I just can't anymore.
I've only played the campaign, and it pisses me off to no end. On paper, this game is fantastic. The building system is fun, the progression looks interesting, and the concept is great. But actually playing it feels like the game is constantly working against you.
The biggest issue is money. BB is the single most important resource in the game, yet it always feels like you're broke. Sure, people will say, "Just do quests." The problem is that quests barely pay enough. You need several times the reward just to replace what you lose. "Just sell resources." That doesn't really solve it either. Drills take forever to gather anything meaningful but they work while you're off doing other things its seemingly ment like that because the game want you to explore and fight and there doesn't seem to be any way to speed the process up. also techs can attack it and sadly for me im too broke to make turrets to protect all of them
I actually found myself intentionally dying just to get the starter tech that your offered so I could disassemble it for parts so i could build something more meaningful THIS shouldn't be a strategy a random casual should have to do.
The replacement system is another problem. At first I thought you had to own every block before you could redeploy a saved tech. I later found out you can deploy it with missing blocks you just cant swap and its missing whatever parts you were missing which is nice, but it doesn't fix the real issue. If you lose a rare block, good luck finding another one with apart from being if you die with it you can pay for your entire tech back which is the cost of every block minus what you have in storage. And if you don't have the money? You have to buy every missing block individually, store them, and then redeploy the saved tech. That's an stupid amount of grinding for a single mistake. mind you i store any block i get from fights and the cost never gets easier
Here's what finally made me quit.
After hours of farming, redesigning my vehicle, expanding my base, and gathering resources, I had around 280,000 BB. I spent most of it upgrading my tech with stronger blocks. It took ages because my original design didn't work so I rebuilt it from scratch. finally haveing something i knew could handle it I headed out to do more quests.
About 40 minutes later I reached a Bridge Troll mission.i could either pay 100,000 BB or i could fight it. thinking I could beat it easily because he didnt have much and i beat tougher looking techs i whent to fight instead of a fight that i lost normally
The troll one-shot me.
seemingly intended by the game with no warning as i just exploded with none of my parts even getting damaged or dropped (the game didnt warn me that they could just do this it just gave me 2 options and made the troll scared so why would i expect a scared troll trying to scam me to be able to use /kill)
this was annoying but sure whatever I still had enough money to buy my replacement tech so I accepted the loss and went back. Then while driving back toward the bridge my tech suddenly vanished.
No explosion.
No warning.
No particles.
Nothing.
i though the game crashed even if never did it before, then after a bit death screen apparently I had somehow died to nothing forcing me to buy ANOTHER replacement. Except this time I couldn't afford it because I'd already spent most of my money on the first death.
So in the span of a few minutes I lost almost everything I'd spent hours working toward not because I made a bad decision, or took on a quest i had no idea would be as difficult as it was like i have serveral times but because of what looked like a bug and an intentional feature. The game had already autosaved, so there was nothing I could do. To make things even worse, I had fewer ore miners than before no money left and no realistic way to rebuild the tech I'd spent hours designing as it used parts i cant just buy without hours of looking through trading stations to buy with the money i dont have
and while you can say "Maybe you should've paid the Bridge Troll the 100,000 BB" or "Maybe you should've played more cautiously if you didnt want to lose your tech." But I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that having 200,000+ BB in reserve should be enough to recover from a death or two. and a quest demanding 100,00 BB then giving you a yes and a no option but really theres only one option and the other one effectively kills you without any kind of warning not only showing me that this could happen at any time with out warning something i think i THE PLAYER should be notified of at some point but also forcing me to fear every quest as i dont know when they might use it without warning again IS 100% INSANE AND IS COMPLETELY UNREASONABLE ESPECIALLY AFTER THE BUG I SAW WHICH TELLS ME NO ONE CAUGHT THIS AND YOUR ESSENTIALLY HALF HAPHAZARDLY HOLDING OUT A GUN THAT CAN FIRE AT ANY MOMENT SCREWING THE PLAYER OVER. one death became two and a bug erased the rest of my progress and I was dumped right back at square one that's what finally broke me.
I still think this is a good game on paper. The building mechanics are fun and when everything works it's satisfying. But the economy feels brutally unforgiving progression is far too punishing and losing hours of progress because of a glitch completely killed my motivation to keep playing.
I don't mind difficult games.I do however mind games that feel like they're actively sabotaging the player.
