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Oh, and it's FREE! You can buy it on Steam if you want, but it's free to download on their main website, you can't argue with that price. There have been some setbacks, a friend of mine was killed by pirates tonight and last night there was an incident involving runaway missiles, but we'll just rebuild bigger and stronger. Our faction, 'HMS Industries' has a nice little station setup near a giant red star, and we've claimed a couple systems with the faction points we've earned. At first we totally cheated, giving ourselves permissions to spawn things in mass and went to town making crazy builds, but lately we've wiped our universe and went pure survival mode and it has been a blast. But, I play it mostly with a few friends on a private server I host. I have been on some public servers and had some interesting encounters and seen some nice builds.
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The game seems to be multiplayer focused, single player is more of an offline mode. The galaxy map and short range radar is actually really useful, and scanning fills in the gaps.
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To get around quicker you can install a jump drive on your ship and jump across a few systems at a time, there are also warp gates that can be constructed to connect across distances, and wormholes that can send you across the universe. There are also lots of planets and asteroids with ore to mine, and sometimes cities on the planets, no NPC aliens yet, but I'm pretty sure they're coming soon. These stations were recently revamped by the community, the developer held a building contest and the 5 best of each category are now the default stations that spawn. Lastly there are abandoned stations you can salvage or even claim for yourself. There are space stations all over the place, some of them belong to the Pirates and they'll attack you if you get too close, other ones belong to the NPC Trading faction that runs the shops, they'll defend their shops/stations, but only if you shoot first. Each one of these mechanics are pretty complex systems themselves, for example how you lay out your power generators influences their output in somewhat logical ways, so you can slap down 8 generators in a block and get some power, but if you lay them out a certain way you can get twice or even three times as much.Įxploring the universe is actually pretty fun. There's so many factors that come into play when you design a ship, power, shield, thrust, warp drives, cargo storage, scanners, cloaking, radar jamming, many different weapons types and configurations, even the dimensions of the ship and weight of blocks matter. The complexity of the game comes mostly from the ship building mechanics. There's also the option to go in search of pirates to battle, they drop a nice pile of stuff if you manage to kill one, but the starting items aren't really good enough to go for them right away. They start you off with a few salvaging modules which you can use to mine ore off asteroids. Once you build a ship you can go out in search of resources which you can bring back to the store and sell. A lot of the game is complex and requires a bit of time to familiarize yourself.īasically, you start out floating in space next to a shop with a few supplies to build your first ship. It's similar to Space Engineers, but Starmade is free, and although I haven't played Space Engineers, it seems like Starmade is more my game, like how I prefer Elite Dangerous over a game like Star Citizen, they're both similar in concept, but ED and StarCitizen have the type of vision I look for in games.ĭisclaimer: If you dislike tinkering and figuring out things on your own(or googling them after failing to) then I wouldn't suggest playing Starmade. It's kind of a cross between Elite Dangerous, Kerbal Space Program, and Minecraft. Starmade is a minecraft style (block world) sandbox space game.
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