I have picked up the game again after a break of a year or so… I just played from about 11 am to 10 pm, then too a 2 hour break, then played from 12am to 4 am. I don’t even know if I enjoy the game a great deal compared to my other favorites. There’s just… something about it that makes me want to go on and on and on. I just ended by claiming my first planetary colony thingy which is not something I even knew was in the game. There’s so much badly designed stuff (the galaxy map, terminus menu, dialogue menu, managing multiple starships, unable to sell useless multitools, etc.) and glitchy stuff (animals knocking me miles away, no consequence for raiding freighters, sentinels never lose track of me, etc.) that for any other game I would’ve gotten fed up and stopped playing, but something about this game keeps me glued to the screen even when I never play any other game past 1 am. The feeling I get seeing my freighter fleet warp in is indescribable….

pls send help

I’ve been trying to get into the game on and off since it launched, and I thought today would be a good time to pick it up and try out this whole expeditions mode. Holy Fuck was I wrong. I spent a good hour trying to actually get my ship fixed because I kept getting buzzed by idiots shooting me and my ship with rockets. Finally get into space, I get blown to smithereens because apparently I cant have nice things. All this on top of NMS’s typical confusing and annoying UI and explanation of mechanics make it REALLY hard to try and enjoy what by all measures should be exactly my type of game.