Recent reviews by Captain-Keyes

I would first like to point out that nowhere on the steam page does it say this is early access.

Secondly the DLC is blatant cash grab since you don't get to use any of it until your hours or days into the slow grind of the game.

Now the overall review.

It's bad. Like really bad. Constantly running out of ammo due to guns consuming a ton of ammo per shot (pistol consumes 10 per round, shotgun consumes 50). The toutorial explains the very basics but then when you are outside it the game throws timers at you and objects that gets no explanation at all. You don't get any good turrets until around mission 15 or so and each mission is a grind that doesn't seem to do much other than drain resources.

It's $25!! These things should have been tested and fixed by now!

But no. Everything quickly turns bland and grindy with little progress and co-op is terrible unless you want to swap being hosts and doing the same missions twice for the same rewards...



They tried to mash up multiple ideas from games... They could have made it work. They failed.

farm! get beaten up by bots that are wayyy too big and you can't compete against cuz you need tooooo....?

yep farm! farm farm farm.... the resource gathering is such a chore.

"server at capacity, please wait"

"time remaining: 2:45:00"
yes that's two hours, i had accidentally gone out and come back with the game in the background still running. apparently there was server capacity issues for almost 3 hours.

this is garbage. ignoring the bugs like the somehow instant kills from rocket spam from the robots or the clunky ragdolls from seemingly random times. the fact some enemies can run through solid rock/concrete and walls just to kill you.

it's great if you have friends but it's full of bugs, terrible terrible bugs.

FPS semi-post apocaliptic techno punk main game....

yet this dlc expects you to knife slide through a level with small arenas that last 2 seconds every 45 minutes.

not worth it... literally is only here to let out a single plot point that could have been done in a text file on a terminal or just put into the other dlc.

even the collectables in this dlc only grant you the ability to buy upgrades for items you get in the dlc or skins for the guns in the main game... so if you've completed the main game already there isn't much point.

waste. of. money.

honestly even for free this game is a big hell nah

so from the clunky UI the clunky building and the clunky driving it's just all very clunky. and not the good type of clunky that you can force yourself to play for some lols or anything. it's just boring and frustrating.

so the rails to start you'd think be a smooth building line like in the trailer. nope it's jittery as anything so half the time it's a guess if your still building rail or if the game decided you hit the limit an hour ago and you've just been running for 30 minutes.

the controls are laughable. like the developer hasn't taken a single class in game design or user friendly UI at all. plus if you don't have a num pad well guess you're out of luck.

last but not least you have to click one at a time to delete trees. no not chop down, delete. like the trees already feel and look like some 8 year old scribbled them over the terrain and now you have to click on them one by one to.... and i kid you not... watch them fall through the map with a stock free sound bite.

so alll in all just either get derail valley which is by far a better game than this (and has a competent development team) or just pull your teeth out. you would get a similiar experience to this game.

EDIT: after being in their discord for an hour trying to get help I have come to rethink my review.

TLDR stay far far far away from this game and the community. (game is obnoxiously tedious and the community on discord considers you a "troll" for bringing up bugs.

so i threw some money towards this game while it was on kickstarter after playing the demo for a good long while. one of the rewards of this kickstarter was a "beta" key to play an updated version of the demo... there wasn't much changed between the two.

now onto the game; the entire game loop and as said by the devs themselves on the discord is 75% grinding minerals and 25% building and surviving. so for the first 30 to 40 hours (yes hours) you will be trying to grind the tech tree and resources to build basic structures which aren't very satisfying and are very tedious.

and that's all there is in the "game" right now. you just need to grind build and plant crops so you can.... grind and build more.... to grind and build more...

the tech tree is solely there to slow players down and make them go out of their small construction zone to get randomly generated blueprints to unlock the buildings they need to further survive. you'd think this would be fun or exciting? no, you get stuck with a quad that goes slightly faster than if you were running and has a capacity of a 10 year old golfcart with a slightly dead battery.

did i mention it's also RNG what blueprints you get? so if you just don't get the blueprints you want and the next "base" you need to drive to is out of your range... well sucks to be you! you'll die getting to it and there's a big chance it won't be the one you need.


all in all this was a major disapointment and a huge failure. do not surport these devs. they do not deserve it and have been doing nothing for the last 3/4 years.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME

BUY KSP 1 AND ALL THE DLC FOR THE SAME PRICE YOU GET MODDING AND IT HAS MULTIPLAYER MODS ALREADY AND RUNS AT 120 FPS STABLE.

TLDR: devs got stolen and then made to work on ksp 2 which leads to this janky ass 50 buck game with less content then the entirety of ksp 1 and all it's dlc and mods.

non TLDR:

this is a 50 dollar EA just bear that in mind.

it is missing alot of what KSP 1 had on it's EA which was 10/15 bucks.

it's missing wide screen surpport, it's missing IVAs (something ksp1 had on EA release), it's UI, although "clean" is janky as all hell right now.

now for the real juicyness of history.

so sometime after ksp 1 sort of finished development (pretty much at the start of covid) the devs had a neat project they were working with private division. then suddenly the deal poofed and the next day (almost christmas) they got emails saying to join intercept games with a big fat pay check. so alot did and cause of it we now have this dumpster fire that has been in and out of development for 2 and a bit years.

basically these people are scumbags and now are robbing you for 50 bucks. for a game that even the first game had more ♥♥♥♥ on EA than it currently does.

i'm giving this a 5/10 since the electric systems need some love. having only what seems to be one input and output seriously makes wiring tiring and annoying.

other than that right now it's a bit of a grind but for what it has it's a fun 2/3 hour game

hitman 3 is... just don't play it in vr

so where to start?

could it be the now buggy multiplayer?

could it be the Devs being so butthurt with people figuring out "unlimited ammount of XXXXX" that they purposefully remove mechanics that have been in the game since launch?

could it perhaps be the fact that the Devs remove some basic in-game parts only to later rename them and bring them back in because they realise they ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up?

all in all it's a solid 4/10 for me. multiplayer has recently ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up to the point my human character is no longer safe in any multiplayer world no matter what the set up of the base is. every 15 to 30 seconds the game just makes the breathable atmosphere in a room disappear for a second and then returns it. thus making my character sometimes pass out or die.

then comes the "progression" if it can even be called that. the whole resource gathering in this game can be summed up in a sentance: "find ore, dig ore, put ore into furnace, get ingot, put ingot into XXXX machine and get part". that's it. that's as complicated as the resource/crafting gets.

the real complexity is fighting the bugs and figuring out what the parts do in the game because of the lack of info. the game comes with a wiki that is 85% filler text or just nothing. no description of how the part works or what it's tollerances are etc. you have to google that yourself.

in all the game in itself seems really fun but after only 12 hours i got so frustrated with the bugs and lack of information that i just quit. a week later my friend invited me to his server and the bugs struck again. not worth the 20 i paid for it.

stay away. unless you like going onto their discord and complaining about the lack of programming code