Symphony of Stars

Could not figure out the controls. There only seems to be the Unity Engine start-box to define the controls, and there are some obvious omissions, like the T-key for taking over planets. No in-game help for finding out which buttons to use. I figured out how to take over a planet, but I never figured out the dog-fighting. Either the enemy would sneak up behind me, or it would easily pass-by me while I wobbled back and forth, in attempts to aim. I understand the game is Early Access, but there needs to be some way to bring new users up to a level of doing something, just so they can try it out. Right now, the game just drops you into the cockpit of a very wobbly spaceship.

As a non-VR title, this is super barebones and not something worth buying (yet?). SoS has the makings of a nice indie space shooter but there's just not enough here to make it a worthy buy. The visuals in SoS are really nice for an indie project, with the included photo mode you can stage some pretty neat non-combat shots of friend and enemy vessels. The soundtrack is amazing, I could see myself putting it on loop as it's equal parts relaxing yet heroic. Each faction has fairly unique ship designs, unusual in smaller scale games and the main thing which will keep you playing until you've flown them all. Unfortunately, what this non-VR release gets wrong is a bigger list. You cannot capture planets as there is no menu when clicking on them, rendering the core of the game unplayable. Keyboard controls are a mystery beyond W and S for thrust and T for marking other ships. Trying to take a screenshot breaks the entire game, usually causing you to float outside your ship (I believe this is the photo mode, although it comes across as a bug). Closing the game is impossible outside of using Task Manager to kill the process. Last but not least, there's honestly at most a half hour or mayb…

[quote][b]Warning: Dead PVP Game[/b] This game has no single player content, and no playable PvP servers. There is no functioning PvP population, it's a dead game, and cannot be played meaningfully in the way intended by the developers.[/quote] "Symphony of Stars" is an amateurish attempt to create a PvP centric space combat sim, very much stylised as a ripoff of Wing Commander, but unfortunately the quality of this game is exceedingly low, which undoubtedly contributed to the complete failure to attract players. Don't get me wrong, such a game can generate a huge amount of public interest, with games like Star Citizen attracting record levels of crowdfunding and millions of players before it's even completed the main development phase. But the developer here is not Chris Roberts. The focus of the game is pure PvP, there's no single player content. The developer gambled that other players would be an acceptable substitute for adding storytelling, level design etc to the game. The vast majority of PvP-only games fail because they don't "go viral", and without players, or single player content to add a lasting value to the game, the game dies. Developers must learn that oth…

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It's bad, you can't even figure out the controls.

i forgot why i bought this but me no likey