Ok. Its happened again. I watched some YTuber showing how amazing this game is and so I bought it.
I dont beleive in refunding, it was my decision. I'll live with it. I'm only 2+ hours in, so take this review as you see fit.
I did a few missions, bought a passenger plane and got bored and annoyed within that 2.3 hours.
I cant recommend this game - not in this state. Why do people do this? I dont understand it. There are clearly _many_ serious problems and its just not "fun". The visuals are nice in the first 30 mins, but after that so many things that just drove me nuts:
- The alien movement and collision detection is just bad. These are not good "grinding" aliens to shoot, they just make the experience annoying and pointless.
- Some of the default key mappings and controls are.. odd too.
- I was playing offline, and if you die and you were "out" exploring. Good luck getting back all the stuff you had collected and earnt. Its just painful.
- The placement of buildings and movement within them (the ruins) are just bad. You can get jammed so easily. That wouldnt be so bad, but the aliens then just come and kill you.
- Lots of clipping/collision issues.
- The ship flight. Wow. just wow. How could you make something so bad. Have you played any other space games? Wow - this really surprised me.
- Nothing to do - contracts, aliens, kill, zombies, travel between empty spots, and repeat.
- No real value in the basics - ie, why do I need shotgun over rifle? whats the need for head armour? Alot of the time, these made little difference, and so I didnt know why I really needed it. Im sure this will be more relevant in a couple of years when there is an actual game, but atm. Its kinda pointless.

Just like with SpaceBourne 2 which people started raving about and calling it a star citizen killer, I have been seeing similar sorts of silly comments about this one. You cant even really class this as a game atm. Yes its got "game" elements, but theres just no real anything in it. At least Spacebourne 2 had a bit more mission types (not much.. but at least it kept me playing).

I get it, this is hard to auto gen content or manual fill. And for what Qanga is, it is a technical marvel. But, it wont have me coming back to it because its just too 'meh'. Theres _years_ of work needed here and not in gfx, just in making an actual game that people can invest themselves in (for me at least). My time playing games is limited, and I really cant be "hoping" it might have something cool in it, in 12 months time.

What I do love about it, is the art. This is excellent - even if it kills my pc (i9 + RTX3070Ti) The general character control and some of the UI elements are excellent. The layout of the stations is really well thought out too. Its a nice place to run around in.

Like Spacebourne 2, I would have preferred, that they maybe focused on a single area in the world, maybe one country and one space station. And get some semblance of actual gameplay working. Maybe with some nice simple story missions. Like Spacebourne I think they thought just roaming around a massive world is fun. Yes it is, if there is stuff in it. But this is extremely bare, and really quite boring.

If I want to roam an amazing copy of Earth.. I will load up Outerra (nearly 10 yrs old now) and do that... Theres alot more there in an "empty" world than there is in this one...

I hope in the coming months/years it will get better.. like No Mans Sky (although I did like that from the start.. ) ... please make flying the ship better, that alone is just weird in this era of modern space sims.

The world seems really empty. You go to the city and not a lot of movement. Everything that is here is really good. If they stick with game it will be amazing.

Alors sois disant un jeux cocorico ! bravo, mais pour un jeux dev par des français et pas de voix fr, Décevant !!!!!!!!!!!, encore les même qui sont toujours favorisé... (Les buveurs d'eau chaude). le jeux à l'air très prometeur, les graphismes sont bleufant pour une petite équipe, on ressent bien qu'il faut pas une petite config pour le faire tourné. le gamplay manque beaucoup de contenu à l'heure actuel. et le monde est vide quand on s'éloigne de la zone de spawn, manque beaucoup d'information quand on s'aproche de la yellow wall, on sais pas ou ce posé, ect... et le tutoriel ma l'air un peu blaclé... . c'est une alfa et j'espere que le jeux va évolué dans le bon sens . en attendant, je retourne sur SC.