What started off as a mini-review, ended in what could’ve been a few firsts for me. Could had, but RonNightFury (when I dated him) ‘took the awards’ of..
1. Playing a game with the one I love, in a game that’s different than the game I met them.
2. Playing a game with the one I love, with just me and them.
Yeah, sadly he took those. But, Jero and I played for a very, very.. very long time. Infact it was all day and night! So that could be a first all in itself.
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Jero also took two other awards;
1. First time I bought a game to play with the one I love.
2. First time I ever bought a game to play with the one I love that I avoided like the plaque.
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It’s true; a game I sat on the fence for months while laughing at all the “game companies are SCREWING US!!! Folks, think with your wallets to prevent this from happening again!!” talk. And before I turn this into a very weird porno, I feel as if… I dunno. It’s such a weird feeling of buying a game just so you can play with the one you love, especially a game I ignored all of the “they’re making it better now! It’s becoming what was promised on release!!” talk.
‘They should had’ keeps coming to mind here, instead of promising us the moon and providing a mutated spec of space dust (that I bet they didn’t even go into space to get).
But, I enjoyed myself very much. It started with Kovo, who wanted to help me help Jero by knowing what to do. Mainly, he wanted to see just how multiplayer works; if both would join the same planet.
And the answer is: yes’ish. I was on the moon, Jero showed up on the ringed toxic planet. He assumed we were “lightyears apart”. Not really, you’re just on the main planet. At least that’s what his blip showed when I saw it.
He was next to last on the mission to repair his ship, and I went over to say hi (and try to help). Sadly there’s not much I can do, when gameplay is local to the one playing it. I picture this when I was playing WoW with my alt (trying to help powerlevel him), and there’s quests that are phased that only he will see things.
With this game, it’s sort of like that. Missions are phased yes, but the environment isn’t. And this played out later on when I was still on the toxic planet with him, and had to get off for dinner.
When I came back, I expected him to be welcoming me back and having to wait for him to come back on. Instead, I joined and noticed my ship was moved back. I also saw another ship. Went over to it. “Enter JEROMEAH’s Ship”. Uhhh… okay. Something could be wrong with my save, making it think Jero’s still here. So I go do my own thing (locating Buried Technology Modules and extracting their Salvaged Data).
Was heading back to my ship…
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*’Come and Get Your Love’ intro plays*
Jero: *waves* Heeeeeyyy!!
Me *not paying attention*: Heeeeeyyy!! *sees Jero in my game*
What the FUCK?! …HOW?! You didn’t request to join my save.. yet you’re in my save!
Just, how?! HOW?! Game devs, why is Jero not in another instance of the planet!?
Apparently, this is a ‘feature’ after asking the Steam community; Jero was in the
system, which is how he was able to show up without actually being in my save.
This is bad, very bad. Because my sweetheart, loves mining. And this, is what I came back to;
He stripped the planet of its resources. lmao
…For I have become Death, the Destroyer of Ecosystems! *cute British chuckle* -Jero
What’s even more funny, of him constantly running out of room in his backpack. Gee, I wonder why!
It took him so. long.. to get to where I am (which is to investigate the Space Station and figure out who owned the Base Computer in the past), because of all the grinding he was doing. Also, and I’m not 100% sure if it was because he wasn’t in my save, he had to make his base back on the toxic planet that I started on (instead of on the moon as me).
My theory is it detected my base and decided to ‘set up shop’ for him back on the toxic planet.
Wonder if it’s possible for him to pack up and still put his base near mine (since he’s now done with that initial part of his player progression). We made it to the Space Station and now it’s telling us to go back to base via teleporter.. that’s a problem (for me)– mine’s unpowered as the Bioreactor in the game, cannot be turned off. And hilariously
enough, the Steam Community (from my searching) has told people “the Bioreactor is
shit, get solar panels/batteries as soon as you can”. Yet the tutorial TOLD me (and Jero) to make the fucking thing!! D:{
Solar Panels require Gold, which I have not seen on the toxic planet nor the moon!! So WTH, GAME?! …And even more “wth” is the game didn’t even tell me that Gold can be primarily acquired by destroying asteroids orbiting above planets (and in interplanetary space). It’s also how you can find the fuel required for the Starship’s pulse drive.
And we haven’t even tried the game in VR yet (yes, it can be played in VR). Lots of people say it’s “hella immersive”, and that sounds quite interesting.
Can’t wait to see what happens tomorrow. Something tells me Jero’s going to want to play this in VR (and get me to do it too).