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.

  • socsa@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Played it back when Arena Commander (?) was first launched and was top ten on the leaderboard for a couple of months. Stuck with it on and off for a couple of years. I have like $250 into it maybe - my ships are a freelancer MIS and like two other basic ships.

    I got tired of it when they stopped actually pushing wide releases and just decided to pick some random influencers or whatever as a much smaller testing community. Testing releases actually kept me engaged with it, and I made lots of bug reports and was on the forums a lot as well. I just lost interest when that all went away (and was kind of pissed I didn’t get asked to participate tbh).

    HOTAS meta was also fucking obnoxious. I thought the mouse aim mechanics were crazy fun combined with 6DOF flight, and it was actually something I was pretty good at, and it just got way less fun when they nerfed all that so neck beards with sim setups wouldn’t feel left out.

    Maybe I’ll revisit it again at some point. Maybe not.