Khellendros, on 31 May 2021 - 01:50 PM, said:
Traveller, on 28 May 2021 - 06:04 AM, said:
It's like every other nms addition though - nice looking, but ultimately just wallpaper change. I put so many hours into this game but the recent additions don't add any change to gameplay, they just add a new look after completing some fairly lengthy collection missions.
I just wish it all felt more.. populated I guess. Warping five galaxies away and landing on a planet with the same bases and containers dotted around and the same races, standing in the same places.. I think maybe I just reached the limits where it remains entertaining.
Expeditions, especially the first one, were definitely more aimed at new players, giving them a shortcut to experiencing many of the things on offer.
They have allowed me to visit a lot of player-created bases, though (due to the rendezvous points putting everyone in the same place). I’ve seen some truly brilliant creative ones, funny ones, and immensely useful for the rest of the journey ones. So that community side of things has been nicely highlighted with them.
The Expedition storyline, such as it is, is also hinting at some potentially big change/addition further down the line, though I also may be reading too much into it!
They do indeed hint at bigger changes, I guess we'll see if something happens.
There is a patch that dropped today, but no patch notes yet. Rumors suggest a flora update and new stuff on stations in each system, but I guess we'll see whats up when the host comes up.
Sean always tweets small a small emoji or two with update, and this one is the light going through a crystal much like on Dark Side of the Moon album by Pink Floyd. Could be a ton of things
Edit - they just posted patch notes. Looks like big lighting changes, more tamable/ridable creatures, cave changes, and they added a big new 'station overseer' node to stations. Biggest feature I see is you can now save your freighter build design, and if you get a new freighter, just reproduce it on the new freighter from the save instead of having to rebuild everything, which is pretty cool.
This post has been edited by Obdigore: 02 June 2021 - 01:14 PM