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.

Flying in space is a huge part of the game and yet the core gameplay hasn’t changed. No ship interiors, no hovering, no being able to leave your ship and ultimately, no consequences.

There’s asteroids practically everywhere so fuel is never an issue, but imagine if you ran out of fuel and had to use your radio to signal for help , either you get saved by nice people (or maybe even a player but that wouldn’t happen much obviously) or pirates come over and start making demands. It would just give it more consequence.

And imagine if asteroid mining was a lot more delicate, you could leave you ship and fly over and mine that way to maybe find rare resources or get more fuel? It would just be nice to have more variety/options when it comes to space