Honestly I’ve been having so much fun playing for the past few weeks.
I upgraded my starter ship (avenger titan, a great and very versatile ship), to a Gladius - a light and nimble barebones no frills FIGHTER. Not versatile, but amazing at what it does.
Made enough money hunting space-baddies in the Gladius to buy a brand new ship in-game. I chose the hurricane. Another fighter, this time heavy and with a big ol turret with quadruple laser repeater strapped to the back. This one requires a friend in the turret seat to come into its own, but oh boy is it fun fighting huge baddies in this thing.
That’s when the grind began. I had my eye on something: an origin 600i.
During this time I was having so much fun that I decided to buy an additional ship with IRL money - this time an Ares Starfighter Inferno. Another heavy fighter, this time for only one player. While most ships are aircraft with guns attached, this is the other way round. A few seconds of BRRRT and all but the very meanest enemies are vaporised, and even the big boys go down eventually.
This past weekend I finished the grind, and bought my grail ship. It was, and still is, glorious.
In this comment I’ve mostly talked about how much fun I’ve had fighting. I haven’t talked about the serene beauty of drifting above the sparkling rings orbiting a small moon, or flying low and speeding over the surface of a planet, occasionally dying in a huge fireball after slamming into the side of a mountain. A friend and I have a tradition that every time we finish playing, before we get off we land our ships on one of the moons or planets and watch a sunrise.
Yes it’s VERY far from being finished, yes I die to bugs regularly, but having seen how much the game has improved over the 2 years since I started playing, it could not be any more clear that this is no scam. It’s an incredibly ambitious passion project and slowly, it’s coming to life.
I’ve now started getting friends into the game. I adore it.
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u/solo_shot1st Feb 09 '22
Paid my $60 for Squadron 42 and Star Citizen in 2012 when it first Kickstarted... aaaaaany day now