Why is it criticized?

[skimh322]

is it getting too much criticism because it's epic?

is it getting criticized because the game quality is bad?

Which is more important?

[Dooly]

People like to ragebait nowadays. There's some people going around spreading the word of "It's Epic, oh no". Obviously the game has it's issues as well since it's EA.
Just give it a try to see if you like it. Can always refund if you haven't played longer than 2H.

[Sév3rin]

epic login is optional, i think its probably player is not able to get into the game and mixed review is a common for Early Access game.

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by skimh322:

is it getting too much criticism because it's epic?

is it getting criticized because the game quality is bad?

Which is more important?

Epic isn't a compulsory thing any more. I skipped the Epic account thing completely. As for the game, I really like it, TBH.

The criticism is probably because the game stopped working on the day of release according to a couple of YouTube reviews I watched. (I missed that bit, as I hadn't bought the game at that point) Other people are having trouble getting the game to launch, but the cause is unknown ATM. Other people criticize because that's what flame-baiters and Clown Award Farmers do with EVERY new game these days.

[TaliHazard]

everyone I know that refunded it did so because not only was it constantly crashing, but it was horribly un optimized and ran like garbage. Sometimes the ground wouldn't even render in. Its like they did zero testing before releasing it into EA.

[Skylers Meth]

When a basic thing like a too-close camera that zooms all over the place when moving or when you try to adjust your view you get a tight body shot all of which causes instant nausea that wasn't noticed or worried about before releasing, i say something critical. It's the first thing i noticed when loading it up and it was an instant issue for me. A basic thing that meant i couldn't play at length. I refunded. May come back when it has a slider.

[Mavor]

Its getting criticized by people who don't understand what "early access" means. Also, people like to ♥♥♥♥♥ about *everything*. Thats just how things are these days.

[magdalena]

From what I could see in the negative reviews:

-no character customization, we can't hide the mask either
-Yes, the camera view is nauseating, no Zoom.
-no FOV options
-the game looks blurred at times, even foggy, even when the blur is removed; when you talk to certain pnj, they're not precise, you see them a bit blurred.
-When you're walking in shallow water, you're walking very slowly, and you think to yourself, “Walk, go faster! “But no, the character is very slow in water where you can walk.
-Where you place your first building, normally in a “safe” zone, the character isn't very robust, and you have spider nests, with spiders killing you all the time, so you always have to be careful... and when you get killed, your life doesn't come back, so you constantly have to look for berries to heal yourself, (they made a fix this morning for more robustness and more life when you die).
-No shortcut keys, Switch to English keyboard every time you start the game.
-The game interface is a wheel with which you place your tools and weapons.
You can't choose between (1,2,3,4) to pick up a weapon; you have to use this wheel, which takes longer.
-Crashes, black screens.
Opinions are divided between positive and negative.
Here are some opinions.
I haven't asked for a refund, I hope they'll sort it all out.

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[Omence072]

Some think early access means fully finished

[Kuhlumbus]

Originally posted by Omence072:

Some think early access means fully finished

The most of negative Reviews are more differentiated than your posting. Often there is a criticism about basics, also EA-basics. For example - for me ist the game not playable, because I'm a arrow-key-player, and the arrow-keys are bound with camera-moving and player-moving at the same time. No way to change it, no way to play - for me. But actually I've not given a bad review, I have still hope.

[Maxpain]

Originally posted by Dooly:

People like to ragebait nowadays. There's some people going around spreading the word of "It's Epic, oh no". Obviously the game has it's issues as well since it's EA.
Just give it a try to see if you like it. Can always refund if you haven't played longer than 2H.

Question I always ask is is it ready for EA or have they rushed out a early beta to grab the cash.
If they release a beta people get to play it until it goes EA and still have an option to refund. Dropping it as EA means u get 2 hours to try it which is not long enough to be able to refund.

[worblyhead]

Originally posted by Dooly:

People like to ragebait nowadays. There's some people going around spreading the word of "It's Epic, oh no". Obviously the game has it's issues as well since it's EA.
Just give it a try to see if you like it. Can always refund if you haven't played longer than 2H.

Yep, also the same people that use KickStarter in the same way they order stuff off of Amazon Prime and get totally crotch hurt that the KickStarter project couldn't ship out in time for XMas. Really unbelievable.

[panerdar]

Because a lot people can't login via steam and the running it from .exe does not work for everyone either. Because absolutely nothing about this "coop" game tells people before purchase that the campaign is NOT coop.

[Tenoshii]

Originally posted by skimh322:

is it getting too much criticism because it's epic?

is it getting criticized because the game quality is bad?

Which is more important?

They made some relatively unpopular design decisions on top of having just enough technical issues at the start of Early Access such that some people playing singleplayer or trying to do multiplayer are having problems.

Pretty much a universal recipe for generalized outrage being reflected in some of the reviews.

[BlackSunEmpire]

For me its the over-tutorialization.
I dont want to sit constantly through lengthy dialogue in my survival/crafting game.

More modular buildings like in Rust, where I can shape buildings the way I want, would be nice too.

I do like the game tho, especially the atmosphere, art design and biosphere repopulating aspects.

[Lestrad]

Originally posted by magdalena:

we can't hide the mask either.

That's just frustrating. Several survival craft games have done this recently. I want to see my character's face.

It'd obviously not a cop out for 'we don't know know how to model faces'. It's not a 'oh this planet doesn't have oxygen'. You literally see NPCs, with faces, on multiple occasions.