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“Space Engineers is an Early Access game, which means that it is still under development but already in a very playable state and contains a vast amount of new features that have been added since its first release (e.g. Multiplayer, Survival mode). The game is being improved on a regular basis through updates that add and polish features and content, optimizations and bug fixes.

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Please be sure to read the list of current features before you buy the game. It will give you an insight on what is or isn't actually working: http://www.SpaceEngineersGame.com/features.html

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October 6

Update 01.156 DEV - Entity Initialization Parallelization, Bugfixes

Hello Engineers! This week’s update brings you more of our parallelization improvements. The loading of grids is now processed asynchronously and this translates into less freezing during copying & pasting grids or during spawning of cargo ships and drones. It also significantly reduces loading times.
As a small tweak to weapon balancing, we’ve also added a short reload time to automated Gatling turrets so they will not fire continuously but instead reload after 140 rounds. Bugs fixed this week include sliding doors and normal doors not being able to be grouped together, first person perspective clipping while using rifle and jetpacks deactivating when reloading a world in a cockpit. Lastly all duplicates in the G-Screen should have been cleaned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ECm2x9lCoE
Full list of new features and fixes: http://forums.keenswh.com/threads/7387978

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September 29

Update 01.155 DEV - Improvements and Bugfixes

Hello Engineers! Today's update brings another batch of bug fixes and improvements. We have re-enabled the station voxel support option. Once again you can find this option in the advanced world settings although it has now been renamed as "unsupported stations". By enabling this option, grids will no longer become dynamic when disconnected from static grids. Bugs fixed this week include sensors not detecting large grids, rocks on planets only containing iron and issues when crashing a ship while looking through a camera.
That’s all for now, but rest assured that work continues on the multiplayer and optimizing the game, as we are aware of the everyday issues that players face.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jsce9h9b_k
Full list of new features and fixes: http://forums.keenswh.com/threads/7387819

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Reviews

“Space Engineers makes welding, joining and glazing seem like the best jobs in the world. It looks superb.”
Rock Paper Shotgun

“Buy, unless you are bereft of even the slightest shred of creativity”
PCGamesN

“Space Engineers generates its own unique brand of fun, whether you're more interested in constructing things or blasting them to bits”
IGN

About This Game

Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Players build space ships, space stations, planetary outposts of various sizes and uses (civil and military), pilot ships and travel through space to explore planets and gather resources to survive. Featuring both creative and survival modes, there is no limit to what can be built, utilized and explored.

Space Engineers features a realistic, volumetric-based physics engine: everything in the game can be assembled, disassembled, damaged and destroyed. The game can be played either in single or multiplayer modes.

Volumetric objects are structures composed from block-like modules interlocked in a grid. Volumetric objects behave like real physical objects with mass, inertia and velocity. Individual modules have real volume and storage capacity.

Space Engineers is inspired by reality and by how things work. Think about modern-day NASA technology extrapolated 60 years into the future. Space Engineers strives to follow the laws of physics and doesn't use technologies that wouldn't be feasible in the near future.

Space Engineers concentrates on construction and exploration aspects, but can be played as a survival shooter as well. We expect players will avoid engaging in direct man-to-man combat and instead use their creativity and engineering skills to build war machines and fortifications to survive in space and on planets. Space Engineers shouldn’t be about troops; it should be about the machinery you build.

