Creature and enemy variety?

[Jice]

My biggest concern before buying the game is whether or not the is a large variety of creature and enemies. For a space game I’m especially looking forward to seeing a lot of aliens. Does it have a good amount? Like 30+ unique models not copy pasted or reskinned.

[Angela]

No, the creatures are going to need modding help I think so we see more variety.

They're same models found on various planets depending on biome, under 30 animal creatures, then there are human enemy factions as well.

[sno0ks]

You fight the same pirates and spacers over and over again. Game sucks.

[Coyote]

Aliens on surface of planets. They are slightly varied. Some of them attack different or move differently. But usually a planet has only 3-5 species on it and you see the same aliens over and over.

Humans enemies are what you will mainly fight. There are no aliens with human-level intelligence in the game.

Robots are a thing.

I have not seen aliens used indoors at all with the 60 hours i played.

[Otter]

The creatures fit into the following:
Anklyosaurus looking alien
Mantis
Brontosaurus
small cat/wolf looking thing
Flying mantis
generic Rhino shaped alien
Raptor looking alien

I've been to a good selection of planets and the variety sucks. With the Anklyosaurus being soooo common across star systems.

[Mathias Giovanni]

Give me a break. I've never heard anyone say I need at least 30 aliens types all different.

Games great. The enemies in general wear the gear you can wear so you can have as much difference in human enemies as they gear the use. In general they try to keep the variations of the factions aligned to the different armors they use but can mix it up within that.

It's honestly fine. It's a far more interesting Fallout in space without the campy humor and I'm loving it. Fallout in general is depressing and quirky. This is more grounded and a ton of fun. Lot's of different gameplay mechanics that make sense in this world. And skills matter quite a bit.

There are also mission computers that generate jobs to do.

[Otter]

Originally posted by Mathias Giovanni:

Give me a break. I've never heard anyone say I need at least 30 aliens types all different.

Games great. The enemies in general wear the gear you can wear so you can have as much difference in human enemies as they gear the use. In general they try to keep the variations of the factions aligned to the different armors they use but can mix it up within that.

It's honestly fine. It's a far more interesting Fallout in space without the campy humor and I'm loving it. Fallout in general is depressing and quirky. This is more grounded and a ton of fun. Lot's of different gameplay mechanics that make sense in this world. And skills matter quite a bit.

There are also mission computers that generate jobs to do.

Ah yes the old, take this item and deliver here jobs. Those will surely keep us all interested after the 3 hour main story is complete....

[Coyote]

Originally posted by Otter:

Ah yes the old, take this item and deliver here jobs. Those will surely keep us all interested after the 3 hour main story is complete....

Yeah, especially the survey missions.
Surveying an entire planet is more boring then sewing a sweater irl.
Walk around a planet that is mostly flat and has no random events or things to do at all while walking up to random ores and creatures and pressing A on them.... Usually spending an hour to find little bugs.

They could have at very least tried to make it fun... I cant believe someone playtested this after doing a survey like 3 times and thought it was fine.

Are there actually people who enjoy surveys in this game? Im curious if they also like watching bark on a tree fall to the ground.

[Otter]

Originally posted by Waffles:

Originally posted by Otter:

Ah yes the old, take this item and deliver here jobs. Those will surely keep us all interested after the 3 hour main story is complete....

Yeah, especially the survey missions.
Surveying an entire planet is more boring then sewing a sweater irl.
Walk around a planet that is mostly flat and has no random events or things to do at all while walking up to random ores and creatures and pressing A on them.... Usually spending an hour to find little bugs.

They could have at very least tried to make it fun... I cant believe someone playtested this after doing a survey like 3 times and thought it was fine.

But you don't understand, the game was rated 100/100 by Xbox reviewers!! Don't you want to survey 1000 planets and moons with nothing but loading screens in between?
You might even encounter the Crimson Fleet in a cave, and boy is that intense shooting them while they stand in the open. They even fire back at times, take cover!! ;)

[Coyote]

Originally posted by Otter:

But you don't understand, the game was rated 100/100 by Xbox reviewers!! Don't you want to survey 1000 planets and moons with nothing but loading screens in between?
You might even encounter the Crimson Fleet in a cave, and boy is that intense shooting them while they stand in the open. They even fire back at times, take cover!! ;)

There was a reviewer who actually said the game was so good it changed how he thought about religion and his entire philosophical ideals about life.
Im not making this up at all.

I mean, good for him. But objectively this game has some lazy design in places.
I also run into the same dungeon on multiple planets. Same enemies in that dungeon in the same spots with loot being in the same places.
The cryo lab for example.... Ive been there 4 times.
And whats worse is there are terminals in the lab that have a story of what went on, and the same terminals and notes are also repeated.

[Otter]

Originally posted by Waffles:

Originally posted by Otter:

But you don't understand, the game was rated 100/100 by Xbox reviewers!! Don't you want to survey 1000 planets and moons with nothing but loading screens in between?
You might even encounter the Crimson Fleet in a cave, and boy is that intense shooting them while they stand in the open. They even fire back at times, take cover!! ;)

There was a reviewer who actually said the game was so good it changed how he thought about religion and his entire philosophical ideals about life.
Im not making this up at all.

I mean, good for him. But objectively this game has some lazy design in places.
I also run into the same dungeon on multiple planets. Same enemies in that dungeon in the same spots with loot being in the same places.
The cryo lab for example.... Ive been there 4 times.
And whats worse is there are terminals in the lab that have a story of what went on, and the same terminals and notes are also repeated.

Yeah I've had the Cryolab twice, it felt really out of place on a planet with extreme heat warnings.
Have you had the Crimson Fleet chick sat in her deck chair by herself yet? Had that 3 times.

[GetUrAssToMars]

Originally posted by Waffles:

There was a reviewer who actually said the game was so good it changed how he thought about religion and his entire philosophical ideals about life.
Im not making this up at all.

I have witnessed people killed over Popeye's Chicken Sandwich so this doesn't surprise me much.

[Jice]

Ty all for the info.

[Tenoshii]

Originally posted by Waffles:

I have not seen aliens used indoors at all with the 60 hours i played.

I have yet to see any creatures that count as "fauna" indoors, but there are alien creatures that can appear in certain POIs (even on planets with no fauna).

[MyKillK]

Variety is abysmal. Humans in space suits and 3-5 monster types is what I've seen so far in 40+ hours.

[Tiasmoon]

Originally posted by MyKillK:

Variety is abysmal. Humans in space suits and 3-5 monster types is what I've seen so far in 40+ hours.

Then I really wonder what you did in those 40+ hours. Apparently you never even visited a single city.

Unless you expect people to walk outside in -270 degrees without a spacesuit?