Hello commanders, friends and foes. To anyone who still remembers me - Salut!
I will try to make this story short.
I bought ED early last year and played it a lot. I loved it, despite it's current at the time shortcomings. I had more than 400 hours until last summer I had to stop playing because I didn't have enough time. At that time I was super hyped for Horizons. After it got released I was constantly checking on it and following news. Recently I had a couple of free days for my self and I decided to finally pick up Horizons from the black Friday sales at Steam to give it a good spin. I booted it up, updated and started playing two days ago. First day I was messing around checking stuff up. Landing on planets you know how it is. Yesterday I decided I will finally start unlocking Engineers. I did the deeds for Tod "the blaster" and got to Selene Jean. I undocked my trusty ASP with it's mining fit and went mining. Spent the whole afternoon getting 500 tons of ore. It was tedious slow and generally just as boring as it was 1,5 years ago. But I said to my self, well whatever I get it... players have to experience everything. 500 tons is a bit too much but... okay, as long as I get good upgrades after that. I continued and got the 500 tons and to my amazement this was not the end of this task. She now required of me 10 Painite. I remembered Painite was hard to obtain, impossible to buy at stations but it was not impossible to mine out. So I restocked on limpets and jumped to the nearest system with Pristine Metallic ring. Started prospecting.1,2,3,4,5,6,10,20,30 asteroids... no Painite. I started to get worried and tired from all the mining. I went to restock limpets and called it a night. Today I continued. Head out to the belt and started prospecting.10-20-30.... Jesus... Finally 1 Painite. I made 1 ton. Then continued 10-20-30... Omg what is happening I can't take it anymore, I thought to my self. I was going mad, only the Mass Effect OST was keeping me sane at this point. I ran out of limpets. Went to base changed 2 planets same thing. Found 1 ton more from 30 asteroids. Now for the past 2 hours I can't find a single ton. I can't, I think I give up. This is.....[sad].. What is this???:x How is this normal, people. What is happening? To unlock the Engineer? So difficult. And I hear that there is a ton more grind to actually get upgrades. I am sorry. I am done. This is not the gameplay I remember. I can't believe that this is it. That this is the content. Forced to MINE for 2 days. My 2 free days = GONE. And not even unlocked this one Engineer.
Please, tell me what is happening? IF Painite has become so hard to find because of the Engineers update then...? What about things that are more rare and require missions. What about all those materials? Why does it feel to me like this is no longer a game? I abandoned EVE online because it felt to me like a job after 2 years and ED was a breath of fresh air. But this grind... makes EVE look casual. For 2 straight days I felt like I am on my job. This is not immersion. This is drowning...[sad]
P.S Couple of hours later - gave it another go. First system - 20 asteroids = nothing. 21st = Painite 50% High = 12 Painite from 1 asteroid.... I never knew RNG could be such aaa **** in this game
I will try to make this story short.
I bought ED early last year and played it a lot. I loved it, despite it's current at the time shortcomings. I had more than 400 hours until last summer I had to stop playing because I didn't have enough time. At that time I was super hyped for Horizons. After it got released I was constantly checking on it and following news. Recently I had a couple of free days for my self and I decided to finally pick up Horizons from the black Friday sales at Steam to give it a good spin. I booted it up, updated and started playing two days ago. First day I was messing around checking stuff up. Landing on planets you know how it is. Yesterday I decided I will finally start unlocking Engineers. I did the deeds for Tod "the blaster" and got to Selene Jean. I undocked my trusty ASP with it's mining fit and went mining. Spent the whole afternoon getting 500 tons of ore. It was tedious slow and generally just as boring as it was 1,5 years ago. But I said to my self, well whatever I get it... players have to experience everything. 500 tons is a bit too much but... okay, as long as I get good upgrades after that. I continued and got the 500 tons and to my amazement this was not the end of this task. She now required of me 10 Painite. I remembered Painite was hard to obtain, impossible to buy at stations but it was not impossible to mine out. So I restocked on limpets and jumped to the nearest system with Pristine Metallic ring. Started prospecting.1,2,3,4,5,6,10,20,30 asteroids... no Painite. I started to get worried and tired from all the mining. I went to restock limpets and called it a night. Today I continued. Head out to the belt and started prospecting.10-20-30.... Jesus... Finally 1 Painite. I made 1 ton. Then continued 10-20-30... Omg what is happening I can't take it anymore, I thought to my self. I was going mad, only the Mass Effect OST was keeping me sane at this point. I ran out of limpets. Went to base changed 2 planets same thing. Found 1 ton more from 30 asteroids. Now for the past 2 hours I can't find a single ton. I can't, I think I give up. This is.....[sad].. What is this???:x How is this normal, people. What is happening? To unlock the Engineer? So difficult. And I hear that there is a ton more grind to actually get upgrades. I am sorry. I am done. This is not the gameplay I remember. I can't believe that this is it. That this is the content. Forced to MINE for 2 days. My 2 free days = GONE. And not even unlocked this one Engineer.
Please, tell me what is happening? IF Painite has become so hard to find because of the Engineers update then...? What about things that are more rare and require missions. What about all those materials? Why does it feel to me like this is no longer a game? I abandoned EVE online because it felt to me like a job after 2 years and ED was a breath of fresh air. But this grind... makes EVE look casual. For 2 straight days I felt like I am on my job. This is not immersion. This is drowning...[sad]
P.S Couple of hours later - gave it another go. First system - 20 asteroids = nothing. 21st = Painite 50% High = 12 Painite from 1 asteroid.... I never knew RNG could be such aaa **** in this game
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