u/BroxigarZ

Can your "Captain" NPCs - not trigger missions? Do YOU have to pilot all missions?

I broke my starter save because I got a mission called "Eye for an Eye" (I think it was the name) where I was asked to destroy criminals around the starter Terran Wharf on the Terran Cadet start.

I had already hired a pilot and set him to "patrol" the wharf with a 10km radius. He did for a bit and nothing happened.

I sat down in the pilot seat and all the sudden Red units started appearing everywhere.

Okay... sure... I killed one and got 1/4 of the quest done. Then I killed another and got a -1 rep with Terran and told my "criminal" record had been updated.

Killed another 2/4 for the quest.

Killed another and got another -1 rep "criminal" record updated.

This ping pong'd 3x and the Quest completed - but when I tried to redock I was told (despite still being Neutral with Terran that I wasn't allowed to dock. I saw I had a "mail" and it had said it removed my standing as a Cadet and I lost all my starting licenses.

Just because I was doing the thing the quest requested I do, versus only red marked enemies with -27 to -30 hostile rating on scan.

So...I deleted the save and decided to start over, but my question is:

1. Can my Captain not trigger missions (even if I'm on the ship)?
2. Why did my mission do this? Why did some count and others ruined my rep?

Mind you the quest was marked "Very Easy" and was the immediate Wharf quest to do.

LOL: Every response has been a different answer... can't say this has been helpful. Guess I'll just do w/e the guided nonsense is and see if it ruins the experience.

I'm not looking to start with literally nothing, I just don't want a heavy handed story start, or a full space station. I want to start with like a basic ship and told to "go".

I've also read that new players should disable Kingdom's End if they own it due to some sort of story thing that causes issues.

What is the best way to do this?

I know Terran Cadet says "guided" and "new player" friendly, but it sounds like it's handheld.

PLEASE NOTE: I just picked this game up, It sounded really cool from Cohhcarnage, and I was getting SP Eve Online vibes, before buying I researched if I would have to do the "Elite Dangerous" flying stuff because I always fine these type of weird Axis'd space flying games to play really badly, (keyboard and mouse).

I ended up getting it because of the Steam Sale and I am going to be frank I'm only in the Tutorials and I'm already a bit frustrated by these terrible controls (that feel intentionally designed to be a giant pain in the ass to the player).

The one that's prompted this post is the "Object Scanning" tutorial under Intermediate where you need to both scan an ARG Factory with your Ship and then two tiny radio things in your Spacesuit.

And holy hell, it took me 15 minutes of just circling the Factory trying to scan the "marked" area only for it to randomly work when I tried to dock instead of scan. The whole experience was awful. The flying is disorienting and annoying. For all the tutorials I've just used "Target Object" -> "Autopilot" because the flying is so bad.

But it got...SO MUCH worse when I had to go out on my space suit and get literally inside the wall to scan the radios and the space suit relative speed nonsense making it not only disorienting but hyper frustrating to stop long enough to scan the object / let alone repair the second one.

This feels so bad.

I can't tell you how much I would pay for this game to have Eve's camera and flight mechanics. Because I bet this game is incredible...but the flying/spacesuit flying stuff it horrendous, docking is horrendous, it doesn't feel "sim" it feels bad.

Eve nailed this bit, the camera work, the flying, the targeting...beautiful and seamless, the ability to zoom out to see the scale and size of things...seamless.

Here, it feels like they wanted to make a "Sim" first then pivoted to persistent sandbox and the Sim parts just got left behind and forgotten. I know later I can hire a captain and my god never deal with this again, but it shouldn't be like this at all, let alone the tutorial.

I'd PAY good money for a DLC that just gives me Eve's camera, and movement, and mechanics.

Additionally, proportions feel so wrong, another area where Eve absolutely nailed it. My ship is like 1/18th the scale of a space station. That feels ridiculous.

You ever fly a single manned ship next to a space station in Eve? I feel like so far X4 feels 95% of the way Eve feels, but it's missing that last 5% where it actually factors in Player QOL.

I never want to touch the movement in this game again, and I know I can work around it, but man - please just give me a DLC that mimics Eve's mechanics to I can enjoy watching my fleet battle from an Isometric view.

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First thing first, I agree that 1047 Games has made gigantic levels of baffling repetitive mistakes, and many of those mistakes can be pointed back to a single individual.

HOWEVER; the rampant amount of stupidity I keep reading here about 1047 and Splitgate 1/2/AR is getting obnoxious to the point that I feel you all need to be smacked with reality.

