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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.
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[โ€“] biofaust@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for the link and the opinion!

[โ€“] EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I forgot about my personal multiplayer aspect: it's the community in forums like here and mainly discord. There are dozens of public discord servers. That's where people mainly meet and talk. The in game chat is often a lot of shit talk.

Fly safe, CMDR o7