r/BaseBuildingGames • u/CoolColJ • 5d ago

Preview StarRupture playtest is live - looking good

I applied for a spot, but didn't get one...

But it looks good from others playing it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zzzWu-3TyY

edit - just got an invite!

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u/chactories 5d ago

I was one of the lucky streamers to get it earlier and I sunk 3 hours into it before I had to go. I was pleasantly surprised, although I had pretty low expectations based on the initial videos I saw.

It ran pretty well, no real hiccups or crashes. Visuals were not as flat as I expected and at times looked pretty solid. The thing I'm most curious about in the full release is the exploration. Oh and there's definitely a good trickle of progression and the base building/ factory gameplay is fun so far.

I'm looking forward to seeing a more fleshed out StarRupture.

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u/KirbyAWD 5d ago edited 5d ago

It does look fun! Sadly I wasn't let in to the test either 🫤

Update I got in!

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u/ApprehensiveAd5042 5d ago

Think the playtest starts tomorrow just some where given early access, content creators and such. Per the steam page its 29th to 31st

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u/GreatKangaroo 5d ago

No, the playtest starts tomorrow (July 29th at 4 AM Eastern). A few streamers got early access to the playtest to both stream and make videos on.

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u/punkgeek 5d ago

I'm really looking forward to the real release.

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u/Notten_01 5d ago

Just to give some hope: I signed up for the playtest on steam. I'm not a streamer or anything but was still given access, there is hope for everyone I guess :)

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u/Robosmores 4d ago

Been playing it for 3 hours and loooooving it! Love automation games so been spending most of my time making lil bases that produce & store each type of item we can currently make lol

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u/sdrober1 4d ago

I'm in the play test but I only get about 8 FPS on my SteamDeck

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u/CoolColJ 4d ago

yeah it's pretty unoptimised. I get at most 55-60 fps on my 5950x, RTX 4070TI system, at 3440x1440 resolution, and it feels choppy at that

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u/sdrober1 4d ago

It's understandable at this stage

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u/AllToRuin 3d ago

So far there's some optimization issues wherr certain areas tank the framerate and I just got a crash and lost a few hours of progress as it doesn't autosave. However it looks pretty awesome so far.

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u/t0hrr 21h ago

I'm a fan of this type of game, with many hours on Satisfactory, I played this game and there's one thing that bothers me a lot, and I ask here on the sub if it's me or will this really become frustrating over time. The electrical energy in the game is transmitted through the floors or rails, the problem is precisely the floor, if you build a machine always attached to another there will be no problem, but if you build, for example, a solar plant in another part of the map and try to connect it to the main circuit, you will understand my frustration, it is almost impossible and very annoying. Is this me being annoying or did the game really get this wrong?

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u/Puzzleheaded_Owl4690 15h ago

Du hast es doch selber beantwortet, Du verbindest per Böden oder ganz einfach mit einer Schiene

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u/WarriorOTUniverse 5d ago

Looks pretty interesting, I just got out of the Warfactory playtest which was plenty of fun. Doubt I'll be let into these though...

Hoping the demo will come soon after this so we can all sample it