Astroneer - Bye, No Man's Sky - Total Freedom, Base Building, Cave Exploration! - Gameplay Part 1

We're here with part 1 of Astroneer, a brand new pre-alpha sci-fi exploration game that shows what a game like No Man's Sky could have been. It's the 25th Century and we're tasked with exploration a planet, building a base, harvesting resources, upgrading everything and eventually launching out to do it all over again! The sheer freedom you have to destroy or modify the terrain is absolutely amazing, and the low poly art style is both simple and breathtaking.

In this episode we land on our first planet, get some exploration in, and go through a little tutorial of the first steps in the game, so to speak. There's no intrusive tutorial, so I try and describe some of the things you can do, even though I'm brand new to the game myself! Our wintery planet is filled with cave systems, and we make sure to explore several of them while also getting researching done and finding rare resources such as titanium!

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ABOUT: ASTRONEER:

Astroneer, an upcoming PC game from developer System Era Softworks, places players in a 25th century gold rush where they explore the frontiers of outer space, risking their lives and resources in harsh environments for the chance of striking it rich. Resources extracted from planets, asteroids, and moons can be traded with friends or crafted into new tools, vehicles, and modules. Environments are procedurally generated in a uniquely rendered voxel engine, featuring a textureless aesthetic that allows players to deform and shape the terrain as though it were made of Play-Doh.

History

Astroneer is developed by System Era Softworks, based in Seattle Washington, with members teleworking from like Toronto and Salt Lake City. Astroneer is System Era’s first game as a studio, with members hail from triple-A development with individual credits on Halo, Assassin’s Creed, Team Fortress, the Sims, and many others. System Era came together in 2014 out of a desire to create games that reflect the legacy and future of human space exploration, inspiring a sense of wonder and reverence for a beautiful universe.

Features

Explore multitudes of procedural worlds.
Shape completely malleable terrain. Dig to the center of the earth, or forge mountains.
Craft vehicles and discover resources to reach ever further in the galaxy.
Survive in ever more harsh and rewarding environments.
Play with friends in online or local multiplayer.

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Intro Music:
Song: Kadenza - Harpuia [NCS Release]
Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds.

[connorcclarke]

It's so surreal seeing gray before he became a destroyer of worlds

[GrayStillPlays]

This is possibly my new favorite sci-fi exploration game.

[jaxentheidiot]

this is back when he liked to just play the game, not break it.

[bigdaveyjoyce]

Actually this game seems more like what No Mans Sky was on it's first day of development.

[call_me_day]

the sheer excitement of this video caused me to subscribe.

[Loufadorosssss]

This game looks pretty interesting! Awesome!

[teno]

new brick rigs update by the way i subscribed you :D

[ctskater]

Goodbye no mans sky? This game is like s little kid phone game compared to no mans sky. You can't compare the two lol

[ForTheJukebox]

I must say Gray you i think are my new favorite youtuber! I can not get enough of watching your videos so much entertainment!

[NormireX]

Too fiddly looking for my taste. If you like more sim style games this def looks good, but I still prefer NMS particularly since they are finally heading in the right direction with it.

[pstuddy]

the graphics, texture and terrain pop-ins are even worst than no man's sky not to mention even fewer things to look at. and no animals or npcs. i'll stick to nms

[panzerpew]

I LOVE TODAYS VID!! MAKE EP 2 PLSSS!!! LUV U :^

[appleswithsauce]

Good job dealing with the storm, Grey.

[jirapatthaenphromrat]

Gray here's some tip. If you want to find metal's and stuff dig down really deep. You might enter an underground cave and there will be lots of resources, and to kill the plant's or find researching material's dig under the plant into the root.

[aidanhay]

gray, if you research more of the unknowns, you can unlock a better solar panel, and if you put the solar system on the ends of your smelter and research, when it's day they get power

[joflyserj]

i like no man sky more, but thats my thinking

[raynrenoldes]

watch bzerkers videos on this game it will help you out

[leviathan_panda]

Gray was one of the first to play this him and only the creators played this when he's playing it right now so this game got really really popular and he was one to start the popularity off its amazing

[joemcbo]

Trade platforms can be made out of shuttle bays witch you build off of shuttles which is also how you colonize other planets.

[Demonslayer]

so i got it. its like 20 bucks on steam... and it wont fucking launch. goes to the runtime installer for unreal 4 and then... nothing