Spacecraft - BUILD Ships, Explore Space, Seamless Travel

[@juless27]

interesting, and as usual i've heard all of that before. i'll believe it when i see it.

[@CubeAtlantic]

That game is dead-on detailed, this is first i discovered this.

[@mastermachetier5594]

Nah star citizen is coming out soon youll see 😂

[@makinawake9178]

​@@CubeAtlantic just to clarify have you played it?

[@CubeAtlantic]

​​@@makinawake9178 Nah, but it absolutely looks like what i said "detailed"

[@johnflenaly6322]

Yea all the correct buzzwords, we will see if they can pull it off.

[@chonky2129]

no preorders. HOLD THE LINE

[@51TheStig]

Love isn't always on time

[@TheBearanormalRealm]

I held the line by buying star citizen, best purchase Ive made.

[@chonky2129]

@@51TheStig It's not in the way you look Or the things that you say that you'll do

[@iou0]

@@51TheStig woah, oh, oh.

[@Cyrops]

Never preorder.

[@Tenken77]

PSA: Do not pre-order.

[@64SGH]

Psa?

[@Blazeoptimus]

@@64SGHpublic service announcement

[@endeyfire]

i pre-order space engineers 2. everything else is a hell nah.

[@hexenhammer483]

@@endeyfire Same. I pre-ordered SE2 because of SE1

[@jaywerner8415]

No shit. Sadly people still will, cus I guess we do not scream loud enough from the top of mount Everest with Bullhorn on MAX VOLUME.

[@hobanagerik]

I can't wait for the latest unfinished game to be released.

[@Raso719]

Word. Imagine if devs would just dail it back and make a slick star fighter game like Freespace 2 or Tachyon. Not every space game needs to he an economic simulator wearing a spaceship costume.

[@Justin-ny8df]

The good news is that the devs., "Shiro Games", making this have made quite a handful of games and continue to support them. Northgard is an RTS made in 2018 and still received a new faction/clan in December of 2024. My only concern would be that this style of game is outside of the norm of what they usually develop.

[@JamesJones-w7d]

@@Raso719 Yea imagine they all still looked like 80's arcade games and never progressed beyond that. Obviously, their ambitions and dreams are too large, and they should dial it back to a Commodore 64 level. But, be careful of what you wish for because the "market saturation people" will claim there are too many space games even if they only made Freespace 18 and Tachyon 24.

[@Raso719]

@JamesJones-w7d you're so fucking right! Me saying I just want a focused star fighter game was absolutely me REALLY saying I want all space Sims to exclusively be Asteroids played on an oscilloscope! It's incredible how you could see through my deception to understand the truly malicious intentions of my comment! You're so fucking smart! Expect a call from my Illuminati buddies about how smart you are!

[@JamesJones-w7d]

@@Raso719 Well if you are in THAT Illuminati, you know, the one filled with idiots, I'll pass.

[@BurningSpear213]

None of this is all that ambitious from a technical perspective, the question is how are they going to make it fun.

[@dropcat4635]

What are you talking about, there are games out there that literally contains only small portions of what this project propses. And it's plenty enough work from a technical perspective for them. Do you think you just plop some premade systems into a game engine and your'e done?

[@QuotidianStupidity]

@@dropcat4635that is content, not necessarily challenging from a technical PoV, which was the point

[@dropcat4635]

@QuotidianStupidity Well you're obviously some technical lead with 30 years of industry experience so I'm not going to delve further into this. All I can say is that a project of this magnitude is NOT a small technical feat.

[@QuotidianStupidity]

@@dropcat4635 even if we accept your premise, you still are not answering the question that was being asked… is it fun? Too many games forget this aspect

[@archaeologistify]

@@dropcat4635 Space Engineers had custom destructible pressurised ships that could seamlessly travel from planet to space to planet in 2015. 10 years ago. Even the infamous No Man's Sky launch in 2016 was capable of these environments and travels. I agree with OP that this technology is no longer impressive and it is more important how they connect their systems to make this epic backdrop fun.

