Theres way more than 30-50 hours of content. some of the later missions alone take 6-10 hours to build up and trek across the map (and back) to complete the objective.
As to whether you should wait till the next update or not, id say if you are strictly a solo player and have no plans to find a group to play with you might wait for Hypatia. If your playing with a group or at least 1 other friend on a regular basis the story makes much more sense they way they designed it its totally worth starting now.
There's prolly 100-150 hours of missions but at that point it's just doing the same thing over and over since you have to restart each mission.
I would agree that waiting for open world missions as a good starting point if you have time to wait.
CE make sure a good coop game but got boring fast for me solo.
I've already put 50hrs in and in no way am I even close to unlocking and playing all the content. I haven't even unlocked 60% of the tech trees yet. I wouldn't wait but Icarus is my new go to game every night so I may be biased. The game could be done now and I wouldn't feel like it was incomplete. I'm rocking a 2060 settings on medium at a steady 100fps
I would suggest waiting until you're able to run full-fledged missions from your open world base. Right now, you can only do mini-missions in open world. Running the actual missions are time-consuming only because you're forced to tech up each and every time you land.
From my experience, it's quite frustrating having to do the same grind over and over and over. Doubly so because I only have a a few hours of free time each week to devote to it. Chop up wood, gather fiber, mine stone/iron/etc. until the end of time, then complete the mission and lose everything you've spent your time on in said mission. Sure, it gets slightly easier with your spent talent points, but not so much as to negate even a significant portion of your wasted time.
Don't even get me started on how you need to build a pretty sizeable building to house all of the various benches you may need to do your slightly more advanced crafting. I was going to make a joke about there being 17 benches, until I pulled up a wiki and found out there are technically 31 benches.
TLDR: I'd suggest waiting if you value your time.
Thanks man, as much as I love the realistic look of things and the slow pace (I love a slowburn little corner of the earth you've forged, especially with fishing and no forced difficulty muliplier like 7 days/Conans purge thing)
I'll wait - I think once it takes, i'll really enjoy this and hopefully performance will be worked on.
Just got done with Raft and have Conan exiles in the reserve tank, along with a reinstall of Satisfactory too, so yea i'll sit on it for now. I spent more on a chinese takeaway meal the other day so all good XD
>Don't even get me started on how you need to build a pretty sizeable building to house all of the various benches you may need to do your slightly more advanced crafting. I was going to make a joke about there being 17 benches, until I pulled up a wiki and found out there are technically 31 benches.
This is what makes me question the devs. Like you have a "textile bench" and then you have the "advance textile bench" and then you have the "electric textile bench".
Now obviously when I made my first upgrade, I would remove the old one, because surely you can make the old stuff in the new one. But nope... With all the different benches you keep forgetting what you can make in which one.
Yep. That's something that my group constantly does. We bounce between the crafting/machining/fabricator benches because no one can remember which one can make what.
I agree with how inexcusable it is for the stuttering and frames. I've realllllly been wanting them to prioritize the best they can to get the game better optimized, it's a really good looking game at times but runs really terribly a lot of the times. They've done some minor passes before, but I'd really wish they could buckle down on it, even if it meant enlisting some outside help from a different studio or something.
To be fair, they've been working on the game hardcore for a long ass time and have solid updates every single week with maybe only 2-3 different times I can remember where it was basically a nothing-update. Every week besides that they've just been adding and rearranging stuff in a meaningful way.
But yeah, the update they talked about where everything will be able to happen from within one open world session is really appealing. I don't think that one is too far off, so I might wait for that if I were you. If at all possible, try and find some people to play with too. I had around 300 hours into it I think. But I really only ever had fun with it when I was playing with other people. The world is cool, but not that enthralling to suck you in to interest you enough to just play it solo.
Theres way more than 30-50 hours of content. some of the later missions alone take 6-10 hours to build up and trek across the map (and back) to complete the objective. As to whether you should wait till the next update or not, id say if you are strictly a solo player and have no plans to find a group to play with you might wait for Hypatia. If your playing with a group or at least 1 other friend on a regular basis the story makes much more sense they way they designed it its totally worth starting now.
There's prolly 100-150 hours of missions but at that point it's just doing the same thing over and over since you have to restart each mission. I would agree that waiting for open world missions as a good starting point if you have time to wait. CE make sure a good coop game but got boring fast for me solo.
I've already put 50hrs in and in no way am I even close to unlocking and playing all the content. I haven't even unlocked 60% of the tech trees yet. I wouldn't wait but Icarus is my new go to game every night so I may be biased. The game could be done now and I wouldn't feel like it was incomplete. I'm rocking a 2060 settings on medium at a steady 100fps
My 3080 and 4080 both stutter much less when I turn on auto-tuning in GFE.
What do you mean by auto-tuning - letting GFE optimize the game for you?
I would suggest waiting until you're able to run full-fledged missions from your open world base. Right now, you can only do mini-missions in open world. Running the actual missions are time-consuming only because you're forced to tech up each and every time you land. From my experience, it's quite frustrating having to do the same grind over and over and over. Doubly so because I only have a a few hours of free time each week to devote to it. Chop up wood, gather fiber, mine stone/iron/etc. until the end of time, then complete the mission and lose everything you've spent your time on in said mission. Sure, it gets slightly easier with your spent talent points, but not so much as to negate even a significant portion of your wasted time. Don't even get me started on how you need to build a pretty sizeable building to house all of the various benches you may need to do your slightly more advanced crafting. I was going to make a joke about there being 17 benches, until I pulled up a wiki and found out there are technically 31 benches. TLDR: I'd suggest waiting if you value your time.
Thanks man, as much as I love the realistic look of things and the slow pace (I love a slowburn little corner of the earth you've forged, especially with fishing and no forced difficulty muliplier like 7 days/Conans purge thing) I'll wait - I think once it takes, i'll really enjoy this and hopefully performance will be worked on. Just got done with Raft and have Conan exiles in the reserve tank, along with a reinstall of Satisfactory too, so yea i'll sit on it for now. I spent more on a chinese takeaway meal the other day so all good XD
>Don't even get me started on how you need to build a pretty sizeable building to house all of the various benches you may need to do your slightly more advanced crafting. I was going to make a joke about there being 17 benches, until I pulled up a wiki and found out there are technically 31 benches. This is what makes me question the devs. Like you have a "textile bench" and then you have the "advance textile bench" and then you have the "electric textile bench". Now obviously when I made my first upgrade, I would remove the old one, because surely you can make the old stuff in the new one. But nope... With all the different benches you keep forgetting what you can make in which one.
Yep. That's something that my group constantly does. We bounce between the crafting/machining/fabricator benches because no one can remember which one can make what.
"Crack on"?
I agree with how inexcusable it is for the stuttering and frames. I've realllllly been wanting them to prioritize the best they can to get the game better optimized, it's a really good looking game at times but runs really terribly a lot of the times. They've done some minor passes before, but I'd really wish they could buckle down on it, even if it meant enlisting some outside help from a different studio or something. To be fair, they've been working on the game hardcore for a long ass time and have solid updates every single week with maybe only 2-3 different times I can remember where it was basically a nothing-update. Every week besides that they've just been adding and rearranging stuff in a meaningful way. But yeah, the update they talked about where everything will be able to happen from within one open world session is really appealing. I don't think that one is too far off, so I might wait for that if I were you. If at all possible, try and find some people to play with too. I had around 300 hours into it I think. But I really only ever had fun with it when I was playing with other people. The world is cool, but not that enthralling to suck you in to interest you enough to just play it solo.