Multiplayer + Expeditions [Discussion]
I really love this game, warts and all and man...multiplayer is one big, fat, hairy wart. Specifically, I somehow conned my wife into playing NMS with me and this evening, we started the Breach expedition together and well...we aren't together.
We started at the same time, standing together in the Anomaly and it broke our group. Okay, fine, we'll link up in a bit. Not so much.
Dumped us each on the starter planet but no where near one another. Lots of other players around both of us, but cannot see one another. Okay, fine, we'll link up later.
I should pause here and explain my wife is a long time gamer but we're both in our 50s and the learning curve for her is a little steep. She's been playing sporadically for 2 weeks...
Anyhow, we get pointed in the right direction and head to the giant planet. Again, still separated. I get all the things I need and repair my ship and she's still struggling. I must have circled the planet 5 times and cannot find her and it occurs to me we may be in different instances/shards or something. She's getting frustrated, but gets her hyperdrive fixed and I say "see the green line, the system at the end of that? warp there."
So..,,my questline marker takes me to a different system. She's out of hyperdrive fuel, so has to land and mine...and gets caught in a storm, so now I'm tabbed out complaining about it.
Multiplayer needs ALOT of work, I'm afraid. We've run into other issues before but not like this.
Yeah, yeah, "L2P, noobs" I've heard it all before, even in decent communities like this one. When it works and we can play and its an amazing experience to share. When its not...its annoying
We're about to reach the first rendezvous, at least