since Yea Forums is slightly more usable now and there wasnt a thread
>get it here
store.steampowered.com
>free older versions
spaceengine.org
Space Engine Steam Release
Daniel Baker
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Sebastian Ramirez
Nathaniel Myers
keep this shit bumped against the rosterniggersand tifaggots, space is awesome
Josiah Barnes
>check for torrents
>the idiots released with all the optional dlc, coming up to 40gb while the game itself is just 4gb
oh well
Dominic Lee
If you could delete our solar system the game probably would only weigh in at 2 gigs
Brody Brooks
Have they made the stars look sharper? I had to mod the old version to make dense fields not look like crap.
Aiden Miller
Vanilla for comparison.
Evan Lewis
Ivan & co have tinkered a lot with the visuals, for the better.
Colton Hill
Some pseudo-bloom proof of concept.
Brayden Gomez
Can you actually do anything in this game? From what I hear it's not even a game, it's basically just some wallpaper generator. I'm interested, but I'm not paying money for it if there's nothing to do.
Bentley Parker
Bentley Martinez
its mostly for people interested in astronomy to look at things.
you can edit stuff and make your own planets/nebulae/galaxies but i havent tinkered around with that too much
if you want to fly around and shoot shit go play something like no mans sky
Josiah Lewis
I've spent so much time in this software that it would have been worth the price.
Nolan Martinez
What are the chances that this is stolen technology from nasa?
Wyatt Parker
you can get lost in that shit
as far as i know he got their permission
Cooper Long
What do i get for my money over the free version?
Sebastian Cooper
What type of "technology" are you talking about, user?
Luke Thomas
its like photoshop, you can use the free one just fine but the paid one looks better and has more features
Blake Smith
Volumetric nebulae, a horde of improvements to visuals and a horde of fixes.
But on the basic level, they are not that different. You mostly pay for increased future development. Make of that what you will.
Mason Bell
I bought it to support the free updates they kept dolling out and the Yea Forums threads were pretty cool, even if it was just wallpapers.
Nathaniel Murphy
its the latest version, the free one will always be one update behind (I think)
Jordan Scott
>they
its one single russian guy developing it
Zachary Morales
Kind of, several modders are now working on and off on the project too.
Samuel Ward
I want a game to create universes... sim them is cool, but want to create shit, see it grow and then destroy it.
Curses on you SPORE!
Jeremiah Torres
Universe Sandbox 2, kinda.
Robert Brown
This 40 GB planet pack is pretty, but i don't think it's worth the size.
Connor Lee
I have the free 0.98 version.
is steam 0.99 worthy?
Noah Rogers
It's a planetarium.
Liam Howard
lots of graphical improvements
there is a wip flight sim mode
David Miller
Is there new music tracks ?
I know just play your own music but is there new music tracks ?
Jaxson Sanchez
So the M82 finally gets it's starburst regions. Kind of wonky looking at times, but it's good enough.
Yeah, it has 17 new tracks. Some new A.E.R.O. and Water Drips songs i think.
Christian Flores
You can see these regions from the M81 nearby, but you have to zoom in a bit because they don't spawn otherwise.
They also fry your GPU.
Jacob Gray
is that a planemo?
Zachary Howard
The new planetary surface generation algos seem to be doing a pretty good job.
Nah, it orbits a yellow dwarf in a 10 planet system. Planemos have no light sources to illuminate them, user.
Gabriel Baker
You can turn on ambient light so you can see planemos.
Nathan Long
Here is the new star system view comparison thing. The view is now centered there, kind of like in Elite Dangerous. Rotating only spins the objects.
What. I have no idea that this was a thing. How?
Bentley Gomez
A closer look on the planets of the system.
Elijah Bailey
If I remember correctly, wasn't Space Engine a big thing on Yea Forums back around 2011?
Luis Collins
Bottom right menu -> settings.
There's a slidder called "ambient light"
Matthew Evans
This game has intricate graphical settings, could i have some recommandations on which slider to set to what and such ?
Maybe a pic of your good settings please ?
Oliver Rodriguez
Kayden Price
it was, but Yea Forums was way slower back then.
