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[LoSboccacc]

how is this game singleplayer?

enemy ship spawning and attacking you? how are enemy ship balanced?

[Aseaheru]

Well, they dont really attack, just go floating thru the region.
Asteroids on the other hand...

[Tarran]

The game's singleplayer at the moment has no real enemies. There's an option to enable "cargo ships" which sometimes spawns "military" ships, but they just fly around in the distance and then eventually disappear unless you go and attack them. Even then, they just fly in a straight line and only the turrets they might have will shoot at you. Other than that, you'll have to make your own enemies or get other players on a multiplayer server.

It's still an interesting sandbox though.

[Meta]

Thread necromancy ahoy!

This game is free to play this week-end on Steam, starting now. If like me you never played/tested this game, it may be the right time to do so !

[Glloyd]

Do it! This game is actually insanely fun, if you've got someone else to play with. I've been playing this on and off for the last couple weeks with a friend of mine, we've put in about 20 hours just messing around. There's a surprising amount of content for an early access game in there. What would make this game perfect in my mind is more stuff to do in survival + proc gen infinite worlds. Also, a way to make yourself able to die in creative mode would be fun too, or at least a way to toggle infinite ammo in survival mode. If they had that, it would be a near perfect game.

Something we did recently was build a whole fleet of ships in creative mode, and assign a ton with turrets on them to enemy AI. Then we tried to take them down. We got utterly destroyed, but it was pretty awesome. Also, there's already a bunch of mods that add new parts and skyboxes and etc. to the game, so those are worth checking out through the steam workshop.

If it goes on sale, but it. It's worth it.

Here's some screenshots:

Spoiler: Warning, Large Images (click to show/hide)

[KingofstarrySkies]

If my computer could run the damned thing without massive lag, I'd play more :c

[Glloyd]

Yeah, for all its awesomeness, it's a pretty CPU intensive game. Especially once you get into massive firefights like the ones in the picture. I was hosting though, so I was getting the brunt of the lag, and it wasn't too choppy except for during some big impacts. My friend said he was getting next to no lag, and I'm running it on a better computer, so take that as you will.

[rabidgam3r]

Yeah, I saved up, bought it, and could barely run it.
Huge bummer, 'cause it looks really fun. Hoping I can get a better computer so I can play half the games in my library.

[Aseaheru]

Right, which of you has a server and feels like getting on TS?

[n9103]

Feel free to use the B12 TS. (At least, that's what I'm hosting, AFAIK.)

[Aseaheru]

Everyone one there is still playing Archeage.

Bunch of nubs.

[ollobrains]

see if my system can run this

[n9103]

They are, but what says you have to? Anyone can make a channel, and if I'm around I'll make it semi-permanent for anyone I recognize.
I've got another 15 slots that haven't been used. Pretty sure that'll accommodate any Space Engy game that actually occurs.
And, worst case, or best, depending on how you look at it, I can just start a 2nd server. I've got the cores to spare for it. (Assuming there's nothing weird from TS itself when running concurrently.)

[Anvilfolk]

So I tried online survival but nobody was really playing with each other.

It also seems like it takes a long time to get anything done at all in Survival. Mining takes forever, etc. Am I missing something? I guess a mining ship with scoop of some sort is necessary, then focus on getting more refineries and assemblers?

[Aseaheru]

Yah, you need to get ships ASAP, otherwise it takes forever.

Unless you go with 10x inventory and speed...