Ah, gotcha. Never played it (which is why I ask) mainly because of the artistic style being a turn-off (highly stylized graphics, colors, etc.) and the whole "survival game" focus is a bit overdone these days.
bases would not in and of themselves open up private economies. That feature boils down to creating player-driven demand for commodities and deciding how much automation is acceptable in the game loop. Unfortunately Fdev appears to be hostile to both those paths.
Yeah, no thanks. Just more skinned avatars and no actual flight model doesn't really fascinate me much.
The space flight is a shadow of that in ED, being blunt. It is just a means of getting from A to B. Combat is pretty tedious too. (you'd have to try it to understand, sorry)
This isn't a NMS thread, so I try to keep it short. The mechanics are solid, so is performance (although that's a given, I have a 3080Ti for VR). The art style is very particular, the story was a bit too esoteric for my taste, and overall it made a very... "kids toy" impression to me. Maybe I'm too old for these kind of games (one thing that particularly annoyed me were the obvious "meme" gestures alot of the NPCs did when talking with them), but there are people my age that very much enjoy stuff like NMS. I still kind of enjoyed it once I let myself get involved into the game (I spent around 60 hours on the main quest), but I don't see myself playing on for much longer. Its sandbox will not hold my interest for much longer. For comparision, in ED I'm just short of 2000 hours.
I last tried it when I still had a 2080S, it was playable on my G2, but I had to drop the visuals alot. That was about a year ago.
It is still very bubblegummy. It is supposed to be unrealistic and more 60s SciFi serial style. Still a bit over the top and too much pink. It's a solid game if you like Minecraft
Ah, that is since they 'fixed' it. So it may be that they have actually improved their VR over the last few years.
I couldn't agree more!
On my 6900XT / 5900X NMS, with equivalent settings to EDO, performs a whole 1 FPS better on average, according to the AMD Adreneline stats.
Common for players to want the bits they do like, from a game they don't, to be ported into the game they enjoy, it would seem.
NMS is more about visiting places and maybe findinh one for yourself. Space and flight is only a means between. Traversing the galaxies is still quite a task - they are big but you can teleport to any location you kept in history or imported as bookmark. Survival isnt really a thing, more collecting mats to unlock stuff and build, but unlike ED it's abundant and you can easily tell where to find it.
Well, provided you have unlocked all of the recipes for crafting manufactured materials it is, I suppose...
That pretty much seals it then, because I bought Elite Dangerous for space flight. If I want a survival simulator with base building I'll consider another game instead of narcissistically thinking the game should confirm to my wishes or standards.
I was going to say that, alot of the points the OP has, I'm like, yeah player run economy, player buildable commodities, ships, modules, etc ALL of that would fit really well in the existing fleet carriers.
true, I want to see exploration developed more, especially the on foot exploration
I don't think Frontier loathe those things. They already gave them to us with carriers. A surface base would basically be a ground- based immobile carrier, so it would be more space-ish to develop carriers further instead.
I haven't counted the ingredients, they are very numerous indeed. It felt grindy at times to unlock the broken inventory slots. And I guess unlocking the free inventory for visiting starports might be. But the point is that I don't really need this stuff unlocked because there is no bullet sponge or uber enemy spawning on me. Progression is manageable and lacks the time waster aspects ED is littered with. Like going somewhere lengthily to harvest something and then nothing spawns or in ridiculous low amounts considering the time spent doing it. In NMS you just scan places, find the ones that feature what you need, go there and press button until your needs are satisfied. More or less simple.
