Empyrion - Galactic Survival

[Liberator]

Saw this mentioned on a review somewhere for No Mans Sky" as better value for money.

Early access space survival game, currently on 50% off until 22nd and has dedicated server code. Looks to be updated frequently.

Looks like Space Engineers meets ARK.


Empyrion - Galactic Survival


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[albert]

I like the look of that! https://www.twitch.tv/xanathon87 is a nice stream if you ignore the language but just look at the quality of the game in action.

I think this is a rather nice find. +1 Lib

[OldBloke]

I'm in ... again :doh:

[RogueTaylor]

I'm in ... again :doh:

Didn't you ask me about this game mouths ago oldie ?

[Chaosphere]

Not enough time for me, Ark fills my survival game quota for now.

[Liberator]

I'm thinking this may be a more low maintenance survival game, with full co-op mode. I had been looking at it a few days earlier and though, I'll get that if it goes on sale. Low and behold, it drops to 50% a few days later. Probably riding on the back of the NMS over hype. I started looking at the game after seeing a review of NMS that said spend your money on this and have more fun and teamplay.

This game is still an estimated 2 years from completion but ticks a lot of boxes for me. It has a random seed for the initial solar system, has high tech bad guys to attack, raid and assume command of their buildings or just take them as scrap, AI is a little basic right now. Getting to a level where you can leave the planet and go build in space sounds fun.

The game has a blueprint system and steam workshop integration for simple resource and tech tree required builds. So you can load up a design from the workshop or design your own and share it.

Dedicated server is currently Windows only and requires the game code, but not sure if you can just copy out the directory and run it away from Steam, will have to play. You can't currently start a server from within the game.

The forums say you can keep adding new planets into the solar system and so keep it fresh if new planet types appear.

Having said all that, I'm still only at a level where I'm sat on the bare ground with a supplied motorbike, emergency constructor and emergency oxygen generator. But only had it running for a few game days.

Toby, check out this from 6:00. Has some swearing.

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[Liberator]

Okay, played a few hours now and enjoying it.

Managed to build a very open base (wooden platform), with most of the tools required to make guns, ammo and an automated defence turret. As soon as your base goes on-line it becomes a target for the Epsilons, they start sending over some mini-gun drones to say hello. The defence turret takes some fire and needs repairing after each attack, but you can salvage a lot of good stuff off the drones which help you build more kit. You get an alert that drones are on their way before they get there, so you have time to return home if needed.

Still only on the motorbike (which needs serious physics work), I've come under fire from a few outposts and found some of the wreckage of what I assume is the ship you were on prior to the escape pod which you start the game in. This is also a good source of materials and once you build a muti-tool you can disassemble it into component parts for your own use.

Whilst there I took out a couple of drones, then got a message that a troop ship was coming. It landed next to the wreck and dropped a few aliens and their sniffer..... err... dogs? Killing and looting the soldiers gets you some good booty as well.

Whilst riding around you get notified of anything within 500m of your location and it gets marked on the map, these include alien bases, wrecks and more importantly ore deposits. These are pretty easy to mine and are pretty large. I've drilled a huge cobalt mine and still there is 90% of the resources left.

Just off to see if there are any blueprints for a decent hover ship to have a mobile base whilst mining, hunting and salvaging, then do the same for a small ship once I have enough resources.

I've died a few times, it gives you the option to re-spawn at base (if you have a cloning chamber, which I don't yet) or close to last location, so you can attempt to get your gear back, which drops in a case like ARK.

[SithAfrikaan]

I'm in it!
It's Awesome!

[Galatoni]

OK. Played a few hours last night. Definitely enjoying it. It doesn't pull its punches in terms of difficulty. Ark's interface and construction system tends to hold your hand a fair bit. This one does not. I can see why that could be off putting for some.

All in all though, I'm really having a lot of fun. It doesn't take that long to collect resources, which is a bonus. Just have to build up now so we can build our DeathStar.

[albert]

It has a crafting learning curve not because you have to learn the recipes but because interface is not quite intuitive.

I found that once you make the Fabricator the best thing to do is search the Templates/ blueprints for the one you need to work on. Note the recipe parts needed then drag them all from your player inventory into the Fabricator inventory.

I is lacking a way for the loaded recipe to see what your player is holding and auto use the parts in the build. Might be a good thing to avoid using resources you don't intend to.

I agree with Galatoni, it's not as much of a grind for parts link Ark can be (stone, wood, flint, etc.)

Dark is really dark, as in no torch, no see a darn thing. The assault rifle saved my life, it has a tac light.

[Galatoni]

Things are dark, but there is a way to shed some light on it. Worklights are very easy to produce and take hardly any resources. There is also the worklight 2 which does very much the same thing - only better.

The server settings are a bit light on the ground, which is a shame. The red symbol (if you didn't know) is the anti grief system. Assuming we set up a faction, we could build a single base which could cater for all our needs near the starting location and spread out from there to build our own houses/bases etc.

Once the initial base is set up, people seem to use this as a redeploy station for an orbital platform. Its there that they set up the capital ship they're building further down the line.

http://empyrion.gamepedia.com/ makes for some good reading. Apparently we can easily create faction controlled buildings/structures. But it is the owning player that must do it.

[Liberator]

Yeah, need to work out why my turret was targeting friendlies. Had a drone attack last night and so I stuck some bullets into my defence cannon and it made short work of them.

Once you have a large constructor built it all gets easier, the emergency constructor is a manual process, whereas when you have the large constructor running it will automatically start making the component parts to whatever you told it to make.

A few of you started your buildings using a blueprint, unfortunately some of the components for that are not achievable without the large constructor and food processor station. If you bring the resources over, I can build you those crop plots.

[Galatoni]

Ha. Indeedy. I assumed they were part of the game (so-to-speak). Turns our they're from the Steam Workshop. Still, this is all good practice for when the server resets. Seems like a good community game, here.

[SithAfrikaan]

Seems like a good community game, here.

I have a whole bunch of planets to find things to feed you to now! :norty:

[SithAfrikaan]

Figured a few things out!

My default FOV was 60 changing it to 80 showed a dark rim around the edge of the screen when wearing a helmet!
ALSO
Getting blown up on another planet is a really quick way to losing everything you have!

Lib and I destroyed and deconstucted a MK 1 Epsilon base. Revenge is sweet.