Hello everyone, brand new commander here.
I have just bought and installed the game yesterday and it is really a pleasure and an eye-candy on my 4K monitor.
Finished the first training and the first mission in Dromi.
I am playing with mouse and keyboard for now. But cannot exclude buying a flight controller for this and other games in the near future.
Please advise in general on anything that may be useful to a newbie, but here are a few questions:
- How much of a campaign is there? I heard the real pleasure is in getting lost, but it would still be interesting to see if any story is there.
- How much of a multiplayer experience is (left) in there? I could see names that sounded "human-given" in the Ext.Comm. screen but didn't really understand.
- Am I ruining my experience significantly by playing without a flight stick? I don't think I will buy a huge HOTAS set, but if I can get an extremely good experience by buying something chill like the Logitech Extreme 3D, please tell me.
It's a huge sandbox with story lines; some thin, some like the recent Thargoid war that went on for two years and culminated with an attack on Earth.
PvP is very lopsided until you have skill and in-game engineering. VERY lopsided. Then, only meta ships are useful. It's ok though, learning how to evade a gank is part of the game in Open. Lots of content in Solo, and then there are private groups. If you want to play in a PvE galaxy you can look up Mobius. Progression is across all modes, so you can just jump back and forth. I play in Open but will still switch to Solo going to a dangerous area.
Many top level pilots use M+KB, I like "airplanes in space" so I use HOSAS. I have VKB Gladiators with the bent left stick and I wish I had just bought them at the beginning. I fly in super cruise with just the right stick. I have VR and use it sometimes but spend 90% of the time using OpenTrack and a webcam for rudimentary head tracking. Track IR is popular.
Wow thanks!
VKB stick is what kept me playing for much longer since i lost interest. Pure joy of fine controls (and my progression is from ps4 controller to whatever hotas is available for it, then switched to PC and used X56, until finally got the VKB). Wish I had it back in the days when i really enjoyed the grind and mining was the thing.
For the OP - a pity you missed the targ war - that was a great opportunity for open play cooperation, to hone your piloting skills and a lot of pretty sights in maelstroms. It was also the closest thing we had for a campaign.
I wonder if Frontier has what it takes to do something of the same scale again. The game is still too niche to justify investment, and that is unfortunate.