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Felt the need to update based on the current community developments. The amount of cheating and griefing has skyrocketed. If you're a girl, and there is absolutely ANY chance you will get someone from California, don't play this. I don't understand how a state that fights so hard for equality, has so many people that instantly go after women on this game. In hindsight... I guess it makes sense why they are trying so hard. I don't think I've encountered a more hostile group on the internet that can be summed up in one state.


This game is fun dont get me wrong, but there's too much that's not enjoyable. From five year olds screaming I ♥♥♥♥♥♥ your mom in the ass last night, to the much older community screaming about god knows what, this community is terrible. If you have nice skins in the game, you are verbally abused. If you don't have nice skins in the game, you are verbally abused. Almost every game in COMP will have someone cheating, throwing, griefing, or the most common, smurfing. It used to be a really enjoyable game, and easy to get out of the terrible lower ranks. Now, you will be stuck in silver or gold for ever with no chance of getting out thanks to the community. On average, I get 2 teammates who want to use their mics, 2 that don't want to but do to play music, scream, or insult, and generally 1-2 people who have mics, but wont use them. The worst is when you get a clan in your match, on your team, and the 2 people in the clan wont use their mics at all because they are in TS or Discord or a Skype call. If you want a casual game to mess around in with your friends, it's not a bad choice. Just don't expect to have a very fun experience in the competitive side of the game... They have a VAC system in play, but it hardly works. They need to come up with someway of stopping smurfs, and that would make this game so much more enjoyable.

7/13/2020 Update.
I'm not sure if it's maybe due to the player base giving up on the "Anti-Cheat" system that keeps getting 'Updated' but this game is out of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wack. I've been stuck in silver because of consistent games like this: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/685718671452274689/732436940317655040/unknown.png
What in the world is this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ matchmaking? Can someone tell me how this is enjoyable? How in the hell did they think this is how matchmaking should work? This game just gets worse the longer it goes on.

Another thing that I love about this game is the change to friendly fire. If you throw a molotov, something super useful for holding a position, and a teammate runs into and dies, you will get the TK. I have had several games where teammates just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ run into my molotov and gets me kicked for it. It's not an accident, it's totally intentional to get people kicked. Valve... please change this back. This is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid.

Edit 1/8/2021
Alright, this game just keeps getting worse. The community gets more toxic every damn day. I play this with a girl frequently and about 90% of the people on here (the majority are from Cali) will immediately go off telling her to suck their d*ck or some other terrible thing. They have also now removed bots from competitive matches. So basically, if you have a terrible teammate that is throwing and ruining the match for you, you might as well just leave them in the game so you can lose with them. Because if you kick them, you wont get a bot to fill the slot. AND if you have a teammate that abandons, or multiple, YOU WILL GET NO BOTS TO FILL THE SLOT. So what they have basically done, is made 1v5 comp matches a thing.

They don't fix any of the problems in this game, they just add new ones. What in the hell even is this bot removal update for? Oh no! A team that's down 1 player has a chance of their top player coming back to life! Not like the damn bot would listen to commands anyway.
To top this all off... they were awarded the labor of love... DID THE PEOPLE THAT VOTED FOR THIS GAME EVEN HAVE IT ON THEIR ACCOUNT TO PLAY!?

They have made this game free, made the verified account status FREE, and basically have made comp unplayable.

If you don't find a hacker, you will most certainly find a teammate that, the moment you open your mouth to call out, will tell you to f*cking die in a hole, and then they will start throwing... if they weren't already. I don't even know why I still try to play this. I'm stuck in silver because of throwing teammates. I know, if I can just get up into Gold Nova, that I will fall right back into silver because everyone below LE just throws now a days, so why do I even try.

6/23/2021, so they have since realized making the past paid for prime free was a mistake so now free players can't be prime again... you know, like it was to begin with before the game got plagued with hackers and smurfs. It's improved a little but not much.

