This video is for those of you that stopped playing the game years ago. I summarise the biggest changes to the game that really impact how it now plays and whether its worth getting back into.
With version 1.5 around the corner, now is a great time to get into Empyrion, even if you have never played before.
Empyrion – Galactic Survival is a 3D open world space sandbox survival adventure. Build powerful ships, mighty space stations and vast planetary settlements to explore, conquer or exploit a variety of different planets and discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
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David Perdan
06.10.2022Thank you! I was just asking myself all these questions
Isaac Wolfe
04.10.2022I would like to see a video on the workshop items and how to build them. I tried to subscribe to a few ships and could not see them in my list. Maybe I am daft but if you hav e tips/tricks I would definitely watch the video on this subject…
tamy tej
04.10.2022i need serious help my game keeps on crushing without warning wnenever i try to start a new game after i install refordge eden.on the other hand i cant even find the refordge eden on the senario manue is there any way to install it manually. thanks in advance
Kamlesh Mallick
04.10.2022I have been playing Empyrion Galactic Survival since 2016 when it was in Early Access. The Dev's have been updating the game regularly and now it has grown into something incredible! It essentially is a survival game with focus on building stuff using resources and researching technology with a lot of science and science fiction thrown in. Set in the future, you and large team are visiting a system some 10-20 light years away. There is a problem and when the game starts, you are entering the planet's atmosphere on an escape pod. You crash on a chosen planet (there are 20+ planet types!) and only have some essential items. Essentially you have no contact with your team, there are not in this planet, you have no ship, no nothing!
You just have to tell this to yourself – like in the movie – The Martian
“I'm going to have to science the ♥♥♥♥ out of this to get out of this planet!!”
And then your adventure starts. All alone in the planet. You gather basic resources – Stone, Iron, Copper, Silicon. Then u gather some wood, Fruits and all kinds of Alien veggies. You craft a personal constructor and a tent and survive the first few nights. The planets the moons and scenes are just spectacular as you get used to your new alien world.
When starting the game, you can choose among many types of planets – Temperate, Desert, Snow planet, Swamp planet, Jungle planet, Ocean, Sandy and so many. Gradually you explore the planet on foot and build a hover vessel and its components. You actually create components from resources like – Ground Repulser Engines, Side, back and forward thrusters, fuel tanks, oxygen tanks etc for the Hover Craft. Creating a vehicle is very satisfying experience.
Exploring this beautiful world with a the silent whirring of the electric hover engine, powered by promethuem fuel cells (which u mine) – is superb. You feel like you are alone in the this large alien planet. But you are not alone. There are POI/Ancient buildings and some areas where there are corporations who have set up trading services.
I love the exploration aspect of this game. As you explore, you find an ancient civilization and a primitive peaceful alien race called the Talon (Green Area – there is a back story to their history). You also find a Multi System Giant Corporation called the Polaris (Orange area) – you can visit them and trade and get info on where you are etc. The Red faction called the Zirax is the hostile enemy species. If you enter their area, automated drones will chase you! There are also other POI's from a pink faction called the Legacy – which have some of the scariest sound effects i have ever experienced in any game. Looting those POI's and fighting the enemies is incredibly nerve wracking but satisfying.
Apart from the surviving, ship building, the game becomes an FPS once you are inside a POI. The shooting, the sci-fi guns and enemies makes this very satisfying!
As am riding my hover craft, some times the game just blows my mind away with so many varied and spectacular views. Shows how freaky, alien worlds will look to the Human eye in the future. It is a beautiful moment.
Then as u gather more resources you build a base. I build simple bases using cement blocks and other materials. You need fuel tank, power generator, fuel cell based and solar power. Hydroponics to grow veggies etc. But i have seen other builders build some gigantic bases! I'm more of an explorer rather than a builder. So a simple base will do for me!
So once u have a base, you can focus on getting some information from the alien species on any human contacts and then find clues about where your fellow humans are. The next step is to build a small jet aircraft called a small vessel and visit the moons of the planet to get more resources like Cobalt, Erestrum, Neodynium, Sathium etc. Once you have a small vessel, you can explore your solar system and visit other planets in the system using warp engines. Once you have enough resources, you can should build a capital vessel to explore other systems. There are 50+ planet systems and a galaxy to explore with an interesting side story/lore of the universe! The scope of this game is incredible!
On top of that there is an active community of scenario builders and modders out there, who create some phenomenal stuff. I would highly recommend a scenario called the 'Reforged Eden', which changes a lot of gameplay mechanics, improves the AI, adds a compelling storyline and quests to the game! I can't play vanilla game anymore as i'm used to Reforged Eden!
I will forever play this game, as there is no game that gives me a sense of wonder, accomplishment and joy as Empyrion.
Hats of to the developers and community of modders and players for keeping this hidden gem going! Highly recommended!
