1 Topic by Kvoth

(5 replies, posted in General discussion)

Getting my butt kicked by level 2 assignments in my Yagel light assault robot.

I have all standard equipment (em guns, 2 em tunings, small armor repair).

Question is, what do I upgrade first?  Stuff is expensive, so I want to take it one piece at a time.  Weapons first?  Reactor stuff so I can keep my armor repair on?  Armor?

Any help would be much appreciated.

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2 Reply by Kvoth

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XyberViri wrote:

The game is getting LESS friendly to new players
Im not sure about this, the starting missions were still avalible for me having never dont them on one of my characters i just made the other day. i was able to get my Mk2 both as well as my starting bot.

It's possible I'm wrong.  I thought the patch they just put in took them out, and they added repeatable training missions instead.  Had a discussion about this in game and the consensus seemed to be they took them out.  Not sure, now.

XyberViri wrote:

  Speaking of speeding it up
I think the speed is alright, i hate how long it takes to travel for some missions but i think this preserves the game world. i have played many games were there was limited fast travel and this game by far does not have it as bad as some of the other ones.

I'd agree that preserving the game world integrity is super important (it really is a great world).  I'm not sure how to fix this.  The repetition is the real problem I think, and is being aggravated by the long travel.  More interesting, non grinding stuff to do would probably alleviate this, actually.


XyberViri wrote:

BTW, I am also still on my 15 day trial and have decided to sub the game and purchased my 30 days so far.

I am really tempted to try another month.  I keep having this itch to play, but once in the game I quickly lose steam.  I feel like I'd get destroyed in PvP, but combat missions are boringly repetitive, and grinding easier bots is a bit more profitable but also gets boring.

Tried a transport character on a 2nd trial account (don't want to spread out my EP on one account/two chars) since it's apparently the way to make money, but I got tired of running goods quickly, since there's basically no variation to it.

I want to play when I'm not in the world, maybe in small doses it's worth it.

Good discussion though guys, keep it up!

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3 Topic by Kvoth

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I might be wrong on all counts, but as a newbie trying the 15 day trial, that's how I feel.

In short, the game has all its bases covered as a bare-bones system for a truly phenomenal game.  That bears repeating: it will eventually be a phenomenal game.  Right now Perpetuum is SO bare-bones it seems to have little to drive players to actually play.

I feel addressing these problems would go a long way:

  No story in a clearly interesting game world
The world looks amazing.  There is so much potential depth there just looking at the interesting structures.  There is a great backstory that anyone can read on this site.  It's a shame there is no lore, no storyline in the game itself.  It was one of the strong points of the original Mech-type games and kept me playing them for a long time.

  The game is getting LESS friendly to new players
They took out the 10 training missions.  I understand perhaps consolidating them a bit so it goes faster, or let people do several in parallel to speed it up.  But they are just gone now.  No way to get your Mk.2 Ankhe.  No way to get into a better light robot after the initial 10 missions.

  Speaking of speeding it up
People seem to turn to transport missions to make their fortune.  It seems to be universally agreed upon that they are mind-numbingly boring, but safe.  Additionally, the combat missions are slightly more fun, but they have more travel time than anything.  They end up being just like transport missions but with a higher risk of losing your bot.  Long, boring travel times is a bad idea, especially in conjunction with:

  The grind starts immediately (and lasts forever?)
You have to grind out the same assignments (literally the same) if you want to get a rep up.  It doesn't matter much anyway, as the other assignments are the same thing, with the details slightly different (different location, slightly different bots to kill, etc.)  I hear joining a Corp and running around doing things is more fun, but I also hear that doesn't really address most of the fundamental problems of the game.

  TL;DR
The game has a ton of potential.  Right now it is riddled with problems: No storyline, no incentive to play beyond the first couple weeks of wow-factor, not newbie friendly, the game is just one big grind.

If they put in a storyline, figured out how to make the game feel less of a grind, added in better long-range transport, added in newbie-friendly support, and threw in all sorts of fun incentives to play long term - and then advertised it well - the game would kick some serious bootay.  I look forward to checking back in on it in a couple years, for sure.

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