Well I finally did it. Last night I found an extremely well rolled sentinel interceptor so I went all out and duplicated all of my best pulse engine mods and put them all on the super charged slots. Mind you these are just S-class mods and not X-class and I’m playing on Series X which is no slouch when it comes to performance. 3 super charged pulse drive mods and one super charged sublight amplifier. My ship is so fast it now breaks the games ability to load properly. It seems that extremely fast speeds somehow breaks the engines ability to properly load assets. For example if I pulse drive to a planet my ship can make it from the top of the atmosphere to ground level in only a few seconds but for some reason my console will now spend the next two minutes before it finally loads the blank terrain beneath me. Having a slower ship doesn’t create the same problem for some reason. I could imagine that installing well rolled X-class mods would make this problem even worse. I guess the moral of this story is that speed is only good up until your system craps out on being able to load the game properly at which point the wait time for loading offsets the time you saved traveling. Its funny that I have now had to downgrade my ship somewhat so it doesn’t break the game so badly.

I was used to playing ARK Survival Evolved, so I entered the game super excited expecting dangerous alien planets and was a bit bummed to find out that all I needed to worry about was farting plants.. Until I tried my luck in an Extreme Sentinel world and they sent a Walker after me — and the MF would just NOT LET GO OF ME. I ran out of ammo and had to flee, and it would stalk me everywhere — even underground until I could find a base to portal away from there, because I knew I would not survive sentinels in my ship — and that took me AN HOUR! IT WAS AWESOME!!! I will never diss this game again! What you folks think of the level of ‘danger’ in the game?

Get to the decryption terminal, and I have a hell of a time trying to take out Sentinels because of all the goddam com balls. I really don’t need “Pork chop Sandwiches!” popping on my screen while I’m trying to shoot stuff. The sentinels keep ducking behind the com balls where I can’t see them to shoot them, let alone finish them off. Then, even after taking them out and using the decryption terminal, getting back into my ship and leaving the surface, I have to sit there for several minutes while “Have a good weekend!” and “Hello from Israel!” and “What’s going on, Brother?” continually scroll across my screen before I finally get the waypoint.

Christ, I wish we could turn these things off.