Ever since Update 16 gave us nothing new that isn’t War-related except magnetic sippy cups at low-grav outposts, I’ve become disillusioned and very much disappointed in E:D and especially FDev. However, on the other site, whenever I post any comments that give any sort of criticism towards E:D or FDev, I get chastised and ridiculed. It seems that, now, the general consensus is that FDev can do no wrong and E:D is the greatest game ever. I don’t agree, I think they both have a lot wrong with them, and this is coming from someone with over 800 hours put into the game and who loves it to death. I guess I was wondering if this place is as much of an echo chamber as the other place, or if I can truly freely air my opinions on certain things about E:D and FDev here
The criticism comes from a place of love.
The star forge and galaxy sized flight sim are amazing. Most of everything else feels tacked on. FDev as a company just doesn’t have the inspiration or whatever it took to make ED great, and they have been chasing the dragon for years.
I present you’re on the StuartGTs sun rather than the E_D version on Reddit. The underscore version is much less complimentary (but is also fully supportive of murderhobos and seal clubbing).
I recently got the odyssey update, doing a play through on a nearly fresh cmdr. I’m not much of FPS player, but I was appalled at the poor mechanics. I really bought it to try Exobiology but, really, I don’t have the patience for a 10 minute mini-game to get a single roll on the RNG/slot machine.
I’ve not tried the latest thargoid expansion. As a new cmdr, I’m hundreds of play hours from the ships and weapons necessary (that dude who solo’s a Medusa in a sidewinder notwithstanding). I’ll def lose interest (again) by then.
I’m not an AX combat enthusiast, but I’ve been enjoying the thargoid war lately. There’s more to it than just combat, too—the reworked EVAC missions are great, the Scythe really puts C into CSAR and the barnacle matrix sites have interesting implications. I also like Glaives and the way they stir up the meta. Fun to fight them, too.
I think the game is moving into the right direction overall. The thargoid war story is very well done, going beyond simplistic “humans good, aliens bad and attack for no reason because they’re alien” we normally see in games, movies etc.
If there’s one thing to complain about, it’s the fact that thargs haven’t ramped up their war effort enough and it’s too easy to counter them now that we’ve figured out what works best. We should be losing more systems to them and they should be sending vanguard forces deeper into the bubble.
