Has the new patch nerfed NPC pirates again?

[Dillon Fallon]

Yeah, that's what I miss as well. I'm not saying the game should necessarily drop you straight into fights with multiple Thargoids while you're still in a Sidewinder, but it should have a few more high tension moments. Especially when a player is in a situation similar to mine where I'm trying to undermine a faction who is in civil war with the faction I'm completing missions for. it seems odd that I'm helping out their main rival, but they don't seem at all interested... Well, they were yesterday, but today post-patch it's like they don't even care.

I think that's it basically. I want that 'are you sure?' feeling when looking at a top tier mission because an incoming enemy alert will mean business. The closest I've had is the salvage missions that have 5 ships pop out of nowhere and instantly attack. Hopefully it will come back as I've a feeling that too much was attempted with this update at once and they've had to roll back a bit to get it working. We'll see in future updates I suppose.

 

[peteuplink]

I hope so. When this new update dropped it felt like I was playing Elite again. Since the patch it feels like this:

Take off...... hyperspace..... cruise..... nothing happens..... nothing happens..... nothing happens..... nothing happens..... nothing happens..... nothing happens..... nothing happens..... nothing happens..... nothing happens..... nothing happens..... press X to disengage..... dock... Repeat.

I guess it might be fun for some people, but to me it's like playing Space Invaders without the invaders, or Pac-Man without the ghosts... Entertaining for a minute or two but ultimately very boring and unfulfilling.