This might be the version of the game which I hate the absolute most because almost everything that has been added is just absolutely absurdly annoying to deal with, bugged to hell, unnecessarily hard, or cryptic to hell and beyond.
The first thing I want to bring up is the fact that the control scheme has been wildly altered in a way that it really, REALLY did not need to be, the old control scheme was perfectly fine, it was simple and easy to use, whereas the new controls feel ass backwards and are just annoying to deal with. Why in the actual hell should the "Use" key be HOLDING E instead of TAPPING E? Adding on to that, why in the hell would, for interacting with heavy objects like tables, tapping E be drag and hitting Shift + E be grab??? All of these controls feel like they've been haphazardly slapped together in the wrong order and I genuinely cannot for the life of me figure out why Dr. Nose would choose to use this sort of control scheme.
Secondly, the fucking COORDINATE TOWERS ARE THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE AND PISS ME OFF TO NO END GOOD GOD. There NEEDS to be a good fucking deal of changes done to the Coordinate Towers because Jesus H. Christ, the sheer number of days in game I have FAILED MY TASKS BECAUSE ALL THE FUCKING TOWERS KEEP GOING DOWN ONE AFTER ANOTHER ALL FUCKING DAY LONG. NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT THE GOD DAMN GAME DOESN'T TELL YOU ABOUT THE TOWERS DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE TUTORIAL IS NOW MANDATORY, AND IF IT DID THEN HELL IF I REMEMBER IT BECAUSE THE TUTORIAL IS A FUCKING MARATHON TO GET THROUGH AND DENSER THAN AN ACTUAL MAINTENANCE MANUAL FOR THE MACHINERY FOUND IN GAME. These towers NEED to have a set, HARD-LIMITED timer that says they CANNOT go down in X amount of time after being reset because for an entire day every time I would go out to repair a tower I would get home and it would be DOWN AGAIN and I would need to go out and check them AGAIN. They also need to have an actual HEALTH DISPLAY like the transformers do other than the stupid fucking 0 - 1 display they have as-is, and there needs to be a way to maintain them when they're about to pop instead of the stupid god damn cycle of rushing to collect signals only for you to realize that the fucking coordinate towers have popped and then having to come back home try and move every single one of them to the proper space and then ANOTHER ONE pops and you need to do it again. I sound like a broken fucking record constantly repeating myself about how this happens every single time but, it's appropriate because that's exactly how the cycle of going back and forth from base to towers feels.
The only fucking way to keep them from popping as quickly is to buy up fuses and use them in the towers to make them last longer I THINK but fuck me every time I try they still go down faster than your mother does when she rolls out of bed any other damn thing in the game. And you know what else? THEY BREAK ONCE THE TOWER POPS, SO YOU HAVE TO KEEP REPLACING THEM, WHICH IS BAD ENOUGH ALREADY BUT EACH FUCKING FUSE COSTS A HUNDRED POINTS AND EACH TOWER TAKES 8 FUSES, SO YOU'RE GONNA SPEND THOUSANDS OF POINTS ON FUSES, 2400 POINTS WASTED ON THE FUCKING TOWERS ALONE, AND EVERY TIME THEY POP YOU NEED TO SPEND HUNDREDS MORE TO REPLACE THE BROKEN FUSES! YOU CAN'T MAKE ENOUGH FUCKING POINTS TO COMPENSATE FOR HOW FAST THE TOWERS CHEW THROUGH THE DAMN THINGS, IT'S LIKE FEEDING GOLD BARS TO A WOODCHIPPER! I LITERALLY CHEATED AND STARTED A WHOLE EXTRA SAVE THAT I DEDICATED TO JUST SELLING ALL OF THE SHIT IN THE BASE WITH THE MONEY GUN AND EVEN THAT ISN'T ENOUGH TO KEEP UP WITH THE FUCKING TOWERS AND HOW FAST THEY GO DOWN, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO KEEP THOSE TOWERS GOING EVEN IF YOU CHEAT, LET ALONE WITH THE MONEY YOU MAKE ACTUALLY DOING YOUR DAMN JOB.
THESE TOWERS ARE MORE THAN A DAMNED ANNOYANCE, THEY FEEL LIKE THEY EXIST TO BE INTENTIONALLY MALICIOUS AND ARE ONLY THERE TO PISS PLAYERS OFF, AND THE FACT THAT RUNNING UP THE STEPS TO THEM MAKES YOU FALL OVER AND RAGDOLL WHEN THERE'S FUCKING PHYSICS DAMAGE TURNED ON BY DEFAULT SHOWCASES THAT AS BEING THE ACTUAL FUCKING TRUTH THAN IT IS TO JUST BEING BAD DESIGN, EVERYTHING ABOUT THESE TOWERS IS DESIGNED TO MAKE PEOPLE AS ANGRY AS POSSIBLE AT THEIR MERE EXISTENCE IN-GAME.
THEY EITHER NEED A REWORK FROM THE GROUND UP OR NEED TO BE FUCKING TOSSED OUT COMPLETELY, BECAUSE THE MERE THOUGHT OF THEM IN THEIR CURRENT FORM MAKES ME ANGRY TO THE POINT I WANT TO NEVER TOUCH THE GAME AGAIN BECAUSE THEY'RE NOTHING BUT A FUCKING NUISANCE TO DEAL WITH.
AND DON'T TELL ME TO JUST TURN OFF THE DECAY FOR THEM, BECAUSE THOSE FUCKING SETTINGS DO NOT WORK, NOT FOR THE COORDINATE TOWERS, NOT THE TANSFORMERS, NOT THE RADIO TOWER, AND NOT THE FUCKING LIGHTS OUT MINIGAMES.
ALRIGHT. Now that my unbridled undying rage and hatred for the fucking Coordinate Towers has been aired out and is out of the way. for my third point I also want to bring up the fact that I heavily dislike the new hashcode collection system. I heard a certain someone in a certain Youtube video say that "It takes on average just as long to download the codes as it took to collect the old hashcodes" Which is a straight up god damn lie, and I wonder how many takes it took for them to get a good shot of them saying that, waiting 2 fucking minutes because the hashcode packages kept crashing, clearing the screen, and then staging it to make it look like the fucking packages downloaded fine the first time they tried. Every single time, without failure, it takes around 40+ seconds for the god damn packages to properly download. In the previous versions I could jot down those codes in 15 seconds MAXIMUM and I'm more than willing to bet every other person that plays the game, aside from people who have Dyslexia maybe, could get it down JUST as quickly. On top of that, even when I got Omega Kerfus, it bugged out and couldn't get hashcodes for me anymore while I was busy with everything else. So that meant he was turned pretty much into an overpriced copy of normal Kerfus.
Fourthly, while I like how the base has been changed graphically and layout wise, I absolutely hate the fact that I can't do something about all the big ugly ass cracks all over the walls and floors, the Wall Repair Tool definitely should be able to fix them with concrete or bricks or rubble or something, just some way for us to get rid of them so we can really make the base feel like we've fixed it up like how we can use the mop/sponge/power-washer to clean up stains and the windows.
EDIT: After a while of trial and error I finally figured out how to make concrete to patch up the cracks, but I'm STILL going to make the point that it took me a long ass time to figure it out because nowhere in any of the fucking flavor text for any of the items did they say HOW to do so.
It's really, REALLY disappointing that there's so many negative things I have to say about this update and barely even half a compliment towards it. Everything added here just feels like it's a total misstep and feels like they just threw things together without much consideration for how those things would actually feel to play around, it's borderline like none of them bothered to play this update and didn't see how badly these screw with the flow of the game.