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>look up "best base building" in the /v/ archives
>see empyrion come up repeatedly
>look it up on steam and realize I got it in a humble bundle without realizing
>install it and go to bed excited to play
>play it first thing today
>giant walls of tutorial text on every single screen in the menu
>video tutorials to teach you how to pick up a box
>gameplay consists of walking around zapping rocks for resources
>you must zap X rocks to get experience points to advance in the tech tree
>decide to build a hovercraft
>game tells me to place the item at HV Frame [3]
>no idea where that is
>try to place the cockpit
>it gets placed at the worst possible spot
>try to take it back, can't
>you have to research the multitool so that you can use its function to take a part back (actually it dismantles the part and doesn't even return 100% of the materials)
>my inventory is already full
>try to make a storage box, can't find it in the menu, it might be locked technology
>fuck it, use the crafting station as bootleg storage
>figure out that the hovercraft frame literally has numbers printed on it to tell you where to put stuff (the tutorial failed to mention this)
>the cockpit requires you to right click and scroll to the correct version of the cockpit for the tutorial
>finally get the hovercraft working with 3% fuel
>it hovers about 2 meters off of the ground
>you have to pitch it up manually or else its nose will ram the ground whenever there's any incline
>realize that I've spent 1 hour raging while trying to build what is effectively a shitty bicycle
>quit