Early Access

Planets and moons – inspired by real celestial objects (Earth, Mars, Alien, Moon, Europa, Titan), fully destructible & persistent, volumetric, atmosphere, gravity, climate zones
Game modes
- Creative – unlimited resources, instant building, no death
- Survival – realistic management of resources and inventory capacity; manual building; death and respawn
Single-player – you are the sole space engineer
Multiplayer - alpha version (not a final version)
- Creative and survival mode with your friends
- Cooperative and competitive
- Privacy customization: offline, private, friends only, public
- Max 16 players (this may increase in the future)
- Weapons on/off
- Copy-paste on/off
Starting Worlds
- Earth Easy Start - start on a habitable planet with a set of basic vehicles. Your survival is threatened by attacking pirates who set up shop within range of their drones.
- Mars Easy Start - become a colonist on a barren, inhospitable planet. Make sure you secure a source of water soon. Also beware of local pirates.
- Alien Easy Start – the alien planet is a place with very sparse oxygen, not enough to breath freely. There is hostile fauna and pirates who want to claim the riches of this mysterious world and are not willing to share.
- Moon Easy Start – You start on a moon orbiting a habitable planet. Your base is under attack by pirates.
- Empty Star System - It is a star system with 3 distinctive planets and their 3 moons. Except for local fauna, planets are uninhabited.
- Easy Start 1 – start on an asteroid platform with one large ship and two small ships
- Easy Start 2 – start in a green asteroid station with several large and small ships (this is a large scene!)
- Lone Survivor – start on an abandoned asteroid platform with no ships
- Crashed Red Ship – your mother ship just crashed...
- Two Platforms – competitive two-team multi-player world
- Asteroids – start in a rescue ship with very limited resources
- Empty World – no asteroids, no ships; suitable for creative mode
Enemy NPCs
- sabiroids (spiders): can be found on alien planets and on Titan moons. They can destroy metal blocks and attack players. Their favorite hunting strategy is hiding in the ground and un-burrow to surprise their prey. When players kill a spider, new spiders won’t appear in the area for some time. They also store some components inside their bodies from objects and blocks that they consumed.
- pirate bases: can be found either in space or occupying planetary surface. They have bounty hidden inside their containers that players can loot if they get over the drone attacks.
- enemy drones: they spawn automatically from pirate bases and attack the players when they venture into pirate territory
Ships (small and large ships – build them, pilot them and crush them
Space stations
First-person & Third-person
Planetary bases, outposts, cities!
Dedicated servers - allow players to connect to a third party host, rather than using a player-host, in a peer-to-peer set-up. The result is a faster connection and a more fluent multiplayer performance with less lag
Super-large worlds – the size of the world to 1,000,000,000 km in diameter (almost infinite)
Procedural asteroids - adds an infinite number of asteroids to the game world
Exploration - adds an infinite number of ships and stations to the game world; discover, explore, acquire and conquer!
Drilling / harvesting
Manual building in survival mode – use welder to assemble blocks from components; use grinder to disassemble and reuse components
Deformable and destructible objects – real proportions, mass, storage capacity, integrity
Scenario editor - players can create missions and game modes which can be played by other players. Capture the flag, deathmatch, racing or campaign driven missions - all can be done by using the scenario editor, with your own rules and designs
Building blocks - light armor (cube, slope, corner), heavy armor, interior wall, interior light, small cockpit, large cockpit, cargo container(s), drill (character, large/small ship), ore detector, gravity generator, nuclear reactor, thruster, gyroscope, assembler, medical room, magnetic landing gears, spotlight, catwalk, cover wall, stairs, ramp, window(s), pillar, decoy, wheels, automated turrets, weapons, artificial mass, conveyor, collector, connector, merge block, camera, sensor, timer, text panel
Magnetic landing gears – attach your ship to a surface (another ship or asteroid)
Electricity - all blocks in a grid are wired in an electrical and computer network; electricity is generated by nuclear reactors
Gravity – produced by planets and gravity generators. Spherical gravity generator also available.
Rotors – create rotating objects
Advanced rotors – able to function as a conveyor system
Refinery - process harvested ore to ingots
Assembler - manufacture components from ingots
Oxygen - take off character's helmet, generate oxygen out of ice by using the oxygen generator
Symmetry/Mirroring Mode - useful in creative mode when building structures that require symmetry
Weapons - automatic rifle, small and large explosive warheads, small ship gatling gun, small ship missile launcher
Large weapons - missile launcher (for large ships)
Jump drive – a traveling mechanism that allows players to travel big distances in a short period of time
Solar panels - produce energy depending on the amount of light that they catch from the sun
World management – generate new worlds, “save as” to multiple copies, auto-save every 5 minutes (can be turned on/off), edit world settings
32-bit & 64-bit - 64-bit version expands the amount of objects, ships and asteroids (almost unlimited)
Steam Workshop - Share your creations with the Community (upload and download worlds)
Modding - world files, shaders, textures, 3D models
Source code access – modders can get complete access to the game’s source code that can be found on Github (https://github.com/KeenSoftwareHouse/SpaceEngineers). This offers the opportunity for more and better modified content.
Localized interface (WIP) - Czech, Danish, Dutch, German, Icelandic, Polish, Spanish-Spain, Spanish-Latin America, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese-Brazil, Estonian, Norwegian, Swedish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Russian
Custom colors for blocks – Customize your creations by using any color you like
Cargo ships - auto-piloted vessels (miners, freighters and military) that carry ore, ingots, constructions components and other materials from sector to sector. They can be looted but beware, they often contain booby traps!
Environmental hazards – protect your character and your creations from meteor storms (Safe, Normal, Cataclysm, Armageddon)
Conveyor, Collector, Connector (IMPORTANT: this is a first work-in-progress version and a realistic version will be added later) - Conveyors move items from inventory to inventory. Collectors can collect small objects (ore, ingots, components, tools) into inventory. Connectors can throw items from inventory to space (in future update could be used to connect two ships/stations and transfer items)
Artificial mass – can be used to add gravity-affected mass to ships, useful in machine ships or cars
Wheels - use them with rotors and artificial mass to build vehicles
Automated turrets – gatling, missile and interior. Turrets are used mostly as defense mechanism rather than shooting other players. They aim on decoys (automatically by default), meteorites, missiles or all moving objects (eg. small/large ships) - targeting can be changed in the control panel
Large weapons - missile launcher (for large ships)
Large and small ship grinder and welder – assemble and disassemble blocks faster and in larger amount
Batteries - enables players to store the energy generated by solar panels or reactors at an efficiency rate of 80%
Pistons - offers the option to build more advanced machinery
Ion thrusters – suitable for environments without atmosphere (space or moons) / not recommended to be used on planets with atmosphere
Hydrogen - hydrogen thrusters, hydrogen tanks and hydrogen bottles
Atmospheric thrusters - powered by electricity, working only on planets with atmosphere
Factions - create and join factions, determine ownership of blocks and manage the relations between them (hostile/ally). NOTE: Factions are currently Work-in-Progress. There are still many things to be added (eg. chat and communication) and some bugs/issues are yet to be fixed.
Remote ship control – control ships without being inside the ship’s cockpit (drones)
Remote turret control - control turrets directly
3D printing - export (CTRL+ALT+E) and 3D print the creations that you design in the game (http://www.SpaceEngineersGame.com/3d-printing.html)
Modding API - brings a lot of new possibilities to modders and allows them to alter the game by writing C# scripts which have access to in-game objects (WIP - more features will be added in the future)
Blueprints - save your ship or station on a blueprint and paste it into your game
Projector block – project blueprints and weld the projection
Sensor – detects ships, palyers, asteroids, stations, floating objects and their state (friendly, neutral or enemy) and ownership
Sound block - reproduce predefined sounds such as alarm or siren for announcements
Programmable block – players can write small programs executed by the block
Communication – chat between players and factions
GPS - create, send, receive and manage GPS coordinates in the game
Voxel hands - shape and form the asteroids and change their material (creative mode only)
Xbox controller support

