[Space Engineers] Space Pirate Simulator - Episode 1: Welcome to Helghan 

“Hey, you. your finally awake. You were trying to cross the border into Helgan, right? Walked right into that imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there.” -Rolaf of Riverwood, fourth era, 201

Helghan. Now with 100% less wyverns and 2516% more lightning.

You should continue with this for sure. A new series is always welcome

Great to find a MES combat-oriented PVE series! From playing and watching a lot of MES mod usage, I've noticed that once you get the hang of the spawn/path distances, many of the MES factions become non-issues b/c they are only passively hostile -- attacking only if you approach the 2.5 km warning mark and the shorter (2 km?) engagement range. If you are interested later, the text files for MES configs in your save game folder have 4 files with 6-ish variables you can change to adjust how actively NPCs will find you. Reavers, aggravated Assert, and a couple MES factions are more proactive about seeking you out. But for Assert, I didn't attack any of their bases for a long time, and they never took offensive action against me. I realize this is b/c SE is a sandbox builder game first and space combat second, and a lot of the community (modders, etc) want to give players the choice of whether to engage or not. In general, that's great for the entire player base. For me particularly, and possibly for you with the objectives of your playthrough, this feels like we're the baddies -- the player is the pirate making unprovoked attacks on irritable but non-aggressive NPCs (well, excluding the Reavers :D ). Details on the edits: 1) Wave spawners for planet and space. These are documented in the github MES user guide. You can either use chat commands to activate and change number/frequency of waves, or you can directly edit the config files. Never seen a content creator use this in a series. Occasionally see it mentioned in MES threads, but rarely. Increasing the numbers of NPCs can melt your computer, but it's glorious. I've had over half a dozen Reavers spawn in on me (at a range of 2 km), and it was a scramble to evade and fight them while they shot up then kamikazed my base. Brutal. Then repeat 15 minutes later. I tried the space wave spawner in an empty area far from planets, with wave size and frequency turned up, and had something like two dozen medium to huge large grid ships hammering me. It was possibly 200k-plus PCU of NPC ships, and my frames went down to slideshow levels (slowly resolved in-game by turning off the wave spawner to halt further spawns, destroying the biggest ships one by one, and setting trash removal pretty aggressively to delete the exploded ship chunks). Again, brutal. But so much fun. :D I lost many ships in the course of these fights (extremely combat-oriented min-max, mostly with very high gun-to-PCU ratios, like 1 gun per 300 PCU of ship). 2) Edit min/max distances for planetary and space cargo ships. This is one I haven't seen ANYONE talk about, and I had to logically think it through. NPCs only begin to aggro if they are closer than 2.5 km (either they move past you, or you move near them). But the defaults for their flight paths are generated with a minimum of 3 km away from the player, and max 8 km. Default is meant to give the player enough time to spot them when spawning in, and decide whether to change direction to avoid them, or engage them. It means that if the player is stationary when the NPC spawns, then the NPC will pretty much never approach close enough to aggro on the player, on the NPC's own initiative. But if you are looking for a fight, or a challenge where fights can be forced upon you NOT on terms of your choosing, then edit the min/max distances. I just started doing this, so no clear conclusions yet, but I'm using a minimum of 1 km and max of 4 km. That puts about 50% of the NPC pathing at 2.5 km OR NEARER to me, the player. And if I'm flying fast, I could easily sail into 2.5km range on a few more NPCs. This should make them initiate aggressive action more often. 1) I feel like less of a baddie b/c now it's self-defense, right? :D and 2) if the spawn is something I can't handle, then I HAVE to hustle to evade it. You can also edit a single variable, set to TRUE to randomize NPC weapons. The other related settings are pretty effective on their defaults. This does the same thing as Meridius/Lucas' old mod on the workshop that randomizes MES NPC weapons. I've had vanilla NPCs that were built pre-Warfare 2 suddenly become super deadly -- some of the Incon or Parallax NPCs used to only have all gatling guns and rockets. With random weapons, this one small grid fighter showed up with something like 8 guns, a mix of railguns, assault cannons, autocannons, and gatlings. :D :D :D Feel free to ignore this, or reply if you want to discuss it more (b/c I'm REALLY hoping this gives me the level of active enemy action I'm looking for). Either way, I'm looking forward to your series developing!

Great job with the video! Love the idea and looking forward to seeing the series unfold! As a name for the rover, you could call it SB (Stickbug) since it kind of has that linear design that you might associate with one!

its nice to find a new series in space engineers, there's not much content creators for the game with new series.

This looks like it should be fun! Looking forward to more.

Admittedly I've never played Space Engineers but it's always interested me so I'm excited to watch you play through!

Ive been playing SE for years. Just found your channel and series. Love what youre doing here. Cant wait to watch the other videos and get caught up. Keep up the good work.

Pls keep this series going. It looks so good! 👍

Very interesting concept. Looking forward to more!

Hey just found you and insta subscribed! I’m sooooo pumped for this series!

