Really? All that hype for nothing?(spoiler)
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There's no personal narrative in ED its a different game. There's a galaxy with things happening within which you're just one pilot amongst millions, you are not the hero of the ED story.
Speak for yourself, I found the cutscene exciting. I found escaping from the megaship that I had parked at and now in pieces exciting. I returned with a better equipped ship and started scavenging a destroyed megaship, got ambished by an interceptor and spent some anxious minutes trying to escape after it disabled my PP, thrusters and FSD, only to die at the end. I wasn't disappointed.
Yes there was, you might not like it but its there.
Why not? Starting a chapter being impotent and finding a way to restore power is a common plot development.
Then play another game. There's very little you can do in this game that will make any difference over time.
What's wrong with a story that makes you run away with your tail between your legs, to work out how to effectively equip yourself before returning? There's actual threat to you now. You can't just waltz in with meta AX outfitting and blast away without risk.
Who says this game must have player-driven content?
Thanks for that, I've noted it for later use, but I am already headed for SAG A. Dont know when or if I will ever be back in the bubble again.
That's what I meant above... after I was finished playing for the night I made a quick tour around the usual streamers' / content creators' VODs to asses how others reacted to the event. A few were giddy and giggling like children and /or mesmerized by what was going on (thumbs up for that!), some were completely void of emoition saying "uh huh" every five seconds, some kept re-narrating everything happening in the cutscene (and afterwards) and one (you know which one) spent every microsecond of the cutscene pointing out how crappy it was.
NOTHING beats experiencing it yourself, twice so in VR (the part after the cutscene - the cutscene itself was on a virtual cinema screen). Streamers are no substitute for doing it yourself.
I mean all we've really been doing is at the very least temporarily making them retreat to their own area to have a think. They can come and go as they please using their wormholes and we've got no real knowledge of how many there are or how their tech really works. Until we do, they're pretty much beyond our reach and could pretty easily wipe us out by just dropping anywhere as you've said.
Was it really? After all that about no VR anymore post-Odyssey? Damn, might have to dust my set off.
Agreed. Even made the mistake of thinking Horizons 4.0 was arriving with the patch. There's someone who checks facts, and knows what he's talking about.
But, whiners gonna whine. What a life eh? 
Nothing has changed about the in-vehicle-stuff. Well, performance has changed, and quite a few visuals. But ship and SRV content is still VR. Only the on-foot content doesn't support it. And of course, as I said, the cutscene was a movie on a virtual flat screen.
Edit: To make that more clear: With "the part after the cutscene" I mean me sitting in my disabled ship trying to get a grip what's happening
.Right, but, even that is saying something positive IMO. I suppose they had to integrate it somehow.Nothing has changed about the in-vehicle-stuff. Well, performance has changed, and quite a few visuals. But ship and SRV content is still VR. Only the on-foot content doesn't support it. And of course, as I said, the cutscene was a movie on a virtual flat screen.
Edit: To make that more clear: With "the part after the cutscene" I mean me sitting in my disabled ship trying to get a grip what's happening
It was a patch...To patch the 'already game.' It also added to the narrative. It wasn't DLC, it was a P A T C H to correct issues and patch the broken code. Clues in the title.
So why haven't they wiped us out? There's literally nothing stopping them.
We do have one very important piece of information: the likely location of either their homeworld, or somewhere otherwise important to them. We've had that location for a number of years now.
Why is it still locked?
Nah,
They've always been "attackers", engaging in space-age guerilla warfare.
They've never actually captured territory before.
Now, if we're to accept the various news reports, HIP 22460 is 'goid territory.
That's new.
Jury is still out about that
. I'm one of the few players at peace with the current solution, but I don't do the on-foot FPS stuff at all. I enjoy Odyssey mostly for exploring atmospheric planets, the only on-foot stuff is jogging through the hangar to go shopping or disembarking the ship or SRV to scan plants. And I do like most of the interface changes and the new planet generation.Eh?
I thought it was an U P D A T E rather than a P A T C H ?
As you suggest, the clue's in the name.
Why do the Thargoids need to engage in guerilla warfare? They're far more technologically advanced, our superpower navies are pathetic, and we disbanded our tri-superpower Thargoid defense initiative. We pose literally no threat other than some CMDR's with souped up Guardian equipped ships. Why aren't they terror bombing planets? Dropping nasty infectious bug stuff from orbit? Why are they leaving stations in one piece?
I don't know why.
I'm simply commenting on what we've actually experienced in-game.
They show up at random, do stuff and then disappear again.
That's guerilla tactics.
Why they do that, or whether they actually need to do that, is anybody's guess (ignoring the fact that's the way FDev have designed them).
Capturing territory, and making it hostile to humans, is new.
Setting aside the in-universe stuff for a moment, I'd like to see FDev capitalise on this.
We know FDev like their procedural stuff and they like their BGS so maybe it'd be possible for FDev to create a mechanic whereby, when certain conditions are met, the 'goids procedurally construct a hive-ship in HIP 22460 and then send it off somewhere, causing death and destruction (every thursday) as it goes?
We'd be able to scout HIP 22460 and do stuff to delay or prevent the construction or, failing that, we'd have to defend the systems in the hive-ship's path until we defeated it or it completed it's mission and disappeared.
That'd give us a continual stream of AX stuff to do without FDev having to manually DM every change of circumstances.
I find it odd that Horizon 3.8 and consoles could only watch and not participate. That doesn't seem to line up with what Frontier hyped us all up about. Makes me think it was mostly an Ody sales pitch. If it is I wonder if it will work.
So what you are saying is if you log into Horizons or are on consoles then the end of the year plus saga is a cutscene.
No Thargoids for you.
Fdev said all will experience the saga ending…….. a cutscene………. Nice
Did we?! I didn't notice anything here in beautiful PlaystationLand!! :O
.While it was almost nothing new for many of us!
It's be nice if as a twist normal weapons start working against them if it turns out that the primary effect of the Proteus Wave was to make them immune to Guardian and AX weapons! :O
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