To say this game is broken is like saying WWII was a minor spat
It's quite clear that the developer has bitten off far more than it could chew with this game and the publisher has probably forced the release. Not sure how much you can blame the later, you can't expect them to endless fund a game in development, but it would have been nice if someone admitted prior to the release how incomplete this game was, regardless of the fact an earlier beta version was released initially. Given how involved the developers are in the community it isn't hard to feel that they have let the fans down the most by their actions, nor have their apologises after the shambles been great. They smack of excuses with fake acceptance of the blame.
That said the developers did spent a long time supporting the first SOTS and one can only hope they do that with the sequel, so to get to the state one would expect of a release version.
The best advice is that if you want a ready to play game don't buy this it is probably months away from been in an acceptable state. If you want to beta test a game in the hope that the developer stays in business long enough to fix the game than feel free. At this point I can't give the game more than a 1 and I just hope that the cash I've thrown away on this game will one day prove to be worth it.