I tried out closed beta for a while. Let me just say it gets old fast. The flight control felt reeeeally bogged down, to the point it was near impossible to hit jack, even stationary targets.
This had to do with 3 things (1 being similar to FL): 1) when not in 1st person view, your aim is always off. 2) equipping weapons with different speed / range / etc will skew your aim as well.
The latter makes having *good* custom drop weapons and modding them entirely useless. 3) Movement felt seriously like fighting with the interface. To be fair, a little of that is due to ship mechanics like turn rate and mass, but it feels much different than FL's implementation -in a bad way.

Game-play; well I solo most times so I don't need to wait for people or schedule my in-game time around others. If you go this route, you will be mostly out of luck and bored as hell within 2 weeks. Story-line stuff is OK the first run through, but is mingled with open pvp areas, so if you're solo / casual and new, you're likely to be toast on those missions.

Honestly, it didn't feel like a very immersive game. Grind to get better equipment, then grind some more, no real point.

And waiting 20 frigging minutes for your mod to apply to an item is entirely unnecessary. You shouldn't need to go afk and watch a damned movie WHILE you play a game. Add to that, there is of course the possibility of failing after that 20 minute wait.

In short, it is no replacement for FL, not by a long shot. If you want eye candy for a bit, it looks great. But it isn't a next gen FL replacement; you can't explore planets, you can't interact while docked (actually, there aren't even any NPC models, it's just a static picture of the person with text), there aren't any missions out of the ship, and there isn't even an effective trade system.

In my opinion it also got boring quite fast, although I didn't have too much problems with the guns or the flight controls, I used 3 plasma flamethrowers and a lightning gun for the shields, and only used parts with low mass and no shield, that makes handling a bit better. But you have a rather low range then of course, and you have problems with multiple enemies.

But you all have to admit that the character creation is very nice, the only problem is that you never see anything of him in the game!

No trading at all? I hope that's revised for the future...otherwise it's, well, basically a PvP game in space

So no trade, explore a la Freelancer and Egosoft's X-Games.

Re-read the sentence Gisteron. I think it doesn't mean what you think it means

okay, sorry... sorta confused today a bit or stuff... must be something in the air lol.

I must be blind, can't find system requirements anywhere on the site.
I remember that my gfx card wasn't min spec when I downloaded the beta 7 months ago, but without a systems requirement specification...

It still lets you run it if you don't meet the requirements, it just displays a warning message before you enter the game.

I meet all of the requirements, though I have 1.5GB RAM instead of >2GB. And trust me, my graphics performance when playing the game is less than pleasant. :/



How about 2 minutes? I actually wintessed a debate over whether the Eagle was better than the Titan... In the Black Prophecy global chat.

Yyyyeah. Exactly.

I guess I'm downloading this for nothing then? I can add more RAM to give me a full 2 gigs but, if it implies 3 is best then, it will more than likely need it. I've played these games before and not just Space Sims and they do drag my game without the right amount of RAM.

I think I'll just finish the dl and package it. I'm not going to bother any further and if the game is as bad as these reviews and this has been a great waste of time to me.

Hope anyone here that does play it, has what's needed and enjoys it?