Network architecture means Solo will stay. Frontier's accounts mean Solo will stay.
Cheers, Phos.
Modes Harry Potter and Zarek Null, plus a debate on Solo Play and the community.
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Network architecture means Solo will stay. Frontier's accounts mean Solo will stay.
Cheers, Phos.
Robert Maynard
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The furore / refunds after the cancellation of Offline mode (added to the scope half way through the Kickstarter and cancelled weeks before launch) plus the fact that console players without premium platform access can only play in Solo is also strongly suggestive that Solo will remain.
Never mind Frontier's reiterated stance regarding all game modes being equal and valid.
What, you don't like FA4?
I don't seriously expect a single player story in my ED experience, but even by typical open world/sandbox game standards the "story" in ED is pretty thin. With that said a comparison between games like TW3 or FA4 are kind of nonsensical for obvious reasons.
I didn't hate it. The story/immersion were just a little ...
Think about it. Man sees his wife killed and son kidnapped. So first thing he does is to go straight after the killers and try to find his son .... I'm kidding, he finds chores to do for complete strangers so he can build other complete strangers shelters.
And the gameplay consisted of: go to X and kill a bunch of dudes, optionally bring back Y. And pick up every single thing that isn't bolted to something heavy. So it was interesting to play for a bit, but got repetitive very fast.
While on the one hand I kind of agree with you, on the other hand I think that it's kind of ironic coming from someone who has predominantly been an explorer in ED and avowed solo player
One thing that has struck me as interesting is that while I played ED almost exclusively for 2 years I more or less left the rest of my vast game library to gather dust, only occasionally playing a few select titles here and there. One of these titles was Rise of the Tomb Raider; I played it for about ten hours when it released on PC and absolutely hated it. I didn't like the gun play, found the exploration tedious and unrewarding and thought the story was as boring as reading the back of a cereal box. Long story short is that I uninstalled it and went back to obsessively playing ED.Now that I've given ED a break for the last 3 months or so I've gotten back around to dusting off my library and checking out all the games that have been languishing within, one of them being Rise of the Tomb Raider...and much to my surprise I find that I'm genuinely enjoying it now. All of it from the action and exploration to the storyline, just a fun, solid game. Maybe better even than "solid." It's weird, it's almost like ED was a drug that imposed a kind of filter that functioned to my enjoyment of other games.
Private Group player. And exploration isn't repetitive, travelling is.While on the one hand I kind of agree with you, on the other hand I think that it's kind of ironic coming from someone who has predominantly been an explorer in ED and avowed solo player
We swing back and forth through our tastes. After playing Civilization extensively, I can't face any turn based strategies for a while and will dive into something like Skyrim. And then around level 40, I start thinking about Civ games again.
ED was odd, since like you I did play that for 2 years almost exclusively. Not many other games were able to string me along for such a period of time.
edit: Except when you're looking for datamined wake exceptions, that gets old in 2 minutes. Spent 2 hours yesterday, and I found 3 (x3). I'm glad the Thargs are attacking, since I am losing the will to live.
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Whoa, quit being so defensive!
But ... I'm being correct [sad]
I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you, Ziggy. But remember the "retardation effect" I was talking about, the one that creeps into your senses from over-exposure to ED? Yeah. Don't worry though, buddy; as a recovering addict myself who's safely out of the tunnel and well on the road to recovery I promise to help you through your own addiction, similar to being an AA sponsor
Before last week I hadn't played Elite for 4 months.I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you, Ziggy. But remember the "retardation effect" I was talking about, the one that creeps into your senses from over-exposure to ED? Yeah. Don't worry though, buddy; as a recovering addict myself who's safely out of the tunnel and well on the road to recovery I promise to help you through your own addiction, similar to being an AA sponsor
Have you been watching Elementary lately?
Before last week I hadn't played Elite for 4 months.
Have you been watching Elementary lately?
Oh no, it sounds like we have a really bad case here!
I just (finally!) graduated from elementary school, does that count?
I though Valkyrie was supposed to be a first person EVE game. And doesn't do anything of what regular EVE does? That was kind'a stupid of them to develop that then.
All the way up to 10!
From Wikipedia:
"As of September 2016, the game was only available to players with the Oculus Rift headset[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve:_Valkyrie#cite_note-NewLaunchIris-15"][15][/URL] through PC, and players with the PSVR headset, on PlayStation,[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve:_Valkyrie#cite_note-PCPowerplay-8"][8][/URL] although CCP has announced the game will allow cross-platform play with other upcoming systems.[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve:_Valkyrie#cite_note-HIVEPolygon-6"][6][/URL]" LOL
I guess they took FDEV's path and created an arcade game that has nothing to do with the main game.
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That's exactly what happened.
The sad irony is, whilst we can easily compare CQC with Valkyrie in terms of alienation from the main game, Valkyrie does deliver awesome VR and cockpit experience… while the main game does not.
I suppose I can find some time in between hunting at CGs to slaughter some sidewinders at Eravate...
While I appreciate Zarek Null and all he has done for me and this game. (Getting me a mention in his article on him was pretty cool.) I have long held the belief that this galaxy has needed a higher class of Overlord. I do think I can provide that to this galaxy. Though I may lack the unparalleled charisma of my predecessor. I more than make up in firepower and fury.
Zarek Null was the Overlord this Galaxy needed...I can be the one that it deserves.
Lol! I’ve been somewhat exclusive with ed over the last few years myself, but now am working too much to get any playtime in. Was thinking of scrolling back through my library as well.I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you, Ziggy. But remember the "retardation effect" I was talking about, the one that creeps into your senses from over-exposure to ED? Yeah. Don't worry though, buddy; as a recovering addict myself who's safely out of the tunnel and well on the road to recovery I promise to help you through your own addiction, similar to being an AA sponsor
Still, it is kind of funny how you and Zarek never showed up on my friends list as playing at the same time...