It needs a bit more work to make inventory management a bit easier I feel, as things like to reorder themselves when used for a reason I can't quite fathom. It's mostly a text based system but it is very functional. The inventory system seems a bit archaic compared to most games and I think will be a sticking point for a lot of players. Considering there are quite a few inland rivers that makes for some very large detours which is a shame to some extent, but then again if I was trying to survive 'off-the-land' then I don't think I'd fancy swimming across a river and getting completely drenched. One big thing so far though is you cannot swim. I'm not sure if it is the settings I'm running at, or the game itself, but the pop-in of foliage seems quite short currently which is a shame but on the other hand the foliage is pulled off very well in my opinion and really makes the game 'pop' and look stunning, especially with some of the light effects at dusk, dawn and even under moonlight. The world is designed in a way that there are few areas of civilisation leaving large swathes of nature between towns - this sometimes feels quite empty and could do with some more 'something' to fill it. The hills themselves are quite large, but the resultant rock formations look for the most-part, out of place and sparse. They definitely come a little short, as most games do, when it comes to hills and rocks. The world design seems quite good so far, some very well thought out areas with great scenery and some very atmospheric areas of the map. I've only stuck a few hours into, mostly because I've been quite busy with other things, but from what I've seen and experienced so far it's starting to shape up nicely. Apparently that's tantamount to fanboyism and huge arguments follow and ultimately, I'd imagine, put quite a lot of people off the game. A lot of people getting arsey when those that have been involved with the community for some time defend the development team and point out to the numerous statements from the developers that the game is nowhere near finished, isn't the most stable thing in the world and has a lot of features not implemented because they aren't ready to be tested on a large scale yet. Lots of complaining about features not being implemented that are in gameplay videos, servers being terrible, 'cash-grab' etc. That's led to a lot of negative reviews on the game's Steam page which I think is a little unfair. In short, their systems couldn't really keep up, especially with some big streamers fuelling the hype-train inferno (the game reached second 'most popular' on Steam, not something that should really happen for a release that wanted to be unlisted. The 'unlisted' release they wanted for Backers wasn't possible due to Steam, so as a result they ended up having a couple thousand people try and play the game as opposed to a couple hundred immediately upon release. But they are open and honest which is great to see and they're not afraid of holding their hands up when something goes wrong.

Getting more involved with the community side of things it was refreshing to see a development team that actually interacted with their userbase.

I backed the game last year as I loved the potential it looked to have and the idea behind it. So really, the number already dead but still shining in our sky is very small *.So the game released into Steam Early Access last week and had a bit of a rough ride. That may sound like a lot, but the Milky Way has something like 200 billion stars in it. On average, very roughly, only two or three stars are expected to go supernova in the galaxy per century, so the light from a few thousand of such explosions is already on its way here. IвЂ™d wager this aphorism about stars being already dead is wrong even with a decent telescope the Milky Way is 100,000 light-years across, and only a few stars in it have a shorter lifespan than that. And at a distance of less than 10,000 light-years, those are not terrible odds that, in a sense, itвЂ™s already gone and we just donвЂ™t know it yet.Д«ut thatвЂ™s the exception, with the vast majority of stars still merrily fusing away, lighting up the galaxy. It may not go off for another 50,000 years, but it might tonight. ItвЂ™s on the edge of exploding in the 1840s it underwent a massive paroxysm that was just short of a supernova event. I can think of very few exceptions, though Eta Carinae fits the bill.

Survive the nights alpha