I see lots of posts about how ED is going to be slaughtered by new players arriving on the 16th, how they will immediately pick up on the games failings and lack of features and find fault with everything that the game hasn't delivered.
I don't think it's going to happen like that.
I have a feeling too many people have become just a little too comfortable.
I backed this game at Alpha for 200 quid. I was an 84'r and played the original game to death for many years. I could kill waves of Thargoids without breaking sweat with just a keyboard and a monitor the size of a postage stamp. Of course I'm not that young man any more and concede my reactions may have slowed down somewhat but I think I can still detect decent game play when I see it.
I have barely played the game through it's entire development, too busy mostly but a big part of it was just wanting to enjoy it when it was ready.
So I waited.
The odd go here and there, just a jump, a short engagement, a couple of dockings, that's it.
I have just played properly for the first time for a couple of hours.
I am entirely, completely and utterly blown away.
Picked up a mission, spent 20 delightful minutes messing about in the Galaxy map then headed out.
Marvelled at the planets, giggled at the SC once I'd fought it into submission and frowned with desperate concentration as I approached the station.
Then got interdicted.
Hammered all the buttons on my X55 in sheer panic! Grinned at the threats from my persecutor. Was absolutely amazed when a very powerful ship appeared from nowhere and blasted my tormentor into oblivion! Gazed open mouthed as the fragments of my enemies empty threats tumbled over the glass roof of my ship.
Made the station, docked somehow (even while the station defences where blasting some poor sod to kingdom come!), cashed in my mission, sat back and laughed out loud with the pure joy and exhilaration of the whole adventure.
My point (I think) is that most people here have played the game a lot. They have analysed, discussed and picked apart everything it's possible to do. Drilled into the minutia of every feature and thrown up endless wish lists, demands and dreams for improvements.
Everyone has become very familiar with the game.
Newbies aren't going to be familiar, they are going to be thrilled.
Of course they will become accustomed to it after a while, they will start to scratch their chins and wonder if a certain feature couldn't be better but hopefully DB and the team will be improving things all the time and filling those gaps in our imaginations.
I don't doubt some will gripe, some always do but I really don't think the game is the shambles some here seem to think it is.
It's a glorious, beautiful and wondrous thing, it really is.
I don't think it's going to happen like that.
I have a feeling too many people have become just a little too comfortable.
I backed this game at Alpha for 200 quid. I was an 84'r and played the original game to death for many years. I could kill waves of Thargoids without breaking sweat with just a keyboard and a monitor the size of a postage stamp. Of course I'm not that young man any more and concede my reactions may have slowed down somewhat but I think I can still detect decent game play when I see it.
I have barely played the game through it's entire development, too busy mostly but a big part of it was just wanting to enjoy it when it was ready.
So I waited.
The odd go here and there, just a jump, a short engagement, a couple of dockings, that's it.
I have just played properly for the first time for a couple of hours.
I am entirely, completely and utterly blown away.
Picked up a mission, spent 20 delightful minutes messing about in the Galaxy map then headed out.
Marvelled at the planets, giggled at the SC once I'd fought it into submission and frowned with desperate concentration as I approached the station.
Then got interdicted.
Hammered all the buttons on my X55 in sheer panic! Grinned at the threats from my persecutor. Was absolutely amazed when a very powerful ship appeared from nowhere and blasted my tormentor into oblivion! Gazed open mouthed as the fragments of my enemies empty threats tumbled over the glass roof of my ship.
Made the station, docked somehow (even while the station defences where blasting some poor sod to kingdom come!), cashed in my mission, sat back and laughed out loud with the pure joy and exhilaration of the whole adventure.
My point (I think) is that most people here have played the game a lot. They have analysed, discussed and picked apart everything it's possible to do. Drilled into the minutia of every feature and thrown up endless wish lists, demands and dreams for improvements.
Everyone has become very familiar with the game.
Newbies aren't going to be familiar, they are going to be thrilled.
Of course they will become accustomed to it after a while, they will start to scratch their chins and wonder if a certain feature couldn't be better but hopefully DB and the team will be improving things all the time and filling those gaps in our imaginations.
I don't doubt some will gripe, some always do but I really don't think the game is the shambles some here seem to think it is.
It's a glorious, beautiful and wondrous thing, it really is.
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