Just finished playing my first session and I'm about to dive into the manual, watch a few tutroial vides, dodge all the spoilers and glean some infor so I thought I'd post my first post here at the same time.
I never used even a second of my demo time lol, after doing the tutorial sections and getting a feel (and seeing the stunning aesthetic style) for the game I couldn't get my credit card out fast enough.
I found my way here via SpaceSim Central which is a handy repository of space sim games (hence the name eh?).
I was looking for a game with a hard scifi edge, visually at least... Starwraith games has that visual style that makes my jaw drop (all packed into such a tiny download, how the? Is Vice a wizard?)
I knew I was going to play EM as soon as I first saw some cockpit screenshots, that complex HUD, all those lovely numbers, even the reflection on the canopy glass... quality, immersive and thoughtful design... Then I saw the planets, landing, space itself... omg, just perfectly in tune with what I wanted.
The design plus newtonian physics plus generally very positive word of mouth on this game sold me very quickly (and seeing the new features coming soon, I guess I signed up at a good time heh).
Anyway I'll pipe down now, I have a lot of reading to do, like any typical space sim fan half the fun for me is all the crazy stuff you have to learn.
It'll be a while before I'll try out multiplayer, I like to get my head around the game first, also I see some great looking mods (some of those HUDs are beautiful) to try...
...and I'm talking at full velocity again so I'll zip it now for sure lol.
Okay, cool, nice to be here, you all seem like a very cool community, Vice seems like a hella supportive dev (all his advice about freeing up memory for the game and stuff really helped me out).
No doubt I'll be bombarding you all with a bazillion questions soon enough.
Peace, love and laser beams.
