Gaming Space Engineers (now in BETA)

[Lucy]

Yeah, saw this update and the apology that they might be breaking things on the way to Planets. So now I'm waiting for Planets to start playing again, I think. It'll be like a whole new game, again. :-D

 

[Dantassii]

I'm waiting for them to require thrusters to have a fuel source. That will be a much bigger game changer than planets.

Dantassii
HUMONGOUS spacecraft builder

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Update 01.103

EDIT: HA! Beat orb to the punch!

 

[RisingFury]

Yeah, saw this update and the apology that they might be breaking things on the way to Planets. So now I'm waiting for Planets to start playing again, I think. It'll be like a whole new game, again. :-D

Space Engineers isn't a game. It's a grinding simulator. The only "game" part of the game is obtaining the materials to build things. Then once you build your giant ship, you can... fly it into an asteroid or something. Because nothing is coming for you.

 

[Urwumpe]

Space Engineers isn't a game. It's a grinding simulator. The only "game" part of the game is obtaining the materials to build things. Then once you build your giant ship, you can... fly it into an asteroid or something. Because nothing is coming for you.

That is wrong. Recently I was attacked by pirates. :tiphat:

 

[Dantassii]

Space Engineers isn't a game. It's a grinding simulator. The only "game" part of the game is obtaining the materials to build things. Then once you build your giant ship, you can... fly it into an asteroid or something. Because nothing is coming for you.

Just last night I had 3 red vessels approach my mining ship while it was unloading ore at my main base. The 46 turrents on my miner along with the 30 turrents on the base itself vaporized them before I could identify what they were.

I'm now designing/building a salvage ship to go harvest the components as they are a hazard to navigation around my main base. This is the first time I've had to build a salvage class ship. Before all I've had to build was a miner, a welder, and a local grinder ship. once the salvage ship is complete, I'm going to use it to take out all the red ships within scanner range of my main base.

Due to its size, it will take 3-5 days to build my salvage ship. Not because I need to mine ore/build components, but because it's so big.

Dantassii
HUMONGOUS shipbuilder (no matter where I am, I build HUMONGOUS-ly)

 

[Urwumpe]

Just last night I had 3 red vessels approach my mining ship while it was unloading ore at my main base. The 46 turrents on my miner along with the 30 turrents on the base itself vaporized them before I could identify what they were.

Similar here. I just finished building the wall of assemblers in my large mothership (still under construction), when such raider vessels appeared, so I quickly produced missiles for the missile turrets to "communicate" with them.

Still, I disabled the feature afterwards... my ship is still too much VIP to handle too many battles right now.

 

[Dantassii]

Similar here. I just finished building the wall of assemblers in my large mothership (still under construction), when such raider vessels appeared, so I quickly produced missiles for the missile turrets to "communicate" with them.

Still, I disabled the feature afterwards... my ship is still too much VIP to handle too many battles right now.

I turned on pirates AND meteors for the first time when the random pirates feature was added. Dodging my own firepower during a meteor shower is hoards of fun. Biggest problem was finding enough Magnesium early on, but then I discovered a few mods that convert gravel into other ingots and now I have more magnesium than I know what to do with. Finally, some use for those 25+ large ship large cargo containers full of unused gravel.

Dantassii
HUMONGOUS shipbuilder

 

[Urwumpe]

I turned on pirates AND meteors for the first time when the random pirates feature was added. Dodging my own firepower during a meteor shower is hoards of fun. Biggest problem was finding enough Magnesium early on, but then I discovered a few mods that convert gravel into other ingots and now I have more magnesium than I know what to do with. Finally, some use for those 25+ large ship large cargo containers full of unused gravel.

Dantassii
HUMONGOUS shipbuilder

I play without mods, so finding enough Uranium and Magnesium is one of the toughest issues right now. Also, the asteroid below the platform that I use as wharf is almost completely exploited.

But I noticed that in the two weeks that I did not play, the geology of the asteroid changed... I had iron, where previously was rock.

 

[orb]

Update 01.104

Update 01.104:

 

[Gerdih]

hope I can get my windows to work again after midterms. And for planets to be released just in time!

 

[orb]

Update 01.105

Update 01.105:

 

[orb]

Marek Rosa - dev blog: Celebrating the 2nd Anniversary of Space Engineers

 

[Gerdih]

Have seen the whole stream, really nice planets. But I got a little bit disappointed, they wont be procedurally generated. And other changes on the game wont be good as well for my point of view.

 

[Izack]

Oh, screw it. I bought it anyway.

Two years later...

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Two years later...

Yep. One of my most frequent Steam popups is "Izack is now playing Space Engineers"

 

[Quick_Nick]

Yep. One of my most frequent Steam popups is "Izack is now playing Space Engineers"

Right at the moment I read your comment:

 

[orb]

Update 01.106

Update 01.106

 

[orb]

Update 01.107

Update 01.107:

 

[Hielor]

Update 01.107:
Space Engineers - Update 01.107 - Space Master, Building from cockpit, Bugfixes - YouTube

"Building from cockpit" got my hopes up that you'd actually be able to build on your own ship from whatever camera angle you want, but no such luck.