Please be sure to read the list of current features before you buy the game. It will give you an insight on what is or isn't actually working: http://www.SpaceEngineersGame.com/features.html

How to Play

Start by watching this video tutorial:
http://www.SpaceEngineersGame.com/how-to-play.html

Performance Notes

Space Engineers is in development and undergoing frequent optimizations. The performance will get better.

The performance depends on the complexity of your world and the configuration of your computer. Simple worlds run smoothly even on low-end computers, but a more complex world with rich object interactions could overload even high-end computers.

Please read our performance advices: http://www.SpaceEngineersGame.com/performance-advices.html

Minimum requirements represent the bare minimum to run simple scenes and don’t guarantee a perfect experience.

System Requirements

Minimum:

OS: Microsoft Windows 7 (latest SP) 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo 2.0 GHz (or AMD equivalent)
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon HD 3870 / Intel HD Graphics 4000
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 10 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX® compatible on-board
Additional Notes: NOTE: The minimum requirements are sufficient to run the game but without planetary features.

Recommended:

OS: Microsoft Windows 7 (latest SP) 64-bit
Processor: Intel Quad Core i5 @ 2.5 GHz (or AMD equivalent)
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 660 Ti 2GB / AMD HD7870 2GB
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 10 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX® compatible on-board
Additional Notes: No internet connection required to play the game

Space Engineers® and VRAGE™ are trademarks of KEEN SWH LTD.

