Its one of the details in th game i noticed to. There is alot of pits just floating in the yard and dispite there being no noise for the most part that ting when a random nut hits your faceplate makes the game

You shouldn't hear anything in space; no oxygen to carry sound. "In space, no one can hear you fart" -DrFloorpills 2021

@@LohTek there is air inside the shuttle

What about the W I G G L Y antenna?

The interesting thing is that this is a genuine fear for scientists. Kessler Syndrome is a theoretical micro-meteorite cascade that would pretty much block the usage of satellites and shuttles.

This! "God bless the next cutter who takes his seat"

If there comes a time when he and death meet.

I felt like the next cutter. But hen I wondered about the next cutter and my own son and daughter. And that was powerful.

It's a shame the devs kind of ruins the heavy impact this cutscene brings to the game by killing you off to harvest your biomaterial. During the games Early Access phase I took great pride in not having died once in my entire career. I could literally still call myself "The real McCoy". But after the game released its full story, the opening cinematic is diminished with lynx's onboarding sequence. We already knew lynx was a corrupt organization that violated human rights by forcing their employees into a mountain of debt that they would have to work out of, essentially turning them into indentured servants, we didn't need that extra tidbit.

@@raven800plays How in the world does that diminish the opening sequence? That's literally one of the core messages of the game. You are disposable to the point where your onboarding involves killing you. It's an intensely disturbing and well implemented science fiction concept that serves the setting perfectly. The impact isn't destroyed because the game specifically mentions in the first 5 or so minutes that Weaver can't be cloned anymore because of some sort of mishap. It's entirely possible for the main character to die and for another cutter to take his place. And if you don't like it as a gameplay mechanic, play on the difficulty that turns it off.

Cloning is expensive, and to much Paperwork for the higher Managment. Somtimes easier to get a new cutter.

@@Nagrachlp Got a hundred and twenty five million of them begging to fill his boots.

@@Nagrachlp I think he was more remarking about how impactful that line is. That your expectation is to hear the typical "pray the lord his soul to keep" , but no, it's more utilitarian, and communal. You don't bless the one already gone, they're gone, pass on the blessing/luck to the NEXT poor schlub that is forced to do the dangerous job. It says a lot about the culture of the world the Cutters exist in. It's a very nice bit of mood setting and storytelling, all in a single line of dialogue, in the intro sequence.

@@happyninja42 exactly. A child has come to terms with the brutality of the system.

@@happyninja42 I find the 'Cutterverse' absolutely fascinating, and the Cutter themselves are kind of like sailors/fishermen of old. It's incredibly dangerous what they do, but they do it to put food on the table.

Unexplored lands, dangerous beasts, and little to no law in most frontiers. If you want to survive, you've got to have a quick hand and an even quicker shot. At least, that's what I think.

For me it's because of the freedom feeling that I find both in space and in that music.

It's because Space is barren like the country side which is fitting with the country music. The job in question is reminiscent of blue collar jobs further solidifying the connection. Strip space away and it is guy going on a journey to his job at the scrap yard

Well it’s not really western, it’s folk. At its heart, the story’s about blue collar labor and corporate exploitation, a story that could take place centuries into the past or future, in most any nation. This one happens to draw a lot of influence from American labor movements, and in particular the Appalachian miners’ unions, which have a strong cultural connection to and association with this sort of banjo-y folk music.

@@daltongarrett3393 I think it draws from American labour movements because it's essentially an anarcho-capitalist setting. The corps are running roughshod over their workers (like. there is a section in the contract that lets Lynx just kill you. whenever they want. They kill you and generate a new spare, but there are no regs on when the spare has to be generated), with little-to-no governmental oversight. This mirrors a lot of what modern American workers are facing. Amazon, Tesla, and others running roughshod over them with a government that doesn't ever want to step in to defend the workers. And, since stories reflect the issues of the times they're created in...

Corporate lies in the contracts to make it seems better than it is. It's always worse.

@@ladywaffle2210 Experience! 👌

BlackBird really did great job here and with Deserts of Kharak. I played the remasters and DoK like 4 times now. Also I am really freaking excited about Homeworld 3. Artworks look so great! (I am too young to have played the originals when they released. But at least I have played remasters and was really gripped by the lore of Homeworld.)

Isn't that originally the Chris Foss / Peter Elson artstyle?

​@@gunny738 wait, they did Deserts of Kharak? And will do HW3? Nice.

@@void-creature Yeah most of the team that did the originals and were part of Relic, created BlackBird Interactive. Thats why the artstyle and core values are still there.

@@gunny738 that gives me a lot of hope for 3, especially since DoK was still very much in keeping with Homeworld's vibe & aesthetic

A mod is out that works decently

@@samuelclark16 Which one? The one by Raicuparta? I haven't seen any recent development and it doesn't have motion controls yet... :( Though if you have something more recent I'd live to see it!

Just heard of it, so not sure After looking it up, yeah it is that one Nothing's stoping you though! If you want it, make it!@@axel6269

Weirdly enough that is pretty fitting

Not really, one is homage to bluegrass music and the other is more like a spiritual sung by southern Work-gangs. They sound nothing alike.

