I did the thing that a lot of us do, and I completely ignored most of the main quests up until yesterday. For like a couple hundred hours. Which meant I had all the milestones required for each step of the path, and a well-equipped ship that could jump from station to station easily.

Which means the path was essentially: Fly to station, not understand half of what was being said because I was picking up words as I went, read the dialogue, get blueprint for thing, warp in freighter with storage full of resources, make thing, repeat. Over and over and over.

This is the part that I worry is going to get me a lot of flak. The writing doesn’t do it for me in this game. I’m not going to delve into that, because I’m sure plenty enjoy it, but I don’t play for the writing at all. But even if I liked the writing, go here, listen, craft quest item, repeat, is not exactly engaging gameplay. And that’s the whole quest. As long as you have the milestones and prerequisites, that’s it. like 10 times in a row. I get that doing actual quests in a procedural game this size would be a different task than in other games, but this really felt phoned in, and I’m more than a bit disappointed in it.

If this update is symbolic of the 5 year anniversary and the progress the game has made since then, I think we all know more-or-less that Sean would put out an incomplete release over his cold, dead body.

Not again. Never again.

Especially given the symbolic nature of this update, turning the ship around big time, just keeping quiet and working until the update is ready for release would, I think, be the main takeaway from 2016.

It’s the most simple answer. Just has no intention of rushing out something that is not done (as opposed to waiting for some magic date or event).

I had watched the launch of this fall flat and disregarded this game. However I heard rumours of patch spam and many improvements so I added it back to my faithful steam library and dived in…. WOW! This game is literally jaw droppingly good! Being a veteran from original Elite right through to ED and anything else space faring … I’d put this easily in the top 3 of all time space games.

The variety is incredible. The learning curve is ok. You can do whatever you want to do….fight, trade, build, explore. The only slight thing is lack of pvp but that’s probably down to the size of the game. It is massive….