The game has like 3 major cities you can visit, few smaller outposts and a bunch of space stations. Everything else is about 10 different assets spawned on any other of the "1000 exiting planets to visit".

General questing is a somewhat dull - it Bethesda's game design that might have been good in games a decade ago - at this point if feels really dated. Most quests are either visit a guy and talk to them in order to get some quest item (possibly negotiate with perks) and return to quest giver OR shoot everyone in a dungeon until you get to a container with an item that has ◇ next to it, and yeah...return it to the quest giver.

Another thing related to that is how you travel - the space ships are pretty much fast travel machines - the entire space is a fake facade to pretend there is any depth to it. Any location, planet or station has to be reached using fast travel. There is no option to really "fly" anywhere as you would expect in a space game. When you are in space, you are essentially stuck in a bubble and cannot move anywhere, even if you are in orbit of a planet.

Some game director there also decided to throw in the Outposts system which is almost a carbon copy of what you know from Fallout 4 and others - in this case it is an absolute gold sink. Option to store items has been removed - this means that if you want to move something or use it later, you can't - it is destroyed when you move it. Early game seems to suggests to you that outposts have to be used upgrade weapons or ships - fortunately this is not the case. All of the required resources can be purchased from vendors - which you probably should do if you value your sanity. Outposts are difficult to connect to each other and generally manage - getting into building them is all in all a humongous waste of time.

Shooting and looting part of the game is somewhat good, but not exiting or anywhere innovative, I would say that it is the most positive aspect of the game.

Finally, the bugs the glitches and others - at the end of 100%, no stone unturned kind of run, I had 5 quests stuck due to bugs, 3 of them where due to the fact that the fast travel system would send me to a ship in orbit that was my objective...that wasn't there.

I fortunately got the game from the AMD CPU promo - the price tag for this thing is way too high. I'd likely be pretty unhappy if I were to pay full price for this thing.

The talking heads at Bethesda mention adding regular space flight (and no fast travel everywhere) in future updates, but at the current pace we will have to wait year or more. At this point, we got DLSS, option to directly eat food, plus a FOV slider over the course of about 4 months.

To sum it up, don't buy this thing unless it's 75% off or enough updates were released over the span of a decade this game "is supposed to be played" according to the guys at the big B.

And yeah, it's a really nice monument to the fact that we should not listen to con men like Todd Howard and rest of their band when they spew out the b/s on how great and revolutionary their upcoming products are.
For the claim of having this game in development of seven years, it feels like it was an almost absolutely wasted time as virtually any mechanic other than ship combat is trickled down from their previous titles, including skills and perks that hardly make sense in space.

The game has like 3 major cities you can visit, few smaller outposts and a bunch of space stations. Everything else is about 10 different assets spawned on any other of the "1000 exiting planets to visit". General questing is a somewhat dull - it Bethesda's game design that might have been good in games a decade ago - at this point if feels really dated. Most quests are either visit a guy and talk to them in order to get some quest item (possibly negotiate with perks) and return to quest giver OR shoot everyone in a dungeon until you get to a container with an item that has ◇ next to it, and yeah...return it to the quest giver. Another thing related to that is how you travel - the space ships are pretty much fast travel machines - the entire space is a fake facade to pretend there is any depth to it. Any location, planet or station has to be reached using fast travel. There is no option to really "fly" anywhere as you would expect in a space game. When you are in space, you are essentially stuck in a bubble and cannot move anywhere, even if you are in orbit of a planet. Some game director there also decided to throw in the Outposts system which is almost a carbon copy of what you know from Fallout 4 and others - in this case it is an absolute gold sink. Option to store items has been removed - this means that if you want to move something or use it later, you can't - it is destroyed when you move it. Early game seems to suggests to you that outposts have to be used upgrade weapons or ships - fortunately this is not the case. All of the required resources can be purchased from vendors - which you probably should do if you value your sanity. Outposts are difficult to connect to each other and generally manage - getting into building them is all in all a humongous waste of time. Shooting and looting part of the game is somewhat good, but not exiting or anywhere innovative, I would say that it is the most positive aspect of the game. Finally, the bugs the glitches and others - at the end of 100%, no stone unturned kind of run, I had 5 quests stuck due to bugs, 3 of them where due to the fact that the fast travel system would send me to a ship in orbit that was my objective...that wasn't there. I fortunately got the game from the AMD CPU promo - the price tag for this thing is way too high. I'd likely be pretty unhappy if I were to pay full price for this thing. The talking heads at Bethesda mention adding regular space flight (and no fast travel everywhere) in future updates, but at the current pace we will have to wait year or more. At this point, we got DLSS, option to directly eat food, plus a FOV slider over the course of about 4 months. To sum it up, don't buy this thing unless it's 75% off or enough updates were released over the span of a decade this game "is supposed to be played" according to the guys at the big B. And yeah, it's a really nice monument to the fact that we should not listen to con men like Todd Howard and rest of their band when they spew out the b/s on how great and revolutionary their upcoming products are. For the claim of having this game in development of seven years, it feels like it was an almost absolutely wasted time as virtually any mechanic other than ship combat is trickled down from their previous titles, including skills and perks that hardly make sense in space.