Playing STORMWORKS in 2024!

In this video, 454ss summarizes what Stormworks is like in the year 2024, along with some of the updates we have seen and things we can expect!
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[@grit9938]

For builders, it's a solid game. For anyone interested in getting any real content out of the career mode, it's a mess. I'm the latter, so I struggle with the career issues. For that, I have a hard time recommending this game to most people (and I'm sitting at close to 1,000 hours.)

[@VenomGamingCenter]

What sort of issues does it have that make it a mess? Would you kindly go into more detail?

[@grit9938]

@@VenomGamingCenter , unbalanced part costs, poorly mapped tech tree amd costs, Almost non-exisitant a.i., extremely basic missions, fuel supply chain issues, dlc inter-dependancies for resources. I'm sure I'm forgetting things too. It has potential, it just needs a serious looking at and balancing with some more mission variety.

[@VenomGamingCenter]

That does all sound bad, thanks for being honest about it. I think I'll skip out on buying this one. I like building games, but I don't see a point in building in something like this if that's all you're doing, as it seems the coming to use the things you've built for gameplay is half baked or unfun. @@grit9938

[@rafasr0]

@@grit9938 Dont forget the DLCs being a mess. I think they missed the point deviating from the Search and Rescue motto.

[@fusionz_official]

Don't forget the mess that multiplayer is.

[@nokia3112]

I bought this game in 2019, i have a few thousand hours and honestly i think its really hard to not get bored with it. I think im a creative person, and i love designing advanced stuff with lua and chips in general. Imo the worst thing about this game is fun/time played ratio, because its pretty bad. You need to put a lot of time to learn how to play it and to create something new to get a little fun from that creation. In my case i realised that even tho i love making super complicated creations, they are not good for me because making them takes more time than i'll afterward spend playing with it before i'll get bored. Also i cant stand that there are a few major flaws in game that were never fixed, like hyper steep shores that makes it really hard to get on islands from boat(in other places that beaches). They are also a reason why i gave up on building amphibious vehicles, because i would simply have to go all around an island to the beach just to get it on land. Another major issue is buggy physics, i cant even count how many times my vehicle was sent to space(not literally) because i hit a wall and it got bugged, and because of that i had to create another survival save because i had no vehicle and no money. From smaller issues i have, i wish there was smaller jump in transmissions than 6:5, maby something like sqrt(6:5). Also this game has really cool sound system, im talking about in game voice chat and radios, but why is there no way to do anything with this sound inside of chips the only node is i believe switchbox, there is nothing with editing volume, there is nothing with mixing sound. Imo there are so many issues with it that i cant name all of them here. I mean i can but nobody will read comment that long. And dont get me wrong, i like this game. I love how much freedom it gives to player with creating whatever you want. You can make fully autonomous vehicles if you want to. I think lua scripting in this game is amazing because you barelly have any limits. But i cant deny that it(game) has a lot of issues, and im just tired of them.

[@manapotion1594]

I feel like devs should hire a GAME designer. Yes, it is realistic, but realistic simulation is boring. We play games to escape from boring reality in the first place

[@awenner]

I mean you've played thousands of hours -- it seems quite normal that you could become bored with it at that point

[@nokia3112]

@@awenner I wouldnt say that im bored, its more like im frustrated from dealing with those issues. I think i'd return if they'd fix it. Other reason is that there is a lot going on with my life recently, so with little time i have to play games i'd rather chose something else to play

[@b1laxson]

Context. The missions and tasks gives context to design. Its easy to build a vehicle that never does anything. The weak mission system, that the dev's made weaker with removing the original working mission editor, means you can quickly master the vanilla with a say $25,000 design. From after that its a sandbox builder with various bias that you may or may not go along with, like the 10 x 10 x 10 cm block size.

[@shanehuber348]

Happy new Years. just got the game and i am very impressed. I appreciate your creations man they've helped me tremendously.

[@mrpotato8196]

the vehicle building games genre is underrated if ur creative and have any interest in science, this genre is for you but all people do is go play the popular games cuz everyone else is playing them I just hope stormworks explodes, it has to be the most underrated game in the genre, simple objective, but a lot to explore in the building

[@454ss_gaming]

Couldn't agree more!

