First Impressions

[lgeorge53]

Pros

Enjoy the opening animation. Sets the scene well.
Pandora is lovely and strange and very alien looking. Excellent colour scheme.
Alien life very nicely rendered and animated. Plausible and coherent ecology presented.
As well...colony troopers and vehicle tech is well rendered. Alien buildings stand out amongst the flora and fauna.
Definitely want to play more after 30 minutes...exploration fever.
The planet is teeming with life, as it should be. Liking the many different species represented.

Cons
Colony is very drab and hard to see as compared to the colourful environment in which it is placed. Something needs to be done so that the human colony buildings stand out a bit better.
Ocean tiles are clearly represented but are, so far, blank. I would like to see an ocean biosphere represented as well, at least once I gain tech to use the oceans. I am not far enough along to know
if this will happen or not.

Other comments
30+ minutes in and I am wondering how much more exploration will reveal other than resources and alien buildings.
Will there be any great mysteries to resolve or is there an over all story arc regarding the history of this planets former residents?
Will ocean tiles play any part? Haven't got far in tech but would like to build offshore facilities and/or bubble cities.

Multiple and constant crashes in Windows 8. Resolved by running the game in Widows XP mode.

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Been playing now for near 2 hours. Everything stable.
Very happy to see that the ecosystem extends into the oceans as well with some great visualizations of creatures under the surface.
Working now on colonization and expansion.
I am well into exploring and designing units and having fun with this.
At this point, I think that you have captured that -need to play one more turn- design that is really crucial for this type of game.