for me I think it's the same as mlp where I've had this hole in my brain shaped specifically for it that was waiting to be filled, it slotted straight in like one of the infinity stones

Ready

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