Today I got about 4 solid hours in, (I woke up early).
In recent weeks i've been playing out near obsidian orbital and something beautiful has happened.
The thargoid weaponry that are useless against human ships, (so do you tool up against people or aliens).
thargoid mini-bosses that require co-operating.
new missions based around thargoid goodies.
Now from past interactions anything thargoid related required being in solo, since the barnacles and bases created a fixed position for gankers to camp.
(Other than that, 99% of player interaction has been courteous even some of "the code" blockades during CG's).
Now you can stumble over people out in space or in the docks and have helpful conversations about how to solve missions, where to find thargoid goods, or hear a rallying cry to go take one down.
From flying to the thargoid scout (to get some Resin) there were swarms of players and everyone was having a laugh.
I've been levelling up my faction status in all the local ports, enjoying the chained missions, giving a personal sense of progression since they give feedback on the prior mission.
The new messageboard with mission related messages grouped together (although slightly bugged) is a massive improvement.
then there is module and ship transfer so I can retool for different missions types (other civil unrest is putting a lot of outfitting into lockdown sigh).
i've been scanning planetary installations, delivering messages, taking down pirates lords (I tend to avoid combat but decided to dip my toe since it was chained on a prior mission and I felt obliged to carry it through).
I feel the missions are spawning in doubles and tripples, but the new mission cap kicks in.
Don't get me wrong, I *really* enjoyed Elite back in the Beta, (people missunderstood "in development" for "incomplete and broken") but it's slowly but surely getting to where I think we all envisioned the game wold "be" at the end of the 10(?) year cycle .
I'm super looking forward to improved planets, trade, exploration and mining and graphical flourishes of planets and lighting in the "beyond" series,
(sure emotionally it was a let down there was no space-legs/atmospherics landings but it the core game keeps getting loved the way it has been, and the community is being this nice and friendly in game. )
My son is already nagging about the when the Chieften is arriving in the game.
it's like little things I don't play multicrew (or in wings, I don't have friends
I'm a parent).
But even stumpling over players I've bumped into before and have on my friends lists, I can invite them over so they can have a look at one of the thargoids structures.
In recent weeks i've been playing out near obsidian orbital and something beautiful has happened.
The thargoid weaponry that are useless against human ships, (so do you tool up against people or aliens).
thargoid mini-bosses that require co-operating.
new missions based around thargoid goodies.
Now from past interactions anything thargoid related required being in solo, since the barnacles and bases created a fixed position for gankers to camp.
(Other than that, 99% of player interaction has been courteous even some of "the code" blockades during CG's).
Now you can stumble over people out in space or in the docks and have helpful conversations about how to solve missions, where to find thargoid goods, or hear a rallying cry to go take one down.
From flying to the thargoid scout (to get some Resin) there were swarms of players and everyone was having a laugh.
I've been levelling up my faction status in all the local ports, enjoying the chained missions, giving a personal sense of progression since they give feedback on the prior mission.
The new messageboard with mission related messages grouped together (although slightly bugged) is a massive improvement.
then there is module and ship transfer so I can retool for different missions types (other civil unrest is putting a lot of outfitting into lockdown sigh).
i've been scanning planetary installations, delivering messages, taking down pirates lords (I tend to avoid combat but decided to dip my toe since it was chained on a prior mission and I felt obliged to carry it through).
I feel the missions are spawning in doubles and tripples, but the new mission cap kicks in.
Don't get me wrong, I *really* enjoyed Elite back in the Beta, (people missunderstood "in development" for "incomplete and broken") but it's slowly but surely getting to where I think we all envisioned the game wold "be" at the end of the 10(?) year cycle .
I'm super looking forward to improved planets, trade, exploration and mining and graphical flourishes of planets and lighting in the "beyond" series,
(sure emotionally it was a let down there was no space-legs/atmospherics landings but it the core game keeps getting loved the way it has been, and the community is being this nice and friendly in game. )
My son is already nagging about the when the Chieften is arriving in the game.
it's like little things I don't play multicrew (or in wings, I don't have friends
I'm a parent).But even stumpling over players I've bumped into before and have on my friends lists, I can invite them over so they can have a look at one of the thargoids structures.
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