IT'S HERE! - Space Engineers 2 First Gameplay Reveal!

[@Zer0sLegion]

What do you think of the theories in this video? Character customisation, grappling hooks and everything else? Let me know

[@DovaDude]

9:43 It looks like just a big mag plate stuck on the end of a rectangular chunk

[@pr0hobo]

i doubt they have any specific plans for character customization but they are probably leaving that as an opportunity, and im not so sure the cable is anything more than just greebling for the engineers suit but id be curious if im wrong.

[@CornPope]

Sensei 😲, I shall learn all you have to teach me 🙏 Continue these analysis videos please, I love them.

[@everythingdu9430]

It was a great video as always that little cable the side I didn't even notice that will be very interesting because I doubt that like you said it's going to be decorative I mean they put it there for a reason for us to see it there isn't anything on the SE that believe means anything so that is very interesting.

[@wf13MT-x4i]

A.E. = after earth?

[@DARKAURA999.]

"A.E" might be a new calendar system they created to mark the colonization of the almagest system, it might be "0 A.E" because they just discovered it and are just beginning colonization. "A.E" might stand for "almagest era" or "almagest establishment"

[@Coolguy-wl9ng]

Or maybe “After Engineer.”

[@bryanedwards5064]

This is exactly what I was thinking. But I'm also thinking SE2 may have the capability to "Jump" between MULTIPLE solar systems!

[@PJ-ll5ny]

I reckon Almagest Era makes the most sense in the context of the video released.

[@MrMarekRosa]

@@PJ-ll5ny Almagest Era👍

[@inanecastle3]

I was thinking after expedition. Maybe it's a long-term expedition that's been going on for a long time. And the engineer has been in cryo hence the long time jump without any major technological advances.

[@incrediblebat]

i think the cord on the engineer is going to be like what was in medieval engineers where you could attach a rope to a block and drag it around

[@wailfulcrab]

Or maybe a bit of stretch, its a cable that engineer connects to the block to access the terminal like in the animated interactions mod.

[@Zer0sLegion]

Yeah, that was my thought process.

[@TheFernMeadow]

I thought it could be a power cable, so you would need to attach batteries to blocks manually rather than the entire grid being powered

[@angrysushiroll3093]

It's kind of difficult to tell, but I legit thought of a hose for air compression when I saw it myself. Albeit, I can see what everyone else in this reply thread is thinking too. I'm going to stick with the idea that it's connected to refill O2 in the suit. Certainly makes sense to me at least.

[@MasterMayhem78]

@@Zer0sLegionI think it’s a tether of some sort to connect to whatever youre building that feeds you oxygen and hydrogen so you don’t have to carry around a huge supply or stop what you’re doing just to refill canisters.

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

I love that they will give me such granular control in ship building for when I build my next flying rectangle.

[@dakaodo]

Now your rectangle can have even smaller rectangles!

[@fl4shb4ckGaming]

Trust in the Tangle

[@BGM_BlackGamerMusic]

@@dakaodo Sierpiński triangle

[@RezibaFox]

I think it's interesting that if 11,983 C.E. does actually mean common era it would put the game exactly 10,000 years after the maiden flight of the space shuttle challenger

[@Zer0sLegion]

Yeah, I was trying to work out what even happened 10,000 years before that date, maybe you've hit it on the head.

[@mz00956]

9000 not 10000 right?

[@RezibaFox]

@mz00956 if it was 9000 years after 1983 it would be 10983 and not 11983 so it is actually 10000 years

[@mz00956]

@@RezibaFox oh.. my math isn't mathing xD

[@hunterchartrand6646]

I noticed that too, but if it were up to me, I would've picked a year even more meaningful than that: 11,969 CE, 10,000 years after the first moon landing.

[@TheDeinonychus]

"No way this is 10,000 years in the future! Technology would be way more advanced by then!" *Warhammer 40,400 has entered the chat.*

[@calluxdoaron1903]

*Warhammer 40000 rams full battle speed with combat chants into chat.*

[@hyperforce]

A.E. - After earth You've never seen the animation movie Titan - AE ?

[@kuhljager2429]

A classic!

[@FxFx22]

such an underrated movie

[@Zer0sLegion]

That assumes it a date. And I would agree it's after earth if it wasn't 0 AE.

[@Eidako]

@@Zer0sLegion 0 AE would be the year Earth was destroyed / became uninhabitable / was abandoned, etc. In other words, the Empire Death Star'd Earth a month ago so the engineer is looking for a new inhabitable planet. It's 0 AE.

[@PeterBoddy]

@@Zer0sLegion It just means that the Earth has recently exploded, that's all.

[@GB-ev2cq]

Imagine if you could attach a cord to a ship to keep yourself anchored

[@satariel8652]

hmm, maybe if the cord let you get resourses, energy and oxygen from the ship.

[@Zer0sLegion]

Yeah, that's kinda what I was suggesting.

[@grottoguru6473]

Proper space-tethering, please!

[@tikmanron7776]

can already smell my Pc overheating

[@Zer0sLegion]

The graphics will be scalable, don't worry😅

[@Briskyyy]

And I'm sure the new engine will actually run better due to being designed around modern hardware and able to use it fully

[@justsomeguy1136]

Pretty sure they said that the series x was actually helping them out tremendously with optimization. Could be wrong but that's what I thought they said a long time ago.

