StarRupture

This is likely to be a good game, as long as they continue to listen to the community. The define that as one of the key values of their company and development process so there is hope. However; They need to rework or remove the pull logistic system. It breaks every time you try to change a rail, and when you have a serpent nest of them its very challenging to figure out which one goes where and why its not pulling products to produce this or that. The combat system needs a bit of TLC. Particularly the shotgun which can be centered on a target and miss, or fail to hit more than one tightly grouped target at close range, which simply comes down to needing better spread profiles. Out of the barrel shot is centered and needs to spread from that point, not paint a shape from the barrel forward. The same issue can be found with the LMG. The pattern exists immediately instead of spreads through distance, making it possible to nearly have the barrel in an enemy and miss. This is a lazy way of coding and should be addressed. The ruptura events need A. more randomness and B. better tracking once you are notified. In addition they currently deactivate the drone, which is extremely bad, because the drone helps you circumvent a lot of the construction Jank which plagues this game more than any other issue. I find myself ignoring the first warning because it takes so long for the event to happen, and then seemingly out of nowhere I have 15 seconds. The event itself is nothing more than a mechanic that wastes my time. It has no real meaning other than making me more likely to forget what I was doing before I was interupted by it, and to start another mechanic that is baked about as well as pudding; Building heat. If you are under the heat threshold things cool off in about 30 or so seconds. If you attach one extra building to the dozens you already have your base suddenly never cools off. No scale, no rhyme or reason, just like a light switch, your bases heat sinks work or the dont. This like other issues are just filler mechanics with no depth of thought as of this moment. Now for this games biggest sin, the construction system. Why and how it is so bad is honestly one of lifes greatest mysteries. There are dozens of titles with working construction systems, so why in the hell would you use on where its an act of god to get two platforms to touch? The construction drone is literally a must have just to build your first habitat. I have literally died to a ruptura while trying to build a shelter because the habitat would not snap to the side of the base core or build at a height I could reach from the ground. Also strangely enough, habitats do not protect you from radiation, which makes about zero sense, so if you accidently clip into a radioactive zone with one the entire habitat is now radioactive. This on its own is terrible and brings up the all too familiar trope that nobody actually understands what radiation actually is. Its extremely sad and unforgivable. For the love of god, use a real snap system, make the drone default, and remove all external status effects inside a habitat. It can protect you from the sun exploding but not from some mysterious cloud that doesnt move? Come on... All in all its a decent early access game. The crafting system is deep and complex (Honestly this is the largest reason why the logistical system needs reworked. The crafting/factory system is so complex that your whole base is a tangled mess of rails that are tiresome and unfun to work with. You need to find work arounds and huge plots of land to make heads or tails of anything, and a handwritten map with a diary for a legend to find anything. Its a challenge, but not in a good way). The pull system is innovative. albeit buggy. There is a good mix of genre and the storyline has some depth to it. It all needs refinement and to be added to, but this developer did the same thing with their previous title, Green Hell. That game started out a buggy sht show of a mess, and supposedly came out alright. I hope the devs get a chance to read this review, and while focused on the negative sides of the game at the moment, the review for the game is positive because I believe the developers will address these issues as the game progresses. At the moment it can be played once you learn to adapt and overcome, but once those issues are fixed, it should be a fun game throughout. One last hope is expansion DLC's that would allow you to play on different worlds and different environments and challenges unique to those worlds.