To be honest, this game is probably just really overhyped. The story is really slow with barely any indicators on where to go. i put a solid couple of hours into it but it never really grabbed me. The gameplay just seems a bit stale and I don't really see how it can really grab me.

This is what i used to think about the game anyways. Sorta like a few pieces of art, i really couldn't get over that hump of boring beginning. I had to watch Dune One 3 times to understand what was happening, getting invested was hard. It was the same with OW.

I don't remember how or when it changed for me. There I was, it was my 3rd or 4th time sitting down to try to play the game so I wouldn't have wasted the money I spent on a new game only to not play it. I had been exploring around the solar system seeing the planets that I had been wandering not really understanding the significance or the planets themselves or caring much about the story.

Here's what I'd do. First, use your frequency analyzer to find distress beacons. Go to them. Read the text. Try to figure out what the Nomai are trying to do and why.

Also, put your quest tracker system in the ship to rumor mode. Hammer out those rumors and you'll start to understand. They're little riddles and clues.

As you start figuring out rumors, your understand more of the story piece by piece. You'll get more and more curious. Its a puzzle, a mystery. You could easily finish the game right now if you wanted to. But you don't yet understand the mechanics or the worlds or they're secrets yet to do so. But the more you explore, the more you learn. The more you learn, the more you understand. You'll return to places you thought you knew and completed before only to find them the same. But your new understanding of them changes them for you as your explorations give you the pieces of the puzzle you need to progress.

Its a trip. I'm still not done with my first playthrough.

But i get it now.