All in all, I think this might be my favourite update VotV has ever had, but from my first impressions I do have some minor gripes.

Control scheme: I actually like it a lot. But I do feel like most if not all "press E" vs "hold E" interactions should be swapped (i.e. holding for physics manipulation, press once to interact). Feels a little more intuitive and is in line with the previous versions of the game. The little progress circles for hold interactions are also immensely useful but I feel like they're a bit too obtrusive, however, I presume this will change eventually.

Something I outright disliked, however, was the tutorial being a fair bit too hand-holding. I much preferred the previous approach where you could go through the text boxes at your own pace. A few interactions like the key card and having to get a signal to proceed should stay as a check to make sure the player is paying attention, but overall the 0.9.0 tutorial feels way, way too on-rails and part of learning the game is the ability to just walk around in a wider area and mess around with physics without consequences. Some parts of the text, especially signal processing could also use some editing to make it less wordy.

Lastly, perhaps this is a bit of a silly complaint, but I also think that the tutorial shouldn't mention weapons directly as a concept. Obviously, almost everyone coming into the game probably expects some degree of combat, but I'd like for that expectation to be a little more played with and not immediately validated, especially now that the tutorial is mandatory. I'd personally introduce the crowbar as just a handheld tool. It makes you slightly more nervous in a horror game when you have something obviously weapon-shaped but the game refuses to say directly whether or not you'll have to use it as a weapon.

All in all, this is just my opinion, take it or leave it, just wanted to post something that's more substantial than spamming "things are different gaem sux now" on the bug report thread.

The new control is crap, although I'm used to it. A couple of times my video card went into moon launch mode. The backpack needs to be redesigned. I want to stroke Kerfur normally, not with a delay of 1 second. One of the transformers is unfinished, there is a green grid there, the same grid as on the radio tower. A couple of times the scanner couldn't detach and remained on the number one, although it didn't interfere, but clearly it shouldn't be like that. Some events were buggy. One caused the game to crash, something with lightning. Also, the omega kerfur that was stolen did not return and the event did not end. Bring back the ability to throw items normally. And many other minor things. Do not release 0.9.0, it will ruin people's attitude towards the game. To be honest, everything is bad. On the plus side, there's a new look for the base and the quad bike. But please, Nose, if you're reading this, make the new exits at the base work. Maybe find keys for them or change the locks to make them work. I like that there are now storms. Although it rains through the window on the second floor. And you can hear everything as if you were outside, I would like the sound to be even more muffled. So that I feel completely at home. And the sounds of the satellites turning are very loud. (The fence and bridge are dull they need to be redone. )

It may be harsh in some ways, but it's a more effective way to convey the problem.

edit: i got to experience atv battery. i don't want to anymore.

The controls man, that's quite literally the only complaint I have. the old menu system, although clunky, was very good. Most importantly, it was very intuitive since it didn't use the same input or key for multiple actions at the same time, my only complaint with that one was using the alt button, and it's not even a complaint, is more of a nitpick.
The new one brought a bunch of issues with itself, spread pretty evenly between not being intuitive at all and having A LOT of button combos, some that must be performed within a time window. A good example of how the new interaction system is unwieldy, is the workbench. With the new system you have to go slow to not missinput a use, and sometimes the grab input wont event grab the thing and will simply jiggle it a lil because of how fast you have to tap. I strongly feel that the new input system should be revamped to still feel like the old one while being a little more compact, which I feel was the idea, although I might be wrong. Maybe having a legacy controls option wouldn't be a bad idea either. Not a hurry though, the version literally was just released.

Everything else is just straight gold though. All the minigames and little things you gotta do to maintain the facility are so fun, and all of the art and new models looks amazing. Only little itty bitty detail is maybe looking into the lighting performance later on the version, bc it's clapping my machine and it ain't even bad.

I actually really like the amount of tasks you need to do because you are a lone guy managing a whole facility that requires like half a dozen people. I do think that the kerfurs need to be buffed (or at least have upgrades) to compensate. Like the base model, should be able to deal with hash codes along with repairing servers while the Omega version can handle the towers and transformers. You are a guy working a job meant for a team, a long term goal should be buying, building, and upgrading teammates to take the work load off. 

