Why FDev.. just why make this game so tedious on purpose?
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I started playing just in the nick of time where the mission board was completely useless. The sandbox stuff was much more interesting, and you only went to the mission board for specific things like rep and exploits.
There was a time when the mission board got focused on probably because new players go there.. but i don't think it ever lost its roots as a placeholder.
I wonder how frontier consider it... and whether they're happy keeping it as vague as it currently is. Was it ever supposed to be prime content?
Except the free fly combat demo you can try out before you buy obviously.
I don't find complaints about tedium are entirely meritless so jumping on anyone who brings them up is a bit harsh (although the OP's tone was so closed-minded that it was either outright trolling or the type of person who can't deal with anything that isn't their idea of perfection); things do tend to get somewhat repetitive and a little lifeness. I still play though (albeit with months-long breaks where I don't) because it's enjoyable despite all that.
wheres my free try mat farm demo tho?
So why do you feel the need to grind, exactly? Unlike Destiny or The Division or Fortnight, the game doesn't force you to grind in order not to feel like you've missed out on something. You can literally play at any rate you want.
They didn't write a demo for whatever boring repetitive idiocy the grinders will latch onto then complain about next. Probably since grinders always find their own way to gravitate to methods of ruining games for themselves.
Your opinion, my opinion cmdr!
Funny how ED has set my standard for gameplay loops, so once I started playing RDO I just expected all missions (of a specific type) to be the same. I was surprised, even shocked, when the same mission (for example, delivering goods to a market) introduced a variety of different scenarios and gameplay loops each time I do it. It's not an infinite number of scenarios and repeats do happen, but after playing ED I expected the mission gameplay to be identical each and every time, and I just accepted that as normal.
wheres the ED trailer showin some rock shooting in their ads? i wonder.. do they actually pull in people that want action and then make them grind mats to be able to have access to proper action? And then we wonder why ppl coming here new in complain?
Other games usually give these chores a Marketplace. So ppl that like to grind can do it and earn a few credits selling, while those who dont like the grind can earn them through w/e way they make money with and buy them.That is a trap!
Source: https://youtu.be/s5HvH0gichU
Source: https://youtu.be/7sHyU24mFAQ
Source: https://youtu.be/-OYZ8W8k764
PS: Using SRV turrets can help. Also material traders, the advice about collecting mats by doing in Elite what you like and then hit the traders is quite sound actually.
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I don't buy games based on trailers as I understand what trailers are.
Nobodies forced to grind for mats at all, I just grab them in passing and then trade for anything else I need. Easy come easy go.
read my first post here
No thanks.
Apparently I'm quite funny when I'm being serious.
All British video games are sadistic, it is a Brit thing IMO
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Very first launch trailer, minute 00:30.
(And then the rest is a CGI frag fest. But, rock shooting!
)This made me cringe badly when i first started. Apart from the blatant misrepresentation, people who believed that video came in and started complaining.. and to my horror frontier actually jumped and started making the game for THEM, not the people who liked what was actually there. I wonder what was going on.. instead of frontier cleaning up, being honest and moving ahead.. they ran with their own fakery.
Anyway, that's long past. This one is possible to rest, because that video isn't the first one on steam, its the third one.. so given new people will watch the first two first.. the third one isn't just one big lie to sell the game anymore.