m/s no matter how many engines you put on your ship. That is about as fast as a Cessna 172. If it was $5 I would give it a shot.

 

Oh, what a cruel world. It was $5 on Wednesday. Oh well.

 

Actually, this does still look fun if I just suspend my disbelief on the whole orbital-mechanics-are-completely-missing-and-I-am-flying-a-giant-cessna-in-space thing. I'm going to go ahead and get this anyway, and I can always go back to KSP if the physics bothers me too much. The fact is I want a game like this that doesn't throw orbital mechanics out the window, but there isn't one that I know of (KSP leaves much to be desired on the EVA/IVA front), so I might as well deal with it.

Edited November 1, 2013 by VincentLaw

[Mr_Burns]

I take your point, but if this turned into something more of a trading and upgrading / mercenary pirating vs. law type thing then the physics would probably mean they missed a large slice of the market.

 

I wouldnt swap this for KSP - totally separate aims I think, but agree, something inbetween would be awesome.

 

I am still missing some massive space activity but these guys have said they have openend the Alpha for comments to grow the game - Im not sure if that is the best approach -this way it could be in alpha for many years..

[VincentLaw]

There was a new update on Friday that added an inertia damping toggle, so I decided to try building a space ring. Switching inertial damping off doesn't disable the rotation damping, so the gyros still have to be manually disabled to keep it spinning.

 

 

Edited November 2, 2013 by VincentLaw

[delta9856]

I'll just jump in here and say that there is another game like this called StarMade which is a lot further along development wise(and currently free, though buying it only costs $6 so it's worth doing just to support the dev!). StarMade looks very similar to Minecraft and already has things like multiplayer, trading and weapons etc.

 

Definitely worth checking out imo.

Here's the link: http://star-made.org/

[NoJoe]

My friends and I have been having lots of fun with StarMade, it's a great game! When I first saw Space Engineers I thought "Wow, it looks like it will be just like StarMade, but with more realistic graphics!". So I'm really interested to see where Space Engineers goes, and how it turns out. So far I really like the ship-building, it's really neat!

 

--NoJoe