Since there’s really nothing else to do in the WoD Beta(for me), and hearing about these delightful new updates for Space Engineers(cameras, Warheads can now have a countdown ’till boom to give you time to get out of there), I decided to reinstall and try it out.
\nLost my save games, since I’m no longer using the Steam Cloud service (as it likes to do stuff without my consent).
\nSpent a few hours trying to re-learn the complicated, keybind-restricted controls. Finally figured out the proper Use key to access a cockpit. Then I went to work rebuilding my ship, to see how fast it’ll be destroyed by a Military Escort cargo ship.<\/p>\n
Did manage to secure a Business Shipment ship. Only to see “Access denied” everytime I tried to loot. This damn faction system is fucking me up. Finally learned that you have to “hack” them, by grinding them to get them below the blue line, and then re-weld to make it accessible.
\nWent back to the new spawn platform and saw that conveyer system, and thought to myself that it should be as easy as just adding a Connector to the back of my cargo containers and connect with this. But the way I did it was the same reason I uninstalled.
\nThings that connect to eachother, cannot seem to grasp the though to NOT DESTROY MY FUCKING SHIP IN THE PROCESS!!! … Sorry. Let me say this in a much less angered way. It either likes to pull or push on the hull of my ship, either damaging it or destroying it every single time, forcing me to swing by with a Welder and fix the fuckups.<\/p>\n
The reason of this, is I believe due to the collision mesh is larger than the object. And I have Military-grade hull here and it breaks it like a toothpick. Plus, I can’t get the connector on my ship to extract the loot I got from the ship I pillaged. I bet this is because of this damn pointless to be in Single Player.. faction system.
\nBefore and when I was setting up my weapons, I had to set them to be mine. And all the sudden, they think everything that’s not mine is an enemy, including the spawn platform and all the ships. What a stupid system.<\/p>\n
On top of the conveyers not working after several attempts to get them to, I tried removing both of them and re-adding, then trying to merge the two together. This not only put a good-sized hole in my ship, but destroyed the connector. This was when I was all “Fuck this shit I quit” and ragequitted.<\/p>\n
I keep forgetting this game is still in Alpha. It’s not going to let me do what the hell I want it to, and how I want it done. I regret reinstalling. This game has officially turned to Multiplayer; but that’s what “everyone” wanted. Everyone but me, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since there’s really nothing else to do in the WoD Beta(for me), and hearing about these delightful new updates for Space Engineers(cameras, Warheads can now have a countdown ’till boom to give you time to get out of there), I … Continue reading