I've watched some video previews and streams of this game. The 'low scale' battles, and the low number of ships involved makes it look underwhelming. I'd prefer something along the lines of 10 to 15 ships on each teams, for a total of 30 or so. I'm not sure if it's always 5 Vs 5, regardless of the maps (is it?), but I haven't seen maps so far that would seem to allow more players than what looks like the 'standard' and only choice. Maybe custom servers will be possible, with more players perhaps.
It sure looks good, but yeah, the 'action' is so so, nothing impressive, nothing 'epic' to it. I do like the details on the ships themselves for sure, credits where due. But generally speaking it looks like a generic shooter except its on ships, you die a few times, you respawn a few times. I would have preferred it if you would NOT respawn after you die, but instead make the ship more durable to compensate and still have about the same match duration overall. Each ship would instead lose parts / layers of their hull(s), you'd lose specific (individual) turrets / cannons (etc), you'd then start losing your engines (if you only have one, it would instead go in a few phases of degradation), and so on.
What I have in mind - simply put - would be something like Star Wars: Empire at War's space battle system, in full 3D (without the respawn or 'reinforcement' part). Instead they opted to go for the more common-to-shooters die-and-respawn cycle. It might still be somewhat fun, but I suspect that I would get bored of it in about a week or so. I'll wait until this holiday for some very cheap deals, if anything.
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