Finally had my "Holy shit, this is it. This is the game I've been waiting for." moment, even if it was only a tiny sliver of what's to come.
Remember to press f12 and bring up the chat window people! This wouldnt have happened without being a little bit social.
Was in my Gladius, decided to go fix a comm array. Run into pirates attacking the station, help clear them out, park my Gladius, EVA into the station and fix it. While floating back into the ship, a guy at Port Olisar wants to know if anyone has a multicrew ship to have fun in.
I volunteer to use my Connie, quantum drive back to the port, spawn it, get the guy inside. Never met before, but we're instant buddies. Not sure what we're going to do, we follow another Constellation leaving the port. In the weapons free zone, all hell breaks out as their gunner starts shooting at us.
Ensuing battle between two constellations with another Hornet and Mustang who joined in for fun. Somehow both Constellations survive (badly damaged), call a truce. Mustang was the only casualty (lol). Hornet pilot asks if he can join us, of course! He's abandons his ship, floats across to ours, gets in, starts taking care of shields.
We gotta get repaired, lights sparkling everywhere, water(?!) pipes spraying water everywhere, darkness inside the Connie besides the blue lights flashing on the floor directing you to exits.
We quantum jump to the Cry-Astro repair station. Land, drones do their work and ship is restocked and repaired. On slowly exiting the platform (which is sandwiched top and bottom by the station so you gotta go slow), we start receiving fire. Player Cutlass Black.
Shit is going down, one of our guys gets clipped out of the ship and floats back to the repair platform. He says he's seeing an epic fight. Both of these manned mutlicrew ships going at it: missiles and flares and chaff everywhere, laser lighting up the dark void. I've lost the missile racks to dmg, and this cutlass is going full ram mode. He's going to take down everyone, his crew and himself included.
His last charge at us, and we unload everything we got. Right before impact, the Cutlass blows up in an awesome explosion that we run right through, taking some debris dmg along the way.
Ship controls like a greased watermelon. Luckily we're close by to the repairs, and I barely manage to land the ship without taking us out. Another guy observing in a Ghost Hornet, who my radars never picked up, wants to join in. As I let my ship float in space to let the guy EVA in, we all have a dance party inside. He's in, we're all high fiving, and then sparks and rattling begin with a fury.
The Cutlass returned.
I let everyone else man the ship, letting the first guy I met pilot. I want to see the damage while I'm walking inside. The crew isn't able to start up the Connie in time. The Cutlass must've unloaded all his missiles after the shields went down because all of a sudden a huge massive explosion as the ship rips apart all around me in fire and debris.
My crew has died, yet I'm still alive because I guess I was just running around inside and not sitting down. As the debris of my Constellation floats away, I see the Cutlass blow up the Ghost next to me. He flies away, and I'm left floating in space.
I suicide, revive back at Port Olisar, and while I'm adding the crew to the friend's list the game crashes.
The PTU was a mess for me, could barely play long and when I did you would see the FPS drops happening or blocking bugs. This public release is so much better so far.
Total playtime was around 40 minutes. Gonna remember that for a long time. Wish I'd recorded it. I never write this much on GAF, but I wanted to share the experience so bad.
Totally a believer now.