Stationeers Europa - A Race Against Time // EP1

Stationeers Europa is a KZbin series adapted from a Twitch stream. Stationeers is a game about the construction and management of a space station. It has complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times! For this series I'll be playing on one of Jupiter's frozen moons, Europa, with no mods and on the Stationeer difficult (hardest). This series isn't specifically a 'tutorial series' but for new players to Stationeers I suspect there will be a lot to learn.
This series is also casual one where I am not looking for feedback about gameplay mechanics, despite the fact that I am playing on Stationeer difficulty. I haven't played the game in almost a year so I am very rusty and this series is a result of the Viewers' Choice poll meaning I hadn't planned on playing either.
» Additional rules:
- No advanced furnaces
- No integrated circuit chips.
» Goal:
- Build a self sustaining outpost on Europa.
» Difficulty:
- Stationeer.
- Food/Hunger 50%
» Game Version:
- 0.2.3036.15111 ( Not Beta Branch )
» Viewer Driven Content
Viewers will be able to help influence the direction and vote on how certain situations are handled. If you would like to influence the direction of this series I welcome you to join me on stream. This series is streamed live on / rhadamant5186
Stationeers Europa Playlist: • Stationeers Europa
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[@mattymerr701]

Instant watch. Honestly, the long gap between more stationeers was probably good. Gives us plenty of time to build up the energy to watch more early and midgame

[@Rhadamant]

Stationeers digestion =]

[@str0matolite]

I'm still knocked over by how you managed to build a thriving auto-mansion on Venus. This has the be one of the more brutal games mechanics-wise that you can get.

[@Rhadamant]

Well now on Stationeer difficulty it'll be even harder!

[@notean]

Current Venus is much harder then it used to be. You have to get airlock up in 8 minutes or less.

[@michaspringphul]

since when you need to open the visor to drink? I just played a round last weekend amd i didnt't had to do so.. i just long right clicked the bottle and drunk.

[@Rhadamant]

@@michaspringphul Stationeer difficulty requires the visor to be open.

[@michaspringphul]

@@Rhadamant oh ok. thank you for clearing that up. :-)

[@scottmwilhelms2437]

Yea! Stationeers is back!!! 🙂 Rhad you are probably one of the most knowledgeable gamers I watch so most of your "struggles" are self inflicted. 😄 Or the game itself f#&*ing up. 🙄

[@Rhadamant]

Sometimes its me, sometimes its the game, but often both.

[@hunterscorpio4109]

noooooooo not another one of these series that i will obsessively binge watch for a game i am not smart enough to play! :) seriously, i love watching you play this game.

[@Rhadamant]

Awesome! I had a lot of fun in this stream

[@asureaskie]

Love watching this game. Tried to play it, though, and... yeah, consistent failure XD Going to enjoy watching another playthrough!

[@Rhadamant]

Its a tough game to be good at, that much is very true.

[@cool_mike]

Hell yeah! Been hoping the community would pick Stationeers again! Love seeing Rhad build, and Stationeers is 100% about that. Hope I end up learning something! edit: lol great start

[@Rhadamant]

And here we are with some more Stationeers =]

[@SSJGazhan99]

Stationeers back on the channel let’s go, one of my favourite games to watch nice to see it being played again

[@Rhadamant]

Oh awesome, well here we are again =]

[@ConnorArchibald]

WOOOO!! so glad to see Stationeers back! I see you're going for a more "condensed" playthrough by not using the AF and MIPS. Can't wait to see how that turns out!

[@Rhadamant]

I find late game Stationeers pretty boring so this series avoids that stage

[@cherriberri8373]

1:28 I don't know if you will see this, but! Copper, gold, iron, etc are NOT alloys. That is why you were unsure on the term, alloys are materials that are made of two or more different metals.

[@Rhadamant]

Thanks for the info

[@tesky1680]

Great to see your playing Stationeers again! When the terrain bugs out, if you hit escape and pause the game it seems to "catch up", a frustrating bug.

