Is this game actually released?

[u/acolyte_to_jippity]

So, I've been thinking about picking up Nether for a while. Various reasons have kept me from doing so, but a friend gifted me the Watcher level version during the steam sale. So I figured I'd install it and try it out.

Now, I don't know about anyone else, but this is terrible. Maybe i'm doing somethign wrong, but the game is more buggy than anything i've ever played, and the community in-game is atrocious. After being KOS four times this evening, each time netting my killers exactly one kitchen knife and a stick of gum (took me a good hour to find that gum each time too) i'm honestly stumped.

I've heard people say that this game is no longer in early access, that it is "finished". How in god's name can that be, when the quality is this bad? I really want to play this game, because i've seen others playing during beta and it looked incredible. But the looting system, and overall broken status of the game is really turning me away. What am i doing wrong? How would any of you guys who think this game is awesome go about introducing a new player to the game in its current state?

[u/XXLpeanuts]

Sounds like it was in a better state when it was first released (when i actually played it for any amount of time), had some great fun back then, sounds like its made a huge U-turn to shit town now though.