I just bought the game during GOG's 60% off sale, and after only eight hours I'm convinced I wasted my money. I've seen games that are light on documentation, but this takes the cake.

After doing the hyperdrive mission I have the drive installed and charged, but the map consistently says "Unable to warp". I can choose the nearest destination, but there is no visible way to activate the hyperdrive and nothing in game to explain HOW to warp or why the map says I am unable to do so.

So giving up on that, I decided to claim and expand a base. I've got to the part where you're supposed to hire a scientist to run the science terminal. All the game says is that specialists can be hired at any space station, and about every website I've seen for help spews the same statement verbatim without explaining HOW. Where are these scientists? I call BS. The only station I've seen has six NPCs, one of which is now my construction manager and none of the other five are scientists or for hire. I've been back to the base dozens of times over multiple sessions, and it's only ever the same group of unhirable NPCs, no scientists.

If there is more to this, then the game needs to SAY MORE about how these things are done. The skimpy explanations in game do not match my experience of the game, in which it just is not possible to progress beyond the beginning. Websites supposedly devoted to the game simply parrot the in-game explanations without embellishment. This is FRUSTRATING, not fun, and it's not worth my time to gather resources for a base that can never be completed while I backpedal endlessly to avoid being instakilled by exceptionally vicious dinosaurs that move too fast to hit even with an advanced rifle multi-tool with a rapid fire upgrade.

At least you worked out to press and hold down 'E' to start the game! :)