State of the Game

Just

Just
[PS4] Filthymick420 said:
It's been canned because a producer got feely with someone. I hate the politics of this crap. Remember when you could get arrested for something and still have a job? It would be nice if they kept good shows running. That guy could have eaten babies and worn their flesh, idc as long as we get our shows hahahahahahaha
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Oh I didn't know about this. I just assumed it was too "niche".
What happened, whose toe did he step on?
 

Fishy

Fishy
Boomtrooper said:
with the exception obviously of playing with a mate/mates, is there any more to be gained from playing in open? Genuine question - I gen play in solo but keep thinking I ought to have a dabble round in open, though I'm not sure what I really hope to gain from it... what's everyone's experience?
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To be gained? No. But if you're lucky, once a new moon you will randomly encounter someone else doing their thing. It's pretty cool when it happens, and it felt amazeballs when it happened to me at an Odyssey settlement that we later carpet-bombed together. You can also enjoy getting ganked in Deciat, or at whatever station the current CG is at. But Deciat is a lot more reliable as CGs are full of boring people, so being paired with hostiles is a lot more unlikely.

99.99% of the time, it's like solo. That little .01% is fun when it happens. If you're unlucky and for some reason unable to high-wake, it may turn into a rebuy screen, but ultimately, what else are those credits good for anyhow? I'm at the point where I don't really care much about any progress bar, so whatever.
 

[PS4] Filthymick420

[PS4] Filthymick420
Honestly they should have made it open only but separate pvp and pve servers like a lot of other games. That would have stopped a lot of open only threads and we would have had a bunch of 'everyone's hiding in pve waaaaahh' threads instead which may have been fun, who knows?
 

Boomtrooper

Boomtrooper
Fishy said:
To be gained? No. But if you're lucky, once a new moon you will randomly encounter someone else doing their thing. It's pretty cool when it happens, and it felt amazeballs when it happened to me at an Odyssey settlement that we later carpet-bombed together. You can also enjoy getting ganked in Deciat, or at whatever station the current CG is at. But Deciat is a lot more reliable as CGs are full of boring people, so being paired with hostiles is a lot more unlikely.

99.99% of the time, it's like solo. That little .01% is fun when it happens. If you're unlucky and for some reason unable to high-wake, it may turn into a rebuy screen, but ultimately, what else are those credits good for anyhow? I'm at the point where I don't really care much about any progress bar, so whatever.
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yeah, not short on credits and nice engineered ships so I should go out and give it a whirl. Guess it just gets to be habit to play in solo. Also tricky as in VR I can't touch type well enough to message players! And well outside the bubble at the moment just mooching so I might head back over and have a gander
 

Fishy

Fishy
[PS4] Filthymick420 said:
Honestly they should have made it open only but separate pvp and pve servers like a lot of other games. That would have stopped a lot of open only threads and we would have had a bunch of 'everyone's hiding in pve waaaaahh' threads instead which may have been fun, who knows?
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Dunno. On one hand, I hate their middle-of-the-road kind of design where there's something for everyone, but nobody's really satisfied.

On the other hand, it's pretty unique and chill. New players, or people that can't be bothered can get a PvE mode on-demand, and flip back the switch whenever they want. Sometimes, I can't be bothered high-waking out of Deciat 14 times in a row to try and engineer the FSD of a new piece of junk who took me 57 edge-of-my-seat stare-at-jump-screen-gameplay to even get there in the first place. I like the on-demand flip. 🤷‍♀️
 

MishaTX

MishaTX
Boomtrooper said:
with the exception obviously of playing with a mate/mates, is there any more to be gained from playing in open? Genuine question - I gen play in solo but keep thinking I ought to have a dabble round in open, though I'm not sure what I really hope to gain from it... what's everyone's experience?
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What's already been said.

If you like that "wonder what might be lurking in the next system?" feeling, then it's a good way to get it. Most of the time there won't be anybody, though.

But it's fun when there are somebody. You might run into a paper-miner who high wakes before you can say "o7, CMDR", you might run into somebody to chat with/wing up with, you might run into some "emergent content". It's all fun and, as Fishy said, what else are you going to use all of those credits for (in case of a sudden rebuy)? :)
 

Fishy

Fishy
MishaTX said:
Does anybody EVER use voice? I've had my game set to "auto-accept" since forever, but have never had a chance to use it.
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I gave a stockpile of Cat Media to a player who sold theirs before they had the quest chain, and we met boots on the ground for the exchange, outside a planetary starport. I was shocked when the voice comms opened up! It definitely made things a lot easier! I never even touched the bindings or anything, so I just had to accept, and then it was on by default, no push-to-talk key to find.
 

Amy Pendergast

Amy Pendergast
MishaTX said:
Imagines aforementioned CMDR hastily enabling voice, responding with: "what do you want? I've got no cargo!"

Responds: "want? Whatever would I want of yours? Just wanted to say hi", then wakes out of system, leaving highly confused CMDR behind.
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Even better response:
"Want? Nah mate, I wanted to gift you some", drops cargo themselves, high wake out and then the remaining CMDR will be really confused :)
 
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