Dear Frontier
Despite the largely negative comment cloud surrounding Odyssey, I am having a wonderful time with it. Really, I'm properly playing for hours on end and having a ball. I'm stressing this here because (inevitably) I'm going to complain.
So here goes... I love the variety and number of missions. I love that they are challenging enough that you don't win every time - this makes it feel even better when you do succeed. I love that if you do something stupid or careless, the game will punish you for it - a good way to learn to git gud. I love that you made a keybind for 'erase scanned profile' - on hearing the 'stand for a scan commander' when not expecting it, I have just enough time to recognise the peril and clear my crime (saved my bacon twice today). I love almost everything about the game...
But six minutes... really?
I entered a hab yesterday evening and found a data port, grabbed the 5 slots and started downloading. And noticed that the time read 360 - 360 seconds, aka 6 minutes.
Is that really a decision someone at Frontier took? "I know - if they get a certain RNGesus roll, we'll have them do nothing for 6 minutes, because, y'know - gameplay..."
Of course in 3307 you would hope that their 'space wifi' would be better than ours today. Because if they had proper wifi we could wander a hab doing other gameplay while our data downloaded. I don't mind waiting six minutes for a download if I can be doing other things that not straying more than 15 feet from the data port.
Oh, and I wasn't going to raise this as a solo issue, but since I'm here... this cap on the total amount of on foot materials is already hurting. I'm 'full' so cant pick anything else up until someone posts a list saying what is definitely not useful for engineering suits or weapons and then I can dump it. So please either remove this (artificial) limit or greatly raise it. I hate juggling inventory in any game - that's not gameplay, particularly if you don't know what you're hanging onto is useful in any way.
I LOVE your game Fdev, but lets make it even better, ok?
Despite the largely negative comment cloud surrounding Odyssey, I am having a wonderful time with it. Really, I'm properly playing for hours on end and having a ball. I'm stressing this here because (inevitably) I'm going to complain.
So here goes... I love the variety and number of missions. I love that they are challenging enough that you don't win every time - this makes it feel even better when you do succeed. I love that if you do something stupid or careless, the game will punish you for it - a good way to learn to git gud. I love that you made a keybind for 'erase scanned profile' - on hearing the 'stand for a scan commander' when not expecting it, I have just enough time to recognise the peril and clear my crime (saved my bacon twice today). I love almost everything about the game...
But six minutes... really?
I entered a hab yesterday evening and found a data port, grabbed the 5 slots and started downloading. And noticed that the time read 360 - 360 seconds, aka 6 minutes.
Is that really a decision someone at Frontier took? "I know - if they get a certain RNGesus roll, we'll have them do nothing for 6 minutes, because, y'know - gameplay..."
Of course in 3307 you would hope that their 'space wifi' would be better than ours today. Because if they had proper wifi we could wander a hab doing other gameplay while our data downloaded. I don't mind waiting six minutes for a download if I can be doing other things that not straying more than 15 feet from the data port.
Oh, and I wasn't going to raise this as a solo issue, but since I'm here... this cap on the total amount of on foot materials is already hurting. I'm 'full' so cant pick anything else up until someone posts a list saying what is definitely not useful for engineering suits or weapons and then I can dump it. So please either remove this (artificial) limit or greatly raise it. I hate juggling inventory in any game - that's not gameplay, particularly if you don't know what you're hanging onto is useful in any way.
I LOVE your game Fdev, but lets make it even better, ok?