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4.2 hrs last two weeks / 3,252.9 hrs on record (3.4 hrs at review time)
Posted: 6 Jul, 2021 @ 9:56am
Updated: 2 Aug, 2024 @ 9:46am

Early Access Review
Complete revamp of my review, now using a less overrated format

Even though it says early access review, i updated this after 1.7.4 released on experimental

If your wondering if your old Windows 7 can run it, it's true, i'm one of the few on steam who still uses Windows 7, i use a Home Premium and i can easily run it by just turning the graphics down, in fact, some can run the game on a Celeron with low graphics, after all though gameplay matters more then looks often

Don't you remember playing with legos? this game is actually basically a lego game but with so much more possibilities, clipping allows crazy shapes to be made that normal legos can't make without a actuator(or whatever there called), the graphics are great but can lag alot, i use a windows 7 though and somehow, at max graphics with no motion thing it only gives me 5 FPS, even if i spawn in a high brick item which is cool, but FPS matters more then looks, just use good looks for picture taking n stuff, unless you got a computer that can run BeamNG.drive at like 80 FPS with a lot of cars spawned(i guess?), now here's the main problem in BR(you'll learn to get used to them), trolls and FRPers that came from Youtubers aimed for the younger audience, destroying servers and not reading rules, apparently any gamemode but a server with RP Roleplay or something in the title barely gets trolled, now you may be wondering if there is a Anti-thing Group, there is, fluppi(the one dev and creator of game) had them permabanned in 1.4.4 so you don't need to worry about them(for a little while at least)

The builds in the workshop range from Low Quality and Reupload to Amazing quality and completely handmade, there are even some fanmade builds on the workshop from other series, the reupload problem is very severe though and it happens really frequently(came from the same thing the trolls came from, the Youtubers, sometimes just complete idiots with no regard for a sense of decency)

BUT, the update 1.5 released back then and just obliterated the early access title, BR has came a long way and is now pretty much complete, and while the UI looks.. ugly, the brand new logic released allowing almost limitless logic possibilities, tbh i actually miss old brick rigs now, i just wish fluppi added a Before Early Access End option to visit the last early access update(1.4.3), so..

With the next update coming up too, which is the second non-EA update to release soon for the game, it's bringing flares for the heat seeking missiles, a whole new scalable system and vehicle LOD's, which allow the game to be optimized further, basically how they work is that only the larger bricks or more visible bricks on a car or whatever your using will get shown from afar, eventually they'll disappear from sight as if they were never there, albeit still technically existing, pretty good for those people who wish to host full scale space battles and make there own spaceships, just be good with making thrusters do stuff with sensors or use helicopter engines using a tactic to compress the engines to make them smaller, really the only bonus of having more then 2 helicopter wings is the speed, they all have the same strength basically no matter there blade count(some but not all aerodynamics in this game not work in space helicopter engines are one of the aerodynamic ones that work in the 'map')

In conclusion, this game is enjoyable for some but not others, i enjoy this game a lot, you can see from my hours since i written this so i really seen some things, but i just miss the old days somtimes tbh

Since the steam awards came up(21/11/23 or 22/11/23), i'll just say this, this game is better with friends, which is exactly what i voted it for, if you want a game to play with friends, you can mess around in friends only(aka join via profile or invite) and just play around with things

For a video from older brick rigs, here is the link | search brick rigs on youtube lol
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