Out of sheer morbid curiosity, I reinstalled the game...and I ended up annoyed all over again by a lot of the same nonsense as before. Examples:
Still can't pan the camera in any direction I want; it remains restricted to within a few degrees of the isometric view. (So what was the point of going 3D again?)
Saving/loading/deleting saved game slots are still a PITA due to being almost entirely mouse-based: There are no keyboard commands for managing them, despite them being a common feature in PC gaming for the past 10-20 years.
The game still likes to automatically un-pause. Also, it apparently decides that my clicking anywhere on an event window or pop-up message registers as me hitting the "Play" button.
Pre-warp is still too slow.
But hey, planets & ships look nicer now.
Whilst I’m sure they have many dlc waiting in the wings I would have thought there’d be total horror amongst players to charge 15.99 or so for some races and missions when the game isn’t nearly near working as expected
Well that's certainly my own thinking, but I feel like I'm in the minority in that regard. (I hope I"m *not*, but I'm naturally cynical/skeptical about such things.)
Is it playable yet? Should I start in now or wait some more?
It's been playable for a while now. I suspect you'd enjoy the game well enough. (Unless you played a lot of Distant Worlds: Universe, and/or are just a miserable bastard like myself.
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