>1. 1047 Games is a BUSINESS. It needs money to operate.

"1047 abandons their games!" "Where is Season 3!" "You all lied to us"

Guys... no studio with the headcount that 1047 Games has is going to survive on:

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Being mad that a BUSINESS trying to find a way to survive is not accommodating a failed venture that would literally kill their Studio if they continued to spend time on it is remarkably stupid to be attacking them for.

There is not enough of you to support a studio, and more than likely less than 20% of you are spending any money on it to begin with.

You are lucky they didn't just shut the servers down to extend their Empulse runway and push Splitgate players back to the P2P SG1 offering they already provided the "409" of you.

Because in the REAL world a real CEO would have cut the cord a LONG time ago. Cut the losses and put the money back into a new venture / project. Hell if I was IAN I'd be doing this immediately.

Because the loss of probably 1,000-2,000 of you across all platforms literally is meaningless when he needs 10-100x more players than you are providing them to support and grow the studio.

They also went out of their way to give you all 3 years of server uptime for SG1 when it had 400 players and then spent more time to give you a P2P offering to continue playing while still trying to support SG2 and developing Empulse.

You all need to accept that SG2 is not a viable product. It's a commercial failure and producing content for it is pure loss for the studio.

>IF YOU REALLY WANTED SG2 TO GET UPDATES

You wouldn't be trying to kill Empulse with your rampant bitching. Because, 1047 NEEDS this to be successful and if Empulse ended up somehow gaining 200,000 players and the studio started drowning in capital then they could update SG2 with new seasons after stabilizing.

>But coming in here to complain and kill their marketing efforts, killing their hype, killing their messaging, and crying that SG2 died for this... ensures that SG2 WILL die for this.

>Additionally, SG2 didn't die because of Empulse. SG2 died in November of 2022.

That might confuse you...since SG2 didn't release until 2025... but what Ian didn't accept faster was that Splitgate was a failed venture in a whole 3 months after SG1 released.

He still has to learn how to "Fail fast, and pivot faster". Empulse is that first attempt for him.

He's learning from his mistakes.

>So what now?

Be happy he hasn't deleted SG2 from existence, extended his runway for Empulse, and pushed you to SG1 P2P.

Because, that is exactly what he should be doing.

Be thankful him and his team even provided you a P2P SG1 platform so you always have Splitgate to play.

Because, I would have deleted and aborted the project in Nov. 2022 and started Empulse much sooner.

Since he HASN'T done this yet, then you should be hoping your absolute dicks off that Empulse is successful so Ian has the capital to keep SG2 afloat and maybe put some people on making future seasons off the profits of Empulse.

But the reality is EVEN if a season 3 does come out for SG2... fing less than 1,000 of you would even show up for it.

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It's a giant waste of time for Ian to even bother accommodating 1% of the amount of players he needs to keep his studio afloat.

>TL:DR for those who need to read this

SPLITGATE IS NOT SUCCESSFUL. It secured them 100mill (and in that it was successful), but the game itself was a colossal failure... 3x over.

>To Ian, the dying dog has rampant cancer that is spreading to all your future projects. Do what any sensible adult would do and euthanize SG2 to give hope for the studio to have a chance with future projects. Cut your losses (It's part of business). Push fans to SG1 P2P and put 100% of your focus on making something better.

Make Empulse Better... extend your runway... and focus on Empulse's faults.

Before anyone immediately rushes to just complain about Shop items... we're past that point with this game. This is a very real talk about predatory shop mechanics that actually do the reverse of making me want to spend money.

So a WoW collab dropped. And there's some cool items within the collections that I would think would be cool to have... namely...

>- Paladin Judgement Armor
- Ashkandi
- Maladath
- Ragnaro's Pet
- Wing's of the Betrayer
- Current Battle Pass
- WoW Battle Pass

But, since I can't actually target these items and add them to my cart as individual items that have individualized pricing I instead have to buy a bunch of extra armor sets I have no need for or interest in...

So for 1 armor, 2 weapons, 1 pet, 1 wings, and 2 battle passes comes too:

17,200 prem. currency.

Which requires the $150.00 USD purchase tier.

...

"No."

This is silly nonsense, and exceptionally greedy. To the point of instead of having a cart and individualized pricing to customize the purchase to something closer to $40-50 for the items desired... I instead.... offer to give you $0.

The stupidity of this tactic is actually costing you my inclination of wanting to actually give you extra money.

So, now for this new collab I'll give you nothing. Because, I'm not going to buy $150 worth of stuff I don't want for the handful of things I am interested in.