The game is aggressively Bethesda but I'm enjoying the visuals and sniffing the 3d model of every insignificant bit of detritis in the world. I saw a very nice looking bowl, maybe THE bowl of all videogames. Other than that the narrative and main story has already lost my interest after about 10 minutes and I'll be off being a space menace if the game will let me.
Once i found out I can travel using the ship in scanner mode it doesn't feel like a map simulator anymore.
Also the chef having a perk for dueling tickles me.
Game also runs like shit on PC but digital foundry showed most settings being on medium yields good performance with no noticable quality loss.
Gameplay: Good, but the AI is trash and needs modding tweaks.
Worldbuilding: Lib trash.
Writing: Trash.
Politics: Trash.
It is probably the best base game for modding they've ever made though and I'm excited for when the Creation Kit eventually drops 6 months from now.
It's also extremely obvious that they've done a "muh russia" with the game because of Ukraine by not including anything about the soviet union nor Laika nor Yuri Gagarin etc etc, yet they include all the America shit.
Acksssually, there's a portrait of Gagarin in the Lodge.
Yea the other planet in the new atlantis system is called gagarin