What even is this game?

[jezuz]

Looking through available footage I am incredibly confused about what this game is trying to be.

The combat and movement look solid and I thoroughly believed that this would be where the game would settle at. A short but sweet indie Metal Gear like with some Forever Winter influence of having 2 factions at war in a washed out greyscale landscape.

But looking more into it more and more features seemed to tack on. Voxel based terrain and mining? Spaceship construction with intricate subsystems? Taking on jobs in what is made out to be an open world sandbox (with seamless entire spherical planets)? Interplanetary open world? Stalker like anomalies? Viruses? Trading and factions? All that but there is still a storyline?

This all is a lot for a bigger indie team to handle but turns out this is made by a single dev? There is no way this games scope is realistic in the slightest. Yet noone seems to voice any concerns.

And as if I didn't already feel like I am loosing my mind looking into this game all that the fairly small community around this game seems to be concerned with seems to be hyper specific things like wanting a grappling hook for cave delving or wanting specific cybernetic enhancements. Am I missing some major part here? Is there that much information on the patreon locked devlog? Please I am loosing my mind here the game looks awesome but what is going on.

[1peppaspear03]

The "fairly small community around this game seems to be concerned with seems to be hyper specific things" is kind of misleading, since i'm the only one who asked about grappling hooks and there's only been a few people ask about cybernetic enhancements (unless you're reading that somewhere else?) no, i don't have any more info than you about this game, typically if i want to know something about it i'll search it up in the discord server and 9/10 times i find what im looking for, anyway, what this game is trying to be? i can't tell you, except for regurgitating what you've already read about the game

there are a few games like this though where you can explore multiple planets, have gun fights on foot, do odd jobs, mine for resources and destroy environments with voxel based terrain all while having a story line, one game specifically that i can think of is spacebourne 2, i also couldn't tell you what that game is trying to be either tbh, because it's a kind of vague question, do you mean the general game play loop? the genre? or something else?

[jezuz]

I have read super specific questions on steam, the discord and even the games website which has a forum section. There is people there forming clans and whatnot as if the game is going to be an MMO.

And yea, I guess I am asking about gameplay loop while voicing my concerns for feature creep.

[eisen]

Originally posted by jezuz:

Looking through available footage I am incredibly confused about what this game is trying to be.

The combat and movement look solid and I thoroughly believed that this would be where the game would settle at. A short but sweet indie Metal Gear like with some Forever Winter influence of having 2 factions at war in a washed out greyscale landscape.

But looking more into it more and more features seemed to tack on. Voxel based terrain and mining? Spaceship construction with intricate subsystems? Taking on jobs in what is made out to be an open world sandbox (with seamless entire spherical planets)? Interplanetary open world? Stalker like anomalies? Viruses? Trading and factions? All that but there is still a storyline?

This all is a lot for a bigger indie team to handle but turns out this is made by a single dev? There is no way this games scope is realistic in the slightest. Yet noone seems to voice any concerns.

And as if I didn't already feel like I am loosing my mind looking into this game all that the fairly small community around this game seems to be concerned with seems to be hyper specific things like wanting a grappling hook for cave delving or wanting specific cybernetic enhancements. Am I missing some major part here? Is there that much information on the patreon locked devlog? Please I am loosing my mind here the game looks awesome but what is going on.

You're not alone with these thoughts. This game is feature creep incarnate. What's wild is that the dev said on the discrod he will reject any offer of help (be it voice acting work, assets, music, etc.) until 1.0 is released. I have the suspicion that this game will be abandoned before it's released or we will be waiting a decade or so.

[Deaths13by2]

Just trust man, although I do think that the dev is taking much more than he can handle and possibly some of the stuff you mentioned might not be there or got scrapped

[slothdawg]

I definitely agree, the gunplay is basically 80% of every gameplay video I've seen and yet it's seemingly a fraction of the content. I was shocked to see the scope this game was going for when I went to the website.