[@Rhadamant]

Thanks for the tip!

[@Arthaius]

@@Rhadamant - Well, it has been quite a long while since I have played this, sort of stopped shortly after the "food rot" thing, it rather annoyed me that canned foods could spoil, kind of turned "fun" into "work" for me, however since I haven't really played since your last series just about, perhaps there are a lot of new improvements and such, guess I'll have to watch this now and see what is or is not new. :)

[@Rhadamant]

@@Arthaius I totally understand, and even agree with you. I was turned off for the same reasons

[@ConnorArchibald]

@@Arthaius There's been tons of improvements and fun things added since Rhad left Venus. Canned food no longer rots.

[@Arthaius]

@@ConnorArchibald - Well that at least is good, although I still would have been perfectly happy if they had left rot out entirely, I had zero issues with the gameplay, loved it 100%, but as soon as that was added I practically stopped playing almost immediately. Just couldn't enjoy it with this new hassle. * Shrug *

[@xBoN3sXx]

ive litterally been thinking about stationeers for like 2 weeks now wishing for a new lets play from someone. thanks rhad!

[@Rhadamant]

Oh well .. perfect timing!

[@jcataclisma]

Man, I was glad when I saw the voting results! New season, here we go!

[@Rhadamant]

Not going for a whole season, but I got your point =]

[@stephenhopkins1576]

Hooray more Stationeers! been slowly working my way through your ONI series love your content and story-telling :)

[@Rhadamant]

Well thank you, I really appreciate it!

[@James_Ketchum87]

the amount of work you have to do in the beginning just to relax, just wow

[@Rhadamant]

Oh no, its always work, always.

[@aishwaryverma7859]

ok new game finally after rimworld. hope it's as good as rimworld

[@Rhadamant]

Well you can be the judge!

[@LargelyUnemployed]

Just as I was about to restart your Venus playthrough! You make the best Stationeers content by a mile. Thank you so much for doing these!

[@Rhadamant]

Oh, why thank you! My approach to Stationeers is to play with entertainment at the forefront of my mind. Stationeers is one of those games where you can easily spend hours trying to make 'perfect systems' which is cool to work on yourself, but fairly dreadful to watch, so I try to bang out makeshift bases that fulfill survival requirements but don't put people to sleep

[@LargelyUnemployed]

@@Rhadamant I couldn't agree more. Much of the other stationeers content out there is informative, but difficult to watch. It's no minor task to keep the energy up in a game like this while keeping the video's flow cohesive, and you pull it off with ease! Once again, phenomenal content, keep it coming!

[@LargelyUnemployed]

@@Rhadamant it's been at the back of my mind for some time to start my own playthrough of this over on my channel, but I wasn't sure I could keep it interesting while also making sure that what I'm doing is comprehensible to the uninitiated 🤣 I've learnt a lot from your particular style of content creation that I think might be useful here. Clearly it works!

[@Rhadamant]

@@LargelyUnemployed Best of luck to you, hopefully you'll find yourself partially employed soon =]

[@qldfirefighter1]

ignore his rant about glitches and bugs As at April 24( subscribe he is great viewing). Play it now. This is the most complicated game i have ever seen in this genre. Wow. its stable. with very minor and occasional technical issues. but its rock solid. compared to any thing in alpha or beta. In Saying that it probably was at the time of recording - i bought it but gave it a wide berth 1 year ago.

[@Rhadamant]

Good to know it got the love it needed!

[@apo34apo34]

I'm first! Can't wait to see the episode! :D

[@Rhadamant]

Hope you like it!

[@CT-1035]

Entirely off topic but I just got a crypto game add “collect this coin in game to get a bit of crypto” Where have I heard that before, maybe from all the other “play to earn” games (crypto included) that failed miserably

[@Rhadamant]

Ok?

[@gtbkts]

Thanks for the awesome content! Gonna be great to watch!

