Pretty much the title. Guess I will have to wait until next year to actually see this game go somewhere.

We got spaceships but no true variation, or even modding/crafting. Not even species/faction related ships.

We got freighters but they are a flying inventory box combined with an annoying-to-access timer management minigame.

We have factions and races, but there is zero interaction between the two.

We have crafting, but literally zero use for hightech components.

We got derelict freigthers, but once you see two you have pretty much seen them all.

We got expeditions, yet I completed the last one in a relaxed weekend session so that’s essentially nothing for now.

We got combat, but effectively 4 mobile enemy types and maybe the same number of hazardous fauna which is the same on every planet. Why even have shooting when there’s nothing to shoot at?

We got bases, but nothing to do in them aside from stacking biodomes and placing a large refiner. Settlements are even worse in that regard: you expand it so you… can expand it more? Purely cosmetic changes that aside from eating some resources change nothing in how I interact with the game.

And after 5 years there still is no worthwhile lategame activity. There is no hunting for ship parts/gear. There is nothing rewarding you for the grind for the species/factions. There are no possible mammoth projects one could try to tackle, like expanding your settlement to the point where you can (extreme example) have them start building your own custom freigther. There is not even rare “fashion” to chase down to flex on others in the anomaly with your surpreme sense of aesthetics (or shameless lack thereof, Warframe’s fashion game sure was one crazy mess sometimes).

Every part of this game is just another weird isolated extra-piece that barely fits with each other, and somewhere someone has tried to cram in random story beats with a crowbar or something. The potential is definetly there, this car could definetly go super-turbo-speed with a right do-over of the engine and the gears. But instead watch them install a bluetooth-capable cupholder. It’s so infuriating to see all this potential and HG doing effectively jack shit with it.

I’ll start saying i’m in love with this game, the sentinel update is amazing.

I’m a console player, so i’m using a pad on my ps4 and today i had a rough time trying to get a good friend of mine to learn the basics and how to use everything on the game and I noticed (my god) I COMPLETELY IGNORED for a long time how bad the UI design and controls are, first the controls are not meant to be used with a pad, it’s a friggin mouse pointer which makes everything HORRIBLE for a console player, just having to move the stick to use the menus is pain, second, everything gets in your way, the floating info is too god damn big for every item to the point where you have to hide the hud to be able to have a not so horrible experience building your base.

Please Sean I know you’re reading, and thinking this guy doesn’t even know how to write properly

But

Please

PLEASE

I’m in pain

Can we have a proper console controls UI? An UI and controls revamp adapted for Gamepads would be a really nice improvement

Needles to say my friend was very excited to play the game but felt overwhelmed by the bad UI design and the controls.