[@EngiRedbeard]

Building looks like satisfactory with magic hand tool that materializes structures. Ship building looks like Starfield with pre-made modules you arrange together.

[@Gibparanoid]

The Magical Hand Tool is what I'm not liking from this project and so many others like NMS

[@bryndal36]

Sounds like Eve Online without the worry of losing your ship from being gate ganked.

[@ActionFlank]

My cabbages!

[@EvanRath]

you only get gate ganked if you are a noob (,dumb) or bait now

[@bryndal36]

@@EvanRath I probably should have mentioned, I'm not a gankee...;)

[@EvanRath]

@ oh no need to explain then lol :fistbump:

[@scifrygaming]

No Man's Star Citizen ... lets see if its released within 10 years.

[@powerwhiteangel]

From the arcticle they said it's not really an MMO: "SpaceCraft isn't an MMO in the "classical" sense, and Shiro are keen to avoid the association. In practice, it's more about asynchronous than real-time interaction, and while collaborating with others is a focus, Cannasse was at pains to stress that you can do everything in the game by yourself - though you can't play offline." "We put a lot of emphasis on the cooperation aspect," he explained, "and not cooperation in terms of a lot of real time cooperation, like doing dungeons with your friends in World Of Warcraft, but more asynchronous cooperation, in the sense that when you create a corporation together, and you have several space bases, you will have an overall goal as a corporation to improve this or that aspect, develop our base further, build specific buildings or find specific resources."

[@spaceshipradio928]

That sounds like you will play singleplayer and your progress will be shared across the servers.

[@Antares-Dragon]

Oh maybe a death stranding type asynchronous assistance? Now that would be interesting. Keeps immersion yet you help out others.

[@Cramblit]

Eh... I beena round the block enough to know, that this looks like another dev team that is biting off way more than they can chew, promising far too much, will get over hyped in time, fall flat, and be dead within a few months after release... If it beats all the odds, and ends up being a smash hit for a few weeks, the devs will surely do something catastrophically stupid to sink the whole ship anyway... That's been the pattern for the last 7 years of gaming when it comes to stuff like this.

[@HCforLife1]

Could be but we will see

[@Cramblit]

@@HCforLife1 We will, and I hope I'm wrong, but the last decade of gaming has proven I am mostly likely correct. Best case scenario.. none of that happens, they have a very small dedicated player base, and close shop in a year struggling financially.

[@Kurayami_13]

nah there is no such thing as "release" some early access or endless beta at most

[@gravity00x]

especially when all they have been doing so far were games of 1000x lesser scope and magnitude. those games were great, this satisfactory/nms clone on the other hand is doing themselves a disservice.

[@Shanex250]

I wouldn't say they are biting off more than they could chew, if anything the opposite. They are just doing the same run of the mill gameplay with added sci fi elements. What's throwing it off is the "is online but isn't MMO" style of game. I hate to be that guy, but this game is just a portion of what Star Citizen will be except Star citizen from the ground up is meant to be an MMO.

[@cowansimstudio]

Remember people... no pre-orders

[@Chronomatrix]

Will believe it when I see it.

[@Voltaic_Fire]

Oh, online. It was so close.

[@ActionMan1979]

The _Multiplayer Mode_ is not enough to those people.

[@archaeologistify]

I smell another game joining Starbase and Dual Universe graveyard...

[@efxnews4776]

@@archaeologistify it's funny... The best games on this subgenre aren't even the most ambitious ones... Space Engineers, Empyreon and Starship Evo... I guess having a single player mode compensate in the end...

[@wyattbillingsley6844]

Looks like what Dual Universe wanted to be.

[@disky01]

I thought the same thing.

[@efxnews4776]

@@disky01 Dual Universe managed to lose to Empyreon... The real problem with this sort of crafting games games is that they require a single player mode and seamless transition with the multiplayer, few games do that properly... The single player component is important because if something happens with the server you could potentially lose hours of work, wich could be devastating...

