For a early access title, it runs okay for the first hour or two. After the first mission though, the issues start showing up. From infinite enemy spawn spaming making it a nightmare to even progress in the forced story mode, to priority settings setup for the "humans" and machinary not working as intended.
Some things that infuriated me personally was, the crashing. I understand Early access, luckily theres auto save intervals as frequently as 5min. The problem here is that in a hour or less, you'll run into memory issues, where the game will have severe memory leaks and everything will stop responding. That is my largest gripe, but it is to be excpected in EA.
All that aside... here are the pros and cons..
Pros:
- Can be addictive, think of a extremely unstable space haven game, still a ton of fun just horribly buggy
- First few missions your units respond and follow commands
- Graphically appealing, 3D/2D textures is really cool to see implemented
Cons:
- Chucklefish, my experience going back to starbound, sdv, etc... was pretty bad, but they did make a turn around so there is hope
- Graphical bugs, this also leads to crashes, the UI may bug up causing a crash
- Horrifically laggy, you go from 1x to 2x or faster, and the game goes even slower. Tested on i3-i9 machines with GTX 980MX to 1080TI's w/8, 16 and 32gb loaded laptop/desktops, all mentioned specs and this game does DRUDGE along (so expect fast time loading to be unstable or crashy)
- Units dont correctly follow instructions or function ingeneral (storage issues, no fall back storage even with multiple unconfigured storages, units just doing nothing looking for work despite having researched & unlocked priorities and customizing it)
Theres alot here thats negative, but i personally am enjoying it minus the annoyances. The memory leaks are my biggest problem, going from 512mb-4gb ballooning is nuts. Otherwise check it out, im still giving it a chance, because i find it fun still.