I have new Control scheme. it's not intuitive (especially compared to the previous experience of playing on the old version). but even without taking into account the old version, this is as inconvenient as possible and gives less control to the player and less immersiveness.

I hope the retention system will be completely removed or the types of interaction will be reversed in places. I am physically unable to play with the new type of control and I hope it will be rolled back... or a mod will be released that returns the old system

So far from what I seen this is a great update. But the battery in its current implementation Seems unfair to the player.  I suppose you add a Jumper cable to the store for 50 Credits. Maybe craft with electronic scrap to get a car battery charger that slowly charges it over time (like one day)? this way the battery in the store still has value and the solar panel upgrade is as big of an upgrade as it is now.

For me the transformers mini game looks out of place. It dose make sense to have a mini game. I personally think it would be better if they where like the stove is where you use a tool to fix it 

ngl i like this new update. more to do, more to balance in a day. i say this like i dont play on 0.5 speed. I’ll admit, the 5 signal requirement within the first week is a bit steep, esp if you zerg rushed lv3 processing for ez creds. the battery could also use some jumper cables? Though i hear you can charge the thing directly with some more inventive and risqué ideas. it’d be absolutely amazing if we could craft our own fuses out of the copper cabling with find in drawers. though i think you’d need to balance it out either by making it consume two of them or have require two broken fuses. and the price is nutty! 100 creds is very steep for something that is constantly going out. it got so bad that i ended up turning it off. its the only thing i’ve really touched in my playthru outside of physics damage and velma mode.

I’m going to edit this comment as a half bug report half journal. The new hash thing most definitely needs a limit on how many times it can fail. may 5 for a brand new one and 10 for one thats about to die?

for the love of god make it so we can sell the item box like the other versions of the game...

If fuses break at a rate of about 1 a day for all the towers combined then at 100 points each it might be more profitable to either ignore fuses and just fix towers every day or ignore signals entirely.

Maybe add some legs to the delivery drone so it doesn't need to hover for hours.

Also the vacuum bot can't pick up the new trash piles.

Ok, so. Im on day 34 now and i hae quite a few things to say.

1 - I like the new controls! They are little less frustrating sometimes (but in some situations more)

2 - Hashcodes fail rate should be nerfed a bit in my opinion, let it have a max amount of fails, one time i was standing at 1 console for around 7 REAL minutes, thats crazy long! Yeah, i know im just very unlucky but still, it shouldn't be a full RNG, make it sort of a fake RNG, it starts with some chance of fail, let's say 60 percent. With each fail that chance to fail is lower by a bit, so it wouldnt be so frustrating to wait for 1 code for like 10 gazillion years

3 - I dont know if that's something with my save, but Arirals didnt show up! Their ships (where treehouse should be) is there but the house is still absent so ig this is a bug. Picnic was also not a thing in my save. I even made another save to check for it and no, that thing is completely broken i think, arirals said "im not goin there"

4 - Coordinate towers. Ooooh wowzers i have a lot of hate for them. The concept is good but the implementation is atrocious in my opinion. They break TOO often. Im maxed out now at the base, ATV is upgraded, all modules, transformators is fully upgraded and set (but still manage to break every 2 days) but the coordinate towers break TOO frequently and are too far away (i get why, dont throw tomatoes at me). They should really be nerfed, i snapped and just turned off their corrosion and they still break, the option does not work, funny. Every other one is working fine. The problem is in the fact that with the implementation of CR towers you have so little time to yourself and therefore all events that suppose to scare you give more of an annoyance just because they take your time away even more

5 -The drone. Its great, but PLEASE add an explanation on how to sell boxes, etc., i had to go to the forums to get help with this, this was never mentioned in the tutorial.. And either remove item box or give it a new use, its literally has no use right now basically, it doesnt fit really good for storage and u cant even sell it (idk if its a bug but i cant sell it even with the sell gun)

Overall, the update is great but it needs many tweaks. Many money-making schemes were nerfed to oblivion so its unnecessarily hard to get points in early game, triangulating in early game is TOO slow, making it take like 30 percent more of your time and beg that signal would not disappear when you are waiting for last one dot to cooldown or it to scan. This needs many tweaks i hope the dev will do, realizing that some of them are unnecessarily frustrating and just not fun to do day to day.

