Thanks for the detailed feedback, could you let me know what resolution you were running?
Lots of good ideas in here, I won't address every point, but the UI is definitely overwhelming and the tutorial is not a good solution for that. Tooltips might be part of a better solution.
Targeting isn't really controlled for the most part. It was too complicated and buggy, so I removed a chunk of that UI. Now, it mostly autotargets what you're pointing at. I'll fix it, there's nothing I love more than making bling hustle more complicated.
The thrust/shoot flip is technically a feature for touchscreen devices. Bling Hustle is a terrible game for a touchscreen, and touchscreen devices are terrible for everything, but 99% of the people I talk to about the game don't have or don't use keyboard and mouse. I haven't really figured out how to have that option available when needed without it being obtrusive to the high functioning users.
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Glad it helped!
Resolution is 3840 x 2400. I just noticed you said 1080p resolution is recommended so that's on me haha.
Actually I think the autotarget can work, just all it needs is a button to lock your current target? The most annoying part was once I had found my target, other ships would fly in front and I'd lose it.
Ohh OK that makes sense with the controls. What triggers the change, out of curiosity?
A bit surprised it was on the high end, but I guess I shouldn't be. I created a separate, more minimalistic HUD for lower resolutions, which I'd observed were a problem from interface elements being squished into each other. But I'd never done any testing at higher than 1080p, because that's my monitor. I'm guessing I did some approximate math with the text wrap that isn't close enough at very high resolutions.
The change between right/left mouse buttons was a button on the screen like the lettered shortcuts (which also indicate the keyboard key, V can turn them off if you remember those keyboard controls). But I apparently phased it out at some point, and have it in the options menu, which is unreachable without a keyboard anyways. So there's a mystery for me to figure out.
Also, the T key is supposed to lock onto a target, but I just tried it and it crashed the game, so that's a whole thing to figure out too. Really helpful to find these things.
Aha! I think I fixed the targeting issue, T key should now properly lock on to current target or unlock target if you already have a locked target.
On further inspection, the mobile thrust hack should only be onscreen and clickable if your device is detected as a"mobile device", or if your resolution is at least 99,999 pixels wide. Not sure why either would apply, but the mobile device check is very much copypasta. I think the thrust/shoot toggle does show up the options menu (O key) can disable it but I'm not actually sure.