like I'm sorry but I look at that little progress bar slowly move as you take off a tyre or a panel with a wrench and I go

it just troubles me because I see this kind of stuff and am torn between "this is overwhelming on a new save" and "this looks like a pain the fucking ass at later game"

like I'm sure it CAN be manageable after a while but that's an obscene level of stuff for a new player or new save to manage, nobody's going to want to explore until like day 10

>you have to get hashcodes via floppy disks and move the files around on the computer before you can send them
>you have a tape machine you have to swap out each day

jesus

>signals have to be manually triangulated and you have to watch a long-ass animation to ping them
>new towers that take fuses and have a minigame to repair
>transformers have a repair minigame now
>the quadbike's wheels have durability and have to be manually replaced

I don't mean I'd quit smoking, it's just that I haven't had an actual cigarette in ages

I bought a pack for getting to sit out and smoke at the party on halloween lel

it's the bit of stroggification they didn't show