Greetings,

I have played the demo of this game back in the day. It showed potential but was a disaster at the same time. Players had to alter the code to controle the sandstorm to really see the game because of how badly its timer was scripted and how badly a choice it was as a game design element in the demo. controls back then were unintuitive and some times almost random. it was a demo so alot could be forgiven (we all lowered our standards significantly. back in the day in demos you tried to show your game in the best of light and not appeal to the gamers good will to overlook flaws).

It should have been a warning but curiosity and the will for this to be good got the best of me. this game now is 1 year into alpha. the controls are still clunky and arbitrary. question being if any of the people in the development actually play their own game or have ever played similar games. why just why must you try to ♥♥♥♥ up and use counter intuitive controls. same button for different things in different menus but similar action. why do you have to go and make standard movements and interactions that usually are mapped the same to be mapped entirely different? if thats your choice so be it but next time remember you still have jump action mapped on space bar. maybe bind it to something more your style like alt+ ctrl+ NUM9.

i encountered 2 game braking alt f4 then task manager kill bugs, 3 bugs in total in the FIRST 15 minutes of gameplay within the tutorial. what is going on? is noone testing anything its the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tutorial.

you guys go for realism. fine. i actually loved that in the demo and in my games in general. your game choice is that a person dies if he is not sleeping 12 hours a day every day immediately? your game design choice is one can not look at the map while driving? your astronaut on mars with all his skills and technology is just walking around clumsily and can not mark things on his interface? this and the navigating between menus and sub menus including with how the game character interacts within your game world one question would be... have you guys, who obviously do not like pc games, did not play any games in the same category but do your own thing and try to learn from mistakes by doing them instead of accepting others have made them and start at their progress, have you ever met together in one room discussing changes drinking your coffee and asked yourselves and the team the question: Is it fun? is that what we implement and how we do it fun and engaging for the player? is the way we implemented it annoying or engaging? have you TRIED it yourselves and seen how it plays out?

Speaking of basics OF YOUR CRAFT as game designers and programmers and the whole team. why do you fail at the basics of your craft? having the character with grinder in hand aim at an object where even its name is displayed and then grind an item 4 kilometers away is not just not state of the art or alpha or a problem, its a statement of your attitude or skill to deliver. it is unacceptable. it shows you do not take your game in hand and play it. see how annoying you are greeted, how disgusting skip skip skip the tutorial is, how flawed your execution is and abyssmal game design choices affect you. put your development tools aside and see how you manage as a player. sit together and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ get your basics in order.

it is not on the player to ignore or bypass your choices.. to remap everything from the get go. to skip 90% of the tutorial and restart 4 times. to then go on and find the pearl of enjoyment while ignoring and working against you who works against the enjoymment. that is just not ok.

i wish you good luck i will jump ship while i still can.

Great game! Very deep game with lots of features to explore. May look like a simple game at first, but there's so much more to find and figure out the more you play! I'm still enjoying this game! Finished my own goal of collecting all blueprints, but there's more of those coming in updates too. Will definitely keep on my favorites list permanently. Lots of progress on updates since alpha launch, very well supported game. Well done devs!

Still a couple little bugs, I really enjoy the exploration and building in this game. I wish they would work on the menu function as you constantly are in and out of the menus.
I love the mining aspect in the rover!