Top Engineer - The Set Up

Top Engineer - The Set Up was a short Space Engineers stream series in early 2020 where Splitsie, W4stedspace, and Captain Shack that was part of the Top Engineer series. Here, they continued their multiplayer racing challenge:

* They compete in a series of varied races from checkpoint to checkpoint on the Medieval Planet.
* Each player races in a provided self-built vehicle
* At every checkpoint, they roll the dice for one of 10 random events.
* Reach the final location and *set up* the Welcome Center there (i.e. build at least a Survival Kit).

The concept is a continuation of Top Engineer - Race to the Bottom and the name is inspired by the TV show Top Gear.

## The Challenge

Three experienced space engineers are sent by "the producer" (themselves) through different biomes on the Medieval Planet. They race each other in survival mode from checkpoint to checkpoint to reach the location of the future Welcome Center, and then they have to build it.

In the beginning, they were airdropped together with their given (partially modded) vehicles. These small-grid "Blast from the past" vehicles had very different strengths and weaknesses:

* Brodoser: W4stedspace' tank was the heaviest, biggest, and most robust, but that also made it stiff and sluggish on hills.
* Lancer: Shack's agile, lightweight exploration rover has boosters and carries spare wheels.
* Twin-Stick Shooter: Splitsie's tiny armed Segway balances on one wheel and is as lightning fast and agile as it is cargoless and fragile.

## Episodes

* Top Engineers - The Set Up Part 1 (April 5, 2020)
Full ~4 hours on the Flipsie channel
* Top Engineers - The Set Up Part 2, stuck in a hole (April 20, 2020)
Full ~4 hours on the Flipsie channel
* There is no part 3

## Random Events

Splitsie regularly rolled one d10 to pick a random event that affects all three players.
Random events were things like bad weather, sunset or sunrise, first-person mode only, carry an engineer-shaped large-grid decoy, or no HUD.

## Plot Summary

Part 1:

(0:00) Splitsie, Shack, and W4sted find themselves on a flying aircraft carrier designed by w4sted. They read the rules, grab the provided vehicles, and parachute down to the first checkpoint. (0:18) **Challenge 1** is to race to Challenge 2. They roll the dice for night time, no HUD, and having to carry a decoy. Shack falls into a box canyon; Splitsie and w4sted get lost, but make it.

(0:49) **Challenge 2** is a timed challenge 3km downhills. With "voxel damage" off, Splitsie wins. With "voxel damage" on, w4sted wins. (1:57) **Challenge 3** is driving through a barrage of cannon fire, they all make it. (2:30) / (2:43) **Challenge 4** is to pull a cargo trailer with materials to build the Welcome Center. They roll the dice for bad weather, an Ansel effect, and inverted controls. Splitsie's crash leads to an hour long elaborate rescue mission and a chain of escalating disasters. Splitsie turns two cargo trailers into a replacement vehicle.

Part 2

In continuation of challenge 4's disastrous rescue mission, Splitsie accidentally gets his vehicle out of the box canyon and w4sted wallrides back out. (1:08) **Challenge 5** is to climb up vertically a tall mesa. They decide against building a self-welding space elevator or a spiralling road. First, they build a small component factory at the foot of the mesa to get their vehicles ready to climb. (3:30) They roll the dice for "inverted controls" for 5 mins. Splitsie pulls two cargo containers up mindnumbingly slowly on pistons with landing gear; w4sted's Brodozer simply drives up the vertical mesa wall to the top but he didn't bring any cargo; Shack's Lancer flies up on his thrusters and brings his cargo container (and later the remaining two as well).

Thanks to team work, they succeeded in bringing the parts for a Survival Kit to the final location. They never recorded a part 3, because at this point, the only task left was building the Welcome Center.

## Funny scenes

* Part 1 at (1:29:15) A Capac decoy plays an "ow" sound file.
* Part 1 at (2:27:30) "We could always play the loading screen game to pick the engineer that Xoc was actually controlling when he took the screenshot."
* Part 2 at (0:27:00) Splitsie accidentally drives out of a box canyon and hits the only tree in the desert.
* Part 2 at (3:57:51) W4sted drives up the vertical mesa wall and passes Splitsie and Shack.
* Part 2 at (4:04:43) W4sted is bored and jumps off the mesa and drives up a second time.
* Part 2 at (4:12:07) Shack grabs Splitsie to fly him to the top (after some emergency changes)