I didn’t complain about the vacuum world only landings as I see how the more diverse planets are a lot or work to get right and you want the basics down. Fine, all well and good. But Horizons has little else to offer and when we’re told what is is coming really makes me miss my 44 bucks. I don’t even mind the payment system—it’s like buying a new game once a year—I can do that and I like the no subscription model. Fine, take my money because I like the game and want more content. But what you’re giving us? The amount of bugs present, the way the game becomes less and less stable with each patch, the inconsistencies and half-measures? This stuff I’m upset over.
For example: I have successfully completed over a hundred smuggling missions so I know how to do them and my ship is properly equipped. The last 32 runs (EDIT: that should be 21--typing in a huff) I have made have all failed before the first delivery and none of them under legitimate circumstances where I simply failed to get away or made a poor decision. Police are invariably exactly where they need to be to interdict you at every stop, they don’t follow the rules regarding chaff, silent running, ship range, or speed. You are often failed even when they don’t even attempt a scan—you are half a dozen kilometers away and you just start getting fail messages for no reason. You get screwed every time, for no good reason, and its .
Not following your own established rules on how things work doesn’t make the game challenging or fun—it makes it annoying. Then again what do I expect from a company that ignores glaring holes in the game and a mission system that may as well not exist while spending resources and time making bobble heads of the developers?
Frontier, if you don’t want smuggling missions in the game then remove them. Don’t leave them in and make them impossible to complete because some people are whining about “Oh, that wasn’t in the game when I started so no one should be allowed to do it,” or “I don’t like that so other people shouldn’t be allowed,” or “I tried that and it was hard and I can’t be bothered to practice it so no one should blah, blah, blah.”
This is typical of the nonsense we have seen—like not letting everyone have the Cobra IV (foolish and I, for one, didn’t want to have access to a ship other people were denied as I’m not a jerk like that) but making it so worthless that no one who could get it would want one. Can’t please everyone? Why not just (apparent explitive--touchy aren't we?) everyone off instead, right? You’re not going to give us a decent mission system but-worry not—there will be avatars on the bulletin board! COME ON!
I love aspects of this game but I am continually irritated by the way Frontier is turning into every other game company out there (dismissive and greedy) when it didn’t start out that way. You guys were like a breath of fresh air in a festering swamp at first but it’s starting to reek around here of late. We don’t need another EA in the gaming world and one Chris Roberts is more than enough to go around.
(sigh...)
Rant over, have a lovely day.
For example: I have successfully completed over a hundred smuggling missions so I know how to do them and my ship is properly equipped. The last 32 runs (EDIT: that should be 21--typing in a huff) I have made have all failed before the first delivery and none of them under legitimate circumstances where I simply failed to get away or made a poor decision. Police are invariably exactly where they need to be to interdict you at every stop, they don’t follow the rules regarding chaff, silent running, ship range, or speed. You are often failed even when they don’t even attempt a scan—you are half a dozen kilometers away and you just start getting fail messages for no reason. You get screwed every time, for no good reason, and its .
Not following your own established rules on how things work doesn’t make the game challenging or fun—it makes it annoying. Then again what do I expect from a company that ignores glaring holes in the game and a mission system that may as well not exist while spending resources and time making bobble heads of the developers?
Frontier, if you don’t want smuggling missions in the game then remove them. Don’t leave them in and make them impossible to complete because some people are whining about “Oh, that wasn’t in the game when I started so no one should be allowed to do it,” or “I don’t like that so other people shouldn’t be allowed,” or “I tried that and it was hard and I can’t be bothered to practice it so no one should blah, blah, blah.”
This is typical of the nonsense we have seen—like not letting everyone have the Cobra IV (foolish and I, for one, didn’t want to have access to a ship other people were denied as I’m not a jerk like that) but making it so worthless that no one who could get it would want one. Can’t please everyone? Why not just (apparent explitive--touchy aren't we?) everyone off instead, right? You’re not going to give us a decent mission system but-worry not—there will be avatars on the bulletin board! COME ON!
I love aspects of this game but I am continually irritated by the way Frontier is turning into every other game company out there (dismissive and greedy) when it didn’t start out that way. You guys were like a breath of fresh air in a festering swamp at first but it’s starting to reek around here of late. We don’t need another EA in the gaming world and one Chris Roberts is more than enough to go around.
(sigh...)
Rant over, have a lovely day.
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