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This game review i have changed the from no to yes after 28.3.20

You remember Jalopy,that one game developed by Minskworks? Well, Jalopy was in development hell after the unity engine seized to fix things anymore and just made more bugs for every update released.(To quote Chris: "Every new update,I end up with more bugs than with more fixes.") Now the game is recoded, i tried it out and I dont want to play it anymore,because it feels way too different - the Trabant felt like a boat.

Originally meaning to buy Under the Sand,i saw this game and accidentally bought it during the winter of 2019. I realised this too late,but thanks to coupons I didnt spend much on it so i kept it and decided to try it out. Thats when i saw all the cars.
One of them a Lada,a Skoda and the Trabant. Once i saw there was a trabant,my hype hit the maximum. After finding out how this game works and fixing several aspects that the problematic binding controls were, I enjoyed driving the cars alot. The trabant was the first thing i drove and i probably made like 100km with it before the game finally permasoftlocked due to a nasty terrain building glitch affecting all saves,forcing me to start over. But i should rather talk about the game:

About the cars:
The trabant is a 2 stroke engine designed by the Soviets back in the DDR; The car requires no cooling but requires both oil and gas to drive properly. Put in about 3-5% of Oil and the rest just gas and the car should be able to hit max speed of 120kmh.
The lada is the strongest and fastest of all the cars,having a potential of 160kmh iirc. For the skoda,its approximately 140kmh but they all require seperate oil,coolant(Water)and gas management. Theres also a bus but the bus i have not driven yet.

Terrain,the road and the game concept:
The game generates the road and terrain for infinity,meaning you can drive into nowhere and still find something. The goal of this game doesnt really exist. Its to get your car shiny and be able to drive for infinity. Its not a lie that with a full tank you can drive for a real long time until the gas tank runs out. And the game generates several different types of buildings and stuff inside of the buildings that it also makes it interesting to drive on the road.
On the roads,there are also different types of obstacles you have to avoid. Cactii,rocks,hell,even snowman (winter) can kill you.

About the radio:
It doesnt bring much entertainment once youve heard it all,but if you didnt,go on. You wont regret it and maybe you will have some laughs. (Update 28.3.20: Custom radios will be added soon!)

Lore:
Theres no real lore in the game. The lore is more split into several stories that you can find everywhere that is this game-related. As the description says: Randomly generated terrain set in a semi-post apoc setting.
Youll find a bit of lore in the radio,and through buildings,and more.

However,the real reason why i give this game a mixed rating?

The problem with this game is the fact that the concept is good,and the gameplay would be, but its just heavily unpolished. I actually love this game,but its just the problems that kill me. In 5 total hours of playtime, I have met numerous glitches and problems:

-The bus not loading in properly
-The ground not generating while driving except for the road,making the whole road a death trap (Fixed with the new road generation system in beta 23/3/20)
-Wheels not loading in properly,making them invisible until you reattach them
-The game noclipping you through the ground (Fixed in the Beta 23/3/20)
-The game not loading in ANY ground when loading a save file causing everything to fall for eternity (Will be fixed)
This glitch causes all savefiles to be broken
-Objects flying at mach speed just with a touch and broken object physics
This is more overall the fault of the unity engine from driving too fast and the game not being able to keep up the objects speed with the cars speed.

The game cannot be optimised well
-Gear stick assignment glitches (up/down-shift stick ,not H shifter) I could not use the gear stick as a result of the glitches and had to rely on auto clutch and auto shift
Gear up would gear down and gear down would cause the menu to appear.
-Problems with the pedals thinking both pedals are one (Had to adjust deadzone to get it to work properly)

-The game has no real replayability. Its more like a timewaster incase you want to kill some hours. But with the next updates this might change. Especially once Multiplayer will be added (which probably will take a while).

This game is great. I do not regret buying it. But its just the bugs that make it hard to enjoy sometimes. But some glitches are very hard to get,so its not too bad. But no one wants to start over due to a retarded softlock.

Early access,lets hope the next update brings lots of patches.

Update 28.3.2020
From what ive recently seen,the game feels so much more stable now and i dont lag anymore in the new beta (23/3/20 beta). The dev is also a very nice dev who sadly cannot bring alot of updates at once but for an indie dev he is very friendly and listens to the community. The cars suspensions have been a bit softened but they are still as hard in the Trabant. The roads now generate completely randomly according to elevation in the new beta. But like i said,the more important thing is how stable the game feels now. The cars can easily hit their high speed now on the slopes as long as the elevation changes arent too brutal and the car wont easily stop in the air and just glitch out every item anymore unless you fully hit the speed limit (past 160kmh for the trabant - 200kmh is probably the full limit for all cars). Current plans are to add new building generation for buildings next to the road and in the middle of the desert.
To see the game getting updates is very cool for me. And im slowly starting to recommend the game.

Edited review to make it very clear what i liked and didnt like

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