[@Briskyyy]

@@justsomeguy1136 yeah that's also true that if they want a Xbox release they will be held to its specifications. Which for once probably isn't a horrible thing as the series X and other consoles are pretty powerful compared to the past. I hope and assume they designed Vrage 3 to utilize more CPU cores as 2 was built in like 2010-2013 I think so it was built around the common 2-4 cores and I think space engineers is core limited to 4 which limits your GPU RAM ect

[@Klyis]

My guess is the tube on the engineer's hip is a charging cable so maybe there will be an animation where you plug it in whenever you charge your suit. As for the date, I do think it really could be set that far in the future. If this system is 10,000 light years away then it makes sense that a colony ship ship travelling near light speed would take almost 12,000 years to get there. So I think the setting is that these engineers are the first colonist in this new system having recently been awoken from a 12,000 year long cryogenic sleep. It would also explain the lack of major technologic change since they're stuck using whatever technology they originally left Earth with.

[@desktopdesign7196]

considering the system being 10k light years away, and the year is 11.983 c.e., they must have travelled faster then the speed of light. If they left at space engineers 1 era, 2077 c.e. and they managed to travel at the speed of light somehow, it should have been 12.077 c.e. FTL confirmed?!

[@forwarduntodarkness1329]

recharge and/or data cable is my guess - you plug into a terminal/medical station/cockpit seat/etc to get H2/O2/energy/access system and control panels and the like. Possible secondary use as a tether of some kinda, but see that being MUCH less likely - though don't really see a reason it would be *quite* that long as just a data/resource transfer cable but idk - could be nothing at all or we're all wrong :P

[@scarredFalconer]

I was thinking that tools the engineers use connect to the cable from the suit

[@kuhljager2429]

The weird 3x3 block reminds me of a cargo container too. If I was to go out on a limb, the lack of conveyor ports could hint at a new feature that would be really cool: attachable functional covers. Larger blocks dont come with ports, you add them where you want, and only as you need. Solving the issues of ports being in awkward locations, and being able to hide(just not place) the extra ports

[@Zer0sLegion]

With the new grid system, that could be a thing but it would make playing the game really awkward for new people. We'll have to see.

[@planecrazyiscrazy]

i would think its a cockpit like the standered cockpit since it has a window and i feel like that ship is faceing away from us

[@mrrich7517]

Maybe the cargo ports look different as well

[@raoulduke7668]

2:26 man, seeing the red ship caused a lot of nostalgic feelings to come up :D

[@Zer0sLegion]

It's fitting that the first SE2 ship would be the original.

[@XionXxen]

Could A.E. Mean Almagest Era? Resetting at 0 for when the Space Engineers arrived there?

[@Zer0sLegion]

Yeah, that would be one of my suggestions but it's just a weird way of saying that. Normally you would say something like AAA, After Almagest Arrival.

[@BestHakase]

Marek confirmed this

[@Superagent666]

I knew when Captain Jack had a video up the day of the release that it wasn't going to be as in-depth as Zer0s 🔥🔥 you cooked once again sir!

[@Zer0sLegion]

🫡Just doing my duty of staring at tiny clumps of pixels

[@mirjjmvl4661]

Man… i love Space Engineers

[@Zer0sLegion]

Same, best game

[@Houstonruss]

Now they need to show the UI and UX and Progression some love.

[@Zer0sLegion]

I don't think the game even has a UI yet lol

[@Houstonruss]

@@Zer0sLegion Well of course, SE1 does indeed not have one. It's just that bad. lol

[@TheIronbuster]

The Almagest System is 10000 Light-Years From Earth It is 11.983 C.E (0A.E) Maybe it means the Engineers traveld the 10k LY from Earth in Cryosleep, setting a AI System to Jump the Ship from System to System until it finds a Earthlike Planet/ a solar system with suitable Planets. It Would explain why the Red Ship and the Blue Ship still look the same as in Space Engineers exept a bit more modern, if the Engineers startet there voyage in the year 2100 for example. 0 A.E could relate to the date of arrivle, the date of beeing unfrozen Also Zer0, love the content you make. always a fun thing to watch ^^ Nobody should forget to like and subscribe

[@Zer0sLegion]

It's an interesting theory but the gird system we use for ships in SE was developed around 2030-2040. If they travelled 10k lightyears the long way, they would have had to have left in 1983, which is in our past and way before the grid system was developed. That being said, I am expecting it to be something like this, even if that's not the exact details.

[@Simon-hb9rf]

@@Zer0sLegion that would be true, if they travelled at the speed of light. but our old friend the jump drive screws that theory over. so technically they could say the spent 9000 years in cryo and left a thousand years after the original game and it could technically still make sense because they have the get out of jail free card most scifi writers rely on, never actually determining the speed of faster than light travel. the 0 A.E. inclusion i think is more revealing however as among old scifi novels regarding the idea of interstellar colonization this is a way to measure time independent of "earthtime" because physics is trippy and those two times won't always agree, you need an independent calendar which in many old books is usually represented by the moniker "after earth" or "A.E." based on the moment the colonists arrived/woke up in the new system (depending of the magical tech the writers used to get them there) implying the teaser at least takes place as they are newly arrived to explore a relatively unknown system and leaves a lot of room for introducing more alien elements to the game or even aliens themselves (would be in keeping with the recent "prototech" stuff added to the original game perhaps?)

