Good shit. Haven’t tried this yet but it’s a great move. Even if they take servers offline you can still enjoy it. Wish more devs did this. Might go ahead and pick this up.
Is it a good game?
Pretty much what the other poster said, but wanted to add it feels like Dune while playing through the story.
Never got to the highest tier but like t5 (unless they added more? But basically 1 below end tier).
It’s a survival game with Dune mechanics. Actually the story wasn’t too bad either.
Ended up on a server that was taken offline so just gathered up crap and moved but never logged in after. I spent over 60hours still on it, but I play slow. Never actually interacted with anyone else except a bit of the auction house.
T6 is stuff from the Deep Desert and end-game dungeons.
T5 is duralanium (aluminum + jasmium ally), the best you can get from Hagga Basin.
I played it primarily solo and enjoyed it quite a bit, but I’m a gigantic Dune fan and of these types of games. It has some interesting mechanics, a well crafted world, does a few unique things and has a good progression system. The base building also has enough freedom and depth that it felt like a fun creative outlet.
I’m much more inclined to grab this now… it’ll still be on a sale… but there is definitely a market for taking games like this offline
Is this something you want to play as single player?
there are some things that are more difficult solo, but most of the game plays just fine.
A lot of people prefer to at least have the option of offline singleplayer.
ETA: especially considering when this launched it was an online-/multiplayer-only game, I’m definitely happy to get to explore without the possibility of toxic players.
Server population is so low that I had no choice for the 50 hours or so I played. Even after they merged servers I think I only ever caught a glimpse of someone once.
Given its survival and PVE angle, it’s fine to play solo - at least that was my experience of the early game.
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