These notes were taken to a notepad as I played.
first:
awesome starting screen with thrilling music. bug: clipping music (I'm using a Line6 Toneport UX1 external sound card)
five minutes:
started to play. excitement of a new game, just resting my eyes on the planescape. could be a bit less blurry. also intro could be longer with showing the various factions.
music is now not clipping, and it's just great! auto-exploration is missing for me. research infos could be more detailed in the selector window. customisable units are cool.
30minutes:
a great partition of the continent explored. doesn't find pandora so violent and harsh environment (I'm with the green peace faction), so long no blood flown.
custom units should show armor changes too.
science goes fast and from the moment it looks like there won't be too much left to research in another half an hour. (*update after two hours: okay that's not true)
found one another faction, they're very happy with me, we're cooperating. can't see the great enemy here too.
so long no difficulty found, colonization is easy. (playing on medium level)
60minutes:
lost one trooper. but what happened to them? no fight, no popup, just a note on the right: colonial trooper lost.
there is no spying possibilities? how should I know who is strong/advanced or weak/dull only from the dots in diplomacy screen? can't steal technologies, harass enemies with sabotages.
okay the xenos getting nervous, and fights are ongoing. one of the two known factions are getting sad with me also. but again, why? then offering me money. what for?
there's no signs of bugs which is cool. the game is interesting but there's no story of it, can't feel that I'm on another planet exploring a whole new world. there's a lot of unanswered questions but not because I haven't researched or scouted them but because there's no "dungeon master" in the game who provide the info.
logical chains in research are not so logical most of the time.
Sorry I have to go now and play more.
