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I'm not a huge fan of this building stuff in games but I keep coming back to have a look this unlike Space Engineers which I just can't seem to get an angle on at the moment. Should be able to this in these games. :biggrin:

"Let There Be Light!" :biggrin:

Big patch came out for this last week, which I have yet to download so not sure if this coming up or it's out. Anyhow that's a hard landing. 

It's life Jim but not as we know it. 

Trees apparently.  The game getting plenty of updates.

Empyrion must getting ready to release another update as three new video have appeared in the last couple of days.   

New trailer for the new Alpha?.  Should be with us soon if I read the update right. http://steamcommunity.com/games/383120/announcements/detail/820028010223557588[/url] Hi Galactic Survivalists!Last week we had to announce a minor delay for the upcoming Alpha 1.0 release. This delay has come unexpected to most of you, and we apologize for any resulting inconvenience. It has been a hard choice, putting us between a rock and a hard place: seeing sad faces because of the last minute delay or seeing sad faces because of some major bugs still present in the originally planned release. In the end, we decided that you deserve an Alpha version, which is as polished and bug free as we can achieve - and rather withstand the wave of critics because of the last minute delay.The new features that will now find their way into the first Alpha version due to this delay would have been part of the first patch anyhow. Now they just moved slightly forward to the release version and did not consume any minute of the precious development time dedicated to bug fixing! Said that, we are progressing nicely with the bug smashing. Just as of yesterday, we surpassed the milestone of 300 bugfixes and changes made in the course of the Alpha development (not counting in the new features and the fixes of the Public versions that were released in parallel)!Some folks asked, if we could release more footage videos of the Alpha. For those, we’d like to answer: keep your eyes peeled (for the upcoming week)! ;-)Enough chit-chat, it is time to get to the real things. As the headline states, we want to show you our new "Empyrion - Galactic Survival" Alpha Trailer, giving you an idea of the new look and feel of the upcoming Alpha version! We hope you like it: I wonder if I will be able to surf down to the planet in this version.

Just downloaded the update and the start planet looking very lush even has some dinosaur roaming around although but they appear to be only in the survival mode of the game. played around with the creative mode and took off to the moon and jumped out of the ship with no helmet on and did not die, then went back to the planet stopped in orbit and tried to surf down without success, think I might have been over the pole will have to try again in survival mode.

Another big update to the game.     Hit Steam a few days ago and has had a couple of hot fixes added to it.

Trailer for Alpha 3, looks like we might be getting to meet the natives. 

Has anyone tried this game? Reviews on steam are very good.

Yes but I'm not got far into it as I'm not a great fan of theses building games but I do prefer it over Space Engineers.

I have tried this for a short time just to see that I have to transfer the game to a more powerful computer system to enjoy decent FPS at medium grafics settings. However you can set these to low and it will also run without problems on low-end computers as for the min. specs, of course you then have a different experience. The grafics of this game are very good IMO. From the gameplay I like the in-built tutorial very much, it goes in very details about what you can do and how to. There is already very much content in this game as for building stuff, flying ships in space, exploring. The FPS intereactions are worked on and I expect much in the immediate future to be added and improved. This game, and also Space Engineers could suffer from what I think is a too much central devotion to building features. It is certainly nice that you can build ships, compounds, whole bases, etc., but after this you ask: And now what? What influence has all this on the gameplay? For example, can you build a base that has challenging corridors and rooms to be a platform for a decent FPS combat arena? Will your base-building skills have an influence about how easily this base will be destroyed by enemy bombers or such? Did you build a heavy ship just to see that it's a 'stone' in the sky easily sur-classed by light NPC fighters because of your slow turning rate? These are factors that make a game interesting.I give value to the content of such features not only by looking at the visuals (that are fine in EGS), or their quantity. I'm primarly interested how they perform in the gameplay to give the player a real challenge AFTER building or putting in place these constructions, ships and platforms. Space Engineers shows clearly that it's not enough to add a lot of construction possibilities, you can build capital ships if you want, strong terrestrial bases too, but then: Is there a decent single-player mode to do fightings in space? Manage and defend your stuff on planets? it comes very short, nothing to write home about. To only play the architect you don't need a space game. Only doing that is more a tech-demo, not a game.These are things to care about and should be added soon to make these titles playable over a longer time. Empyrion Galactic Survival is on a good road. But the time is NOW to make these crucial decisions about really helping features to add to the game. Obviously you can not add everything en masse and hoping that it will 'somehow' fit in the overall picture, that would be the wrong development strategy IMO. I will follow this title further of course, if you like games like No Man's Sky, you will also enjoy this one when more features are polished and added. XenonS

Game still going strong and has Alpha 9.0 has been released [url]https://steamcommunity.com/games/383120/announcements/detail/3409686392280617915[/url]

Looks like a lot has changed as it been a long time since I last played it, seem to remember that their was a bit of issues with the tutorials.

Nearly 32 hours of playing it, without ever leaving the surface of a planet!!!!!

Never really got into it myself, I guess these survival, base building game are not my cup of tea. Had much the same problem with Space Engineers.


Edit just found this vid for the latest update, looking good might be temped to have another go at it.

Alpha 10 came out on the 17, I just noticed it as Steam is downloading a 674 meg hot fix.

I recently saw an updated trailer for Empyrion and it perked my interest more than what I saw previously, yeah its still in Alpha so I will hold off until this is getting closer to release. I like the fact that it can be played SP, MP and CO-OP. I am interested in seeing how the environment interacts with you over time. It does give a bit of a NMS vibe .

Very nice update to the game pity I could never get into it.

Just noticed that they have announced that they will be coming out of early access on the 5th of August.