[@jh5kl]

​@efxnews4776 emcrapyion is the most limited of the genre

[@scrazzle]

This is the first I've heard of this project. I'd like a game that has ship building that won't force me to sit through terrible dialog like Starfield, boring "exploration" like No Man's Sky, or get stuck with constant delivery and development failures, infinite scope-creep, and rework like Star Citizen. If it can do those three things, with relatively good quality, relatively good mechanics and physics, and be done relatively quickly... I'd be thrilled.

[@ecarchi]

you should try space engineers

[@andrewgray573]

X4 Foundations is another solid pick. It's single player!

[@jh5kl]

both mentioned above are magnificent and are the most underatted of the industry, its nice to see them mentioned

[@Vertexnine]

I agree that the survival builder genre is super saturated but, that being said, there are very few that are truly exceptional. It would be awesome if this upcoming title has a satisfying and fufilling gameplay loop that isn't just grinding for the sake of grinding.

[@Fizzlefuse]

Yeaaah.. I'll believe it when i see it. Without any gameplay, I'll wit till we know more.

[@KevinJones-xh5yk]

Basically space engineers?

[@anonymgamer3416]

They lost me at "online". When will we finally get something like Elite Dangerous or Star Citizen but offline (don't tell me you can play Elite in singleplayer, I talk about playing it fully offline and that forever). I'm so tired of all that online/MMO crap.

[@jonneymendoza]

play starfield then

[@KimAlmighty1]

@@jonneymendoza thats no sci-fi game of this decade or perhaps we should say century since tech years is like dog years :P

[@anonymgamer3416]

@@jonneymendoza Starfield has absolutely nothing to do with Star Citizen or Elite. Also, it's trash

[@gravity00x]

offline doesnt make any money, because instead of forcing you to shill out money for mtx or make you purchase ships for thousands of dollars, dare I say, they would be expected to give those ships to you for free for playing the game. What a blasphemous thought indeed.

[@KimAlmighty1]

@@gravity00x its heresy!! :P

[@tomkpunkt]

I like the ship builder, its like Starfield, the rest of the game feels like every space-survival-game, like Space Engineers.

[@LePhntm117]

What I'd really like to see is a new Star Wars type game with the walking around on whatever ship you wanted and the open world/galaxy that Star Citizen brings/intends to bring.

[@hariszark7396]

I honestly don't want anything Star Wars related. Basically nothing from a franchise. I want something unique. But done right. I hope they learn from the mistakes of Starfield, Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen and make something better. But I doubt that.

[@jh5kl]

check the star wars interworlds mod for x4 foundations, the millenium falcon and razercrest have full interior, a few spacestations even had a tram you can ride

[@redhawkrobin]

I personally find that there's a lack of actually good space games so this is welcoming news

[@jeb791]

I would like a game like mass effect with space flight and combat

[@efxnews4776]

@@jeb791 try out Spacebourne 2.

[@zaldronthesage]

Wow, another space MMO. Seen this a million times. Next.

[@ErwinPPP]

If you don’t like it, don’t watch or comment. Your comment is 100% redundant. Just click away. Bye!

[@nobodydoesanything381]

​@@ErwinPPP you smell like cope. How many pre orders you got scammed by?

[@FGMagala]

Really hope they emphasize more on ships and space stations over other space survival craft. It'll need activities aside from simply gathering resources and building, or else will simply be a space skinned survival craft, and there's already so many survival crafting games around. We so need new space games that explore new frontiers rather than just be reskinned versions of other games, being probably the single least explored major setting short of prehistoric.

[@Alcyeragraeth]

PC focused? Thank GOD!

[@LukazChrom]

"The market is oversaturated" LoL. That is indeed simply not true. BUT I too can somewhat see where the statement is coming from because yes (Harsh Truth incoming) It is indeed oversaturated with a lot of 'mediocre' Space Games. Spacecraft does look quite promising though, however while for you PvP might be secondary, this old CQC-CMDR would really like to see it there too

[@Muddysoap14]

added this my Wishlist a couple of days ago, gonna be keeping my eye on this one.

