First impressions

[MrChampagne]

Thank you for letting me be a part of this closed beta. Here are my first impressions and a few things I have noticed in the game.

opening music is full of compression errors, that is; the music has popping and clicking sounds that are annoying.

While playing the game I accidentally opened the console with the ` key and closing the console with the key removes the box but not the cursor.

It would be neat to be able to rename the units you build that said I like the unit design system as it is efficient and not needlessly complicated (like alpha centauri was).

I wish the diplomacy was a bit more robust and more detailed with resource and tech trading perhaps. These are my first impressions after playing the game for a few hours. I just stopped now because of a nuke bug closing the game.

I will post any bugs/glitches I find, and again thanks for this fun and great game.

[SheBear]

You actually can rename units, it just isn't super clear that you can. When you create a "new" unit int eh workshop it just creates a copy of whatever you have selected, and then you can modify all of the stuff there (which I assume you know). But you can also change the name in the top of the view screen it has the name and you can just click in that text field and delete what is there and write new stuff (and it actually seems to have a fairly large field for text, which is really nice).

[Shappy75]

I really appreciate being given an opportunity to be a part of this beta. I played up to 55 turns and regret that I got really bored. You guys did an EXCELLENT job with the intro, UI, ongoing tutorials, and graphics. I didn't experience a single bug (that I could recognize). A little too early to determine the depth of the diplomacy, but I did like the initial options available upon first contact. I definitely did not play long enough to determine the level of "intelligence" used by the AI. Really good mechanics: upgrading units & building tree. However, any decision didn't feel like it had much of an impact on any scale: where to improve terrain, what to research, what to upgrade on units. The game just felt a empty, where nothing was motivating me to play further. Hope this was helpful and happy to elaborate if further input is wanted! thanks

[MrChampagne]

Another thing is Formers killing my fungus when i get 2 food and 2 minerals for each hex. I think Formers should just ignore fungus all together.

EDIT: NVM i found the options for auto formers.

[MrChampagne]

Also In Civilization and SMAC There was an option to toggle the camera to follow visible enemy units during their turn.

[coppernob]

Hi there,
at last I got a free evening to give pandora beta a decent couple of hours.

My first impressions are this plays very smoothly. I was glad of the unofficial manuals found on the fora here otherwise I am sure that the first hours of play would have been very confusing. I am not sure about this but I found the first 30 turns on the starting default difficulty quite non challenging with only the occasional attacks from the local fauna with great rapidity in technological advancement without encountering any other factions.