Preamble: I will preface my review by saying this NOT a bad game but it IS too expensive and my experience was not enjoyable, I was not sure about buying it for that price in early access, and since you get a very limited time to try a game before being able to return it there was a very high bar to meet for me.

While it is a thumbs down it is *not* a thumbs down because the game is bad/unpolished/buggy/glitchy etc because it absolutely isnt, this is important. If you dont mind the things i mention below you will absolutely LOVE this game and you should get it. I understand that perhaps my personal preference lies elsewhere.

Pros:
~This game is gorgeous looking
~seemless space to atmosphere transitions and combat
~The hit registration is fluid and spot on.
~The games premise and execution seem very solid.
~It is essentially a mixture of C&C Renegades simplicity and PVP accessibility, Planetside or perhaps the Original Battlefront 2 conquest map, with Elite-ish style combat, with Homeworld style 70's sci-fi looking ships.

Cons:
~The UI is very very confusing to me. when you start theres no indication of what you're supposed to be clicking on, or where the fighting is, or even how you spawn into a spaceship. and then when you do

~You will be missile spammed and instant killed over and over.. I have never understood why in so many space games missiles are given so much power, these games that live or die on your gun accuracy have often such rediculous guided ordinance, yes we get it, missiles are effective IRL then can end people without you doing anything, which is why in games they feel like such a cheap crutch.
People will say that "you need to boost and launch countermeasures" yes, but the AMOUNT of missiles combined with all of the directions they are coming from multiplied by how very strong they are makes this a thoroughly unenjoyable fighter experience.
So you might be saying "they're just mad because they died a bunch" but that's not really the whole story, I got into a lot of fights even in the short time i played and when the fights don't include missiles, the game really comes into its own and is quite phenomenal, fantastic even, however then my allies will come over and just end the guy im dogfighting with with missiles. so you cant win, you either get endlessly spammed by them until you die, or anyone you're fighting gets spammed with them until they die.
Every fight is completely dominated by them, and it was aggravating, and when i've just paid that much money I don't like to feel aggravated by my purchase.
Every ship seems to have some kind of missile so the sound of missile warnings never went away which is just the cherry on the cake at this point. It wouldnt be half as bad if when you manage to dodge the missiles they stopped chasing you and maybe explode cinematically, but they dont, they just turn around and relentlessly chase for what feels like forever.
The basic Interceptor ship most people are fighting with has 4 missiles, 1 missile will strip your shield completely and take away 25% of your hull, which is far too strong when they are just so numerous. You get only 10 countermeasures to deal with all of that. and when you run out you ARE 100% dead with no possible chance of survival.

This isnt even mentioning capital ships spamming missiles at ground bases from orbit, everyones just spamming missiles!!

~Interceptor handling.
This will 100% be my personal preference i feel, as somebody who has come from a Freelancer space fighting background rather than an Elite style one, but the interceptor handles like a bathtub full of water sliding around on an ice skating ring. It feels like it weighs an absolute ton and the engines are just not strong enough to cope with it and this is with flight assist on too. Just getting the ship to actually travel towards where I am facing was a chore.
And since your afterburning power is pulled from the same power you shoot with, you are either dodging 5 missiles or shooting and if you need to do both you will die.
I dont mind the whole realistic space dogfighting mechanic of sliding around because star citizen has it and its fine in there, in this it just feels like the ship has either too much mass for what it is, or the engines are not strong enough.


If I could change this to suit me what would I do:
~I would completely nerf fighter missiles, half the damage missiles did so it would be 50% of the hull only per missile, make them ineffective against shielded targets, limit their lifetime so that they have to be fired more carefully and dont travel as far, and if you do dodge them then they would not capable of spinning around and continuing to chase you.


This game could really be something far more enjoyable for what it is right now and I truely hope that it does get there because it can be breath taking, and if the game was F2P or half the asking price I probably wouldn't have wrote a review at all, but at this price point I had to write something about it.

Когда-то давным-давно, лет 10-15 назад, Infinity должна была стать полноценным космосимом. Идеи игры поражали воображение, а графический движок показывал один из самых прекрасных космосов в игровой индустрии, да ещё и полностью процедурный. Мы должны были бороздить бескрайние просторы без единой подгрузки, без разделения на сервера. Мы должны были воевать, торговать, строить, создавать и разрушать, встречаться с друзьями и врагами, открывать новые звёзды и невиданные миры. Но все эти времена давно прошли. Теперь Infinity совсем другая игра.