Shaz Attack
04.10.2022I'm coming back after almost 2 years.
poilboiler
04.10.2022I absolutely HATED how slow mining and digging was the last time I played. The basic drill barely does anything and the upgraded snail paced. And not being allowed to put vehicle drills on the small ship is just utterly stupid, the hovercraft sucks and can't handle digging at all.
Delta Six Gaming
04.10.2022I Have Never seen that Green Barrier and I've been playing for awhile…. Back when we only had one Solar System to Jump Around
Archangel1222
04.10.2022I stopped playing this game a few years ago bc my game files got corrupted. I just picked it back up around a week ago and I forgot how FUN it is!! I build the ugliest Cargo ship (SV) with turrets and everything, travel around, wipe Zirax from the entire planet, etc. I'm just trying to convince my friends to get it & play with me but the controls intimidate them lol
Currently gonna start building a CV but I lack the creativity and the Blueprints are too expensive
João Antônio
04.10.2022for REPAIR, in fact "automatically" was in the previous versions. Now you need a console and drop some iron ingots on it. Previous was only needed to hover the ship above it and get it stopped to start repairing. wasting only (a lot) of enerrgy from the base. I think you jumped this one.
rebecca buck
04.10.2022Hello Spanj can I have your opinion and comments on the ( STINGRAY CV RS Corvette ) and thanks for making all yours video's
Tom Douglas
04.10.2022Thank you for the update. I wonder what about the Enemy NPC? are they still dumb as dirt or did they got some AI ?
Naus Skjule
01.10.2022The Games planets still seems a bit empty.
brainwashedliberals
01.10.2022I'm not coming back to the game until they implement being able to have your own NPC's.
Jesus is Unstoppable
01.10.2022I played this when it first came out – Looks like it has come a long ways.
AzKat
01.10.2022Seems the game is still a clunky mess like it was when the first version was released, however now there's more stuff to do in this clunky mess.
Controls are still as floaty and strange as they were, graphics are still as strange as they were, weapons are still as clunky as they were.
Cerulium
01.10.2022I don't like how they've doubled down on annoying survival mechanics like indigestion and parasites rather than smoothing out the game. Look how damn clunky and pathetic this looks at 6:53. Also complicated and unfun mechanics like this 14:50 make the game less welcoming for new people and harder to get into. Just my opinions but it kind of makes it hard to jump back into the game even though I want to play it
Ionstorm
01.10.2022Childish developers ban you from the Workshop and Community for posting 2 legit questions, don't cover this game as the developers don't deserve your exposure.
Jam Donut
01.10.2022That frame rate though, looks like a fucking slide show
Bunseth Likyon
01.10.2022First tip: Build turrets after you start a base before some drones came to visit you for house warming party
Supernatural
01.10.2022I was always expecting more from this game. Just never seems to be a finished product nor will it be I feel. Its fantastic in concept but the AI, the models are terrible, story/questing still terrible. But hey I only paid £7 or something for the original alpha.
Lenard Bendell
01.10.2022Since the game has never been fixed, is bug ridden and crashes on start up and at random. Only a few will get to see the new versions. The alpha versions generally worked and were playable with the odd error up to 12.6 but when the game went live the new version unity broke it completely. Its been two years now of the makers repeatedly blaming hardware and drivers and getting the same error logs repeatedly uploaded but no real action has ever been taken to rectify their faulty code. Funny how it's the only unity based game with so many failings, regardless of its promise it remains a dud.
Dennis Poledna
24.09.2022Thanks for this! You covered the improvements and changes very well. I'll probably give it another go some rainy afternoon. I was very active in the community back in 2015-18 working on localization and map generation. Still have fond memories of digging a hole so deep that you couldn't get out, gigantic starships bouncing around the field like pogo sticks, being shot dead through mountains. And those bikes…
Lothlorian
24.09.2022HOW DARE YOU IGNORE THE SANTA HAT!
jason hannah
24.09.2022I gave this game another chance and it's still a nightmare, I don't think they can help it, I believe that this is all that the devs can offer. I wish someone with some real money, or talent, could buy it and give us a real game 😥😥😥
Chris Topher
24.09.2022i bought this game today in a humble bundle with 6 other survival games for $15. what a freakin deal!
nexus solaris
24.09.2022This game is seriously underrated!
frognik79
24.09.2022This game makes me rage quit every time I play.
Benjamin Garcia
24.09.2022I am someone who has never played before and is looking into the game, I was wondering if the game is resource intensive for the computer.
cesium alloy
24.09.2022I bought this game when this video came out, as of today I have 850 hrs, great fun to play, low system requirements. Best actual game since I started playing on PC year 1999, Yep that good!
