There are frustrating bugs in this game. Today and yesterday I spent hours trying to hook up power generators to my base. Should be easy to do, but it turns out that my base is allergic to new power cables. The UI is fiddly enough that I thought I was doing something wrong, but then I discovered that I can't even reconnect my working solar panels. Generally the bugs are strange things that shouldn't be happening, but there is a plausibility to the behavior. Like the NPCs that have buggy dialogue. Maybe that NPC is that way, even normal people can act erratic sometimes? Anyone can have a bad morning. The world generation is a bit lacking. This game taught a lot of people about Kolmogorov complexity. It's like those Star Trek episodes where Kirk beams down to "the planet", and "the planet" is just one town and everyone living on the planet is from one or two factions. You get more variety just looking out your window! The planets are filled with smatterings of buildings and loot, all selected from a very small variety of options. Whenever you see something interesting it is quite obvious that it's interesting because someone sat down to create it, it wasn't generated. The bases are basically identical. Customization of the character is also quite limited. It promises that you can fly smoothly from deep space to planetary surfaces. Well, I get a noticeable delay when I leave the atmosphere, so it's obvious that some trickery is going on at that moment. Not quite seamless. Whenever you enter or leave a space base there is an animated sequence that stands in for a loading screen. It's the same thing, just done in a neater way. And when you're on the planet it feels like your character forgot their glasses, because the viewing distance is tens of feet. I have to watch my stomach, so I can't play this game any more. But the main quest seems reasonable enough and it appears to have a sci-fi plot, so that might be worth pursuing once they've stopped adding new bugs.
