I saw there was a thread from a few days ago to kind of dump on the game, so I should just preemptively clarify what kind of discussion I’m NOT looking for:

• Discussion about what you think is a reasonable cost to develop the two titles

• Discussion in the way of “I played 8 years ago but quit because…”

• scam talk, belligerence, sarcasm etc.

I realize the game is an emotional lightning rod for some, but I’d ask you refrain from that in this particular instance. Please, thank you.

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I’m more interested in discussion from people who play and appreciate the game currently, and some of the good experiences you’ve had, things you’re excited for etc.

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For myself, I’ve played SC for years through the good and bad, and I’ve been most excited about the persistence and salvage stuff finally coming online (despite the painful rollout of 3.18). 3.19.1 seems much more stable despite the early hiccups and I’ve finally had a chance to test some of the things I was curious about.

One of the things I’ve been trying to do is get back on the same shard consistently and really test how well the world persistence holds up. A really cool experience I had was stumbling across a bunch of long abandoned player ships scattered around one of the outposts. One was tipped over with its door open so I climbed inside and poked around for loot.

The really cool part is I connected to that same shard literally days later (after even a 30k server crash), went back to that spot and the ship was still there where I’d flipped it back over, in the same condition. I needed a new gun for my own ship so I used the tractor beam to detach it from one of the turrets and upgrade my own.

I’ve been creating random little stashes and dropping items in remote places and then visiting again later and it’s all just still exactly where it was. The interesting part is per-shard the world persistence layer seems much more reliable than the actual player inventories right now, lol. I’ve found random flares that I dropped in the middle of the desert.

I think once we get the ability to queue for our previous session shard people are going to really start to understand why PES is so huge.

  • toshmonaut@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been playing for a bit over a year but have taken a break since PES came out. Like, when the game works it’s amazing, but I’ve just had too many frustrating encounters recently (and I’d rather not play until CIG gets in-game-purchased ships persisting across updates consistently).

    With that said, I am very much looking forward to all the tractor beam enhancements/changes. I’m just a big fan of all the goofy and gimmicky things you can do with tractor beams. I’m also excited for the SRV; I want to build scrap yards and yeet asteroids at people.

    Also, I’m hoping a Star Citizen community gets established on lemmy/kbin at some point.

    • raccoona_nongrata@beehaw.orgOP
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      1 year ago

      I know the feel of taking a break, I’ve definitely just sat out some patches entirely. The pandemic year especially felt like things were treading water. But these last few patches have more momentum to them, and you can feel all the systems that have been kind of disconnected finally gelling and feeding one another. The logic of what they’ve been building is becoming more material, if that makes sense.

      There have been more instances of them quickly being able to activate a feature thanks to another one that came online (sort of like how physicalized cargo made it very quick for them to move on to physicalized weapons and components without much pain).

      Ship tractor beams are going to be a lot of fun for sure. Running your own junkyard base with friends is going to be a lot of fun.