From the Depths

I'm going to say this right now: If you want to see a decent result after an hour of starting the game, you will be disappointed. This is, for the most part, less of a game and more of a creative engineering sandbox with "military" and "sci-fi" as an aesthetic. You will be pouring most of your time in this game building and testing things you make. Ship-building is super in-depth (but not to a point of a true "simulator" game). Aero/hydrodynamics, armor, engines, AI control, and modular weapons are the standout points of the game that you get to learn. Everything here is so versatile: "Yea if you want to make a torpedo, you start with a missile" or "A fast-firing CWIS that 30mm shells and a 300mm APHE railgun use the same weapon type" It's a fun game with building systems that end up leaving you to mess around with them for hours. That is, if you can stomach the worse bits of it. This game does have issues. The UI/UX is super unintuitive. You're clicking at least 3 times after pressing E to get the 1>2 transition slope (left). You're pressing Q on things on your ship to bring up some menu that would otherwise go inaccessible (access to the APS gun is on the firing pin, good luck finding that sometimes). Breadboard UX makes me wish for a time where interacting with a graph really only needed one mouse button. The "unique block-placing system" while faster to work with if you know how it works, is just hard to learn, especially if you come from any other sandbox-like engineering game. The camera feels alien if you've ever touched.. a video game (Blender/Maya might be fine though). In my opinion, it's not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. The tutorials of the game are kinda bad. They're basic and give you some elementary knowledge of the game. But in reality, if you actually want to learn anything you're hitting up Youtube videos and discord threads. (GModism + Borderwise are pretty good). Multiplayer... exists? I basically hear nothing about it. (I really want them to add a PvP campaign. But all I see is "battlebots" and co-op) The RTS-like map mode has some finnicky interactions; since everything exists in a 3D plane, but it's a top-down map, things really high-up are almost unselectable at times. When you have too many fleets in close proximity, it's really hard to understand what you're looking at. And selecting + moving units just feel unresponsive or wrong at times. I would recommend this game if this kind of thing is in your interest. If you like spending time to build, fail, and try again. I would not recommend this game if you want a surface-level sense of accomplishment. Nor if you play games because the game tells you that you're doing good. The game will not lay out a string of candy for you to follow. You need to make your own goals, and achieve them yourself.

last few updates breaking camera, make dumb heartstone req to fire guns, much less fun now

When you spend all day building an airship, just to realize it looks like a giant flying ♥♥♥♥&balls.

this game singlehandedly gave me a 1. marine engineering degree 2. computer engineering degree 3. suffering induced headache. this is honest to god the best game I own, second to KSP.

If you plan to pick up this game and think you can learn it in a day, don't bother This game has one of the worst learning curves I have ever seen, and the tutorials in-game are frankly ass Most of the video tutorials you can find on youtube are also multiple years old Is the game good in other aspects? Maybe? The abyssmal starting experience sucks out any motivation you'd have in finding out Until they make the tutorials better at teaching you things without feeling like you're sitting in a college lecture, my advice is to stay clear of the game, because it's not going to respect your time

♥♥♥♥♥, у меня ушло 5 часов, чтобы построить что-то плавающее и 15 минут на то, чтобы понять что я построил полный калл и именно поэтому он не тонет.

Bit of a steep learning curve. But a fantastic and fun game once you learn how to make guns, engines, missiles, etc. it may frustrate me how i cant make something look good when i compare it to the built-in stuff but that just keeps me coming back to try again. Best vehicle builder I've ever played.