Hello there, I'm returned player from 0.7! I decided to check what's going on with the game after a very long time and I think my experience is the most unbiased.

In overall I really enjoyed update: the new look of the base and ATV (no longer Gravity Defied vibes), new signal system, updated map, lighting system is very nice (though performance is ABYSMAL), new minigames and activities.

But I do have some problems with update. Mainly it's comes down to:

1) Not enough time to do stuff

2) Equipment is to expensive

3) ATV battery is weaker than hamster on wheel

I have saw, that 2 and 3 a being reworked, but just making battery last longer and fuses cheaper may solve the problem, but not in a long run. I think, that battery should be chargeable at the base BY DEFAULT, but with each recharge it will degrade. Also I think fuses should come as PACK of fuses (2 or 3 in box) not 1-by-1. I see it as "box may cost more, but cost of each piece inside is less" and it's just more convenient to store. After all we already have roll of bin bags, and as storage solution we have rack for disks and box for floppy's. For me it's seems the most logical solution. 

Also I have same opinion with Razor about overwhelming player: it's too punishing and annoying in early game. I found myself consistently failing daily tasks and signals, because I don't have enough time. I dunno... maybe day should be longer(?)

I don't remember old system with using ALT so I speek from "fresh" start. What i could say: it's good but definitely underbaked. Now spamming "pat" on kerfur is now impossible, because of 1 sec delay. May be introducing number of option, as shortcut for interaction should do the trick, because for me it's seems natural to press E+1/2/3/... to do interaction, if I have a list of interactions.

Something NEEDS to be changed about the coordinate towers. I've completely given up on my current playthrough because of them, and I won't be touching this version until they're fixed (or at the very least, fix the setting that lets you disable coordinate tower decay).

First off, the tower repair minigame is atrocious. I didn't mind most of the other new minigames, they felt appropriately clunky for the janky old technology that we're working with, but the tower minigame is a pain in the ass and feels totally arbitrary. But, at least you can turn it off.

More importantly, the decay rate is absolutely ABSURD, to the point where I wonder if it's bugged and decaying faster than intended. There were multiple occasions where I'd fix a tower, only for it to be broken again by the time I got back to the base. Kerfur can't fix them, there's no way to upgrade their stability, fuses are expensive (and basically pointless with how quickly they break), you can't maintain their "health" like you can with transformers, and having one break completely halts your progress until you run across the map and play patty-cake with the goddamn tower for five minutes.

but aside from that...
I really do like the update overall. It's definitely got some kinks to iron out, but other than the coordinate towers, most of the changes are pretty positive.
The visual updates are great and I (mostly) like the more immersive minigames and upgrades, particularly the zip drives and all the new stuff for the ATV. (other than the battery issues, but there's a whole thread about that so I won't go into it)

I honestly don't have any strong opinions about the new controls one way or the other, but one thing I DO really like is being able to shift-click to store held items onto the drone. I'd love it if that functionality got added to other containers as well, it would save so much headache if I could just shove an item directly into a box without having to do a bunch of inventory-juggling first.

The pacing and difficulty of early game is definitely a bit much, I think this update really wants to lean into the idea that Dr. Kel is single-handedly running a base that's meant to have like a dozen employees, with extremely outdated and poorly-maintained equipment. Which is fine and all, but I've got a good amount of VotV playthroughs under my belt and I was still struggling to get daily tasks done consistently until around my third week, even after getting a fairly early KerfurO. I can only imagine how much more stressful it would be to a new player who doesn't know any tricks to make the early game easier.

The forced tutorial is a little annoying, but I'm hoping it's just a band-aid fix and tutorialization will be improved later down the line. Although it is funny to see DrNose's increasingly unhinged attempts at making people actually learn to play the game, instead of ignoring the tutorial and hints and then complaining that they don't know what to do.