[@nathanpfirman625]

For a building sandbox game then it's 9.8/10 but it feels like the game lacks things to do and an actual mission system.

[@b1laxson]

Though Ive made some critical negative posts about the game's path there is some things it does well. IT isn't the right direction for it to have taken and testing new releases was done badly. There is engineering it teaches. ITs also the only game where I've gotten back into microcircuit. Investment in the mission side, or an accessible mission builder, would give the context to designs.

[@nathanhudson-young2460]

Because of the gases, ships can't flood and sink when the player scuttles them.

[@wiadomix4057]

I didn't realize this game was so complex. I love it

[@chastitymarley2986]

danm i joined 2 years ago and stormworks isnt dead yet

[@Bossdom2010]

My major achivement in stormworks is that I reached 2600 hours played. I've been playing since 2019

[@LilSmoky365]

It was made in 2020💀

[@Anomyzer24]

​​​@@LilSmoky365It was released on 2020,you could play it on steam as early access since 2018

[@RudderBoo]

@@LilSmoky365 no it released in 2020 it was made way before, only real ogs remember the advanced mode update. Also I have 4000 hours

[@LilSmoky365]

@@RudderBoo oh cool

[@liamhigbee4308]

@@RudderBoo only og's remember the creative base crane lol

[@isakhelgas4237]

thanks kermit

[@damian_11_]

I love this review! Very informative and thorough

[@malcolmmorin]

The developers don't care about the game. They're only doing whatever comes to their mind first and rolling with it. Remember when this game was about being the Coast Guard? Now we can go into space, probably Mars soon. What does that have to do with Build and Rescue's initial concept? My laptop that could run Stormworks in 2019 doesn't run it at all anymore, because the game hasn't been optimized properly in four years.

[@b1laxson]

The destroyed mission builder were there were hosts of extra missions? destroyed by the devs Space DLC that sunk ships because Devs dont play their own game Filters that went from keeping sea water out of engines to air-liquid bulk only to justify the new centrifuge...ignoring that filling fuel tanks with sea water for ballast is a real thing. Id go on but the old guard already know

[@BabyJesus420]

dont have a single pron on my laptop , i51650

[@orionblackstorm7926]

You might wanna try out xml a bit more, it's simple to understand and can unlock a whole plethora of new details you can add, from making certain blocks bigger, stretching them, or even having them go through blocks. Look at some of the new top weekly cars, almost all of them have xml simply to look good, although avoiding it is fine since they're relatively hard to work with (coming from experience) they shouldn't be a last resort, they can be used for custom pyramids, wedges, and that alone can expand a lot since stormworks does not have a lot of them (for some reason). Also the devs themselves decided it was ok to have xml edited blocks in their ai jets (technically they were made by a fan but the devs implemented it anyway)

[@poklianon8453]

Im in a situation where I just bought the game and getting ready to release my first creation.. but in fact I was playing it since 0.10 and have put sooooo many countless hours into it. I did ragequit a lot, when something didn't quite work, but was always able to fix it later. And about that creation... it actually startet in June 2023, but first prototypes date back to December 2022 or older. And every single controller from simple doors to avionics, LNAV, MFDs was made by only me myself and noone else. Back then 3 years ago I couldn't have possible imagined how to make such stuff.. I fricking love the game and will still put countless thousands of hours into it, especially at summer, despite its issues (I have to use xml editing to give my creations realistic inertia), thank you devs and pls stop spamming content and improve what is already there but broken

[@Royimtheguy]

Im that guy, I enjoy watching the creatives build epic builds, and I enjoy scuttling them. Over and Over.. over 1k hours doing this. Then the Air Pressure update attacked. I really miss making my own survival fun with friends.

[@lonwof2105]

Hope this comes to Gog some day.

[@gavinlower8698]

Where can i find that ship in the thumbnail

[@harrythompson6977]

its just a shame the multiplayer was better originally they just cant seem to make it work smoothly with the amount of variables involved with the game

[@RudderBoo]

The problem for multiplayer is that this game is extremely resource intensive specifically in physics which makes it hard to sync everyone together in multiplayer.

