I'm finding chill zen exploring fine so far? I dunno *shrug* I dont look to it to be a space battles game. Actually I am also enjoying the trading/communication with the other races, that part seems more expansive than when I last looked at least theyre not just samey things sititng at desks now that youhave the Space Anomaly MMO portal and all that
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 25 September 2020 01:44 (three years ago) link
I must say I find space battles/flying impossible but it could be the ship I have, which is a clunker suited to freighting, but I dont know if more zippy ships handle better?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 25 September 2020 01:48 (three years ago) link
I'll probably give this another look this weekend. forget what i know etc.
Have they changed anything with the inventory mechanic, because gotta admit - it's an arse.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Friday, 25 September 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
You mean the annoyingly limited slots on suit/ship? Nah thats still a PITA. I think things are more stackable. Oh, and I dont know how old/new this is (it was new to me) you can build big storage boxes at your bases now that hold 20 slots each. So with that and ship to shore teleporting upgrades its not so bad.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 26 September 2020 03:14 (three years ago) link
And the game is still frustratingly obtuse and wont explain much of what you're meant to do. I know thats the idea - youre lost in space with no memory and its meant to feel that way - but gah.
That said I'm enjoying it heaps. I found a "paradise planet" (biome v similar to a lush Earth) and have set up a nice little base there. Plus one on a giant ball of rock full of gold and copper, and one on a desert planet with loads of minerals, so I can hop about easily for supplies.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 26 September 2020 03:16 (three years ago) link
i am just becoming ~enraptured~ with this game, and boy i really don't need another expansive time suck rn
i think i love it? but everything i'd say about it is negative
the landscapes and built environments are repetitive, the alien races are charming but cultureless and placeless, the crafting and unlock chains are not fun, the inventory management is a headache
i do really like the odd elegiac tone to everything, whether accidental or not. the 3 alien races you meet must have been part of absolutely monstrous galactic empires, but that's all gone now, they just chill in space and hang in the same spaceport bars -- everywhere, across a billion systems -- grunting at each other. planets that you can't survive on for a night are littered with little kiosks that teach you a word. how nice!
― goole, Saturday, 9 January 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
for now i've abandoned the quest chains and base building in favor of cheesing the 'cobalt flipping' trick while listening to music. no worries!!
― goole, Saturday, 9 January 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
every once in a while i install this and just wander around in free explore mode, its a nice vibes game but the actual gameplay was fundamentally not that fun and their zillion updates haven't really changed that afaict
― ciderpress, Saturday, 9 January 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link
why are the exocraft so fucking slow
― goole, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 03:58 (three years ago) link
Bit obsessed by this game.
― Yngwie Azalea (stevie), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 10:41 (five months ago) link
Also feel I may be playing it the rest of my life/until my daughter leaves home and takes her Switch with her
God I think I gave up on this game not long after my last post. I was following the subreddit for a lot longer so I was aware there was loads of new stuff with building towns and such but I never got back into it.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 10:53 (five months ago) link
I only got into it at the end of the summer. I don't play videogames too often anymore, but if I have an evening to myself it's very easy to lose several hours to this, not have achieved much but still have had a very good time.
― Yngwie Azalea (stevie), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 11:22 (five months ago) link
Yeah I got into the 'revised' edition of this game not long ago, was loving it. Other things got me distracted, will jump back on it soon I hope.
― Ste, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 13:26 (five months ago) link
50% off sale on Steam right now. For $30 I'm going in...
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 03:58 (five months ago) link