Is Space Engineers worth it?

[ImperialForce9]

I ain't the best when it comes to making my own designs. In a game with minecraft I just make a big cube for a house. Making a working spaceship is a whole other ordeal.
Is it gonna be tedious to get materials?
Is repairing damage gonna also be tedious?
Is the engine that runs this game good? As in does it start getting a stroke if a bit too many things start happening?

[Talos]

Depends on what you want from the game. If you want an game to design dope spaceships I would recommend creative mode. If your looking for a survival experience to explore in. Its alright vanilla. But survival is much better modded. At the start its very tedious to get materials but gets much easier after the start. Repairing can also be tedious at first but gets much better. Funny enough half of the game is making ships to make things easier.

Now the engine, that's a funny debate. Its gotten MUCH better over the past 8 years and allows for many more ships/grids to be active. But the engine does break because of clang. You will know very quickly when it happens. As long as your not going out of your way to break it, you should be ok. But than again, clang is a scary beast.

8/10 building/design
6/10 survival/pvp
10/10 modding community

[ImperialForce9]

Im guessing by 'clang' you mean what happens when things crash into one another?

[Talos]

Kinda, anytime everything starts randomly breaking and exploding.

[CynicDragon]

yes its worth it

[Capt Fuzzy]

Originally posted by ImperialForce9:

Is it gonna be tedious to get materials?

Not really. There are areas on every planet and moon that are commonly referred to as 'rich ore' locations. If you find one of them, you will have plenty of resources for most of what you need. Search the guides section for their locations, they always spawn in the same places. Generally, uranium is the only resource that is somewhat difficult to find, but there are mods that can fix this, if you are so inclined.

Originally posted by ImperialForce9:

Is repairing damage gonna also be tedious?

Not if you blueprint your vehicles/buildings. Simply setup a projector and load the desired blueprint over what you want to repair. This will show you the missing or damaged blocks and you can then easily repair/replace them.

Originally posted by ImperialForce9:

Is the engine that runs this game good? As in does it start getting a stroke if a bit too many things start happening?

It has been improved since the original release. I've had no significant issues that were engine-related.

[ImperialForce9]

Originally posted by Yung Pro#9868:

yes its worth it

The main title of the thread if to simplify about my questions about the game being 'worth it'. If you do think the game is worth it, would you mind elaborating on why?

[Hypnosis]

Yes, it's very worth it

If you are looking for a good vanilla mp server

64.31.34.19:29016

No rules vanilla server with 1/1/1/1 rates

32 man dedicated

[Balsover]

Originally posted by ImperialForce9:

I ain't the best when it comes to making my own designs. In a game with minecraft I just make a big cube for a house. Making a working spaceship is a whole other ordeal.
Is it gonna be tedious to get materials?
Is repairing damage gonna also be tedious?

Honestly, I think you will get bored quickly. Mining, designing, and building is the whole game. I don't think this is what you are looking for.

[Dan2D3D]

Hi, first you must like to create to become a good Space Engineers because it's a sandbox where we can do all we want and it's more about
->> Can you create something cool and find all the working solutions ? <<

That said, I will answer your questions the best I can :

1 - Is it gonna be tedious to get materials?
= Not really, well there are Easy, Medium and Hard areas to survive to and it's there so we can have different gameplay, tho takes time to find all the Rich ore spots of the game you can explore in creative mode to find the best places before going survival.


2 - Is repairing damage gonna also be tedious?
= No, well it becomes easier once you have a welder ship to do the Job, or a Garage/Building station made.


3 - Is the engine that runs this game good? As in does it start getting a stroke if a bit too many things start happening?
= It's good but not if we exaggerate, I mean we can disable the "Block limit" without any problems but yes some absurdly huge creations can lower the world Perfo, and all good if we build normal size ships and stations.

Here is the Perfo in the custom world named "Star System" with a lot of stations and ships on all planets. moons and space :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2796641056

[Agent Zirdik]

Hard to say. One person's "tedious" is another's "satisfying".

