First week of EA
Going forward, I am thinking it would make sense to put up new worlds on regular basis, and eventualy retire old ones. This way new players that want to play online won't feel like they've missed out on all the good spots. Thoughts? Comments? Let me know! In the meantime, it's back to work for the two of us at Tasharen. Workshop support? Modding guide? Achievements? Actual... story to the game? All of that and much more. Keep an eye on Sightseer -- as I've said before, all of this is just the beginning! Thank you everyone for your support! You're awesome! -Michael "ArenMook" Lyashenko
[ 2017-12-12 22:38:31 CET ] [ Original post ]
Whew, the first week of EA is behind us, and it was certainly a busy one. Even though I intentionally tried to keep the launch quiet outside of Discord in order to have a smoother experience for players, it seems quite a few of you were keeping an eye on the game and it still ended up blowing Windward's EA launch out of the water. Let's have a look at all that went down this week, literally and figuratively.
- Due to a bug that went completely over everyone in the closed testing, in the first two hours of the launch, no one could play single player games. Whoops!
- The official server saw a peak of 90 players.
- With all the population on the official server and the many factions/outposts, there was a ~5 MB download for everyone connecting to it. Players on slow connections that would take more than 10 seconds to download that data would get disconnected due to inactivity. That one took 4 days to fix!
- According to Steam, there were almost 250 players in Sightseer at one point on Sunday.
- The 664 unique players on the official server created 252 factions and 1150 outposts.
- Players found and reported 4 different duping bugs of varying severity. Thanks!
- Many quality of life features and hotfixes were added due to direct player feedback, all found in the patch notes.
Going forward, I am thinking it would make sense to put up new worlds on regular basis, and eventualy retire old ones. This way new players that want to play online won't feel like they've missed out on all the good spots. Thoughts? Comments? Let me know! In the meantime, it's back to work for the two of us at Tasharen. Workshop support? Modding guide? Achievements? Actual... story to the game? All of that and much more. Keep an eye on Sightseer -- as I've said before, all of this is just the beginning! Thank you everyone for your support! You're awesome! -Michael "ArenMook" Lyashenko
First week of EA
Going forward, I am thinking it would make sense to put up new worlds on regular basis, and eventualy retire old ones. This way new players that want to play online won't feel like they've missed out on all the good spots. Thoughts? Comments? Let me know! In the meantime, it's back to work for the two of us at Tasharen. Workshop support? Modding guide? Achievements? Actual... story to the game? All of that and much more. Keep an eye on Sightseer -- as I've said before, all of this is just the beginning! Thank you everyone for your support! You're awesome! -Michael "ArenMook" Lyashenko
[ 2017-12-12 22:38:31 CET ] [ Original post ]
Whew, the first week of EA is behind us, and it was certainly a busy one. Even though I intentionally tried to keep the launch quiet outside of Discord in order to have a smoother experience for players, it seems quite a few of you were keeping an eye on the game and it still ended up blowing Windward's EA launch out of the water. Let's have a look at all that went down this week, literally and figuratively.
- Due to a bug that went completely over everyone in the closed testing, in the first two hours of the launch, no one could play single player games. Whoops!
- The official server saw a peak of 90 players.
- With all the population on the official server and the many factions/outposts, there was a ~5 MB download for everyone connecting to it. Players on slow connections that would take more than 10 seconds to download that data would get disconnected due to inactivity. That one took 4 days to fix!
- According to Steam, there were almost 250 players in Sightseer at one point on Sunday.
- The 664 unique players on the official server created 252 factions and 1150 outposts.
- Players found and reported 4 different duping bugs of varying severity. Thanks!
- Many quality of life features and hotfixes were added due to direct player feedback, all found in the patch notes.
