In The Black

Wanted to love this game. With the right accessibility options and more incentive to progress through levels (rather than repeating the same 3 over and over to earn a couple of credits), this game could be one of the greatest space-combat sims there ever was...but i'm highly skeptical. I really enjoyed the demo and felt like I was rather good at it. Unfortunately, the full version turned out to be a tedious grind. You spend your time replaying the easiest missions over and over just to earn enough money for barely noticeable weapon upgrades. Finally unlock an upgrade and think, *“Okay, now I’m ready for some real combat.”* Nope. You’ll need to grind through another 10 or so nearly identical missions before you might be powerful enough to take down a single enemy. And it’s not even because the enemies are particularly overpowered—the real problem is that you simply run out of ammunition and the game/missions are not fun enough for me to keep playing them over and over. The result is a frustrating progression loop that feels more like busywork than meaningful advancement. Maybe this is a completely different experience for someone who is already a pro-level flight sim player, bu…

This game is VERY alpha. Weapons don't look very good. Kinetic weapons basically shoot white dots. Laser beams you can't see half the time. Sound effects are lacking, along with mission types. You'll see the same part of space or interior base for every single mission. Some ships have cockpits while others don't. You have modules on your ship that you can't upgrade or modify. You can basically just change weapon loadouts and the colors of your ship, and that's it. I've put about 40hrs in so far and if there's something more to it, I'm not seeing it. I would wait a year and see how the updates have progressed to improve things. Right now it's just a frustrating low-payout grind with nothing really to work towards, and the same scenery over and over and over again.

Have you ever had issac newton grab you by the balls, then you grab his and turns out it transmutes into the joystick of the Shrike fighter the game bestows you after the tutorial, next thing you know you are In The Black™ with nothing but your ship, your sharpness, your aim and your grip on Sir Newton's Jewels. Reccomended for fellow peoples with high patience or for those weebs who watched the Expanse™. A certain understanding of physics and math required (or malleable instinct ydy).

This should be game of the year for space games.

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You can be a badass spaceship pilot pulling off crazy maneuvers with enough practice. Not for the faint of heart who want an easy flight model. The game is a bit barebones, not a lot of things to drive you to keep playing other than its ♥♥♥♥♥♥ rad to be a spaceship pilot doing sick flip and burn combat tricks. Overall highly recommend if you enjoy realistic flight sims and killing other spacers that are trying to kill you. But thats about all this game has to offer at the moment, a story would be cool, pvp is a blast, but not a huge community, I think working on the singleplayer side would make it far more approachable for new players, and a meaningful and thought out progression where you dont just get destroyed if you try anything too difficult. More in depth tutorials for advanced movement and combat would also be good. Would love to see some more in depth torpedo and countermeasure gameplay. I would also like to see space debris be more threatening especially at speed.