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Fun game, kept me busy for 10 or so hours.

Brilliant, made it to 30 days just now, absolute madness.

Needs some sorta high score, and just more upgrades, even more madness.

If you want to keep your friends, your family, your life, then DO NOT BUY.

This game will consume it all. The Factory MUST GROW!

Srsly tho, brilliant game, extreme time sink, works well on older PCs, and has an expansion coming.

Fun stuff!

I regret I bought this game.

While the game itself is very solid and quite fun for a few hours, the Studio behind it (Unknown Worlds) fired their awesome sound designer today for posts made on Social media, that upset a few people. These few people went on to campain the Studio till they fired the Sound Designer.

If a studio fires competent people (the Audio of the game is superb) for posts made on social media, then it has no future.

Im playing MMO since 2001.

Jumpgate, Eve Online, Lineage 2, WOW, you name it, ive most likley played it.


This game is the first one that is truly different from all the rest. Let me walk you through the game as of right now:



Ship building: Easily the most freeform ship building ive ever seen. The shape is up to you, entierly. Build a sphere, build a pyramid, build an Xwing or build whatever. Its entierly up to you. Once you have the frame (the basic layout of the ship) designed the way you want, you just put in some of the resources you find on islands, and done, you have a frame. You can then attach all kinds of parts: Wings, Engines, Sails, Storage, Cannons etc. Where you put them is up to you. Ive seen ships that resebled Xwings, massive boats that look like they belong on the sea, spaceships etc. They all have different purposes and handle differently, depending ENTIERLY on how YOU build it, and what you want to do with your ship.

Islands: Since every Island is created by a player, they are all different. Every Island in this game exists only once in the world, and the creators of them show some real creativity. I cannot stress enough how utterly brilliant some of them are. And the developers announced more features coming for the Island creator community that will make Islands stand out from each other even more.

Combat: While the Player vs Player PVP resolves entierly around a single weapon (pistol) that is hitscan, ship to ship PVP is entierly physics based, means cannons have flight time and bullet drop, making long range shot very difficult, yet still possible. It is quite something to have a ship with like 3+ people and multiple cannons shooting at you, and your own ship returning fire. Its pure adrenaline, because you know that whoever looses the fight may loose their ship and their resources, forcing them to start building again. As of right now, Ship to Ship combat depens entierly on the skill of the pilot and the gunners, as the damage that a single player gliding to an enemy ship can do got heavily, heavily nerfed. There is however still a role for "raiders" (the folks gliding over to the enemy ship), and that is to annoy the hell out of the enemy, forcing them to deal with the raiders instead of manning their cannons. It makes the combat highly tactical, means every manouver of your pilot matters a great deal both in terms of the damage you can do, and the damage you may recieve. Repairing your ship mid combat is also very important. All in all, Ship to ship combat in this game feels like something out of a movie, with your gunners helping each other to make their shots hit, people running around your ship keeping it in good health, raiders coming to your ship forcing your crew to deal with them etc. Its pure, utter panic sometimes, and that makes it so good.

Progression: Quite frankly, ignore it, and get friends. Getting the knowledge, the stuff you need to unlock new blueprints for ship parts, and blueprints themself that you can find on islands, takes quite a while. Especially if you try to do it all yourself. And thats it. Unlocking new things to build is all there is in terms of permanent progression, everything else can and WILL be lost (like the resources you collect on islands). Trying to solo it all would take ages, and simply makes the game dull for yourself, because when you reach the end, you just didnt actually play the game. If you play with friends, then you have a much easier time getting the better blueprints, and also a much easier time collecting the things you need to build whatever ship you want.


Performance: Currently ass, to be quite frank. Freezes sometimes when you approach an island, server freezes (your ship simply stops mid air) every now and then. Very annoying, but the game just entered closed beta, and there is every reason to believe that these issues will be fixed. Put the game on an SSD if you can, that helps a lot of the client freezes. As for FPS, there is pretty much nothing you can do to improve that.




The most important thing about this game however is that it is an MMO. Alone, you are helpless against a lot of things. With just one mate, the world is open to you.

With a crew of like 5 people, you have a fully operational battleship if you so choose. With even more, you have a fleet. And thats what its all about, because this is an MMO. Play it with others, not everyone can have their own ship and can be their own captain. If you do play it with others, you will have the most fun you could ever have.

Short, im already done with it after 2 hours, but absolutly worth it.

This is how other games need to do cave exploration.

Utterly Amazing.

Im only 4 hours in, only started on getting my ship and Multitool upgraded, but know that im already hooked.

Yes, its a niche game that the general COD crowd wont understand, and yes, thats why reviews may end up mixed as people who dont understand what kind of game this voice their frustation about their own idiocy here, but that doesnt change the fact that this game is truly amazing.

Zero crashes or any other kind of problems so far. FPS is at a stable 30-40 on medium settings with a GTX 570 (yes, you read that right, a GPU slightly above the min specs) and an I5 4670k with 16 GB ram.

Dont think I will play anything else anytime soon. Plenty of hours can be spent just upgrading your stuff, plenty of more hours can be spend getting to the center of the galaxy. And many, many more hours will be spend given the already announced updates like base building and big ass freighter ships.

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