Recent reviews by Kranc / Fr0Zen1

Not playable on Keyboard and Mouse because of missing Mouse Aim.
Lock-on feels like not playing the Game right and moving the Mouse breaks the lock-on anyways.
It just feels bad!
Implement propper Mouse Aim and add an Weapon Wheel for Items/Lantern/Magic/Ranged.
If you feel generous, also increase the Lantern pull range a bit. We can't really slow walk on Keyboard and some times you have to be very close to the Edge to pull something = risk to fall down.

If Mouse and W-Wheel are fixed, I change Review.
Until then, a Game to play with GamePad only. And even then it could pofit from not having to hold 2 Key and aim xD

My God, this Game is what Nightmares are made of.
Bethesda is creatively and technology-wise bankrupt.
One can just hope that the whole Studio gets replaced by Ai.

Awful hand-holding - No branching Story - No Faction End-Game Goals - Characters you just want to stuff in a Bag and throw in the River - No player freedom - Unkillable Characters EVERYWHERE - No Vats - No Gore - No diving - borked Stealth - No Weapon/Armor Repairing(Durability System) - No Building your own Ship/Equipment from Material you Mined/Gathered - No real End-Game Goals - No Transmog - No making your own Contraband - NPCs not dropping what they wear - Can't open Doors, defuse Mines, use Items... when in Scan Mode - Can't control jump height. NPCs can do that. A Charge up Meter is really needed on some Moons, or you fly off like a Rocket - Boost Packs are not really suitable ever/meaning that you need different kinds of Boosters for different Situations but also you need Resistances against Korrosion, Air, Radiation, Bio, and somewhat level conforming Laser, EMP, Bullet Resistance = you need 12+ Boost Packs - Crafting and Building Copy Paste from FO4 but with worse placement control - Awful Controls overall. The game works on GamePad but you need your whole Keyboard if you choose to play on the Keyboard. Make ready to rebind 50 Keys and ignore Conflicts - Very few and lackluster Feats - You should start with level one on each Skill - Skills need to be way more "Exotic". ATM they are mostly "more DMG, can Craft, can buy, can fly - Item Feats are mostly useless and are Copy Paste from FO4 - Skill progression is mostly forgettable and unimaginative - EXP from discovering, Hacking, building, crafting is nearly not existent - Item Notifications gone after 1.5sec = can't check Stats = open Inventory - Carry Capacity sucks - You can't mark individual Items to look/track for - You can't undo all tracking Items - Inventory Menu sucks! StarUI Mod needed = modding mandatory or wasting hours unnecessarily - Can't use Cure Object in Affliction Screen. Again StarUI Mandatory - Not showing "Weather(Corrosion/Radiation...)" Conditions on Planet before landing- Map is awful - Quests send you to places you can't reach - Lifeless Planets are useless - Copy pasted Bases/Caves... no sign of prcedurally generated Locations - Often looking to Scan "Natural Wonder" that I already Scanned because it's not identifyable from the Picture - Planet Map shows 100% scanned even if it's not because of "Costal Area" - Escort Quests that have you travel 1000m+ for low reward - You can't ban Useless Items from Scanner - Rare/Legendary/Epic Items cause 2sec Game Freeze when Equiped and changing to Scanner or cyceling through Weapons - Space Combat at least unskilled at early Levels is pure Stats Game and often undoable because 3v1 - No feeling of actually flying through Space - You still get Stuck and can not jump when on angled Ground as in FO4/Skyrim/Oblivion... - NPC Money should be infinite or at least increased by 4x - Items you pick up/have in Inventory show the worth they have when you buy them from a Merchant, but they should show what they are worth to you, when you sell them - NPC standing on Pilot Seat so only 3rd Person Space Flight or piloting through gap between NPCs Legs - Enemies/Animals on Planet stacked in a Heap, so you think you will fight 3, but it ends up being 12 or more all stacked into one tiny Spot and into each other - Melee Combat as bad as it was in any other Bethesda Game (look what modders did to Skyrims Combat Animations) - Reloading gets Canceled by running and jumping - Typical Bethesda Bullet-Sponge Enemies - Typical run around/jump over Obsacles and slowly chip away their Health - In Ship flight you need to be able to make custom Presets for "Full Power Weapons, Grav Drive, Engines, Shields..." and bind them to F1-F4 or any other Key you choose - Needs City/Outpost/Other Listing on Star-Map to find the Locations + placement of own nameable Markers - Needs Button to stop Quests from coming in. I get 5 new Quests when running around doing one Quest. I don't know how I got the Quests. I don't know who the Quests are from. I have no connection to them. - NPCs need to stop talking over each other. It just can't be too complicated to program in that only one Voice can be played at once. - Finding Quests is a Nightmare. They need to be Structured much better. Time when Quest received/Location of Quest Giver/Nearby Quests/Location of Quest/Radiant Quest... - Still can't go from Sneak to normal Mode whilst doing any other action / meaning Stealth play feels Crap. Sneak to someone with a Melee Weapon, hit them 1 time, wait for Animation to finish, press "Crouch" Key, wait for your Character to stand up, and engage in Comabt. 1995... 19 F*cking 95!!! - I have been playing the Game for 60 hours now and am Level 30 and still I find the same Fire Axe I found on Level 4 over and over 21 DMG - When on the Map Screen, there has to be a Warning that you can not travel at this moment - I am SEETHING because I activated a Mission but the Game decided to not show me that Mission at all, but two other Missions I do not want to do - I decided to do one of the Missions to see what happens... I now have FOUR Map markers. WTF! And I am not allowed to activate even two Missions - Buy Back Disabled as soon as you leave Shopping Window - Can't pay the debt from Dream Home Perk - Game does not tell you what Skills do until you unlock the Line. That means that you can't work to a specific Skill and know its effect - I managed to lock up the Menu by opening and closing it in quick succession. - Can't move after Loading-Screen, but the NPCs can - Crafting is a F*ing JOKE! You dump Skill points and Materials into upgrading but then you look at something like "You can now add a +5 Resistances Mod to Your Jump Pack". And that one cost me 2 Skill Points btw. No mention of that beforhand! - No Planet Wiki showing me what Planet I have been on and what I found on that Planet (Alien Species, "Geysers", Flora...) - No Crafting of Weapons, Armor, Drugs, that are not already in the Game to find - No Enhancement of Weapon/Armor Mods (Stuff like increase chance to poison Enemy by+5%, by "infusing Weapon with 500 Material X, next 5% cost you 1000, next 5% cost you 2000, next 5% cost you 4000... something to make Mining Stuff on Planets useful)- No Melee Weapon Mods - No Melee Weapon Differences in behavior - Can we have 8k+ Planet Pictures for our "Space Journey"? - Just three Slots for Character Itemization (Not promising for what Variety Mods will be able to offer) - Timescale is F*ed when on some Planets. Wait 1 hour(time-unit) passes a VERY long time. Like wait "24 hours" = wait 2400 hours. WHO the F thought this was a good idea?! - Hold Key for every second Option, but sitting down "just works"