Ваша задача, и задача вашей команды - уничтожить всю инфраструктура врага на карте. Подключившись к одному из практически пустующих серверов, пилоты выбирают сторону и без всяких объяснений их выбрасывают в космос. Про обучение здесь никто не слышал. Подсказки? Тоже нет. На выбор у игрока всего 6 вариантов кораблей - от простого истребителя до крупного мазера. Чтобы взять корабль побольше, нужно скопить n-ное количество кредитов. Где-то на 4-ом по размеру корабле схема управления значительно изменяется, но опять же без каких-либо объяснений. Ну а далее остаётся выбрать место спавна из нескольких дружественных станций, которые в этой сессии ещё остались живыми, и лететь туда, где ваши соплеменники сражаются с неприятелем. Побеждает сторона, которая уничтожит все станции соперников. После чего сессия перезапускается, все результаты обнуляются и сражения начинаются по-новой.

Вот впрочем и весь геймплей. Если вы думаете, что всё таки найдёте в этой игре что-то ещё, спешу вас разочаровать - больше здесь нет ничего. Большинство звуковых эффектов разработчики взяли прямиком из бесплатных ассетов, доступных в интернете для свободного использования. А вот дизайнера в команду авторы не завезли - начиная с главного меню всё в Infinity выглядит как безвкусная поделка. Даже над кораблями никто особенно и не думал заморачиваться. Общее ощущение бессмысленности происходящего не отпускает до самого окончания матча. А когда пушки всё таки замолкают, мы понимаем насколько бесполезны оказались все наши действия, ведь разработчики не подумали даже о банальной таблице лидеров.

За что всё же можно похвалить Infinity, так это за достаточно красивый космос и недурно сработанные пейзажи планет, хоть и порядком уже устаревшие. И конечно массовые сражения. Нет, здесь вряд ли будут буталии с тысячами игроков, но несколько десятков (или даже сотня?) вполне могут сойтись в одной локации и озарить космос лазерными лучами в духе Звёздных Войн. Но даже всё это совершенно бессмысленны в суматохе сражений и наслаждаться красотами обычно попросту нет времени.

В конечном счёте, всё что сейчас осталось в Infinity: Battlescape от оригинальной и подающей надежды Infinity: The Quest For Earth это графика. Изрядно устаревшая, но всё ещё местами красивая. Очень хочется надеяться, что Флавиен и Кит, а именно столько человек официально работают в команде, не забросят свой проект и смогут раздобыть средства на продолжение разработки оригинальной игры. Но что-то мне подсказывает, что после выхода Battlescape шансы на удачное завершение истории крайне низки.

Refunded purely due to low player count. In-game server stats and also Steam charts clearly show a 1-5 Daily player count.

I'm a little perplexed at the current development. Devs seem to be happy with the current price ($44.99 Canadian) and the copies sold but clearly the price is scaring away a potential playerbase.

I would give this game a positive review if it weren't for the lack of players. The game-play is a blast, in fact there is a lot Star Citizen could learn from this game in regards to the rock-paper-scissors balancing concept to keep all classes of ships viable. Unfortunately the developer made the fatal mistake of bringing the game to the consumer long before they have a minimum viable product. As a result, they have lost the momentum generated by a large wave of initial players. Being that this game relies solely on its multiplayer to be a viable game, I can't recommend it. It seems to be dead before it's even finished.

I tried to login today, there were 2 players online, one on the EU server, one on the US server. I hope they manage to lure in players somehow, because I would love to play more of this game, unfortunately I don't have much hope. I've seen it too many times before. I wish I could get a refund, but I've got nearly 15 hours in :(

Although I put thumbs down its really like a neutral stance on the game right now.....

Been waiting for this game to come out for YEARS and its finally here.

Trying to be as unbiased as possible and also consider that this is an EA state for the moment.

Overall the game looks BEAUTIFUL and I mean probably the best looking out there for space games. (in my opinion)
Combat for the most part feels satisfying.... it probably needs some work though especially with some of the combat sounds and HUD.

Game is overall a bare bones model right now where A) you pick a side B) you travel around a couple planets and defend or attack points.
You earn points as you fight and you can purchase larger ships.
There is no tutorial other than a keyboard map to tell you what buttons do what.
Good luck on trying to figure out how stuff works because it sure is frustrating.
aliitle buggy in some areas but nothing too drastic other than maybe clipping through a base and getting stuck.
Warping animations probably need a good amount of TLC looks very linear.
Explosions look great and realistic.
as far as ive seen. going into the planets is sort of pointless as no one goes down there really.
also player base is definitely a lack luster.....

HOWEVER this game does have huge potential no doubt !

