If you're not familiar with accessing the Steam community in game, don't fret! It's super easy. While you're playing FRONTIERS, just hit SHIFT+TAB at the same time and you'll see this:

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To post a bug, click DISCUSSIONS and proceed as though you're working in a web browser. To see this guide, just click the How to Submit a Bug Report item.

When you hit ESC to return to the game, there's a chance that the mouse cursor will get stuck. If it does, Alt-TAB out / back in to the game and control will be restored. I'm working on this bug.

Thank you for the time and effort you are investing to find and report bugs and ultimately make Frontiers a better game. Seriously you rule.

If you think you've found a bug, this is what to do, in order from most to least important.

• Please check if it has been reported before. In that case it is more useful to add your information to the existing topic about it.
  
• Only one bug per topic. If you report 5 different ones in the same post then some will inevitably get lost.
  
• If there is only one bug, this topic can eventually be marked as FIXED and this will hopefully prevent lots of double reports.
  
• And if you have additional or more accurate information about it, by all means add it to the topic!

Be specific.

• What were you doing? Did you have an active quest? What weapons were you using? Were you in a house, near a waypoint marker?
  
• This is CSI Frontiers. You collect all the data you can but you can not know which trivial detail will convict the suspect.

Bonus round: provide the exact steps to reproduce it. If you can reproduce it in a new game, that's super awesome. If you can only reproduce it in your savegame but not in a new game, that's still a huge help.

Frontiers Log files are found in:
WINDOWS: [Program directory]\FRONTIERS_Data\output_log.txt
OSX: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Player.log
Linux: ~/.config/unity3d/AADProductions/FRONTIERS/Player.log
If they are short, just copy/paste them into the report. Otherwise use pastebin: http://pastebin.com/
If they are too long for pastebin, email them to frontiers.game@gmail.com

Not all issues are hardware related but if you are not sure, please include this additional information. If you're tech savvy you know the routine, of course, but for everyone else:
On Windows systems you should have a "My Computer" icon on the desktop. Right-click it and select properties. Now you can see:

• Operating system. (like Windows 7 Professional)
  
• Type of system. (32 or 64 bit)
  
• Amount of Installed memory. (like 4,00 GB)
  
• On this window you should also have an entry for "Device Manager" on the top left. If you click that, you can look up your...
  
• ...Graphics Card. Very important.

If you encounter the same bug again, follow up with another post in the same thread.
Bonus round: if you verify that the bug has been fixed in a later build, follow up and confirm in the original thread.

I am but one developer. Bugs take time. Bugs that seem like they should be simple to fix often aren't. If you can wait patiently without posting things like What's the holdup? and This shouldn't be that hard! then you have achieved a level of bug-testing known to only the few and great.

The difficult part about fixing bugs is not the knowing that they exist - it's finding out why and how they occur. That's the reason why we are asking for such a lot of information.