r/spacesimgames

Yeah, I'm an OG backer who's attempted playing this "game" multiple times throughout its existence. It's effectively one of those half baked music festivals made to scam people out of money. Honestly someone should probably be in jail for this thing.

Last attempt was last week. Let me walk you through my experience. Got in and had to immediately troubleshoot fps issues. Mind you I'm running a beefy PC. There is no reason your game, which looks worse than no man's sky, is chugging at a nice 40 fps @1440p with lowered settings.

Next I had to take public transit...that's right, I had to take a tram to get to the hangers for my ship. On the way players and NPCs alike were glitching and clipping all over the place. The trams movement animation was like a slideshow bouncing around on the track. Then the game crashed

Ok let's try again. Bed, tram, wait, hanger, phew finally. Ok let's get one of my ships going, great let's get in and take off. Fiddle with controls to figure out undocking aaaaand I can't move. Ok engines on, power on, thrusters are visually going....ah my ship is partially clipped through the floor and stuck. Let's look online to see a solution. "...you have to self destruct. This has been a problem for a while". WILD

Another crash...let's try again. Bed, tram, hanger, get other ship. Take the elevator to my ship and....it's just missing. Nothing is there. Look online "yeah that happens sometimes"

Eventually I do finally get into space and the controller controls are convoluted...mind you elite, and other games have figured this out a long time ago. Keyboard and mouse is a mess. You have these cities with NPCs and you don't even interact with them for missions, you just take them on your buggy wrist menu.

Three hours I spent attempting to play this game. I'm glad I start in a buggy city and have to take public transit but maybe fix your game?

This is not even a glorified tech demo because there are games that look and operate leaps and bounds better. It's a joke and anyone still supporting/defending it is the butt said joke. I'm convinced all that money went to bots to shill for the game and do marketing AMAs like the one recently.

Anyway I probably answered any questions you'd ask but ask me whatever and I'll answer it.

EDIT: People really hyper focusing on the same issue. I played last Friday and Saturday. I started from tutorial since it's been a while. Then I picked area 18 after dealing with the tram bs. I switched a couple times trying to mitigate travel times. If there was a spawn in hanger options, I missed it. Maybe it's set for YOU but it wasn't for me.

Either way that would have eliminated ONE of my MANY issues. Missing the forest for the trees.

Which one is your winner?

Hola gente, acabo de descubrir este subreddit y veo que os ayudáis un montón y que hay un montonazo de juegos que no conocía. Estoy buscando un juego con tematica espacial en el que puedas interactuar con tú nave y moverte por ella.

He jugado algo a Elite Dangerous pero el no poder levantarme del asiento me cabrea, también es demasiado complicado el farmeo y el tener que utilizar apps externas para casi todo

Probé Star Trucker y no me disgusto porque es mas o menos lo que busco, pero seamos sinceros, lo de tematica espacial esta cogido con pinzas y es demasiado estresante.

Actualmente estoy con un descubrimiento, el Vanguard Galaxy, que está muy bien pero es poco inmersivo, vista cenital y 2D, no es lo que busco.

No he llegado a probar NMS pero nunca me llego a decidir porque lo veo demasiado grande y complicado, no sé si ne estoy equivocando y puedes centrarte únicamente en transportar o minar y estar en tú nave sin tener que bajar a matar bichos, no quiero bichos ni estar dando saltitos por paisajes de colorines para recoger cuatro piedras.

También jugué algo a Starfield pero es demasiado cerrado, muchas principales, secundarias, paseos por cuidades hablando con gente, me gustan los bares de las estaciones espaciales, pero no hacer cientos de secundarias de ir a hablar con un pnj con carisma 0.

Me llama la atención el Rebel Galaxy Outlaw por lo visual pero parece demasiado arcade.

No sé, Tengo una niña pequeña y mis sesiones de juego no suelen ser muy largas e intensas, ¿hay algún Sandbox en el que puedas forjar tú propia aventura y puedas centrarte en estar en tú nave, en toda la nave? Me gustaría que por lo menos el texto estuviera en español aunque sé que eso es mucho pedir, asi que si reune los requisitos puedo hacer el esfuerzo.

I have been playing SC (Star Citizen) for over 3 years now from update 3.21 all the way up to 4.8 (Today). I’ve seen the some of the highs and the lows and have my fair share of experiences. I’m not a complete fanboy of SC so some of my replies will be negative and I’ll try to remain neutral and understanding for both sides.

I’m open to any questions, seriously ask me anything and I’ll try to answer. I won’t try to change your opinion or convince you to play, my only goal to acknowledge the problems and dissolve the misinformation.

Hey guys! I need some advice on finding my next space game.

I’m looking for something where you can build ships and/or stations, with an economic system and different factions to trade with and fight against.

Right now I’m trying out Space Engineers, but honestly the game feels a bit empty to me, and I find shipbuilding very tedious. Right now I’m torn between Avorion and Empyrion. At first glance, Avorion seems better; the latter is more focused on planetary survival (I think).

Here are the space simulators I’ve played:

- Star Citizen - it would be amazing if it worked, but between resets and bugs I don’t feel like playing it anymore

- No Man’s Sky - I don’t even know how many hundreds of hours I’ve put into it

- Space Engineers - great idea, but the game feels empty and is too repetitive for someone who can only play a few hours a day

- Cosmoteer - beautiful, but it gets a bit repetitive

Space Haven - I bought it a while ago and have hardly ever used it; right now I’d like something in 3D

Rimworld Odyssey - Hundreds of hours on Rimworld here too

x4 - Very nice at first, then it turns into an Excel simulator. No thanks, I already work with Excel files at my job

Elite Dangerous: I bought the complete edition but, for some reason, it never really grabbed me

Starfield - It’s Fallout set in space; I hated it from start to finish.

Starsector: downloaded and tried the tutorials but right now I want something more immersive and 3d.

Do you have any recommandation? Any Avorion and Empyrion player that can tell me the difference between those 2 games? Thanks everyone and sorry for my bad english!

Has anybody played these games? I’m looking for a chill space game to play on my PC/Steam Deck and both look right up my alley. I’d love to hear your thoughts. Thanks.

Hey there , recently I've been looking for a game I played while younger, its a 3d space mining game but you also attack and get attacked by others.

Let me try to be more specific:

Your base of operations is a giant mothership

There are two types of ships: cargo and the other( I forget the attack ship's name)

For mining you just enter the mining asteroid, the ore gets filled up and you're done

You more of 'hire' ships since they come with pilots, who you can interact with minimally on the ship

The ship's interior is the old style top-view, i.e you cannot actually make out the features of anybody, think of it like an old rpg game.

the combat side has both first person(cockpit) and thirs person view

weapons fire blasters

At the end game you fight against an alien infestation with the final mission being to destroy the source

Edit: First person gameplay is like Dark star one, not sure about third person or if I'm remembering it well

think of it like an upgraded version of dark star one

I was wondering however what people would want in this game cuz I want a game that appeals to everyone here (and all the other space sim fans)

This is a devlog for an in-development game, Alliance Space Guard, which has been posted here before and that I’ve really enjoyed following. It goes over the ship’s different optical sensors, how they can be configured to scan and track enemies, and how ship states can be identified through their infra red, visible and ultraviolet spectra.

The sim seems to put a strong emphasis on the underlying physics layer and ship systems, which makes the whole detection and tracking aspect particularly interesting.