Ya know, the thing with space engineers is discovery. Sure, there are tutorials out there that'll teach you to understand how components are put together and work, but your better off thinking of something you'd love to fly around in, and go about building that. Heck, people have built everything from shitty space cubes to gigantic space cannons with entire loading, breaching, and firing mechanisms. I guess what i'm trying to say is, it's a big game, but only as big as you want it to be.
To maybe help you out more though, considering that perhaps reviewing space engineers is a daunting task for one who is somewhat experienced with it, let alone someone who has never played the game, I would say check out laststandgamers on youtube, they've got a bunch of awesome videos showing off beautiful ships and feats of engineering, which they usually explain. Again though, there really is too much for just A tutorial. Maybe set some goals on aspects of the game you want to play around with.
Yeah, I'm not asking about strategies and plans and all that. I mean I'm literally standing on a rock in space with absolutely no idea what the hell is going on. I figured out how to walk around and how to interact with objects, but I know there's something about mining and something about building ships, and I have not the slightest clue how that works.
I've seen videos of epic space crashes, but although I figured out, by pure luck, how to get into a cockpit and fly a ship, I could never get it going very fast, and it just gently bumped into the asteroids. I've seen videos of people running around with tools, mining rocks and building space ships, but I don't even know where the tools are, how to use them, how they work. There's a bunch of stuff in the tool bar at the bottom of the screen but it doesn't seem to do anything when I select it and click. I am fully and truly lost here, and I'm just not the type of person who can figure these things out on my own. I'm the type of person who reads through the entire instruction manual before even looking at the actual thing I'm learning to use. After the first look I had at Minecraft, I managed to figure out how to walk around and to jump, and that was it. There being no directions and no tutorial, I quit after about an hour of frustration. It was over a year later, after watching many videos, that I finally decided to give it another chance and discovered at last how great it is. SE promises to be even more complex, so I really do need detailed instructions on how to play before I can start playing with it.
And I have to do that quickly, because the first draft of my video needs to be ready within a couple of weeks, and I have extremely little spare time to play the game (I have to do it at home in my spare time because the work computers are intended for word processing and can't handle most games). I don't need a long video, just a few minutes, but I have to get all original footage, and the video has to show some of the more interesting parts of the game, not just me running around in space like a lost little space lamb. So yeah, that's why I'm here begging for tutorials.
Also, as I mentioned, I can't seem to watch the "tutorial button" video. It gives me an error message when I click it. So I'm even more lost than I might otherwise be.
So I'll watch through this series I found, since it does seem to be the easiest to follow, and also look up laststandgamers -- thanks for that suggestion.
Assuming I can figure this out quickly enough, it would also be good to get some multiplayer footage, since that seems to be one of the more fun aspects of the game. If that server gets up and running, maybe I could jump on, film a few minutes?
Thanks guys!
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