This version adds RT lighting which looks... Fine. Everything else is a downgrade from the old version lmao

Love the game and the soundtrack in itself is not deserving of a negative review but it is provided in 160 kbps mp3, this is not high quality and I would prefer if Blacklight Interactive would include a lossless wav or flac version of the soundtrack in a zip file or similar like other game developers do.

A biter destroyed my burner inserter, so I did as any reasonable person would do and started mass producing bullets. Then I went over to their nest, tossed a few grenades at it and mowed all the biters down with my assault rifle. I thought that would send a clear message, but the biters didn't leave the planet so obviously I had not been clear enough.

I decided that heavy weaponry would be required. I expanded my factory, which so far had been focused on producing bullets and grenades to envelop the closest iron deposits, where I promptly setup steel production. I started mass production of engines and built myself an armoured car with a mounted machine gun, that should show the biters I mean business!
STILL after destroying five of their nests they did NOT leave me ALONE! Seriously? Is it so much to ask for to have a planet and it's natural resources to myself? Those copper deposits are not going to turn into circuit boards by themselves you know.

So anyway... I made a tank, I setup oil production to mass produce the required explosives for the shells, made a flamethrower and I set off. This time, they should really get the message.
I destroyed every nest within one kilometer of my base, burning down every forest I found along the way. Behind me was nothing but stumps, slaughtered biters and the sweet smell of burned biter flesh mixed with forest fire.

I headed back toward my factory. Surely, I thought, they would get the message this time. But then, a few hours later as I was solving a few snags in my blue circuit production, I saw it. A broken assembler and an unmistakable pool of acid spit.

I was enraged. I would not, nay could not, take this anymore. I set off, found the closest patch of green glowy rock and started digging. It was not long before I had setup several centrifuges and started mass production. Finally, I thought as I stared at the green rocket, my struggle will be all over.

I stocked up on nuclear missiles and it was not long before every biter nest around me was turned in to nothing but smoldering alien corpses and nuclear fallout.



A few hours later, with my factory expanded as far as the eye could see and not a trace of any bugs ever walking the land, I thought to myself:
"Am I the bad guy?"
"No" I quickly reasoned, "The factory must GROW!"

To be continued...

Fun to play around with planets and stuff. Universe Sandbox 2 is better though, buy that instead.

Gets pretty boring after the first 1000 hours.

Edit: 2000 hours later and it's not much better.

Edit 2: For real this game is terribly balanced, especially the further you progress in it. The balance also seems to get worse with every update... It's not worth investing your time and money in this game unless you enjoy getting killed by players with better equipment that you have no hope against over and over again.