[@TheIronbuster]

@@Zer0sLegion I mean there is the o-so-hated Jumpdrive. They could start at a later date, like 2100 (all dates i toss around are just what was spooking in my head ath the moment xD) and still arrive when they do. Hecc, they even could start 3500 and still be faster then in Sublight Travel. We dont know the Path they took on there travels, be it a streight line or Zig Zack from star to star, refueling on ice-Asteroids, replanishing metals and Uranium by the others. The whole time Drones and the Good-ol-AI could manage the ship or ships if its a small group of them, without unfreezing the crew if not needed I am sorry i just like to talk and think about such things a lot 😅

[@doctorgrubious7725]

@@Simon-hb9rfinteresting enough, Rimworld is one of the few games that sets it as a hard limit in its idea, humanity can’t go FTL, thus, all colonization is slow, and that’s how you get the classification of “Rim Worlds”, planets on the rim of space that has been reached, other planets basically operate entirely independently because there’s not a good way to have communication between Earth and Mars, let alone Earth and any other star

[@Simon-hb9rf]

@@doctorgrubious7725 thats true but lets not pretend they havent just shifted the sci fi magic over to cryo tech instead of FTL travel, its a lateral movement at best. there is no decent solution to the problem without invoking generational ships, which complicates things far to much for most narratives.

[@thebonkman]

5:34 i HOPE thats a tether, imagine being able to fly around with a small cargo container dangling around, or being able to tether yourself to a ship and maybe tug it

[@forwarduntodarkness1329]

you say that until you've killed yourself with that tethered cargo container a couple million times and get tired of respawning and having to chase it down for the million and first time :P

[@thebonkman]

@forwarduntodarkness1329 fair but I mean you have a tool (craft able or always on you) that you can tether blocks to you

[@nucleargandhi3759]

The new Logo appears to be the old SE logo and engineer wirh the one waving, and the new second engineer appears to be the new engineer model. Could be meant to be a meant to signify the new addition to a the SE family by adding its engineer to the logo

[@Zer0sLegion]

Maybe, I doubt the two games would run parallel though.

[@Terminator484]

@@Zer0sLegion Could be as simple as two engineers = Space Engineers 2.

[@sebgaming4667]

I'm excited for SE2. And even more than that, I'm excited to see what mods will be made for it and what people will build for it and the ships we'll see

[@ukaszanioowski9722]

what i'd love for weapon system to include is difference between penetration and damage so blocks can have 2 stats HP Armor/Toughness Armor would be a static value HP would remain as-is If a rounds penetration isn't higher than block armor, it deals damage to that block only if a rounds penetration is bigger than block armor, it deals damage to that block, and continues it's path at reduced damage this allows for custom rounds for various purposes

[@Anakinvoorhees]

Keen been on demon timing with SE 2

[@Zer0sLegion]

Yeap, another announcement before the end of the year as well to keep us on our toes.

[@aceoffours9354]

It’s completely possible that they were developing it since they started the paid DLC

[@matthewgillies7509]

I personally believe that what they might go for is this: you're one of the deep space exploring humans who departed Earth at somewhat relativistic speeds, arriving in this system and sector of space that is 10,000 light years from Earth, which within the limits of the jump drives shortened the journey a bit by a few thousand years. As such, the year is now 11,983 C.E./A.D., and since there's no going back given how far you've come (and how long it took), this is also 0 A.E. (for After Earth). This would explain why the engineers do not look completely alien and are not as advanced technologically as you'd expect after nearly 9000 years since the last game. Effectively, you're of approximately the same era as the existing Space Engineers, but you've just gone further than any other humans. Whether we'll find advanced alien artifacts, or discover some "newer" human technology that was sent to discover our fate, is something that can be explored in the new game.

[@Zer0sLegion]

I don't think it's After Earth as that would imply it's just blown up. I would imagine Almagest Era or something like that is more likely as we've just arrived instead.

[@matthewgillies7509]

@Zer0sLegion Almagest Era makes sense to me, but whether AE stands for that or After Earth the distance and time stamp implies to me that these engineers have been on the move for quite a long time. Despite this they're not as advanced as we'd expect, because of the same limitations of space flight we see in the "Ender Quartet" series.

[@reaperrockets6869]

I think the small ship that you had like 20 pixels of when looking at the base in space was a reconstruction of the small grid ship that you showed at 10:20. Both have compact cockpit areas and two prong like things on the fronts. And we’ve seen that they’ve been rebuilding ships from SE in their teasers. So using a ship from the original alpha in the new alpha to show difference in engines/ progress would be cool

[@Zer0sLegion]

It's got a smaller profile but it would very well be.

[@MineGames131]

If the Almagest System is located 10,000 light years away from Earth and we assume that Jump Drives travel near the speed of light, then the explorers must have launched around 1983. It would make sense that while the journey is underway, there wouldn't be much technological development due to a lack of resources while in transit. This would explain why everything looks mostly the same as it did in SE1 set in 2077, because they just keep using the same tried and true tech. So excited for SE2 and the new building mechanics it will bring!