[@Rhadamant]

Hope you enjoy!

[@Richthofen100]

I would love a more relaxed version of this. I am very interested in geting the game but it kinda feels more lika a chore to play. Does this have difficulty slider?

[@Rhadamant]

It does have a slider where you can turn things on and off and it also has a creative mode.

[@PetrPechar1975]

Lowering your suit pressure and temperature will do wonders for your battery life and waste tank.

[@Rhadamant]

Indeed

[@d.r.p.charbonneau4445]

An alloy is a combination of more than one mineral. Iron, gold, copper, etc. are not alloys. Steel, however, is.

[@Rhadamant]

Yup, okay!

[@doomtucan5093]

Man good to see im not the only one with ADHD while playing games. Im doing this oh sheet i need to do this *drops current project and does another*

[@Rhadamant]

Indeed that's how it goes sometimes =]

[@celem1000]

KZbin up to its tricks again, there no way im not subbed to you ive watched hundreds of hours, redone

[@Rhadamant]

That's pretty strange!

[@notean]

I certainly enjoyed you playing Stationeers again. In my opinion it is very good game to watch at as all interactions are clearly visible to watcher. So are game bugs but current stable branch is mostly playable. I hope this game lasts for little while.

[@Rhadamant]

I ran into a lot of bugs in only the first 5 hours, so 'stable' is sort of not true.

[@MrAracag]

One thing that I have always hated in this game is the inability to see the lines in the windows before building them... Having to totally vacuum my base just to rotate a window is kind of humiliating, but I have to so my OCD doesn't kill me...

[@Rhadamant]

Yup, that's pretty annoying if you like it all lined up

[@MrAracag]

@@Rhadamant honestly I don't think it matters... but my ocd has different ideas

[@MrBrandon9653]

Oh dang you are playing this game again and I wonder how long you will go for.

[@Rhadamant]

Until I reach my goal or you guys stop voting for it in the polls

[@vedritmathias9193]

Entertaining, but boy does the low framerate make it a tough watch

[@Rhadamant]

I'm planning on tweaking settings for tomorrow's recording, but yes the game runs terribly. I have a massively overpowered computer and it runs like sludge.

[@ilsucio]

Very excited about this series. I found you through a random rimworond episode and stayed for your venous series

[@Rhadamant]

Thank you for being so generous in the streams Lazarus/ALSgamer! I hope you win more character raffles soon! Let's hope I don't explode myself for Stationeers, hahah!

[@Revenant483]

Thank you for the awesome episode Rhadamant! This game looks pretty cool, I might have to check it out! It reminds me of a cross between Planet Nomads and Space Engineers.

[@Rhadamant]

Just a warning, its a lot of engineering, more than Space Engineers and Planet Nomads by far =]

[@Revenant483]

@@Rhadamant Noted, I will have to watch a couple vids on it to see if it is over my head or not.

[@Flamewheel2001]

Finally have time to watch. Venus was so good! Super excited for Europa. The rules sound very challenging

[@Rhadamant]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@Siggy313]

The controls for this game have always been a nasty turn-off for me. Definitely enjoy watching someone who has a firm grasp of the systems playing through. Enjoy your content. Keep on keeping on!

[@Rhadamant]

I found the controls to be pretty fast to learn, you adjust very quickly once you stop trying to fight them

[@colin3387]

Rewatching for the airlock because Holy crap I'm incompetent....space base 1 will now have a working airlock! Or at least I hope

[@Rhadamant]

Well if your base is on the moon you don't need an advanced airlock. Advanced airlocks separate 2 different atmospheres, where as the regular ones are perfectly fine when one side is vacuum.

[@colin3387]

@@Rhadamant I'm on Europa as well. I got the airlock. Heat water and power and set up my first hydroponics so you could say things are getting pretty serious

[@Rhadamant]

@@colin3387 That's AMAZING! You farm on TWO PLANETS ( yes I know Europa isn't a planet, but it is in my heart )

[@colin3387]

@@Rhadamant yup taking my farm interplanetary .

