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This version is a PLAYTEST, as in being made to be TESTED by being PLAYED, my problem with this version is that it's damn near fucking impossible TO TEST because the majority of the mechanics are busted to the point that you can't fucking PLAY it. Dr. Nose keeps adding shit and breaking more shit to the point it's becoming more and more and more difficult and tedious TO PLAYTEST. THAT was supposed to be my point with this.

I am aware 0.8.2 still exists and is far more playable and stable than this version, and is much more fun to play than this buggy broken mess but just ignoring THIS version and NOT complaining about the shit that's WRONG with it won't fix the problems WITH this version, as with literally everything, if no-one complains about an issue then that issue won't be addressed and fixed. If a game has a major bug or broken feature and nobody complains about it, then the dev won't change it and everyone will just have to suffer through dealing with the broken and bugged out bits.

I finally figured that one out through sheer trial and error, given the fact none of the items required for it are explained in any of the text for any of said items.

I already made a majority of my complaints over this version in a comment under a different post/topic regarding 0.9.0a named "Feedback on some aspects of 0.9.0", so I'm not going to go out of my way to make the same statements and complaints I made there here, but I'm still going to complain about  this new test version  because it just takes the cake in terms of breaking even more shit than was already busted. Legitimately 0.9.0b feels like a joke update meant to be even more purposefully broken than before. I get that the thing says that it MIGHT be a BIT broken, but Jesus H. Christ this is WAY BEYOND A BIT BROKEN.

The controls for the Radar inverted but only for left and right movement and you can't fix it.

The coffee machine costs legitimately 2 BILLION+ POINTS for NO REASON, screenshot for proof because this one just completely fucking BAFFLES ME as to how and why this sort of thing even happens.

ALL of my upgrades I paid for, including physical modules, are all gone, all of those points just wasted and disappeared.

The alternator upgrade for the ATV is straight up a fuckin lie and doesn't exist and no matter what I buy in the store it doesn't get delivered, it's just replaced by the fucking overcharged engine.

As opposed to 0.9.0a where half the save file options didn't work, in 0.9.0b, NONE of the options in the save file selection screen fucking work anymore. 
- I turned off physics damage, I'm still dying to physics damage.
- I turned off food spoiling, food is still spoiling.
- I turned off food fatigue, I'm still dealing with food fatigue.
- I change the game mode from Hard to Easy, the game difficulty is the exact fucking same.
- I try and change how fast or how slow the days go by, they still go by at the same fucking speed at 0.5 as they do at a speed of 2.
- I turn off radio tower, relay tower, and transformer decay, they're all still decaying and breaking down too fast for me to deal with.
I get that this is an Alpha meant for testing, but holy shit this isn't even stuff that should NEED to bring testers in to tell you to fix, this is BLATANTLY AND GLARINGLY BROKEN. You can boot up the game for all of A MINUTE and see that this shit is ridiculously busted.

On top of that, events, both story related and NON-story related, STILL aren't working. The only events or occurrences that DO trigger are the moving mannequins, and Furfur hauntings. Except that Furfur hauntings are STILL broken because the fucker spawns in 15 TIMES ALL AT ONCE IN EVERY SPOT THAT IT'S ALLOWED TO SPAWN IN AROUND AND INSIDE THE BASE, AND NEVER STOPS SPAWNING. ON TOP OF THAT, IT NON-STOP SPAWNS SO MANY BONES THAT IT LAGS OUT MY GAME. MY BASE IS SURROUNDED BY HUNDREDS OF BONES. WHY IS THIS THE ONLY EVENT THAT TRIGGERS AND WHY DOES IT TRIGGER ENDLESSLY.

I don't want to be negative about this game, I really fuckin don't, I love this game and the premise and lore and story and everything but it's fuckin unplayable and untestable when half the fucking mechanics just DON'T WORK. Not to mention that the controls in general STILL suck and feel completely backwards from what they SHOULD be. Every update to the test versions just feels like Dr. Nose is just throwing random shit at the wall and slapping things on top of what would otherwise be a decently working and fun game with next to no care as to whether or not the shit they're adding actually functions to begin with while breaking everything else in the process.