[@Zer0sLegion]

It's a nice theory but they couldn't have left in 1983

[@MineGames131]

@Zer0sLegion I guess alternatively, the Jump Drive can travel faster than light allowing them to leave earth around the 2077 setting for SE1

[@UberBrummbar]

The time difference might be caused by slow interstellar travel while cryosleep, and AE could be Almagest Age (after the arrivals of humans there)

[@neo2264]

2:04 oh no step ship what are you doing

[@Zer0sLegion]

😱

[@MrMarekRosa]

Great analysis! 👍And many assumptions are correct.

[@Zer0sLegion]

Now we just need to find out how many 😉

[@Rentetsuken]

I'd echo the sentiment that the A.E. likely stands for Almagest Era given how close the C.E. date lines up with the 10,000 Light Year distance. This does require reconciling how their journey didn't start in 1983, though. So, here's my proposal for how they managed to get slight FTL: The world has the ability to get their ships up to around 99.99% the Speed of Light via normal propulsion in Lore. On top of this, they apply the warp effect of the Jump Drives to squeeze out just a little more speed. However, due to the Jump Drives needing to charge up and that charge up being affected by Relativity's time distortion when you are so close to the speed of light, it functionally only adds an average of .02% Light to the speed of the colony ship. But with these two combined, they are just able to squeeze out 1.01% the Speed of Light, saving about 100 years for every 10000 traveled. Maybe it even gets a bit faster like a 1.02% or 1.03%, but they could also lose time because they need to stop to rebuild Uranium reserves or have Solar recharge their batteries. Thus, the Universe has FTL, but material limitations means that they only just barely manage to be able to do so, especially in comparison to other Sci-Fi settings. As for how no one managed to surpass that speed and get to Almagest first, perhaps its just down to the limitations on material properties? Though it could potentially turn out that the Factorum has a drive that is 50-100 years faster and left after this first colony wave (or alternatively, we're the ones with the slightly faster drives and came second after they left).

[@cobaltblue1975]

@5:37 It might be my imagination, but I recall very early on in the game that when you interfaced with a control panel your engineer would actually plug in a cable. At some point they stopped doing that animation.

[@timetounwind9205]

I was thinking that but wasn't sure if that was a game feature or a mod I had installed.

[@harleyphoenix7563]

That's a mod (animated interaction), it has a cable in first person view when you open containers

[@kerbalairforce8802]

That was a mod, I believe.

[@Zer0sLegion]

I don't remember that ever being part of the game.

[@LyntheWicker]

@@Zer0sLegion Its a mod called Animated Interaction

[@UberPodfan]

I feel like something that could improve the jumpdrive is instead of it charging the way it does an just teleporting us to the place we are facing (or locked onto) is it could immediately warp the screen and put us in a star wars style lightspeed for like 10 seconds

[@felixcaskey4193]

The base-game ion thrusters are gridded ion thrusters, and the ones from the teaser are Hal-effect thrusters. That's the difference. There are a million little differences between them, but Hal-effect thrusters look way cooler.

[@Simon-hb9rf]

do HAL-effect thrusters sing daisy bell during burn??

[@chandler2k6]

My first thought on A.E. was "Advanced Era" but reading the other comments, I like the thought of "Almagest Era" Great video! Always enjoy a ZerOverview!

[@Zer0sLegion]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@CornPope]

💪 he listened to my comment, I was the first to mention the Algamest's meanings in the teaser comments

[@Zer0sLegion]

I did see you comment afterwards but the first thing I did was google it when I saw the title 😅

[@Officer_duh]

I am almost positive that "A.E." stands for "Almagest Era"

[@andrewcurtin7003]

Big fan of the new backpack, never was a fan of the "sleeping bag" Im thinkin the rope is like, a grapple. Letting you grab and drag small blocks, hopefully to make being a salvage dealer being alot easier

[@Zer0sLegion]

Yeah, I never realised how much I disliked the backpack until I saw the new one.

[@schmerz6604]

If the story is set approximately 10,000 years in the future, with the Almagest system located about 10,000 light-years from Sol, then the year 0 A.E. ("Almagest Era") could signify the arrival of the Space Engineers in the Almagest system. Given that the current date is 11,983 C.E. and the distance from Earth is roughly 10,000 light-years, we can assume that the Space Engineers traveled to the Almagest system at nearly the speed of light, allowing them to reach their destination as quickly as physically possible without violating the laws of physics. This also means that although the story is set 10,000 years in the future, technology will not necessarily have experienced 10,000 years of advancement.

