I originally bought this game for the SAR aspect of it as a former combat medic so any additional complexity they offer in that regard would be most welcomed thank you for covering that!

I would like to see train missions and maybe the old mission selector back.

The number 1 thing this game needs is much wider variety of search and rescue missions, play carreer and you will realize the game will present two types of missions: locate and rescue survivors and tow boat. Usually these missions spawn up to 12 to 15km away, meaning the only reasonable choice for that distance is a vtol, unless you want to wait 20mins for your 10m/s boat to reach. More variety of missions requiring a large boat, missions closer to an unlocked island, multiple missions spawning at once so you can choose what activity you want to do.

What Id really love for the DEVS to add is a sound deadening block. With how loud some components are it would nice to be able to tuck them into a equipment room that you can sound isolate. Maybe not completely but like 80% reduction.

Geometa left a comment on ProfNcognito's channel saying that the jump mechanics should be fixed within a month or so. Just btw

Life bouy idea: IF it could remember where its storage rack was then once the NPC is in it they self swim toward the rack, possibly even climbing up onto your ship.

side scan sonnar is pretty much like the 3d sonar you shown in one of your videos, the big difference is that it looks like a torpedo being towed instead of the lase canon self-moving. That way, you would need to keep a constant low speed and direction, also having the possibility to do zig-zag routes to cover a square area. btw, things like a stoping signal to the hospital ship or help assist from other ships would work great if there was a communication system between player and npc. Something like a frequency and some sort of a message that could be sent through. The only issue is that the AI is pretty much limited, so we would probably ending up into some new problems anyway. A local chat system could also work, like chat baloons so you would know when a tug approaches your capsized ship and say "Hey! Try to use my winch to recover your vessel!". Oh! And the flare pistol shot to the sky could be a universal help call for the player aswell.

Being an EMT I would be quite interested in deeper medical gameplay. In addition to the tourniquet and splint ideas: >Bandages which help heal wounds and reduce the possibility of infection >Hemostatic Gauze which works similar to tourniquets but doesn't fully cut off circulation, and allows bleeding control at limb-torso junctions >Cervical collar which helps stabilize neck fractures >IV Fluids which can be used to replenish fluid volume but don't replace blood level (I think this was mentioned on the discord) >Whole Blood which has special storage requirements, is expensive, and will not refill in storage, but both replenishes blood level and can provide direct healing >Antibiotics which also help prevent disease >The handheld oxygen can now be applied to other people >A portable vital signs monitor (And the medical bed now also monitors vital signs) >A 1x3 basic medicine box filled with common emergency medications (albuterol/salbutamol, aspirin, glucagon, epi-pen, oral glucose, maybe a few others) >A 1x3 advanced medicine box which has supplies to provide advanced life support (norepinephrine, anesthesia medicines, controlled pain medicines, TXA, heparin, dextrose, sedatives, IV epinephrine, other cardiac medicines to name a couple of the many possibilities) >A 1x1 box of patient-specific medicines given to you by a hospital for transport >Several of the supplies could be rolled into a 1x3 medic bag For map and missions... >Larger trauma center type hospitals, one each on Sawyer and the Desert Islands >Land rescue missions, both search and rescue type and standard emergency response into the towns >Missions to transfer patients from a small hospital to a trauma center or hospital ship (these patients would almost definitely require advanced life support enroute) Just a few

After playing a ton lately, I think new stuff for SAR is much needed, but the gameplay needs a little somthing as well. The game is much too easy to "game over". Either bug or operator error forces you to save scum or restart. More dynamic AI behavior would help the world feel like a world. The NJ rescue service for the player (currently broken I think) would be nice to have implemented. More plug and play items for those that dont understand logic. Two slots for equipment More things to buy. Supply shops to restock your gear instead of just respawning the blueprint. Finance and more depth to managing your business/operation. Better damage system or part wear that persists until you scrap or repair the vehicle. Also salvage missions with related tools would be cool. These are some main ticket items that would make this game more approachable and deep with more cohesion with existing assets. I dont expect too much, but a man can dream. Thanks for your content and discussion!

