Scrap Mechanic

dev team is a joke

Not an enjoyable experience. I've watched people play it for hours before buying. Thought that I would give it a chance because you never know. I didn't think PalWorld had a chance in being enjoyable for me but 100 hours later I was wrong. That said: I don't care about the tutorial/information being minimal. It's not an enjoyable experience for a lot of reasons. Healing is a significant problem. You're punished if you attempt to grow food to solve this problem. Combat is not enjoyable. Items you need to craft the very first item required to progress are incredibly rare and very annoying to get. Had this been 1/2 the price I would keep it, but I'm deciding whether to refund. I don't see myself enjoying this.

Scrap Mechanic can be summarized with one phrase: [b]what a tedious grind.[/b] The first thing new players will notice is the lack of easy healing. Early on, your main source of healing is corn. Every piece has to be selected, then you must hold the mouse button for a second or two before your character finally eats it. The amount of health restored is tiny, meaning you'll often spend 10–20 seconds standing still just to recover from a single fight. A better option is to feed corn to Wocs and drink their milk, but that is hardly an improvement. You still spend a considerable amount of time feeding cows before you can continue playing. The game also teases Flower Tea by scattering flowers everywhere, yet you cannot actually craft it but only find it. Once you start farming, the game introduces raids. Every time you plant crops, robots attack after a minute. Early on, you have almost no defenses, poor healing, and no ranged weapon, so the optimal strategy becomes planting tiny batches of crops just to keep the raids manageable. Instead of encouraging you to expand your farm, the game actively discourages it. Combat doesn't help either. The sledgehammer has a surprisingly small effective hitbox despite using wide horizontal swing animations. Hits only seem to register directly in the center of the crosshair, making melee combat feel awkward and unreliable. Considering how long it takes to obtain your first gun, this makes the opening hours far more frustrating than they need to be. Progression is equally slow. Essential tools are locked behind trader deliveries, forcing you to grow dozens of tomatoes, pack them into crates, and haul them to the trader just to unlock basic schematics like the Drill. Until then, gathering metal is slow since only Haybots have a chance to drop it, and much of your time is spent repeatedly clearing the same or similar looking points of interest. The game also lacks a proper map. If you drive somewhere, explore on foot, die, and respawn at your base, recovering your vehicle becomes an unnecessary chore. For a game centered around exploration and vehicles, this feels like a strange omission. Ironically, despite the title, Scrap Mechanic spends much of its early game feeling more like a farming simulator than a vehicle-building game. Building machines is where the game shines, but it takes far too long before you are allowed to enjoy that part to your hearts content. After spending nearly ten years in Early Access, I expected a much more complete experience. The world contains several biomes, but they are sparse, the points of interest quickly become repetitive, and enemy variety remains very limited. [b]I cannot recommend Scrap Mechanic at its current price of $28.99.[/b] There are simply too many other survival crafting games - such as Valheim, Enshrouded, Palworld, or RuneScape: Dragonwilds - that offer a more engaging and fun progression loop, interesting and satisfying combat in a world worth exploring.

The game has huge potential, but after the update, it’s practically unplayable. Dear developers, what did you do to the optimization and physics?! It’s just awful. Now, in Survival mode, I can’t make interesting (simple!) mechanisms because the FPS drops to 13–20. I just can’t play properly with my friends. They’re having FPS issues too. Please fix the physics—it’s practically impossible to play with controllers! The suspension is broken now too... When I drive on a platform made of blocks, the car starts shaking. I love this game, but the new physics have become just awful. T_T

Extremely unfun forced combat. I want to build stuff, not deal with unfun combat + running miles every time i die, which happens constantly due to lack of healing items other than rare potions.

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я їхав і моя машина пропала іза бага

what do you mean it's finally coming out of early access