After spending a couple hours looking around the galaxy map I started wondering why the hell I can’t filter out all the other stars that don't match my criteria when I search for a name, and why I can't zoom out and see their relation to each other (could have been a nice way to draw an arrow or other hint.) I'm on a DK2 which I assume is what is making the star selection particularly buggy for some reason, so not having massing number of stars in my search that my selector keeps cycling through we be nice, if to say nothing of the visual clarity; head tracking I reckon is the problem with not being able to select star text consistently.
I've already run over my opportunity cost on this hunt and a knock-on effect that my experience with the game instead of being fun has become tedious, not for not winning mind you but rather having me focus on the glaring flaws of the galaxy map for an hour thinking why can't I do this, why can't I do that. Oh, and for there not actually being any game here other than maybe what gets traders off on; flying hours between stations and doing puzzles along the way to kill time?
The analog of this hunt is a really bad adventure game puzzle to which you find out the answer is in that lamp you were supposed to rub to release a genie, three levels back, and you didn't see it because it was in the shadows, which if you would have used the one match in your inventory to light the candle on the table you would have seen it, only you thought a single match seems pretty important and decided to save it, just in case you needed to light a torch in some dark crypt, except the game it too shallow for something cool like that.
I agree with those that have said this should have been some sort of mission based approach, or maybe a race like the old Hanna-Barbera Wacky Races. That would make the game maybe 2" inches deep and a mile wide instead of the 1”. Hell, it would have been a great way to introduce capital ships or some sort of boarding DLC, instead of just an advert.
Anyway, the "Labs" portion of the text struck me as out of place as that hasn't really been used with Nvidia's name except for the developer thing last year, and there isn't a URL for that, finally I couldn't find any station or system that had Lab in it that seemed reasonable. In all this seems more like a promo for Sudoku Space Master 40k the game, where each letter in "REYNHARDT INTELLISYS" is a number and then you need to solve the puzzle which will show a rough of a system map layout, might as well be for the amount of direction the original posting offers. Maybe for more invested/experienced players there is something to the text that makes it obvious? Otherwise just random?
What really got my goat is that tweet about “investigating” the reported reddit winner. As if they don’t have a top 5 tracker of players closest to winning... I guess when you don't have much game-play in the game you got to look elsewhere. For those chasing it would be far more exciting to see messages pop-up about winners and the number of cards left. Maybe I'll be wrong and the 5 "winners" will get interdicted by some cool new DLC or an event will happen like the USS TITAN will appear and lay waste to the system and we'll all get called to help defeat the thing... One can dream, but for this one back to fighting AI ships and saving money for what I hope some future content will make all worth while!
Grind On Wayne!
