Recent reviews by scott.allsup

Reviewing this game is hard. I've never played Vanilla. Theres multiple scenarios from the community and only ever played Reforged Eden. Speaking to vets (over 5k hours); this game should of died years ago and without RE (Reforged Eden) it would of become boring so much quicker.

Reforged Eden combines two player scenarios and add loads of content to the game. However not enough that i wasn't done within 2 weeks while still learning the game mechanics etc.

This game is over 10 years old and is only on version 1.8 from an Indy developer? and this really shows in the game play.
There's multiple issues such as:

• UI Locking up the game, If you have loads of Blueprints, searching(Only place you can search... WHY?) will freeze the whole game.
  
• 0 FPS on a 3080Ti and even a 3090Ti - while in space battles. RE has done their best to mitigate this by limiting weapon groups a single vessel can have, so god help anyone playing vanilla. This has caused numerous ships to be lost.
  
• Desync's, you can fight a ship have to duck out due to shields, move 3km and then all of a sudden your being hit with nothing in sight and the enemy ship doesn't load. Again ships lost.
  
• Griefing, you can grief a whole server by 'coring' an enemy vessles and unloading the playing field. On MP servers, these will never spawn again, so your saves will never last you forever.
  
• The crafting system, no way to accurately tell why you cannot craft (end game) something late game, it will be a missing material but good luck finding out.
  
• The UI is VERY BASIC and is restricted by Eleon, it's improved from older versions but by any standard you cannot do simple things such as search for an item, only a single player can access a cargo box at any time. You cannot set harvesting weapons to a specific harvest box.
  
• Shields - Only recharge out of combat, no way to 'tank'
  
• The weapon information is all Damage Per Minute and doesn't provide useful information. (12 emp cruise does about 250k damage to shields, but an enemy with 450k i do about 7%.... WHY?!)
  
• Theres no information even on the Wiki, try working out 'How ships size class is calculated', it's none sense.
  
• There's no Linux server only windows, our restricted server (Class 15) requires 2 restarts a day.
  
• To admin the game is a player created console.
  
• THRUSTERS. when you disable an enemy ship, if your unlucky enough for the thrusters to not turn off, the ship is uneterable and unsalvageable
  
• If your server changes IP, your Factory resets and everything is lost. Like Eleon, implement fingerprints so this doesn't happen.. COME ON

I would never test this due to the frame rate issues.

Building, is great. You have a variety of different shapes that can enable mostly pretty much anything. Limiting factor here is the colours and the textures.

The community, without the mods and Scenarios the game would be certainly gone. The integration with the workshop is amazing to collaborate with friends and strangers and improve upon designs.

The worst part about the game is the missing information, i learned 99% of the game watching Spanj's play-throughs. And even helped players with over 2k hours in game with content they didn't know existed. Eleon are touchy at best, ask a question and they answer... Don't requestion it or you get warnings in their discord, threatening a ban. However they are active in there for vanilla scenario only and mainly rely on the community to help you out.

Hopefully you read all the above, but would i recommend the game? Strangely yes, specifically only if you have friends to play with, the price is cheap and you have multiple scenarios that can enhance game play. Otherwise no, it can be very monotonous.

If you join a server try 'Where Am I (UK)' Fantastic community and an active server owner who does his best to help.


Where Am I (UK) [discord.gg]

New world is a open MMO focused on PvP, you gain 10% exp buff etc.

I do recommend playing with friends as when people group up they will be PVP enabled so its very much get ganked or run.

Instances you cannot straight farm as you need to craft the 'Key' - Searching for instances is done via spamming area/global chat (not fun and is time consuming).

Queuing can be a problem if you are on a high pop server (my longest queue was 3 hours in peak)

PvE is very varied and the mobs gain different skills such as self healing, dodging etc. as there level increases. You can also encounter normal mobs with 'abilities' such as 'brutal' and the mob is harder.

***This is a very grinding game.*** Player level is 60 but craft/gathering skills level is up to 200, gathering skills are quiet easy, but very tedious at best, especially in high population servers where you can have 20~ people doing the same ores (at farmable locations)

All in all would recommend.

Currently the worst game to set an account up. 2 online chats and refused help. Unable to call due to work times. 3 email address's later and 2 days and i have an account not even logged in yet. Biggest ball ache ever. will update once i actually played.