I start by placing a new cockpit and attach it to a block, so that the vague shape of a spaceship begins to take form. Samuel: This is a PC Gamer ship, so damn it, we will build it out of red and black bricks. I plop down a cockpit, but sideways, embedding it in the ground. Even building that HELP sign took longer than I’d care to admit.

Another problem is that I don’t know how to play this game. I bet NASA never had to deal with this shit. Instead we head to the valley below, and hope the ground is even enough to facilitate the construction of a spacefaring vessel. Phil: We need a flat location to construct our ship, but we’d be building around machine gun fire if we did it back at my base. When I reach my destination, I see a HELP sign very cleverly made out of spaceship parts. It’s fast enough to get me there, but not so fast that I can actually take off from the ground for more than ten seconds. This means fitting atmospheric thrusters to my landing craft, which makes it just about fast enough to leapfrog across the world to where Phil waits for me. Samuel: Phil fiddles around until he finds out how to set a waypoint, and now I have to get to him.

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