Recent reviews by General Inaptitude

Update: The game works fine, and some performance troubles aside, I am impressed and enjoy playing it. Some minor revamps in the levelling make the exploits I would go for unfeasible, and this forces me to play the game properly. This is actuall a major improvement that should not be understated.

(cause found) Unfortunately, after compiling the shaders, the game always instantly crashes, I am not able to play.
I don't know whether to blame microsft, nvidia, or bethesda or even Intel. ALl of them have dropped the ball recently in ways that have not happened since 2005.

Everything sucks and I miss 2006, back then you could depend on your OS, CPU, GPU, and game developers.

Edit: After rolling back to the 560.63 Nvidia driver, I was able to load into the game ONCE. I am afraid I have to refund this game, because I can't play it. (Do not use the latest drivers, the temperature is reported wrong, you may cook your card ...)

I managed to play over 100 minutes, but I can't get into the game, always crashing or freezing, i'm not even sure why I managed to load it once.

Edit: I figured it out; the engine.ini from the performance tweak from a mod I didn't have active, nor installed from vortex mod managed was missing some vital entries. This was crashing the game.

Performance is somewhat poor, so I am not yet changing to recommended, the loading is slow, and the levelling mechanism has been changed somewhat, so it's not QUITE the same as the original, despite what everyone told you.

Edit; the 7.5 update made my katana accelrate about 10 times slower, I am not even exagerating, also eafter about 30 minutes of trying, I still accidentally overshoot by like 2 kilometres after boosting. Very disappointing and very very strong nerf of the ship I got to be as fast and quick as possible to drive. Massively downgraded experience flying. I am very sad to see this and have reverted back to 7.10 immediately.
I also almost lost my save, thanks to incompatibility, and that would have meant I would have stopped playing entirely.

I don't see what kind of new features woudd be worth suffering the loss of the flying experience that I got hooked to. Sorry.

This game is very unintuitive. The controls are difficult and braking your ship is a two-hand-let-go-of-either-mouse-or-keyboard binding. The first thing I saw was that the first option in the first menu led me to the store page for DLC.

I had a mission disappear on me when doing an escort. As far as I can tell, I did not lose the mission, I didn't manage to collect any cargo due to aforementioned problem, and I also didn't get any messages. I feel like I went out playing for nothing.

I feel as though any and all achievements in this game I will ever make will be cheesed and that I can't ever come to properly enjoy this game.

All in all, I feel the developer has done a remarkably poor job at making this game accessible to players. It's like it's designed to be difficult on the parts that should be easy, and easy on the parts that should be difficult.


But once you get past this, the game is very enjoyable.

This is one of the most iconic games I played. It was way ahead of its time and its a beloved memory and inspiration to both me and evidently many of the games I played since. Not all of my friends yet have this game, but they should get it since its free right now.

This game should not exist.

The physics are phenomenal, so are the graphics, raytracing. The atmosphere... the building is incredibly intuitive for how complex it is.. the controls just work... As advertised, the transition between atmo and space is precisely as it should be.
The math and numbers all work out; I am in stable orbit precisely under the right conditions.

I programmed an air plane/rover in less than 2 hours using about 30-40 nodes, I didn't need to rely on looking up how things worked outside of the little help that the in-game tutorial and menu lookup offered.

It's just magical, and I never expected to play a game like this in my life time again, let alone multiplayer, early access. My mind is blown.

EDIT: after 150+ hours in this game, I am more impressed. There are some issues with the physics every now and then, but these are all conscious concessions made for the time being by the developer to guarantee a good experience for players.

There are great plans ahead, and the developers have impeccable functional and even moreso technical understanding on how to compromise short term to achieve long term success, and they know things about programming and game design that the Jedi council of developers would never tell you.

I will follow their carreer with great interest. Batcholi has understanding of C++ in games that I have not seen outside the likes of Cormack, and understanding of programming practices that I have only seen from the likes of Torvalds and Jason Turner.

Together, Batcholi and FloDKSM can bring order and peace to the galaxy.

I do not currently recommend this game, while I have had some good fun for it, and while it may be a pretty good purchase for the money spent for it, the game seems to have grinded to a halt in development.

I have also lost interest in exploring further as exploration is very limited and the universe very much finite.
This leaves me with a sort of mixed feeling. It's unfortunate. If Steam had a star rating system I'd probably give it a 6/10, but I would still recommend against it in lieu of other games that I also have -similarly to most games I have played- not recommended.

This game SHOULD really be better than it is, and it could be, if only it just was.

This game has severe problems.

Initially it may seem okay but then the
- They try to con you into getting Fallout "1st" by limiting your weight and trapping you into a situation where you're overencumbered
- The same ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ as in Oblivion where things get stronger around you, moreso than you do; that is to say; your 1 hit sniper rifle, won't be that anymore in the future; even if you get it leveled up.
- MMORPG bullet sponges everywhere.
- A random update today broke map-centering and I fell through the terrian several times.
- There is NO TEXT CHAT whatsoever.
- Some quests are so badly described that unless you Google them, you won't figure out how to solve them.
- It is hard to find teams to do expeditions or dailies with.

All in all, the game falls short, predictably, of what one would hope for.

Is this pay to win? No. Do you need to play against bots? No. Are you forced to do certain things? No.

Is it fun? Yes.

I did not expect to be recommending this game, but here I am.

I cannot recommend this game, because if I google what issues I run into, the recommendation is to either download mods or to download DLC.

This means there is no solution in the base game, which as such cannot warrant being recommended.
There sure is a lot of details and things to do in this game, that's for sure, but it's very beginner unfriendly.
It took me about 8 hours to get through the tutorial; mostly due to a lack of instructions.

However, now, not long after the tutorial, I suddenly ran into a shortage of infantry equipment. Cancelling all other production lines and placing 100% of military production on that still was not enough to help.

Then, just as suddenly as that shortage appeared, it was gone.
I have zero clue what caused the sudden dramatic uptick in consumption of infantry equipment.

I figured that it might have to do with the garrison in Ehtopia, however, that cannot be an explanation, as this did not previously happen when I was playing.

I suspect that it may be a bug, but I lack the information to know that for a fact.

All of these things point toward there being severe shortcomings in how the game is programmed/designed. Diagnosing and discovering the existence of these kind of issues is far beyond the capacity of most players.

I am not sure what to make of this game going forward, but if my hours of play don't progress anymore, I think that will be the most telling sign any would-be-reader of my review will have towards my overal indication of this game.

The game is very, very picky in how you should play it. You're forced through missions that you cannot skip ahead in. I'd not be complaining if at the same time while unskippable ride-alongs.

I got so annoyed with how it plays I just started shooting people. Then, I got an irredeemable bounty that would have taken hours to get rid of. Then I just starting trying to kill everything. Then I tried to kill the game executable. Then, my computer crashed.

I have now uninstalled the game and decided that not only is it not for me, I should never even attempt to play it ever again. This kind of "game" has more annoyances and limitations than even real life has for me.