Can I have my game back please. Pretty please wiff a cherry on top?

rowners

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In summary I think perhaps feel is a better term that the balance and spirit of the game has completely changed and is moving further from the core game than the launch game.

I adore this game, at launch it was Elite but what my eyes 'saw' in 84-90s and I was sold. It is no longer the game I bought into, Now it is a bit of a harrrumph to load the game, is this due to ED forum pandering?

Has the game been made too easy, too many exploits ((for want of a better term) and yes they are no matter how you justify them). CGs paying too much?

Apologies for the rant but am I alone in feeling let down by season 2 so far?


Fun but mental idea, roll back the game with fixes in place watch this place explode.....:x
 

Jypson

Jypson
rowners said:
In summary I think perhaps feel is a better term that the balance and spirit of the game has completely changed and is moving further from the core game than the launch game.

I adore this game, at launch it was Elite but what my eyes 'saw' in 84-90s and I was sold. It is no longer the game I bought into, Now it is a bit of a harrrumph to load the game, is this due to ED forum pandering?

Has the game been made too easy, too many exploits ((for want of a better term) and yes they are no matter how you justify them). CGs paying too much?

Apologies for the rant but am I alone in feeling let down by season 2 so far?


Fun but mental idea, roll back the game with fixes in place watch this place explode.....:x
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I'd be game to go back to 1.0. [up]
 

iFred

I
While I understand that FD has to listen to their customers and with the knowledge that not everybody is able to play 4 hours a day, I don´t understand why money making has been made so easy and in general why this game is turning towards casual in the last weeks (talking about making engineers stuff so easy, turning down npc strength, the plans of multiple commander slots etc...).

Elite always was a pretty difficult game. It should stay an exceptional challenge, not an instant combat simulator.
 

WreckWren

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CMDR_Cosmicspacehead said:
I find everything too easy in ED.

Combat? Easy
Landing? Ridiculously easy.
Money? Ridiculously easy.
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Rank? Takes forever. Lol

Elite: Dangerous needs a new title. :D
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The only thing being tested in the majority of the game's activities is my patience.


EDIT: Post 1.3, really. That was where it all went drastically downhill. The game is worse for its "additions" since.
 
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Codger

Codger
Why in my day...

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I wasn't here then. I started in April, early enough to enjoy 2.0 for a while. I'm still enjoying 2.1. It's not perfect, but it's still really good.
 

BigFW

BigFW
I still enjoy Elite.
I'm not an MMO player, Powerplay and CQC are not really my thing. In a way there is a lot in the game I don't do and probably think that the resource spent on these items could have been spent elsewhere. Constant tweaking/"balancing" seems to be a thing for MMO'S (I don't play but I do follow gaming press). I suppose FD have decided to try and be all things to all players which maybe is a noble cause but there is going to be a lot of controversy along the way. I'd be happy if NPC's were a bit tougher and money was harder to come by (without falling into the pitfall of more difficult means more grind).

Maybe it can be summed up as... "They don't make things like they used to son"
 

S~P

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If we were not getting passenger missions in 2.2 I would go back to 1.6, I hate engineers and PP.:(
 
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D.G.Cerberus

D.G.Cerberus
rowners said:
I adore this game, at launch it was Elite but what my eyes 'saw' in 84-90s and I was sold.
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I still feel this way and you phrased it really well. Epic translation of those wireframes.

But it isn't anywhere near as edgy. Elite in the 80's was tougher. I remember still the "fear" that came from being a fugitive and trafficking narcotics. And Anarchy systems. And Thargoids.

I do like the additional "content" (Going to get shot down here) that exists, whether I do it or not, such as planetary landings, Engineers, Res's, Cz's and so on.

But I still want Energy bombs, military lasers (They don't have to be OP, just want the choices I used to have)......the choice of escape pod or not etc etc.....
Oh, and the option for Rear and side views, with laser crosshairs!
Miss slowly exiting from a Coriolis firing into the mailslot from the rear military laser, frying the vipers as they came out.......

Still and all......love the game with all its foibles. The only thing I steer well clear of is Powerplay. Tried it briefly but it was so tedious to me that it wasn't worth sticking around for those prismatic shields. So I don't have any.
 
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