Recent reviews by Handler Theta (She/Sir)

Buggy as all hell and actively requires metagaming to complete. Completely ruins the experience set out by the base game.

This game needs a bit more time in the oven. Love what the devs are doing, but this game is certainly wearing that "early access" tag.

I bought this to play with a friend. I've been playing combat flight simulations and space simulations for the better part of 18-19 years now and was expecting this to be like all those simulations I grew up playing. This game is absolutely nothing like what I was expecting or wanting. It's a grindfest where even if you're a competent pilot who has an easy time maneuvering around enemy ships and keeping guns on target you will still lose to either instant kill attacks or just be whittled down by attrition while doing no damage yourself because the game's combat is not skill based, it is level and money based which can only be accomplished by spending literal hours grinding for pocket change by mining or killing low level enemies. If you dare try take an actual mission without doing that first and encounter a ship that isn't a sidewinder or eagle (the two cheap starting ships you yourself can get at the start of the game) you may as well just reset the save because it saves you more time than grinding out repair costs or just getting stuck in a death loop you cannot escape because one NPC frigate keeps hunting you down and interdicting you while you are completely unable to fight back against it because of how outclassed your ship and weapons are with no options to upgrade without the grind that is being stopped by said frigate NPC that spawnkills you. It wouldn't be so bad if the two starter ships could actually hold their own against all the ships that have leagues better shields and hull, which you in theory could modify them to do... only after multiple hours of slow grinding and trying to do missions which loops up back around to here.

You start out so incredibly weak and there is nothing you can do other than grind away mining or shooting other sidewinders. There are so many other features you would think would be basic for a game this is trying to be like targetable ship subsystems (it's a dice roll if a subsystem goes out when you are shot instead of aiming for specific ship systems) or a more streamlined control method for managing ship and subsystem power. It doesn't exist and because this is a dead live service game with developers who issue bans for any sort of action that changes the gameplay, gives a player an "unfair advantage", or removes the grind (even by friends on the game giving you money or taking you on higher level and paying missions), you cannot mod these sorts of things in.

If you want to play a combat flight simulator then just buy an IL-2 or Microsoft Flight Simulator game.
If you want a space simulator just buy a Wing Commander or one of the X-wing games.

This game would be fine if one faction wasn't hamstrung by the need to have 5 million different facilities to actually produce their useful tanks which are the main deciding factor in mid-late war. Until the devs do something about facilities just ruining the game for half of the player base then I'd just not buy this unless you want to play super casually.

Yeah It's a fun little time waster

Buy Empire at War instead.

OH JESUS CHRIST ITS AN RPG GET DO-



10/10 would be instakilled by an entire insurgent team with RPGs.

It's good and very interesting, but not worth the ten dollars.

I'm glad that I'm using my life on this ♥♥♥♥.