Due to Tau Ceti Part 4 being released on the nearest date probably, there are a few things I don't like regarding the preparation of the new update that is connected to the trailer content as well. This will be stated below, and I'll explain the reason why these are critics I give.
1. Low number of story missions (only 8) for the final chapter of Ancient system discovery
2. Organization of the previous Tau Ceti Part 3
3. "Tau Ceti Part 4 | Unknown Mantis System" (trailer text statement)
Statement 1
Statement 1 and 2 are closely related for a similar reason.
Just thinking that there will be only 8 missions of the storyline in the final chapter, makes me think that I won't have joyful story discovery. With only 8 missions, the things that weren't shown earlier are not the proper way of finishing one system. We don't have pretty much any knowledge about what "Ancients" are, neither with last few missions of the previous Tau Ceti Part (TC Part 3).
Down below in second statement is the reason why this number of missions isn't enough for this part.
Statement 2 - Organization of the previous Tau Ceti Part 3
Before the real meaning about this statement, I will first talk about
Tau Ceti Part 3 and Tau Ceti Part 1.
These 2 parts have a thing in common, that is that
Pirates are present on
Venar and
Calon.
Pirates proven to be strong in pair with ancients in these 2 parts, but what was
the fail in Tau Ceti Part 3, was their presenting and final mission for Pirate faction - where we win over their leader - Barossa.
Barossa was the leader of pirates who managed to steal ancient technology, and the mission with him was pretty much easy, aside from just having a "
long time" to destroy buildings. The fight with Barossa, in my opinion, should have been similar/same as the mission "Regain what was lost" where we kill the "
big boss".
This mission just disappointed me where the Barossa was almost same as normal pirates on the planet, not any stronger, not any mightier in technology, just the number of forces was different to that which was proven.
Okay, back to the main thing down below.
The thing is, with already released Part 3, the thing different than
Tau Ceti Part 4 is that there are a lot of missions. However, the missions themselves have less meaning to being close to the discovery of
Ancients identity. Many missions focus on defending, disabling Mantis/Ancients defense systems and discovering what are the ancient buildings.
That to some point
negates my statement in meaning - "Well, it does help us uncover the ancient identity".
At the end of Tau Ceti Part 3, we fought a hard-fought battle with Swarm Commanders that we had so much trouble with since Tau Ceti Part 1 (Venar). From these battles, we earned
data that will help us reach the
location of Tau Ceti Part 4 planet. This doesn't leave us empty-handed, but it doesn't give us any clue about their homeland, and
we practically are going there without any knowledge, which exactly is the plan of this part.
With
only 8 missions in Part 4, the point that we were waiting to learn more about Ancients, maybe won't fulfill our desire to have the full through story of Ancients and finally have our way trough their history, homeland and objects. That, by my opinion, won't be enough to satisfy the thirst of the players of this game.
The only thing is the trailer text that changed some of the meaning that could be held behind this.
Statement 3
There is only one condition that can fulfill these conditions. That is related to the second statement -
"Tau Ceti Part 4 | Unknown Mantis System", since this can mean different things that aren't announced of course.
Tau Ceti Part 4 is supposed to be the last part of the homeland of the
Ancients, not
Mantis. With 8 story missions, aside from the new Reactor Challenge planet that is planned in this update, this could be an introduction to the
new Planet System where Mantis reside.
If the Ancients aren't defeated in Tau Ceti, will we have the introduction to the new system after these 8 missions (so called "Lagrange Singularity") that was talked about since 2012 as the idea after Tau Ceti system.
I hope there will be some understanding, as we have some misunderstandings regarding
the last Part of Tau Ceti system that is the core of Ancient Artifacts that we are collecting since Vega System since our start of journey.