I'd say that the simplest way to predict whether you'd like Space Engineers is to figure out which aspect of Minecraft you enjoyed the most:

If you like making pistons, redstone, minecart rails, pressure plates, etc., then you'll love Space Engineers which is more sophisticated, more customize-able, and more rewarding for that sort of mentality. The "engineers" part of the title is very accurate.

If on the other hand what you enjoyed most about Minecraft was exploring strange biomes, fighting mobs, trading with villagers, surviving off the land, and so on., then you'd probably enjoy some other game more. I think No Man's Sky has gotten pretty good at that nomadic exploration and survival.

[Dan2D3D]

Info +

We have 2 games :

1 - Default mode = Better MP perfo but limited where server admins can change that limit, to have a better server Perfo or to be fair in PVP.

2 - Experimental mode = All in + Can add Mods and Scripts + Can disable the Block limit
+ Adds new option "Share inertia tensor" to piston and rotors so we can create more stable Multigrid creations.

EDIT
Enable Experimental from game options.

[Dirtbaghippy]

I tried space engineers and found it really boring and lifeless. Play No mans sky instead, youll like it better.

[GrehSonic95]

Space Engineers is so worth it dude.

[CJM]

Originally posted by Dirtbaghippy:

Play No mans sky instead

I tried No Man's Sky. The creative aspects pail in comparison to Space Engineers, and the parts that make it somewhat decent are locked behind grind. The whole game felt very grindy.

NMS Space combat is more annoying than fun.

No Man's Sky has a story. It has space ships that you can buy. NMS has non-hostile animals which slightly elevate the "life" of a world. "Brainless" AI doesn't do much for me. NMS looks better at first glance, but there is a fair bit less freedom of sandbox gameplay. I even tried NMS multiplayer and I don't think it is as good as what I've seen on YouTube for Space Engineers.

For a comparison on performance, No Man's Sky runs like a dog on my PC. Very unenjoyable experience. The warp effects are especially unpleasant with the lag and stutter during the loading of "levels".

Space Engineers runs fairly well on my PC. While it is possible to overload a PC in Space Engineers, I have not done so yet.

So for Space Engineers vs No Man's Sky:

Space Engineers:

• Better performance
  
• More freedom in ships and bases
  
• Better multiplayer
  
• Configurable to be less tedious.

No Man's Sky

• Has a story to progress through.
  
• Prettier graphics
  
• Docile Wildlife NPCs

[CrimsonKNight_05]

Originally posted by ImperialForce9:

Is Space Engineers worth it?

YES, even with no DLC!!! YES, with ALL DLC!!!

Originally posted by ImperialForce9:

I ain't the best when it comes to making my own designs. In a game with minecraft I just make a big cube for a house. Making a working spaceship is a whole other ordeal.

PREPARE to put your BRAIN CREATIVITY to the BLENDER and be shredded... after that...
Your no longer a Hunter Gatherer from the old world of minecraft...

"Whole New Ordeal" - A new adventure AWAITS... prepare to stuck up DORITOS and LAYS beside YOU!!!

Originally posted by ImperialForce9:

Is it gonna be tedious to get materials?
Is repairing damage gonna also be tedious?

YES!!! but depends on how how big your project...
- Everytime you expand... the more resource gathering you will make...

YES!!! you better think twice before going to mess with pirates and Modded contents...
- Build your ships wisely that it addresses your PERSONAL NEEDS...

Its one of the very source of fun... so build your creations SMART, and it will help you
smart way... and conquer its grindier gameplay...

Originally posted by ImperialForce9:

Is the engine that runs this game good? As in does it start getting a stroke if a bit too many things start happening?

Well this part will be a long road for you to see for your self.

THE GAME IS NOT PERFECT...
the game is not fully optimize like the just "Empyrion - Galactic Survival", lots of bugs to fix... still more contents to be added in the future...

The game gives you freedom in the most sophisticated/ well functional Spaceships, Bases, Rover, Spacecrafts than Empyrion - Galactic Survival...

But the Space engineers Lacks a Stand Alone / Reach Vanilla Exploration that you may find nicely done in Empyrion - Galactic Survival...