[@c.f.1133]

This has strong "The Day Before" vibes.

[@rosevfx]

It doesn't matter how many other games with similar mechanics there are, what matters is how well a game works, looks and how much "future" is built into it, i.e. how much it was designed and coded with expansion in mind. This one seems to have the looks, everything else time will tell.

[@red3tango]

having a game called "SpaceCraft" is going to push SEO to its fullest haha

[@Hi-Im-RubX]

Thanks for the video Ant. This made me think of Eve-Online, I miss it. Give me Eve-Online as a single player/ co-op. I would never come out again.

[@jh5kl]

if you want the singleplayer version of that check x4 foundations, if you want the everyone in the same universe and shooting people in the face, with planets, check starbase from frozenbyte 👍

[@Justin-ny8df]

I'd like to point out, the developers "Shiro Games", make some pretty solid games like Northgard, Dune Spice Wars, and Wartales. This seems a bit outside of their wheelhouse, but because of some of their past products I will support of them, I will keep an eye on it. They even continue to support Northgard and just released a new faction/clan in December 2024, the game came out in 2018 so they show support/longevity of games they've developed. Out of 8 games released on steam, only 2 were "Mixed" and the other 6 were all "Very Positive."

[@Amaroq64]

There isn't an oversaturation of survival base-building space games. There's an oversaturation of bad survival base-building space games. If they make a good one it'll be on everybody's radar. I personally want something like space engineers and empyrion, but more polished with real content to engage with.

[@thehubbleton]

I'd play it right now.

[@ronaldlabelle9264]

ObsidianAnt, I’d love a more pilot/navigation focused spacegame myself. Something that isn’t just another waypoint to waypoint cutscene pattern. I miss early early SC where you could point the ship, QT, turn off QT and you were just out in the nothing. Change direction. QT. Make your one spaceroutes.

[@Lucasolvalou]

I'm not holding my breath. Nothing jumps out to me that really sets it apart from other titles. Shiro games did do a decent job with Wartales and listens to their community, so there's that at least.

[@rarewhiteape]

“Seamless travel onto the planet surface”? What I hope for: Kerbal Space Program but as a space sim What we actually get: a loading screen that’s disguised by a cloudy on rails atmospheric transfer

[@yacabo111]

I get what you mean when you say you want KSP but space sim but KSP is literally the most space sim space sim on the market

[@rarewhiteape]

@ that do be true in a lot of ways. And KSP2 was going to try to expand to other star systems to be a multi-stellar game before it got snuffed out in a dark alleyway. The gap between KSP and a space sim is still unfortunately quite large, but imagine the freedom of KSP-style ship building within KSP-style physics, and the interplay between that and an a galactic economy… sign me the hell up.

[@danielhulan3058]

We need a no man's sky but with better more realistic graphics with better ship modularity and building. So you can make a vast array of ships where no two are alike. This could be it.

[@quatsch344]

Many have tried, many have failed. Maybe this one will manage to succeed where others failed.

[@Hyptosis]

I agree with you 1000% percent. Survival games are great, but space games can go anywhere, so many unexplored directions.

[@BlackLethalDragon]

It seems interresting, building, drones, space, we can only hope its reasonable for its represewntation

[@nearyou7232]

Remember, NO PRE ORDERS! - but I can't wait for some gameplay :) Animation looks nice

[@Thepher6]

The in-game footage looks weak and uninspired... Thanks, Ant, for showing it.

[@TheYdyp]

Building space game with online only, I wonder how far this one gets compared to other like Starbase. Especially with Space Engineers 2 also releasing in Early Access this year.

[@intergalacticGM]

Why I've never seen you mention Space Engineers? C'mon, at least you should do something for SE2.