This game can be fun... emphasis on can. Most of the time you are getting verbally raped, and the other amout of time... literally. This isn't to say I'm terrible at the game, it's not that type of situation. It's more the fact that this game is just flat out broken. You will be around the corner of your building, and be hit by the bullets that were shot at you 5 seconds ago... You will have people who are sniping you with a full auto UMP, and never miss a shot... This game is far from stable in almost every aspect. Like I said to begin with, this game can be really fun. I do enjoy playing it with my friends (Squads is an absolute ♥♥♥♥ fest but Duos is ok). The Devs keep adding new things and fixing small problems... but seem to not address the massive issues that almost eveyone I know have with their game. From what I can tell... this game is nothing more then a money grab. Look at the BS they are pulling with Fortnite... you really think they are trying to be an upstanding company with actions like that? If it weren't for me spending money on this game, I wouldn't play it. If I could get my money back, and never be able to play this game again... it wouldn't be a hard decision. Thi game needs a huge amount of work... and I just don't see it getting that. Go play a better game... there's far better things you can waste money on then this. The only good thing about this game, is if you can get enough points to buy crates, you can sell them. Don't bother opening them hoping for a cool piece of gear. you will get the same damn grey shirt everytime. I just sell the crates and then use the proceeds to buy other games or ♥♥♥♥ in CSGO. This game is bad, but if you do buy it, just use it to make money and please, don't give these terrible devs anymore of your money.


New problem as of 10/26/17... We updated our game!
(I go and do the update)
"Clicks Start"
Waits*
Sees loading bar*
"Your game is version x.x.41. Please exit the game and update to version x.x.39 to play."
.... wait what? Are you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ kidding me? It's now asking that I downgrade to play the damn game... You stupid ♥♥♥♥♥ can't even update your game correctly? Geez.

2/19/19
So, tons of new things and updates but has the original problems been fixed? They have to be right? Several years of full release means they got their ♥♥♥♥ together and fix stuff of course.... no.... no they haven't.... STOP BUYING THIS POS GAME AND PAYING FOR THEIR DAMN SKINS! Geez people. This game isn't good and there's no arguing that it is. The devs just want money and honestly... I think they might just be worse then companies like EA and Paradox when it comes to ways of getting money. They are never going to fix their problems, they will just keep adding more.
If you absolutely love hackers then play this game cause that's what you're going to be put against. If you love hacking in games, then do it here cause they wont stop you no matter the pile of evidence against you. Prime example of a company that shouldn't be allowed to make games right here...

Years ago when NMS was getting review slammed for poor performance and just stupid people being stupid, I was in full support of the game. I thought it was so much fun back then. The graphics were great, and still are. The controls were surely clunky, and still are, but it was manageable and no worse than most other games. That one thing has since changed. Do you like being forced to walk out of line with where your camera is? Yes? Then this is the game for you. If you really hate when games do that like I do... avoid this. Let me try and explain what I am talking about here. Say you need to walk 50 feet in a straight line. Everyone who has ever played a game on PC knows you press W to walk forward (or the arrow key if you're old enough) and you will get there in no time at walking speed. NMS has turned that on it's head, and not in a good way. If you hit a slight grade on your path to the 50 foot mark, your character will just start walking at an angle away from your camera. I literally just had my character almost turning a full 180 without touching anything but W. This didn't used to be a "feature" in old NMS and I have absolutely no clue why it is now. It makes walking ANYWHERE planet side either an extreme chore, or just pure hell. I can't take it. I wanted to give it a go and just try to find ways around it, and I did, but it's too much for me to just deal with since the game isn't that fun in the first place anymore. My solution was turning my camera about 45 degrees from my objective (the 50 foot marker in front of me for example) and then I walked with W and D so I was half strafing. THEN, and only then, I could walk a straight line perfectly... you know, just at a stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ angle. The new changes to the tutorial are painful to say the lest as well. I really hate the new system for digging through the ground. "Go find some copper!" Gives you no idea what underground deposit of ore is copper since they are all just generically labeled "Underground deposit".

