FTL drives are fine in-system, but still pretty damn slow on a galactic scale. Regular FTL drives are a thing has no one listened to Codex man in the past. If anything, I wish it took longer and give a real impression of how far apart everything really is.īut then, you do have to have some suspension of disbelief since with no mass relays, it should by all accounts, take generations to travel between solar systems like they're doing One of the things I've always hated about space fiction stuff is how close together they make everything seem. This new galaxy map is easily the worst design decision in the game, I don't care what anyone else says. I just got to a part where 7 new clusters opened up, and rather than being excited that I get to explore more of this awesome galaxy, I just groan, because it's going to be 15-20 minutes of mindlessly clicking on each planet, waiting for a long animation to play out, read the stats, and then rinse and freaking repeat. I loved going around the Milky Way galaxy looking at all of the planets and seeing their different stats, but now they made it feel like such a god damn grind to get 100% in each cluster.
I get Bioware wants to show off how pretty their space looks, and I get that this sort of makes it more immersive I guess, but it's just so horrible. I decided to count down how long it takes, and I get roughly 18 seconds between planets, which is absolutely atrocious. The animations can be pretty awful, the dialogue can be bad at times, but nothing makes me lose the will to keep playing more than the horribly boring, tedious, and long animations between traversing different planets in this game. People complain about a lot of things in this game.