[OldF] Axly 最近的评测

If Astroneer and Forever Skies had a baby, this would be it. I love it!

Gathering resources, linking devices, and making more and more advanced items like Astroneer. Heck, even the raw resources sitting on the ground look similar to Astroneer.

General world feel, exploration, and puzzle solving like Forever Skies.

On the cons side, my AMD video drivers crash while playing every 10-30 minutes. Fortunately you can set the auto-save frequency to 5 minutes.

This review is for the most recent DLC: Odyssey on PC. It pains me to post a negative after all the fun I had with the base game and Horizons. There's some great ideas and simulations in here, but this DLC has been out for nearly two years already! Why are there so many obvious, progress-killing bugs?! Not xenomorphs... rather the fun-killing, frustration-inducing, time-wasting types of bugs. Everywhere. Avoid this DLC if you like playing with friends. It's more tolerable solo, but it honestly feels like Frontier has given up on the game.

Where to even start...

* Invite friends to your team. Will everyone see everyone else as part of the team? Usually.
* Get a mission to power up an abandoned outpost. Will the game give you credit for completing it? Roll the dice. If you roll poorly, you get to spend the night in prison. Often, some team members got credit and some didn't.
* Get a mission to collect an item at a crash site. Will the item be there? Probably not, but be sure to log out and back in over and over until it actually spawns. If there are bad guys guarding the crash site, hope you brought enough ammo on your ship to kill them again. And again. And again.
* Join a faction army to fight for control of an outpost. Will the last enemy soldier even spawn so you can get credit for finishing the fight? Hopefully, otherwise you're out 100K-300K credits.
* This is actually fixed! Oh, yeah, anti-aliasing has been broken for almost a year. Orbit and gravity well circles look awful, and thin features in stations shimmer with jaggies. Are any devs left working on this engine?
* Teammate had to re-log because <insert bug here> and you need to re-share a mission with them? Too bad. You only get to share it once.

It's awful.

Crash crash crash crash. This DX9 game doesn't like running on modern hardware? Tried Win7 compatibility mode, but didn't help. Seems like the game engine has a polygon limit, and when there are too many Orcs in view, framerate drops down to an unplayable 10-15fps and crashes after 10 or 20 seconds unless you stare at the ground and do nothing. The problem didn't reveal itself until after the 2 hour refund had expired (Act 2 Level 5 "Crunch"), so that's a major bummer.

This is a review of the co-op portion of the game. TL;DR: Frustrating connectivity problems, and prone to outages.

I picked this up during the 2022 summer sale hoping my friends and I could play some co-op similar in style to Far Cry 5. Unfortunately, the on-line portion of the game works inconsistently, is often down, and ALWAYS frustrating to deal with.

The online portion of the game was down for nearly 2 weeks (Aug 4th to 16th) after purchasing. Ubisoft doesn't appear to have any system administration staff that knows how to fix their servers/services when they go down.

Often when players log in, the game says it can't load their online contacts. This means that particular player can't invite friends to their game. It's like playing roulette when it comes to figuring out which player can see the other players to send out co-op invites.

Sometimes the in-game lobby (L menu) doesn't show any friends online. Sometimes it does. Sometimes the SHIFT-F2 Ubisoft overlay lets you see and invite friends. Sometimes it doesn't. The external Ubisoft Connect app almost always shows friends online, but good luck trying to invite/join from there. Often, when a player sends an invite the recipient never actually receives it, or only receives it after restarting the game. Once in a blue moon, everything works like you would expect, but that is a rare occurrence. The Ubisoft multiplayer networking functionality is wildly inconsistent, frustrating to work with, and cripples what could be a spectacular gaming experience.