It's painful to give a bad review, because I'm a dev myself. I want to like Starbound because I loved Terraria. Played 60 hours during early access, but came back today palyed for 1 hour and quit.

Controls in 1.0 is abysmal. It felt like they were trying to map a controller hotkeys onto a keyboard and mouse setup. The hotkey bar was labelled and they added "R" as a special hotkey for mining. I was constantly trying to hit "4" to switch to mining, then wondering why it didn't work. Many hotkey bars allows for a second slot (left and right click). Visually this is very confusing. My brain looking at the UI, expects the items to be mapped from 1-9, not 1 (left / right) 2 (left / right) etc.

There were a lot of other introductory pacing issues too. Enemies on the ground floor being too challenging behavior wise, paired with a flawed starting sword with a cooldown. But these are all secondary compared to the controls issue.

Please fix.

It's painful to give a bad review, because I'm a dev myself. I want to like Starbound because I loved Terraria. Played 60 hours during early access, but came back today palyed for 1 hour and quit. Controls in 1.0 is abysmal. It felt like they were trying to map a controller hotkeys onto a keyboard and mouse setup. The hotkey bar was labelled and they added "R" as a special hotkey for mining. I was constantly trying to hit "4" to switch to mining, then wondering why it didn't work. Many hotkey bars allows for a second slot (left and right click). Visually this is very confusing. My brain looking at the UI, expects the items to be mapped from 1-9, not 1 (left / right) 2 (left / right) etc. There were a lot of other introductory pacing issues too. Enemies on the ground floor being too challenging behavior wise, paired with a flawed starting sword with a cooldown. But these are all secondary compared to the controls issue. Please fix.