Your first video was off to a very promising start Erimus. Reminded me of Aliens with you mining all alone out in space. Very desolate feeling. The second I saw a station I hadn't seen myself before I had to turn it off though. I don't want to spoil my own experience. I have bookmarked your videos for later viewing though. Out of curiosity what codec did you use to encode your videos? The image is a bit blurred. If you didn't use H.264 to encode I would suggest using it for gameplay videos in the future. It has given me crystal clear quality at 1080p and 1200p in mine with a decent file size. I use ShadowPlay to record so that the encoding doesn't affect the frame rate of the game. If you have a semi recent Nvidia card you should be able to use ShadowPlay as well. Just download and install GeForce Experience to get it. I'm only using a $200 dollar GTX 760 2GB OC and it runs the game on High at 60 FPS while recording at 1200p. Judging from your video it looks as though you have a super wide monitor though or a multiple monitor setup. Either that or it's been cropped along the top and bottom and just looks wider.
Seeing as how I want desperately to play No Man's Sky I was so tempted to try to make it to the center of the galaxy in this game or to try to get as far as I could into the empty space outside of the galaxy. There are map coordinates for it so given enough fuel you should be able to super cruise into it if you leave the game up all day. Unfortunately the server resets that happen every night make overnight cruising impossible. I got the game for Christmas and being a Star Trek TNG fan exploration was my main interest so it sucks to know I'll have to wait to do it. Luckily for me I decided I had better do some bounty hunting around LHS 3447 to build up my funds and my Cobra Mk III before heading off on my grand adventure through the stars. I even bought a Mad Catz F.L.Y. 5 to play it. Only stick I could find with a decent enough thrust lever that was usable and didn't cost me hundreds of dollars.
Also something of interest. I started in LHS 3447. I'm not sure if everybody starts there but I've only traveled a little over 20 light years from that system in the direction of Barnard's Loop and the Horsehead Nebula and I've already experience several bugs. One time I was in a station on the Outfitting screen and the game decided to randomly return me to the surface while the GUI for the Outfitting was still up. I thought for a second somebody was about to land on top of me. One time I attempted to change ships from the landing pad and the game just kept loading for 10 minutes and then crashed. One time I tried to use the Auto docking module on a non rotating space station and my ship got high up above the landing pad and began shaking and glitching in place and wouldn't land. I had to do it manually but every time I tried to stop and line up my landing it re-engaged the auto docking and took me back up away from the pad. I practically had to crash into the pad to dock. I was all set to sell the module only that station didn't have an outfitting area. Had to go to a spinning station where it did actually work, although very slowly, since I prefer blazing into the docking bay at full speed half the time when I'm smuggling in goods. I'm less likely to get scanned while boosting into the station.
The scariest bug for me so far though was doing a 6 LY system jump near LHS 3447 and literally being stuck in hyperspace for 10 minutes. I was freaking out that I had misaligned or my jump drive had malfunctioned and I was going to wind up in the Delta Quadrant next to a Borg cube. Luckily after 10 minutes I came out in the correct system though. I was tempted to Alt+F4 while I was stuck in the wormhole hyperspace thing but was afraid to because I thought I might break my character. Also has anybody noticed today that the news story at the top in the systems near LHS 3447 is dated 28 JAN 3301? Yet another bug I imagine.
Overall though despite the bugs I'm glad I bought the game. I've already gotten 30+ hours of fun out of it so that works out to $2 per hour spent with the game. Takes me back to my time with X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter. Honestly even with the bugs and parts of the galaxy being broken I consider the game a good investment unlike my purchase of AC Unity and I imagine it'll end up working itself out to less than 50 cents per hour played before I get done playing it. I really hope they make an Alien Invasion expansion in the future though. 400 Billion Star Systems and not one other sentient space capable race anywhere in sight? Yeah right... At least there's a chance we can get invaded from Aliens in a neighboring galaxy. Also being able to form Organizations with other players and build space stations in unexplored areas of space and claim those areas in the name of your group would be pretty cool. You could pay to build a station there and higher NPC mercs to patrol the area. Would add a whole new aspect to the game as groups of real players would be battling for control of unclaimed areas of space and even trying to take other people's claims away by force. Obviously I haven't gone very far from the start so maybe there are aliens and some of my other ideas already implemented. Who knows?
Seeing as how I want desperately to play No Man's Sky I was so tempted to try to make it to the center of the galaxy in this game or to try to get as far as I could into the empty space outside of the galaxy. There are map coordinates for it so given enough fuel you should be able to super cruise into it if you leave the game up all day. Unfortunately the server resets that happen every night make overnight cruising impossible. I got the game for Christmas and being a Star Trek TNG fan exploration was my main interest so it sucks to know I'll have to wait to do it. Luckily for me I decided I had better do some bounty hunting around LHS 3447 to build up my funds and my Cobra Mk III before heading off on my grand adventure through the stars. I even bought a Mad Catz F.L.Y. 5 to play it. Only stick I could find with a decent enough thrust lever that was usable and didn't cost me hundreds of dollars.
Also something of interest. I started in LHS 3447. I'm not sure if everybody starts there but I've only traveled a little over 20 light years from that system in the direction of Barnard's Loop and the Horsehead Nebula and I've already experience several bugs. One time I was in a station on the Outfitting screen and the game decided to randomly return me to the surface while the GUI for the Outfitting was still up. I thought for a second somebody was about to land on top of me. One time I attempted to change ships from the landing pad and the game just kept loading for 10 minutes and then crashed. One time I tried to use the Auto docking module on a non rotating space station and my ship got high up above the landing pad and began shaking and glitching in place and wouldn't land. I had to do it manually but every time I tried to stop and line up my landing it re-engaged the auto docking and took me back up away from the pad. I practically had to crash into the pad to dock. I was all set to sell the module only that station didn't have an outfitting area. Had to go to a spinning station where it did actually work, although very slowly, since I prefer blazing into the docking bay at full speed half the time when I'm smuggling in goods. I'm less likely to get scanned while boosting into the station.
The scariest bug for me so far though was doing a 6 LY system jump near LHS 3447 and literally being stuck in hyperspace for 10 minutes. I was freaking out that I had misaligned or my jump drive had malfunctioned and I was going to wind up in the Delta Quadrant next to a Borg cube. Luckily after 10 minutes I came out in the correct system though. I was tempted to Alt+F4 while I was stuck in the wormhole hyperspace thing but was afraid to because I thought I might break my character. Also has anybody noticed today that the news story at the top in the systems near LHS 3447 is dated 28 JAN 3301? Yet another bug I imagine.Overall though despite the bugs I'm glad I bought the game. I've already gotten 30+ hours of fun out of it so that works out to $2 per hour spent with the game. Takes me back to my time with X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter. Honestly even with the bugs and parts of the galaxy being broken I consider the game a good investment unlike my purchase of AC Unity and I imagine it'll end up working itself out to less than 50 cents per hour played before I get done playing it. I really hope they make an Alien Invasion expansion in the future though. 400 Billion Star Systems and not one other sentient space capable race anywhere in sight? Yeah right... At least there's a chance we can get invaded from Aliens in a neighboring galaxy. Also being able to form Organizations with other players and build space stations in unexplored areas of space and claim those areas in the name of your group would be pretty cool. You could pay to build a station there and higher NPC mercs to patrol the area. Would add a whole new aspect to the game as groups of real players would be battling for control of unclaimed areas of space and even trying to take other people's claims away by force. Obviously I haven't gone very far from the start so maybe there are aliens and some of my other ideas already implemented. Who knows?
