I am EXACTLY the target audience for this game. Space sims have been some of my favorite games since I played Wing Commander II. I was just as wowed by the initial trailer for NMS as anyone else. The game let us all down and I don’t think it deserves a pass for adding a bunch of boring activities to do in addition to the boring core gameplay.
As I said the game is not stable and I’m not the one who brought up this comparison.
But I can tell you that I regret the ~20 I spent on NMS, and I don’t regret the ~35 I spent on SC over a decade ago.
Just the dogfighting module alone was better than any half-hour slice of my time with NMS.
I’ve tried it multiple times over the years and getting fun out of the game is like squeezing blood from a stone. The core gameplay is a shallow grind, and almost all of the updates just bolt on other shallow systems onto that core. I legitimately cannot fathom what you enjoy about it unless you’re playing with friends which can make anything enjoyable.
I mean, I won’t defend the stability, but the gameplay is unironically better? At least you can see interesting things when exploring, and dogfighting is so much better it’s barely comparable.
Never ceases to amaze me how the game still sucks after 10 years of content updates
Yeah let’s all go back to X it was so much better 🫠
Yeah that’s a much more reasonable criticism. There is an option to enable enemy upscaling which helps if you get overleveled.
I’m extremely curious what other games you have played where sidequest content is better written than in W3.
Have you tried running the game through Steam?
Yeah it’s enough to make an appreciable difference in the right circumstances, but it’s not going to miraculously take a rig from struggling to run a certain game to working smoothly.
Short answer: yes, a bit, but it’s unlikely to make the difference if you already need a graphical environment to run games.
I do love this game and IMO it’s the best of the -shock games (system & bio), at least for gameplay.
Another one I feel bad downvoting! It’s not got the same gritty technopunk feeling as the Descent games, but gameplay and visuals are just as good if not better.
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Make sure it has at least a few inches of clearance at the back. Also many cases/PSUs have fans on the bottom, if yours does then raising it up on some feet can really help.
Try multiplying or raising to a power. Addition works too but is slower.
Team vim, but I’ve been using Helix instead for a year or two – it’s like if Neovim and Kakoune had a baby.
Do you mean without steam input? My understanding is that the internals default to sending mouse & keyboard inputs which get translated to controller output in software. I’m sure someone will write an open source driver to get it working without Steam at some point, but if you don’t mind running games through Steam then it’s already working.
Anecdotal RMAs aside, I think the ergonomics are fantastic and they blew every other VR controller I’ve tried out of the water.
Wow, what brilliant circular logic. Only people who enjoy the game are the target audience, that’s a great marketing tactic right there.