I am absolutely blown away by this update. It’s buggy and you have to figure out workarounds sometimes but still the best update of all time, well… thus far anyway. This is an update where you’re still going to be messing around with it months from now. Being able to walk around in your own ship was something I never even considered. I was content with the previous model, teleport into your ship and that was it. I built my first ship with just the basic parts, anxious to see what the update would be like. This update vastly improved two aspects of this game, immersion and roleplaying.
I know most people don’t like playing in first-person but I do because it’s as if it’s me in the game. It’s as if it’s me exploring an entire universe. Before the update, I would actually try to play as if I was living in my ship. I would keep both a refiner and nutrient processor in my ship’s inventory, but now I no longer have to do these things. I actually can live in my ship. I’m now considering a new playthrough that’s just pure exploration, I don’t intend to build a single base.
The community reaction has been incredible, so many videos of players sharing their ships or pictures of their ships in forums. Players have been busily creating and replicating famous starships from all sorts of tv shows and films. When I was in high school, one of my favorite comic books was “Swords of The Swashbucklers”. It was about space pirates and their starships actually looked like galleons.
And sure enough, someone has done something similar. His inspiration was the animated movie Treasure Planet, but my suspicion is that the people who made Treasure Planet were most likely inspired by Swords of The Swashbucklers.
So far we have three ship interior themes; Thunderbird, Titan, and Ambassador. Thunderbird is my favorite, followed by Ambassador with Titan being in last place. The current system appears to be very expandable and I have no doubt Hello Games will implement more ship interior themes in the future as well as more decorative parts for both inside the ship and outside the ship. I personally would like BOTH a Star Trek Original Series and a Star Trek Next Generation interior theme.
Will Hello Games still design unique old school ships like the Starborn Runner, Utopia Speeder, or the Boundary Herald? I don’t think so. I think Hello Games will just knock out new interiors and new ship parts. And actually I can’t see myself going back and using any of my old school ships anymore. That’s how incredible this update is. With that said, I will still keep them all because they do have sentimental value. However, this means Hello Games needs to increase the number of ships of we can have. I say increase it by 10. I think for a lot of players, the old school ships do have sentimental value.
I haven’t tackled any huge ship projects yet but here is what I have so far. Here is my Thunderbird ship.
My Ambassador ship.
My Titan ship.
The emoji for this update was a hand waving. I never would have guessed the update would be custom ship building.