Does it punch above it's weight for marketing purposes, then?
I am partially talking from my own experience - I tried out a free fly event to not "only talk" - after all I might be mistaken in some aspects, better try it out, right?Not what it's about at all...but you go on believing that if you like
That's not very fair is it? If you played other space games for 45 minutes and gave a review it would probably be just as scathing. (Says the guy who game up on one of the free events having only just made it out of bed and into the corridor )I am partially talking from my own experience - I tried out a free fly event to not "only talk" - after all I might be mistaken in some aspects, better try it out, right?
It was exactly as boring as I thought it'd be, I didn't even get to any mission, just shot some ships, got annoyed by me spending 45 minutes on getting it running and flight model, turned it off. And I am a person who's okay with Elite flight times (and WoT wait times and so on), but SC was too much even for me.
I am partially talking from my own experience - I tried out a free fly event to not "only talk" - after all I might be mistaken in some aspects, better try it out, right?
It was exactly as boring as I thought it'd be, I didn't even get to any mission, just shot some ships, got annoyed by me spending 45 minutes on getting it running and flight model, turned it off. And I am a person who's okay with Elite flight times (and WoT wait times and so on), but SC was too much even for me.
I'm truly loving my Avenger Titan! Its a phenomenal little ship, with the agility to do every mission.
Here is a dead NPC that I got doing bounty hunting missions. I collected his corpse to ensure I got the bounty!
Took some serious damage getting him and his friends.
That's not very fair is it? If you played other space games for 45 minutes and gave a review it would probably be just as scathing. (Says the guy who game up on one of the free events having only just made it out of bed and into the corridor )
The last free fly was a complete farce with possibly the worst patch Ci¬G had released in 3 years up to that point...it was rushed out of the door to maintain a fixed release schedule, even when evocati and PTU testers said during testing it was nowhere near release state...especially for a free fly event where the focus was firmly on attracting new backers rather than to add QOL improvements for us current mugs.The last free fly was terrible, and not having space on my SSD for the game just made everything worse.
I might try out the next free fly, but without the SSD space i can't imagine it being any better performance and the gameplay... well, the experience last time was already a major turn off. I didn't get to do anything except eventually get to my ship, take off, fail to get to the target (after 10 minutes of QT) because i couldn't make planetfall (despite having read multiple instructions on how to do it, the damn drive just wouldn't engage), then commiting suicide, trying to spawn the ship again, only to have to wait for the immersion timer, and being a peasant on a free fly meant i only had access to the one ship.
I mean, if you are going to have a free fly, don't make the game a worse expereince for those who are looking to check it out than for those who have spent hundreds or thousands.
That's the point of caves! They have no doors!People keep asking for caves in ED, which also puzzles me - I can count the number of spelunking games I own on the fingers of ... zero hands. I mean sure, if you have every other thing modelled in your galaxy then why not, but when you can't even use a door without dying...
it was rushed out of the door to maintain a fixed release schedule
it was rushed out of the door to maintain a fixed release schedule, even when evocati and PTU testers said during testing it was nowhere near release state
But Chris Roberts is a perfectionist, remember — that's why these things happen.So, basically like every patch since they changed to fixed release schedule?
But Chris Roberts is a perfectionist, remember — that's why these things happen.
Somehow.
But the problem was that the game didn't make me want to play more. It was clunky, the flight model was a mess, the combat was not interesting, the UI was horrible.
The new flight model now allows for a bit more ramp up in skill. Lets give it that. Flying over planet surfaces has become almost properly enjoyable. Although there's still nothing much to do, due to missions being buggered beyond salvation. You can try a space trucking loop, if you are lucky and dont lose everything (ship and cargo) to a server crash, it's almost like a minigame trying to park your ship in a hangar without it becoming a crazy pinball because of the wonky physics (seems like any collision in that engine = creation of huge amounts of energy..). Reminds me of those old Lunar Lander games back then.I don't have that feeling with SC. I feel that I could improve in flying the ships to some degree, but I don't feel like it would make it more fun to play the game, and that's a problem.
You do get some that can't see the wood for the treesOMG I can't breath...
Well, I wonder if they are on the same planet, like in the same dimension??You do get some that can't see the wood for the trees
He's an obsessive narcissist...not much else you can add to that really...I think 'perfectionist' is one of the things he neither understands nor is in any way capable of understanding through his hubris.But Chris Roberts is a perfectionist, remember — that's why these things happen.
Somehow.