Basically I haven’t played this game in like forever, I remember I touched it twice while it was free to play years ago, I remember liking the idea of going through corridors just to find my ship and how realistic it was, I like the scale of it.

However it might be cause of my ADHD but I don’t like when games have like a hundred things you have to grind, my favorite thing to do was just delivering packages for credits, how much has it changed since like 2022 or 2023.

  • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    6 小时前

    Just a few things I haven’t seen mentioned yet. They’ve been focusing on bug fixes this year, it’s not bug free, but compared to years ago hauling is in a far better state.

    • Server Meshing - I can’t remember the last time I saw a 30k (server crash). They’ve been replaced by a “Server Error” message that appears for a brief moment. The game will appear to be in a “paused” state for everyone for about a minute, but then it will start working again. Even then, I haven’t seen a server error in a while because we now have server meshing (to the point where you won’t even tell that you’re being passed from one server to another). You can actually stand on one edge of the border between servers, see players on the other side (even shoot them). Basically, every time you load into the game, you’re entering a “shard” with up to 600 players where each main area around different planetary systems is run by at least one server.
    • Crash Recovery - Even if your game crashes while you’re in the middle of hauling. Just load the game back up within a few minutes and the game will put you right back on your ship with all of your cargo intact. Well, hopefully intact. Your character stays in-game, and if you were under attack or your ship had cruise control while you were heading in the direction of the ground, you might be dead in those cases.
    • Cargo Missions (and reputation) you can now take on cargo hauling missions. No need to risk your own aUEC (unless you want to, as it’s still an option).
    • Skipping the grind - Fly out to any outpost and find a big abandoned ship (that’s not Soft/Hard deathed). Shoot open the ramp, go to the pilot seat, unlock the ship and fly away with it. Just be sure to store it at your home hangar location at the end of the day and you can keep on using it from one game session to the next (note: I haven’t tested this out in a while, but it should still work).
    • Inventory is localized and only accessible at inventory kiosks, or at your freight elevator in your hangar. For cargo hauling you’ll be using those freight elevators a lot.