[@alejandroluna_dev]

This is aplicable on Mars? Im new on stationeers and im trying to lern 🙂

[@Rhadamant]

I have a Mars series =] kzbin.info/aero/PLHqSuWJSw8SA-ktxCc8HGF0pDCRKbOO2z

[@alejandroluna_dev]

Maybe its gonna be goos a New mars serie with the actual stationeers. Its a little bit diferent. Yours series are the best. I try to learn to play like u to make spanish videos of stationeers.

[@Darkheart9875]

OMG YES!!! I love Stationeers, so few people do series on it. I loved your previous series and looking forward to seeing how you deal with Europa!

[@Rhadamant]

Well you've got a whole mess of content ahead of you already, enjoy!

[@HeruKane]

While I am not really sure about some of the restrictions I do like this game and so I'm going to watch and enjoy it.

[@Rhadamant]

Okey dokey!

[@Shadowclaw42]

Good to know the bug with the ores wasn’t just me

[@Rhadamant]

Yup, it happens =]

[@andrewbrown2824]

This game gives me mega Space Station 13 vibes

[@Rhadamant]

It was inspired by SS13

[@ScorpiusZA.]

I have to admit, part of me was hoping that the "dirt" of Europa" would be an unlimited supply of Oxide - pity. Just curious: Why no tier 2 furnaces? It is for challenge reasons or that you aren't going to be playing this for long? You lose out on a lot of tech this way. or am I forgetting something?

[@Rhadamant]

I find that late game Stationeers is boring and lame and I don't enjoy it. I already have series where I do the late game stuff, two in fact, so there's absolutely no need to do it a third time.

[@ScorpiusZA.]

@@Rhadamant That makes sense - I was just curious. Enjoyed the first episode.

[@robertnett9793]

That airlock piping is an interesting idea. I played with valves and pipe meters - basically a few pipes are enough to hold the pressure of the airlock - so it pushes and pulls only from the attached pipes which is super fast. However when there are.... SOME people playing with you, who are too impatient to wait for the full circle, leftover atmosphere in the pipes builds up and it get's ugly if you don't air those pipes out occasionally... So you need the whole valve and meter stuff...

[@Rhadamant]

I've done airlocks with contained tanks instead of the method I showed here and .. well .. explosions if you aren't careful. I'd rather build my way, more idiot proof.

[@robertnett9793]

@@Rhadamant Nothing wrong with that I guess. Especially if you play with people who simply love to blow up the base. But who am I kidding - I am this person myself often enough :D edit: I guess you mean the canisters you used on your Venus base. Well those are simply too small to hold much and go boom if you look at them funny. Especially on this calm and tempered weather on Venus :D

[@Periapsys]

I was wondering if you were going to use the flare trick to do an initial heat your room, until you did.

[@Rhadamant]

Indeed, but there are other VERY EFFECTIVE methods that can be done too You'll see =P

[@LugborG]

Looking at the development posts on steam, the multiplayer problems are part of why it’s been so long between updates. They apparently used that time to completely redo their multiplayer code, which had the benefit of optimization across the board.

[@Rhadamant]

I am aware, but the fact that they shipped a game labeled as 'multiplayer' that had such atrocious code that multiplayer is effectively unplayble is a little misleading. I'm glad they're attempting to fix it, but until I see a stable branch from them I won't count it as something they've done, but only something they've promised.

[@LugborG]

@@Rhadamant The game is not currently in a full release state. It is expected to have issues, and they themselves admitted that the base they were using for the multiplayer code was not as good as they thought it would be, hence the complete rewrite. It would be another thing entirely if they shipped the game, said “it’s done, here you go,” and then fixed it after backlash like No Man’s Sky. Honestly, if you treat the tags on steam as “this is what the game is intended to have on completion,” it makes more sense. There are always going to be bugs in early access titles, and some things break after other things are added, necessitating massive fixes that were unanticipated at the time they added them. The fact that they took a lot of dev time to actually fix the problem instead of just plastering over it says a lot.

