I’ll say this right away: the base game is great. Tons of mechanics, cool little snails, amazing planets. But there are some HUGE BUGS!
Let’s start with the fact that there are a lot of bugs that caused me to die pretty often. Most of them have to do with clipping into terrain and vehicles getting stuck, after which you get launched into outer space or somewhere else on the planet. (This mostly applies to co-op.)
Now, onto the issue that deserves the BIGGEST ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MINUS: the Glitchwalkers DLC.
A while ago, my friend and I already played through this DLC, and we actually liked it more or less. But we had absolutely no intention of playing it again on our second playthrough.
The problem is that we didn’t disable the DLC in Steam, and I accidentally activated one of its missions. Guess what? The DLC storm spawned right on top of our base on Novus.
And yes, this is our main base. (Yeah, devs, players build their main bases on planets other than Sylva.)
After a long time searching and trying different things, we couldn’t find any proper way to get rid of that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ storm. Even disabling the DLC didn’t help.
Our last hope was to actually play through the DLC. We’re hoping that once we complete it, the storm will disappear from our base in the main game.
And now, about the DLC itself.
The concept is definitely good, but multiplayer is suffering way worse than the base game. Textures don’t load properly, and if you drive or walk into them, the game just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ throws you across the world. Terrain randomly disappears from under your feet, which has already caused me to fall from ridiculous heights in the procedurally generated world several times.
And now for the main ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ joke.
Two hours of gameplay went into finding a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ safe.
I went down to the first layer to get the root key for the Delta Storm. I found a safe, but it was buried from below, where the root key is supposed to be obtained.
I opened the safe, but couldn’t take the key because I didn’t have a drill. So I went back up to make one, thinking:
“Well, I have a safe detector. I’ll just come back and find it again.”
♥♥♥♥ no
After you open a safe, the detector doesn’t detect that safe anymore. It only detects the next one.
So go find the one you already opened yourself, I guess. Good ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ luck.
I had to run around half of the layer before I finally found that damn safe again.
At that point, I completely lost the desire to keep playing.
Just add a function that lets us remove the storm from the main story, and everyone will be happy.
The DLC still needs a LOT of work.
Base game: 7/10
DLC: 2/10
