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I played this game in Beta for a decent number of hours and then revisted it once the final release came out. I cannot recommend it.

The graphics are not impressive by any means. I'd rather a good game than good graphics; but Warlords doesn't even scratch the visuals in X3 and that was years ago.

The gameplay is very thin in many places. It truly is just a grind.

Trading is a joke; not even the most minor of dynamic systems like the prices for a resource going down as you flood a station with goods; instead you can find a fixed route and do nothing but that repeatedly.

Piloting is also very weak. The idea of the different classes is based on range; but there is no reasonable way to maintain a proper range from the enemy to say use Vanguard (if that's the "sniper" class, I can't remember them the names are terrible) and also keep the guns actually trained on the enemy. There is no way to reasonably control your fleet either.

The point of the review was that the game doesn't go all in on being a first-person ship controlling game, nor does it go all in on being a strategic game. It's a mishmash of the two and does neither well.

The review was a bit over the top about calling things offensive; the game is certainly in a finished state and reasonable care went into building it. It's not one of those ripoffs you find on steam by any means.

It's simply a boring game.