Holy hell is this game doing its best to create a horrible first impression. The keyboard and mouse controls are incredibly clunky and I find myself fighting them at every turn. Even after finishing the tutorial mission, I still haven't gotten used to the most basic interactions. Then there are the menus, which are incredibly counterintuitive. Getting out of a menu also always demands that you move your hand away from your regular controls to hit Esc. Loading a save where you're in cover makes you press space to start playing, and then that press immediately registers to make you jump over the cover, usually fucking everything up for you. Just seeing what something in your inventory does requires multiple clicks, and the shortcut keys are obtuse.
The fight at the end of the tutorial pissed me off. The game gives you almost no time at all to achieve your primary objective there, and then presents a secondary objective as if you're supposed to try to do it, but it's a red herring. Add to that the fact that you've got no vision, probably next to no ways to recharge your x-ray vision in the middle of the action, and that you're still trying to get used to everything, and that whole thing made me want to tear my hair out. I think I reloaded my save 30 or more times before I finally figured out that the game was tricking me into doing something I wasn't supposed to do (the secondary objective. Don't even think about doing it if you're playing non-lethal).
Then I got to Praha, and the GUI locked itself up when looking at the augmentation "wheel", forcing me to escape to the menus to reload a save again. I haven't seen a game with this clunky an UI since Fallout 4, and that game at least had more logical first person controls.
It can only get better from here, right? Right?