[@Light.--]

"It's... beautyful" - medic TF2

[@scarredFalconer]

Ok relating to the date... I have a thought. There are a few relevant things to know first: 1) Cryopods (and therefore suspended animation) exists in SE 2) You cannot travel faster than light, just potentially very close to it. So traveling 1 LY will take longer than 1 year. Always (EXCEPT JUMP DRIVES EXIST. This'll be important) 2a) Also the faster you go to Light Speed (C), the slower your clock goes compared to the rest of the universe. 2b) Jump drives kind of suck. At best, they don't even make it to another planet in a single jump. The best way to travel is max out your speed and drift until the drive charges again, then rinse and repeat until you arrive. So any long distance travel would require A LOT of jumps, while also floating at speed or flying while under thrust. So... What if, using Jump Drives and thrust on max to go NEAR to light speed (and thus their clocks are slower and/or the jump drives making up the 94-year difference), these SE 2 engineers are actually from the SE 1 time, and have just been traveling in cryosleep for 9906 years and arrived at the new system only recently. This would keep the tech level at around the same point as SE 1, while still having the new timeline make sense.

[@scarredFalconer]

also after reading the comments, A.E - after earth - after exodus - Almagest era

[@jasonfabrick9308]

I didn't play SE when it was DX7 only but have seen videos of it, Splisie's intro ship in most of his videos. The original ion thruster to me looks like it was made out of the LEGO Barrel like LEGO did with the main thrusters on the very first NASA Space Shuttle. 5:59 the cord looks to me like it might be a power cable for the Welder/Grinder/Drill Player tools.

[@Daark_Karma]

It's possible that it takes place 9k years later because the people of this system had to travel by more convential means. Think about it this way: The system is 10k lightyears from earth, meaning it'd take 10k years to reach it at the speed of light. Idk how far jump drives can go but it's reasonable to assume that it may have taken the people who live in this system 8-9k years to arrive, either in stasis or as part of a generational effort

[@MasterMayhem78]

The lighting makes all the difference. I can’t wait to have absolute complete freedom during the building process. I love the original game but it feels very restrictive unless you know the glitches and exploits, which most people don’t.

[@colecooper5836]

I think my biggest complaint about space engineers is the fact that if you want to make a large grid ship look good, you have to make it massive due to the size of blocks. The new multi sized block option should remedy this and I couldn't be happier.

[@theburgerman]

I'm sure someone brought this up already, but I assume that it took considerable time to travel those 10,000 lightyears. assuming that the engineers were in cryo sleep or something, it makes sense that technology hasn't advanced considerably 2077 CE --> 9906 years of traveling 10000 light years --> 11983 CE

[@TaranHariram]

I also thought of this lol

[@TheNacols]

@@theburgerman it means they went 1,009 times the speed of light

[@spynorbays]

Space Engineers 1 already has Cryo Chambers, so maybe they just went to hibernation and used their jump drive to travel to a system 10k light years away, then woke up when arrived 10k years in the future? They seem to be using a more advanced but still similar technology.

[@Alewxx]

Storywise: there was a colony ship send out to that system, and it just took that long, and jump drive was just not a thing at that time. so they arrive awake and have to rebuild with what they find there around.

[@adamjenkins7653]

Don't tempt the poor Admiral, there's no way they didn't bring jump drives. Though.... The option on world start-up to replace the block with a different one, and remove jump capability...

[@edwardboatman4554]

even if it was a thing, assuming the current 5 minutes per jump (with prototech, and also ease of maths) and a travel time of the full 9906 years, a ship would need to travel approximately 91 million km per jump to reach the system at that time, so jump drives could still fit into it, especially when the ship HAS to travel FTL to get there, even if it is just 101% lightspeed

[@zackzeed]

**Me on the phone seeing this** Pause, I gotta watch this on the pc! 😂

[@SideBit]

PC might explode just contemplating SE2

[@mateuszpietrzyk8336]

A.E could stand for arrival era, or years since humans first arrived to the Almagest system, which would mean we are the first ones in this system 10k years is a bit too far into the future, the technology would be far beyond what we see here, unless we arrive in a sub light speed ship in cryopods, then we would still have relatively same technology as in SE1 since there is 10k light years distance and 10k years time between the two games

[@Zer0sLegion]

Yeah, that would be my guess for AE, it's just a bit of an odd way to put it. I would expect something more like AAA, After Almagest Arrival.

[@grit9938]

This is my feeling. I feel the larger pack and rope specifically point to older tech, perhaps from slightly before SE1.

[@radicalkonrad765]

the small on big blocks is gonna be such a improvement for detailing oml

[@mindmachinepsy]

Those chords better be there to connect power between different grids. I want to build cool bases without spending 90% of my iron on foundations

[@zoozihz94]

that would be cool

[@AGUSTIN-zc5iu]

Definitely Amber Era. Yep, it's my headcanon now. The Preservation is going to strike its hammer soon. The beginning of a new era. All for the Amber Lord.

[@sarahkatherine8458]

2:04 "it's big, it's red and it's begging to be smashed" Am I the only one who was thinking about ramming the red ship with the blue ship? 2:07 "NOT IN THAT WAY" Am I the only one who was still thinking that that means we shouldn't ram the red ship?

[@Zer0sLegion]

Wait until bro gets to 8:10

[@mikies9532]

It would be really interesting if the cable was a tether for space, so if you have the "jetpacks off" setting on, there's still a way to move around outside your ship without the fear of being thrown into space indefinitely.

[@saintbellistrad4304]

There is a scifi movie called Titan A.E, A.E standing for After Earth. Because, spoilers, at the very beginning of the film the Earth is destroyed setting up the plot. Good movie, suggest watching. But thought I would throw it out there.

