• FiveMacs
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    92 months ago

    Is the game loop still get ship, get money get bigger ship get money get bigger ship get money get bigger ship with everything being devoid of life and emotion?

    • astrsk
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      2 months ago

      There’s base building, frigate and fleet management, and better dog fighting and battles. There’s also more guns and mechs and vehicles/more sentinel types to fight. The variety is there but the game is still all about what you make of it in your time playing.

    • a lil bee 🐝
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      42 months ago

      As someone who felt the same for a long time, it’s partially fixed but partially still that loop. They’ve added a lot of variety to that loop also with the last few updates. It definitely adds a bit of life, not so much on the emotion.

      • flicker
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        42 months ago

        Isn’t “devoid of emotion” kind of realism in a story about you being an outsider traveling through space?

        • a lil bee 🐝
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          32 months ago

          Absolutely! There’s always a tradeoff though and some segment of the gaming population will be turned off, which is fair. I personally love the lonely feeling of NMS.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      It’s a money grinding sim for sure. They’ve added a LOT of content but a bunch of it is gated behind their “expeditions” mechanic. I always get discouraged when I log on and see how much stuff I missed and just can’t get because I didn’t log on between x and y dates. Even the things you can buy if you missed an expedition have their own monetary system where you’re limited by missions which are occasionally still bugged to hell.

  • @Phegan
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    22 months ago

    Looks really good from the trailer, I wonder if they are using tech from Light No Fire

    • @mrcleanup
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      22 months ago

      I read an article that said, yes they are.

  • @Delusional
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    12 months ago

    Weird. I had the urge to play this yesterday so I downloaded it and played for 5 mins.

    Guess I’ll get back into it today.