Recent reviews by Oiltanker

Did not like the game, can only be played when you on the same brainwave with friends, otherwise 100hrs of content seems like a chore to get through.
4 hrs played, -47Eur i guess :'( most expensive 4hr mistake of my life

I could forgive the too "early in development part", but the grindfest of everything from obtaining resources to trading makes it mostly boring.

I would advice:
1. adding crafting of tools that give +lvl to your resource acquisition stat
2. a somewhat working economy, as in ability to trade resources with existing cities, e.g. you have a quarry in your village, you can trade stone and quire higiher level of wood needed your your buildings (this includes removing 10x buy and 0.1x sell prices)
3. skill systems too rudimental, but they are fun (+ actually had some fun with them, also add stamina regen spell or better spell mechanic)
4. exp boosts are horrendous, suggest removing them entirely and replacing exp grind with something else
5. learn occlusion culling and implement it (maybe also proper LOD model issue), cities are too laggy and sometimes effects lag spike too
6. make it possible to get income through crafting and not just resource grind into crafting grind into gold grind, that's too boring.

- Player character progression

Game is somewhat lacking in progression, I understand the no player armor idea, but this sometimes makes the gameplay infuriatingly difficult (especially when you did not know there's a 2-hit-kill enemy that can reasonably be only killed with the gun, that you have yet to obtain through trading instead of crafting).
This could be offset if one could build a small versatile vehicle-mech, but alas, which brings me to:

- Not enough interactive blocks

The lack of things like boat propeller, so you have to use thrusters, and other mechanical blocks and the shier cost of everything makes it feel like there is only one way to play the game, any fun side stuff is a luxury.
The game has 'scrap' part nailed down, really little in terms of 'mechanic' part, which leaves a lot to be desired.

- Poor variety

Abandoned buildings (the most common type) in the game could have a greater mob variety (except just 1 type of mob), e.g. same tapebots, but this is quite impossible due to shier OP-ness and difficulty ramp that they bring.

- Fear of losing

Might be quite subjective on my part, but i feel, even with seeing the devlogs, that most things in the game/about to be added are made with purpose to destroy player creations, to the point that I had to always think whether I can go/do some activities and what will happen to the stuff i have spent so much time building.
Constantly rebuilding is not really a fun gameplay loop, or at least to me it's not.

On the second thought the issue can be resolved if whole process would of rebuilding would be streamlined, e.g. make blue print system that helps rebuild quickly.

Also raids are kind of always trivial, so the damage can be easily brushed off, at least late game, and especially with mods?

- THE GOOD THING

The game is worth playing ~100-ish hours with the Fant Mod (thank you 00Fant).
Mod has a lot of cool-fun stuff (I've built an apache helicopter, at least in spirit :) ) and takes grinding out the game (mostly, if you're smart about it) and lets experience everything the game has to offer with as much friction as one wants.

Also adds character progression and exo-suits which was a nice touch. Makes game overall less frustrating.

Don't look at my hours in the game, I played it two times as much when I was broke and could only pirate.

Amazing I spend half an hour winning the multiplayer biome game and some chineese guy with two connects (and leaving the game instantly after that) gets 100% of the credit, how about you fix the bugs, devs?

Horrendous optimization, how come 3080 not enough? Game could benefit from enclosed structures to save on rendering every little detail.

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Should have been included in base game.

Is good enough game if completing achievements or competing with AIs in early game.

Tried to create private lobby, got suck at connecting, i have great internet connection, but it appears the developers can somehow screw it up anyway.