OFFICIAL Space Engineers (Discussion)

[RCoon]

Metacritic
User Score: 83
Critic Score: N/A

General:
Developer: Keen Software House
Publisher: N/A

Genre: Space Sim, Survival, Sandbox

About the game:

Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and maintenance of space works. Players build space ships and space stations of various sizes and utilization (civil and military), pilot ships and perform asteroid mining.

Space Engineers utilizes a realistic volumetric-based physics engine: all objects can be assembled, disassembled, damaged and destroyed. The game comes with two game modes: creative and survival.

System Requirements -

• 
  MINIMUM:
  • OS: Microsoft Windows XP (latest SP)
  • Processor: Intel Core2 Duo 2.0 GHz (or AMD equivalent)
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon HD 3870 / Intel HD Graphics 4000
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Hard Drive: 2 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX® compatible on-board
  • Additional Notes: No internet connection required to play the game

• 
  RECOMMENDED:
  • OS: Microsoft Windows 7 (latest SP)
  • Processor: Intel Quad Core i5 @ 2.5 GHz (or AMD equivalent)
  • Memory: 3 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 / AMD Radeon HD 7800 series
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Hard Drive: 5 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX® compatible on-board

 

[RCoon]

To see the review, go to:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/space-engineers-review.206505/

 

[Aquinus]

Great game with some great ideas. Biggest issue is that they used their client code for their dedicated server application. While playing online is fun, there are some serious issues with game play in multiplayer. They also use P2P for client-client communication in addition to client-server communication so desynchronization issues are common on multiplayer.

Unfortunately this game becomes CPU limited (while not fully utilizing my i7) when the world becomes really big or physics calculations become heavy. Keen has been slow to fix issues but fast to add new features.

 

[RCoon]

Great game with some great ideas. Biggest issue is that they used their client code for their dedicated server application. While playing online is fun, there are some serious issues with game play in multiplayer. They also use P2P for client-client communication in addition to client-server communication so desynchronization issues are common on multiplayer.

Unfortunately this game becomes CPU limited (while not fully utilizing my i7) when the world becomes really big or physics calculations become heavy. Keen has been slow to fix issues but fast to add new features.

CPU usage is awful, it maxes out 2 cores and doesn't use anymore, and the game gets some serious framerate issues because of it. Particularly when the server is populated with a lot of blocks. Besides that, it's a fun game.