Stationeers

This is a game of divergent complexity with systems upon systems and their plans for more complexity is very welcomed as I can't wait to see what it will be that may end up nearly killing me as I have already nearly over-pressured many different things in attempts to learn. Very fun to try and learn to survive in this very difficult yet rewarding game. Though I do wish for an easier way to split stacks of ice without it going to my hand and sublimating due to the sun or slightly warm ambient temperature, instead of it being splitable within my mining storages.

Master piece!

super spiel empfehle ich weiter - wenn man sich gerne mit Problemen auseinander setzt nur hier erstellst du selber Probleme die du dann später fixen musst

I've seen bits and pieces of this game for years but never really gave it a chance; recently I saw a youtube series of a playthrough and began watching it, and quickly became interested, I got the game, started learning the basics, watched some tutorials and found out this game is super underrated and an absolute ton of fun, I was on the fence about buying it for years and now I realize that was unfounded, the game is complicated, not for the sake of being difficult or grindy (it's not) but in depth of mechanics. Automation, it's not strictly an automation game, but it gives you the tools to do anything you might want, and I mean ANYTHING, all of the systems have dataports to connect to a wire network, and you can place controllers on said network, controllers that you can program directly via assembly code; so like, your solar panels don't automatically track the sun, you have to use a wrench to twist them to face the sun to get them to produce power during the day, but once you get some infrastructure setup, you slap a controller on the solar network, with a daylight sensor to track the suns position, and now your solar panels automatically track the sun during all hours of the day at 100% efficiency, and it's not that hard to do, either, it's dope. Setting up a growroom to grow food, your temperature sensors read temperature in Kelvin, just like a thermistor does in real life, so you gotta convert your temperature sensor reading to Celsius first, just like you actually do when programming a microcontroller to read a thermistor value. This game has a ton of depth and is more than worth it's value, if you like games like factorio, mindustry, space engineers, etc, you'll probably love this one, don't pass it up like I did, it's 100% worth it.

This is a pure passion project from the devs and it shows. They continue to develop it even though they've publicly stated it doesn't make much/any money for the studio. The atmospherics system in this game is super fun and is as easy or as difficult as you want to make it. Realistic calculations for using pollution as a coolant (either analogous to ammonia or chlorine) means you can use pressure to form hot liquid pollutant, cool it with radiators or heat exchangers, and then put the cold liquid pollutant through evaporation valves to crash the temperature for a very powerful cooling system (vital on Vulcan). I've been trying to get my family to play, and I can only imagine how much fun this would be to play with them or some friends :)

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I'm a big fan of sandbox games in general and some of my favorites have been games that include technical challenges. Stationeers has a lot of technical details and all the tools necessary to automate a complex station on a hostile planet. You are responsible for managing your power, atmosphere, hydration, food supply, and resource acquisition. These are simplified in some ways, but still have quite a bit of depth and every machine provides a means to control it via logic circuitry or MIPS-based programming. I never thought I'd spent so much time coding on a computer inside a game inside another computer, but it's really satisfying to network a bunch of machines together and making them run unattended or provide a custom user interface to them. Even so, I know I'm barely scratching the surface of the things you can do with this game, and I've only played on Mars, where the environment is relatively safe! I fully expect to play Stationeers for hundreds of hours more than I already have. I have a few criticisms, but they're not dealbreakers: * The UI is clunky and takes a while to get used to. Inventory windows are a mess and it would be nice if nested containers remembered their positions and tools could be assigned specific slots in your tool belt when you press the key to put them away. * Pipe and cable networks can be difficult to work with because they take up so much space. Something that allows bundling and crossing pathways would be great. * The flashlight is not great, especially with how the game's lighting system works. This can be especially frustrating on planets where it's dark far more often than it's light. I'm sure there are a few other minor issues, but nothing that's ever been game-breaking.