Hellion - 0.4 Exposure update

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Mole HD said:
A few friends and I have several hundred hours into Hellion and we haven't had cause to get bored yet. As early as this game is in the develpment cycle, there's more than enough gameplay there to make it a fascinating, sometimes frustrating, and always eventful experience.

The private servers are where it's at for me, although there is a single player experience too. The server my friends and I have been playing on for over 2 years has certain features (it's up to the server hosting the game exactly what can and can't be done) that drag me back in. I think the ability for the host to set up the specific rules and run the game as they see appropriate on the private server, make this game to be fair...
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I get that, but my problem with these types of games (and why I compared it to Subnautica) is that when playing through, gathering resources, building bases, improving ships, repairing stuff,... it's awesome and fun... once. If you play it for the second time, it's a chore.
That's why I prefer to play these things from start to finish. It's not that I'd be worried about the lack of content, it's just that I wouldn't enjoy it as much when playing it again, later into the development.
Player-run servers and the ability to "mod" the rules and content does sound great, though. I am sure I will enjoy that when I get to it.
 

Mole HD

Mole HD
Chris Simon said:
I get that, but my problem with these types of games (and why I compared it to Subnautica) is that when playing through, gathering resources, building bases, improving ships, repairing stuff,... it's awesome and fun... once. If you play it for the second time, it's a chore.
That's why I prefer to play these things from start to finish. It's not that I'd be worried about the lack of content, it's just that I wouldn't enjoy it as much when playing it again, later into the development.
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I do get your point Chris...and I agree wholeheartedly having attempted Subnautica more than once. What made Hellion for me besides the private servers was the coop interaction with some friends...not available in Subnautica...which might have changed my experience and opinion of that game significantly.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Mole HD said:
I do get your point Chris...and I agree wholeheartedly having attempted Subnautica more than once. What made Hellion for me besides the private servers was the coop interaction with some friends...not available in Subnautica...which might have changed my experience and opinion of that game significantly.
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True.
Though on the other hand I quite like the pure singleplayer experience of Subnautica because its whole premise and most of its charm is based on the loneliness and self-dependance. So having friends around, however great for fun, would kind of ruin the one part where the game really shines.
But yeah, in games that take cooperation into account, having friends around does add a lot.
 

Mole HD

Mole HD
Chris Simon said:
True.
Though on the other hand I quite like the pure singleplayer experience of Subnautica because its whole premise and most of its charm is based on the loneliness and self-dependance. So having friends around, however great for fun, would kind of ruin the one part where the game really shines.
But yeah, in games that take cooperation into account, having friends around does add a lot.
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It certainly made Hellion for me. Solo, it's a daunting and frustrating experience since the whole mechanics of the game make E-D seem like interpreting a childrens book by comparison.

Between 4 of us...one who was superb at docking modules together in Zero G with absolute Newtonian physics, one who could interpret the inter planetary and orbital flight mechanics without flying into a planet, sun or orbital debris fields, one who loved organising the base building and moving modules around to make a functional home base...and me who loved deep space manual resource mining with a drill and cannisters attached to my waist and retrieving disabled large ships and modules from dangerous environments...we made a good crew :)
 
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Henkka77

Henkka77
Yup, i'm playing on private server with friends also, very addicting and very much fun. We just got the command module and next we need to combine our bases and start growing it bigger. And we haven't even traveled to other moons of Hellion yet..
Haven't even followed the storyline further than "Safe Haven", really dont have time for that, so much other stuff to do.. :D
 

Henkka77

Henkka77
Exploration update seems to be quite borked.. It takes now 45 minutes to reach Hirath with Tier 2 singularity cell and you need to split the journey in half.
In the previous build trip to Hirath from Bethyr took like 15 mins with Tier 1 singularity cell..
 
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