Some impressions

I know this is beta and a lot of things will be fixed.Difficulty is nice it gives the feeling of wild world and a need for survival struggle.Mining blocks is a little unbalanced I'm okay with long mining for stone or ores but when the same amount of time is spending for getting vines or mushrooms it becomes alittle annoying.Didn't have any performance issues maybe loading time a bit laggy but for the start it's okay. What is the most annoying in my opinion is lightening from torches and camp fire, it's too bright and blinking frequency is to high with so much contrast with a day lightening it gives nearly the stroboscope effect and easily tire the eyes.It can be improved if frequency of blinking will be lower and more smooth and the color of lightening will have a warmer undertone with bit of yellow for examplebecause it's fire not a lamp.Overall impression is good,best of luck to you guys keep going.

 

As for me, I'm using a 3-year old laptop PC, and the lag is fairly annoying. I'm been too focused on the lag to see any balance issues, although the wooden bow is a bit underpowered to me.

 

Your suppose to use an Axe for vines and mushrooms.

 

indeed, the manipulator is only used for grabbing the barest essentials, get a crafting table some cobbles and some wood and you are good to go with much faster tools, which you can then upgrade. the lighting i don't have a problem with either, maybe put a bit more hue on your display? i have mine running through a TV with a warm colour balance going on and its not tiring at all, i think you can do this through the nvidia control panel, not sure about ATI though

 

Will try tweaking settings from control panel,but in other games balance of colour etc is good don't know why this happening here.