I played about 6 hours of Shattered Space so far, it's pretty good. It's not looking like the Far Harbor banger I was hoping for, but a big improvement overall, in that region at least. A few of my mods are broken though, so I'm going to wait to jump back in.
The best thing they did was make the city explorable beyond the main core, with handcrafted locations. I've never had to leave with some fast travel ship quest, so it looks like they're keeping us in one spot (you can leave if you want to).
However, it highlights how stupid it is that no other planet has similar meaningful explorable areas. All that space around new Atlantis and everyone is living in a high rise, or underground, preposterous nonsense. Akila tries to have lore explanations with dangerous animals keeping citizens in the main hub, but FFS, it's not hard to build walls.
Anyway, the quality of life changes in the update improve more things, but the rest of the game is largely unchanged.
I love the art style though, feels very alien. I hear it's inspired by Morrowind, but it reminds of more of Vulcan from Star Trek.
I like how even the space station the quest begins on looks unique. I look forward to making something like this with mods.
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This is a location outside the city, clearly not some generated POI trash finally.
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Def take Andreja with you, has unique dialogue.
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