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Chip Patton

30 products in account

16 reviews

Posted: September 11

It's Dead Jim

While some will disagree the game is simply dying, if not dead already. Have a look for yourself in the forums, many questions are asked, very few responses.

THE PROBLEMS

This game as suffered from a bad stroke of development since it went multiplayer even ignoring all the optimization issues that still exist with the game. For most, playing singleplayer just gets boring after a while as you basically just build a ship in creative. Building a ship in survival was just pointless because there was utterly nothing to do.

So, many players took to multiplayer, which by concept had the potential to be a megaton of fun. Imagine it for a moment, you are building your ship and a player comes by to try and steal it, you turn around and open fire with your assault rifle, and your ship comes to life and helps to defend itself. VICTORY! Now, imagine a large ship with 4 - 8 people on that ship helping to man everything from guns, to inventory, to even drones or small ships in a mining operation. The sheer coordination required by that would be intresting in of itself to make this game GOTY worthy.

Alas, that is not at all what it delivered. If your ship moves, any passengers have about a 424242% chance to die for no reason other than neglegent programming. In fact, almost 42424% of your deaths were from bugs. And if that isn't bad enough, 4242424242% of the time your ship was destroyed from bugs. Now, I'm actually refrencing a Dedicated Server with a 32 core Xeon, 1TB system that my guild "tried" playing on. Hardware was not the issue as it never was, it is the software -- that neglegent programming.

/geek stuff

The game currently uses the steam netlayer which is capable of 33 updates per second. That means that in one second, the server and client can send 66 updates back and forth to/from each other. When a ship moves at 5 meters per second, the netlayer is already saturated with physics calculations and simply can't take any more because there is just so much "junk" being sent through the netlayer that it was never intended to handle. There are other netlayers out there, even the moderators said they would move to Rakknet, in which we later found was a lie. The developers never intended to move the game to rakknet which has a update capability of over 100 updates per second vastly expanding the maximum speed in which a ship can fly before the netlayer becomes saturated and causes "bouncing" of the ship.

/end geek stuff

THE CULPRITS

I tried to help. I am a programmer myself and being the game was open source to those who paid for it, I examined the source code and how the game interfaced with the steam netlayer -- honesly it was simply as I stated, there was simply too much stuff being sent over the netlayer, some of which shouldn't even be there and some a conversion to lockstepping could help alieviate.

So, I created a client and server side wrapper that provided an alternate method of transfering "some" of the data. It was simply a bandaid as it did have its bugs but the concept was solid, especailly in demondstrating what the problem was while there was a heated debate in the forums about what that problem really was.

I asked a complete stranger in the forums to join my server and help me test something, basically after I had finished my prototype, they joined my server with the changes installed and they were absolutely blown away. The server had no bouncing or rubber banding. When you looked straight down at your ship's floor while it was traveling 120m/s, you could only see the ship wabble 1-2 pixels on your crosshair, which was an absolute night and day diffrence between not having my fixes which the wobble could be upwards of 50 meters, which would cause instant death.

I took video of this just for posterity and posted it in the forums (Sorry Twitch has already deleted the video). The fanbois were P I S S E D! But why, I wondered. It took me a while but I figured it out, it took one of the fanbois only one comment to completely explain to me why they were all so upset -- I proved their precious KSH wrong, and showed them up by fixing the game for them! Did you know I was called a fraud? The guy I had just met was called a fraud, the video was called a fake, and you don't even want me to get into all the names I was called in that thread while the moderators utterly ignored every word. No seriously, every word until of course, the guy I met spoke out and defended himself in much kinder tones in which he recieved a ban.

I know one of the moderators and I'm not pointing fingers, I don't know which was responsible or if it was someone from Keen that did it. But there was a new precedent set that day in the forums, that much was quite obvious: Fanbois, ala the majority, rules.

DIGRESSION

This problem of fandom was first revaled to me after the "Cyberhound" patch. Immediately after, before anyone had access to it there were comments from the fancamp praising Keen for a job well done, calling the update awewsome, perfect, exceptional, epic, and one even called it couragous! It was sheer spam.

After I got the patch, I logged into the game to find that these cyberhounds randomly spawn inside your ship and immediately and without warning blow it up from the inside out. Try and digest what I just said if you haven't purchased or played this game yet. Immediately and very angryly I go back to the forums to the patch notes and to my surprise I see it going completely nuts with people complaining about the "Jihad Dogs". The moderator I am in contact with even said it was the hardest he's had to work so far to keep the comments within reason and in line with the rules.

