It’s a Bethesda RPG in space. If you’re looking for No Man’s Sky, it isn’t that. If you’re looking for Elite Dangerous, it isn’t that. But it is a BSG RPG, just like I’ve been playing since Morrowind, and it really scratches that itch. I like the characters I’ve met, I’ve enjoyed exploring, and I’m starting to get into the lore and history. The weapons feel great and the gunplay is good. I tried the ship building and was pleased with how smooth a process that is.
I’ve seen a few graphical glitches, but this really is the least buggy-at-launch BSG RPG I’ve played. It’s definitely made for a controller, but that’s fine, that’s how I prefer to play these days.
I’m waiting until a patch comes along that addresses performance on the steam deck. I am pretty flexible when it comes to graphics quality and frame rates and such, but the current reviews are not looking playable.
As a point of reference, I played hundreds of hours of Daggerfall with all the joys of getting stuck in a wall only to be killed by guards, and jumping over a pit in a dungeon only to fall into the Abyss Between Worlds. I’m a TES fan from the early days and I know how bad they can be on release. I just have a lot more to do in BG3 before I feel pressure to try something new.
I’m glad you’re enjoying it, but this is sort of confirmation that it’s gonna be a disappointment for me. “It’s just like other Bethesda titles” isn’t the selling point it once was ☺️
It’s been pretty fun so far, yeah. It’s just what I was expecting pretty much, an Bethesda game (and fallout 4 to a greater extent), in space.
Just wish they’d added a proper map instead of that scan line lookalike.
It certainly isn’t elite. I keep waiting for some action but so far its just watching g a lot of cut scenes.
I’m only 2 hours in and I’m liking it too. Some things aren’t clicking yet for me like the space combat but with more practice I think I’ll get the hang of that too.
The one thing I dislike is how my robot companion will run into me constantly or block me in a small passage. I had to reload a save because I was stuck with a glitched floating vosco that wouldn’t let me jump around or even go underneath lmao. He’s been glitched like that for the last 40 minutes.
I’m actually getting a refund now. This game ended up being too tedious for me. After trying to explore New Atlantis for over an hour with that fucking horrible topographic “map” I refuse to deal with this for the next 40+ hours. Hell even Redfall was able to capture my attention longer than this mostly because it actually has a FUCKING MAP.
That’s exactly the kind of bug I’ve come to expect from their games. It’s usually a couple of patches in where they figure out that you bumping into your companion should get them to move, or you having the ability to tell your companion to move.
I couldn’t count the thousands of hours I’ve logged on Bethesda games, but they’re the reason I have 200 gigs of save files every time I play an RPG.
After another 2 hours I just gave up. This game is my least favorite Bethesda game I’ve played. I see how tedious it will get exploring. New Atlantis showed me the shortcomings of this game.
Was the the same with Cp2077for me, finished the story after a year till my game breaking bug was fixed.
