Dark Horizon FTL

“Ugh” about sums it up. I’ve been trying this doosie out the last day or so. It looks pretty nice, but wow the controls blow, there are no navpoints or a map interface, no mission log accessible in-flight, no manual save-game (which means you have to sit through every damn cut-scene numerous times when they fail to explain what in the hell your goal is), oh and much of the time right after your mission the game CTD’s because of codec bugs, aaand no multiplayer. Whew that was a nice run-on sentence but gawd this game makes me want to slay things -mostly the devs.

If all the above was corrected it might be worth playing, because the balancing for weapons / shields / hull / armor / speed is done pretty niftily. You disassemble junk you pick up (mysteriously collected behind the scenes I guess) in order to make custom guns or utility add-ons. Unfortunately this doesn’t include Shields, Reactors, or Missiles. The other positive is that it seems more geared towards joystick use than mouse flight (good for feeling like you’re actually flying). Anyways I just figured I’d give ya’ll a heads up before you decide to fork out cash for this.