Engineers Frontier - The New Release Is Ridiculous!

idahosurge

idahosurge
RNG in its present form is STUPID! I needed one mechanical component for a recipe and started looking for this on May 30th. 13 days later after scooping up 77 various material items from ships that I killed in CZ's, USS's and NB's the 77th material I scooped up was finally a mechanical component.

I am giving the latest update a chance, but this is such a waste of time it is ridiculous.

The new AI is also to over the top as stated by many commanders in numerous threads. My Vulture can't even out turn a Sidewinder!

This is a game and games are suppose to be fun. What is fun about spending hours randomly looking for something because what you are looking for is randomly spawned? Combat of any kind is not fun anymore.

To all the Frontier fanboys that will come in here and post who think Frontier never makes any mistakes and everything with Engineer's is perfect and everything is my fault, I know how to fly, the point is this is a game, games are suppose to be fun and this is not fun anymore. This is my opinion and the fact that you disagree does not make my opinion wrong!
 

Adept

Adept
idahosurge said:
The new AI is also to over the top as stated by many commanders in numerous threads. My Vulture can't even out turn a Sidewinder!
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A heavy fighter can't out-turn a little scout. That's how it always should have been. The sidey should also be much faster than a Vulture.
 

Thetele

T
I agree. Personally I like some of the AI changes, but there is no reason for Fdev to not allow players have easier/harder Ai if they want. there isn't good difficulty level that they could ably so that players would be happy. Always too hard or too easy to some players. Just let the player choose the difficulty he/she enjoy the most.
 

Macros Black

Macros Black
Sidewinders have become nasty little pieces of work. However, it seems to me that the NPC behavior have changed over the last days/week, they've become more manageable...

Not a Vulture vs. Sidewinder, but a Python vs. an Elite Diamondback Explorer.
[video=youtube;d_6azW3hcqg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_6azW3hcqg[/video]
 

CMDR Crumpeteer

CMDR Crumpeteer
Ridiculous? Ridiculous fun, indeed. Best update ever for me, combat is so much more fun now.

No I'm not going to waste my time with a proper response until you can make a thread without polarizing "us vs them" nonsense, and calling anyone who disagrees with you a "fanboy". Nobody thinks Engineers is perfect, but many of us are certainly enjoying most of it. Give over with the ridiculous hyperbole.
 

SCTrojanbulldog

SCTrojanbulldog
I don't usually like these threads but I may be taking a bit of a break. I understand the reason the devs decided to make collection items difficult but the fact I had to re-equip my cutter to attempt to find items mining with NO success and not being able to locate "common items" over long stretches has me thinking that I need to give this a break.

And by break, I mean, weekly forum looks to see if things have changed...

Sad, I've abandoned a lot of games initiating this type of break.

:-/
 

Andovar

Andovar
Dr. Uzi said:
Elite: Grindfest... Basically you have to put up with the grind or uninstall. I will be doing the latter.
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Have they created another grind? yes
Do you have to do it? no.

Everyone wants to keep up with the Jones's, but you really don't have to. This game was unbalanced before 2.1. If you were able to grind out the creds (and rank) for an A class FAS or FDL, and all I can afford is a cobra, then you're probably going to kick my butt (unless I'm a superior pilot).
The engineer mods are not a requirement to be able to play and compete.

That being said, could the format/implementation of the engineers use some improvement? Absolutely.

For now I'm just enjoying the new mission system and it's better integration into the BGS.
The real frustration at the moment (other than some game-breaking bugs) is that I have to occasionally toss materials and commodities that I'm sure I'll need later at some point.
*cough* storage please! *cough*
 

frostypaw

frostypaw
idahosurge said:
This is a game and games are suppose to be fun. What is fun about spending hours randomly looking for something because what you are looking for is randomly spawned? Combat of any kind is not fun anymore.
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Vulture, tick. Elite ranked, tick.

Don't you enjoy the combat already? Not being nasty in any way here but you seem kinda like you might be into the combat flying around a vulture. So wasn't this kinda what you would have been doing anyway?

I'm just confused. Most of these threads are "i had to do something i hate doing" and that doesn't sound like it is here. Did you just want quicker progress?

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SCTrojanbulldog said:
the fact I had to re-equip my cutter to attempt to find items mining
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have you considered asking a miner? you stick a puny mining laser on and go hunt platinum asteroids for him while he mines you a few tonne of something else and you cover him?
 
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