The fact is the theme of the update is PLAY HOWEVER YOU WANT and everything is now a slider or a button away.. which is welcomed.

It’s fine because nothing is forcing you to use them or play any certain way and it has given us more freedom to enjoy our beloved universe than ever before.

Being able to increase the difficulty is something a lot of us have wanted for years and will add a lot of depth to the game.

Being able to decrease the difficulty also benefits lots of gamers.

Lots of people who never had the time to really enjoy the game due to grinding can now lower or even skip that aspect of the game. Opening up the amount of people that can truly experience and enjoy the game.

Being able to repack and transfer tech is HUGE and is an absolute game changer.

There are many things to be very excited for with this new update

I think the reason some of these discussions get toxic is because when someone is voicing criticism many people assume they are upset with and attacking the entire update and those who enjoy it.. which is usually not true.

Many of us here are 90% satisfied with the update and the changes to the game but we are not really being allowed to voice our opinions over the 10% we are upset with.

I’d like to try and explain how some of us have actually been effected and discuss the very simple way to make everyone happy.

First thing first it’s not about difficulty but even if it were for some, are we not all praising the game for allowing custom difficulty?

Im personally willing to bet most of the people negativity effected by this update are the type of players to increase their difficulty settings.

But again it isn’t about health or damage. Especially since these can be controlled via sliders

It’s about the speed/range/agility of my ships and my exosuit being cut in half. By removing the 3+3 stack max stats are effectively 50% of what they could once be.

This makes ships fly slower and handle worse but more noticeable this makes my jetpack half as useful and dare I say half as fun. This may not effect you’re gameplay but it effects some players.

Now this has nothing to do with difficulty or wanting to be OP or god mode as everyone suggests but even if that were the case wouldn’t that be reason enough? Considering we are all praising the game for allowing such things?

While everyone else praises their ability to slide and click their way to a perfect custom game.. no matter what setting I choose even on creative/relaxed/godmode my jetpack and ships will never be as fast and agile as they used to be.

Just because MIN/MAX, fast ships and jetpacking wasn’t important to your gameplay doesn’t mean it wasn’t a huge part of mine and many others.

I took on the journey of maxing everything out knowing it wasn’t that important due to difficulty but it was a journey and an important achievement of mine.

The solution should have been to allow players to increase their difficulty settings to match their “overpowered and unbalanced” build’s

Not to destroy their build to make up for lack of difficulty.. as all that was really accomplished was making them move and fly slower and increasing difficulty is still up to them.

Everyone also praises the hyperdrive being cut in half as if that is going to incentivize exploration when realistically it’s going to just make you buy/craft more fuel and sit through more warp screens.

Adding unfortunate tediousness which most do not enjoy. Again with sliders allowing free fuel, why can’t I have my old jump range back?

The amount of time and energy that was dedicated to these builds being wiped has also led to some of the hurt feelings

Now I hope this post can be looked at my players and devs to see that the update was 90% perfect but a few things changed that hurt some of the players without either side getting toxic.

When praising the game for including everyone and every play style let’s not attack and insult those who’s play style was removed.

Let’s also not insult, contact or threaten the devs which I really hope no one is doing.

At the end of the day this is a game that we all just want to play and enjoy and every single one of our play styles and individual sources of enjoyment from this game are valid.

Really hope this post can open up genuine discussion. No insults or attacks in the comments please.