Survival Closed Beta Test: who wants to be in?

[tsunamayo]

Hello, So the time has come to get some early feedback on the survival part of the game. You should not be excited, it is still very early, I just need some feedback on what to fix and what to improve. Please see below on a deeper dive of the current state following my own playthrough.

=> I am looking for players that are willing to book cases and discuss about possible improvements.

It is a closed beta, if you want to be in give me your steam id and I will add you to the short list, there is no specific build so it is easier for me to manage. You can get your steam id in your account panel. If for some reason you are not comfortable with sharing your steam id here you can send it to a discord mod and they will send me a mail!

Here is how it works at first: Phase 1: Establish an outpost with a crucible and a crafting table. Phase 2: Generate power and make a furnace and an assembler Phase 3: Make an hovercraft to explore more easily Phase 4: Make a H2 farm with an electrolyser on a shore Phase 5: Make a first spaceship. Phase 6: Get to the asteroids and mine crystals to craft lightcruise engine. The trip time should be acceptable at 2min. Phase 7: TO BE DONE: Get to another planet to mine yet another crystal to acquire warp techno Phase 8: TO BE DONE: mid/late game, do missions and interact with factions.

I think it should take you less than 5 hours depending on how much time you want to spend on your first ship. I guess you could speed run it in 2h.

Early remarks and question marks (sorry it is quite big):

• At first when you dont have a hovercraft / ship yet it is painful to walk long distance to find ore. I tried to address that with the new "boost" mode for the jetpack, but I am not satisfied
• There is a lot unwanted bounce in the player locomotion, so I need to address those
• I need to add back anti-g for easier building, so jetpack will consume H2.
• I will need a ore scanner as it can painful to find some of the rarer one (cobalt...)
• I want to diversify ore spawning to male it less repetitive, for example generate caves and spawn some ore only underground.
• An help for beginner is of course needed. I dont want a full blow tutorial, I will most likely use tied the progression help with the achievements system on steam.
• Mining is fast enough, I think the ore patch are too big except for iron (as you need loads of it)
• When you leave to mine crystals on the asteroids, make sure to take a screenshot from where you come from otherwise you might get lost. Of course the solve that I will need to add a beacon block
• I want to add a research system of some sort. I want to tied that to scrapping wrecks but still not 100% sure
• I still need to balance the power generation ladder. I dont want solar panel / wind turbine to be usable on the first ship, they should be for stations not ship.
• Inventory volume also needs storage. It feels storage unit should store a bit more. I need to work on the player storage too.
• I want to add some battery in the form of items to refill hovercraft easily. (as docking is a bit overkill)
• I also want to add inventory transfer to docking port for easier refuel
• A big source of pain is landing a ship on a sloped terrain. It makes using F5 compulsory in order to ingress the ship. My previous way of solving that was through gravity field, but there is none on your starter ship, so I need to come up with a better solution.

Of course there are plenty of things that could be added to make the whole experience more compelling like food/hunger and enemy in particular. Please do not hesitate to share what you would like to see first (knowing that working on the mid-late game content will have a higher priority!)

Cheers

[Alkaliii]

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[Janssendel]

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[asanagisae]

Steam ID: 76561197996895516 I've logged a thousand or so hours combined in space games such as Space Engineers, Avorion, Reassembly, Nebulous Fleet Command, and Star Citizen. I'm looking forward to seeing how this one turns out.

Your responsiveness and devotion has made Starship EVO especially memorable compared to other games. いつも arigateaux!

[Kaiser-Indrasil]

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[ProPeach]

Steam ID: 76561198120778707 Looking forward to getting started 💪

I've been playing a little mp lately, would multiplayer be in the scope of this CBT? Might be a bit tough with disappearing inventories for clients, but I can probably get some reports still

[Crimson-Artist]

steam ID: 76561198009936169

I'll throw my hat in. I've got some ideas already having messed with basically every aspect of the game but i'll save them till i've done a deep dive into survival

[SovietSponge]

Steam ID: 76561198290886541

Tried to test out the survival features by just enabling them in creative, worked decently, can't wait to see how it's in proper survival!

