@xdeser2: When they were talking about the lack of hype and marketing, I was also thinking "what the heck are you guys talking about?" I rarely see ads for video games on TV (must be the networks I watch and the little TV I actually partake in) and the only two games I've seen ads for lately are for Halo 5 and Fallout 4. As for "hype," in my post Metal Gear Solid V gaming time, I'm spinning tires this week while I wait for a game that's clearly already finished to magically unlock its ones and zeroes. I couldn't be more excited. Cautious, but excited.
Is that line about FOB invasions being triggered only after you've invaded once true? I haven't been able to find any source suggesting it is, but it would be nice if it was. I'm just continuing to play offline so as never to get prompt-locked by the tutorial.
It's not guaranteed, but your chances of getting invaded are much less likely.
When you bring up the FOB missions list, it pulls up people who are of a similar PF or Espionage rank of you--I forget. If you level up your FOB a bunch but never invade, you'll pretty much get pooled with other people who also level up a bunch and never invade.
Good to know. I intend to get into all that once I've finished maxing out Mother Base (which I have a scant few fuel resources left to acquire before that's a reality). I'm holding off the last two story missions while I mess around with all the main mission side objectives I'm motivated to actually finish. I figured I'd jump into the online stuff after that. No reason not to since the resources I'd be potentially losing wouldn't affect my main game at that point.
Is that line about FOB invasions being triggered only after you've invaded once true? I haven't been able to find any source suggesting it is, but it would be nice if it was. I'm just continuing to play offline so as never to get prompt-locked by the tutorial.
To throw my opinion in the ring, I would say that the base BE was lacking on the same level that the base Civ V was. This expansion fleshes out Beyond Earth to the same level that Gods & Kings did for Civ V. It's most of the way there and you could happily waste away hundreds of hours, but you will be aware of the few kinks where something is missing. Don't let that offput you too much, because it's a huge step up from the base game which I still put multiple runs into, both on and offline. Steam hours spent are just shy of 300 hours, but obviously there's some amount of idle time there to take into consideration.
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