Frozen in Time | Proxima Beyond Ep.1 - Space Engineers 

Hey, I hope you enjoyed the first Episode! What do you think would be a great end-goal for this playthrough?

Dark system pro: ppl with night-vision love it. Dark system con: humans don't have night-vision.

There is an appropriate number of times where you mention metal grids, I approve of this.

Hello! I started playing SE for just shy of 6 months now, and I've got to say, it's the most fun I've EVER had in any game I've ever played. I saw your name in my feed, and thought I'd give you a try at gameplay. Beeblebum, you are AWESOME!! I watched this entire episode and I immediately liked and subscribed to your channel. Looking forward to the next episode. Thanks for making my day!!!

I love the dark. It's a survival playthrough, so very appropriate.

Haven't played SE in ages, at least 6+ years. I do remember I played it after the devs rewrote everything and added in the enemies etc. Having watched you and others I really should give this another shot.

This was enjoyable. I liked the intro; a fun premise for a story. I'm excited to see how the new ship comes together as you salvage things.

Okay, I just started this and a 1st time viewer but that was the most EPIC beginning EVER!!

Excellent introduction sequence, I'm really looking forward to this SE survival series👍

Love this... I literally watch while I work... so I love the long vids.. I can stop and watch at my pace

Very cool premise!

it was enjoyable, I think I have a new series to watch on my tablet now...

I like the dark... gives me Alien vibes

Just found your channel today and this was an awesome vid! Keep up the great work! Yes, it is very dark.

When he said Gods Speed, i waited for = and may the force be with ya :P

Great Video, you could use the detatch/weld mode to detach items and then reattach them to your ship.

Wow.....Very cool! thank you.

Thats gotta be THE best narrative SE cinematic I've ever seen, great job brother.

Loved the intro, enjoyed the episode, can't wait for the next one... subscribed.

Choose one faction (if there is more than one) and treat them as mortal enemies (lowering your reputation with them) whenever possible. (Sorry if my English is poor, I learn it by listening to recordings like yours).

All I can hear is "This mission is sponsored by Fazbear Entertainment"

Bro I have seen movies with less production quality as you put into that intro, and just...everything else. Love it!

I can't stand that realistic super dark space mod. I recently did a scenario where my large ship was severely damaged not far from the Alien Planet and I had to use the drop ship to get down to the surface to collect resources to repair the big ship so I could get back to Earth. It was really fun.

that was a great haul you got looking forward to watching this series

Really great start. I would vote for dark: it is space after all and looks the kinf of realistic look you get with good sci-fi films. I wonder with the battery question; adding the detatch mod? Would make for an interesting play style where you can have a small tug ship for positioning blocks on your new scrap builds. Good work on the first episode: I think I'm going to go straight onto watching the second 😀

Quite enjoyed that. Subbed, liked, went and priced the game on Steam lol. Thank you for your time into this.

What a great video. Hope it was as fun making as it was to watch. Keep it up (for selfish reasons) and will watch the second instalment soon.

This looks like a nice bit of SE content. Maybe it'll scratch that itch from the Group Survival days with Morph Shack and W4sted.

thank you for This. very cool

What an intro! Seriously, really well done!

Hooked me to sub in the intro. Sounds like a great setup, already excited to enjoy more of this series.

Amazing intro and great editing. Gonna binge watch all of this right now.

Can't believe I haven't started watching this earlier

That intro was great!

God this game can make you dizzy sometimes

I like ur intro

This is awesome!!!

ive subbed cause i like this type of content. Looks like youve turned into the borg.......

The master objetive IMPOV and IMHO would be having a Capital-ship! As the story of your season, it would be nice to have an end goal towards a ship capable of driving you back. It could also be the point where when you build the jumpdrive, this is the ultimate goal to allow you to go for the second season. I would suggest to add "AiEnabled" to add companions. But it would require a "special rule" to allow you to simple add the block to spawn a companion for you.

Vedy Gute! Love your Intro. Keep Them Coming. GG

Very cool! Subbed! Can't wait to see more! Keep em coming!!!!