[@SamuTheFrog]

Because its old as f*** and he tends to focus on new or modern titles. SE2 i dont think is ready for spotlights

[@teryn3723]

the developers have a pretty good reviews on their games.and it's pretty solid for now, so hoping they don't miss the mark on this as I like the theme and promise of this...fingers crossed its good

[@falkenherz1708]

I just wish for a mix of Space Engineer, Satisfactory and KSP. Building spacecraft from modules instead of just block-by-block as in Space Engineer, the elaborate factories of Satisfactory, plus a realistic orbital mechanic like in KSP.

[@joelmulder]

I’ll believe it when I can play it.

[@ThatMatt]

Very excitedly waiting for this one.

[@MerchantIvoryfilms]

Like most of the community, no one cares any more about "flavor Text" of what a game "might" be. We will believe it when we see it.

[@gubstorm3518]

I agree. If this is going to be a crafting/base building game, they need to do something else (like exploration) really well to make the game stand out.

[@markswang8987]

if we are talking about the market in multiplayer survival yes, there is too much in the market, but however if it is a fun singleplayer survival game, nope we never get enough of it.

[@demogorghon]

One to put on "check out later" list.

[@AthosRico22]

Depending on how they do this the resource gathering could be really really monotonous or could not be if drones are definitely part like they show. Hard to have all these things and keep people interested with how some planets are created in other games and the scope of the “universe”. Interesting to see how this will come out and grow.

[@_xone]

I dunno, this feels like Starfield online minus the quests? 🤔

[@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo]

Looks like an unreal engine 4 game trying to mimic no man's sky

[@mesarthim640]

We have a lot of space games it's true but we have a lot dinasty warriors, a lot of call of duty and a lot of battlefields and football games as well. Now, finding a good game which is not abandoned or clunky is hard to find. Because so many space games are not that great in the end or we feel like they're missing something or like they're too simple or too complicated.

[@surrealsupercell7217]

I always wanted a more "real" looking No Man's Sky, this looks kinda like it.

[@paulmanger2346]

its called EVE Online...and its 20yrs old and still going strong

[@ErwinPPP]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Rhogardium-oq5xv]

i agree with the oversaturation of foraging/crafting/survival. But a new space game is always wlecome

[@frogmastiff8198]

there are a lot of space games but we are still mostly waiting for that one that really cracks the magic formula, for me i like survival games but still lack that one game that nails it

[@stevenstemmler7573]

The real question about Space games is what is it that people find most fun. What is the North Star that brings people back to these games? What is the variety that players should be looking for? I would love to hear the ideas for space games that people would dream of playing For me personally, I love playing in VR. I love being inside the ship. I think Elite Dangerous has the best cockpit experience, but the depth of what you can do in X:Rebirth VR makes it a better overall game - although I find both of them lacking in other respects. If I could create a game - I think I would base it on the idea of Firefly. You have a ship where you have to keep flying. In order to do that, you need a crew that have different personalities (that conflict with you and each other). I love the idea of having to find jobs and stay off the radar of the authorities which means you have to figure out how to avoid them without weapons on the ship itself. Kind of like an Alien Isolation - although you are a ship on the outskirts of the authorities radar - they are not hunting you directly and specifically - unless you do something spectacular to draw their attention in which case they will hunt you down and you are dead - but you are in the wild west of space and that means in order to keep you ship flying and your crew happy and loyal you need work - and those jobs are not always on the right side of your morals... and your crew have different moral standards than you do... I would probably start with From Other Suns (an amazing game if you have never played it) which is kind of FTL in VR. But I would like to be able to also pilot the ship. The Firefly board game also had some interesting mechanics - like a variety of victory conditions. Who do you find to fill your crew? How much do you invest in your ship and crew - and how much do you save for the victory condition? How much risk do you take in the missions? Mind you - I would also love a game based on the Honor Harrington series. Space Naval combat and politics where you have relationships (not particularly romantic) with other officers that you serve with over time (I think Wing Commander actually did that quite well as each of the pilots had distinct personalities). Battles could be life and death (even for the officers you have served with) and where news has to travel by ship - so you have courier ships that have to travel to get you the news of what is happening elsewhere in the game. Getting that information as quickly as you can might be the difference. I even love how the battles in the novels happen. The action is all about the planets - fleets can simply run away, but the infrastructure is what is most important. You have to protect it, which means you can't leave it exposed for someone to simply come in and take - it needs a defense force, And then you muster what you can for a offensive fleet - but you have to protect your supply chain. Because you don't know when you might be attacked (your news is only as good as it is old) you only know what is happening in the system you are in. And just to make sure you don't break the rules of war with a scorched earth policy (Orbital bombardments are illegal) there is a superpower out there than will hammer you into oblivion if you go bloodthirsty. To them, you are a regional conflict.