Walde
24.09.2022I remember being addicted to this game for a few months, and learning most things from your channel back then. But it got quite stale after I had a massive fleet of CVs and bases etc. on basically every planet and I had basically destroyed everything and I sort of realized that I think I had a finite supply of whatever the warp fuel is so I was kinda hoping/waiting for a larger solar system to get added if not infinite ones
Not sure which version it was but probably around early 2018
I think I played a couple of hours a while ago but didn't get into it, now I definitely want to give it another shot again. I always preferred Empyrion over Space Engineers due to Empyrion being a little bit more forgiving and in general having some features that I prefer over SE
Although the controls on the motorcycles are still absolutely infuriating, thankfully I will never need to touch that again once I build a couple of vessels
watcher2554
24.09.2022You have to come from the same city as Rowen Atkinson!! LoL…very distinct accent!
Anthony Harrison
23.09.2022This game looks like a glorified space engineers imo
☄️ CelestialxPanda ☄️
23.09.2022graphics suck! why cant they just use unreal engine 4 or 5 ?
Jacob Ellinger
23.09.2022why did all the faction quest disappear from my pda? I can do the faction recovery quest but none of the normal ones are there anymore.
Adrager
23.09.2022I bought this game I don't know how long ago it's been 2 years? And I just looked on my steam account I played it for like 2.3 hours then I uninstalled it so I don't know I might reinstall it and play it it looks I'm just bored with most other games right now
grim strife
23.09.2022No its a piece of crap, stay away
Adam Ladd
23.09.2022I think if Space Engineers and Empyrion came together you would have something truly stunning currently space engineers has far better systems, customisability and weapons but Empyrion's texturing, cargo and above all environment is far superior (space engineers really lacks that "lived in" feeling universe of Empyrion even with all of the mods out there)
ModernLion
23.09.2022It's a good game but I can't get into it alone.
liquidcactus
23.09.2022i played this when it first released 4+ years ago, thought i would see how far its come and its looking alot better ! and still more grindy ! love the detail
Alex Costea
23.09.2022this is online?
shadowbanned
23.09.2022this game is such trash now. the movement is so sloppy it feels like I'm on ice. my vertical and horizontal mouse movement speed is different, and both are slow, and imprecise. the button layout is nonsensical. the enemies are hit scan AI. enemies spawn in on top of your head. random mook enemies 1 shot you, but your weapons (even the most powerful one) cant one shot them back. the story missions are designed punishing instead of challenging. there is no space/base/trader based gameplay that is engaging. this used to be a diamond in the rough, wtf happened?!? how did this game get so much more content and yet so much worse in the few years i haven't played it? the fuck happened?
1jtwister
22.09.2022played it a lot and truly love it but having to be seated in the ships is so immersion breaking… I believe devs said it was something they wanted to add but technical issues may have taken it off that list forever IIRC. Its too bad, since that mechanic would add so much depth to CV combat.
Tandem
22.09.2022Try the new Scenario when you get done with this preview. The new one is called Ascension UnChained. Feel free to meet the Dev in Discord chat. https://discord.gg/xkCPF8AEzX
Day Dreamers and Nestled Sleepers
22.09.2022Are you playing on a potato or are the games graphics naturally this bad?
Tepid Tuna
22.09.2022Veteran game player here and I find this game epic.
Sure, I would like to see more, but that will come.
I discovered this game last year during lock down.
It has more promise than Elite Dangerous, which I dropped for this.
I'm ok with the early game, now I'm starting into the mid-game, but ultimately not sure where the end game is.
My current thinking is to build up my offensive capability and wipe out the Zyrax in a system. Hopefully the other factions flourish and I can move around more freely.
Ultimately I would expand to other systems. The options seem limitless, but I hope the Zyrax don't respawn in a system once eradicated.
Subbed, and I hope to see more mid to end game vids on Empyrion.
Thanks.
cole
22.09.2022yeah… idk man. for it to be this long in production but then suddenly come out of early access without any form of graphic improvement kind of bugs me. I mean weather the mechanics are great or not the graphics just look cheep to me, especially at 7:07 with the laser, landscape, npc's, and actually just in general. If an update for that comes about ill prob buy it right away, if they still care about it since they suddenly left the production phase while the graphics looked like this which makes it seem like they don't care anymore.
Iorwerth ap Dderwen Wyllt
22.09.2022I bought this game over 6 years ago, and only played 2 hours in that time, recently decided to give it another go and spent 20 hours so far. I'm still very confused by many of the systems and mechanics and trying to find out what all the jargon is supposed to mean, but so far I've been enjoying myself although I do with there was more info for learning the game from the ground up.
Roger Turtle
22.09.2022im just now getting into it and i love it.
I just built a pre fab CV and i can not beleive how huge it is.
Its like size 1 , so i cant imagine what the bigger ones will look like.
i traveled to another planet for the first time.
but could not find anything on the planet.
every time i try to go and mine an astoid, here comes a Zerax juggernaught or some such and trys to get me.
im making meat burgers to survive.
I know i must be the biggest noob ever. but man it is fun
SKUM
22.09.2022is empyrion pvp?
Steven K
22.09.2022Great FPS!