It was so bad, there was an emergency patch that was pushed to toggle these dogs off. This one incident illuminates so much about the woes of this game, community, and developers that it may take a few reads to actually grasp the gravity of it, but being limited in text, I will make an attempt here.

Firstly it was made clear that Keen could urinate in the fancamp's mouth and the fancamp would thank them for the rain while at the same time attacking anyone who questioned the pungent smell, warm tempeture, and golden color. A critic's feedback never reaches Keen, and the developers have become so disconnected with the community it is almost laughable and pathetic to see them attempt to re-connect (that is a whole other story there).

The last attempt was the most miserable. A Q&A where Keen scripted the entire thing and selected on their most rabid fans to participate. No critics were allowed a signle question, and there were no questions that caught Keen offguard. It was more of a political forum than a Q&A.

But what it boils right down to is with the critics now gone, the fanbois have lost intrest in the game, no one plays, no one talks on the forums, and there is no more healthy debate and discourse with the developers, the game: It is dead. May it rest in peace while fandom burns in hell.

What you see now is the skeletal remains of an awesome idea where like a cancer, fanbois invaded the inner circles of the developers and tricked them into thinking that everything was ok while slowly killing them. By the time the developers realized there was an issue, which was a few months back when Merik came back to the game, it was simply too late, the damage was done. Fanbois seem rather hellbent to having this game die a slow and painful death; they seem to somehow think or believe "they are the game" by identifying as the game and therefor feel it necessary to attack all criticism.

There are many ways for a game to "go", but never, until this game, would I have guessed for a second that raving group of fanbois could actually achieve the death of a game. This game is a casestudy for the books and a prime example of who not to listen to when developing a EA game.

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Dreamfire

118 products in account

3 reviews

Posted: September 11

Space Engineers is an ambitious game. However, it has two huge problems. To counter that, it has some of the best ship building and flying for anything that you build.
A) It's a sandbox
B) It's a buggy mess.

Now, before the introduction of planets, the sandbox aspect was more or less not a big problem - all resources were accessible if you could just find the right asteroid. Survival was a thing you could do.

Come planets though, mining planetside and progressing to get into space became nonexistant. Multiple "features" are ignored, despite being buggy across months of patches. Currently the game is stuck in bug patching hell, and every bug "fix" seems to introduce three more that were worse than the last.

It's great if you just want to play around in sandbox and make things, but forget about enabling meteor storms. If you're on a planet, they cause damage to all the voxels, slowing things down, and they have no parameters that you can set to make them seem challenging but not overwhelming.

They mostly need to work on world generation and progressing from planets to space, neither of which seem to be on their roadmap. To make it all worse they released Medieval Engineers before it even really hit an Alpha state!

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SniperSR25

170 products in account

10 reviews

Posted: September 18

About six months ago I wrote a Space Engineers negative review which was popular among the reviews. I now want to update the review.

If you want to know the description of the game and what it is, read it on the Store Page, I'm not going to sit here and tell you what you can and can't do in it.

I bought Space Engineers (SE) three years ago and played this game all the time. It was fantastic, just an addicting, fun, and innovative sandbox game that helped get me through my tough college semesters.

In November of 2015, the developers (Keen Software House - or simply Keen) released a massive update. This update introduced planets.

Previously the game allowed us to play in only space. Long story short, all we had was asteroids. When I say that, I mean that more than acceptable by the community. Without planets, there was already so much to do, so limitless that no one complained about lack of content and only a few bugs here and there.

To summarize that; the multiplayer net code was reliable, the optimizations were great (DX9), graphics pretty good, there weren't too many bugs, and there was an abundant amount of content. During that time, the game was phenomenal, I couldn't say anything bad about it.

So going back to the planets update. Keen had kept the idea, of planets, in the back of their head until the annoying small part of the community kept begging Keen to introduce planets into the game.

I get it, cool idea, sounds like fun, ok whatever let's see what happens. Well come November, planets released. (after Keen hyped it up so much) My god that was a nightmare, horrible execution of a good idea. It was the epitome of a disaster. The FPS, graphics, extremely long loading times, bugs, and optimizations, (forced DX11 on an already CPU dependent game) were horrendous. A week later they released another update that, very slightly, improved the optimizations. See my PC specs on my profile, I could barely hold 60FPS.

