Keen Software’s space colony sim Space Engineers was released a month ago on Steam Early Access, and since then, there’s been a ton of updates to the game.
According to the indie developer, the new changes feature fixes and additions including:
* Steam Workshop (upload and download your world to/from Workshop)
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Magnetic Landing Gears (so you can land your small ship on a large ship)
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Symmetry/Mirroring in creative mode
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Copy/paste/delete in creative mode
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Modding of 3D models
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Inventory
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Items
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Max speed is now the same for all objects (104m/s)
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Inertial dampeners for astronaut and for ships can be turned on/off
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Faster building and deleting (CTRL+SHIFT)
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Beacon (HUD shows a direction/distance to beacon blocks)
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Localization to 15 languages
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Linear and angular velocity of objects is now saved
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Experimental support for much larger worlds
Keen also held a poll asking gamers what their desired next feature would be. Multiplayer gameplay led with 44%, a survival mode was second with 24%, and 10% wanted a 64-bit version of the game. The studio also released a dev diary summarizing the improvements to Space Engineers. Check it out in the video below.
