Anyone else playing this atm? We are currently on version 1.03 which came shortly after the release back on the 16th of December. Most players are happy enough, but there are some alarming omissions from the release version. Claims of multiplayer activity with friends from the developer videos that David Braben talked about pre-release have fallen well short of the mark so far.
In game chat is only between two players, no system, or group chat is available. There is no grouping atm as it's very difficult to get say a group of five players into the same instance to do co-op missions, of which there aren't any. So group play is kind of out the window.
To be fair these are being worked on, and i think the release version, a view shared by many on the Frontier forum is just the skeleton of the game, with the devs releasing further content to flesh out the game over the coming year. Not ideal, but something that those playing simply have to put up with. The question is, for how long.
Noobs are struggling with it, expecting a lot more, as seen in the promo videos which are nothing like the game btw, and expecting the same gameplay when loading up E:D for the first time. Only time will tell how it all works out. Be nice to hear from anyone else and their thoughts so far.