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That ate up a weekend like a game hasn't in quite a while.

Some quick thoughts so far:
-Space combat is a blast, not sure if I like the lockon mode or not though as it feels like it slows the action down too much for my tastes. Maybe once I start disabling ships instead of blowing them up that'll be more useful.
-Ship customization seems cool, part management seems like a pain. If I remove a part from a ship is it just gone or do I have a garage of spare parts somewhere?
-Building bases with storage units helped solve the encumbrance problem. So many storage units.
-Enjoying base building, but wow the UI is... unique at times; definitely some controller first, mouse+kb second design choices. Also the snapping can be so annoying, it's way too eager to snap to nearby pieces at times and no snapping for rotation/an overall grid is an odd choice.
-No list of your outposts is a bummer, had to go analogue and start keeping track with a notebook
-For the love of god let us set an option to skip the short cutscenes that constantly play. (Landing, taking off, sitting down/getting up from your ship, etc.) Had a death in a space battle because I accidentally held 'E' on the keyboard triggering the 6 second stand up animation, followed by a 6 second sitting down animation, which was just enough time to get blown up.
-Learning to use the scanner to fast travel around helps skip a lot of those cutscenes and see a bit less menus. Started to get a bit of the 'blindly exploring' feeling I love about Bethesda games by just hopping to whatever planet/system I came across.
-Story mechanic spoilers: holy shit the floating through glowing light in the temples to get a power was cool the first time but those sequences could really be shortened. All the effects and sounds just feel like a migraine machine after the 5th glowy thing you collect.

Overall having a good time with it and I'm sure I'll lose next weekend to it too.

JackMan posted...

Protip though, if you ever pick up the Mantis quest, go do it. The suit you get has stuff that reduces the weight of both resources and weapons. And is sick looking.

Aww man perks must be random, I don't remember what I had on my Matis gear but wasn't anything that good. Love the ship though.