[Macharius69]

Bonjour Tsuna, Je joue entre 3 et 4h par jour en moyenne, et je voulais justement me lancer une partie en survie prochainement, pour tester les nouvelles mécaniques. Si je peux t'aider en même temps ce serait avec grand plaisir,

mon ID Steam : 76561198227155500

[Tackietacktack]

Steam-ID: 76561198084098319

[Aranhanauta]

Steam ID: 76561199574788451

Hello, will the player start on a planet or a planetary ring in survival mode?

[Huttrem]

steam ID: 76561198991398042

Already testing some stuff, it will be amizing to be part of the early steps to have survial, i was thinking in the food part yesterday before sleep!!!

At first when you dont have a hovercraft / ship yet it is painful to walk long distance to find ore. I tried to address that with the new "boost" mode for the jetpack, but I am not satisfied: we could like spawn close to a wreck with enough mats for a small and simple hovercraft like a bike or scoot, or close to a some kind of survival capsule with the essential to build one(yoke, solar panel, few blocks, seat, smal hover engien

[Tisdag1]

Steam ID: 76561198053851453 I have been so excited for the survival aspect! I would love to help with the testing & feedback!

[TwoNiner29]

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[Asnro]

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I'd be excited to be able to help contribute in this!

[Jimvanhazendonk]

I'd love to test the beta out. My account is 76561198030907166

[Briaireous]

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[Womble-TC]

woop woop

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[BigBadKangaroo]

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[Gallt]

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did a mock survival a while ago and have made small survival blueprints. Would love to help offically!

[tsunamayo]

Okay thank you all for your interest guy! I am fixing a few issues, mainly relative to the player inventory space. I keep you posted!

[Xerma]

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Exciting to see it come together!

[surajnairpv]

Steam ID: 76561198089555474

READY FOR ACTION.

[TIKIRobo]

while i unfortunately dont have time to test :( i did see the

A big source of pain is landing a ship on a sloped terrain. It makes using F5 compulsory in order to ingress the ship. My previous way of solving that was through gravity field, but there is none on your starter ship, so I need to come up with a better solution

and I thought that either magnetic boots or some sort of magnet block could work? they would lock your player to a surface to stop you from sliding and hopefully fix the getting around ships on slopes issue (if thats the issue you're having) and most importantly to keep them balanced they wouldn't work if opposite to a gravity field (that way you can't walk on the ceilings of your planet side base or whatever

also they could be used to fix an issue i found the last time i played, when inside a gravity field you can get "parented" to another entity's gravity which can cause issues if the ships are flying in opposite directions (generally you get pulled through a wall and into space lol) the mag boots would let you lock yourself to the floor of your ship keeping you parented to that ship and its gravity field

[Uncle-Ulty]

SteamID: 76561198201070610

It's time for GOTY 2024, gogogo Tsuna!

[Zouzeug]

76561198217916987 un honneur

[MadTheDog]

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[dean-proca]

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[tsunamayo]

Okay guys thanks for your support, I have shared the access to the survival mode with you. You will need to be online though to play, as it check an google sheet for your steam id. Please book any bug you see, I will also open a few case to discuss about specific points. Thanks all!

[fellow-starmadian]

unsure if I'm too late to the party, but from what I've seen on the discord, this is looking promising, gotten me interested in hopefully finding some bugs and helping iron things out :D steam ID: 76561198044920075

[Macharius69]

how to activate survival mode? I can't select it in new character my game is up to date but I don't seem to have access to the beta

[jasonfogleman]

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Double Botch on the Discord, I'd love to help out.

[tsunamayo]

how to activate survival mode? I can't select it in new character my game is up to date but I don't seem to have access to the beta

Tu devrais voir en bas a gauche un message indiquant que l access a la beta est donne. Il faut etre en ligne pour que cela marche. de mon cote je t ai bien rajoute hier!