@Beeblebum Love these types of scenarios...This and Junkyards Journeys are series I will be watching. As always, great job on the videos. End Game...I think when you get to the point where you can take on any ship/base without any worries, you pretty much mastered the scenario.

Great scenario, love it. Excited to see more. Eventual goal? Kind of depends on the factions that join. I'm sure that will emerge as you play...

ok ya got a sub this is epic... one you could look at MES is wasteland tire thieves for the flat type voxel planets.... for a chance on the series... establish a base on every planet and moon then at the far reaches... a three point roid base with the big radar dishes... that all point to a center roid base that beams out so you can find "home" last point is the jump out to start the next series... with room to change as ya go lol also to cut down on prog blocks and scripts... air lock mod is amazing has a one door spiny that keeps everything slealed... please tell me you will do at some point custom ball turrets.. those are fun to see how someone can build them

I enjoy using "space just got real" when I'm on planets, but I tend to believe it makes it less enjoyable over time in space-only playthroughs. But that's just me.

16:35 well done on not having the game detonate due to clang

Not a bad start.

the editing text taking the micky at past you was funny

Ok you got me this viseo was enough for me to subscribe to your channel the amount of work that wwent into this must of been loads

Great Intro looks great

Dude I’m watching a movie!! Holy shit that intro went hard I’d literally watch a full time machinema

1. I enjoy the darkness. Though I'm watching on a fairly decently sized screen. 2. I think you could consider not travelling everywhere at 100m/s when you are struggling for fuel/energy. 20m/s will get you there just fine, and use 1/5th the fuel accelerating and decelerating. You can eventually just edit out the travel time. Ofc, I certainly understand if you have limited time. 3. If you can't find the AI block immediately (like 1min), hacking and turning off the thrusters (and gyros you can find) before looking further, would allow you to not use so much of your valuable fuel. 4. Speaking of fuel: tanks leak content when you're hacking/grinding them. Personally I'd look for a less wasteful hacking target. I guess I come off as extremely stingy here. Which makes sense, considering I partially grew up in Sunnmøre (I expect less than 0.07% of the human population to know that reference). :D Either way, I enjoyed this. And I thinks it's cool that Splitsies mod keeps driving new cool content! Makes the SE content creator community seem like a band riffing off each other.

Loved the intro but wasn't expecting it to turn into a regular video after. Should continue it without talking to viewers but instead, yourself trying to survive. Really sell the survival aspect of it. Would be interesting. At least that's my opinion.

@12:40 u had respawn already, should have charged them with ur jet pack and grinder. Canibalized their ship

Enjoyed this episode very much. Subscribed and waiting for the next episode. I would like very much to play this scenario. If you can figure out how to workshop the universe I'd definitely appreciate it.

Only just spotted this. So you wrote your own scenario? Maybe an end goal is find the nice people/bugs that shot up your ship and have a little chat..😀😀😀

Pretty cool intro. I haven't played with Splisie's scrapyard mod yet, but if I were you I would double-check because I think it also disables all crafting and ore processing (except H2O2, obviously), since the main point of the mod is to force an engineer to use pre-existing scavenged parts to build stuff. So I don't know if the refineries and assemblers (if you can even find them) work properly.

Hi ,nice to find some new interesting game play. RU-vid hates dark, but was not to bad. Can you use or do you have access to the Hacking plate ? Will you find a Bod ( build and repair) or a robotic helper ? Watched and Liked 👍

I'm really trying to figure out your accent. Eastern European probably, but can't place it. Nice video!

hey im the first one here

Not sure if they're still available to build in the mod, but large grid welders and grinders make for great storage if you can't find cargo containers.

I keep thinking "I just need to dive into SE. Spend the time to figure it out." The I watch you (and others) play and then it's "Nope. I'm still too dumb to play this game!" 😂

More plz

is this a game or a movie XD

Hi, i subscribed in hope to find out what are going to be your main goals. I must say that i dislike any music: for me it doesn't make it more cinematografic. Good luck and "... boldly go where no man has gone before".🙂

Interesting for sure! I find myself trying to figure out your dialect, i cant make heads or tails of it! I would say finnish/south african/indian or mix thereof? Keep it up anyway!