More random islands (some of them out in the middle of nowhere). Also, survivor huts on some islands. This means small cabins with heaters, medpacks & cold weather outfits in Stormworks (anything else could be added as well). More new "old" shipwrecks (created as stationary objects) not only underwater, but also on shores of islands or in shallow water where they are half-sunken. Yet another idea would be something like a ship graveyard (something like the Staten Island Ship Graveyard) which would be awesome.

that immersion survival suit mechanics should be generally applied, because as far as i know at the moment you cant put anything on NPCs at all

Idea for the hospital ship, maybe like a certain channel on the radio system, so like 6 or 7 where it stops for you, also with the AI saving you, I saw a creation off someone where you could call it in, I think it was the NG Rescue service or something, doesn't work now but what you used to do was in the chat do "?rescue_h" to spawn a helicopter which drops a winch and "?rescue_b" for a boat

I wonder if a city of some form so that you can diversify into inner city SAR alongside your more standard sar. Youd need to build more standard fire/medical equipment, high reach ladder units, high rise fires. loads of options!

Swamps would be so awesome PS: I find the idea awesome of having kinda like a mangrove swamp with slightly deeper murky green water (range from 5 to 25 meters or so) were you'd have to rely on your RADAR or LIDAR (sensors) and stuff and couldn't use cameras underwater and have underwater trees and obstacles all around you that would be so awesome even if it's a DLC I would buy it immediately. PS PS: and underwater caves With air pockets.

An idea for scuba or diving equipment might be having a spare respirator so if your diving with someone and they run out of air they can use the spare respirator (I suppose air would drain 2x faster). I don’t really see this scenario happening though.

Gotta say you have probably one of the most beautiful build styles and detail

Navy guy here: it's not realistic if a ship would stop for a helo to land. You need wind from the right direction and the platform needs to move so it won't pitch and rolls too much for the landing, which it would do when stationary. But it makes it easier in game if it would stop, yes. But to make it more realistic, there should be a way to connect to the ship, like a hook/harpoon in a mash frame, of just a magnet like we already have in game. I'd love to see underwater rescue missions, like a sunken sub. There are loads of underwater creations which are basically useless for missions.

I'd be happy if you could just give AI survivors orders like "all sit", "all stand", "all follow", "all stop"

It would be cool to have an earth quake button like the Sunami button

I cant wait for the fishing updates

Medical gear idea: Medication, possibly more than one type. One could be for allergy though there could be things like delivering meds. Wouldnt need them to be on the medical bed. The would take on going damage separate from bleeding if any.

If you get rescued by an ai ship, there should be a keypad for you to type in the coordinates of where you want to go. This would cost you a decent amount of money so people can't abuse the easy transport.

I want to see it like that: radar outputs a grid of for ex 32 by 32 pixels, and they are all showing the distance to radar contact, and you can focus and change fov dynamically. This way you actually have to do something to lock a target and at the same time you can use it to scan weather (really wish realistic and dynamic clouds were in the game) or ground

Amazing video!

Side-scan sonar is for scanning the sea bottom not finding people on the surface. But i would love to have it in game. like locate this sunken ship mission or locate and retrieve the sunken container mission

Month old vid, but would love to see a slider setup for so,e disasters… for example the Tidal Wave is too frequently happening and would be a variable scale thing as well as a time. One game I started tidal wave occurred Avery 5-15 minutes or close to that.

I also work on RADAR. Perhaps something more advance. But in my system you can turn on a terrain inhibit, so if you are working on something on the water you do not get a ton of clutter from the shoreline.

i think a science update would be interesting

#6 would be so easy bcs mrnjersey has already made it an addon

Would love to be able to customize my base or just add buildings on every spot on the map

What's behind door #2?

I'm opposed to any new radar/sonar block that requires lua to implement in-game until they revamp the system to where you just connect it directly to a video screen for basic functionality. Needing lua to even use the blocks forces people to get workshop creations and I'm a firm believer every part in the game needs to be accessible by itself, then advanced features would come from lua/ workshop. Logic is complicated enough for a lot of people.

Hi i vary much agree with you one thing i ask for stormworks to update AI Ships so i can't tell you how many times i went to rescue and i would be shot down or sunk because of AI ships battle ship if they could adjust them to where they don't fire unless fired apon now that be great. My dad was a signal men on a ship now he had a double lung transplant 11 years now so yeah it would be neat if they could do it in stormworks.

12:22 MrNJersey made an addon for that.

Boats don't stop for helicopters to land IRL.

Its really clickbaity to have the title as "Upcoming Search & Rescue Update" when what you actually mean in "proposed ideas for an update" or "there is no update, this is just from my imagination". I don't think clickbait videos are going to win you any subscribers any time soon.