Recente recensies door Nepocrates

Played on Quest 2 through Virtual Desktop

First 3-hour impression. First off, the game can be a bit confusing at the start this is not a bad thing, but new players need to be aware of that.

I played the tutorial twice and started a new game twice. The tutorial was pretty good. If you take your time you will learn much about the mechanics of the game. Two areas that need to be a bit better and the explanation and use of the flashlight cutting through “things” that might hurt you. I was confused about the use of flashlight as I did not see it do anything in the tutorial. When you get the flashlight it references that it blazes a trail through somethings. In the Tutorial I turned on the flashlight and just walked and saw nothing reacting to the light and was not able to understand its proper use. The last issue I had in the tutorial was ladders. I climbed up the ladder to the guard tower/ hunting stand with no issues. But trying to climb down I could not figure it out. So, in perfect gaming mode I just jumped. This was not an issue in the tutorial, but I think it will be more of an issue of the game mechanics. This could have been me just having a brain fart but if there are tips on how to go down the ladder like that one found the tutorial it could be on a note or something. Oh, I loved gun cleaning and I found it strangely relaxing.

On to the game

I started a new realistic game. With all the information coming at you as a new player it would have been good to be able to see all the tips from the tutorial so they can be reviewed after an event happens. During my first new game I ran into a few areas where I was being kill for no apparent reason. As stated above the tutorial was not clear as to what these areas could be. These areas of death confused me as I only remembered to use a probe, but they probe had no reactions. As a result, I did not know why I was being killed which was very frustrating. I do not mind getting hurt but not understanding why I was getting hurt was confusing. After some external research I was informed about the proper use of a flashlight.
Since I was not far into the game I restarted. This went much better. I went to the depot again. I love the atmosphere. I killed some translucent looking monsters with my knife. It was going well. What got me was when I panicked. I know I should not have, but I did. I was holding my backpack and getting ready for my next area of exploration when one of the monsters snuck up on me. I thought I had killed them all. It screamed and I froze then began to panic as it approached me. I had forgotten I was in a VR game. I was there in my head. Sure, I had plenty of time to stop what I was doing and kill it but I brilliantly chose that panic was the proper course of action. This resulted in me throwing my knife and missing, getting hit by the monsters, pulling my gun and forgetting I already had the safety off so I put the safety on so no bang bang for me, pulling my shotgun only to drop it, before I finally got my pistol’s safety off and killing the creature. Yep, I am going to love this game.

Overall, the atmosphere is creepy to say the least. I found myself constantly looking over my shoulder as I just got the feeling that something was there, but nothing was there. While I was searching the depot, I often heard a door creaky open and that constantly kept me on edge. As I went back into a hallway I stopped for a moment as I could not remember if I had left a door open. As night fell it got dark. I mean REAL DARK. I was not afraid but was concerned I would not be able to make it back or just meet my demise. In the Tutorial you learn that flashlights may attract the monsters, so I was using it sparingly. The feeling of relief as I made it back to the fog that took me to my base was amazing. As I said before Yep, I am going to love this game.

With that I called it a day, turned in my mission and sorted out all my loot. I am looking forward to playing more of this game.

I am sad this is gone. Once I figured this control out it is awesome.

I really wish there was a neutral rating. However after playing a few hours in the steam version I quickly realized that this game will become a second job. The monetization is Meh overall and the free to play part feels like a demo. You can only take your skills to 20. Another shrug here until you realize you need 21 to most things like riding a horse. Yes you can ride a cow but not a horse. Maybe a large cart? Nope, you need a 20.1 to drive one of those. I think you can drive a raft or row boat but you will quickly get to 20 in certain skills and all your effort (exp) on those skills goes to waste while you build the raft or boat. If it capped at 30 then you really could get a good feel for the game.

The last point is your homestead. Sure you can build almost anywhere. There is a catch, if you want to protect an area of land for your own development you need silver. Sure you can find a silver coin while digging here and there but that takes time. You could craft small things and see if you can trade them for silver. However, if your perfect homestead is an hour long walk away from the nearest town where you can trade it is not going to happen. As you would need to load up making you encumbered so the walk takes two to three times as long.

So here is the rub, it is going to cost you 30 USD to get started in the game. 12 euros for 5 silver and 2 months of premium and then another 12 euros for 10 more silver so you can buy a very basic township. That is 24 euros which comes out to 30 USD. Remember if you found a town you will have to pay a monthly silver to keep it. Also there is a cost, in silver, to have a guard if you want one.

Anyway if you like to grind like it is your job this game can be fun. If not I might give it a miss.

Sadly I asked for a refund as I never got past the tutorial as it did not run well on my toaster> I play other games fine but this game just stuttered no matter what my settings. I will come back after a few month. I do have great hope for this game.

