I hate the new controls. Lol why there isn't a toggle for the old controls is absolutely insane to me. And the tutorial was definitely way too hand holdy. I get people ask dumb questions all the time that are literally answered in game but no reason to dumb the entire game down especially on a part that is unskippable.

Having completed five* days fully, I think the early game is too punishing and just demands a bit too much. 5 signals a day is tough to do in the early game and I found basically impossible when I had 2 days of bad weather in a row + a random event(?) that wouldn't let me sleep. I also don't mind the ATV battery mechanic as a way to force the player to engage with the world directly but the price for those things needs to be brought down or, even better, there should be a way to charge the battery in the base, otherwise using the ATV too much or turning the lights on turns into a massive expenditure. The thing I liked about the 0.8 early game was that there was downtime to explore and clean up the base, right now it feels like I can't take a single breath and sleeping through an entire night would destroy my economy. I have to walk because saving up for a new ATV battery feels like a pipe dream, as my priority are signal upgrades to actually get those 5 signals a day. That destroys my stamina, which is not great because nearly every night for a while there's been an that wakes you up and keeps you up until it randomly decides to stop. I've thus far seen one actual event in the base and it might have been scary, but all it felt was extremely frustrating because it was the third time in a row that during an already difficult stretch of the game, I couldn't sleep. I feel like the early game RNG should be significantly toned down and the ATV battery mechanic made less extreme and explained somewhere in the text tutorials

For things I disliked outright, I'm still early on but I simply don't understand what benefit the ATM/hard currency system adds to the game, same with limiting vending machine stock. Previously it was a decent way to just get some energy in a pinch, currently it defeats the purpose of ever using the vending machines because getting something from them requires me to walk around the back of alpha, navigate a finicky gui and then pick up several tiny objects off the ground. Combined with the limited stock, I don't really see a point in engaging with that whole set of mechanics whatsoever outside of dire circumstances.

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I have had a problem with the coordinate towers. The terminal doesn't indicate which one is actually down, and the same goes for the auto alarm module, which only says that it is the CT1 tower. Also, the game crashes on quit and death almost every time.

personally loving the controls even though they were hard to get used to. Also, the tutorial being mandatory, I feel, might make people unhappy in the future, but it was definitely necessary; however, I feel it could use an auto-generated voice to make it feel smoother.

My biggest gripe is the ATV. It makes me very angry when I get into a collision, the wheel goes off into oblivion, and I cannot find it, so for the time until I get 200 points, it becomes almost useless. The wheels, fuses, and tool boxes, I feel, should be reduced in price.

The signal requests should be put back to normal because there was already a difficulty setting, and now it is no longer a WIP, so it should not be any harder than before, especially with the extra work involved with the coordinate towers. 

However, I already have kerfurO, so my ATV-induced insanity is on the low at the moment.

I like a decent chunk of the new mechanics, such as physically installing modules & using floppy disks to get data from the servers. However the ATV battery definitely needs to be addressed. I think it should either have an alternator in the ATV to charge it while driving, or have a charging station in the base. Having to buy an entirely new battery is not only unrealistic but insanely wasteful as well

Also I can't use the coordinate panel, when I press 3 it doesn't bring the little target thingy over, saying a communication error with a tower, however I went to that tower and it said it was just fine even though it wasn't working at all. How do I fix this?

I definitely agree that the game is starting to demand a lot from the player. I'm finding myself so busy with just daily tasks and repairs that I have little to no time for anything else. Also agree that five signals is a bit of an ask for the first day; especially given how long the process takes now. I have my day time set to maximum and I barely managed to scrape by with the first task.

I like the disk system, but the rng can make it a bit annoying when you're waiting for a satellite server to upload data and it just keeps pumping out "unexpected server error" ten thousand times. Also, found a bug where if the game saves while a floppy/zip disk is in a drive, if you load that save all data on the disk will be lost, and ejecting it will instead spit out one of those big red ERROR props.

I'm probably one of the few people who actually *doesn't* hate the new controls, but I agree the press E and hold E options should be switched- there's currently a bit of weirdness where pressing E on certain objects either doesn't grab the object, or it technically does but the object won't move, and you have to release E and press it again to get it to recognize it.

ATV I feel needs some balancing. Not only is the new ATV bulkier, less powerful, and less durable, but now you have to keep track of both battery life and durability for each individual wheel, and extra batteries/wheels are NOT cheap. I've actually been finding myself carefully avoiding every rock and log I see now, lest I return to base with only a sliver of durability remaining.

My biggest gripe so far is the CR towers. While I like the concept behind them, they are NOT very well implemented. These things will drain your time, your money, and your sanity. Each one is tied to one of the colored cursors needed for the new coordinates panel, and if one goes out, that cursor is unable to move, essentially rendering the entire panel useless. The only things keeping the towers from breaking down are these expensive "fuse" items that wear out over time, and can burn out in as soon as a DAY. Without fuses, the towers break down CONSTANTLY. The game was good enough to give each tower four free fuses at the start of the game, and one of the towers burned through all of them before the end of the first week, with the other two following a few days later. And with no fuses, I can maybe download 2 signals before *at least* one of the towers is down again (and I'm on maximum time length). It got so annoying that I went into the game options and turned off CR Tower decay- except IT DOESN'T WORK. Toggling the option off does NOT stop the towers from breaking down or burning through fuses. These things have made me lose all interest in continuing to try the new version, which is a shame because I was otherwise enjoying it.

