Let me start with, I've played grounded 1, also from early access. Amazing game. And cool to see grounded 2 is so fast launched. And pretty well polished looking.
I want to share my experience hoping it improves the game.
Here's the good the bad and the ugly from my perspective
- Intro cinematic is awesome! got distracted a bit at the news segment because its a bit repetitive 'explosion explosion explosion' yeah yeah we get it explosion.
- right after the cinematic when we zoom into the park it was unwatchable screen tear. just the pan was blurry.
- nothing to loot but items look lootable? looks like a collectible card in the beginning.
- mouse sensitivity was off for me btw, had to crank it way up! (cheap basic mouse here)
- i skipped a section and clicked on the travel/ pneumatic tube thing. then i couldn't go back. maybe I missed something, idk. wouldn't hurt to make it 2 way?
- the mites can be eternally respawned but don't give any loot.
- the phone ringing constantly is ****ing annoying. After the first couple rings I get it, let me get to it in peace please.
- Dialog while standing frozen at the screen is annoying. I want to move /look around. Options feel meaningless and at some point just trying to get out of it. annoying.
- The way the menu connects to the other menu's is weird. Feels all over the place. just a horizontal list of tabs would be great. Also, the way we open the menu from all these different key binds.. just weird.
- opening the door holding e.. why. just open door. why hold.
- Why would you rob us of the experience of crafting some basic tools and give me the omnitool that also works annoying / holding E. I want to break stuff myself, hitting it. it worked fine in grounded 1.
- The analyzing. jesus christ. so it works kinda like before except annoying? skip to skip, then escape to skip, then space again. My fingers aren't that long. can I please just mash through it. I really love the 'Science' + the short animation, keep it simple, feels overdone. the hard part is finding the items in the game, not unlocking stuff.
- now i'm sort of done with the intro, standing outside the little building. my mission is to buy an upgrade? huh? WHY. I'll just explore from here but.. weird. there are quests but again, menu is weird and have to pick anothre menu then cycle through to quests..
i really enjoy the vibe game but good luck. please polish. right now its quite frustrating experience. a lot of stuff just gets in the way of me trying to play/enjoy the game.
Thanks!
