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Oct 9, 2017
Worlds Adrift allowed the player to harvest resources and free-build an airship of any size and shape to traverse the world. Due to the game's focus on physics, features of the ship, such as the number and placement of various propulsion mechanisms, would have an effect on the ship's handling, fuel consumption and speed.
Tips that i have seen and used in makeing ships to solo walls and general building hints.Ships and basic info about them
Once you get into the game and actual mined resources you want to make a ship to move around. Get more knowledge to tier up and get through walls.
Some of the basic tip for this is as follows:
- Frames are currently un-damageable. Ramming does no damage to a ship's frame. Panels and other structures may take damage.
- Usage of light low quality materials such as tin, titanium, and aluminum saves weight in the frame. There by increasing the carry capacity of said ship for more important things that will be needed later on.
- Some of the best usages of heavy mats can be testing the way your frame will look in the digital world. The wire frame is great for building your ship but sometimes you cannot always see the failures or problems with your ship design tell it is in the physical space. These test frames could be used as temporary ships to test placement of other structures. Before using the lighter harder to find materials.
- Expect to have to make many revision to your hull/frame as you fly around. This is an important part of the game your first couple of ships may have major issues that you do not have enough experience to know about them.
- Power to weight ratio is king. Having high power engines with high weight does not help you go faster. An engine that is really light with middle of the road power may be faster than one with high power. Current calculator for Worlds Adrift Speed use both power and weight which is Speed=50*sqrt(2*power/weight)
- Weight kills you faster than cannon shells. Heaver ships are inherently slower and less maneuverable than lighter ships. Additional, small (few segment) ships are generally lighter and faster than large (several segment) ships. Which means that large ships are easier targets to attack and evade than smaller minimal ships. But, large ships when competently crewed can overcome the disadvantages to a small degree.
- Cannons actual hurt your ability to run. Anything that add weight but does not increase power reduces your maneuverability and top speed.
Windwalls: Getting to T2
Getting out of the starter areas quickly can be a good and bad thing. But there is a balance that is needed:
- You need enought knowlege from islands and lore to get wings and engines.
- Having two wings and two engines should get you thought a windwall.
- I have tried single engines though a windwall but it seems to only work if you have more than 50 power in the single engine. And most T1 engines have considerably less than that. But a pair usaly will get you through.
- Wings that are not exactly horizontal or vertical give you both pitch and yaw. Having diagonal wings can be good and bad. For windwalls having horizontal wings is usaly all you need.
- The minimum parts needed to get thought a wind wall are as follows (helmskycore +frame +engines, total 50ish power +wings horizontal for pitch control, two to be ballanced one on each side of frame +power generator)
- I do not list a respawner as a needed item to go though a wind wall as T2 has respawners on several island. But a personal respawner is helpful to keep more control of your ship.
Stormwalls: Pray to RNGesus
Most people avoid these like the plauge. I find that there not that bad if you prep your ship propely.
- Condutivity is in game and has some intresting results more in a moment.
- Redundancy and a large number of usless items are important.
- Protect core componets such as engines and helm.
- RNG is a pain but is predictable. Meaning if the game rolls that it want to hit the interal engine that has panels and frame and bar pipes in the path to the engine the damage never gets to the engine. As first it will strike the bar pipe twice to kill it. then it would need two more strikes to kill the panel. and then the engine will take one hit and it will stop working and a second hit to make it fall off.
- Speed is king. The less time you are in the wall the less RNGesus damage you will take.
- Basic part guidelines to get though a stormwall.skycore +2 to 4 engines with a combinded power of at least 100 +4 wings two per side for redundancy incase one set fall off with a combinde power of 50ish +panels +two compass not on the same barpipe +25 to 50 addtional barpipes. iron is a good choice it is conductive and is plentyfull. Copper is ok but has a more weight +enclosed fuel/power generator. or two if you can not enclose a single.
Sandwalls: The abrasive slowness
Sandwalls are a hard resilience check that can kick solo players hard in the teeth. But can be done and I dare say easily done.
- Sandwall speed is caped at 20 knots. You can have a 40 knot ship and as soon as you enter the sandwall your ship will decelerate to 20 knots. But it will not decelerate all at once. Heavier ships will hold their speed a little longer that ultralights.
- Your first sandwall ship should be around 3000 kg if you can. It will help with pitching and rolls that the wall will throw at you.
- Some of your engines needs to be above 40 resilience. If you have high power engines that have below 35 resilience you can use them but expect to have them lost in the attempt. Sometimes you will sail though the wall and they will live attached to the hull. Still other times it will be a bear of a crossing and they will die.
- Wings take very little damage in the sandwall. I usually run tin wings on all my ships and sandwalling with tin q5 I have yet to lose a wing. Unless I have lost all my engines that are usually have cased in steel. Which currently steel seems to be the best caseing for sandwalls.
- Two wings are minimum but you need a combined power of 100 to control your ships in the sandwalls while it is tossing your ship around. Four wings will give you more control but are not necessary unless you need to make the power minimum. Having all wings diagonal preferable at a 45 degree angle is best. But may not be ideal for you situation.
- Compass and Artificial Horizon is almost mandatory until you get down how your ship reacts in a sand wall. Once you have some flight time you may be able to drop the Artificial Horizon. I have some 200ish hours in and still like the horizon to help give me information. But, there are some PvP reasons you might not want to have the artificial horizon on when you have a very highly maneuverable ship.
