Recent reviews by zak

+ Fallout in space
+ Lots of content to go through, rich with narration and interesting setting.
+ Much better settlement (outpost) building from since Fallout 4 times. Offers manufacturing and logistics to provide more purpose for them to be built.
+ Interesting approach to unlock new items or buildings to craft using a research bench, engages player to focus on harvesting resources to finish research projects.
+ Slow, relaxed start: to explain, I don't feel pressured into completion of main storyline quests right off the bat, instead I can focus on it on my own terms.
+ Curious New Game+ with tiered rewards.
+ Ship combat feels smooth and engaging.
+ Ship building is very detailed and flexible, it offers many ways to shape your ship to different roles.
+ Planet exploration is relaxing, with resources to harvest and Points of Interest to visit. Radiant quests incentivise the player to landfall to various places.
+ Great animation system, I assume thanks to The Forge library powering the new animation graphs
+ Character lipsync and facial expressions feel spot on
+ Great looking baked GI and renewed PBR pipeline gives the old engine a new breath
+ Havok physics still alive and kicking! Performance on that front seems great too!
+ Ship boarding became one of my most favorite activities alongside bounty hunting
+ Dead Space vibes with some of the questlines
+ Some quests offer really cool and unique gameplay I enjoyed a lot going through

- Rough performance at launch
- AI feels too slow to react to player ambushes
- POIs tend to repeat themselves, I recommend mixing radiant quests with other tasks to improve the experience
- Unskippable cutscenes (sadly, in some cases required, due to hidden cell loading behind them)
- Creation engine's age shows in some aspects of graphical department, the ratio of quality : performance seems bad in places
- Color banding is quite bad, ability to change gamma would be neat
- Unique locations (towns) have no local maps.
- Ship building causes all the clutter items spawned by the hab modules themselves to be dropped into ship storage, do a few subsequent upgrades and your ship's storage is filled with lots of misc items you need to get rid of.
- Physics related bugs, but nothing serious. I had to reload my save 2-3 times in total play time due to bugs so far, no crashes either.
- Lackluster selection of apparel (?)
- Absence of DLSS, not a big deal as mods fix that
- Character writing seems a bit off in some cases, romance options feel very out of place and some dialogues don't make much sense.
- Some places seem to have broken baked GI data, resulting in oddly cut off lights in places and bad lighting (used to be an issue in Fallout 76 as well)
- Oh no they still use Papyrus :/
- Color filter LUTs used by the game seem a bit too strong, they remind me the old color tint times in Fallout 3/NV

Great game. 4/5

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