It's been almost a year and the game hasn't much improved. Optimizations are still terrible, there are so many bugs, the multiplayer net code is FUBAR so basically no multiplayer, and there is really not much to do. Keen seems to rely on modders for adding content. For me, that is a punch to the face.

Moreover, SE seems to be tumbling downhill and I don't know if it will ever get back on its feet. Keen has dissapointed me the community so much, you can tell by how many negative reviews there are. (I remember when reviews were "Overwhelming Positive")

Now, I play here and there on only asteroid scenarios since it seems to be the only stable part of the game, especially since there I can actually play with friends without having to worry about the poor netcode.

Just stay away from now, check the reviews every month or two to see if things change. I pray that this game improves but as for right now, I unfortunatelly have to give it a thumbs down.

Sorry Keen but if you won't focus on just optimizing the game, maybe you wouldn't get so many negative reviews like mine.

For the time, I'll play some KSP in lieu of SE.

Edit: Grammar updates

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TAMTA

30 products in account

4 reviews

Posted: September 15

What is going on here, we are getting always some graphical,sound updates or some bugfixes. Nobody mentions the huge multiplayer problems, i came to the conclusion that KEEN is not willing to fix that.
A multiplayer experience is for this game essential and i have no hope.
So my conclusion and my suggestion to new players: don't buy this till is finished or the multiplayer problems solved.
I will come back after a main change of the status and redo my Review

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Krede

78 products in account

5 reviews

Posted: September 19

Returned after six months, and they haven't really added anything new to the game, other than gamebreaking bugs in multiplayer. Nicely done

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iwasbornalegend

53 products in account

6 reviews

Posted: September 23

As much as I love this idea of a game its time on early access has run out. 3 damn years on early access with no end in sight but that hasnt stopped the Devs from branching off onto another unfinished project (medieval engineers) or from deciding to try the game on console. Until then we get a broken game with a beautiful concept.

Plus the controls are an absolute pain in the ♥♥♥. All I want is a simplified menu layout not a damn headache everytime I need to open one of the multiple menus or figure out what random key does something.

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Tactical Lolicon

145 products in account

25 reviews

Posted: September 29

Space Engineers is one of the few games I've purchased myself, and sets my standards very high when it comes to Indie Developers. I've rarely seen a game in Early Access do it's best to reach it's potential, to set a goal and make great progress towards it.

With every massive leap forward however, Keen Software stumbles back a little bit. While everyone else sees these as game breaking issues that will stop them from ever enjoying the game (and with good reason), I see a developing team that is doing their best to improve.

I see it as a work of passion that Space Engineers is getting an update every week, and a stable build every month. I've seen so many games abandoned with an issue strikes, but the developers for this game continue to fix small things, and when they find a way around, the bigger stuff is fixed as well.

I won't lie to you, the silence between the devs and the community is worrying sometimes. Big issues that go unresolved for periods of time can leave you not wanting to play until they're fixed. Large updates that bring several problems can be disheartening. But if Keen had no intention to finish this game, they wouldn't continue to update it this frequiently.

So, I'm putting a little silent faith in this game, in it's devs, and in it's community, that we will all be Interplanetary Space Engineers. Instead of calling the game dead, and a mess, notice whatever improvements are coming and do your best to show support.

It's coming along, and I don't regret a single cent.

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FFaruk

1 products in account

4 reviews

Posted: September 12

Good idea but extremely slow implementation.
Right now its not worth a buy.
maybe after couple of years when they add more content and fix bugs.

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Smeg

55 products in account

1 review

Posted: September 29

Lately i have been reading up on the updates, and got interested in trying SE again. Alot of bugfixes has been made etc. So, i rented myself a MP server, and got on building my sg1 daedalus class ship. I got the hull finished in about 3 weeks of placing blocks, hydrogen thruster and a conveyor system. The only thing remaining was filling the tanks up with hydrogen.. So i started mining ice, and was happy to almost be able to leave the planet into deep space, in search for rare metals so i could finish my baby. i filled up my miner once, docked to the ship and unloaded the ice. It was not nearly enough ice so i made a second run.. when i docked to unload the second time i suddenly exploded... i repawned fast so i could haul ♥♥♥ back to the ship and do a damage assesment.. but there was no ship.. i looked around, nothing.. then i looked up.. it was well over a km above me falling (since thruster block was set to OFF......) it came crashing down, and in the blink of an eye, the whole ship was decimated.. blocks was scattered all around the lake.. So i guess ill say my goodbye to SE.. i can not with reccomend the game in its current state.

