I bought my brother a game package, he tried it once, hated it and never agreed to try it again any time I asked.
Recently with it being pretty stable for me I managed to talk him into playing it and he downloaded it last night. Today was my day off so we both hopped on.
Decided to head from hurston to Microtech to show him the planet, set expectations for low frames.
On the way there he dropped dead for no reason, so i waited with his body in my ship because he wanted to loot his stuff, explained how to come back to me in his Mustang and he did. Got stuck in the door for the MSR trying to get back in but survived, then spent about 10 mins trying to be able to loot himself.
Got to microtech, he was trying to adjust his webcam for FOIP cause it had stopped working and was really his favourite feature if I'm being honest and he leaned on backspace and died, going back to Hurston.
He decided at this stage to go for food.
So I made my way back to Hurston to meet up if he (it was 50/50) came back.
He did come back. We went and ran one bounty, it worked fine, can't complain. we split the money and I gave him 500k on top. We went to Arc Corp. Everything went fine but once we got to Area 18 NPCs were blocking all the doors, so we had to find a new server. Once he'd been able to do his shopping we decided a trade run might be a fun thing, so we headed to wala to do the short run of Alcohol back to Arc corp from shady glen farm, except it was too dark and I couldn't find it. So we found a new server in hopes it might be day time, it wasn't. So we abandoned that idea.
The breaking point came when trying to show him an FPS cave mission to clear out the NPCs, too dark on planet, ship got stuck without reason when landing and we couldn't find the cave, or get back into the ship.
Session over.
Moral of story: it's still too early to be excited to bring your friends in. Don't do it.
Some edits from the general conversations going on here:
I paid for the game for my brother so he lost nothing.
He loves sci-fi and I’d been pretty thorough explaining what the alpha is now before he tried it.
Although I have been playing since 2014 I in fact didnt know scanning highlighted terrain, no one told me haha.
We tried a cave clear hostile mission because there wasn’t a bunker mission available and he likes shooters and wanted to try the gun he bought out.
The only thing we had planned for the end was to go to prison so he could see that but once the ship got stuck in a tree and we were lost on Magda we just left.
Cheers for all the replies tbough and thanks to the majority for being really helpful as always.