This whole thing just feels like a complete and utter prank, I feel like I'm getting Punk'd, it feels like I'm the butt of a joke whenever I try to do fucking ANYTHING in this version because NOTHING WORKS.

This might be the version of the game which I hate the absolute most because almost everything that has been added is just absolutely absurdly annoying to deal with, bugged to hell, unnecessarily hard, or cryptic to hell and beyond.

The first thing I want to bring up is the fact that the control scheme has been wildly altered in a way that it really, REALLY did not need to be, the old control scheme was perfectly fine, it was simple and easy to use, whereas the new controls feel ass backwards and are just annoying to deal with. Why in the actual hell should the "Use" key be HOLDING E instead of TAPPING E? Adding on to that, why in the hell would, for interacting with heavy objects like tables, tapping E be drag and hitting Shift + E be grab??? All of these controls feel like they've been haphazardly slapped together in the wrong order and I genuinely cannot for the life of me figure out why Dr. Nose would choose to use this sort of control scheme.

Secondly, the fucking COORDINATE TOWERS ARE THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE AND PISS ME OFF TO NO END GOOD GOD. There NEEDS to be a good fucking deal of changes done to the Coordinate Towers because Jesus H. Christ, the sheer number of days in game I have FAILED MY TASKS BECAUSE ALL THE FUCKING TOWERS KEEP GOING DOWN ONE AFTER ANOTHER ALL FUCKING DAY LONG. NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT THE GOD DAMN GAME DOESN'T TELL YOU ABOUT THE TOWERS DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE TUTORIAL IS NOW MANDATORY, AND IF IT DID THEN HELL IF I REMEMBER IT BECAUSE THE TUTORIAL IS A FUCKING MARATHON TO GET THROUGH AND DENSER THAN AN ACTUAL MAINTENANCE MANUAL FOR THE MACHINERY FOUND IN GAME.  These towers NEED to have a set, HARD-LIMITED timer that says they CANNOT go down in X amount of time after being reset because for an entire day every time I would go out to repair a tower I would get home and it would be DOWN AGAIN and I would need to go out and check them AGAIN. They also need to have an actual HEALTH DISPLAY like the transformers do other than the stupid fucking 0 - 1 display they have as-is, and there needs to be a way to maintain them when they're about to pop instead of the stupid god damn cycle of rushing to collect signals only for you to realize that the fucking coordinate towers have popped and then having to come back home try and move every single one of them to the proper space and then ANOTHER ONE pops and you need to do it again. I sound like a broken fucking record constantly repeating myself about how this happens every single time but, it's appropriate because that's exactly how the cycle of going back and forth from base to towers feels.
The only fucking way to keep them from popping as quickly is to buy up fuses and use them in the towers to make them last longer I THINK but fuck me every time I try they still go down faster than your mother does when she rolls out of bed any other damn thing in the game. And you know what else? THEY BREAK ONCE THE TOWER POPS, SO YOU HAVE TO KEEP REPLACING THEM, WHICH IS BAD ENOUGH ALREADY BUT EACH FUCKING FUSE COSTS A HUNDRED POINTS AND EACH TOWER TAKES 8 FUSES, SO YOU'RE GONNA SPEND THOUSANDS OF POINTS ON FUSES, 2400 POINTS WASTED ON THE FUCKING TOWERS ALONE, AND EVERY TIME THEY POP YOU NEED TO SPEND HUNDREDS MORE TO REPLACE THE BROKEN FUSES! YOU CAN'T MAKE ENOUGH FUCKING POINTS TO COMPENSATE FOR HOW FAST THE TOWERS CHEW THROUGH THE DAMN THINGS, IT'S LIKE FEEDING GOLD BARS TO A WOODCHIPPER! I LITERALLY CHEATED AND STARTED A WHOLE EXTRA SAVE THAT I DEDICATED TO JUST SELLING ALL OF THE SHIT IN THE BASE WITH THE MONEY GUN AND EVEN THAT ISN'T ENOUGH TO KEEP UP WITH THE FUCKING TOWERS AND HOW FAST THEY GO DOWN, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO KEEP THOSE TOWERS GOING EVEN IF YOU CHEAT, LET ALONE WITH THE MONEY YOU MAKE ACTUALLY DOING YOUR DAMN JOB.
THESE TOWERS ARE MORE THAN A DAMNED ANNOYANCE, THEY FEEL LIKE THEY EXIST TO BE INTENTIONALLY MALICIOUS AND ARE ONLY THERE TO PISS PLAYERS OFF, AND THE FACT THAT RUNNING UP THE STEPS TO THEM MAKES YOU FALL OVER AND RAGDOLL WHEN THERE'S FUCKING PHYSICS DAMAGE TURNED ON BY DEFAULT SHOWCASES THAT AS BEING THE ACTUAL FUCKING TRUTH THAN IT IS TO JUST BEING BAD DESIGN, EVERYTHING ABOUT THESE TOWERS IS DESIGNED TO MAKE PEOPLE AS ANGRY AS POSSIBLE AT THEIR MERE EXISTENCE IN-GAME.
THEY EITHER NEED A REWORK FROM THE GROUND UP OR NEED TO BE FUCKING TOSSED OUT COMPLETELY, BECAUSE THE MERE THOUGHT OF THEM IN THEIR CURRENT FORM MAKES ME ANGRY TO THE POINT I WANT TO NEVER TOUCH THE GAME AGAIN BECAUSE THEY'RE NOTHING BUT A FUCKING NUISANCE TO DEAL WITH. 
AND DON'T TELL ME TO JUST TURN OFF THE DECAY FOR THEM, BECAUSE THOSE FUCKING SETTINGS DO NOT WORK, NOT FOR THE COORDINATE TOWERS, NOT THE TANSFORMERS, NOT THE RADIO TOWER, AND NOT THE FUCKING LIGHTS OUT MINIGAMES.

