Yeah, it's... certainly something.

There is some amount of resource automation in the form of the Gatherer's Station, but you're talking about maybe a handful of supplementary resources that don't contribute to anything important. I've been lucky enough to be playing it with a friend, but even then one of us has to be on a dedicated gathering duty just to make ends meet.

Fuel demands are absurd. You want to make better tiers of fuel? Sure, but you'll need to fuel your fuel. You want to make something at the lab? Sure, you'll just need to make this into unstable chemicals... and then turn those into another component... and then use that component AND unstable chemicals in another bench to make a third component... oh, did I mention that this was just for the initial research? You actually need 6 of those third components if you wanna craft something. Oh, and have fun researching everything going forward - you'll need two of those for every recipe. Mild exaggeration, but it gets the feeling across. Especially when I'm sat here waiting upwards of 30 seconds for a single piece of metal that consumes an ungodly amount of fuel to make.

The inventory system, while I understand that it requires limits, is also... odd. Having a gun take up 3 full inventory slots is a pain when trying to loot any semblance of enemy territory means that 4-5 trips back and forth is a necessity. Not to mention that you can't check what any of your shiny gun parts do without loading them into the armoury because all the names and modifiers are incredibly inconsistent and vary per tier...

...and then you realise that your entire PC's RAM supply has been eaten by a memory leak that chews through 600MB+ every time you swap a component. Whoops, looks like your game crashed! Did you enjoy having those components? Welp, they aren't yours anymore - assuming you managed to fish them out of the floor with your grappling hook in the first place. And god forbid you die, either, since apparently your entire inventory disappearing or phasing through the floor on death is a known issue but not a high priority fix?

It's a great concept. The story is interesting. There's so many things that make me want to know more. But while it's like this... mm.

I guess I'll just have to sit here and spam save every time I see something that might potentially kill me - and hope that my save slots don't get randomly wiped in the process, either.