jaethos Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 It has some very cool looking vistas. I just bought it when the NEXT update came out, but it's been pretty fun. It can start to feel a bit repetitive once you've gotten yourself a decent ship and upgraded your stuff a good amount, but it's the kind of game you can take a break from for a while and not feel totally lost when you come back. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucoe Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 Just wanted to say that I spent some serious time in the game not too long ago, and I had two responses to whether or not you should play this game. 1. I'm not sure what the original release game was like, but it's really a lot of fun right now, and it's deeply immersive. My one problem in the first few days of playing the game was that the universe really felt lonely. Then I started finding random vendors and space people on the planets that kind of helped me realize I wasn't alone, but they were always aliens, and my understanding of their knowledge was horridly bad, no matter how many words I learned. I get the impression that you literally have to learn the entire vocabulary of an alien language to even understand a fraction of their language. Part of me thinks that could take months of playing. I'd probably learn their language quicker if there was a Berlitz training manual somewhere outside of the game (the ones that actually teach you real world languages in the real world). But there's a lot of detail and a lot of nuance throughout the game. I could have probably played this forever. Except 2. They haven't fixed some of the bugs that have been around since release. The last one I experienced basically ended the game for me completely. I managed to get a freighter (from saving an allied species ship during combat) and got onto it. And then my interface went stupid. I couldn't get off the ship, and I couldn't do anything in the ship. It was like I had clicked camera mode in any other game and just couldn't get out of it. And at this point, it had been a very long time since I was able to previously save the game. The game tells you that it saved the game when you get onto the freighter, but it doesn't actually do that. It just tells you it did. Only way to have saved it would have been back on a planet. That was a LONG TIME AGO. I could have gone back to one of those saves hours and hours ago, and when I did, I just didn't feel like doing all that again and hope that 90 percent of the random things that happened would lead me to this wonderful point in the game. And when I tried to do that, it just went bad. So I relogged again. And it went worse. So, I signed out, commented on the boards, realized that a bunch of people had made this same complaint YEARS ago, and then just decided I wouldn't be signing back on again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted September 8, 2018 Author Share Posted September 8, 2018 3 hours ago, brucoe said: Just wanted to say that I spent some serious time in the game not too long ago, and I had two responses to whether or not you should play this game. 1. I'm not sure what the original release game was like, but it's really a lot of fun right now, and it's deeply immersive. My one problem in the first few days of playing the game was that the universe really felt lonely. Then I started finding random vendors and space people on the planets that kind of helped me realize I wasn't alone, but they were always aliens, and my understanding of their knowledge was horridly bad, no matter how many words I learned. I get the impression that you literally have to learn the entire vocabulary of an alien language to even understand a fraction of their language. Part of me thinks that could take months of playing. I'd probably learn their language quicker if there was a Berlitz training manual somewhere outside of the game (the ones that actually teach you real world languages in the real world). But there's a lot of detail and a lot of nuance throughout the game. I could have probably played this forever. Except 2. They haven't fixed some of the bugs that have been around since release. The last one I experienced basically ended the game for me completely. I managed to get a freighter (from saving an allied species ship during combat) and got onto it. And then my interface went stupid. I couldn't get off the ship, and I couldn't do anything in the ship. It was like I had clicked camera mode in any other game and just couldn't get out of it. And at this point, it had been a very long time since I was able to previously save the game. The game tells you that it saved the game when you get onto the freighter, but it doesn't actually do that. It just tells you it did. Only way to have saved it would have been back on a planet. That was a LONG TIME AGO. I could have gone back to one of those saves hours and hours ago, and when I did, I just didn't feel like doing all that again and hope that 90 percent of the random things that happened would lead me to this wonderful point in the game. And when I tried to do that, it just went bad. So I relogged again. And it went worse. So, I signed out, commented on the boards, realized that a bunch of people had made this same complaint YEARS ago, and then just decided I wouldn't be signing back on again. That sucks about that bug! I've been fortunate that the only bugs I've encountered have been fixable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucoe Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 22 hours ago, legend said: That sucks about that bug! I've been fortunate that the only bugs I've encountered have been fixable. It wouldn't have been significant enough for me to care about but I went through SO MUCH work to get that freighter. Having to do it again and rely on their random generator to get something like it again just seemed like Everest before me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithan Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 I dumped about 82 hours into it after NEXT came out and wanted to say that visually, the game is MUCH improved. I am still not super impressed with the planets, but they are much better than they used to be, but I still wish we had more variants, something I am not sure I understand as to why they have not done more with. Same goes with animals. Anyways, the story aspect makes things better obviously, base building is very cool and varied, etc, etc. I really like it and look forward to seeing them expand this more. It is basically what most of us said when it was released in 2016... which was, "in two years this game might be good". Well, 2 years is here and it is good now. If this had been released 2 years ago, the reaction would have been much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 I think I'm done for now, it's gotten really repetitive. I've gotten 40 hours out of it though, so not bad for $30 CAD! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithan Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 Just now, CitizenVectron said: I think I'm done for now, it's gotten really repetitive. I've gotten 40 hours out of it though, so not bad for $30 CAD! 40 hours out of 30 is a good deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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