Odyssey is a frustrating experience

As a casual ED player, I was extremely excited to see Odyssey go on sale on Steam and I purchased it right away. I was super excited for the First Person game play and more importantly I really wanted the planetary generation tech. And let me tell ya, it does not disappoint! I'm loving the atmospheres, being able to land on planets and explore the settlements.

But that was before the learning curve and bugs began……

• I didn't know the weapon and suit you got in the tutorial was ONLY in the tutorial. So I went on a "kill" mission and ended up getting my ass whooped because I only had a tiny pistol
• No instructions on how to call a ACE ship after you take a shuttle to another planet. I had to google in IRL. I landed on a planet and had NO IDEA how to get back, there were no ACE kiosks or anything around.
• Bugged quests were especially frustrating. Once I bought a new suit and primary weapon, I took on another "kill 8 faction members" and went to the system. A deep space scan and scanning the nav beacon didn't reveal anything. I looked at planets and settlements looking for allegiances, went into different combat zones, visited a few settlements and I could not figure out how to complete the quest.
• Scanning NPCs will cause some of them to shoot you. WTF?! They scan me all the time but when I scan a technician they suddenly start shooting me and all of a sudden the ENTIRE BASE is after me. I have to run way out into the wild and request a shuttle to GTFO. One time I got back into my sidewinder and BLAM! They blew me up as soon as I got off the ground.
  • one time they started scanning me as I was jumping through the air and because I was in motion and got too far, they started shooting right away and killed me.
• and finally, another bugged quest, one that made me turn off the game and walk away. I took an illegal smuggling mission to deliver an item to a person on another planet. I made it to the planet, jumped from the top of one building to another for 10 mins trying to find a terminal that wasn't inside of a building. Found the terminal, located my target, and made my way over to them to deliver the item, all the while doing this without being scanned once. I go to the NPC, and give them the item…..except they don't take the item. I interact again and try to get it to them 4 more times. On the 5th time I get scanned in the middle of the dialog and the NPC I'm supposed to be giving the item to pulls out a blaster and starts shooting me. WTF?!

I'm dead. Again. I have to say, it's VERY discouraging. I know, I've seen all the other posts of "wait for them to fix it" and it's been almost a year. I figured, it has to be SOMEWHAT playable, right?! I can see other people enjoying the game. and I really REALLY wanted to love it…….but…..

it's a very very VERY frustrating game to play in its current state. I can forgive graphical glitches, small annoying bugs and what not, but when I can't even complete quests after 5-10 mins of flying around only to abandon the quest or get murdered, there's no enjoyment there.