I’m like 3 hours in and I already don’t know how to control anything.
The shootout at the start, how do I swap weapons? Oh, I go into my inventory and fucking dig through 2 menus and then fumble with the tiny triangle identifying what I have equipped. Ok, fabled fucked my way into a pistol, now I’m going to chase these enemies around.
Alright, I got hit a few times, the help text tells me to hit O (or is it 0? Unreadable text font for these things in the heat of battle having used no other numbers for anything). I mash O, nothing happens. I realize it’s ZERO, I mash that, my health goes up. Hey, how many of these healing kits do I have? Is it on the in world ui? Nope? Have to go into my inventory, another 2 menus deep to just find out if I have anymore of these. Getting annoyed at basic game design now.
Chase the last pirate around who hid between rock geometry and the side of the mining base wall. Loot all the pirates and dead miners, get given a ship. Board the ship, have a loading screen to enter the actual ship from the cargo bay… what? Get into the pilot seat, take off. Get ambushed by the pirates for my space combat tutorial. Am quickly explained controls and shuttling power around (holy fuck this is ST Bridge Command but worse since I need to hold a modifier to swap between the power elements then tick up or down in real time). Kill the first ship following their instructions.
Get told to loot them but given no further info on how that works. Do I fly and stop next to the marked cargo pod? How do I stop the ship? Why isn’t there an all stop button? Drift / fly past the thing 3 times and take too long that I trigger the second ambush. Now I’m mad at failing to loot and under a time pressure. Fumble fuck around moving power from my engines back to the shields nd weapons because I was trying to figure that game system out when I wasn’t given time before. Fight is on, my shields are down, the lasers are underpowered. Barely survive that fight at like 10% hull (0 or O? repairs the hull. How many of these do I have? Where are they in my inventory, because there not on the UI anywhere).
Now I have 3 cargo pods to loot. Finally discover that there’s some range (500-900m?) that you loot from when you target them and hit e. Where was this info before? Game tells me to head to Atlantis or whatever the first planet is. Ok, follow my blue diamond on the hud, max out my engines… and this is going to take years? Fumble fuck around with the power assignment mini game some more, max out the Grav(?) bar on the far right wondering if that it something (game hasn’t told me a god damn thing so far). Keep staring in confusion and annoyance at the UI and what just transpired when I’m suddenly ported to a loading screen and am now close to the destination planet. What happened, did I do that by accident? Did the game do that? Now it’s telling me to bring up my system map and fast travel to the destination on the surface. Press the appropriate buttons in the UI and loading screen into landed.
I’m so fucking lost and confused and at the point I need to go read shit on the internet / start over because not a god damn thing has been adequately explained and the in game ui is fucking trash.
Did anyone play test this shit?