[@Zer0sLegion]

I've been looking at the film after people having been talking about it in the comments, I think I will have to watch it.

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

I appreciate the spoiler warning for a 24 year old movie. Teehee

[@breytac]

I remember thinking how awesome it would be to build ships with the amount of detail seen in some Pinterest space ship pictures, but we lack the fine control needed in the current game to add small blocks on top of large ones. But with VRAGE 3, that will be a possibility with what appears to be small blocks being placed on top of larger ones. Players with more hours in the game than I've had hot dinners are going to be creating even more epic builds.

[@SirBork]

You’ve never seen something so beautiful

[@Zer0sLegion]

🥹 It's so beautiful

[@kaspedkk]

If common era is CE, then maybe AE is Almagest Era. The premise being that the start of the game is you "discovering" the system and beginning your colony or whatever and therefore starting a new calendar. Also im surprised no one is more interested in them using the word almagest "system." Possibly alluding to more than 1 solar system? Would be very interesting. But maybe its a bit overambitious to consider without further proof.

[@Zer0sLegion]

I would suggest it's Almagest Era but we will have to see. And I don't forsee multiple solar systems as that's not the kind of game SE is.

[@kaspedkk]

@@Zer0sLegion yea

[@ParakeetsterR]

8:43 I think it's also the original Green base from The Early Access trailers

[@Zer0sLegion]

Yeah, it is.

[@Keschnarf]

9906 years later fits relatively good to a distance of 10,000 lightyears. So who knows, perhaps this means in SE2 we're playing as the survivors of an expedition into the depths of space, awoken from cryogenic sleep, that find themselves 10,000 lightyears from home?

[@The_GG_Janitor]

Personally I’m hoping that the cord would be a way to attach yourself to blocks and move them around.

[@Zer0sLegion]

Yeah, maybe

[@BladeSmith1928]

It's 10,000 light YEARS away from Sol, and 9,906 YEARS ahead of Sol, leading me to believe they used FTL (Faster Than Light) technology to travel for probably around 1 percieved year, advancing the Sol cycle 9,906 times in the process. Fascinating thought experiment!

[@BladeSmith1928]

This also means... they're most likely NOT 10,000 years ahead in advanced technology, rather 365 internal cycles of self-improvement (such as solving the dreaded Sub-Grid workaround for armor and weaponry, Unifying the system for more robust ships to brace for Amalgast)

[@Xocliw]

The video I've been waiting for... Let's seeeeeeeeee what Zer0 finds, the truth will be revealed SOON™! 🧐

[@Zer0sLegion]

I am excited for the next teaser of a teaser of a teaser 🫡

[@RavenWolffe77]

I'm almost certain it IS actually 10,000 years in the future, but the experienced time might not be that long; Space Engineers humanity has cryogenic stasis, so it's possible that your Engineer(s) had started out closer to Earth, and travelled to Almagest at slower-than-light speeds on a cryogenic sleeper ship. Maybe the jump drive was damaged or destroyed, and they had to continue to Almagest conventionally? It would certainly fit with the common SE theme of starting gameplay as a castaway of some kind (as is survival game tradition).

[@Coolguy-wl9ng]

1:35 also when they are running it looks less jittery with the mag boot compared to the first game.

[@erubianwarlord8208]

the system's name could be a little tongue in cheek reference to the idea that the star revolves around the planets in SE

[@martynnewmarch4060]

The cord on the hip reminds me of a current space suit having a cable they can hook onto rails or pipes so the astronaut doesn't fly off into the void, I'm looking forward to seeing what keen have in store in the next gen game and what's coming up on current gen.

[@Zer0sLegion]

That's kinda what I was suggesting with the cord.

[@alainpierre]

From what little I understand about General Relativity and space travel. If a ship can reach 10,000 light years away using the speed of light, it will take 10,000 years for that ship to get there. So this explains why the game will take place 10,000 years (more like 983 years), since 10,000 years (or a little more) were spent on the trip to this Almagest System. For those who stayed on Earth, 10,000 years also passed, and there, yes, technology probably reached unimaginable levels, but for those who remained in, most likely, a state of suspended animation during the trip to Almagest, there was no way to evolve technology much. Add to that the fact that a new way of counting the years from the arrival in Almagest may be necessary, since a new era of civilization will begin here, with no chance of returning (most likely).

[@ethzero]

Bought SE1 waaay back in the early access days and (like with KSP1, Minecraft) was impressed with the relatively few things it had, and continue to be impressed by all the stuff that was added over the many many years since. If this teaser is half as good as SE2 *looks* to be, this is will be well worth the upgrade (rather than a lot games nowadays where "V2" is just "V1" with a DLC pack)

[@davestir5743]

That cord is going to be a Oxygen supply cable, so you can tether to an object and get oxygen so you don't have to keep going back and refilling you tanks when they get empty. Or a tether to keep you from flying out when section of the ship decompresses from damage.

[@jedicrafter1767]

I think the chord thing is like a tether which would basically be inertia dampeners now, where maybe if you jump off a moving grid, it connects to a block and you can get a certain distance away from the grid before it disconnects and you’re no longer connected to it or smth.

