Do ships in this game have interiors?

[HiJacked]

Fairly important for me as an immersion aspect.

[Dunkler Messias]

Not really. At least the L ships have a jail and crew quarters which just ... exist. Doesn't need much stuff anyway. The bridge on bigger ships is enough.

If you want to explore your ships, you can do that in No Man's Sky. And even design the interior.

Oh but there is the Astrid (added by the Avarice DLC) which is a unique M ship with interior and several rooms without the need of using the elevator.

[Farrel]

Somewhat... Ships have cockpits that can be entered and exited to the ship exterior. Most then have an inaccessible "back room". Some of the larger ships have other rooms for colour, but they don't do anything.

Larger ships have exterior (or in some cases semi-interior) docking bays for smaller ships.

It's enough for basic levels of immersion, but don't expect to be able to open up your hold and see your cargo.

[Captain Canard]

I will say that the interiors we have, along with the general ability to get out of my seat, walk to the back of my ship, climb down a ladder or ramp, and walk under my ship on the docking platform on a station, this adds enough immersion for me for 99% of my game play. It's one of the reasons I can't get into X3, because I started with X4, and going back to a game with no cockpits or interiors (or a body) is just... boring IMO.

And there's always the Astrid, which has a pretty nice and sizable interior!

[SinisterSlay]

The Astrid is really cool, but also sort of slaps you in the face immersively because it's so artificial. Pool with no water, bar with no barkeep, no one does any jobs. It's all just there. You can go sit in your bed and watch the stars fly by.

[Farrel]

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The Astrid is really cool, but also sort of slaps you in the face immersively because it's so artificial. Pool with no water, bar with no barkeep, no one does any jobs. It's all just there. You can go sit in your bed and watch the stars fly by.

The pool has water, but the artificial gravity keeps it in the pool rather well (it does ripple, though)

If you have enough service crew, occasionally one or two will go behind the bar to stand, but honestly, I'd feel bad for anyone that had to stay there all the time... I leave my game idle for hours sometimes ;)

[SinisterSlay]

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The Astrid is really cool, but also sort of slaps you in the face immersively because it's so artificial. Pool with no water, bar with no barkeep, no one does any jobs. It's all just there. You can go sit in your bed and watch the stars fly by.

The pool has water, but the artificial gravity keeps it in the pool rather well (it does ripple, though)

If you have enough service crew, occasionally one or two will go behind the bar to stand, but honestly, I'd feel bad for anyone that had to stay there all the time... I leave my game idle for hours sometimes ;)

I've never seen anything in the pool. Is it hidden behind a graphic setting?

[PeaceMaker]

Publicado originalmente por HiJacked:

Fairly important for me as an immersion aspect.

Yes.
1. Small ships have interiors such as the cockpit area you walk right into and sit in the chair.

2. Now as for large ships like battleships and carriers, etc, where you'd expect crew quarters, jail, mess, etc, it works like this... You walk to your ship, up a ramp, and go into a Lift (I always saw it as a lift or escalator tube like in Start trek, not a teleport) a second later you come out into the crew quarters, or jail, or mess or even the main cockpit area.

No load screens. I suppose the Lift could be a very clever 'loadscreen;.

[Captain Canard]

Publicado originalmente por SinisterSlay:

The Astrid is really cool, but also sort of slaps you in the face immersively because it's so artificial. Pool with no water, bar with no barkeep, no one does any jobs. It's all just there. You can go sit in your bed and watch the stars fly by.

My Astrid came with a barkeep! My pool likes empty, though.. I do wonder if you have to have some setting on ultra to really see the water. Doesn't bother me too much, as I spend most of my time on the bridge, observation deck (bedroom), or the navigation room.

The only game I know that attempts to make functional use of all its rooms is the upcoming Starship Simulator, and I have my doubts if that game will ever make it out of alpha. The developer has many lofty goals, and that may end up being his downfall. Otherwise, almost all ship interiors in the games I play are cosmetic. The one exception is Space Engineers, but even that is up to the player.