Absolute Idiocracy.
I never imagined Bethesda not improving on their Formula, but even cutting back on the little they had to serve.

For me it already feels worse than the Snikitch DLC.
I think it has been 4 Hours+ now without any recruiting of REAL Units.
The Laborers, btw, feel even worse than Skaven Slaves and your economy is so constraint that you can barely afford even those Units. They hold the Line for 5sec against any Unit and break. LOL! Maybe it's 10sec.
So yeah... have fun with your Rocket Cannon that does less Damage than a Unit of Goblin Archers :P
How about that?!
25€ for a bad Evening ^^ But maybe it will get better later...
If you are one of "those" people, buy it now and enjoy it later!
Everyone else - SKIP

The Game fails to teach you its Mechanics.
MANY Spell/Skill Descriptions are lacking, misleading, or missing.
Links to give further insight into Effects are missing.
If you want to play an Evil Character, good luck figuring out who can Heal you or even what Classes will not work.
It went so far that even Disposition Texts have to be searched on the Internet.
Make ready to use your Search Engine and Google ALOT!
Or "play on Easy", as the Snobbish Community will tell you over and over and over again.

Fact is that even thought out Builds WILL NOT WORK until you reached a certain Level
and thus have enough Points to spend on Feats/Skills aka Perks.
For example, Lightning Magic WILL NOT WORK for many Enemies.
(maybe it can work if you have a Debuffer but I think he could only lower Resistances, not Immunities, which those Enemies have)
There are Specialisation Paths that will empower ONE Spell in your Arsenal of 80+.

It does look like Fighters will not get cool Skills to Knock Down, jump to another Location, pull Enemies to you, have self-heal...
but since the whole Pathfinder System is very weird, you can get Chain Fatalities, YAY!
I don't know why, but sometimes all Enemies just explode in red Goo mid Battle or even on the first Contact :P

You will have to drink many Potions (open Inv, click them in the Slot, close Inv, drink 5, do it again).
Same if you learn Magic. Click all Scrolls and see if you can add them to your Book... every 3-5 Hours
The Mechanics overall are awful!
No Toggle for Sneak! No Toggle for Ai (which is unusable anyway)! No Toggle for highlight Objects!
NO CHAINING/QUEUE OF ACTIONS! NO RELOCATING OF SPELL TARGET AREA!

Do not forget to take the Armor Feats when you respec,
or some of your Chars won't be able to wear any Armor at all.

I think they should scrap their blind Obedience to the Pathfinder Rule Book and make a good Game.
And they need to get the Technical Stuff ironed out (what Modders already did for some Issues).