Hi all!

I remember seeing the trailers and all the chatter around this game back when it was still being announced and I recall thinking to myself that I needed this game in my life. Well, the launch didn’t go so well, to put it mildly and I just forgot about it until recently.

Decided to get it and give it a shot, since so many online articles were claiming that it redeemed itself and is now the game it claimed to be at launch, so why not.

I have to say that it’s been a while since any game grasped me this hard. There is a sense of wonder and mystery that I can’t put into words, and the feeling of being free to do whatever I want is amazing. I have not gotten very far into the game, only just entered the Anomaly for the first time and spend a few good minutes drooling at all the cool ships. There was even a blue kinda organic-looking one, no idea what that could have been. Oh and one that had a red light in front, moving from side to side just like KITT, that looked amazing and I need it!

So far I have done the tutorial base, but since moved off to another planet, found a nice little Paradise Planet with cool Fauna and nice landscape, so I settled there with a new base. Along the way, and exploring different planets I found some weird bones that sold for quite a bit ( at least for my standard ), found a strange ball that maybe I shouldn’t have picked up since it angered some sentinels and I just barely escaped, and found a very strange planet where my ship was reporting “anomaly strength” at whatever %. Not sure what that was about, but felt cool.

I know that I still have a long way to go ( probably ), but so far I’m having so much fun just exploring and getting side-tracked all the time because I saw something interesting, which leads me to something else and then another thing and I just end up losing track of what I was doing in the first place. But that’s fine because I get to do so much stuff.

For my next steps, I’d love to get a new, cooler, ship, explore more planets to see what they have to offer, adopt a companion and find out what they can do – I have one at the moment, but not entirely sure of their utility – and find out more about trading. I’m starting to notice that prices of some things vary from station to station and I’m sure some clever people out there worked out some trade routes or something similar. Finally, discover more about the storyline, it seems interesting so far!

I went in this game blind, don’t know much about the story or what the endgame looks like, and I’m loving it this way.

Thanks for reading an excited player’s blabbing this far!

So, I decided to go to the center of the galaxy for the first time since getting the game. Zoom out, zoom in. I spawn in on a IRRADIATED PLANET, and I was ENTIRELY unprepared! Why is everything broken?! And I don’t have the resources to fix it! Mine it, mine it. That’s dead too! My ship, where’s my ship? Scanner is dead! “Storm incoming.” Welp, embrace the sweet relief of death…. Hold on…freighter. My freighter! Do I still have it? Summon… there it is! And I JUST got the long range inventory teleportation thing yesterday. Mining beam! “Technology recharged.” Terrain manipulator. “Technology recharged.” Now dig! Dig straight down like a Minecraft noob. “Radiation falling.” And now my radiation shield. Rad at 1.9. Thirty seconds elapses. Why is my shield not going back up?… Oh, right, I gotta charge it. “Technology recharged.”

… Holy shit that was the most intense session of my life! Anyone else got similar life or death situations? I’d love to hear it.