i forgot to mention this game is really excellent at giving me stupid ways to lose my ship, my fave yet was first time visiting brittle hollow i followed the signalscope music into the core and went ‘holy fuck it’s a black hole aaaa’ and looked for a place to set down the ship but jammed it precariously into the side of an overhanging rock breaking it so i hopped out to do repairs but of course fell into the fucking black hole and expected to be turned into spaghetti but of course got warped to the white hole station other side of the solar system… and then eventually found my way back but RIGHT AS I WARPED BACK to brittle hollow my ship fell into the black hole… so i was standing back on the surface of brittle hollow looking at this waypoint in the sky that said SHIP 12.7KM like “what the fuck just happened”
they really make the most of that tiny solar system too like i was thinking about how it’s the exact opposite approach of the first mass effect game where there’s these massive drivable planets but the only things on them are poorly textured (procedurally generated?) rock formations. here everything unfolds and unfolds, very cool