Thats a small ship to be going so far. Is it got fold space tech

Please consider using the Floor Plan mk1a script ❤

Lets see if you live up to what shack morph and w4sted put up back in their "terra incognita" or "group survival" as most people know it.

Subscribed to collection but the Research mod is bugged where I cannot repair the seat because I have not learned it yet :(

I personally like the realistic dark skybox. The vanilla skybox provides too much uniform light everywhere, so it diminishes the sense of contrast. After a decade of playing Space Engineers, the vanilla skybox gets a little bland. The realistic skybox, OTOH, does the exact opposite. However, if you're willing to spend some system resources on running more light blocks and spotlights, this can provide some really nice, dramatic shots where your tiny ship's lights attempt to pierce the vast darkness of space. Nothing shows up... until your next scrap target looms suddenly out of the darkness at 100 meters. You can see moments of this in this episode, when your ship gets close enough to lock the landing gear onto the wrecks. I would say at least 2 widely spaced rotating spotlights, with AI targeting set to your choice of small/large grid, neutral/hostile/friendly grids, and maybe even set to track characters. If a rotating spotlight or custom turret (with a spotlight) is set to target friendly characters, they'll usually follow you around as though you're on a stage. You could also of course search the workshop for some of the most recent skyboxes that offer a balance between all-dark or all-dull-light. There are some really pretty ones, including but definitely not limited to Splitsie's Hubblegum one. Otherwise, I really like the work you put into setting up your scenario, with the Foundation ship. For future objectives or endgame goals for this series, I've come to define these as time-based or resource-based. More specifically, for dramatic and interesting content, time constraints or resource constraints. And since collecting in-game resources is only a matter of player time spent, all constraint-based challenges boil down to time constraints. I think any goal you set for yourself could define a challenging restriction on one or both of time and resources. 5 episodes to salvage a functional jump drive. 10 episodes to reach the alien planet and build a 1000 PCU basic outpost on the surface (with power generation, antenna, and respawn point). Defeat 10 large grid and active/functional NPC ships within 15 episodes. Etc. PCU-defined challenges are a subset of resource constraints. Even if a saved game is set to no PCU limit, the game engine itself has a soft limit on ALL grids (both player and NPC) at around 300K PCU (total MES NPC grid PCUs are often several 100Ks until you admin-clean them out). Default singleplayer limit is 100K PCU, and official Keen server limits are 25K PCU (which implies they assume either a half-full server on average with players maxing out their PCU, or a full server with player averaging 50% utilization of their PCU limits). Using these numbers as guidelines, you could challenge yourself to build the best 1000 PCU ship possible (i.e. repairing and enhancing the current Foundation ship), then a 5K PCU ship, a 25K PCU ship, and finally maybe a 125K PCU ship. or any combination thereof: ten 5K PCU small grid ships and two 25K PCU large grid, etc. This goal will help to fight scope creep and loss of focus due to accumulating too much STUFF. Keeps you running lean and mean, with a limited number of very purpose-built ships. And as a bonus, this challenge directly works within the game engine's soft limits instead of ignoring or trying to exceed/break them. I personally have mixed feelings about the scrapyard and restricted block mods. interesting gameplay content comes from a player using creativity to maximize progress within constraints of time and/or resources. The gameplay can become boring if you have either nearly unlimited time, or unlimited resources. This mod set uses the approach of tightly restricting resource inputs -- can't just grind down and rebuild thrusters etc willy nilly anywhere you like. So it makes individual important blocks uniquely valuable -- if you want one more of that type of block, you have to specifically manipulate and merge that particular existing block. Space Engineers is a sandbox with optional combat, and over the past decade it's often selected for a player base and content creators who focus on risk-averse construction that is usually not too time-constrained (but can be exciting or even frustratingly deadly sometimes when it is, e.g. MadMavn's no-suit survival on Pertam). Combat is not explicitly excluded, but with the scrapyard/restriction mod set the risk of easily destroying specific irreplaceable blocks greatly disincentivizes lots of casual, highly