If this was priced more reasonably I would probably recommend it in it's current state despite the issues. However, 35 bones for this is not worth it imho. Like many other reviewers have stated, the player base is basically non existent for a game that is supposed to be role oriented for ships and player driven. In my latest 3 hour session a total of 6 players logged in, and the max at one time was probably 3 players.

There is one battle happening on a server in a planetary system, which basically means the entirety of the map is useless besides the .1% where the battle is occurring. The battles themselves are engaging, with bounties being collected on both teams for players/ai that are racking up kills. There's an interesting nemesis system when you rank up enough they will start sending more expert pilots which is great.

Customizations are pretty extensive, leaving the player to outfit their ships to their playstyle. The interceptor fighter is a fun dogfighting ship, but either the mass is too high or the thrusters too weak or both, as it drifts way more than a nimble dog fighter should. I waited until I could upgrade thrusters to gauge even with an upgraded ship package, and it still feels off flying it. Railguns imho need to be overhauled, as right now they are basically like a laser weapon repeater with the speed at which they fire and the damage output is very low for railguns (4 of them connecting on a small fighter will do maybe 1-3% hull damage). The railguns rate of fire should be drastically reduced, its heat accumulation increased, its projectile speed increased, and its damage massively increased. Instead of skillful snipe hits that do massive damage it just feels spammy.

Once you get to capital ships the entire control scheme is changed, so your basic flight controls are all different. I disagree with this entirely, as the concept of flying a space ship vs a big space ship is the same, just with additional pro's and con's of mass/speed/firepower/turn rate. New players will spend the XP for a capital ship and then not be able to fly it, and judging by the 4 year old outdated tutorial on YT, the comments seem to be agreeing with my frustrations on capital ship controls.

The 'potential' is there, if more things get added to the system (more than one battle? side missions?). It also just seems like a back and forth for missions, if you win the battle you don't continue on the offensive, it shoots back to a counter attack by the defeated forces (not on the objective you just destroyed or occupied but another objective) so it just seems like there is no progress possible for either side.

If you catch this game on sale for 20 or under I would snag it, it has 'potential' just like all the other space games but we will have to wait and see what a released product will bring.

I can't recommend this based purely off the fact that there are very low player counts, no sandbox/practice/single player offline mode whatsoever after 3.5 years of EA, and a very high price to entry.

Looks promising, it just falls so very short.

You guys started developing at the wrong end.

There is no Single-player game loop whatsoever which means your empty servers are a sign of complete failure when you're charging money for a product.

Everybody solos sooner or later - even the diehard mmo people. They want to escape to a corner and focus on their skills. Their crafting. Their strategies. Their charcters and avatars. You offer nothing for serious games than a kiddy pool to splash round in, which is entirely dependent on other people wanting to splash round in at the same time. You need to give this demo away for free cos there's nothing there. The players ARE your content.

I bought this hoping at least there was something to keep me occupied while waiting for someone else to join but... literally its just a generic fly'n'fight space sim. There's nothing here that wasn't done 10 /20 years ago.

Why not start with an exciting and immersive single player concept? A few campaigns? A few challenges? A tech tree unlock easter egg hunt? Anything. You don't even have in-game tutorials in place. That's where you should have Started because they present the various game-play loops.

This isn't 2003. You can't just show a light space sim and charge what you are for this. It's too lightweight and there's no promise of anything more. More ships? Who cares? More guns? Who cares? that just means more pew pew in a pew pew only game. There's no depth here. No enticement to persist. Star Wars Squadrons / Star Citizen/ Elite Dangerous do everything you can do. Why are you wasting so much effort on stuff that was done before?

Bummed. I really liked the promise.

Backed this ages ago, watched the update newsletters with interest then got excited at launch. Sadly, there's no real content yet... the space battles look cool but feel unstructured, procedural and pointless. There was so few people playing during launch week. You will mostly be dogfighting with AI ships in rinse-and-repeat battles, flying from system to system whenever a new battle pops up.

Nothing about the lore is particularly developed. I don't understand the factions, the struggles, who are the political players and why I should care about anything happening. It doesn't seem to have any kind of info to unlock as you play. Give me some kind of reason to play your game, to care about your beautiful universe.

All this for the cool price of A$49.95..... You're not going to get any kind of player base going with that price. Why should anyone pay that much for a self-admittedly unfinished PUBG in space? I get what you're trying to do and MMO space battles sound cool but it's just not a good game, guys.

I've been searching for this game for days. I was too harsh in my opinion on it and had refunded it. My fault. TONS of potential, honestly a really solid dogfighting game.

The servers are completely dead though, and the game seems mishandled, so unfortunately I should probably leave this here so people know that you won't be getting into any games if you buy this. Not low playercount. 0 players currently on the stats.