[@hariszark7396]

I'll tell you what it is. They all want to experience the Star Trek experience going where no one has ever gone before exploring the cosmos with the endless possibilities. The sad thing is that no game has really accomplished that yet. And I don't think they are focused doing that. They always end up doing the same old thing again and again. Just shoot other ships and gather resources....☹️

[@hariszark7396]

Actually I am making a Solo Space RPG (pen and paper) that you can play like the games you described at the end. Firefly and the rest. With a main character and some companions that are going together in adventures around the galaxy.

[@MrZenzio]

I don't think there's enough financial room for a lot of survival-y space exploration games; but I also know that there are many I do not find the least bti interesting, and a few that I do... so I don't blame developers for trying their luck. I only hope they are aware of how slim the chance for huge success is.

[@paulgrant7221]

In the 21st century is it really too much to ask for controller support as standard?

[@Incariuz]

Well I'm not going to rush to buy it, but I'll be monitoring. Might just end up being a NMS clone with ship building, which just isn't enough. Gotta ensure it's got some interesting mechanics and gameplay loops first.

[@CorkerGaming]

if its third person ships only idk if itll be for me

[@CubeAtlantic]

idek, what that new up-to-date game is but it looks detailed & has that EVE vibe.

[@davewills148]

Dont fully understand the mindset of showing anything until a game is Gold Standard and has a one month window to release, im a DAY1 content person, shown me release content on the release day and i'll think about it. Can almost guarantee it wont look anything as good as this concept vid. Building spaceships is getting old, its the only thing that kept me playing Starfield after i realised it wasn't a game. 2027 before we see this

[@jamie7472]

Can't say I'm feeling hyped. Just skeptical

[@thedingo6577]

I've started modding an old gem called Star Trek: Bridge Commander, and one thing that really pains me is that, to this day, we really don't have a good game that simulates you sitting in the captain's chair from the first person perspective on a big old honkin' spaceship with a reasonable facsimile of a crew to actually be in charge of. I can build all the 10km long dreadnoughts in Space Engineers I want, but if they feel lonely, they're really just big art pieces. Bridge Commander did a really effective job of making you feel like you were a guy on a spaceship, not the spaceship itself like in a bunch of other games. X4 comes fairly close, but the NPCs are so wooden and the ships are so interchangeable (due to the economic-based gameplay loop) that you really don't feel connected to any of it at the ground level--pardon the pun. Sure, there are multiplayer games that do this, but there aren't any well-made singleplayer experiences that do. At least other than Bridge Commander. That being said, if anyone knows of anything like that in development, please let me know lol.

[@stevenstemmler7573]

Have you played Star Trek Bridge Crew or Pulsar Lost Colony or Battle Group VR? Yes, all three have VR, although I think you can play both Bridge Crew and Pulsar flat screen

[@thedingo6577]

@@stevenstemmler7573 I haven't, mainly because of the VR thing, but also because I'm just old school and prefer singleplayer games. I think my ideal ST game might just be a singleplayer-balanced Star Trek Online with the mission creator back in. There were some really well done missions the community came up with on there.

[@N3DArtworks]

Can try Space Engineers too, bloody awesome game. SE 2 alpha will be released soon too...

