I made it to the Titan during the intro mission when the game froze and crashed. When I went back in the game apparently hadn’t auto saved any of it, and started me back at the beginning of the opening cutscene.

The Level 0 thing didn’t seem to affect me adversely but it did give me a chuckle, and in retrospect it seemed appropriate for the state of the demo. I had fun with the interceptor once I made the mental adjustment for up-close combat. That super sure helps with reviving someone who went down in a tough spot.

I heard that some folks were able to access all 4 javs by the end, whereas I somehow was at Level 0 when I finished my last expedition, haha. Sigh.

Well, if anything, this helps confirm that the demo didn’t really do a great job of letting us know much about how the actual game is going to function. You and I definitely had rather different experiences and there’s not much we can do about that. I’m looking forward to the 10-hour EAA trial to get a better idea of…

I just realized, by “solo” I meant setting the world to “private”. I started the demo on “private”, did one mission and about 30 minutes of freeroam and only made it halfway to the next level from the starting point of lvl 10. I switched to “public” and was leveling up after each mission.

Yeah I forgot to mention the respawning. Sending you to a jump-off platform somewhere else after you die in the middle of an event was not fun.

Solo is a real bummer. You get like 25% of the XP that you’d get if you were in co-op, but enemy intensity is the same as co-op, so you’re doing 4X the work for 1/4 of the reward. I remember them saying at E3 that there are “no artificial barriers” to playing solo. Based on the demo that’s not true :(

Well, I’m the biggest Alien: Isolation fan I know, so the question for me would be: which is better, a mobile sequel or no sequel?

You’ve taken this WAY too far, and are misapprehending my own intentions. I think that when we strip away all your surgically-precise rhetoric, we’re going to find that you’re just here to fight. I’m thinking you intentionally misconstrued my previous question as impugning your honor so you could then “counterattack”.…

Sorry, are you one of the people cited in the article or something? You’re putting up some pretty hostile pedantry for an anonymous bystander.

When I was younger, I was given extremely valuable advice from a very unlikely source, and variations of this advice can be applied to countless situations.

Yeah, that was my Limit Break for today! Going to be a while before I charge up enough AP to throw down another one.

I love it, yes! I played it on PS4, and moved over to Switch as soon as it launched there last month. I think it’s been on PC for a while; if you do anything on Steam you could try it there with less risk.

Dear Dazed and Confused:

Makes sense. To return to Fahey’s original message, I blasted through the whole game and had a surprisingly great time with it. I went back in recently and, even though there was still some stuff to do, whatever previous compulsion I had to play it had pretty much dissipated. And now that I can play Everspace on…

Agreed. The disparity between buying physical and buying digital on this game was HUGE, and more so if you were buying for Switch. Unless a person wanted an actual plastic Arwing, the Switch digital deluxe version was the one to get by a mile.

The only device I have these days for actual “computing” is a Surface Pro 3, and I’ve never tried to run my long-dormant Steam account on it. Think it’ll work?

Well dang :(

Hah, well, as a huge Nintendo fan myself, given the choice I do think I’d prefer total annihilation to be Mario-themed!