Looking to the Stars
From watching TV to gaming again (sort of)
LAST ISSUE I SPOKE about dropping the amount of gaming I was doing to just one day a week. I’m glad to say, I’ve actually managed to do it. Language learning is going well, and my future wife is happy I’m spending more time with her too.
We’ve been watching more TV together, particularly TheExpanse on Amazon Prime. It is a very good, gritty space action drama set in the solar system, but it got me hankering for some good sci-fi gaming.
I’ve been a StarCitizen backer since 2017, but I’ve not really played it since then, as there wasn’t much there. But I thought I’d give it a shot again. I jumped into Alpha 3.10, and oh boy have things changed.
There’s multiple planets, moons, cities, mining, contracts, dogfighting, cargohauling, personal inventories, first-person shooting, inter-player trade, ground
vehicles, all manner of environments, food and drink, health, co-op play, shippurchasing—the list is endless. It’s huge. It took me probably a week of on-and-off small sessions just to get to grips with it. That said, I am utterly in love. It’s so much fun, bugs and all. I even got my best bud an account, and now he can’t stop playing it either. Last night we picked up a contract to kill someone on a planet. I dropped
down to the surface, landed my ship, and started approaching on foot to infiltrate the base. Suddenly ahead I hear all hell break loose. It’s my bro firing like crazy overhead. The noise, the chaos, it was maddening. We jumped out, went inside and began dispatching the guards, before finishing off the contract and heading to the closest spaceport. So if you’re a backer and haven’t visited in a while, it’s worth a shot.