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Re: The main thing discouraging me from Elite by Roop 10/30/2015, 6:27pm PDT
Oom Shnibble wrote:

Is that it really seems like the kind of game that needs a 50 hour investment before you upgrade your ship to the point where the game becomes fun.

I did enjoy wcsaga though even if it was so difficult that it made me hate everything for a month.


Yeah Wittgenstein is right there, you can have fun in the little ships. It's not the kind of game where you're grinding through ships as a mechanic, every ship is supposed to stay viable, so a fighter like a viper can take down a bigass anaconda in assassination missions. If you're looking for grind, they instead added powerplay, so you join a faction and grind missions and junk, for the crowd looking for that. They also added a mode where you just jump in and dogfight other players in different maps, earn progression points and crap. I don't do those things, mainly casually jump in as a break from whatever main game I'm playing to get in a quick space battle. It's pretty easy to trade enough capital for a big ship if you want to, but I never liked that much and made my millions just from killin.' You can do everything right from the start in small ships from killin or mining to bulletin board missions and community goals. They even added small exploration craft so you don't have to save up for an asp if you want to head into deep space straight away.
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Good semi-recent games for my Saitek HOTAS by Oom Shnibble 10/29/2015, 10:04am PDT NEW
    Elite: Dangerous, Freespace 2 total conversion mods by WITTGENSTEIN 10/29/2015, 10:29am PDT NEW
        The main thing discouraging me from Elite by Oom Shnibble 10/29/2015, 11:58am PDT NEW
            Nah by WITTGENSTEIN 10/29/2015, 1:21pm PDT NEW
            Re: The main thing discouraging me from Elite by Roop 10/30/2015, 6:27pm PDT NEW
    Flight sims? Are they even a thing anymore? Not saying they aren't, just been by Eurotrash 10/29/2015, 1:03pm PDT NEW
        DCS : Flaming Cliffs 3 looks promising. by Oom Shnibble 10/30/2015, 12:31am PDT NEW
        Jane's Fighter Anthology was the last one I played (it was good) by laudablepuss 10/31/2015, 7:32am PDT NEW
    Does this whet your appetite? by Mischief Maker 10/29/2015, 1:43pm PDT NEW
        You can only play Freespace 2 so any times. NT by Oom Shnibble 10/30/2015, 6:46am PDT NEW
            That's why there are a zillion custom campaigns! :) NT by Mischief Maker 10/30/2015, 11:03am PDT NEW
                Are there any with decent voice work? by fabio 10/31/2015, 12:00pm PDT NEW
                    Define "decent." by Mischief Maker 10/31/2015, 1:29pm PDT NEW
 
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