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Topic subjectRE: It honestly feels pretty good
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304450, RE: It honestly feels pretty good
Posted by upUPNorth, Thu Apr-11-19 08:19 AM
>>I don't feel like I'm being held back by the controller
>much
>>when doing anything, I imagine the stuff that gets annoying
>>micromanaging is as annoying on PC once you have to many
>>planets and sectors are sectors by the sounds of it, or
>>getting notifications for too many things at once.
>
>there is just a lot of navigating to do in that UI and some
>very important layers/panels aren't easily accessible even
>with a mouse. i'm sure they figured it out but playing on a
>controller seems not optimal
>

Yeah, accessing particular screens feels okay overall, I guess the really annoying part is when you have to back out of multiple layers since we can't quite just x out a panel. Hovering over stuff is trickier, which made learning combat and finding details on enemy ships a bit tricky, but being able to pause helps.

>>We're on an old patch still, 1.7? So we're playing a
>>different version of the game, Utopia is supposed to bring
>us
>>further along but I don't know if it's meant for us to
>match.
>
>utopia is a very significant update that will expand your
>ability to approach the end game. there is a lot of cool
>stuff in there. i don't think there will ever be pc/console
>parity
>

Yeah, I don't expect it, partly because they've said they'll be judging the sales numbers to decide if they even go further than Utopia I think, but even without that, it's possible it makes sense for the console adaptation to just not do everything the same.

>>Learning the game and how everything works can feel daunting
>>but I've made pretty good sense of it now, survived a crisis
>>on my third run. The game definitely has me sucked in right
>>now, I should probably start splitting time with other games
>>soon but every night after work I just want to see what
>>happens next, and how far my robot/droid/android plan for my
>>current race plays out, since I haven't used them before.
>
>the robot plan did not work out for me when i tried it. i
>went way overboard with it though, to the point where my
>people just hung out on a few small planets and robots
>colonized every large planet they could. i'm not exactly sure
>what went wrong but i needed to either give the robots more
>rights or strip them of all rights and i made the wrong
>choice

Hopefully I get it right! :) I have to remember to go check what they're default rights are set at, I assumed it would be favourable based on my starting ethics. I'm still trying not to expand until I have all the tech I want this time, going 'tall' I think they call it.