[@notsoninja92]

Dang it Rhadamant I'm already watching 7 of your series 1 Oni Stationeers Venus and 5 different Rimworld full/Mine series

[@Rhadamant]

Well .. that's quite a lot!

[@notsoninja92]

@@Rhadamant Not my fault you make great content

[@meepk633]

I've played this game roughly twice a year for the past 5 years. I'm glad the devs can stay on this project. It still has a lot of potential to be unlocked. The automation and logic are really cool. I've spent far too much of my life writing absurdly complicated MIPS for AIMEE. I wish there was a better resource sink for the late game though. Looking forward to seeing where they go with it. Especially with the refactoring.

[@Rhadamant]

For me I've given up hope for it. By the end of this series having faced numerous bugs I just decided not to ever play it again.

[@meepk633]

@@Rhadamant It's funny you say that. I reinstalled after I left my previous comment. Finally got a decent start on Europa and then my airlock broke. Tried to fix it and then all the input windows disappeared from the game.

[@Rhadamant]

@@meepk633 Welcome to the hot mess that is Stationeers!

[@Talon771]

Random comment for channel interaction.

[@Rhadamant]

Thanks Talon!

[@Viper00900]

Thanks for this! I am excited to see at has won, Thanks so much once again!

[@Rhadamant]

Any time!

[@failepicly4575]

Yayyy!! I was just thinking about you playing stationeers!

[@Rhadamant]

Well hey you're in luck!

[@pablolacerda1331]

There are basic metals and alloys

[@Rhadamant]

Yes there are .. uhh .. okay =]

[@max1o295]

Don't forget to play with suit pressure and temp which will prolong the oxygen that way and and save alittle battery usage.

[@Rhadamant]

Europa is full of O2, so there's not much need to do that IMO

[@robertnett9793]

Oh. New Stationeers series :D

[@Rhadamant]

:D

[@DoubleJJizzle]

OOOO I haven't seen anyone play Stationeers in so long.

[@Rhadamant]

We're back by popular demand!

[@praisen45]

Good thing to note.. a room with lots of glass is traping heat from the sun

[@Rhadamant]

I don't think heat works like that, I did it for the view

[@praisen45]

@@Rhadamant i did it few times jet and it worked for me 🤔 but i gues because its so cold u almost not notice it

[@praisen45]

@@Rhadamant but on mars u notice it so it should work

[@Rhadamant]

@@praisen45 I don't know, sorry. I don't play this game anymore so I'm not able to answer questions about it

[@IamGhede]

No MIPS? You're no fun!

[@Rhadamant]

I've done two MIPS series, if you want MIPS its already on YT

[@helios.0197]

Isn't Space Engineer better than this game? Not for the graphics but for content

[@Rhadamant]

In my opinion, no, but they're also not really that similar to one another.

[@notgoodiam693]

This game Reminds me of Space Engineer.

[@Rhadamant]

Yup, just a lot more actual engineering

[@machkeznho8692]

Hype

[@Rhadamant]

Cheers Mach!

[@Xzavyur]

Support Comment

[@Rhadamant]

Ty Xzavyur!

[@saksi6249]

Yeah but can you start a singulo? Didn't think so.

[@Rhadamant]

singulo?

[@Mysterybic]

rewatching

[@Rhadamant]

Aye thanks!

[@armchaircivilian3076]

i like :)

[@Rhadamant]

Thanks AC!

[@impyre2513]

lessgoooo

[@Rhadamant]

We're going Impyre!

[@josephmagnall8487]

Excited to see more Stationeers content ^_^

[@Rhadamant]

Woo! I'm glad about that =]

[@jenniferp3721]

YES, more stationeers!

[@Rhadamant]

Glad you're excited, more to come!