Game Review Space Engineers

2020-02-06T14:19:00.000-08:00

GAME REVIEW
SPACE ENGINEERS

Flying, Grinding, Welding, all part of the things you can do in Space Engineers. Space Engineers is an open-world survival game with the center point of the game being spaceships. They are for fighting, elding, grinding, drilling, and just getting around. In the game there is no story, so the point of the game is just to have fun and do what you can, like Minecraft. Along with the game Space Engineers has a huge modding community so if you run out of things to do, go get one mod or a 100 to get more out of your game. In creative you can do whatever you want there is no need for oxygen or power, do whatever you want for there is nothing bad that can happen to you. Creative is used for designing ships or testing things out. In Survival, you need power and Oxygen to survive, in survival, your goal is to basically do as much as you want and to keep expanding. Doing it alone is harder because you have to do most things your self unless you build a drone army to do the work for you; but if you play with friends, EVERYTHING is much better for

each of you can go do one thing and putting everything together will make the game much more fun. Put there is Uncooperative survival where the goal is to become superior by becoming the most powerful out of everyone in the game. In a ship, the most important things are thrusters, oxygen, and weapons. There are 3 different types of thrusters: hydrogen, ion and atmospheric. Hydrogen thrusters require hydrogen stored in hydrogen tanks or h2/o2 generators or both; Hydrogen thrusters are the most powerful of the thrusters but consume lots of Hydrogen use very little energy, they work in space and in an atmosphere with the same amount of power. Ion thrusters require only energy and working space and atmosphere but only 11% of the power in the atmosphere. Atmospheric thrusters only work in the atmosphere and cannot work in space. All of this is just a quick explanation of how the game works and what to do in it all of it is based on my knowledge and there may be better sources than this blog.

Game Review Rainbow 6

2020-01-31T14:49:00.002-08:00

GAME REVIEW

RAINBOW 6

Running around, crouching, checking corners, all part of a normal round of Rainbow-6-Siege. For me, this my most played game with 2200 hours of playtime on steam. While costing 30 for the standard edition and more for credits and DLC it is worth it for this semi-realistic tactical shooter. The game is based off a “hero” system like DOTA, League of Legends, or Apex Legends, but they have real abilities that are mostly to counter other abilities. The game is played on 3 game modes: hostage, secure the area, and bomb. For hostage, the goal for the attackers is to get the hostage and GTFO of the site and outside to a pickup point. Secure the area is a biohazard container that if the attackers step into the room without the defenders on it they start securing the area, if they stay in it for long enough they win. Bomb is the most complicated, there are 2 bomb sites A and B the attacker diffuser has to be planted at one of the sites, once the diffuser is planted the defenders have a set amount of time left to find and destroy the diffuser, if it is destroyed the defenders win if the defenders get killed or don’t destroy the diffuser the attackers win.

DEFENCE

There are 3 non-official types of operators that I can tell, on defence, there is personal gadgets, passive gadgets and active gadgets. Personal gadgets work for you and you only for example Caviera has Silent Step, Luison,

and Interrogation though that last one helps the team; all these abilities require her to be alive and moving around to use those abilities. Passive gadgets are very simple and good for beginners one of the best examples is Rook, he just places down his bag of armour at the start of the round and his teammate pick it up and now they take less damage from bullets and always go into Down But Not Out (DBNO). The active gadgets are some of the hardest to use because unlike Caviera, where if she dies they lose a player, she is mostly fragging potential, while if smoke dies early in the round he leaves behind nothing for the team to use of his abilities.

OFFENCE

On the attacker side, I see 3 types of operators, Utility, Breaching, and Personal gadgets. Breaching is just that, Breaching abilities; the most simple and that probably the best for beginners is Sledge, he has just that, a sledgehammer. He can break through soft walls and floors to get to the site and in. The other kind of operator I have seen is Utility a good example is Twitch, she uses a drone to take out defender gadgets and do some damage. The personal gadgets work for only that person, the best example is Blitz he has a shield that flashes people and lets him kill them easier and if he dies that's the end of his utility.

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