[@GalCon99]

"Look at this ship. It's big, red and ready to be smashed." "Speaking about things that are big, red and ready to be smashed..." Now I'm going to be honest: that was smooth as fuck.

[@Zer0sLegion]

😅 I try.

[@DarinthMalacoy]

Without the ability to "jump" between stars, engineers have been traveling through space "the old fashioned way" except, looking at the date and distance we did atleast manage to find a way to travel at slightly FTL speeds. Likely we were in cryostasis the whole or vast majority of the time. I agree with the comments that A.E. most likely refers to Almagest Era. I first saw it and though Arrival Era, but i think Almagest makes more sense.

[@lukeorridge3988]

I really hope we have the option to take off the jetpack in helmet so you can walk around in the jumpsuit. I believe the Rope could be some kind of tether line. Either way, I'm really excited😊

[@Morndenkainen]

I've got a feeling a bunch of the blocks in SE are going to transfer over to SE2. It would be a huge waste to just throw all that stuff away and start over. I'm personally hoping that the devices are put on the unified grid so you can have tiny drills, refineries, jump drives, gyros, thrusters, and assemblers that function in proportion to scale... Including pistons/rotors/hinges... Torque based on size... It'd also make the logistics more interesting... Gasses/liquids pass through tiny conveyors, but things like gravity comps not fitting through all but the biggest conveyors... One can dream.

[@Zer0sLegion]

I would assume nearly everything from current SE is transferring over.

[@boreddev9252]

I will say. It's possible that they were considering light speed travel. It's 10k years later because they traveled 10k light years from earth, and that's just the passage of time for earth. It could be like tomorrow for the travelers.

[@yuranbarkey8068]

my guess is that the jump drive, or any other ftl way of travel they used to get all the way to the Almagest system is only a little bit faster than lightspeed. Meaning that in comparison to earth it would take ~9000-10000 years to get there, but due to time dilation the trip would feel way less long for the crew/colonists, perhaps even instant

[@TheApawcalypseCats]

i cant wait to bring my personal builds into the new game so i can change the way they look in a greater detail im also ready to see what the new builds from people are gonna be too!! its gonna be insane

[@DragosaniBob]

A theory: Time does not pass for objects moving at the speed of light, so from the perspective of travelers in a ship going to a star 10000 light years distant at the speed of light, they would instantly be there...whereas 10000 years would have passed on earth, hence 11983. Mind you, this would imply they left earth in 1983, which is weird. Relativity is weird, so there you go. I would surmise from the date alone that the setting is a colony ship from earth travelling at the speed of light, either purposely or accidentally with some new technique, ended up in this system on a one way trip and established themselves, setting the new date at 0. There is your setting.

[@YeeHaw8783]

Maybe the reason the Tech doesn't look ALOT different even though it's 9,000+ years later is because the engineers warped to another system from the SOL system at light speed and it took them 9,000+ years to get there and they were using cryo pods? just a theory and it would make sense because they're 10,000 lightyears from Earth.

[@NogrimStoneson]

i have a feeling the rope physics out of medieval engineers will be making an appearance makes a lot more sense floating around in space to have a tether imo

[@RvnKnight]

A.E. can mean a myriad of things, but my thought is "After Event", "Almagest Era", or "Advanced Era". It is also interesting that the date is 10k years after Space Lab was first launched and used in orbit.

[@seanc5191]

A.E. is Latin for Anno Erae, meaning "In the era of". It's used to reference a certain significance in time, like the destruction of a civilization or the founding of a city. So 50 A.E. would mean 50 years into the current era. It serves as a reference point, like an index in a book.

[@cjmlima_art]

The character animations looks amazing!

[@ParoXyzmm]

Here's hoping that cable allows you to anchor yourself to something. Or even better, anchor two somethings together :D. Using it as a grappling hook would be really cool. It seems likely that it's some sort of data cable as others down here have suggested, but I can hope.

[@kawefelipedebrito2646]

Perhaps the large time difference is caused by a relativistic distortion caused by the travel method used to get 10K light years away from Earth. Even though for the travelers it took only a few years traveling close to the speed of light, for Earth (which would be the reference point for marking time), millennia passed. So this date makes sense.

[@Zer0sLegion]

It would have to be faster than the speed of light.

[@BestHakase]

I just realized that you explain everything visually in such detail that I can use your video as a podcast, relying entirely on the audio.

[@Zer0sLegion]

I dunno if that's a good thing or a bad thing considering how much time I spend on visuals to make sure the sort attention span people don't click off the video.

[@BestHakase]

@@Zer0sLegion just an observation. I always watch videos anyway and never listen to podcasts, he he

[@CornPope]

The coord thing could mean that we will be getting proper wiring, and that circular object on the ship looks like a sensor of some sorts like we have in the current game.

[@omega_Sus637]

I am not going to learn wiring , no thanks

[@goldcobragaming3689]

I think it would be interesting to have energy and conventional weapons still as energy weapons could be much weaker than conventional weapons when it comes to normal armor and stuff but be better against energy shields and such while conventional weapons still have higher damage potential but are costlier to fire due to ammo construction. Plus another interesting concept to keep in mind is that energy weapons output at the speed of light with makes then more accurate while conventional weapons take much more time to get a round from point a to b while also having bullet drop while in gravity. It's a system that could be pretty deep and cool to mess around with and I've really thought more about the topic while reading a web novel called the mech touch. Really cool novel that has inspired a lot of really cool builds in a few different games that I play.