[rgillooly]

76561198075719588 Edit: Is the beta still taking new people?

[Macharius69]

how to activate survival mode? I can't select it in new character my game is up to date but I don't seem to have access to the beta

Tu devrais voir en bas a gauche un message indiquant que l access a la beta est donne. Il faut etre en ligne pour que cela marche. de mon cote je t ai bien rajoute hier!

je suis bien en ligne sur Steam, comme toujours, je suis bien en expérimental, je suis bien en 24w06b, mais pas de message concernant la Beta, et pas possible de sélectionner le mode survie... ne perds pas de temps avec ça, je dois avoir un truc qui bloque... tans pis... je t'aiderais une prochaine fois

[tsunamayo]

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how to activate survival mode? I can't select it in new character my game is up to date but I don't seem to have access to the beta

Tu devrais voir en bas a gauche un message indiquant que l access a la beta est donne. Il faut etre en ligne pour que cela marche. de mon cote je t ai bien rajoute hier!

je suis bien en ligne sur Steam, comme toujours, je suis bien en expérimental, je suis bien en 24w06b, mais pas de message concernant la Beta, et pas possible de sélectionner le mode survie... ne perds pas de temps avec ça, je dois avoir un truc qui bloque... tans pis... je t'aiderais une prochaine fois

Pas de probleme, envoie un log que je verifie si ca se connecte bien a steam deja. Ensuite recheck que ton numero est bien le: 76561198227155500

[walazzawe]

If it's not too late, I'd love to help out. Here is my ID: 76561198019088001

[Macharius69]

Player.log https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198227155500/

j'ai copié collé, comme ça pas d'erreur possible Merci à toi de prendre du temps pour ça

[zorozeenee]

LEZ GO

Steam ID: 76561198105815853

[Greykane93]

If it's not too late, I'd like to help out as well! I don't have tons of hours in the game yet, but I'm a software tester by trade, and would really enjoy lending a hand!

Steam ID:76561199068017476

[geri203]

Hi, can i join? My steam id:76561198045008913

[BorisLichev]

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[Aldruun]

I'd love to contribute something to the game, so please count me in:

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[Josral]

Are you still accepting testers?

Steam ID: 76561198017770150

[animation303]

76561197986818335

you are making the game I wish I could make, I would love to contribute.

[AliOsseili]

Hello friend,

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Bought your game just to support the dev process. Interested in helping out more while I work from home.

Cheers.

[DrizztCode]

hi Tsuna - i am currently testing out the vanilla survival features on the current experimental build (24w09b) - but i am hesitant to give any feedback, since i am sure that all of those features are under work in the beta

if you are still accepting people for the beta then please let me know, since now i am back to playing again, i will be able to play every night (and all weekend lol)

on the regular game i have been playing by putting my player on a planet, and only allowing myself to salvage scrap from wrecks - no components - with all of the limiting features turned on (player requires oxygen, limited fuel, crafting requires components, only using the jump pack)

i have currently managed to build a ship and was on my way to the asteroid ring (which will obviously take a lot longer in vanilla lol) - and then i remembered that i had failed to pack any oxygen or spare fuel

so i headed back and am currently working on getting water into the electrolyzer (think i have it sorted with a submerged fuel scoop)

anyway - pretty great updates since i last played - and a perfect feature base on which to build the survival mode

so - please do let me know if i can help - but of course i can see that many people are asking - and so if you decided to make a solid cut off line i totally understand

and either way i wish you the very best with the beta - and i will continue to report bugs with the regular builds - but may avoid too many (or any) suggestions since i am sure all of the features are being heavily worked

thanks again for all the great work :-)

[YnotnA]

Hi Tsuna,

Can i join Beta Test ? Steam ID : 76561197998426009

[Eon09]

Hi , can i join beta test?

Steam ID: 76561198079480609

[SalmonGod]

Steam ID: 76561197961327976

Very excited for the development of this game! You already have a better building system than Space Engineers or Empyrion. With good survival gameplay, Starship EVO would blow the whole genre away.

[RyuriBK]

ID Steam: 76561198076869968

Im really want to join the Survival Beta test!