ramjet wrote:After seeing about 20 planets, I'm starting to feel like I am mostly just seeing the same species of flora, fauna, and rocks over and over again, just with different names. It's making me feel like this game would have been better positioned as a $30 title, with a shorter time to whatever is at the center. Most everything is a quadraped. Few bipeds... but, haven't seen anything with more than 4 appendages. Different colors, different names. May all be procedural, but it seems it is all pretty tightly restricted to maybe a dozen or two basic types, and not much deviation from there. I don't know... maybe there will be greater variety as I get further away from my home world, into another galaxy, or something else.
My experience is different. While I've seen multiple qudrapeds as well on my starter world alone I also ran into a small shrimp/preying mantis type creature that tends to hang out around clusters of the red energy crystals. Unlike the quadrapeds which seem to all be friendly thus far this nasty mantis bug appears to be always hostile. So I stared the game by being chased back to my ship by one. Anyway it has at least 6 legs from memory... possibly 8 but I'd bet six if I had to.
Also there seems to be some sort of giant dragonfly thing but I've never seen them land, just flying over head. No idea how many legs they have. My planet doesn't have any major bodies of water that I've found so I don't know what sea life is like. There are 5 total planets, one moon, and one space station in my starting solar system. Two of the planets have life while the other three are barren. I've only played for a few hours and I've got back to my starting planet because it had the most life. I just finished building my hyperdrive and making my first unit of fuel but I'm not ready to leave the system yet. I've got more words to learn, species to find, etc. I'm having a great time with the game and find it very relaxing (when I'm not being chased away by the killer mantis things).
ramjet wrote:As of now, I'm beginning to wonder if I will tire of it before I make the supposed 100 hour journey to the center. The tech is cool, and that's what drew me to it, but... we shall see.
Personally I have no current desire (though I'm still only a few hours in) to move to the center. I don't think the point of this game is to complete it or to gather everything. For me it's just fun to experience it. I could see myself easily spending 100 hours on it if there's just a few more, significantly different planets to explore... like an ocean one would be great. As of now I'm more than happy to spend at least a few more hours just on my starter world.
ramjet wrote:
(then there's the performance issues. and, why a game that requires opengl 4.5 when it seems a good many cards do not support that? Game runs, but I have issues. Most notably, after an hour or so of play... there comes a time when I enter my ship and my fps drops to 10, and the game goes into slow motion. The only way to recover it is to restart the game.)
I'm playing the PS4 version... I've had it crash once but otherwise I haven't noticed any issues performance or otherwise. Besides the one crash the only other thing I wish was a bit better is when flying around a planet in a ship there is a significant amount of pop-in. On foot seems fine for me as well as space but zooming around the planets it has trouble loading assets as fast as I can see them. I consider that very minor though so overall I'm very happy thus far.