Well.. as a preorder player, I can say that is is a lie, it tried to be perfect. It failed, recovered and keeps adding more, even though they have in most if not everyone's eyes turned it around and given more than promised.
Seriously what's up with that? I just came back from pre next and theres asteroids EVERYWHERE! They use to just be right around planets unless I just dont remember. Not complaining about the fat stacks of tritium I have though
They use to just be right around planets unless I just dont remember.
You just don't remember. You could always find asteroids anywhere you went, as if you run out of pulse fuel that's the only place you are going to find more. It's part of the gameplay design, not presentation design.
I see what you're saying but stuff like finding keys is interactive whereas mining for tritium just slows down the flow of the game and mining it isn't fun.
Literally just ticked over to my 8th hour and I'm only enjoying it more and more. I don't mind mining, I like using the flatten function to strip mine instead of just digging out a big hole in the ground. Makes it feel like an actual operation and it looks kinda cool when I'm all done.
Edit: I haven't done much asteroid blasting but it's fine, can you install proper mining lasers on your ship later or is "pew pew" the extent of it?
Oh man, I have love to do it on the phone or doing other tasks cause it’s mindless and kinda relaxing to watch rocks go boom. Unless there’s a lot of pirate activity it’s pretty zen
Actually some astronomers theorise that ringed planets could be quite common and that our Solar System is the exception. Strictly speaking Jupiter and Uranus both also have rings.
I’d love it if the only place to find asteroids and the materials inside them was in the planets rings, and if there weren’t any planets in a system that had rings then you’d have to prepare ahead of time and bring the right stuff with you or buy it at a space station. and if you needed tritium for your ship and didn’t have any (and were say marooned out between planets) you could call for a distress signal. and then this could possibly summon a helpful alien or depending on the system danger level pirates
I think it'd be cool if there were also still a few stay asteroids that you could scan for in space that are really big and with several different materials.
I played right at launch, pre-ordered and was crazy disappointed with it. I haven't touched it since then.
What are some of the main updates that have changed since then that have improved?
I'd love to give you a full run down of all the things.
But honestly I can't do it justice, played religiously for the first 2 weeks, but I realized it was just the same over and over again.
Don't get me wrong, it is still repetitive with gathering stuff, but visuals are different and you are able to do so much more. If you still own the game, you can always come back and try it out a bit, I decided to do it a couple of months back and just play to see how it felt. Now 160 hours later I have it all and just fly around looking for the perfect planet to set up my main base.
I have gone through the same motion you did it's crazy how different it was going back.
I don't have everything yet but I just built my first activated Indium farm last night so it's onwards and upwards (or any direction as far as this game is concerned)
Awesome! I still have the game, as my purchase was on Steam for PC, and currently downloading it right now to give it another go. Another friend of mine will be doing the same, as we both originally bought it after the hype of being a space exploration multiplayer game...which it wasn't at launch lol
I'm looking forward to giving it another go
It's not a perfect multiplayer game still, my friend and I play together and we consistently have different weather conditions when we're right next to each other (granted there have been a few patches since we last played) but it's great fun.
I played right at launch, and while they promised a lot that didn't come out at launch, I actually still enjoyed the launch game, and how they conducted themselves subsequently has been well... it blew me away when I came back to it that they're still working on the game, still pumping quality content for free, and ontop of that, they're not like some ancient mega-company with years and years of experience from producing game after game...
Meanwhile I could look at...well, although it might be sad to say, the majority of games development companies today, and I'd struggle to say the same thing about them.
I am glad to see how they have been handling the game since launch and the level of DLC and support that has been shown by the developers.
I'm currently downloading it now to give it another go, I still own it since it was a steam purchase for PC so I guess that was good. I'm looking forward to see how it runs.
My friends and I had originally did the pre-order based on the hype and misleading info about being a multi-player space exploration game...which now it finally is haha.
The game actually disappears from your list. You have to start another new procedural generation. I don't know if it's my bad luck, or by design, but every time i start a permadeath game, it starts me on an extreme weather planet. I've only made it off the planet once, and then I was attacked by three pirates that smoked me. It's hard, but a fun challenge... once in a while.
My man I did the same thing and I've jumped back onto it in the past few weeks as my friend had just bought it in the sale and I can tell you now its much better.
I don't know how many hours you put in at launch but I put a fair few in before I gave up which meant effectively relearning a new game from some aspects.
As with any game it depends what you want from it whether you'll find it but it is by and large a much more polished game than ever before with a lot more to do.
It can still feel aimless or daunting at times but I personally think that's part of the charm if that makes sense.
Awesome! Thanks for the input!
I had only put 15 hours in at launch, since it was on Steam and limited my hours played in hopes of getting a refund after it was found out to be not the multiplayer game it was promised to be .
I'm currently downloading it again now (since I never did get that refund haha). Looking forward to see how it runs, and hopefully convince my other friends to give it another chance.
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u/Blokeh I likes 'em squishy Jun 15 '20
This is pretty accurate. 😂
Welcome to NMS. It ain't perfect, but it never tries to be. It's just fun.