Quoting: tfkI've never played it. Is it good?

I suppose that depends on who you ask. There are people that love it and think it's great. Others (like me) don't like it at all. I tried it with the previous free expedition and played one session. Feeling of (space)flight is pretty bad and mechanics just don't give me anything to come back to. Frankly, it gives me the same feeling as an MMO. Long lists of tedious tasks without a meaningful story to hold things together.

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Quoting: hercI bought this two days ago, it seems quite addicting 🤪

Quick question to others who play this. What graphics API do you use? I run with an Nvidia card if that makes a difference.

DX12 I think. I tested it inside a big factory way back and it gave me a few more frames and fewer issues than Vulkan. Don't know how much difference it makes these days.

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That gives me just under 6 weeks to build myself to the finish because even though this is a great game, it's not going to take precedence over Factorio. :grin:

Curious to see what they changed and added for the final release though.

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After all these years it's getting close!

The line "This expansion continues your journey after finishing the base game where you blast off into space." is a bit suggestive in that you might assume that it just adds to it and leaves the base game unchanged. But they've already said that adding "Space Age" to a game significantly changes the tech tree and while it's possible to do that on an existing game, it's not recommended. So strange that they worded it like that. So I'll be going from scratch.

I'm currently going through the "Space Exploration" mod pack. The main developer of this modpack is Earendel, who now works at Wube and had a major role in the design of Space Age. It's good, but clearly not suitable for an average player. Balance between build times and research needs is off and parts of it are a giant slog. Solo it'll take hundreds of hours. The FFF stories were interesting in that regard as they mentioned the first gameplay iterations having similar problems and needing extensive changes and balancing to make progression more reasonable. Still, I now have a deadline for finishing it! :grin:

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Still on the list to do a full playthrough (did about half of one). But this time when it's content complete. Since they're still mentioning a map update, it's not there yet.

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I always played the Linux version (with Vulkan enabled). Haven't tried 1.0 yet because it is currently too hot in my computer room.

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Quoting: EriWhy are they leaving early access if they are going to overhaul half of the game and leave the story mode for more than a year down the road? I bought it on sale when they announced the end of early access but now I'm regretting hard, my fault for trusting an early access, again.

I guess they got tired of the "early access for a decade" story. :grin:

I do love this game and I've enjoyed the many iterations of it, but the success of it gave the devs way too many opportunities to keep tinkering with things that didn't really need tinkering with. Still, some things actually did need changing and have changed for the better.

I'll probably start a new game when it goes stable. With all the POIs that were added in the last couple of patches, there's still a lot I haven't seen.

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The game looks ambitious for what seems to be a first project. So I'll hold of on thinking anything about it until it's clear what they can actually manage.

Quoting: scaineI'll be gutted if this gets Denuvo, haha!

Then at least the Linux build will still be free of it. Sometimes it's a blessing when developers can't bother to make a native version of their product. :grin:

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Quoting: EikeHow so? Contact some developers, many should be happy to break those alleged rules, someone breaks them, wait if valve reacts.

What rules?

Alleged rules.

forcing game publishers to sign up to pricing restrictions that dictate the lowest price games can be sold for on rival platforms.

the add-on content for games must also be purchased from Steam, restricts competition in the market.

You both question if they even exist.

It seems likely that something exists because this chatter has been there for too long. But I've never heard much context. For instance, if the rules say that the freely generated keys can't be used in other stores to undercut prices in the steam store, then I'd say that is a fair rule. That's a far cry from having a rule that states that you can't be more expensive regardless of how it's distributed, then it'd be a major violation of anti-competition rules. My guess is that there is something resembling the first scenario.

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Quoting: tfkOk. How do I get the key card in the very first level? There is a door and I want to open it.

From demo memory, I'd say through a ventilation shaft.

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