And you should really warn them that there are periodic wipes (such as the imminent one), in which any earned credits and ships will get zapped.
But that would kinda undercut your oversell wouldn't it
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And you should really warn them that there are periodic wipes (such as the imminent one), in which any earned credits and ships will get zapped.
But that would kinda undercut your oversell wouldn't it
Actually in VR you do have a ship interior in ED - your cockpit / bridge. Granted it's all non-functional, which is a shame, but I still like walking around the bridges of my ships and enjoying the views from different vantage points and windows. I know that's probably not what you're looking for, but you can't say there is NO ship interior.
Perhaps SC fans are made from sterner stuff
I'm not sure to understand. SC planets have not orbit (for now) but they rotate on themselves with day and light cycle. The lack of orbit (that can't be seen if you don't play regularly) could break your immersion ?
Agreed. There's almost too much all the time in NMS. I enjoy it but equally often feel utterly overwhelmed by it.
I really admire HG for what they've done and where they've taken their game. And all for 'free', with updates arriving with the frequency of Japanese trains! (Okay - that's a bit much... perhaps I should have said British Rail...)
I like the fact that switching from a game X to SC and enjoying it transforms you instantly in a "idiot', even if you were a respected member of the previous game community...
Forget it. He pulls the immersion out his rear like anything else. And where else would somone hide the immersion when they're falling through the floor all the time?
Stern? Sternhagelvoll maybe.Perhaps SC fans are made from sterner stuff
In SC canon the faithful don't recognise the 2012 (actually 2011) start date for the project. You're supposed to factor in the "community-voted scope increase" (which never happened), the need to "build a company / multiple studios from scratch" (no one's done that before), and especially "building the tools and pipelines" that will enable CIG to start making real progress in the near future (but always in the future). The last one in particular is the ultimate get-out clause, because every time some technology in the game is
Also, the "alpha" label is meaningless. SC will never not be in what CIG describes as alpha, because the whole business model is built on selling dreams and absolutely not delivering a finished product. That's why there isn't a single thing in the game, not one, that a fan will admit is the "final form" of that feature or technology, because to do so would be to admit that CIG is not going to deliver the fantasy they've been buying into.
This is one element to NMS that HG absolutely nailed. You select the level of interaction you want. Brilliant.
tbh if every MMO/multiplayer game had this I'd actually play some of them. As it is, anything tagged MMO is an instant 'no' for me. YMMV.
How is it visualized? It dawns on me that I improperly described what I see in other games. In games like NMS and Space Engineers, if you stand on planet and don't move, the sun will revolve around the planet, but the stars and neighboring planets remained fixed in the sky. This means you'll never see a moon (or parent planet) rise or set, and the stars are always the same. In X4 Foundations, even the sun doesn't move - everything is completely fixed, though many planets do slowly rotate (one does not land on planets in X4). Meanwhile in Elite, you can see amazingly complex changes in the heavens, especially if you're on a fast-orbiting moon of a gas giant with other moons. I admit, that has spoiled me as much as the need to wipe ice off your goggles has spoiled you in Star Citizen.
It's an alpha with bugs so you can have a gameplay session of several hours without an immersion breaking bug, and other sessions where you are killed 2 times by an elevator in 1 hour.
If you are tolerant to bugs, the number of good sessions you can play is largely enough to appreciate the immersion in game.
Well, whilst we're here...
...and I believe they all play SC............. <'onest....>
And well Elite did somewhat right with its mode selection and blocking option. At least for those who do not like PVP stuff, PVP'ers may have different opinion.
They are wipe. One this patch (3.17.2) except for reputation (reputation is long to acquire) and certainly one for 4.0. Before that, the last one was 12 month ago (if I remember correctly). It's enough time between the wipes for having goals and objectives. I've completed 5 of my goals (vehicle) before this patch.And you should really warn them that there are periodic wipes (such as the imminent one), in which any earned credits and ships will get zapped.
But that would kinda undercut your oversell wouldn't it
And after 10 years and half a billion dollars. Here we are. A buggy alpha. And you remain confused that we're so very cynical.
Didn't know you can get up from your seat in VR. Must be cool, so ED has at least cockpit interior. But it don't really compare to SC ship's interior.
Yes I'm sure when you said "You can really play it now with long term goals and objectives" CMDR Crustatious immediately understood that as "You'll lose all your stuff every 12 months or so".
Do better mate.
The last time I personnaly fell though the floor was 2 month ago. Far from "all the time".
Last time bug wasted me in ED was about two years ago. (Elite's equivalent of swat team got trigger happy and blasted me without reason...)
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