On the topic of controlling your character... who in the unholy hell made that flight control system? It's painfully obvious ALL of this game was designed with a controller in mind and ♥♥♥♥ all to the mouse and keyboard. You have the absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥ "Tether" flight control where you basically pull the ship around with a rope and the longer it is the faster the ship turns but you have to take it back to the zero point to stop turning. Then you have the locked controls where the ship with pivot like a character FOV camera with the mouse. I, in the past, couldn't use the tether to save my life (nothings changed except it feels even harder to do now) so I always used the locked mode. They have done something to that too now so it's almost worse than the tether. When you stop moving your mouse, you might expect the ship to stop turning. Not on a dime, no, but it should stop rather fast I think. Nah, it doesn't do that at all. You will just drift in a roll until you are facing about 90-180 degrees away from where you stopped moving the mouse. So you say, just counter the steering by going back a little. Thought of that one myself as well... doesn't work because you still get the massive drift just back in the other direction. Flying has never been good in NMS, and it's so much worse now, years later. One last thing on the topic of FOV... does anyone know of ANY game that starts your character first person FOV at 75 degrees? Holy hell that hurts to look at. Then you can only expand it to 100 degrees... I guess I will just ignore my peripheral vision... The 100 degrees doesn't feel like the 100 degrees starting at your nose either, but that you have a 100 degree slice for total view so 50 degrees for each side of you head. I really don't remember having this issue at all years ago and don't know if it's just me now or something that has changed.

There's so many new systems and they are all just thrown at you with terrible explanations. Not to mention basic controls are locked behind unmentioned keys/combos. Take for instance, perspective changing. You have to know that the x button give you a unique menu with controls not found anywhere else, and then have to know to go to a specific menu in that menu, just to swap to first person view (or third). That is just stupid design and isn't even mentioned. I reinstalled this because I saw the updates coming in and making the game actually have some meat to it, but god there's so much that's been added that just makes it worse. Don't bother with this game. Buy something like Space Engineers and just mod the hell out of it. At least flying a ship makes sense there...

It's really a shame that I can't stomach the controls of this game anymore because I love the idea of exploring, mining, and scanning the planets and their fauna, flora, and minerals for money. I always wanted to make enough money to buy one of the super cool ships, but never could get there thanks to how hard it used to be to make money. Now it's seemingly easier, but I can't stand the changes to controlling. If you really don't care about terrible camera controls, terrible character tracking/controlling, and a thousand things being thrown at you all at once with hidden controls, then buy NMS and go buy that cool ship for me. And no, my issues don't stem from being lazy and not wanting to learn the thousand things thrown at me... you ever heard of the Angel's and Bob's mod combos in Factorio? Or how about the Seablocks mod pack... yeah, I can handle this type of situation just fine and love figuring out all the intricate things when they are adequately displayed and accessible. NMS doesn't understand that last part at all.

This game is fantastic. From setting up a plan to assault the mun to building your rocket and then finally launching it. Feeling like a badass the whole way up. Suddenly your rocket is engulfed in flames.... NICE. Despite all odds, you make it into space and then into orbit. Beginning to feel cocky, you decide to go at the mun for real. You manage to get into orbit of the mun and things are looking good. You start your decent and its looking good..... then you realize..... I dont have enough fuel.... and then you get to watch your rocket that you spent so much time on, felt SO great about, and just knew it would work.... smash into the mun and exploded in a massive cloud of fire and dust. If you like crashing things, again, and again, and... yes... again. Until finally having success many tries later, then this is your game. You cant play it for 30 minutes and decide its crap. When I first got this game I didnt think it was all that great. But I just kept going and learned what I needed to do. After a few hours of learning, I cant stop playing. Its funny as hell crashing your rockets, and even greater getting them to land. So dont pass this game up as just some crappy North Korea Rocket Simulator (As I have witnessed many people call it). It REALLY is good and definitely worth the money. Give it a try.... you wont be sorry... sad when you crash... but not sorry.

Everyone freaking out about the data collection... let me ask you something... do you use Facebook? Yes? Then stfu! When I go onto a website and Facebook suddenly has an add for something I was just looking at its obvious they are getting info from me as well and giving it to others. EVERY COMPANY DOES THIS SO GTFO THIS ONE! God people are whiny babies.