Stormworks: Build and Rescue Reviews

the game is fun but unless you have a Nasa supercomputer loading any boat thats bigger that a fishing trawler makes it run like hot ass

Good game with a bit of a learning cliff. expect to look up YouTube videos for tutorials but once you figure it out its actually pretty simple. very active modding community and if you need something specific chances are someone has already made it and uploaded it to the workshop. if you are good at logic programming or LUA this game will be a breeze for you.

After many years the game remains poorly optimized, the space DLC offers *nothing* but traveling to the moon, landing on it, and looking around. Now they release an update where they allow modders to change anything they want : Essentially asking the community to fix the problems they either refuse to fix or are incompetent of fixing. Multiplayer optimization is even worse than single player. Waves desync for the player on the server so your ship stops reacting to them and you go through them as if they're not even there, your vessel staying absolutely flat like it's on a glass pane. Multiple vehicles drops the tps dramatically, making it difficult for multiple people to have multiple vehicles at the same time. Vehicles moving in the distance desync so they act like UFOs and warp all over the place, and if they have attachments or independent parts like doors or bombs you see them moving all over, following the craft instead of remaining in position relative to it. The devs simply do not know how to make their game better and would rather release the tools to have others fix it for free for them.

Fun game, love the rescue missions and physics.

Great example of incredible idea, terrible execution. When you hear "coast guard simulator where you and your friends can design and build your own vehicles for missions" you'd really want to play it, what a cool concept right? I thought the same. Sound off of some of the issues we have encountered in campaign: - Multiplayer is incredibly laggy if your characters are any distance from each other, your seemingly small network issues in other games seem to be magnified tenfold in this one. - The fuel pumps and fuel depots you buy fuel from (you know, the stuff you NEED to run 90% of your vehicles) will randomly disappear from your world. There is essentially no remedy to this. Trust me we checked. - Physics lag buildup, spending too long in a world causes lag cause the game won't clear physics objects once you've despawned them or some other reason like that. You either need to save, quit and reload, or relaunch the game entirely. - Spawning and despawning a vehicle makes you lose fuel. Literally just vanishes into the abyss. Do this enough times without realising and you may waste time and money in a best case scenario, or become softlocked in a worst case scenario. - Your campaign saves will brick and stop working when an update comes out. This is not a joke, we have had to start over repeatedly cause the developers will release an update adding some random thing, and our entire save will brick and just repeatedly give us the same missions and disasters. THERE IS NO REMEDY TO THIS. Other issues not just specific to campaign: - If you take fall damage, sometimes randomly your feet will clip into the ground and invert your controls, you either have to get into a seat to undo it or relog. - Some updates will randomly cause some vehicles that you haven't changed to cease working. - No 3 block slopes. The game has been out for however many years and they still haven't added these. It goes from 1 to 2 to 4, is it really that hard? - If you want to add mods into your multiplayer world, everybody has to load it every. single. time. you open the world. And it takes forever, hours everytime. It downloads it on the stormworks network, not your own network, so it slowly ticks up by kilobytes. Hundreds of thousands of kilobytes, about 20 at a time. - They removed respawning in campaign mode. Like not just removed it, they removed the option to turn it on and off. In a game where things sometimes randomly explode or crashes occur frequently, why not at least have the option? If these were all issues the developers were working on, I could forgive them. But not only do they know they exist, and have been in the game for YEARS, there doesn't appear to be any intention to fix them. If you literally CANNOT make progress in a game, I really struggle to see the point in continuing to try. They seem more concerned with releasing updates that add small little extras instead of fixing the huge pressing issues with the game. It wouldn't surprise me if they release a new DLC soon so they make a little extra money. What blows my mind even more is that you look for these issues online and NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE. None of the community seems to hold the devs accountable, and the amount of stories of people getting banned from the games discord for complaining is insane. There is also the rumor that the devs have been banned from the games subreddit. Make of that what you will. I will give this game credit where it is due. You have near limitless creative freedom, held back only by your ability and knowledge, but can achieve anything you set your mind to. Singleplayer custom worlds are great for building creatively. I have had some real fun and unique moments in this game, but it is ultimately overshadowed by the immense number of issues it faces. The developers inability and/or unwillingness to fix the game its beyond infuriating, and sours the whole campaign experience for me. If you want to build vehicles that are cool and functional, get this game, maybe on sale. If you want to "Build and Rescue" as the game suggests and play campaign, either have/develop the ability to accept that you'll have to repeatedly start over, or don't get the game. It's not worth it. Edit: Added more bugs/issues I forgot to add the first time I wrote it.

So They published 1.15 update and it.....terrible First- it seems like they just giving project in hands of community and prob will not do major updates from now Second-well, they added "feature" what force load mods from vehicle it was created with to everyone on the server if you spawn this vehicle and....lets just say mods are xml files and i 99% sure you can in fact write anything inside this files, for example xml bomb(i think sw parses xml's to work with them) and other malware and it don't checks if mod exist on ws etc so basicaly they allowed ppl to force load malware to everyone on server with 1 vehicles spawn without possibity to dissable this etc

i love the game best game in the world to be honest. but you got to have like 4 degrees in engineering to figure out how to build.

this game is really fun but a little confusing at first but then its fun

"The bad": A lot of issues in the game are caused by bugs, skill issues and simple lack of explanation. There is a bad tutorial, where they tell you the most basic mechanics in the game, but they give you 2% max of the information you need to know to continue your career. Basically this game mechanics are self-taught most of the time and if you want to find any info on something not related to vehicle building, you are most likely doomed. A lot of frustrations come from physics and lack of knowledge. Something works, but not how you expect it to work, in a different way, so you can't solve your problem and blame lack of game mechanics, but they were there since the beginning and could solve your problem, you just didn't find them yet. The game updates slowly, so expect waiting a very long time for fixes or new content. DO NOT CHOOSE CAREER, CHOOSE CUSTOM OR YOU WILL BE STUCK WITH DEV'S QUESTIONABLE DECISION IN TERMS OF DIFFICULTY. It will be the same career, just some of it's aspects could be tweaked. Also multiplayer is highly unoptimized to the point it is unbearable to play with 3+ people. "The good": You have all the tools and workshop to operate a lot of vehicles in different configurations. Basically creativity is the limit. You can find multiple models of the same vehicle with different setups and controls that make operating them feel different. There is decent depth in career mode (what to do, how to make money and how to progress) and variety of missions. However, it can get pretty boring at first due to the small pool of locations per mission type when you just started. Don't worry, they ramp up with your progression. Complexity of mechanics you can introduce to your vehicle add an interesting twist to your gameplay, you can make/use a vehicle as simple or as complex as you want. (one click hovering functionality beast or 20-step startup process moment). Even if you don't know how to make something yet, there is most likely a solution on workshop made by some gigachad with 10k hours in the game. The game is a gem and very pleasant experience if you can close your eyes on roughness along the edges

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☑ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☑ Big(Depends on how much you play) ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☑ Difficult (only if you just download creations from the worckshop) ☑ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☑ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10