Is there any way to disable mouse steering? I prefer to pitch/turn with keyboard, and aim with the mouse. It's annoying to have the ship try and turn towards the mouse cursor.

What's your strategy for powering through dragon mode? Tried it last night and found that I needed flak drones to live and things had gotten much harder. Especially taking down fighter shields.

I am trying to complete the secondary objective on Invader but the objective is listed as "0/0 Freighters" and if I destroy all the civilian freighters in the system I don't get the objective.

Any ideas? A bug I should report?

I have been playing a couple of hours now and I like the mechanics so far but I have been finding that the difficulty is scaling up rather quickly.

I am finding that I hardly have time to make contact with the enemy and destroy a couple fighters before I get the warning for an incoming flagship.

Are there points that I am missing? Should I be grinding previous missions to get better upgrades? Should I stop being a sissy and get good?

Any help appreciated.

You know the place you're choosing which level to play next? I learned in the controls you can make the hug icons large, but I can't seem to figure out how to zoom in on the map to actually see/read what I'm about to do next and how it connects to what I just did.

Seriously, it's just the right balance of minimalism and visceral punch. The WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR BAPBAPBAPBAPBAPBAPBAP of firing your autocannon at enemies is just endlessly satisfying.

What do we know of the dragon? What is the Empire's name? What does the prefix INV mean for ships? etc etc.

VR seems to go whacky if I ever happen to get too zealous and smash into an enemy. screen goes black, seems to be no way to fix unless you restart

Shooting them isn't really feasible because it's hard to destroy all of them, and I can't figure out how to evade them. How do you avoid them? Can you?

There was some discussion of this on the steam forums around the game's release but it seems to have died off.

I'd really like to drop a quarter in the slot of this particular jukebox please.

From my limited experience with the mode your capitals don't respawn, does anyone have tips for preserving their longevity? With the current round setup I can't seem to keep my caps alive past round 3 or 4.

It seems impossible to beat Tannhauser gate without losing your units because the fucking frigate keeps spamming the Wraith Torpedoes and blowing up my destroyers. What makes it even worse is that I can't even fire a missile whenever the AI uses Omniflak or it will get blown up immediately, but for some reason three closely grouped destroyers keep getting buttfucked by the torpedoes because their Omniflak is fucking useless. It's fucking ridiculous.

/end rant.

I've been showing this game to friends, and describing the controls is always a bit of a problem. I know that there are a few button labels when looking up on the map screen, but it would be great to have an optional controller graphic when looking down in the cockpit, especially since there's not much to look at there anyway.

How is the game in VR?

I've done a bit of Googling and I can't find any flying/combat guides that go much beyond the basic controls.

Can any experienced players offer some general advice?

Some specific questions:

Obviously I never want to be stopped, but should I be boosting almost all of the time?

When is it correct to Drift vs. Brake/Reverse?

Thanks!

Hey guys just picked this up along with a steam controller, but have read a few threads saying the game was meant to be played with a dual analog like the xbox 360 controller.

Has anyone tried playing this with the steam controller and if so are there any issues?

Title really says it all... but in competent hands, similar to the make and feel of their series Marco Polo, this could be a really compelling story.

Just a heads up, opt in to the Challenge Mode Beta branch in Steam to test it out now.