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сексуальные трус

172 products in account

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Posted: September 29

After Reviewing many many reviews, most of which were negative, I asked myself why this game was so hated. I have stuck with the game since a few days after its initial release and, while it does have a few shortcomings, I am extremely impressed with this game and plan on continuing to play it, and while it does have some shortcomings, the game itself is an extremely good game for an early access game. I look forward to seeing what the official release will bring.

Before jumping into a constructive breakdown of what I have experienced in this game I wish to note the main source of negative reviews on this game. People are voting negative because of the games networking issues and general bugs, however what many people who posts those reviews fail to realize is that THIS GAME IS NOT COMPLETE! Please avoid making reviews directly based upon bugs until the game has been officially released!

Positives and Reasons To Buy This Game

Sandbox: Obviously this games number one purpose, those who play Minecraft, Starmade, Kerbal Space Program, No Man's Sky, or even Garry's Mod should at least find some measure of satisfaction with this game, if not immense satisfaction. You are able to mine ore/terrain in a completely destructible voxel environment, or simply throw down a few warheads to blow up a massive hole to live in, while at the same time being able to make ships or even automated machines to do the mining for you. You are able to build ships and stations from scratch, and automate their construction and semi-automate their repair even when some sections are missing. (thank you projectors!) With that same block you are able to create saved ships from a projection as well. When this game was in its earlier renditions, I even went so far as to develop a miner that could eat a smaller asteroid in nearly two passes. Back then I was sad because I couldn't share the project with anyone or easily remake it, but now you are able to save it locally or upload it to the workshop! (wish I wouldn't have deleted that save!)
Development: Every Thursday, whether or not I am looking to play the game, I always check the update notes, because every Thursday Keen does a software update on the game. This is the only game I have ever done this with, and generally I ignore update notes unless its a multi GB update. Why, you may ask, do I pay attention to the more numerous and minor updates instead of paying attention to other games with fewer, more comprehensive updates? The answer is simple. This game has gone above and beyond my expectations when I first bought it, added many more features than I expected, and even added some features the devs said they probably wouldn't add *cough* planets *cough*. Never before have I been so tied to a games development. Not only that, but with each update comes assurance that the devs are always working on the game and always moving it forward, however so slowly it may be going at times. Beyond that, the game itself has come a long ways from its initial relase. In the above section, the miner that you see in the picture used to make it so pretty much no one could move effectively because the simulation speed was brought down to 0.3 out of 1 every time it turns on. Now, however, after remaking a similar miner on a much more crowded server, the simulation speed was staying stable at around 0.8.
Workshop Integration: This is the biggest, and best reason to get this game. As of the time this was typed up, space engineers has 193,072 items on the workshop ranging from small ship blueprints, to mods that add drills the size of your entire starter ship! The community is constantly adding many cool and new mods and creations that it is doubtful you will tire of it soon. From the well known Azimuth mod, to the more specialized SANCHINCORP hoverbike mod, or even to creating your own mod so you can have what you want in the game!

All in all, these are the primary things that I believe contribute and make up this game. Believe me when I say that there are many other things that are awesome to this game that I haven't included.

Negatives and Reasons To Avoid The Game For Now

Networking and Stability: One of the games biggest faults is its networking and communication between peers. I cannot tell you how many times I have spent hours upon hours or even days making ships, mining for resources, and welding them, only to have them completely destroyed by an errant small ship de-syncing and tearing through it like an ICBM. This issue, while not nearly as abhorrent as it was before, is still present and continues to be a source of fear and greif with this game. I have ragequit more than once because of something getting destroyed due to de-syncing.
Exiting Planet Gravity: While seemingly a small thing, the simple act of exiting a planets gravity is near impossible to do if you started on the planet in the first place. Planets are abundant in pretty much every ore, however they do not have platinum, which you need for making the non atmospheric thrusters. Hydrogen thrusters, while fast and capable, run out of fuel so fast its not even funny. It took me over 43 different ship designs, from the ground up, before I finally gave in and snagged a ship from the workshop, which still didnt get me to where I needed to be because I ran out of fuel shortly after exiting the atmosphere.
Time Consumption: This game can and will EAT your time up as my friend TwoPheat is a great example of. Your game will go and go and you will continue to perform tasks slowly reaching your goal, then you glance at the clock and realize that you probably should have been asleep 3 hours ago. While some people might see it as a great sign, I find it quite irritating coming into work an hour late because I got used to performing the same menial task over and over and over, that I lost my sense of time. Needless to say, after that happened a few times I, setup an alarm to let me know when to sleep and that fixed it.
Performance: While not nearly as intensive as it used to be, Space Engineers is still a very demanding game. Expect it to eat up your system performance, especially when dealing with ship to ship combat engagements.

