Played the 60 minutes of combat training afforded to the Xbone owners. I am not going to pay for another copy.
Now PC owners... you have nothing to fear.
I am primarily a console gamer, who built a PC just for Elite initially, as my view of most PC gamers sounds very much like the PC gamers view of console owners.
I have now learned to embrace both platforms for different things and feel fairly objective about the whole thing.
Now it may be early days but I have to say, the xbox version is truly awful as is. On the plus side, graphics are pretty much the same as a half decent pc system. The asteroid textures were a bit naff, but the ships pretty much the same.
The massive problem is the controls. The ship moves like sludge. You even let me play in an asp/sidey/vulture. The vulture is nearly ok but the others are terrible. Also using the really limiting menu system for the other key maps is insane. You need to go voice operated (or at least the option to) with the pretty awesome Kinect.
As it stands, if this game is multi-platform with the PC, a 3 legged sloth on a PC would batter someone using the console controls. Considering Frontiers experience with Kinect I am mortified that this early copy is so cumbersome and awful. Even playing with flight assist off, everything was hard work.
As someone who plays the pc version with an xbox controller it came as quite a shock that the level of customisation and Kinect have not been fully utilised.
Leaving on a high note, the audio is still kicking major gluteus maximus (those guys are consistently awesome), and the potential is certainly there. I for one don't think ill be opening a new account on my box (and you have no idea how painful it is to say that). I would have expected that any serious issues would have come from the MMO nature of the game, not from a bread and butter basic, fundamental necessity.
I really hope you sort that out. It would be a damn shame to see it fail.
Now PC owners... you have nothing to fear.
I am primarily a console gamer, who built a PC just for Elite initially, as my view of most PC gamers sounds very much like the PC gamers view of console owners.
I have now learned to embrace both platforms for different things and feel fairly objective about the whole thing.
Now it may be early days but I have to say, the xbox version is truly awful as is. On the plus side, graphics are pretty much the same as a half decent pc system. The asteroid textures were a bit naff, but the ships pretty much the same.
The massive problem is the controls. The ship moves like sludge. You even let me play in an asp/sidey/vulture. The vulture is nearly ok but the others are terrible. Also using the really limiting menu system for the other key maps is insane. You need to go voice operated (or at least the option to) with the pretty awesome Kinect.
As it stands, if this game is multi-platform with the PC, a 3 legged sloth on a PC would batter someone using the console controls. Considering Frontiers experience with Kinect I am mortified that this early copy is so cumbersome and awful. Even playing with flight assist off, everything was hard work.
As someone who plays the pc version with an xbox controller it came as quite a shock that the level of customisation and Kinect have not been fully utilised.
Leaving on a high note, the audio is still kicking major gluteus maximus (those guys are consistently awesome), and the potential is certainly there. I for one don't think ill be opening a new account on my box (and you have no idea how painful it is to say that). I would have expected that any serious issues would have come from the MMO nature of the game, not from a bread and butter basic, fundamental necessity.
I really hope you sort that out. It would be a damn shame to see it fail.