ALRIGHT. Now that my unbridled undying rage and hatred for the fucking Coordinate Towers has been aired out and is out of the way. for my third point I also want to bring up the fact that I heavily dislike the new hashcode collection system. I heard a certain someone in a certain Youtube video say that "It takes on average just as long to download the codes as it took to collect the old hashcodes" Which is a straight up god damn lie, and I wonder how many takes it took for them to get a good shot of them saying that, waiting 2 fucking minutes because the hashcode packages kept crashing, clearing the screen, and then staging it to make it look like the fucking packages downloaded fine the first time they tried. Every single time, without failure, it takes around 40+ seconds for the god damn packages to properly download. In the previous versions I could jot down those codes in 15 seconds MAXIMUM and I'm more than willing to bet every other person that plays the game, aside from people who have Dyslexia maybe, could get it down JUST as quickly. On top of that, even when I got Omega Kerfus, it bugged out and couldn't get hashcodes for me anymore while I was busy with everything else. So that meant he was turned pretty much into an overpriced copy of normal Kerfus.

Fourthly, while I like how the base has been changed graphically and layout wise, I absolutely hate the fact that I can't do something about all the big ugly ass cracks all over the walls and floors, the Wall Repair Tool definitely should be able to fix them with concrete or bricks or rubble or something, just some way for us to get rid of them so we can really make the base feel like we've fixed it up like how we can use the mop/sponge/power-washer to clean up stains and the windows.
EDIT: After a while of trial and error I finally figured out how to make concrete to patch up the cracks, but I'm STILL going to make the point that it took me a long ass time to figure it out because nowhere in any of the fucking flavor text for any of the items did they say HOW to do so.

It's really, REALLY disappointing that there's so many negative things I have to say about this update and barely even half a compliment towards it. Everything added here just feels like it's a total misstep and feels like they just threw things together without much consideration for how those things would actually feel to play around, it's borderline like none of them bothered to play this update and didn't see how badly these screw with the flow of the game.