Water? We dont need no stinking water.

I mean I try not to pick everything apart. It’s just some things are so ‘in your face’ to me my brain goes into an error loop.

Especially when you are looking at something thats only purpose is atmosphere vs something that affects the story.

In this case the floating rocks are merely set decoration whereas the orbit through the atmosphere is a pointless artifical timer to add unneeded drama to a situation that already has enough. (And also already has another artifical timer with the vaccine d plot that is only there to make Una the episode’s ‘bad guy’)

1. Yeah it could be, but still - it was unneccessary. Just having a close orbit would have given the same amount of extra (unneeded) drama.

2. That would just make it even worse that they were dicking around instead though?

Currently watching it. Just had to come here to bitch before I can finish it lol.

1. I know Star Trek has never really cared about the science behind it all, but come on - the moon that travels through the gas giant’s atmo having any atmosphere nevermind a breathable one is just stupid - just have it not pass through the the gas giant’s atmosphere for christs sake.

2. Stupid artificial constraints. Come the fuck on - if the vaccines are soo damn important, why wouldn’t you rendezvous first before dicking around. I know it’s happened plenty of times throughout Star Trek, but this one feels particularly egregious to me.

I’m not gonna lie, I like how that wall looks lol.

Do you have access to developer options?

If so make sure “don’t keep activites” isn’t checked. And also check background process limit.

Through “no fault” of the company and years after the purchase.

Its not the companies fault he couldnt be assed to :

1. Diversify his email addresses in the 1st place
2. Update his email address.

When you put all your eggs in one basket, you’ve really got no one else to blame when you then decide to throw the basket away.

Gotcha, never heard the term alpha to omega to describe start to finish or origins.

It’s been a while, is the Destiny trilogy the one where we learn the Borg origins?

I really wish hollywood and audiences would embrace animation more.

Theres sooo many good stories that could be told or told better/easier by embracing it.

At first I didn’t really like this episode because of how off as Vulcans they seemed. Like they were overacting pretending to be a Vulcan.

But then I started thinking “well it kinda makes sense - they aren’t “real” Vulcans but a blend” and thankfully the whole Katra thing basically said the same thing.

Basically hardware-wise they are Vulcan and software-wise they are still human and as a result the 2 “systems” have trouble working together.

I loved Patton as Doug - even if it didn’t really make sense to me with everything we know about Vulcans.

In the end though it’s just another episode that makes me sad this is a prequel and all the great character development will get thrown out.

I’m especially mad they keep developing Spock specifically. Ethan Peck has done such a great job portraying Spock working on understanding and accepting his 2 halves that this show ends up being a disservice to both him and Leonard Nimoy.

In regards to 1. I disagree - there are plenty of flawed things that are still my taste - just like this game is.

I can enjoy something and still admit the problems it has. I don’t need to ‘justify’ my enjoyment by pretending something is perfect or doesn’t need improvement.

That would be like saying a person I like has zero flaws or issues. Just patently untrue. EVERYBODY has something they need to work on themselves even if they can’t see it.

If you can’t tell the difference between constructive and destructive criticism that’s something you need to work on lol.

Maybe the only game that actually has a redemption arc?

I can’t think of any other game that was so panned for so many things that turned it around like Hello Games did.

The only other games I can think of with any sort of redemption arc the main issues were because of bugs not swaths of missing features.

It doesn’t really help, but I find NMS space combat feels a lot better to me in VR.

The added immersion really covers up the “on rails” feeling for me.

But you end up “exploring” the same stuff over and over.

Theres no reason to actually explore a planet - pretty much everything you want to do/see is taken care of at any random spot you choose due to the single biome planets.

You’ve got like maybe 6 different versions of flora depending on the enviroment type. If your lucky they give you a color change too so instead of all green tree A you’ll get a red tree A .

Now I know it can be explained away by the games lore, but when the main goal of the game is to explore it doesnt really help.

It doesn’t even matter how many galaxies/universes you jump to - it’s all still the same limited number of assets with the same limited color wheel.

Money.

Yes, it is a flaw. Because those “smaller things” are little more than virtual fidget spinners.

They offer a few fleeting moments of novelty and thats pretty much it. They have little to no relevance to the gameplay loop or are opposed to the gameplay loop.

I can “build” a settlement that does next to nothing and I can’t even design it the way I want.

I can build a base that is practically lifeless, but I have to be carefull because terrain will respawn. Or base foundations float on top of terrain.

And all the things I can build I’m lucky if theres 3 different skins I can choose from to try and make something “my own”.

And then of course lets not forget about the near literal mile wide inch deep the games oceans are. Heres a submersible. We will force you to use it for a couple missions and then theres no real need or point to it. All the oceans are the same shallow boring experience.

Here im being slightly facetious but only slightly :

You’ve seen one ice planet? Guess what - you’ve seen them all.

One glitch planet- you guessed it youve seen them all.

Tropical planet - oh look this ones sky is a different color, but still the exact same type of tree as that other tropical planet 40k lightyears away.

Honestly, i wonder if generative ai would work for a procedural game like this. Any ‘errors’ could just be written off as alien flora/fauna or a glitch in the simulation.

My biggest problem with exploration in NMS is how quickly it all becomes the same thing.

Hell if they just made planets multibiome that would go a long way to eliminating that cookie cutter feel.

Mile wide, inch deep. I’ve no doubt (as excited for this update as I am) that this will be the same.

Basically they just add a framework for new features and then leaves it there without building it out.

I lost interest when I first tried Destiny 2 years after it was 1st released and realized they didn’t seem interested in new players.

Too many storylines merging and diverging before you have any idea whats happening.

It was like reading a book (and it’s series) out of order.