Space Engineers Brings Skins, Parachutes & Player Feedback
Keen Software House announced that with today’s major update release, they are bringing players some amazing additions to their game Space Engineers. From now on, players will be able to personalize their engineer with a broad range of new items! They are introducing customizable skins for your engineer, your tools and your weapons.
Check out the update trailer of Space Engineers, showcasing the updates’ features:
“Parachutes
To make use of them in your creations, first, just add these new blocks. Then craft some of the new components that came with them, the parachute canvas, and prime the chutes with them.
Now you can either keep control over them manually, triggering the deployment of the chute via your ships terminal interface or toolbar, or you simply use the deployment altitude feature for a more automated behaviour. Just remember, you do need to be in atmosphere for them to function!
A special “Thank you!” goes out to community modder “Draygo”, who has been working closely with us on this new feature for all of you to enjoy!
Maybe now, the spontaneous disassembly part in your landing procedure can be replaced with opening a parachute…
Character Customization
Once you have found some of those new customization items, they will stay linked to your game account, but you will need to get your hands on some of them first!
So how does it work?
If you play the game in survival mode, from time to time, you will pick up the signal of a nearby container on your scanners. This can happen planetside, as well as in the darkness of outer space.
Your suit’s systems will automatically triangulate the approximate position and a marker will be added to your GPS system, to help you locate the containers and salvage their contents.
Once you have examined a container thoroughly, you can find various items for your character, your tools or weapons. As soon as you find a cosmetic item in one of these containers, they will be stored in your Steam Inventory, just as you are probably used to from other games you play on Steam. This means you can also send these to your friends and work together on collecting the various items!
To swap the items on your engineer’s suit, you need to use the Medical Room (where you previously only changed the color of your suit).
You are also able to access the new customization screen from the main menu and set the default appearance of your engineer there, before even entering a game.
Skin Sets
Many of the skins you are now able to find, will belong to a set of matching items. There’s four items for the engineer: Helmet, Gloves, Boots and Suit.
On top of this, there’s also matching variations for your engineer’s tools and weapons.
Each of these pieces can be found individually and you can combine them any way you want.
Our artists have worked hard to give you some truly amazing skins for your engineers, so keep your eyes peeled for mysterious signals!
To help you understand how rare the item is that you just found, we have categorized them into five levels:
- Common (gray)
- Uncommon (green)
- Unusual (blue)
- Rare (purple)
- Exceptional (gold)
Many of the items are also colorable, just as you are used to from the default suit, while others come in their own, unique appearance.
It might also be easier from now on, to tell if one of our developers is visiting your game server as only authorized Keen personal will be able to wear the Keen-Pyjamas.
Probably the most notable in all of this is however, is how this connects Space Engineers to the Steam Trading System and the kind of possibilities this opens for you in the future:
So first off, you can trade these cosmetics amongst your friends and help each other complete those sets even faster. That’ the most obvious one, nothing new here, you have seen that in a hundred games by now.
You can also trade-in items from another game for a Space Engineers item, and vice versa.
For some of you this might be something you hadn’t considered before, for others it will also already be an established practice.
But it gets really interesting if you think about the kind of community we have with Space Engineers, and all the great people amongst you, creating new content for the game every day.
By enabling the Steam Inventory in Space Engineers, we are going the first step to truly include the modding community in further shaping the game.
Modders will be able to design new items and submit them for review by the community. You, the players, will then be able to decide which you would like to see added to the game.
And because we are making use of Steam and their Inventory Service for these items, the author’s ownership is always protected. Credit where credit is due!
So how will this work for you right now?!
All current players will find one set in their inventory already: It’s the “Veteran” suit which we’d like to give you as a present and a special “thank you” for all your support up to this point.
Moreover, all players who own the Space Engineers Deluxe Edition will also find “Golden” items in their inventory as a second complete skin set, right from the start! We’ve also increased the bundle discount to 15% which will apply to new buyers of the whole bundle or existing owners of the base game looking to complete the bundle. Check it out here.
For all players who are playing Space Engineers, and also own a copy of Medieval Engineers, we are also bringing you the “Medieval” suit on top of the ones already mentioned.
So our biggest supporters will find 3 complete skin sets in their inventories right from the start!
And for those among us that still do not own a copy of the game, do so now to receive the veteran suit for free while the offer still stands.”
For more infromation on Space Engineers, visit its official website.
