[RektBoy]

ASCII is not a problem, since there is ton of graphics packs.

But controls, controls are ridiculous. I can't just enjoy it. And I play very hard games, indie games, Ultima Online which you need to script own things to play properly. But DF is another beast.

[ilyt]

The graphics version also did MASSIVE pass on every control.

Like, instead of going "select bed, make bedroom, repeat 40 times", you can just make rooms, put beds, doors, etc, then just select whole area and it will make a bedroom out of each of those rooms.

camera controls are normal WASD now, most of the things can be done with mouse, there are tabs on panels and hyperlinks in legend browser and thousand other little things.

It will be coming eventually to free ASCII version too

[jessfyi]

The version being released on steam also includes extensive UX/UI updates, OP just left that out.