Hardspace: Shipbreaker - How To Depressurize

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Job simulations are a popular category in gaming. There's something satisfying about stepping into a role with a clearly defined objective and doing the job well. Whether one is working as a chef, a gladiatorial instructor, or a power washer, there's no shortage of virtual careers to take part in. Some of these even take place in worlds quite unlike our own.

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Hardspace: Shipbreaker is a sci-fi sim about salvaging ships, and while cutting a derelict vessel into scrap to throw into a furnace may not seem thrilling, doing the job efficiently in space while avoiding an explosive or otherwise messy death is no small feat. One of the most basic but concerning issues when scrapping a ship is depressurization: releasing the air trapped within the ship without ripping the ship to pieces or causing a catastrophic meltdown in the process. Here's everything the player needs to know about how to depressurize.

One reason that Hardspace: Shipbreaker can be so cinematic is the level of detail and realism it brings to salvaging. Improperly breaching the pressure seal on a spaceship has a few consequences, none of which are desirable. The sudden loss of pressure will rip the contents out of the newly depressurized area, jettisoning it into space in an undifferentiated cloud of twisted scrap metal. This makes sorting, collecting, and salvaging the jettisoned ship components far more time-consuming and frustrating than it would otherwise have been.

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Improper depressurization is also costly. The player won't be able to get as good a return on their salvage if many of their most desirable components were just ripped into the vacuum of space and smashed