[@Elemnos]

SE is fun, but the game gets a little hard to stick with if you dont have anyone to enjoy it with..

[@N3DArtworks]

@@Elemnos True that... At first, I was blown away by the game, then after a few weeks of singleplayer training/learning how to play the game, I looked up servers. Sad to say but the highest pop I've ever seen was like 9 to 16 people. Even then it gets boring after a while, as there's no npc's or anything making the game feel like its 'alive' so to say, unlike the buggy af Star Citizen lol Then the sim speed server side,, just plain horrible....

[@Elemnos]

@@N3DArtworks yeah, if they added some real survival aspects to SE2, the game would probably explode in popularity.

[@ArraxShadowfang]

That is nuts

[@efxnews4776]

I think some folks never heard about Empyreon, Space Engineers and Starship Evo...

[@anonymgamer3416]

@efxnews4776 Whooosh

[@ArraxShadowfang]

@efxnews4776 Heard all about them and played the heck out of them. i was referring to the nut that traveled across the space on its own

[@sammasic5849]

haha

[@efxnews4776]

@@ArraxShadowfang Damnit! Sorry buddy, i commented in the wrong place.

[@le_med]

This game looks great, I ll try it

[@jamenta2]

That's a lot of features they're claiming they will put on the table. I'm going to wait and see on this one.

[@blue_beephang-glider5417]

All modern space games require you dedicate your life to over-complex Economics, Rank and Politics all shove you into working in clans/groups etc. I have been waiting for something simple, that I don't have to book times with online friends or indeed have anything to do with other people. I just want to sit down any time play for a half hour or a full one, then go live real life. They are games...

[@alteredchallenge9318]

Ill stick with space engineers for now, well until its spent months having the bugs fixed and actual promised features.

[@toyahinata]

Hum, i think we all heard this before.

[@MTDucas]

if it will have the depth of modded minecraft where you can build and do almost everything you can imagine the game will be a hit for me

[@SwordfighterHayate]

Shiro Games hasn't let me down so I fully trust them

[@dragonsteamworks6675]

I do hope there will be ship interiors. It's one of the things I love about space games. Even Starfield let you walk around inside your ship and that featured modular ship designs. I am curious about this and will look into it when it actually comes out. Until then, NO PRE ORDER. NO STAR CITIZEN 2 PLEASE.

[@Evandir500]

If you are building your own ship, how is there no cockpit view?

[@disky01]

Eh? It just doesn't have a cockpit view. You build the ship and when it's complete, you fly it in third-person. I'm not sure why this would be confusing.

[@Evandir500]

@@disky01 I guess I'm just assuming it has ship interiors, maybe thats a stretch, I do think lacking a cockpit view is a big no no with space games

[@disky01]

@@Evandir500 Oh, yeah, I think it's safe to say that if there's no cockpit view there are no interiors whatsoever.

[@marks7502]

Yes, survival builders is oversaturated, not space games.

[@dvsteve71]

Really wanted Dual Universe to happen.

[@sebastiandouse]

Well, most of their games is liked so I think there is a good chance at a good game.

[@ugib8377]

1:24 What other types of space games are you interested in seeing Obsidian? Genuinely curious. I feel like Space Engineers did large scale space environments the best thus far. The 7 or so planets/moons you get, completely voxel based, not to mention the probable tens if not hundreds of thousands of asteroids to build on too. It is the same coordinates for each instance of the game, but still feels grand. Procedural for sure does lead to a fair bit of repetition by nature. Definitely one to keep an eye on. The "Community driven content" does indicate a likely live service game, which is blehg. Who knows though, maybe it'll be great.

[@harrasika]

I would say ones focused on exploration. So far the only space games I've had fun exploring in are Outer Wilds and Elite Dangerous, the latter of which is mostly due to the novelty of it being our galaxy.

