(and Terror, which doesn't have many teeth at the moment)

• Half-speed is pretty useful for maneouvering and docking, though I basically never reverse at all.
• I have the game zoomed out fully pretty much constantly. I'd probably zoom out further if I could!
• Usually just rely on autosaves, if I think I got hella owned by the RNG (see; the above venderbight tale)
• I think the bright areas are bright enough, but there's not much visual distinction between "bright", "dim" and "dark" as far as I could really tell. Maybe I just have a really bright screen.

• Monster spawns seem to be really weird and messed up; there's always a ton of crabs outside London on the first load after starting up the game, and then none at all on any subsequent reloads. Monsters seem a little sparse; on my most recent character, there was a giant crabstravaganza outside London, but other beasts only showed on two occasions- one lone Bound-shark near Port-Cecil, and two Lifebergs up North. Also, two Mt. Nomads. I killed them and all I got for my troubles was a couple of Secrets. Sad. I saw an enemy pirate ship once total, across like 5 characters. e: i just did a full loop of basically all the not-totally-unfinished areas and didn't see one zee-beast! i saw two corsairs, but they were bugged and summoned the Hunter's Keep maid storylet instead.
  
• Unaccountably Peckish is listed as a Curiosity instead of a Quality for some reason.
• Some item descriptions stretch way across the page (on 1366x768 Fullscreen) and are only half-readable, like the description of the Artifacts (the one the Scholar buys for 100 echoes)
• The farthest right icon in the Curiosities bit in the Hold is cut in half, and I think the Story qualities bit in the Journal might be missing a scrollbar? You can't read the descriptions of any of the qualities on mouseover, either.
• I have like 50 Secrets from Port Cecil and no idea what the heck to do with them, coz' there's never any officers in London for some reason. I did eventually get one but not for like an entire hour.
  
• Codex up North has London's shops for some reason. e; and so does Wither. Palmerston too!
  
• The speedboost from burning extra fuel doesn't really seem to last long enough or speed up fast enough to be worth the expenditure.
• The area around London should probably have a menace effect dampener, as well as the dock itself. I had two dudes leap overboard while entering Wolfstack Docks, and then another went canniballistic before I could reach the actual docking point. C'mon, London's right there.
• As everyone else has mentioned already, zailors seem to have an incredible voracious appetite. The actual amount of food eaten doesn't seem to depend on how many crew you have, either, which feels odd.
• There should probably be a cooldown of some sort on menace events; having a menace hit and then hit again before you can even move is a nightmare.
  
• Pretty much every game over I've gotten has consisted either of autocannibalism or being informed by the bosun that I just committed suicide.
  
• The game's fun!
  

Had my first total loss. Turns out Khanate warships are a bit tougher than pirates. Who knew?

All the trading stuff did highlight my big WANT for features I'd like to see implemented (a day into the beta and I already have declared the must have features for the game :P). I would really like to see the implementation of a journal. I mean in addition to the current journal in the game. I would like to see a journal you can actually write in. Whether it's notes of trading good prices in different places or a reminder that I've sworn bloody vengeance against the Khantigan pirates for killing my father, Sunless Sea is the sort of game where I would really appreciate a place to take notes.

So yeah, game is fun.
edited by pirate-jesus on 4/30/2014