Fighting in space engineers?

[sharto]

Hi, i just unstalled game for free this weekend i liked the engineering part so far, but is there any shooting/fighting? later ingame? any action, true survival? any quests or npcs wandering around? i cannot find any good videos showing that i do consider buying a game thats why im asking a polie answers would be apreaciated :)) thank you in advance :)

[ZERO]

kind of but not really. ile break down the questions and give you the answers i know of (these are pre update answers so idk about right not but probably not much will have changed in that regard)

any shooting / fighting: yes but rather limited if you start on an easy start base on planets you have enemy bases all around you, but as far as iv seen that's only on the easy start scenarios and they don't respawn

quests and npc's: for the most part no there is scenario where you have a basic quest but its just to learn the game iirc nothing really deep, and there is no friendly npc's.

as someone who also likes survival games i can say the survival mode does not really feel like survival but if you like the building side it can be very fun hope this helps

[SquidDude5]

There are a few targets but usually you need to look for them.
On planets the only targets are creatures such as wolves or spiders (if enabled) or possibly a drone base (depending on the start scenario)

In space you can find cargo ships which range from small defenceless ships to larger heavily guarded ships but these will only attack with auto turrets and will not change course to attack or flee.

I would say the most interesting targets are the pirate bases/ships which guard asteroid clusters and send drones to attack.

If your looking for a scenario with a-lot of combat the new Never Surrender scenario includes several base defence missions.

[sharto]

that was very helpfull answers, both thank you very much, so its not like randomly genereted? and there are limited targets?

[SquidDude5]

Originally posted by sharto:

that was very helpfull answers, both thank you very much, so its not like randomly genereted? and there are limited targets?

Yes and no,
There are one or two planet drone bases in the entire universe which don't re-spawn.

Pirate bases/ships spawn in asteroid clusters and don't re-spawn when killed, however the universe is pretty much endless so you can always find more if you are prepared to look.

Cargo ships spawn randomly in space every few minutes and despawn after a short while. They can be seen from a distance and will keep re-spawning nearby no-matter how many you take down.

Wolves and spiders will spawn every few minutes and if they are not killed quickly, more will spawn forming a pack.

[sharto]

thank you very much for the answer, both of them helped me to decide if i should buy the game :)

[Marc Cassin]

There are a bunch of mods in the Modular Encounter Collection that give a little PVE life on the planets, it's a must have ;)

[Galaxisflo]

There's also the Reaver mod that adds space enemies, which are quite a challenge (scripted shield generator)

[sharto]

of course i forgot about mods, thanks a lot for an extra idea how to put more life inside game :)

[sharto]

one more question, is it possible to start a game without any objectives and just start from 0?