[@harrythompson6977]

i get that,not everyone has the same computer build, but still the early early original multiplayer was a lot more stable than the current version is, more my point which is a shame. @@RudderBoo

[@RudderBoo]

@@harrythompson6977 yea and that’s because the game wasn’t as complex. When they keep adding on features it becomes so much more complicated and harder to keep multiplayer working. I think they said the codebase is around 20 million lines which is an absolute f*ck ton of code which is hard to keep all the variables synced up and running together. And to make it worse the more people you add to a server the more load there is and the harder it is to run everything.

[@harrythompson6977]

@@RudderBoo iv got 3000 hours in game and can still hold my opinion on it.

[@RudderBoo]

@@harrythompson6977 I’m not saying your wrong and I respect your opinion and agree that the devs need to do more work on multiplayer but the devs have said that it’s hard for them to make updates to the game and that it’s going to be even harder for them to fix multiplayer fully. Also I would like to add that I have around 4000 hours

[@Averium]

I like every single video before even starting to watch it just because how underrated this channel is.

[@454ss_gaming]

Thank you so much :D

[@rojnx9]

14:26 "it's something that you could play for a long period of time and not get bored of" This did not get emphasised enough! I have over 200 hours of playtime in just the base game without any DLC's and I would consider myself a noob. I am still learning so much stuff about the game every time I play, simply because of how detailed the engineering is in Stormworks. And I came into Stormworks with thousands of hours of experience in other vehicle building games and Lua programming experience under my belt, imagine if Stormworks was the first one you have played! It's an amazing game, your computer storage will be full from the millions of save files before you run out of new things to do in Stormworks. I haven't even started a proper career mode yet, I still don't think I have designed a proper search and rescue boat to start the game with! Honestly, there is enough detail that you could make a full 4 year university course out of just learning stormworks (and I would take it because I love this game). also shoutout to my red mechsosuit on the workshop at 14:38 and 15:12 :)

[@RudderBoo]

I have 3800 hours and can’t agree enough with this

[@2dquix]

you were able to make a mech that got on the front page on the workshop and youre saying your a noob?!

[@rojnx9]

​@@2dquix Yes, yes I would. Designing that mech required a skillset that is quite distinct from the normal stormworks engineering. And they were mainly skills that I already had from highs cool mathematics and engineering subjects. So when building a mech, I'm not a noob, but for the rest of stormworks, I most certainly am a noob.

[@leosypher9993]

I love this game, its easily one of my favorites, but for the devs, this game clearly was a learning experience for them on how to be devs, we always dread updates because we all know the game will most likely be completely broken, and not just a little, completely unplayable broken, and it wasnt until the space update that we learned that the devs weren't even doing the most basic thing any dev should know to do without it having to be said and thats play testing, and the way multiplayer works is just ... oof ... very against how multiplayer games normally work, I get the game is limited, but the way multiplayer first started it was way worse than game limitations, now in 2024 its a lot better but it could be far better this game will do fine so long as the devs take more time with updates and listen to there community (unlike the time we had to publish a bunch of petitions to get them to fix things) then it should be fine

[@MrPupsi]

I really like Stormworks. I like trying all that amazing things people build. Im just sad that things like helicopters are basically impossible to use in solo. I mean i can fly it of course but can i rescue someone from a boat with it? no. And other stuff like career progression is still very, very bad.

[@thelegostoner2265]

There are a ton of helicopters that easily alllow you to rescue multiple people on your own while using the hoist and everything

[@ramrod1290]

As a trailmakers player. This game is awesome. If your not creative, need purpose, or get bored easily then it’s not for you

[@idabe170]

i like building ships then sinking then but after the space update sometimes water just wont go thru open doors

[@BabyJesus420]

thats called air pockets , its a physic

[@idabe170]

@@BabyJesus420 no i mean if i open a door underwater it just doesent go thru

[@BabyJesus420]

@idabe170 yes its an air pocket. If you open it before that section goes under it will go thru. If you open If after it won't. It's like the cup under water trick when the cup stays empty with only air and fully submerged.

