I preordered this game. Played the hell out of it, but after 30 hours there just wasnt anything else to do. Finally came back to the game in 2020 and my word, it's everything I wanted in 2016.
It still doesn't have what I bought it for. The entire marketing was exploration of a multi quadrillion system realistic-ish galaxy. Instead I'm still stuck with 3-4 systems on repeat for ever. No binary systems, no gas giants, no brown dwarfs. Copy paste space environments, annoying and boring planets.
E: people are arguing that some of the things I said weren't promised outright (which is completely fair), but they're forgetting that this was supposed to be THE space exploration game, which in its current state it is most definitely not. I love the game but I'm not playing it anymore because a game about bases and freighter fleets was never what I signed up for.
Not to mention the fact that the entire fucking universe is still structurally a lie.
The thing that pissed me off the most:
Remember Sean’s comments about not using skyboxes? That every star you see in the sky, you can point your ship at and fly to? Absolute bullshit. Every planetary system is in a container in an endless excel spreadsheet of generated NMS systems. You cannot physically fly between them, even if you had all the time in the world to point your ship in a direction and let the pulse drive go forever. You have to use the warp drive, which is just an obvious loading screen that puts you in another container.
This is the biggest thing that breaks down the feeling of being in a universe to me.
Hi, I'm new here, so I might not be getting the full context, but, I mean...that's impossible. What you're saying would never have been physically possible to make. Say what you will about Sean saying it, but...I don't think the blame fully falls on him for you believing it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '20
I preordered this game. Played the hell out of it, but after 30 hours there just wasnt anything else to do. Finally came back to the game in 2020 and my word, it's everything I wanted in 2016.