I would like this review to be positive, as it is an interesting game, but:

• Optimisation is not a concept they seem to know about at this point. (which leads to the next point:)
  
• Raytracing is forced on by default. To disable it (which the engine is kind enough to allow you to do...), you have to fiddle with game / engine related files.
  
• The water system forces you to play every so often to get more water (it counts down in actual, not in-game time), otherwise you lose all your progress. This creates FOMO. I don't like FOMO. By the way, they proudly advertise themselves as developers who respect gamers, and say they will not add paid content that isn't purely cosmetic. I disagree. I can see them easily adding an in-game store where people buy more water. I wouldn't consider either the FOMO or the possibility of buying more water as anything else than an utter lack of respect for the players' efforts and time after publicly saying such things.

I will change this review once these major issues are addressed.
Until then, while I may play it myself to see what it has to offer apart from these annoyances, I cannot recommend it to others, especially to those who have a life or aren't tech savvy enough / willing to jumps through hoops to get it working right on their machine.

[Edit: The missions just keep circling around to same things again and again. No story.]

[Edit 2: WTF? Water thieves? Why must you try so hard to shoot yourselves in the balls?
Can't update the damn thing. The install takes up 83GB, and the update requires... I don't know how much on top, (it doesn't say) but I have a good 80 extra GB so obviously I'm the dummy for not having a petabyte's worth of space available. Some say you have to uninstall & reinstall. I WILL uninstall, but until that is also fixed, there is no way I'll be downloading it again.]

I would like this review to be positive, as it is an interesting game, but: [list] [*]Optimisation is not a concept they seem to know about at this point. (which leads to the next point:) [*]Raytracing is forced on by default. To disable it (which the engine is kind enough to allow you to do...), you have to fiddle with game / engine related files. [*]The water system forces you to play every so often to get more water (it counts down in actual, not in-game time), otherwise you lose all your progress. This creates FOMO. I don't like FOMO. By the way, they proudly advertise themselves as developers who respect gamers, and say they will not add paid content that isn't purely cosmetic. I disagree. I can see them easily adding an in-game store where people buy more water. I wouldn't consider either the FOMO or the possibility of buying more water as anything else than an utter lack of respect for the players' efforts and time after publicly saying such things. [/list] I will change this review once these major issues are addressed. Until then, while I may play it myself to see what it has to offer apart from these annoyances, I cannot recommend it to others, especially to those who have a life or aren't tech savvy enough / willing to jumps through hoops to get it working right on their machine. [Edit: The missions just keep circling around to same things again and again. No story.] [Edit 2: WTF? Water thieves? Why must you try so hard to shoot yourselves in the balls? Can't update the damn thing. The install takes up 83GB, and the update requires... I don't know how much on top, (it doesn't say) but I have a good 80 extra GB so obviously I'm the dummy for not having a petabyte's worth of space available. Some say you have to uninstall & reinstall. I [b][i]WILL[/i][/b] uninstall, but until that is also fixed, there is no way I'll be downloading it again.]