I tried the Game Pass version. No access to community servers and for me the game kept crashing (unreal engine crashes) even when in the menu.

Ended up getting the full game through steam, works like a charm, access to community servers (my own dedicated server) and the game is fun so far. But I have some grievances with the UI.

• Many of the skills and their function can only be seen from a specific screen, meaning you have to equip the pal and then you can see what the skill actually does.
• some of the screens are a bit cluttered.
• combat fiels clunky -building of items lacks snapping/ a grid so everything will always be slightly off.
• pals will automate stuff but just randomly dump stuff in chests, meaning my desire to keep stuff organized is constantly irked.
• characters are bound to a server. So if you play on a public one and it’s full, you are SOL and need to start over on another server (afaik).

On the good side:

• it is gorgeous
• pals are hilarious
• automation works funny with the pals used to automate tasks
• the world seems big
• cooperative play seems to be implemented well (you can even help other players craft stuff)
• crafting is done from chests in your base directly… so no running around collecting the items you need.

I do have to say that setting up your own server was a bit of a pain as the documentation is horrible.

• many of the server settings are in an inifile that does not allow newline characters making it a pain to edit.
• many settings are in properly documented where the setting or available values are not explained.
• dedicated servers can only be used with a password if set as community server
• the community server list caps out at 1000 servers so if yours is not in the list, you cannot find it (you need to connect via IP and then it’s listed under recent servers)