In my quest to reevaluate games I bounced off before, I’ve now moved on to Elite Dangerous, which I last played in 2019. As a bonus I now have a Thrustmaster Airbus edition flight stick (a friend found a job lot in charity shop and kindly gave me one) which improves the experience. I had to re-learn a lot and keep remapping the controls as I went so I didn’t get that far, but I didn’t hate it? I got bored really quickly last time but I’m kinda enjoying the chill space ship management. We’ll see
I think I’m going to stop using the automatic stuff like docking computers and auto super cruise and treat it more like a Euro Truck Sim where much of the enjoyment is just doing all the mundane stuff yourself and taking enjoyment from simply operating the ship. It makes really nice engine noises and satisfying bleeps when you do things. Maybe I’m a bit more chill now and can appreciate these things for themselves rather than chasing objectives
@sinbad I only use docking computers on my largest ships that barely fit the mail slot. Not for my Python (favorite ship).
I got into asteroid cracking, that was one of the most fun activities. Just cruising through a field in my Anaconda, calmly zig zagging between asteroids with the pulse scanner going off, looking for the right colour result. Then the whole bomb placement thing and picking up the pieces.
Much more fun than the old mining.
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