I keep being enticed back to trying the game again with each new release but the gameplay just doesn't grab me and there's such a limited amount of story that it doesn't get its hooks in me. I guess I'm just not a crafting/survival type.
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If they have an expedition then play that mode. I really do not understand why they do not keep an Expedition or two running at all times. They add exactly the amount of depth folks find missing and normally I can run one and then I still play and have fun for another 20 hours before the game gets repetitive and I quit for a bit again.
Expeditions are amazing, but I've only finished one because I'm usually out of the loop and start them way late. It would be amazing if they brought old ones back into rotation so people who are new or just missed them could earn the rewards eventually. I feel like they have enough now to make a pretty good rotation without feeling repetitive
They have brought a few expeditions back for replay a couple of times. However, another user here alerted me a while back to the presence of this:
https://cwmonkey.github.io/nms-expeditions/
On select platforms (PC and strangely also the Switch) you can replay the expeditions and get their rewards payouts any time you like.
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They do this occasionally, where they'll replay them over the course of a week or something. I recently read that there are also ways to play them in offline mode through mods.
Okay but is the game fun yet? I hate all the procedurally generated bullshit. If you've seen one planet in this game, you've seen them all. NMS is somehow even more boring than Starfield. At least that game gives you something to do. A boring story is better than no story.
Roomscale VR when?
I really don't know what to think about this game. It definitely has come a long way, but to this day, it feels... Shallow.
It's a sandbox game where building, crafting and trading are not great, not terrible. It's also an adventure game, but the story is overall very predictable and combat is again, not great, not terrible. It's a multiplayer game, except no, not really, since you don't share quest progesss and almost never meet random people (if you aren't close to the center of the galaxy).
I'm about 200h into it and still can't tell you if I like it or if it just keeps me busy. I have high hopes for Light No Fire tho.
Well, you've spent 200h on it, so clearly you must enjoy it.
Nothing bad with enjoying a shallow game.
I play it when I’m really depressed.
I would say that I enjoy the game and feel that the developers have invested a lot of effort into building a panacea of a game that is sort of low stress and maybe a little repetitive, but it gives me something to do, and I can set goals for myself that are… well, absolutely batshit.
My current goal(s) are to get my settlements to S tier (pretty close on this one), swap all my frigates over to supply ships (If you repeatedly assign the same ship to the same sorts of missions, it will level up just that stat, so you can have a supply ship that has a high combat stat, etc), and build resource bases so that I can automatically collect every kind of automatically collectible resource in the game. I’ve also visited about 20 universes, and think it might be fun to put a resource collection base in each universe (that I have the patience to visit) and then just go hang out at the anomaly so folks can use the teleporter to fling themselves to universes unknown.
During my first time playing it (not long ago), it was pretty obvious where new content was layered on top of old, mainly because none of it really works together all that well. It feels like there’s a lot of stuff to do, but none of it is all that cohesive
Also the building system is like pulling teeth (on console anyway). I can never get anything placed where I wanted it if my build was at all complex, particularly stairs as I can recall
First I'd heard of Light No Fire, wow yeah, that looks great. Honestly, I think their style lends itself more to fantasy than SciFi, this could be great.
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I got 150 hours out of this game and I think that is very much all i will ever play.
For a good while it was even quite interesting because there were still a lot of new things to discover.
But then you started to do things just to get them done not because they were particularly fun or interesting.
If they don't implement some fundamental new way to play this game or combine existing mechanics better together I don't think anything could pull me back.
And i hope procedural generation starts to die very soon. Throwing the same basic ingredience into a mixer does not give you something new but more of the same. It's boring.
Couldn’t have phrased my NMS experience better. It was interesting at first then it got boring / repetitive
I mean if it was 150 hours (or close to) before it got repetitive, that's better than 98% of games.
I absolutely love the vibe of playing the game, but yeah a lot of the systems they add feel isolated and rather pointless. There's a settlement system where you can basically be the mayor of a settlement, developing it and managing its growth - but it doesn't really lead anywhere. They have fishing, crop growth, cooking - but it doesn't really support anything in particular. There's an extensive creature taming/breeding system, but creatures don't seem to do a lot afaik.
Yeah, i feel same-ish.
I used a save game modifier to unlock the cool stuff hidden behind the grind. Since then I spent some time building a base in a nice looking planet and flying around looking for a cool world.
Thing is, you are right: it gets old fast. Planets are boring. There are some cool combinations here and there, but 90% of them are just the same old same old. Seen them once, seen them all.
From time to time i still hop in, but it doesn't grab me more than a couple of hours every six months or so.
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Have they changed up the flight physics in that game at all since like 3-4 years ago? Combat always felt like it was on rails compared to like Elite or x4. I like that there was a lot of other stuff you can do but that really took me out of it.
It doesn't really help, but I find NMS space combat feels a lot better to me in VR.
The added immersion really covers up the "on rails" feeling for me.
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I want to like this game so bad. On paper it is exactly the kind of game that I love, but trying to play it multi-player with my partner is just an experience in frustration. It seems so perfect for multi-player, but so much of the interface just seems setup for one player only.
The UI design has always been a weak point in the game. Through all the revisions.
It really says something that like the first mod that was ever published after release was the one that eliminates the damn hold-to-confirm mechanic that is on every. Single. Stupid. Interaction. (At least this became an official feature and you can natively disable it on most interaction prompts now.)
The fact that basically none of the inventory and crafting screens are consistent with each other is one of the main things that still bugs the hell out of me with NMS. Especially when you're using refiners and so forth, because the dumb popup they give you that only shows you like four options at a time doesn't even arrange the items within it in the same order as they are in your main inventory. They should have just stolen the paradigm from Minecraft and used it for everything.
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Nooooo i cant play right now, the fomo is getting me