I should give this game a try.
Don’t expect in-depth gameplay, but in its current state there is a lot of random stuff to do.
Past the initial discovery, this is very much a sandbox “make your own fun” kind of game. If you can you’ll enjoy making things, going places, and finding occasional interesting procedural oddities.
Some people need more substance in their games and just find it boring when they start recognizing the patterns, and I can get that.
This was exactly my experience, really enjoyed a lot of elements and spent a good 100 hours in game fooling around. Finally it was the patterns that drove me off, like the sentinel experience really turns me off in particular.
One other thing that doesn’t get mentioned enough is its horrendous UI/UX, just a lot of little annoying interface and inventory management decisions.
Yeah, the UI definitely takes a while to get used to.
Nowadays I mostly play NMS in VR, and weirdly enough, the VR UI is often a lot better than the gamepad one. Which itself is better than the mouse+keyboard one, I have no idea what they were thinking with that.
Except for spaceship combat, this one is a mess in VR. Just flying around is OK, but dogfighting is horrendous.
Dogfights in VR Elite Dangerous is probably my best VR experience. It was just so fun even if the fights themselves weren’t that deep.
they should improve the flight model and add hotas and hosas support.
then race course parts and the ability to build them in space. If both could be used together that would make for some really wild courses.
and the ability to have a drone or hired npc pilot your extra ships to haul stuff or pick you up if you get gunned down in space, and pilot ejection module to go with that.
maybe also a less clunky way to open the rng upgrade module in bulk and choose the top 3
I think there are exocraft (not spaceship) racing parts in the base elements. Never used them though. The only exocrafts I use are nautilon and minotaur (and that one more as AI than vehicle).
I kinda think they might be on the Minecraft problem chain of… decorating a bit too much without adding much to the core experience.
Yeah, they’re adding stuff, but as someone who’s played recently, the gameplay loop is still the same it’s always been.
The launch of this games is a tragedy. Such a neat indie game that almost died due to hype and lies.
Didn’t they say this last year that they finished? Am I imagining that or did they backtrack?
They’ve always been quite clear that this is a passion project and that they’re nowhere near done with it. However, that doesn’t stop a chunk of the community from being absolutely convinced that the next update is the last, pointing to all kinds of obscure wording from old interviews or data mined files that are clearly incomplete as proof of this. It’s a really weird thing and I don’t get it at all. I remember last year a lot of people were spreading rumors that the summer update would be the last, based on kind of weird numerology. It’s baffling.
But you should have…
