My raw thoughts as I played:
- I don't think the map works?
- The throttle is very confusing, it almost seems like I'm manipulating a throttle I can't see and then the speed is reacting to that. It feels very indirect and unclear how I'm meant to set a desired speed.
- Music loud.
- Thruster effects are neat.
- I don't understand how to lock enemy ships so I can track them better. I point at them and press H and T but nothing seems to do anything.
- The enemy ships fly by so fast, and are so small, that when I did kill them I felt like I was just shooting blind, especially because the target markers disappear when they get close. The difficult (unclear) speed management also meant I never felt like I was going the right speed. Not having an obvious range number makes it very hard to judge distance too since everything is so far/fast.
- Seems I can only target asteroids? The mouse flight/aiming is good.
- To sell that you are accelerating/decelerating, having the camera slightly dolly in and out plus a tiny bit of camera shake will make it feel like your thrusters are doing something.
- No spacedust! It's really difficult to judge how fast you're moving. I don't think there's even a speedometer anywhere.
- The description said 6DOF but I don't see any 6DOF, just forward/back and turning. Where's the strafing and sliding? The ship seems to be on rails.
- I pressed F to get outside my ship and the ship autopiloted and shot down some guys? I moved some missiles around in the cockpit but I don't understand what I was doing or why.
- The more I mess with the throttle the less I understand how it's correlated to my speed. Like e.g. if I hold it back for a few seconds then release instead of smoothly slowing down I just stop almost instantly?
- Figured out 0 is the mining laser and 1 is the gun. Ate parts of an asteroid and watched stuff float away, but I wasn't really sure what to do with it. I got out of the cockpit, and then the ship flew into the asteroid and blew itself up. I fell "down" for a few seconds before the game reset.