Going forward, I am thinking it would make sense to put up new worlds on regular basis, and eventualy retire old ones. This way new players that want to play online won't feel like they've missed out on all the good spots. Thoughts? Comments? Let me know! In the meantime, it's back to work for the two of us at Tasharen. Workshop support? Modding guide? Achievements? Actual... story to the game? All of that and much more. Keep an eye on Sightseer -- as I've said before, all of this is just the beginning! Thank you everyone for your support! You're awesome! -Michael "ArenMook" Lyashenko
Project 5: Sightseer
Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
2019-08-16
Indie RPG Singleplayer Multiplayer Coop
Game News Posts 12
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Mostly Positive
(520 reviews)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/655780
The Game includes VR Support
Project 5: Sightseer (Linux) [1.03 G]
Project 5: Sightseer is a cooperative multiplayer sandbox game set in a vast, procedurally generated world. You will start with nothing but a scanner and a mining laser in the location of your choosing, then venture forth to find resources, build outposts, research technologies and ultimately unravel the world's secrets.
It's important to know that in Sightseer, most of the resources are finite and not all of them can be found naturally. Fossil fuels won't last forever, and depleting the resource at one location will mean that you will need to either find another source or discover another way to obtain what you need. As an example, while Ammonia can sometimes be found in the world naturally, it can also be created from Water by applying a pair of chemical reactions. You merely need to know how.
The world of Sightseer is entirely persistent: outposts remember their founder, trade routes remember the player that discovered the fastest route, and even the world's artifacts remember the person that first discovered them -- so go out there and explore! Just be aware that logging out won't make your vehicle vanish. It will remain where you've left it, so having a safely defended outpost to call home will come in handy in the future.
Fortunately, when playing online, you can band together with your friends to form factions. Factions can own outposts that can automate the process of resource extraction and can have powerful defenses to keep them safe from both natural threats and opportunistic players alike. The same outposts can also perform scientific research, leading to new technologies, structures, vehicles, weapons, and a lot more. Care should be taken in how the outposts are powered, however. Burning fossil fuels will cause pollution that will need to be addressed.
When playing Sightseer, you can play offline, online, or host your own private worlds for your closed group of friends. Hosting a world (or playing offline) also offers the Creative Mode option where all resource costs will be ignored -- just in case you want to build cool things without any constraints.
Regardless of what appeals to you the most -- be it the exploration of a vast, untamed world and unraveling of its hidden secrets; the construction of impressive outposts designed to inspire awe of others; or simply the desire to dominate the world together with your friends, Sightseer's only limit is going to be your imagination.
Best of all -- with this being Early access -- it's all merely the beginning.
It's important to know that in Sightseer, most of the resources are finite and not all of them can be found naturally. Fossil fuels won't last forever, and depleting the resource at one location will mean that you will need to either find another source or discover another way to obtain what you need. As an example, while Ammonia can sometimes be found in the world naturally, it can also be created from Water by applying a pair of chemical reactions. You merely need to know how.
The world of Sightseer is entirely persistent: outposts remember their founder, trade routes remember the player that discovered the fastest route, and even the world's artifacts remember the person that first discovered them -- so go out there and explore! Just be aware that logging out won't make your vehicle vanish. It will remain where you've left it, so having a safely defended outpost to call home will come in handy in the future.
Fortunately, when playing online, you can band together with your friends to form factions. Factions can own outposts that can automate the process of resource extraction and can have powerful defenses to keep them safe from both natural threats and opportunistic players alike. The same outposts can also perform scientific research, leading to new technologies, structures, vehicles, weapons, and a lot more. Care should be taken in how the outposts are powered, however. Burning fossil fuels will cause pollution that will need to be addressed.
When playing Sightseer, you can play offline, online, or host your own private worlds for your closed group of friends. Hosting a world (or playing offline) also offers the Creative Mode option where all resource costs will be ignored -- just in case you want to build cool things without any constraints.
Regardless of what appeals to you the most -- be it the exploration of a vast, untamed world and unraveling of its hidden secrets; the construction of impressive outposts designed to inspire awe of others; or simply the desire to dominate the world together with your friends, Sightseer's only limit is going to be your imagination.
Best of all -- with this being Early access -- it's all merely the beginning.
MINIMAL SETUP
- Processor: Dual-core Intel i3Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 560
- Storage: 1500 MB available space
- Processor: Quad-core Intel i7 4790KMemory: 8 GB RAM
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 780 or better (resolution-dependent)
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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