Space Engineers - MP, Voxel, Sandbox

[Mrbloodworth]

Space Engineers - Alpha Footage 8/2013

Space Engineers - "Crash Test" - Alpha Footage 9/2013

Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and maintenance of space works. Players build space ships and space stations of various sizes and utilization (civil and military), pilot ships and perform asteroid mining.

Space Engineers utilizes a realistic volumetric-based physics engine: all objects can be assembled, disassembled, damaged and destroyed.

http://www.spaceengineersgame.com

Space Engineers is currently in alpha, and is expected on Steam's Early Access on the 23rd of October.

This is being made by the same group who made miner wars.

[Shannow]

I shouldn't say it, but damnit that looks like fun.

[Mrbloodworth]

It really does.

[Malakili]

Already more gameplay footage than Star Citizen.

Ok ok, a cheap shot.  But seriously, this looks neat.  If Steam early access is cheap enough I could see myself picking it up.

[Shannow]

$15

[Mrbloodworth]

Yeah, I think I read 13-15$

[schild]

Space Janitors :(

Do you fight eldritch horrors or just repair metal and poke at stone?

[tazelbain]

I just want one of these space station 13 remakes to finally hit steam.

[Sky]

Looks like a lot of grunt work to get sploded in such a short time.

Potential is there, more so than in most of the post-minecraft procedural sandboxes popping up. Already more gameplay than all but that Pimp Zombie one.

[Yegolev]

You see how much despair radiates off of that astronaut when that ship crashes into the thing he spent hours or maybe days building?  THAT is the game.

[Nebu]

Couldn't I just buy a deck of cards with spaceships on the back and build a house of cards instead? 

[schild]

Yes.

[Stormwaltz]

Looks like a lot of grunt work to get sploded in such a short time.

My interpretation of their first trailer was, "Spend hours painstakingly hand-crafting a custom space craft so you can watch a griefer destroy it in seconds."

[Mrbloodworth]

Jesus, some of you are overly paranoid about "griefer ". For real. Seek help. I Say that because I care.

[Stormwaltz]

I say it because part of a game developer's job is worrying about that shit.

/shrug

Remember Trammel and whatnot.

[Mrbloodworth]

It's a multiplayer game, get better friends?

[Yegolev]

For a positive note: rather than clean up a pile of real cards, I can just turn the game off.

It could be fun, but there's a reason people turn off TNT in Minecraft.

[Mrbloodworth]

People turn off TnT, like, on non-public servers? Who do you people hang out with?

[Ingmar]

Their kids?

[Sky]

It's a multiplayer game, get better friends?

On the other hand, you may be too accustomed to your own circle of friends; not everyone is lucky enough to have that set up to play online.

[Mrbloodworth]

I believe that's true.

[KallDrexx]

I know it's alpha but holy crap they need to make it much faster to build things. 

[Kail]

This is being made by the same group who made miner wars.

I want to believe, but this line is killing me.  Space Engineers was what Miner Wars was supposed to be, too, roughly.  Turned out to be kind of hard, so they released it as a half finished mess, and now they're giving us the "no, really this time, we swear" pitch for the game Miner Wars was supposed to be, but which we'll have the privilege of buying at full price again?  Ughhhhh.

[Ghambit]

Game is up on steam now as a discounted Alpha (even moreso [15%?] if you were a miner wars buyer; to make amends for the fuckup their MMO dev. was in those regards).  I may pull the trigger now that it's basically $10 instead of $30.

[Mrbloodworth]

So that's why I have a coupon.

[Ghambit]

Hmmm... couldn't find a newer thread for this.  Anyways lots of progress, update:

Programmable Blocks now Active.

Similar to notch's system.  You have a console block that compiles C/C#.  You can script behaviors to anything on the same grid and transmit stuff to players, etc.  Not sure of how far this thing can go, as I haven't had time to get into the game at all (also waiting for a check; need monies).  My miner wars fuckup coupon is gone sadly.

Anyone fooling with this thing?

[Shannow]

I am, after initial blah, spending way to much time with this game. Playing in Survival mode. It's a tad slow (a lot of mining, make sure you bump up your inventory size) but there's a lot of stuff to do. Was getting annoyed with meteor swarms which kept putting a hole in my base so I discovered the joy of gatling turrets. Figured out how to mount a rocket launcher and a drill on the front of my ship (which way do I want to make this hole? Fast or slow?). There are automated ships I could go pirate and stuff which I haven't even touched yet nor have I tried multiplayer.

I think if they could speed up the construction process a tad and give us some more PvE stuff in single player it would be pretty damn kickass.

That or I may just go full nerd and build a Battlestar in creative mode.

[apocrypha]

I definitely have my eye on this, but no more early access, ever.

[Pennilenko]

That or I may just go full nerd and build a Battlestar in creative mode.

With all of the pistons and stuff you could actually build retractable launch bays too. Just sayin.

[Shannow]

Dear god.

I am doomed.

DOOMED.

(also discovered blast doors)

[Ghambit]

I am, after initial blah, spending way to much time with this game. Playing in Survival mode. It's a tad slow (a lot of mining, make sure you bump up your inventory size) but there's a lot of stuff to do. Was getting annoyed with meteor swarms which kept putting a hole in my base so I discovered the joy of gatling turrets. Figured out how to mount a rocket launcher and a drill on the front of my ship (which way do I want to make this hole? Fast or slow?). There are automated ships I could go pirate and stuff which I haven't even touched yet nor have I tried multiplayer.

I think if they could speed up the construction process a tad and give us some more PvE stuff in single player it would be pretty damn kickass.

That or I may just go full nerd and build a Battlestar in creative mode.

I guess the main point of the new block is to handle a lot of stuff automagically.  Are those gats automatic from the get-go?  Or do you need to script them?
In your opinion, is the game far enough along for an f13 server??

[Pennilenko]

In your opinion, is the game far enough along for an f13 server??

I think the right group of f13 members might enjoy a space engineers server. There are no fantasy mods or npcs to kill though, so some people might be turned off...

[Ghambit]

In your opinion, is the game far enough along for an f13 server??

I think the right group of f13 members might enjoy a space engineers server. There are no fantasy mods or npcs to kill though, so some people might be turned off...

With large worlds and the script blocks going active I'd assume the grognard creative types would be all over this. 

[Shannow]

I am, after initial blah, spending way to much time with this game. Playing in Survival mode. It's a tad slow (a lot of mining, make sure you bump up your inventory size) but there's a lot of stuff to do. Was getting annoyed with meteor swarms which kept putting a hole in my base so I discovered the joy of gatling turrets. Figured out how to mount a rocket launcher and a drill on the front of my ship (which way do I want to make this hole? Fast or slow?). There are automated ships I could go pirate and stuff which I haven't even touched yet nor have I tried multiplayer.

I think if they could speed up the construction process a tad and give us some more PvE stuff in single player it would be pretty damn kickass.

That or I may just go full nerd and build a Battlestar in creative mode.

I guess the main point of the new block is to handle a lot of stuff automagically.  Are those gats automatic from the get-go?  Or do you need to script them?
In your opinion, is the game far enough along for an f13 server??

Gats are automatic , except for needing ammo refills every so often. Occasionally when I hear the meteor storm warning I go up top on my station and watch them do their work.

Is it far enough along for an f13 server? As a building game I'd say definitely. If you want more to do than that? Then no, not really.

[Ghambit]

Well, any more to do than that would require self-motivation (organized scrims, politics, etc.)... which none of us are good at.