[@BabyJesus420]

@@idabe170 I just tested it about 30 mins ago

[@pihlajafox]

​@@BabyJesus420so does the door think only happen when the flat side of the door is pointing towards the bottom? Since, going with your mug analysis, if you place the mug side ways, water will get in

[@FlyingWind]

how do you get that RPM with that temp? is it in a vid?

[@epiclyawesomeguy]

really the only reason this game is still active is becuz it's a 3d sinking simulator

[@maestro-zq8gu]

I gave up around when modular engines came out and where horribly buggy and the cooling wasn't working right at all.

[@thekak2627]

With close to 1,400 hour in two years I love the game, I don't play career much but do build I lot.

[@specrtre]

I love this game but, God I don't have the brain power for it,then I see what people make and like nope I definitely don't fit in to playing it. Also wish the missions were more fleshed out to give me more purpose

[@b1laxson]

Career mode was destroyed then a light version put back in. There is a real lack of consistent vision to Storm Works. It is broad enough you may find some things to do but many early investors aren't pleased so what you have is a Surivovr Basis, those left playing the game current concepts as misdirected from the vision as they got.

[@Tom-ahawk]

Would I enjoy the game for just the rescue mechanics if I don't have enough time to learn how to make vehicles/vessels and just use workshop designs?

[@454ss_gaming]

I personally played months with workshop designs before even building by own, there are a vast assortment of creations so you don't really get bored

[@Tom-ahawk]

TY :)

[@grit9938]

If you want to play the actual career mode, you're going to hit your head on your keyboard quite often as bugs, glitches, poor AI and badly implemented career mechanics constantly ruin your enoyment.

[@454ss_gaming]

Fair enough! I think once you get a hang of the mechanics it can be okay, but I get your frustration as well!@@grit9938

[@grit9938]

@@454ss_gaming don't get me wrong, it's still one of my favorite games. I really hope 2024 brings some much needed love to the missions and rescue career.

[@FernandoLXIX]

I love this game. Maybe a bit too much. If I could freeze the world around me I feel like I could perfectly spend a million hours building stuff. It really triggers my autistic vein.

[@meeliso]

Are large tanker ships currently dead? I haven't been able to get the pumping of over 100,000 liters from the tank to work. The end just slows down so much that in real-time, it takes hours. Has anyone found a solution to this?

[@ProfTuNichts]

air goes in fluid comes out.

[@King.of.Battleships]

I still can't figure out why my jet engines on my ship slowly lose RPS over time. I have the engine rooms, pressurized and fuel pumps.

[@jofreddy8643]

do the fuel tanks have an air inlet? Im not sure if this is a thing but maybe the fuel tank is becoming a vacuum as the fuel is drained

[@King.of.Battleships]

@@jofreddy8643 no they don't have a air inlet.

[@b1laxson]

Survivor Basis in the community is a thing. The Early Access and early release buyers got screwed with a lot. Things like existing parts turned into dysfunctional was a COMMON problem with updates. Lack of focus on the vision too. Weapons was a laugh at the loss of concept of a rescue not kill people game. I used promote this to teachers but dont since then. Weapons and the fighting AI were never and still not very competent. It was never going to be. Ship armor for example and block healths aren't a thing. You punch a ship with a missile and nothing disappears. It was never and still isnt an average vehicle vs vehicle combat. There are other solutions out there that did it better. Space is even more of a lack of focus and not something they have a core system for. Remember the incompetence of the Space release where ALL the boats on the workshop sunk? They didnt test and by that play there game. It is now a wandering build but don't play "game"

[@titaniumcookie6311]

one problem they should fix is the items being stuck in your inventory when you forget to put them back they are just in you hop bar and you cant even get rid if them.

[@BabyJesus420]

@seanprice7645 f? I have to hit the backspace to drop items.

[@programmer137]

Hey everybody! Happy new year

[@danielhaney9737]

THIS GAME NEEDS LOVE EVERYONE LIKE THE VIDEO

[@grit9938]

Yeah needs love, from the DEVS

[@GameOps1]

What was that thumbnail lol

[@chobotnickaonkrek6675]

I tried this game and I get lost ... I like building machines but here I didnt know how to make a car because I didnt know how to find things but worst older videos from few years where people actualy tried help new players are not relevent to this version. I just didnt know what should I looking for, how to make it functional, and worst how to use creator whole. Its messy, there is need for tutorial for tutorial, somehow... And tutorial will need be longer and have part with creating basic machine. But probably I am just stupid. So I am sad because only game where I can made some machine is stupid scrape mechanic, which is in terrible condition.

