I played the prologue for about an hour last night. It was late so I only visited two locations - the nearest one with the derelict ship and flammable clouds, and Eros station. I quit the game and went to bed. When I checked on it this afternoon, Steam said I'd been playing for 24 hours. I couldn't find the running process in task manager. I couldn't update, apparently because Steam thought it was running. I couldn't uninstall, Steam gave an unspecified error. Steam didn't give me an option to stop the game. I finally exited Steam completely and restarted it, and that allowed me to do the update.
Anyway, impressions from playing:
Please, please, please make the keys configurable. I never use the WASD keys for movement like that. I'm a touch typist, ESDF is much more comfortable for me. Also, please allow me to use mouse buttons in place of keys.
When moving, I sometimes have to click multiple times on a space before it takes effect.
When docked at Eros station, I couldn't find any way to open cargo boxes, even though I had a crew member in cargo when I docked. (Shouldn't I just be able to open them when docked regardless of where the crew is?)
When in the shop on Eros, it would be very nice if I could see the price in the info box that pops up when I select the item. To see the price I have to click on the item and then click on the + to add one quantity. That's just cumbersome. Also, shouldn't it default to 1 when I click on something, rather than 0?
When docked, the "Bar" button doesn't do anything - I'm guessing that's just not implemented yet, but it's confusing. Maybe grey the button out until it's useful?
I also had a few weird graphics glitches, where the screen would go completely grey. I had to alt-tab to the desktop, then back to the game, to fix it.
Besides the bugs my overall impression is that I like the game mechanics and the graphics so far. I'm looking forward to seeing more of it. I'm a Kickstarter backer, btw, not sure if that matters.
lol - I see that my username is based on my email address. That's going to be confusing, since I'm not at all associated with "mitzigames". I run my own mail server and I create a new email address for every web site where I create an account. That's why I used that for my email address. I'm not really sure how what the best way is to fix that.
Thank you for bringing all of these to my attention. adding your feedback+bugs to my list =) As for your user name in this website, it is unfortunate but not the end of the world BTW if you could please leave a positive feedback on steam with the things you liked it will help other see the game and play it
It seems I don't have access to my Profile or Settings on the forum. I thought I might be able to go in there and set a different name or nickname for myself. I left a short review on Steam.