Installed 3.0.0 yesterday and took a little look at the state of this game again.
Gotta say I'm pretty impressed, and the potential here is huge. At the same time... UI wise there's a lot of work to be done.
Mobiglas is pretty dreadful to use, the font they use everywhere hurts my eyes and is hard to read, and the 30 FPS on Crusader is just painful to play and feels very much like an artificial limitation or server-related; CPU/GPU loads are very low. Some clipping here and there as well, especially getting into a ship. The whole F + separate cursor to interact also seems sluggish and unnecessarily hard though I understand what they're trying to do, you're actually pushing those buttons. The 'new' map mobiglas overlay thingy is also horrible, you have no idea what you're looking at, and again, clunkiness and unnecessarily slow and tough to navigate is the feeling I get out of that.
But then you fire up Star Marine for some matches... and boom 120 fps at highest settings, the immersion is like nothing else, it truly feels like you're using a suit, movement and weapon handling is realistic and very well done. Flying a ship: similarly awesome and immersive, but that wasn't really new.
This is starting to shape up as something special.. they are really pushing for that high immersion factor in everything. I can only hope they find a good balance between immersive gameplay and 'ease of use' because right now its lacking the latter.
and why you should. persistent universe is supposed to be free to play and only squadron 42 will require payment. check out free game if it is worthy and then decide if you buy single player part
Do you really think that's how it'll work? The persistent universe is NEVER going to be truly free to play. The subscription models are already there on the horizon in the form of ship insurance - that's been apparent to me from day one TBH.
