I was hyped for this, so much so I got the First Colony Edition on Steam and paid full price for it. Then when it came out it felt rushed and ideas previewed were than paywalled for future DLC. I tried going back to it but basic things like modding they promised they would support, never really happened, it's limiting to the point you can't make changes to standard things like supply pads. The game is primarly on a x and y axis, with z being outrageously limited. I found that out when I was trying to do a mod to increase supply pad sizes by stacking things higher than the default, nope it was at the z maximum. Then I heard about other mods problems when the game updated so much so that mods were intentionally broken to put in things modders put in first but nerfed to an extreme. There has been a good deal of new items to increase happiness, it was terrible at initial release, but again that's behind dlc. I don't like the shady tactics this company practices and how it mislead the community. Sold pass do not buy. I would give it a 0 but GOG only allows for a 1 out of 5, so it's as low as it can go.
I finally got the game run with video's and not crash by opening dxcfg.exe and setting up the "Display Mode" to be "set by application" and the "Presentation" set to "Windowed". As a hunch I tried to see what that resolution or display mode was and it's 1024x768. The will not properly display the menus and will crash the game with the video's and etc at a bigger resolution. This is it, sure turn on AA and AF but it will be a small window or resize your desktop if you go to fullscreen, your call. IMO this needs to be fixed asap. Will rereview after fixed.
I have the CDROM of this game and I have tried for years to get this to work but I hardly had any success. Now that GoG is actually putting games on here that I want to get from the good old games age, I pounced and I have zero issues. I could never get the audio to work in cutscenes or mission briefs and I would have issues with the windows task bar intruding in the game and kicking me out, it was so frustrating. All that is gone and well worth a look if you've never played it.
