Strong Unknown Signals - for single player

Lance shared this feedback ago

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It was revealed in the recent stream for the fieldwork pack that strong unknown signals, which adds more to the game including skins, is only available when there are 2 players in the game.

I, like many players are not able to play on servers, or lack friends who can join hosted games.

Can this be altered, to allow even a check box for this need for 2 players to be disabled.

This feature of needing 2 players seems wrong for a game that was advertised to me as a sp game with mp support. I (and many on reddit etc) are missing out on content, etc all because our lives don't support online play.

I am sure there is a way to bypass this, however I feel it is more appropriate if ksh provide an ingame hot fix opposed to use having to mod or crack the game.

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Aina Love ●

This would be great, I rarely get to play with others. :/

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sSpaze ●

please keen, we are literally missing out on content

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Lance ●

Strong Unknown Signals have been a feature for YEARS, and I am just NOW finding out about it? I have been playing since before skins became a thing. No wonder I have never been able to obtain any of the higher tier skins!

Maybe it made sense before the Signal update, but now that the Factorum and really difficult end-game encounters have been introduced, single-players should be able to encounter Strong Unknown Signals, too.

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Lance ●

I i agree, I have been playing for many many many years and just accepted the gap in game play as i didn't know any better.

But looking at this and seeing what was makes me feel kinda Sour. Please make these available for sp.

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Lance ●

Checking the data files from 1.206 Contact, I found that several of the Unknown Signals spawn as both normal (personal) and strong (competitive). Clearly, the higher tier skins are only available if the signal spawns in as strong. I thought I the reason I was not getting higher tier skins was just bad luck, and considered buying them from the Steam Community Market. Turns out it was not bad luck, but rather by design.

I have over 6200 hours in Space Engineers because I find the way SE presents creation and destruction in survival deeply satisfying. I have supported Keen by getting every DLC and SE2 even though SE2 is not ready for me, personally. However, I am not sure I can continue to support Keen after this breach of trust.

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Lance ●

As for the token system: Even after recycling all the duplicate skins from the Skin Hunt (not to mention all the other duplicate skins from before), I am just now approaching 2500 tokens for one exceptional skin (not there yet). There is simply no viable way for a single-player to get higher tier skins without buying them.

All that said, I really just want to encounter Strong Unknown Signals. Are they "strong" because of the risk of encountering other players? Are they heavily armed? Do drones spawn in that normally would not?

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Lunarz711 ●

Well looks like this Skin Event is straight Useless as only the rare skins and above drop with the Strong Unknown Signals.... False Advertisement Keen!

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