I cannot in good faith recommend this game. As of today, it still has cheaters, and a ton of bugs. Cheaters in a game as punishing as this, where there is no safety net and if you get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ over you can lose hours of work, are unacceptable. the developers are slow, and have no way to restore items lost to cheaters, or even the brokenness of their own game.
How do I know this? let me tell you a story. I went on a generational run last saturday. Nobody else on the server at all, just me and my duo. Spend five hours looting almost the entire map. We're almost done, only three locations left on the whole map to clear. We've got three stuffed full crates of crafting resources and cash, working on a fourth, three rare high tier radio crates that broadcast your location in a radio beacon. 15 bulky crafting items in cargo slots, two hand-extract only high tier research items...we're approaching our third-to-last location. both of us disconnect simultaneously in a way that indicates a server crash. No bad connection icon, nothing. Just playing, and then the trampler starts going to space, it hangs for about 30 seconds and we both get kicked. try to reconnect? cannot establish connection, server and all five hours of work gone. Nothing to show for it except the refund of what we brought and not losing the trampler...but we keep none of the loot.
this is the fourth time in one week we have had this crash. I cannot recommend this game in good faith because it will take your hard earned time and items through no fault of your own, with nothing you can do about it. If I lost all that to PVP, you know, yeah, i would be unhappy, but it would be my fault for losing the fight. But to servers crashing? that's the developers fault. Now, you might be saying "oh, Well contact support and see if they can help!" I did, after waiting several days for their slow responses, they tell me there's nothing they can do as they dont have a way to manually restore items, and then have the gall to redirect me to the connection troubleshooting page like their garbage servers are my fault.
Don't buy this. It's an excellent game with great bones, but there are just too many ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ catches, that the developers arent nearly fast enough to fix. the player count is tanking for good reason.