Having played a bit more, I discovered the upstairs coffee machine doesn't require coins to operate. I am extremely thankful to have been wrong on this whole mechanic but it kind of double defeats the purpose of the vending machines and feels like the fault of not having had the time to even look around, not my own inattentiveness. Once you've made it through week one and you're a bit more established and have opened some crates, the game becomes a  whole lot more enjoyable but some things like flashlight and ATV batteries and triangulation tower maintenance remain a constant headache. I don't really get the purpose of the fuse system, and the triangulation tower upkeep in general. I think keep the upkeep minigame but get rid of the fuses (or else have them degrade slower AND start the player with several spares around the base). Having a way to target the towers would also be nice since the lights aren't always visible from the ground.

Things become a LOT less frustrating when you've gotten to max download speed and built up a slight signal backlog, but I'd say the current alpha's still got way, way too many cases of micromanagement and time sinks. When horror elements show up, I'm not in any scared or tense mood, I just think how this would affect my tasks and if I'll end up being punished for it. There are a lot of really good ideas and elements here but they feel marred by the insistence that everything take as long as possible and be a multi-step process. The kerfur is slower, your reports have a semi-randomized timer and you have a number of new things to worry about, and it at the very least feels like your stamina and hunger drain way faster than they used to. You end up being in a rush but having to wait, which causes frustration.

I'm also beginning to change my mind on the new controls. I liked the idea initially, with some caveats, but picking up and putting down items feels weird and you can't pick something up while holding something else, which gets especially annoying during garbage cleanup. On a related note, I really miss a lot of the physics interactions, like being able to slam or even throw a drive into a slot instead of having to hold and click it. It adds a lot of charm and fun to the way you interact with the world.

A few other things:
-I like the new trash gib piles. They make it much easier to collect all the trash gibs in a room (although I question why some of them have gigantic pieces of wood debris in them), and less likely to have random gibs that you missed and somehow clip into the collision to make annoying noises.
-I'm a bit divided on the new MREs. While I do like them a lot, I feel like they make it too easy to get past the food tolerance system since they have a variety of foods packed into them. The point of the original MREs was that they were quick and easy food that tasted like crap, thus you needed to balance it out with something else. I feel like a good solution would be to make it so that there aren't so many of the newer variety around; like have the *old* mres at locations like the Hole, the bunker, or in that barrel in the log, and have the newer ones be in various locations in the base or transformers, and be the ones sent to you each night.
-I'm not a fan of the new "drag" system. I liked the old style of moving objects, where you could tip a shelf upright by grabbing the top portion and pulling backwards, or lift up a large object by crouching, grabbing the bottom of it and standing up. This new system makes it difficult to turn objects, and impossible to lift the bottom of objects upwards- when I ordered a wood chipper and tried to move it to the front of the base, I couldn't even get the stupid thing over the curb- I ended up having to wheel it the long way around through the parking lot.
-Big fan of the new workbench system. Much easier to use than before.
-I like that you're able to craft server upgrades, especially considering how many of the stupid things you need. Any chance we could also get the ability to craft fuses or ATV wheels? Possibly transformer upgrades? (Not gonna say car batteries, that might be a bit much)

ATV battery is absolute garbage, the game doesn't explain at all, my ATV just stopped working and I didn't have a clue why, I had to come here to find out. I don't know what the devs were thinking in adding 5 more maintenance parts to the ATV (that also breaks waaay too easily).

Generators break way too often and too fast, and now with the minigames are specially boring to fix, combined with the shitty ass ATV battery (that should be removed) and the drive demand on the early game, the feel of VOTV isn't a relaxing experience that gets more stressful as the game goes on, boa It trows everhthing in You face at the game time 

Loading the drive box into the drone, HOW IN THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW TO ORESS SHIFT?!?!???? 

I had to do outside reasersch to find that out, I get it that is a build or whatever, I was expecting bugs or something, but for the game design to take an absolute DUMP was astounding 

The controls are awesome, takes a lil bit to get used to but they work, I wish we could rebind some to use the alt key or something but they're good the way they are anyways

The ATV drives soooo much better now and the zip and flops are awesome, way better then the hash codes, the tapes are cool too, I like that we get more stuff to send. 

I can't say I have mixed opinions cuz some of the decisions as stated above have ruined the chill first week experience with all the bullshit you gotta deal with early on, it can be easily fixed but as for now the early game is kinda ruined, combined with the base being a performance hog with all the trash and you having no time to clean stuff up kinda fucks with the vibe (that was immaculate before) 

You want to have the player be engaged early? Do events, don't punish people in the first 5 days with generator, ATV battery, and confusing controls (drive box loading) 

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 I have my unbridled undying rage and hatred for the fucking Coordinate Towers has been aired out and out of the way. I also want to bring up the fact that I 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.

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.