https://youtu.be/kgjxonzOxp0 As a huge fan of the Space Combat Sim Genre, I had high hopes for this game and seeing where this game took it's inspiration from I admit I allowed myself to get a bit excited. However, what I was forced to endure for my First Impressions review quickly dispelled any vestige of hope or excitement. The options menus are a broken mess, some even requiring a loading screen? Also there is no menu for audio adjustments and the buttons to select an inverted Y axis do not seem to function at all. Also, in spite of the Developer's claim for HOTAS support, the game refused to recognize my joystick and only allowed me to use the controller... where I'm sorry but right stick for maneuvering and left stick for throttle? To me that seems exceptionally backwards. The game itself is buggy and tedious. It requires you to slog through the tutorial missions before it will even unlock the campaign. Once you finally get there, IF you manage to get the campaign to load, you ...

I'm afraid it really is as bad as people say. I didn't listen to the reviews and purchased. 20 minutes later I hit the refund button. Optimisation is horrible, controls hideous and it's just boring. Yes it is a looker but that can't hide it's many and game breaking faults. I wanted to like this and for people to be wrong but I couldn't and they are not. I love space sims but comparing this to wing commander, freespace and star wars is just wrong. It's set in space and there the similarity ends.

Remember, this is NOT early access!! (and I don't know why) I REALLY tried to play it, becauseI wanted to, so even after being dissapointed to HAVE to play the tutorials in order to play the campaign I wanted to give it my everything, but then sitting there for about 3 minutes so that I can listen to the lamest AI voice ever while doing NOTHING, NOTHING AT ALL... Ok.. that was hard to overcome... but then she just won't shut up, and every single thing has to be explained while you just sit and try out the different buttons because you didn't play attention in the beginning, but she even has to commentate every single mode you turn on and off, so you try to push every single button on the controller while she is saying out lout what you're doin, while at the same time she is trying to tell you something new.... pure chaos... but ok, after a few minuted I got the controlls and basically knew how most of this works... -> next objective: find a Drone and destroy it, ok , why not. So I try...

Tutorial is bad, simply bad. It's just a voice with no subtitles, explaining everything and then throwing a buttons list in your face, pretending you'd be able to memorize them all in the span of one minute, then it proceeds to just refer to commands as "scan button", "acceleration", etc. I can't learn the game like this, there's no gradual easing of the player into the controls, no way for the player to easily discover the controls one by one like most standard tutorials do. If a game fails in the tutorial phase then the whole game fails.

The game is not as horrible as the nay sayers have been droning on about. However to be fair the game is far from perfect. I got the game expecting the worst based on the reviews. But it seems the developer has been taking a look at the reviews both here and other media and slowy fixing some of the more "painful" issues. I have had no major issues with the game up to this point, most of the issues I've had were with game play as there are certain things that can be improved upon with ship to ship combat and cockpit layout. For what its worth I think this is a great contribution from the independant developer side of the house. So far I have been enjoying the game. If the Dev of this project keeps adding to this game I believe you'll have a decent space sim over some time. But alot more work is needed. Adding joystick support would greatly add to the feel of a space sim. As well add difficulty settings for the entire campaing rather than just in the instant action portion of...

Played for a Hour.....Sloppy controls. Game mechanics also sloppy.

From what has been posted in the earlier reviews I was hesitant to try this game, However, with Keyboard and mouse support,, It is fun and seems to work well. For 13.00 not a bad simulator and a fun game to play.

Dispite all these bad reviews I really am enjoying the game. I was pleasantly surprised how good this was for the price.. Looks stunning @ 3840 x 2560 maxed out .. I get steady 75fps even when flying close to capital ships,astroid fields and plantet's look awesome. The game has presence and feels emersive, the hud is cool, even with the odd cinamatics adds to the action along with the voice acting and music sound are good (except the Ai voice in 1st training sinario but gets better). Trackir works great and the xbox contoller works flawlessly too. I have Worthog hotas but im happy with the xbox control I loved Freespace back in the day ... I'm really liking this too, and some. Also just a 1 man Developer .. Wow just Wow.. Gem of a space Sim Imho.

This game is hot shit. Avoid. Control customization is garbage. Menu is bugged and locks up where you can't quit the game.

This is another one of those "Asset Store Games" I played the game, and thought, for the small price tag this is really cool. It is a cross between wing commnader and battle star galactica. But then i look at these reviews and think, are they playing the same game as me, or is this game or its developer or developers (begs to question) have tried a quick buck title. I looked through the CDF Database and found a nice space themed story with models that has been bought from : https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=CDF+battleship&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB721GB721&tbm=isch&imgil=cPt9Ngqaorqk7M%253A%253BKv70_Ij3sZvmbM%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.cgtrader.com%25252F3d-models%25252Fspace%25252Fspaceship%25252Fcdf-starfall-battleship&source=iu&pf=m&fir=cPt9Ngqaorqk7M%253A%252CKv70_Ij3sZvmbM%252C_&usg=__8SIcoNHgdpBV7L0rw9o6r8BLniE%3D&biw=1251&bih=762&ved=0ahUKEwiIp53XxcrTAhUKDsAKHSVaAFIQyjcILQ&ei=1PwEWYjtNYqcgAaltIGQBQ#imgrc=cPt9Ngqaorqk7M: Here : https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/starf...