* Update 4/5/2020 *
A friend gifted me another key so I reloaded it back up. The recent patches have dramatically improved the performance of the game on my toaster. So it has been about 12 hour of game play and it is a very good game. There are many things to learn in this game and you will not have your hand held as you play. I am consistently discovering new things. The best part of the game is that there is no one way to play and as with the first game I am never sure as to where this play through is going to end. And I love that

Fun game where you have to worry about and setup supply chains. You need to think into the future and then try your best to make that happen and of course change when needed. I have to complaints about this game. Fist complaint is that the information on the wiki and what can be found online is dated and often if you find anything like on the wiki itself is it a technically correct answer that is completely worthless. for example this is from the wiki

Origineel geplaatst door wiki:

Products Panel: This panel lists what is being made within each Production Tier, how much of each product has been produced in the past month and year, and how much money you made in sales.

Information Displayed: Last Month’s Production, Last Year’s Production, Last Month’s Sales, Last Year’s Sales.

By analyzing the information on these panels, you can acquire some very important insight relative to fine-tuning your production lines and maximizing profits.

It does not explain any part of the date your are left guessing at what it means.

https://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1953587576

In this screen shot of the production panel my gas appears to have produced 6 units but then it get confusing the produced amount is 6|4|4. The best I can tell it means I made 6 and used 4 and sold 4 so I think I may have had 2 gas being stored but there is no panel to tell me what I have overall and where it is located.

That brings me to my second complaint. There is no way, as for as I can tell, to know how much of anything you produced, needed and used, for example I know I produced 24 water last month and by doing a hand count of each farm/build that used water I used 14 but have no clue where the extra 10 water went. There was nothing in my warehouses and no water sold. So I guess one those farms/build they may be storing some water. unless I want to go to each farm/build click on it and look at storage I will never know.

All that aside I am enjoying myself greatly. It is a game that is a great puzzle and very relaxing as you play. I do enjoy watching the truck and stuff go here and there. So yes it is worth the money.

I like the game. It had a pretty smooth launch when I compare it to other games. It is still in early access. There are many cool mechanics in the game. Getting loot is fairly easy and the only real danger is players, which are often scum that shots first and loots sometimes.

All that said many of the mechanics do not really matter. I never seem to freeze, or starve or anything. Sure the game state things but there is not enough penalty for letting it happen. Right not you just eat, loot, kill and die. If you are lucky enough to live long enough you may have to eat, drink and poop.

I am sure the game will get better and fighting was fun overall. is worth 20 buck sure, I have paid more for worse. I think you should wait if you get easily bored.

I bought this game at launch and well it sucked. part was the hype failure and part was is was just blah. However with all the updates so far I am very pleased. I am currently doing a stream of a play through to the center of the universe. Base building although it was kinda confusing it is cool. It give a player ownership of something in the universe other than a ship. You can build rovers and it is a blast driving over a planet and getting into bad position and getting out. Just last night I went to do a simple 8 minute round trip drive to get something. Took me 45 mins because I got stuck in again and again but figured out how to get out. It was a puzzle to be solved and I did. I cannot wait to see the "NEXT" patch

***Update*** 7/25/18
Been loving No man's sky next. the game has changed yet again and I really love it the base building I have done so far is pretty cool. gone on the modules and I have floor walls ect. It is now worht a BUY this game is quickly becoming my favorite

I love this game. it can be very challenging and fun. However I hate all the loading screens they are so annoying after a while. Seems like more than half my time is spent on loading screens and that kills the fun.

First impression. It is a rogue-like game. if you make a wrong step it can be unforgiving. You will die. When playing you have to make smart decision but it does not mean you will win. Multiplayer is pretty fun sure you only control one char each my friends and I try to make the best decision for the group but rarely do we ever complain about someone doing something stupid. That's the fun. Getting into a jam and somehow making it out. Being rogue-like mean every game is different. My one complaint is that some of the tool tip or description are not clear so sometime you have clue what a spell or skill does. For example the spell restore is a cure but it seems like a heal. There are spells that we still have no clue what is does like "reset" we are not sure what that means.

I recommend this game is you like rouge-like challenges which means losing again and again. However, when you win there is nothing like that feeling.

(edit for some reason I wrote rouge-like instead of rogue-like so I fix this)

Over all a great game. It is a fun open world zombie survival game. Daytime is pretty easy once you get ok to decent weapons however, nighttime can be real freaky. Trying to avoid zombies while being hunted by them. if they see you better know how to run and get to someplace safe cause the are relentless chasing you.

All that said the very end was a bit of a let down. Tension building was great just surviving was tough but when it came time to deal with the bad guy it becomes a quicktime event.

TLDR; even though the ending is a let down the game is fun to play