[tennozan]

Although I haven't played but an hour or so with the new patch (1.2) I would say that I consider it to be "playable" now. Also, it doesn't seem to have too big of an issue with most of the mods (modders -what a ghastly place it would be without you) I use for SH5. Just having the morale fix alone was great. No more sullen and cranky crew every time I come aboard.

I do hope that they don't throw in the towel quite yet. The crazy spawning ships bug is apparently still there - rather close call yesterday with a beserk spawned freighter in harbor. And of course the AI needs a bit of tweaking too. They could be a dove and remove the leg-irons of the DRM but I suppose that's not in their marching orders just yet.

Have they done some tuning to the graphics? I'm running with a GTX 480 and the latest drivers and just noticed the light rays cascading off the tower and railings. Sun looks much improved too. Very nice. I mean the eye-candy is amazing. Now if they could just straighten out some more of the gameplay elements too.