Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander - (Open World Starship Sandbox)

[@ernestlam5632]

This is one of my favorite games. It's actually a creature builder. You grow bigger and evolve. You eat other ships. Crew are your blood. Hallways are your circulatory system. Little design changes can win or lose a battle. Different designs have different counters.

[@Veridiania]

And the reactor is the heart

[@ernestlam5632]

@@Veridiania nah it's the mitochondria. The powerhouse of the call 😅

[@somedudeok1451]

Cosmoteer is a really great game. I think it's actually more of a factory game combined with space combat and fleet commanding. You can put entire weeks into learning and creating new designs and they're still adding new parts. However that also means that you'll have to redesign your ships every time a major update comes out.

[@savagecabbagedank3771]

Yeah, the ship building in this game seems simple but can be pretty complex. I've looked at the competitive ships used for tournaments and there's a lot to learn. Sometimes the issues with ships is improperly assigning crew, leading to crew members having to walk back and forth more. Maybe there's too much armor, which makes it hard to maneuver.

[@somedudeok1451]

@@savagecabbagedank3771 Yeah, but you can work around that by designing and saving your roles as default, I think. I used to have this problem, but it stopped popping up.

[@carbonstar9091]

I feel a bit about this game like I do Avorion. The ship building and basic gameplay is really great but it seems like it could be so much more.

[@somedudeok1451]

So much more in what sense? There is multiplayer and tournaments.

[@beh5036]

When I played after release that was my thought as well. A lot of fun for about an hour and half then it was just more of the same. It needed missions or objectives more than the basic ones at each station.

[@savagecabbagedank3771]

I mean, it's still in the progress of it's Early Access Roadmap, so it's bound to look incomplete. The devs and community are amazing, I guarantee you this game will become so much more, it's already made great progress. There's even a small competitive scene where they hold tournaments between players. It may not look like much now, but give it another year or two.

[@savagecabbagedank3771]

@@beh5036 If you look at the roadmap, they're currently working on adding interesting missions to liven up the gameplay. Not to mention various environmental hazards which can challenge how you build ships.

[@somedudeok1451]

@@beh5036 A revamp of career mode is on the roadmap, but if you really thought you've exhausted everything there is to do in 1,5 hours or even just gotten the hang of it, then you're mistaking. There's pvp, there are tournaments and even in single player the fun comes from learning more about the mechanics to improve your designs until you can go dollar for dollar (or better) against the built-in ships. Many people have hundreds or even thousands of hours and are still learning more.

[@JStankXPlays]

Oh man Cosmoteer is coming along NICE!

[@PavelLeskinCG]

Looks like a nice game! Should give it a try.

[@ernestlam5632]

Building armor is a good way to take steel with you but not take up room in your cargo bays.

[@Qwertyuiop4409]

Good game. Played it a while ago. Keeping an eye on development as it may turn out to be much more interesting.

[@marystar1924]

It is a nice little game, but I have been caught in Avorion and From the depths so do not have much time for these nice little games. Avorion is like X4 but without limitations X4 has. While From the depths is a super complex vehicle building game. Both are indie games suitable for your channel... although, be advise to take 20 hours at least off-screen with From the depths to understand the basics so you can make tutorials. It is a very complex game like I said earlier.

[@Solizeus]

Seems really good, but it seems to lack lore, i would love to reach a planet or something and get some local lore maybe even a screenshot of the planet or maybe missions with some multiple steps and some lore

[@somedudeok1451]

I think games that know what they are and what they are not are usually better than games that add features just for the sake of it. Often these parts end up underserved and the game overall becomes worse for it, because they eat up valuable development time.

[@savagecabbagedank3771]

@@somedudeok1451 Agreed, and Walt (dev of Cosmoteer) knows this. He won't try to make it into a game that it's not intended to be.

[@somedudeok1451]

@@savagecabbagedank3771 Yeah, he seems like a competent dev. You can see that he thinks his designs through a lot.

[@keeleon]

This game really needs a "repair all" button when you have your fleet selected. Its just so tedious to try and manage a large fleet.

[@FeeNixBeech]

Looks like a more in-depth spin off of Space Haven. Race to see which comes out of EA first I guess. XD

[@foamslinger2787]

love this game

[@Daronsarts]

so glad that ur playing this i love playing the same game while watching

[@ush2177]

Can you build big carriers in this game and have smaller ships dock with the main carrier?

[@somedudeok1451]

Not yet. Heard that is planned though. But you don't really need that. Very often such things are more of a hassle than useful in such games. What you can and should do already is have a central factory/hauling ship or station which you keep in the back while your fighting ships do the work.

[@VtecSam]

Yes

[@jakkrit6910]

it super fun game but in mid/late stage you need to build more complex ship to compete with ai. and stupid me want to build super complex 6 focus laser and my brain go boom. so i just stop playing. but i still want to go back and try again. 1:04:30 generator is so far away from important part ( shield and weapon ) it will be better to put it in middle fo the ship i think. if they can hit in middle of the ship you already lose.

[@kingoftheduchies752]

What the fuck, I haven’t updated this game in like 5 years and it looks completely different now, never realised it has changed so much, better update it

[@savagecabbagedank3771]

It's completely different from the one on the website from 5 years ago. It's now on steam, so you'll have to buy the game if you want to get the newest version.

[@sumsum83460]

good vid I like the game ps first

[@endeyfire]

i need to strip this game of mods ngl. its boring but good.

[@targard.quantumfrack6854]

Why would you want to remove mods if it helps?

[@endeyfire]

@@targard.quantumfrack6854 cuase the game is boring with mods and its boring without. which is crazy cuase most games i play get better with more mods. this one just doesnt.

[@savagecabbagedank3771]

@@endeyfire This game currently only appeals to the people who love the ship building in my opinion. Designing ships in this game is actually pretty awesome, and may be it's biggest strength. But right now, the gameplay is repetitive and for many people it's boring. I'd wait until the Early Access roadmap is finished, they're going to be adding a lot more variety to the gameplay.

[@endeyfire]

@@savagecabbagedank3771 i mean i own it, i just wont play it cuase its a boring game. ship building is litterally just jenga, and i got jenga and phasmo, thats acctually more entertaining than this game.