[@poklianon8453]

10:41 ... Your RPS you can actually... get to nan(ind)

[@boogieboo5085]

"Of course, there's little bugs here and there, but that's all games nowadays, so it's not a big deal..." People who hand-wave this fact or simply accept it as 'the norm' are why Developers and Publishers don't care about quality control anymore.

[@sylsawa41]

Botato for YT gods

[@E85LONEFOX]

I was beginning to think I "broke" the game with my creativity, my first custom build I had to scrap after getting physic warnings, decided to reinstall the game in December and it works again by far, must be a steam deck thing. Working on a new custom hull featuring the triple-screw configuration based on the titanic. Just a ridiculous project while getting familiar with how to play it efficiently. The complex nature of the game is what I like about the game. I've only been on the large custom boat base that's kind of an "isolated" island, where there's almost just ocean.

[@2dquix]

it was probably giving you physic warnings because the steam decks hardware isnt as good as a computer and stormworks is meant for a mid range or higher computer

[@E85LONEFOX]

I see what you mean, when I first purchased it, it was verified as playable on steam deck, I've got your point, high performance hardware components run it smoothly. As far as I can tell, it plays, with visual effects dialed down.

[@Stuka-RT]

Love and hate the game so far. Have it for a few month now and sunk countless hours into creating stuff. Some stuff is weird and some controll are a bit more fiddly then they need to be but overall it is such a great game. MP went fine so far, which is also nice, building stuff and then dong missions with friends.

[@coffinraider1]

I wanted to enjoy the game but there's just nothing to do, why on earth they haven't done anything with the career mode is beyond me it has so much potential

[@dmoy6256]

First comment let's gooooooooo

[@454ss_gaming]

Thanks for the support!

[@jarnelemaitre378]

I dont heve the game bud i want it

[@malcolmmorin]

Honestly, save your money. This game is in such a poor state right now, and the devs have no plans to fix it anytime soon. If you want to build stuff, then sure, go for it. But don't expect them to work as you hope, because the devs will break it before it can be done.

[@jarnelemaitre378]

Ok i wane build what dusnt work

[@dzhambulatnurmagomedov9001]

the problem with these types of games is that you build all this stuff with no use for them. if you like building then, youd like this game, but if you like gameplay, you wouldn't. look how small the mission section is. that is the game play and you covered it all in about 30 seconds. the rest of the video is about building, which is all the game has. Same problem with space engineers, no survival, no gameplay, no point, just a big building simulator.

[@SuperHumanError]

Career mode is pretty weak. A fun sandbox. Career is all grind no reward and the forced fpv is lame. Overall 3/5 stars

[@toasterhavingabath6980]

iths 3 days in

[@454ss_gaming]

Happy New Year! Yes, I make that clear in the first 30 seconds haha

[@SVENY]

Stupid radar mechanics stop me from doing what I want to do in this game, and I only want to do few things, and all of them involve radars, so..shame.

[@_Vark_]

Barely 2024 lol

[@454ss_gaming]

Happy New Year! Yup!

[@_Vark_]

@@454ss_gaming happy yearly sun orbit

[@Semirotta]

I honestly cant believe people pay for this asset flip flop garbage.

[@PhilippHager-dm5yt]

CoD-Boy ? Freedom of creativity is endless...

[@DyonHekert-kf4yh]

im getting popular on tiktok

[@DyonHekert-kf4yh]

how?

[@DyonHekert-kf4yh]

i am good at making tiktoks

[@ToolTechnician]

Get mental help ​@@DyonHekert-kf4yh

[@pussy_tracker_6931]

The deal breaker for me is the fact that air and ground physics just aren't very well made. Planes and ground vehicles are hard to fly (I never mentioned anything about realistic physics, I just want to make vehicles that are easy to handle just like in real life) The base content is creating vehicles is not very polished and that is a major flaw, considering that the game has been out for years now