Had an hour to kill, so I decided to fire up the shiny new game to see what it's like. Spent ten minutes reading text tutorial, which is the literal worst possible method of tutorial, but almost everyone does it that way, so meh.
Story stuff seems to be going, nothing big yet. I'm told by arbitrary text on the screen to fly to yonder planet in the background. I accelerate to maximum airplaneinspace speed, and notice that the planet is taking a long while to get close. I open whatever they decided to call the starmap, and click on the waypoint for the planet. There's a go-to button, so I intelligently click on it. Some female voice (crew? pilot? autopilot? imaginary friend?) says the ship is now flying there, and the big 'ol hunk of metal makes good on its word, spooling up the drives to a camera-shaking, refraction-toting sort of warp drive.
Apparently a pirate ship turned up, so I have a free excuse to try the pewpew. I'd completely forgotten all the controls already, but I figured out how to fly and which button was the fire control before his first shots arrived. I'm not entirely sure that he ever hit me. A couple minutes later, he goes boom from my pulse cannon looking thingies. Fairly pretty engagement, handy UI had obvious shield/hull indicators on him, weapons aimed where I pointed, blah blah polish yak yak smoothness yammer yammer. Re-engaged the autopilot thingy.
And it flew me right into the planet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Decided to try again tomorrow, it's almost me bedtime. Seemed pretty fun, but I'm gonna have to figure out how to trust the autopilot less. I got used to I-War 2, which is really good at dodging those pesky little planets that get in your way. Obviously it's pretty tough to avoid something that moves so quickly.
--IronDuke