Jacob Carter
It all depends on what you want to achieve, biggest one for me are star size (smaller are more realistic) and star brightness, with increasing visible amount of stars you can create this "grain" of stars, absolute wallpaper material
Matthew Bell
Cool.
How do the clouds look when you're at ground level of a planet?
Chase Kelly
Ethan Howard
Landon Mitchell
Thanks user.
John Nelson
Not that user, but kind of like this?
Jace Hill
Bentley Parker
Nicholas Wilson
The new accretion disks are even better.
Michael Evans
Is he based?
Xavier Barnes
space engine is terrifying
Jeremiah Rodriguez
Andrew Torres
Though with the new lighting improvements, taking pictures of those with auto mode results in this even when next to planets. These new accretion disks are immensely bright.
As they should be
Speak of the devil
Nolan Sanders
very
Juan Stewart
Christopher Price
>Mostly negative in 5 years
No thanks
John Hughes
Instabought it when I noticed it on steam. I'm a sucker for some space.
Jayden Sanchez
?
Camden Taylor
Carson Hernandez
>2500 C
Is it practically hugging a supermassive star?
Lucas Harris
It's gonna stall indefinitely in early access state without ever fixing or addressing multiple major issues, reported by absolutely everybody, until it gets bombarded with negative reviews from jaded customers. Maybe it will get an official "fuck you, i've already got your money" 1.0 release.
Justin Garcia
Not necessarily supermassive.
What makes you think that?
Nathan Rivera
Have always heard great things about this game but what do you do in it? Are you just a camera and fly around space looking at shit? Sounds boring
Kayden Phillips
yes
but its not boring
Joseph Cook
Ah thanks for clarifying, might try one of the old free versions see if I like it.
Isaiah Bailey
historical precedents of similar cases - this project has already been in EA and adding money to the pile before it's fixed would rarely incentivise project owners who are probably already sick of coming back to it with no finish line anywhere near the horizon, to get it done.
They might re-orient their free time to focus on fixing SE by sustaining from the sales, but most likely they're just cashing in on a worthy asset that will never ever be finished.
Tyler Ramirez
It also has a KSP-like spaceflight mode, but the game is mostly centered on just looking at shit yes.
Enjoyment from here on in depends on if your autism can be satisfied by the sheer amount of things you can explore. There is always something new to see.
I understand your fears, but you may be a bit pessimistic.
The game is honestly not that unstable. The new lighting can be kinda wonky, and VR is hit and miss from what i've heard, but the game is fine otherwise.
Works on my machine
Jace Smith
fantastic thread.
Nolan Barnes
That looks more like actual photographs we have of our galaxy
Gabriel Bennett
What was that screensaver from 10 - 15 years ago that randomly generated planets?
Bentley Reed
Dylan Barnes
>paying
lol
Brandon Russell
Is the surface of the Earth still just a bad texture?
Tyler Carter
>saw this
>went and downloaded the last free version
>went on youtube to see if the old Yea Forums music playlist from the original threads back when was there still
>it was
It was a really comfy nostalgia time boys.
Ethan Thomas
Lucas Kelly
The scariest experience I've ever had with a video game is flying to the edge of the milky way and facing towards the darkness. Always freaked me the fuck out, so every time afterward I would purposefully look toward the milky way as I was backing away from it.
Christopher Davis
Is it still not a game but a pretty encyclopedia?
Zachary Fisher
I have the addon pack, so yes it does look better.
From the ground it's still ugly
Kevin Sanders
Here is your potato for tonight.
Pretty much, yeah.
Leo Wright
THE MOON IS FLAT
CONFIRMED
Cooper Perry
They still look like shit upclose, but AFAIK SpaceEngineer said volumetric nebulae is not the end of it and the same technology will later be used for gas giants, clouds and real nebulae (they still use the old sprite-based models, unlike the procedural ones).
You haven't seen anything yet if you haven't flown outside of the observable universe. At least you know there are other galaxies around when you're at the edge of the Milky Way, but there, it's an actual void, and it's scarier than any horror game could ever dream of being.
Sebastian Edwards
Alexander Howard
>it's basically just some wallpaper generator.
No son, it's a fear generator
Jonathan Sullivan
>Just bought it
>Zip files are password encrypted
Bloody hell, considering a refund.