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For about a month now, I’ve gotten back to playing a game that I used to play all the time until it got too repetitive. While I hadn’t figured everything out in the game, it was to the point that I had gone about as far as most people go and there wasn’t much new left. The thing is, this game had been in “Early Release” since I bought it which was about three years ago. That’s a long time for “Early Release”. There were even questions about whether it was actually going to become a full released game or not.
This past month, the game has come alive! They are madly working to update the game and make it work the way it was supposed to work or at least better than it was. So far, they’ve got a lot of good stuff accomplished. So much so that when I first got back to the game, I couldn’t even recognize what game I was playing. Everything had changed but in a good way.
I did have to start all over with a new character and the controls are different than before so there is a new learning curve which I have already kind of mastered. I still need to work on getting the game going with my Logitech G13 gaming pad, but that’s just me sitting down and re-mapping some of the keys. The game is harder if only because you have to put a lot of different stuff together to make anything. Now you have to find raw material of all kinds just to make certain metals. Then you have to have the right metals and raw material to make something usable. That part is time consuming.
Oh, and the game is a lot more dangerous at the beginning that the old game. Yeah, I had to stay away from the Crab Monsters most all of the original “Early Access” game, and that was no different in the beginning now. But, after getting a few decent tools made, killing Crab Monsters and all the other creatures that show up isn’t a big deal. It’s just now becoming a nuisance! After you manage to get enough food to keep you going, you’ll find that killing all these creatures is more trouble than it’s worth since they distract from what you really need to get done. I guess I’ve gotten aways into this new game so that might be why these monsters don’t bother me as much.
I have managed to build all the structures that I need and just recently finished the Laboratory which is more of a garage than a Lab. It’s a big building and once that finished then I can start constructing all sorts of other buildings. My problem now is that the location I have initially started out at isn’t big enough! It’s just too tight with all the structures you need to build. I’m going to have to find a new location as soon as we get home and I start playing again.
One of the changes was to the skills menu. I don’t think it’s been improved. In fact, I don’t think it does anything. I’ve already maxed all the “skills” out and I don’t believe they’ve improved my character or game playing ability at all. I need to do a critique on that for FenixFire the makers of the game. The caves also don’t have much going on with them. You basically just go into the cave(s) and fine some raw materials, but it’s all the same and there’s not else there. I think lead, silver and mercury are all abundantly present, but I already have enough of that stuff. There is one item in Mine 2 that has to bee acquired and can only be done so here and that’s diamonds. You’ll need at least one diamond to make a diamond chisel or the Laboratory. I think I’ll also need a diamond to build a few of the machines also. Haven’t done that quite yet. 
So, the game is again playable and I think goes a lot farther than I ever got before. I think there’s a spaceship building part that I haven’t come close to reaching since I’ll have to eventually build a spaceship of my own and go searching for it.
Anyway, that’s been taking up a lot of my time since I don’t really have any sports to watch right now. Baseball is still pretty boring and I don’t follow the NBA since nobody I care to watch is playing. Football season is still a few months away so I guess I’ll continue playing Osiris: New Dawn until the season starts again!