I spent a good few hours in the game last night and this morning (yay, now I have to take my eldest brat to school at 7.30, I have an hour or so to kill BEFORE work! There's nothing like starting the day with an assassination.
I'd say FD have taken a list of complaints and ticked them off one by one, which imo, is a good approach.
So yeh, I have to say, silly weapon nerfs aside, the experience is overwhelmingly positive. The new inbox is great, although I seem to have some graphical glitches with it occasionally, old messages stay as a shadow making new ones difficult to read, I think it's probably related to the 2k res I play at, but if someone can confirm?
The missions are far more and more varied than ever before, and include long distance one ways to colonia. Most importantly factions I have low rep with are clearly making more of an effort to provide missions that I can do to raise the rep (they will have 6 or 7 missions for neutral, rather than one or two in the past). The passenger missions are more and more varied and have better payouts overall. There are a LOT more combat missions available, which is nice.
There seems to have been a graphical update, I can't put my finger on what's changed, but I am definitely getting better performance than ever before. Also, I noticed the scaling of some HUD popup elements has been made smaller, which is nice. Naturally we are all approaching planetary bases without fear now that there is no skimmer rain.
The galaxy map improvements are EXCELLENT, I particularly love the long route plotting that includes neutrons and last scoop stops. The 'where I've been recently' dotted line is also double handy.
Spawning in instances is literally 10 times faster for me, don't know about anyone else, but I have no pauses at all any more (at least in solo). The missions boards are also much more responsive.
I'm sure I haven't noticed a lot of the other stuff, so I'll add to this as I go, but I felt that since I have been rather vocal about my complaints regarding the Thargoid buff/missile nerf, I wanted to also balance that with a general 'well done', because the game is noticeably better than before in myriad ways. And totally free of charge, too (this should not be underestimated).
Keep on keeping on FD, just try to steer clear of those knee jerk reactions, especially when people are obviously having fun.
Thanks so much!
EDIT: In light of some of the rather glaring bugs, I have removed the word overwhelming from the title, as in fairness, that would be rude to the people who are suffering from micro bugs. I still think overall a good update, Thargon encounter aside.
I'd say FD have taken a list of complaints and ticked them off one by one, which imo, is a good approach.
So yeh, I have to say, silly weapon nerfs aside, the experience is overwhelmingly positive. The new inbox is great, although I seem to have some graphical glitches with it occasionally, old messages stay as a shadow making new ones difficult to read, I think it's probably related to the 2k res I play at, but if someone can confirm?
The missions are far more and more varied than ever before, and include long distance one ways to colonia. Most importantly factions I have low rep with are clearly making more of an effort to provide missions that I can do to raise the rep (they will have 6 or 7 missions for neutral, rather than one or two in the past). The passenger missions are more and more varied and have better payouts overall. There are a LOT more combat missions available, which is nice.
There seems to have been a graphical update, I can't put my finger on what's changed, but I am definitely getting better performance than ever before. Also, I noticed the scaling of some HUD popup elements has been made smaller, which is nice. Naturally we are all approaching planetary bases without fear now that there is no skimmer rain.
The galaxy map improvements are EXCELLENT, I particularly love the long route plotting that includes neutrons and last scoop stops. The 'where I've been recently' dotted line is also double handy.
Spawning in instances is literally 10 times faster for me, don't know about anyone else, but I have no pauses at all any more (at least in solo). The missions boards are also much more responsive.
I'm sure I haven't noticed a lot of the other stuff, so I'll add to this as I go, but I felt that since I have been rather vocal about my complaints regarding the Thargoid buff/missile nerf, I wanted to also balance that with a general 'well done', because the game is noticeably better than before in myriad ways. And totally free of charge, too (this should not be underestimated).
Keep on keeping on FD, just try to steer clear of those knee jerk reactions, especially when people are obviously having fun.
Thanks so much!
EDIT: In light of some of the rather glaring bugs, I have removed the word overwhelming from the title, as in fairness, that would be rude to the people who are suffering from micro bugs. I still think overall a good update, Thargon encounter aside.
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