I just discovered you! This sounds amazing. You just found yourself a new subscriber! Have a nice day! Love the way you did show this, with the little speed ups and all the nice cinematic shots. Love it!

I’m so hyped to watch this series

i absolutely love this! right on dude!

yay another SE series to binge watch :D

Late comment, but I'd name the rover, RoverMcRoverface.

Just found your Channel. This series I will be watching

This was cool AF

good job I enjoyed very much

cool video! getting inspiration for my own series now lol. Piece of advice to make building easier for you: if you mmb (middle mouse button) on blocks inside the G menu itll add them to your build planner, if you then mmb on cargo ports that have access to the right components, it'll yoink out everything you need for you! if its a big block it'll max you inv capacity, but will know how much you still need, so you can go back again and grab the rest. Just thought that would be useful info for you to know since I didn't see you using it during your building ^w^

Sounds interesting, great production value on that intro too. You've got a decent voice and the audio levels are good, you've got a new sub! BTW the lightning mechanics are "challenging" to the point of broken. The strikes are not random, you and your grids will be hit on a timer during a storm. There's a guide out there on the mechanics, and I think you could live with it if you know all the rules.

I like this scenario like your videos

Best thing tho is the chill straight gameplay in my opinion, with some clear goals and rough plans.

I'm not sure Helgan's storm weather is coded to reduce solar panel outputs. It doesn't dynamically detect actual light levels, only the angle to the sun and stuff in the way. As for the cargo, if there was anything inside, it would have fallen out, so you were correct. Good start so far. =^.^=

i respect your taste in music allot

Nice job :D. Im thinking to play in this one also :D

legitimately great intro

nice that you build an actual rover instead of using the sideways wheels 0% friction glitch some people tend to use

The big ships fly to 100 suns pushing the speed of light. 2 months out 2 months back but 20 years on your homeworlds track pushing the speed of light

yeah! Lightning in SE is hyper Broken. Lightning does like to hit tall things and tall metal things even more. but GPS guided, Heat Seeking, Ion Bolts from Thor & Zeus is not fun!

my first wreck was covered in wind turbines and solar panels and much larger..... i hope you find one of those

Ooooooo that intro is niceee

You should look at getting the MA Spotlight pack.... I love the 3 lights in 1 block, you can almost see them from like 3k away... I put them on top all my things from base landing pads to rovers/ships...

Wow! This is extremely similar to my own series, you are definately better at the cinematics :D I spent way too long getting my gigantic base up and running (smh) Any ideas other then Assertive to get more difficult/attacked by npcs? Ive gone dozens of hours without being attacked, though maybe I should just turn on an antenna and make each faction at war...hmm

Totally expecting you to run into James Raynor down there.

Space Engineers?! This is a most welcomed development

Name for the rover: Explorer. Often name my grids after what they do.

pretty entertaining. One of these day's i am going to find a person who wants a stream partner, for dual survival

I wish there was a game like this but combined with the realistic physics aspects of something like Kerbal Space Program and unlimited speed (well diminishing returns the closer you get to c).

I see your using Splitsie's assertive combat system!

Helghan (Helgen)???? Will I ever escape Todd Howard´s creation?

anyone else want to watch roosterteeth's RvB series after listening to this intro or is it just me?

I guess i am the only one who got that as a reference to Helghan and Helghasts from killzone

How do you think a dragon would fare to low orbital Bombardments and assault cannons

Why does the Into music remind me of Red vs Blue???🤔🤣

Glad to see I'm not the only one that has to play this game at 10 fps....

i like digging under ore veins and drilling up if I have enemy ais

Fus Ro Dah!!!

Always down for more space engineers but also... why are you using P?

You could sit your cameraman in a chair and use it's spectator cam.

Could you not have the spectator player hidden away somewhere else and use the F8 spectator camera with it? That way, you wouldn't have the floating engineer to worry about. I think also if you wanted to stay doing it this way because you like interacting with it lol, then on the spectator press "O" to turn off broadcasting, so it doesn't show up on your HUD.

Wow you must really hate yourself with some of these mods you have put in. I look forward to see how you navigate this hellscape you have made for yourself

I know this is late, but did you adjust the timer for the wreck spawns? I've played the same amount of time with the mod and it spawns much more than yours did.

I don't think I saw them in the mod list. I would recommend AI enabled and crew enabled. Give you something to do with those character weapons.

What is the name of the screens you see the ores in ?. That's a cool ores detector

Is this the new killzone?

I used to be an adventurer like you until i took an arrow to the knee

I might know why the ore scanning is updating so slowly for you. By any chance, are you playing this in online mode? A recent update severely limited the rate at which LCD sprites update in online mode.

What is the song at the beginning of the video called?

I started playing survival myself recently, you've got a pretty loose definition of "starting equipment" ngl, but cool mod lineup.

20:30 hurt :(

helghan isn't that the planet from kill-zone?

I wanna Learn the intro song on guitar

When is the next episode?

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MM not you add mod real water