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.
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.