[SinisterSlay]

Publicado originalmente por PeaceMaker:

Publicado originalmente por HiJacked:

Fairly important for me as an immersion aspect.

Yes.
1. Small ships have interiors such as the cockpit area you walk right into and sit in the chair.

2. Now as for large ships like battleships and carriers, etc, where you'd expect crew quarters, jail, mess, etc, it works like this... You walk to your ship, up a ramp, and go into a Lift (I always saw it as a lift or escalator tube like in Start trek, not a teleport) a second later you come out into the crew quarters, or jail, or mess or even the main cockpit area.

No load screens. I suppose the Lift could be a very clever 'loadscreen;.

It's not, its a teleporter.
A funny one too if someone gets on the lift with you you get dragged with them.

[Gibbo]

Yeah I'd say they have interiors. Even small ships. Most if not all large ships have a very big bridge. Easy get a snooker table in there and that's twice the size of a pool table on large traders and miners. Military ships have less space due to all the military stuff. The Astrid is a proper luxury yacht although you cannot interact with everything. Some of the new ships have cool sound effects when you enter and leave the captain's seat.

Yeah they all have their charms.

[Chucky Rocketson]

Here you go, from egosoft's channel: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MIXuK1BRHmo
And the end of this is the icing on the cake, they could've presented this portion better imo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1e1-EHzQKcQ

It's so mind blowing the first time you dock onto a giant moving spaceship while you're both hurtling through space at 2000 km/s with stuff whizzing by.. then you get out of your ship, standing on the docking platform and look up.. still stuff whizzing by. . . cuz the ship you docked on is flying super fast lol.

there's a storyline mission that involves docking with one of these big ships while it's on the move, i believe. Or at least it was some mission I obtained and never saw again.

[Gibbo]

If you're thinking of buying this game then you should and honestly after 50 hours ship interiors will be the last thing you're thinking of although they do exist for every ship.

This is one of those game where they get the formula for gameplay, upgrading, open world (universe) spot on. Not quite as addictive as other similar games due to a fairly steep learning curve, but honestly this is one of those games where you are plotting what to do while taking a shower, or taking a bus or even while your boss is screaming at you. So much to see and do.

[Humble]

It's very limited, most ship don't had crew, mess room, or bedroom like RV, or even workshop or lab, or farming in ship for food for long trip. or anything, it's just very limited. Star Citizen had this better, but it's till demo and mmo, although.

But that is not main force, main force is build your empire (station, fleet, ect) or travel solo if you wish doing mission here and there in the space, that is.

[Gibbo]

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It's very limited, most ship don't had crew, mess room, or bedroom like RV, or even workshop or lab, or farming in ship for food for long trip. or anything, it's just very limited. Star Citizen had this better, but it's till demo and mmo, although.

Yeah but this isn't finished and modders could do stuff now with the brig and bridge. I think we're all just enjoying the journey. Hell of a game. The modders will go nuts on this. Epic levels of mods.

[SinisterSlay]

Publicado originalmente por Captain Canard:

Publicado originalmente por SinisterSlay:

The Astrid is really cool, but also sort of slaps you in the face immersively because it's so artificial. Pool with no water, bar with no barkeep, no one does any jobs. It's all just there. You can go sit in your bed and watch the stars fly by.

My Astrid came with a barkeep! My pool likes empty, though.. I do wonder if you have to have some setting on ultra to really see the water. Doesn't bother me too much, as I spend most of my time on the bridge, observation deck (bedroom), or the navigation room.

The only game I know that attempts to make functional use of all its rooms is the upcoming Starship Simulator, and I have my doubts if that game will ever make it out of alpha. The developer has many lofty goals, and that may end up being his downfall. Otherwise, almost all ship interiors in the games I play are cosmetic. The one exception is Space Engineers, but even that is up to the player.

I figured it out, you have to have "Distortion" turned on in graphics settings