[@zamba136]

an excuse for why the tech is similar is quite easy. Cryo-pods and Short Range Jump Drives because the Jump Drives are short range, they sent a Colony ship at near the speed of light to a new system 10,000 Lightyears away and it took them 11,000+ years to arrive because they were travelling at 85% of the speed of light or something.

[@Zer0sLegion]

If it took them 10k years to go 10k lightyears they would have to had left in 1983 and that doesn't quite add up. I think the idea is correct but there's something else we're missing.

[@ethzero]

My head-cannon re' dates: The original SE1 was mined to exhaustion; fleets of sleeper ships where created and drifted the cosmos until a hyper-resource-rich system was found. (Look, if _Battlefield Earth_ can have Jump Jets that work after a thousand years, I can have space ships that work after 10,000 years!)

[@nemo-79000]

Interesting Idea... The 'rope' on the waist of the engineer is in fact the replacement for merge blocks. Simply lasso a block, pull it in against the connecting grid , then attach the leash to the grid and with the leash pulling the blocks together you simply weld them together. Far more interactive.

[@mattp1337]

Improved multiplayer would be a huge leap forward. But so far no sign of the two features I most want from a Space Engineers sequel: 1. a more realistic/complex resource and refining system 2. being able to make slopes shallower than 2:1

[@Zer0sLegion]

Still waiting for my nose cones.

[@tucadjmondracy3126]

So the year being 11 983 CE and the Almagest system is 10 000 ish light years away so I'd say a sleeper ship was sent out in between 1969 and 2077 (or shortly after SE1) to a system that's almost 10k light years away (max distancy humanity could reach in that timeframe) Jump drives might be a very fast mode of transportation, but they're limited by ship mass and energy consumption so for a large interstellar journey, sleeper ships are the only viable option especially as cryopods exist. So who do you want to send out for this expedition to build up a new home for humanity far beyond the stars? Space Engineers of course

[@pr0hobo]

when the engineer is running on the asteroid in the opening shot, the camera is stabilized, it looks far better than it does in se1

[@Zer0sLegion]

Yeah, I noticed that. When was recording the zooms and stuff for the video, I forgot how painful it was to walk around an asteroid in SE.

[@CubeAtlantic]

This is going to be nice lookin' & even more complex then Space Engineers 1, tbqh :)

[@WiseOakDakota]

I’m hoping we get decent control over slopes and they add some kind of tool for creating the exact size slope we want without having 10,000 different armor blocks that we have to fit together

[@turtlequacktv]

I'd say A.E. is for Amalgest Era. And keep in mind, that it's 10k light-years away. Ignoring the fact about jump drives it would take ages to get there. So not doing a giant technological leap during travel would not surprise me.

[@AngronIsAngry]

If this is 10'000 Lightyears away from home/Earth, and a cryo-colony ship traveled at nearly lightspeed ... then 10'000 years later makes sense. And turning CE into AE might denote AE as Arrival Era. Einstein's Realtivistic Theory might muck up the numbers with that a bit, but it would explain a near frozen tech level demonstrated in the teaser trailer.

[@tael3081]

It will definitely look good, but I'm reserving judgement until we can play the game. As for the other stuff... Engineer-Hip-Cord: -Visual Greeble representing either the power-cord you charge your suit with or the cord you plug in to access a block's terminal?, -Grapple to help you navigate/keep you from drifting away when h2 is empty/disabled? (my preference) Engineer-Helm: -Visors/Helmets are only see-through in movies and tv so you can see an actor's face, IRL you'd find that without some serious tint or a planet's atmosphere at 1AU the Sun doesn't need the help of a magnifying glass to burn things. SE could go either way and mildly more customization wouldn't surprise me, but if they don't include at least 1 robot head/body then I'll be disappointed in them for the entire minute or two it takes me to flip through all the options and pick what I like, then either way I'll immediately forget everything other than my suit color as I move on to playing the rest of the game. Small-Ship on Green Base: -An old vid shows someone crashing the old Blue-Fighter in to that specific landing pad on the green base, and while its hard to tell I'd say it looks more like damage than drills. Large Rectangle on the ship you cant see: -New Cargo Container?, -New Silo-Door block?, -25cm greeble on a 7.5m x 7.5m flat surface?.

[@Zer0sLegion]

Yeah, it might be the blue ship from the first teaser.

[@Conta_Minated]

Here’s some speculation: A.E. = Astronomical Era = time since humans entered another star system. At that point the Sol system has already been fully colonized and humans have been stuck there for thousands of years. At 0 A.E. the first interstellar leap was made, marking the beginning of a new era. You can’t just stack a thousand jump drives, because the energy requirements become so absurd. Instead, you need a completely different FTL drive for interstellar leaping.

[@Zer0sLegion]

That or Almagest Era

[@235x]

The green base around 6:47 - ~ 9:30 is most likely a remake of the green base from the first game. So yes the landing gear at 8:29 is a landing gear.

[@Zer0sLegion]

Yeah, makes sense.