Can't say the game is flawless, but there aren't any game breaking bugs like we typically see in open environments like these. The worst part so far is the weekly server issues where everyone is stuck queuing for hours until they get the servers back up. Also a bit annoying that you can't even boot up the game without getting onto a server since even when you're out of a game you are still always "online". Playing as a solo player has been great since the solos and teams are kept in separate games so teams can go around killing all the solos.

Can't say I am very thrilled with this. I know it is Early Access, but it is in version .9 now and should have most of the bugs worked out. I KNOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE HARD. Here is a list of bugs I came across not even mentioning the horrific balancing and game mechanics:
1. Villager instantly died from illness, then when I revived him with faith, he kept insta-dying.
2. I bought "Reinforcements" from the nomads, 8 to be exact, but nothing showed up, no one came. I spent all of my wood on them for nothing.
3. I "declared war" on the Nords. I selected 6 soldiers to go, but nothing happened. No war happened at all.
4. My villagers were going to sleep for like 20 hours a day. They would wake up and I would task them, then walk about 10 steps before turning around to go back to sleep. Happened with multiple villagers.

Those are just what I would consider "bugs" so far. There is a laundry list of unintuitive gameplay controls and mechanics. It took me 2 hours of play to figure out how to get villagers to do stuff. The combat it horrific, random villagers seem to run into battle and throw themselves in the line of fire instead of staying behind the hero or well armed villagers. You can't really control villagers(especially in battle), you cant position them very easily, you have to issues them a tasks(chop wood, hunt, gather berries, "guard here", etc) to make them do anything so combat is very difficult to control. All combat involves is people standing next to each other swinging repeatedly. That is fine, but it is very difficult to get anyone to fight the right enemy, so everyone dies when they didn't need to. Nords are stupid OP. They come demanding resources from you every couple of days, if you can't pay then they attack you. Usually if you can't pay you aren't going to be able to defend against them either. I went to attack the nords and they had an infinite supply of soldiers to keep throwing at me. I killed like 10-15 of them, but they kept coming, even after I destroyed the two houses they were getting all of this population from (wtf). The skeletons come every night. These are just some of the gameplay mechanics that are awful. The balancing is up to interpretation as this is supposed to be difficult. The problem is when the difficulty is amplified by the shoddy controls and UI. Really, I haven't seen many games with this bad of a UI. Half the time I am in a menu and have no idea how to get out of it or get to a different menu. There are losts of clunky problems involving tasking the villagers and getting the right ones to do the work you want. I would be okay recommending this if the devs were able to streamline the UI and controls more and get rid of some of the bugs. I can't recommend it until then though.

So I put about 5 hours into a single player "Galactic Conquest" game type. Things were going great. I had gotten almost all of the advanced techs and everything. I was in a little battle with an enemy commander and I was definitely going to win this one, but all of the sudden PA decides its going to go into a new orange screen mode where the entire screen is solid orange and you can't see anything. But don't worry! the game is still going on! I was in the middle of using one of the Halley engines to slam a moon into my enemies base, but now I can't see anything! I randomly click the screen to select a target, but it misses (from what I can hear) and then the enemy begins attacking my commander and I can't stop him!!!!! Well there goes a loss. And not just one loss. That is the end of the game and I have to start over from scratch...all 5 hours of time wasted. I tried everything to make the orange screen go away, but to no avail. Next time you're going to charge people $90 and take your time releasing the game, get it f**king right when you finally do. Honestly, I was having a good time playing, but now I'm too angry to want to play anymore. AVOID THIS GAME IF YOU EXPECT FINISHED GAMES TO BE POLISHED AND PLAYABLE!!!!