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I didn't see a topic for this one. We got it on PS4. It was Free for Playstation Plus users this weekend. Just started it yesterday. It is aiming for a Firefly feel with the music and the voice acting. The audio is inconsistent though with the music being exceedingly loud, but the voices being almost inaudible once you turn the volume down.

This is what No Man's Sky needed. Random missions in the mission computer, a computer controlled economy that tells you where to move your goods, random bounties on randomly created pirates. Factions that you can gain or lose rep with depending on what you do and who you do it for that helps determine where you can land and what ships and armaments you have access too. It even has mining if the action gets too intense for you.

True space gamers may not like that the space combat is essentially boats shooting each other and even calls your attacks from the side "broadsides". It is 2d in space with no z-axis.

It's fun, so far. I plan on playing more to see what else it offers.

I would like to have more options in the pricing menus, but then it would turn into EVE.

I played about 6-8 hours or so once it became free on PS+.  I was excited cause I had wanted to play it (just never got around to actually buying it).

It was fun for a while but I'm not really sure why.  I spent a lot of time at the beginning profiting via trading and got to the 2nd best ship the first galaxy offered and upgraded all the weapons.  The combat killed it for me though as aiming broadsides was a pain in the ass (and I"m pretty sure my automated turrets did more damage anyway so half the time I didn't even bother) and missions were either average risk and crazy easy or high risk and I would literally be instagibbed. 

Available on PC or PS4 exclusive?

On Steam for PC, I enjoyed it for what it was, but I got it on the summer sale for some ridiculous discount. Fun game to play through, not a lot of replay value.

--Dave

I disliked the combat a lot.

I too really disliked the combat. I normally love Pirates!-style tall ship combat (I don't have hundreds of hours in STO for nothing), but the really fucky camera angle combined with the game's somewhat shoddy targeting and ugly ships didn't keep me going long.

I've played it some more over the weekend.

I don't like the trader part of it so much now. When I do find a really low price, I can't find any place to sell it based off of the list of places I have traded at before because the prices all change before I get back there. So I tried the bartender and the Bartender tips are usually to places controlled by pirates or under militia embargo.

The story is still interesting me. I get to go try to rescue my aunt.

Random pirates and randomly appearing satellites with bounty lists are fun. Got to be careful picking up loot though, or the militias come after you if you get contraband.

So far the dumbest thing I have seen was a mission to save a trader and when I get there it's a minefield full of pirates and the trader flies straight into it. I just turned around and said, sucks to be you, bro.

I can't believe I'm dropping a tip for such a casual game, but sometimes those purple triangles you see in space are satellites that can be hacked for current pricing.  Naturally I find the entire idea of not being able to phone an entire space station to ask how much do you pay for space slaves to be a bit unbelievable.