@@abergethirty I think he means more along the lines of how memorable and how it very much gives you a glimpse of what you are to expect

@@thecrtf4953 even then that doesn’t match up with the two songs at all

not a coincidence; it's made by BBI so it has the same art style

There's an ad to visit the Torin Crater on Kharak, It's set in the same universe.

I can definitely hear "I'm coming home", but its get a bit too mixed up with the rest of the audio to hear the other part afterwards. Possibly though!

I think so the I'm coming home is definitely there, the rest might be good ol com static or something

Yeah aren't we replacing the cutter who paid of his debt and left?

Yes: "I'm coming home honey." Followed with a sound of comms transmission button being de-pressed right after. 3 times with ear at speaker at just the right volume, it's faint, but distunguishable. And with the synth pick-up right after, easily mistakable.

@@colbycoolby1592 Indeed we are it says so in the tutorial of the game

Nagrach WE GON RISE UP BARATNAS!

Remember the Cant Beltalowda. Inners only want to get fat in they gravity well.

Milowda na animals!

WE just MEAT for the MACHINE!

Glad to see someone has actually played it

@@lordkoth6735 Freespace? God damn did I play it. "Such is lberation." Nevar forget. Forever long for Freespace 3.

@@n3rdm4n yeah I remember back in school some kid told me there was 3 I believed and looked for years but nop

@@lordkoth6735 Maybe he was trying the "hope really hard" method of getting things.

@@n3rdm4n No he was just my bully

Nice catch. Ships do kind of look Homeworld-ish.

was thinking the same thing

Scott Manley's video on Hardspace Shipbreaker sort of goes into it a bit, but the original Hardspace *was* Deserts of Kharak. Which is cool.

@@n3rdm4n That's because it IS the Homeworld universe. Blackbird Interactive has the green light for anything Homeworld related.

Some Guy its actually not homeworld, as they partnered with focus home instead of gearbox, but this game seethes with the aesthetic and feel of homeworld. Gearbox own the IP, so at least “officially” it isn’t.

Semi?

semi?????? imagine living on a planet that was raped by corporate interest, and your only ticket out being 1 billion dollars in debt where you have to buy your own oxygen on your own shift to do the job the company hired you for where going to sleep cost 555,000 dollars where you get charged for "renting" the tools the company gave you to do the job with Hardspace Shipbreaker is anti-capitalism THE GAME

@@daltongarrett3393even the fees are so goddamn comedic, you can work yourself up from the debt and be a goddamn multi millionaire, just hope you like agonizing deaths in soace.

DRG is definitely up there as well

No kidding! I was humming Firefly's theme for the first hour playing this.

@@MrOtakuNE What got my attention the most was the little Girl doing her thing kinda reinforces that Space cowboy Asthetic.

@@kythebengzon8023 I'm not crying, your crying. That prayer got me right in the gut. Love the music too!

@@MrOtakuNE same, and it's a big reason I'm hooked

Agreed. There's a few games out there where I need to watch the intro every time I boot up. Battletech, titanfall, space marine, now Hardspace.

Cause of the title of the game I would think this would become a series of games

I could see “Hardspace: Rockbraker”. Instead of a zero-G scrapping operation, it could be astroid mining. LYNX is in the ship braking business, what about the other companies, who’s ships we scrap?

@@BladeLigerV You'll have to compete with beast slayers in a giant warship if you try to muscle in on the mining business.

0:42 shows an ad for Torin Crater. So deserts of Karak is definitely canon in Shipbreaker.

@@anonymous549 I think its more of an easter egg

Before*

I think were replacing another blue collar ship breaker because hes retiring, dont wanna work at lynx anymore, or laid off because of a destabilized DNA structure. I guess our player character is also their for his family or himself but thats up to you

'Each day he steps into the yard. To earn his wages working hard. I pray to the stars and heaven above. To return my Daddy to those he loves. If there comes a time when he and Death meet... Bless the next Cutter that takes his seat.'

Nastranai thank you :)

The astronaut also says "I'm coming home, honey" after she finishes her prayer

@@Timberpelt I think that one is up for debate. I'm not saying it's wrong, but it's a bit too garbled to be sure.

@@DJLite4011 mhm I think though the I'm coming home is there the honey part not sure on

Dont make it weird

Yadda yadda, something something Science sufficiently advanced as to be indistinguishable from magic. If you're killed, they clone you, memories intact, and then there's the grappler with its blue energy and the tethers it can shoot too. Put it down to some sort of relativity anchor.

There's definitely some fizzicks funny business, but they make a nod toward Newton by having the suit thrusters firing to counteract some of that force. Not enough, and definitely not how one would actually move executing that maneuver, but it's something.

He's using a gravity gun as we all know newtons 3rd law of motion doesn't apply to gravity guns

yeah well it looks cool

every reaction has a equal and opposite reaction. He dose not have to move if the gun is exerting the energy thats throwing the plate mabye some sort of capacitor inside the gun and a gravity control field? idk point is if the energy is coming from the gun he wont be thrown around

Found the Pinkerton lol