- You will need a minimum of 150 combined power to get though a sandwall. But, I would not take any ship that cannot maintain 25 or more knots max using the formula above. Usually 2 to 4 engines will work but use as many as you can to get the weight and speed needed.
- If you lose your engines do not despair. Elevate the ship to max height and you then can pull your ship using the grapple into the T4 zone. It will take a while 10 to 30 minutes but you will be in T4 and you will have most of your ship save engines and wings. Having a sail can be prudent once you are out of the wall but is ill advised as it is rather heavy for small benefit.
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On one screen, a developer is demonstrating , and explaining that players have hand-crafted everything I can see. The game world is made up of floating islands and the one he’s scrambling around right now, using a grappling hook to traverse rapidly, has a ruined building at its centre. It’s not very large, the island. You could hop, skip, grapple and jump across it in a matter of seconds, and it’s hanging in empty space.
Well, almost.As the developer plays, an airship putters into view. He decides to board the ship, even though it’s a good distance away from the island, and then there’s a strange moment when I notice the next screen along in the row of demo pods. A passerby has picked up the controller there and is steering a large airship past an island. I watch, one eye on each screen, as the two worlds come close to colliding.I wish I could say they did collide, but the ship was to far out. All the skillful grappling at our dev’s disposal weren’t enough to propel him across the gap between island and ship.
Still, watching the other play steer hard to starboard, oblivious to the person attempting to board, was exciting in itself. Sometimes, the most important thing a game can do is to remind us that we’re a part of something bigger than us rather than the hero of every tale. There’s a device I call the Truman Show Effect.
It’s in GTA, when the game spawns traffic behind your back where none existed a second before, ensuring the streets in your vicinity are populated. It’s in triggered interactions, those conversations and brawls that don’t begin until the player drops by to listen or observe. So many game worlds are made up of performers, treating the player as a participating audience member. They’re not simulating credible places, they’re simulating a kind of living haunted house experience, where all of the ghouls are staff who have been instructed to entertain the paying guests.Don’t get me wrong, I like being treated as an important guest and the centre of everybody’s attention, but sometimes I’d like to see how it feels to exist in a world that is indifferent to me (just in the game). Many massively multiplayer games are particularly hampered by the Truman Show Effect, because they have hundreds of Trumans running around, all being treated like the star of the show.
I’ve never quite managed to get past the conceit of being one of many heroes, all locked into the same quest chains. It’s as if the Knights of the Round Table all got their own Grail Quest, and now all have their own goblet shoved somewhere deep in their inventories. Two million heroes, one cup two million cups.In Worlds Adrift, everything is persistent.
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If you find an abandoned ship adrift in space, like a celestial Mary Celeste, it must have had a crew at one time. You might find evidence hinting at their fate, you might be able to scavenge some spare parts or raw materials, and you might encounter other players on a sightseeing or salvage expedition. While the specifics of a ship’s demise won’t always be obvious, wrecks are likely to be found close to the storm walls that crackle deep in space.The problem with space, as a place to play, is that it can be terribly empty.
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Worlds Adrift doesn’t just fill it with the player-designed floating islands that are one of the game’s key features, it also has environmental hazards, such as the storm walls. These almighty dark spots can strip a ship of its components and send the crew tumbling into the void.
Grappling hooks can be used to anchor your character onto the deck, but if the deck ends up shattered and stripped of its engines and armour, that’s not going to be much solace. Like Dorothy’s house in the twister, you’re going to end up blown off course and plunged into the unknown. Or just torn to shreds.Those shreds would then become part of the world. A tale for other voyagers to decipher when – and if – they stumble across what remains.It’s that ability to leave a mark that makes me so excited about Worlds Adrift. I’m so tired of Teflon realms that only change when someone at the design HQ pushes a switch or pulls a lever to trigger the next avalanche of #content., it’s not entirely clear how I’d spend my time in Worlds Adrift, beyond sticking bits of ships together so I can visit/bother other players and find more bits of ships, but I’m delighted by the idea that every little thing I do will have an impact. It doesn’t matter how small; I’d rather have my failed attempts to engineer a new craft leave a mess for somebody to find – a mess that is genuinely mine – than kill the same demon lord that everyone else has already killed, even if I do get a fancy new suit of armour as reward for my efforts.My excitement is tempered by the times I’ve been burned by the promise of a persistent MMORPG world before. Most notably, that happened with EverQuest Next.
It’s strange to now, knowing that the game I’d heard described will never exist in that specific form or under that name. The dream of a world that not only acknowledges the player’s actions but reacts to and accommodates them is still alive though, and Worlds Adrift’s use of the SpatialOS technology is a key part of that.I won’t pretend to understand how it all works because I’ve got about as much chance as I have of grasping thaumaturgy, but here’s wot says: “SpatialOS can create a swarm of hundreds of conventional game engines that overlap together to create a huge, seamless world”. All I need to know is whether that swarm can give me the persistent online worlds I’ve dreamed of since I first plugged my computer into a LAN. I expected to be playing wargames where every tank left a treadmark and every explosion left a crater and scorchmarks. So many online worlds are about sharing a common experience, and there is great value in that, but I’m far more interested in leaving quiet reminders of my passing, and creating new experiences for whoever follows in my wake.Worlds Adrift is at the end of April.
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