[@ugib8377]

​@@harrasika Outer Wilds is one I really need to pick up and play. I have been actively avoiding spoilers for it. Elite was pretty cool too, though I found more joy in the flight sim aspect of it. Reminded me of the old Janes Fighter Combat simulations, but in space.

[@JamesJones-w7d]

Market saturated? That's just silly. How many fps, rpg, a-rpg's are there, and they are worried about a location or something else? Should we next complain there are too many games on Earth? Are these the same people who whine about games being clones of other games? "Well, this game is just a Valheim clone, we don't need another Valheim." Yet, requests for features mirror features in other games. Ridiculous. How many times have I seen requests for Satisfactory to have features from Factorio? Bunches. Space games certainly haven't hit my niche desire yet, that is for certain, and I don't mind if they keep trying to get there. I like the variety. Do we need another "soulslike," or "roguelite?" Are we supposed to only have one game per genre? Now you see how silly "market saturation" complaints really are. Some people just like to complain.

[@stevelamb9453]

all sounds great but we have all heard this before many times keep my eye on it though

[@poposterous236]

Can't wait for the release that'll be buggy as hell and have about 1/4 of the promised features. I bet the reviews will always say things like "Lacks content, lots of bugs, but oh boy does it ever have potential! Too bad the devs haven't been heard from in a few years..."

[@maliticus7474]

Trust a "Games Journalist" to be so out of touch with gaming as to claim that the space genre is "over saturated." The only decent space sims on the market atm are X4, which has a UI that makes the one in Necromunda Hired Gun look good, and Astrox Imperium which is being made by a small dev leading to outdated looking UI and graphics. We have Everspace 2 for an arcade style fighter craft shooter, but with little else going for it. One can only shoot the same enemies and get the same loot so many times before it becomes tedious. It is a beautiful game with amazing flight controls, but it only has so much replayablity. In terms of space survival games we have titles like Empyrion Survival and Space Engineers, but both of these titles have major issues in terms of gameplay. Empyrion has some of the worst AI I have seen and the physics engine in Space Engineers leaves A LOT to be desired. Praying to CLANG is often not fun. Starcitizen is a decade long money scam, it has an amazing flight engine but that is about it, and Elite Dangerous most often feels like a single player game that just happens to be online. There are, of course, many MANY other titles that I haven't listed, but my point is that other than games like ES2 and Voidcrew most space sim type games are over 5 years old. There are so few games that let players actually fly a capital ship and of the ones that exist most are almost a decade old at this point. Plenty of small indie dev teams, and even individual devs, are making labor of love space games that have great features to them, but the space genre could really use an injection of a dev team with a AAA publisher budget without the typical nonsense of pushing out an incomplete title. Something like Spacecraft could be amazing for the genre if done well. Also looking forward to seeing how well Jumpship is received.

[@jeffclark5206]

I am an indie game dev, what sort of games would you like to see?

[@seiboldtadelbertsmiter3735]

I'll believe it when I see it

[@destroyer2973]

I would play spacecraft. Please release it on the switch.

[@xxcallousxx2571]

So.... They're basically just copying Space Engineers 2?

[@danilooliveira6580]

so basically Star Citizen but reasonable. I have zero expectations, but at least it seems more possible than Star Citizen.

[@Xaevryn]

If they deliver on what they promise then it could be something cool to mess around in from time to time. But absolutely open worlds can lack structure. No quests, no factions, no settlements, nothing to do other than fly around and zap other players.

[@straven1662]

More interested in stars reach

[@earlyfang]

Aestethically close to Elite Dangerous, but in game posibilities it reminds me, with permission of 20 years between them, to Star Wars Galaxies.

[@shaneciota8805]

The market may be oversaturated with space games that all miss the mark in one way or another. To have a full, accurate galaxy like ED, but with all planet types unlike ED, along with a realistic building system, which nobody gets quite right would be a masterpiece game. Oh, and no loading screens, this is 2025, Starfield. We will see if they can pull all the best stuff together.

[@babaghannoush1156]

Okay, let's see where this one takes us...