explosive combat. But having watched Splitsie's and numerous other players' scrapyard survival playthroughs, as well as playing with my own physical manipulation of extant blocks before there were any mods to enforce these restrictions, I find it frustrating. Especially in a gravity environment, where you can lose gobs of time working a piston-and-rotor crane through multiple axes, only to have the merge blocks (both vanilla and Advanced Welding mod) remain out of axis by 0.1 degree. :D I think the block manipulation mod (I forget its name) has significantly improved (or been superseded by a new author's version), b/c I saw someone holding key combos to rotate a block while they were holding it. So this would be a lot less frustrating now, compared to 2 years ago when I tried it. :D I think your 0 g environment will greatly facilitate this, so that's also a lot of the frustration removed for now. This "interesting content" problem has made me think about how to change the other variables in the equation though. Resource constraint can also occur through much faster resource consumption or destruction, which is not included in the vanilla gameplay loop. The vanilla SE gameplay loop taken to its logical endgame is one of mostly unrestrained hoarding -- you just collect more and more STUFF because there's no real way to lose or spend resources in the same amounts that you can either mine/refine with one piston/rotor drill rig, or salvage from grinding down 1-2 big large grid MES NPC ships (unless their mod author specifically limited the designs to not include advanced blocks and components like reactors and ion thrusters). Players being risk-averse loot goblins, we'll pirate and grind down anything both nailed down or not. So constraints on acquiring resources alone aren't a complete answer to interesting content. Because given enough time, you can still accumulate nearly infinite resources until you run out of PCU to build any more and your SE saved game becomes unstable. That's why I think any kind of constraint-based objective needs one or both of time constraints and resource consumption. Sooo, a combat-centric approach could dial up the NPC threat. A lot of active combat will naturally consume a lot of resources -- both from your current supply and ships, as well as future resources from destroying enemy ships instead of being able to salvage them in their entirety. Adjust the MES config text files for more spawns, closer spawns, etc. I personally found a really challenging edit was to reduce the minimum distance to player for NPC pathing. This is a single number in the config file that makes MES only create start/end waypoints for NPC ships that make a path that NEVER passes nearer to the player than the aggro range of 2.5 km. Thus if a player never moves, they will never be attacked by most passively hostile factions (this excludes factions that actively hunt down the player). However, set this distance to less than 2.5 km, and you will create a chance where ANY NPC ship passing you will have a chance of potentially coming close enough to aggro on you even if you don't move. There's also a time-based constraint. Deadlines are one example, like the "speedruns" where Splitsie and others have tried to reach a certain objective (from Earthlike, reach 0 g space; from Earthlike, land on Mars; etc) in as short a time as possible. My suggested MES minimum pathing edit also implies a kind of time-constraint because you have to hurry to find, mine, or salvage enough of each resource to build a ship that can 1) run away from NPCs passing too closely, or 2) fight and destroy said NPCs. Another constraint or form of resource consumption I've seen is Andrewmangaming's use of a fictional external expense that needs to be paid. He created a rule in one of his series where he had to imitate paying for the blueprint license to build certain blocks. Something like 50K credits for a basic refinery and basic assembler, and 1M credits for the full size refinery and assembler. Hardspace Shipbreaker also creates this sense of resource constraint or consumption through the artifice of a massive billion-credit debt that the player starts with and must pay off (with scads of daily interest). The payments cost the player resources, giving them a reason to need to collect more resources. The Hardspace Shipbreaker interest payments create a deadline, playing to the time constraint variable. Anyway, sorry for the text spam and thanks for coming to my TED talk on "interesting content in the form of player time/resource scarcity".

Never been a fan of the dark mod as I'm finding myself straining to see what's happening.

its fine, it's space ffs, leave it be..

Im hooked. Subbed

Hey nice work i love this kind of survival any chance of mod list or a posted scenario on worshop.like and sub to you for great video