Conclusion

Space Engineers, despite still being in Early Access and not being a complete game, can give you immense satisfaction and enjoyment despite still being plagued by a few unavoidable bugs. There are many things that you can do, and an almost exponentially higher number of things you can make so long as you are willing to invest the time to make it.
I would highly recommend getting this game if you are looking for a good sandbox game.

Note: Your ships may end up looking Phallic in nature, don't worry thats normal, just dont make them pink.

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Posted: October 10

OK let’s get one thing straight, do not buy games that are early release and expect to play a bug free game with all the content working and included, this is an early access game not a beta release or a finished game, think of it as a working concept still being implemented and it has a long way to go before it is finished.

Yes, you can play it and it is fun to build ships and bases and many other things on your own or with friends but it can also be laggy and very frustrating when things don’t work or a new update has broken something and your game crashes.
The game is constantly being updated and lots of new stuff implemented like the updated building system, planets and oxygen replenishment and lots of other stuff.

I don’t play it all the time and I take long brakes from the game only coming back to check on the changes now and then.
This game can be used to build all kinds of complex creations only limited buy your imagination determination and ability, it can take a lot of time to do what you want especially in survival mode.

Buying this game is an investment in a project that just may produce a truly amazing game in time, that’s all it is an investment or a gamble that it will work out in the end.

The project seems well supported by the developers with lots of updates and bug fixes every week and lots of talented people are also providing lots of mods to play with in game.

Conclusion is don’t buy if you can’t deal with the reality of an early access game.

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Posted: October 10

one of the best games i played but you do need a high performance computer

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Posted: October 10

I want to like this game. it's about space. normally all you have to do to get me to like a game is to have space. but everything about this game is at best anoying and infurating at worst. the "easy start earth" is not easy. you either get killed by pirates imedatly or get the minning ship stuck for no reason or crash. sometimes all 3! I COULD disable pirates but I don't want to have no pirates i just want no pirates for like the first hour or so... add on to that that the controlls are always anoying and building things are also always anyoing "I need 5 of this 9 of this 7 of that and 3 of the other. and exactly that because thats all i can hold so i can't do a minecraft and just grab a stack of everything i need and know i'm good. somehow this game managed to be about space and not be fun....I Didn't belive it possiable...

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Posted: October 10

there really isn't much to do in this game, and it's been in early access for an eternity, and the devs have a record of being ♥♥♥ holes, so almost for that reason alone don't buy this game.

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Posted: October 10

I cant get in the game. I spent 5 hours checking and updating everything but it still says I do not have dx11. I bought a game I can not play.

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Posted: October 10

Amazing game, bought it yesterday & haven't stopped playing since then.
There is endless of stuff to do & you'lll never get bored of this game!

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Posted: October 9

In a word, boring. No point or drive and no story. Simply perform mundane tasks to build random things.

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Posted: October 9

Space Engineers has been a delightful game from the start. I purchased it rather early into its Early Access, and I am happy to say I enjoyed it right away. Since then the team has been vigilant about community ideas and bug reports, and the frequent updates to this game make it definitely worth it for me.

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Posted: October 9

This game is easily one of my all time favorites of the ones I have. It's a truly enjoyable game to me.

The game is fun to play, especially in Creative mode since it lets you explore more of what you can accomplish in game. Creative mode is one of the better ways to attempt to learn how to build and design ships since it allows for easier building.

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Posted: October 9

-never find then material you need
-get into fights with your friends about how the ship should look
-rage quit
-never uninstall
-play with a new friend
-try to marrie the game

my love story

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