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Tanks go pew pew

Cannot personally recommend. It plays like an interactive, western-themed "Sons of Anarchy" shooter, which was pretty boring / tasteless to watch, let alone try and play the interactive version.

If that's your kinda thing, give it a shot I suppose?

Be warned:

If you're expecting to play an update the same day it's released, good luck.
The TFP have taken to releasing the update only for streamers for the first few days to drive sales. (hype train)
After a few days they'll "iron out" whatever needs to happen and then it gets released to the general population.

Pick up the game on sale, play it until you get bored with it then uninstall it, move onto another game and wait for them to release the next update to the general population, re-install, rack up a few more hundred hours until bored, uninstall.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

Only thing this game is good for besides price per hour game play.

You better hope it *just* works.

If not then you've pretty much bought a Customer Support Simulator.

So after looking at some of the reviews, it strikes home when you see people with more than just a few hours put into this game give a negative feedback. I guess you could say this is one of them.

The game itself is okay. It's fun to build ships, explore, setup a teleport network (which is the cats meow) to travel effectively across the local stars. In a way, this game is sort of like Minecraft meets a space sim. The ability to create a ship to your specifications is awesome. This would be akin to Space Engineers however, it's how they handle the different mechanics in the background that really sets them apart.

E.g. Space Engineers has ship collision damage whereas Empyrion doesn't. Due to this, Empyrion seems to handle larger ships easier, say a multi-Capital Vessel fight doesn't lag near as hard as Space Engineers. The game(Empyrion) basically just ignores those values so it doesn't have to spend time calculating it seems.

I personally play on a mod called Reforged Eden(mod devs are awesome) so a lot of the base game stuff is different. It seems to be balanced a lot better, at least for me.

The glaringly painful cons are:
Ground enemies are dumb and, overpowered most of the time (even with armor, it seemingly does nothing to reduce damage)
Death-loops are real (if you forget to put down a survival tent before raiding a ground POI you get to enjoy this loop)
Blueprints are local files. (If you wipe your computer (which I do often) you lose those files) Manual backups are a must.

Space exploration is painful, at best.

I'm going to spend some time on this because this is honestly the overall reason for a negative review. A series of missions will send you out among the stars (500-600LY) with a max jump of 60LY. As such, you have to plot your course along star system to star system to reach your end destination. That sounds alright until you realize that there is basically NO navigational system methods. You're forced to reverse engineer your route from either the starting point or the end point. There are warp lines but half the time they don't show up (not close enough, wrong axis plane) and, it's pretty difficult (at least for me) to follow the exact same path more than once.

Overall, I would pick this game up, on sale sure, even off sale I think it holds immense value depending on your play style. (E.g. if you like space, it's worth it. If you're a COD Warzone fanboi, skip this.)

This game holds enough value, base game then plus mods, that it warrants your own opinion. Find out for yourself if you like it or not. I would pay full price for this game, if I had to do it over again.

Also, I'm in no way saying that space exploration should be easy but, this isn't difficult...it's just painful for no reason.

Good purchase for the price.