Space Engineers 2

This review is more of a rant of my most recent experience. I know the game is in alpha but playing the survival mode is incredibly frustrating. im having issues where i cant build on platforms or i cant interact with specific specific blocks to build them. which is annoying but managable, what isnt managable is that at some point my thrusters completely stopped working, both atmosphere and hydrogen. no idea why, everything was connected, my tanks were full and i had ice to fuel it. but they just stopped working. last i recall i was messing with the batteries to get them to charge, because solar doesnt work go figure. i deleted a ore detector and moved it on my ship then put back a hydrogen thruster i was missing (i had replaced it with the ore detector, long story). and it just stopped working. for some reason i could still barely move but it felt like the same speed the engineer had, so i was able to get up to speed but my thrusters were not working. pressing z wouldn't slow the ship down at all and it just kept flying, eventually i got caught by gravity on the starting planet and started to fall, i turned my atmosphere thrusters on and nothing happened, my battery was at 26% but same as the hydrogen nothing happened and i eventually left the game before i hit the ground, my last save was 2 hours ago and thats an annoying amount of progress to lose. TLDR, survival isnt playable. too many bugs. if you want the game just wait till its in beta or fully released. I'll change my review when these issues are fixed

latest update and my game no longer works, getting sick of the pathetic so called fixes and updates. Not a stable build. Pity as I was enjoying it. I am also running an amd gpu, rx 9070 xt

Разработчик в погоне за красивой картинкой похоронит игру. Нам нужен геймплей, картинку может дорисовать воображение игрока. А вот исправить убитый геймплей, воображение игрока никак не сможет.

Crashing all the time with DX12 page faults please for the love of god allow DX11 as it is almost always more stable.

SE2 suffers from what I'd like to call UI/UX debt. Like technical debt, it is the consequence of years of messy implementation that causes problems down the line and the refusal/inability to address it until it crushes you. Now while technical debt prevents developers from making the changes they want, UI/UX debt makes the basic quality of life experience absolute hell for your players, particularly new players. Let me illustrate: In this game, you use the jetpack all the time to orient yourself while you build. Unfortunately, this jetpack is ALWAYS in 6 DOF mode, even while you're planetside or in a gravity generator's field. If you look around in any direction, you are going to have to reorient yourself a whole bunch. This happens pretty much every waking moment while you are building something. I cannot emphasize this enough, there is no normalized/gravity oriented mode. You are cursed with SPIN. In this game, you use the F key to enter a cockpit (and use everything else), instead of the flashlight. The night is pitch-black impossible to see in, and like just about most FPS games you'd press F to turn your flashlight on. Unfortunately, ejecting from your ship is also the F key and it is instant, there is no hold F to exit, bye-bye ship that was flying at 1000km/h because I wanted to see, or even because of a butterfinger. Also, rebinding keys does not change what they display as while you are in a cockpit. In this game, you can start building your ship anywhere in space, or on the ground great! Unfortunately, there is no way to "freeze" it in place while you work on it. If you so much as lightly brush against it, it is now carreening and spinning while you frantically try to slap thrusters and gyroscopes on it. Planetside, if you accidentally cut the connecting support beam to the ground, it is slamming into the ground and good luck working on it then. In this game, you can rotate blocks before you place them. Unfortunately, they also auto-rotate to face whichever side of a block's face you look at, and it is utter nonsensical randomization which direction it faces. The first thruster you get where rotation is vital is the atmospheric thruster, which has intake/outtakes that look nearly identical on its directions. Imagine pairing this with the above issue :) In this game, you can smelt raw ores into refined materials and components, and then build your ship from there. Unfortunately, there is absolutely no reason to do this whatsoever because, you can just, swap to raw mode when constructing things and it is 1:1 in cost and material weight? I have never in my life seen components/crafting materials that have been so meaningless to me. Not only in their function, but also in that they do not communicate any information to me. Ah yes, I need 17 rods and 3 meshes and 6 plates and 22 electrical components for one really small block. Of course I can definitely remember these ratios they definitely mean something to anyone. I'm just going to use raw mode okay. In this game, you have an inventory that you can pick up items and put them into. Unfortunately, you cannot? access?? the hotbar??? from your inventory????? You have to, go into the build menu, look through the list of ALL BLOCKS that exist, filter to the player equipment tab, and drag the particular flavor of item you have acquired into your hotbar from there?????????? I have never in my life had so much difficulty putting a medkit I just picked up into my hotbar. TL;DR, the user experience and user interface for this game was designed by actual, literal ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Aliens. Gleeb glorb ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

As a huge fan of SE1 with several thousand hours, SE 2 is a souless husk of its former incarnation. A year and a half since its EA release and its still complete hot garbage. SE1 UI is bad, but its been consistent for over a decade, SE2 UI is even worse but shares nothing with its predecessor. Mechanical blocks are laughably integrated, and ONLY cater to casual gamers creating incredibly simple mechanisms. The new grid system is the only redeeming factor but its just not enough considering how poorly every other aspect of the game is implimented. SE1 is a game made for people who enjoy technical builders. SE2 is a game made for casual console players and goes out of its way to alienate the technical players because "pretty trees and shadows!". Almost 2 years into the tech demo they call a alpha, and it's honestly not getting any better. SE2 should have stayed in development for another 2 years before even being annoucned, nevermind alpha'd.

This game is absolute GARGAGE! Hell, my garbage man could develop something a lot better than this. Ships that are 65% full will not I repeat not fly what so ever. You will die die die die die die die. They could have got that right before they released a DLC for this trash can. Randomly your jet pack does not stay put when you are up right and not moving. Its likes to drift when your just standing still. Yall thought SE 1 was bad... Oh my are you in for a surprise! I do not recommend this game at all in any state.