Looking into a storm chasing game, wanted advice!

[TheOofertaffy]

So from the title, I'm looking into these storm chasing games, and this one looks the best out of the ones I've seen so far. However, the price tag seems a bit high too me from the stuff i'm seeing on screenshots, i'm still looking into the game with the trailers, and I'll be watching some game play here soon, but wanted to get a jump and get some advice early. The price tag, as I said is a big concern. Not a lot of early access games, especially ones that just released, charge borderline AAA games. However I do know that the price can be justified, I come from a game called Derail Valley that is in EA, and is about 5 dollars more expensive than this game, and I view the price as 100% worth it. But I also took a look at the graphics of this game, and it's kind of concerning, especially given the system requirements. I do meet the recommended spec of the game, however, the graphics don't feel like they match up with the requirements. I will say off of what I've seen so far, the actual storms and tornadoes looks incredible, but the actual world itself seems a bit barren, low quality vehicles and other things like that. Off just screenshots on the store page, the screenshot that has the car in it, shows an empty barren road, with maybe a few trees on the left, but otherwise a very empty world, and the car itself looked rough, I don't know if it was bad anti-aliasing or a lower poly vehicle, but it definitely looked like a toy or just a lower quality model. The world itself, even in settings like prairies where it's not much going on, and not many trees to actually see for a couple miles, you still have things like grass, bushes, farm fields with crops in them, and other things to occupy empty space, from the screenshots it doesn't seem like much effort has gone into the world itself. I will say there are more screenshots on the store page, including one with a barn, showing fields and such, but something feels off. I think it may be party the grass texture, as it looks pretty weird. I don't want to go too much more in depth with my analysis, I just want to know anyone elses opinion who owns the game, and if it's improved since release, maybe these issues have been resolved by now.

[FatAngryBeaver]

Don't get me wrong, the game is hella fun and hella challenging, but it still has a lot of issues and the overall player-base has pretty much died out except for what seems like very small core group of regular every-day players. Not good for the multiplayer aspect, although I expect (and hope) the player count to go back up as new features are implemented. You can still play solo though. Devs are working on making the world better. They added a screenshot of some new trees which look great. What I think they did was focus more on just getting the game in a playable state with the weather tech, then graphics/texture quality will come later. I will say that my only real gripe about the game is the scenario-based storm system. The storms are pre-programmed scenarios. There's a ton of them and they keep adding more, but if you spend a lot of time in-game it can eventually get to the point to where it's less about chasing and finding tornadoes, and more of a race to whatever storm/town where you know the tornado is going to spawn. Plenty of resources on the internet showing you where they will spawn on which scenario. Plus during multiplayer you can't really avoid a scenario where other players know the info and you just follow them around the map. It kind of kills the immersion, but it might also be useful for a beginner to learn the game. There's a mostly positive Discord community, and every one of my interactions with the Devs has been positive and they seem to be really passionate about the project. As an early access game and in the state it's in at present, I can't say I agree with the high price tag. But if it ever reaches it's full potential, it's gonna be the best storm chasing game on the market.

[Moolick]

tldr btw, The game isn't worth the price point yet.