TL;DR: The game can be fun once you've learned how everything works and team up with friends. Outside of that, the game is let down by missing features, poor UI and lack of player populations. Play only if you can put up with Issues

Pros
+Great core gameplay
+interesting concept with potential

Netural
#Players are either friendly and helpful, or actively grief, no middleground


Cons
- No tutorials

-confusing UI
-Missing Basic features
-global playercount rarely reach above 20 spread over several servers.
-Stability issues that reset delete the items you've bought and generally reset progress.
5/10.

from what I've played, I enjoy the game. It's fun to blast someone down and take their ship for parts, then blow up their friends with a stiched up amalgamation of my ship and my fallen foe. With friends, you have a fun game that can give many hours of intense fun. But as with many Early Access games, it has a lot of problems that ruin the experience.

Lack of tutorials or explanations. The game does not do anything to explain the mechanics of the game outside of a keybind menu, or tell you how the gamemodes work, what the objectives are, what item does what, how to build a good ship? Nothing. I've only found 1 tutorial made within this year.


poor UI choices. What's the difference between a combat station and interceptor cockpit? How much power does this reactor make? what's the difference between a TC25 and a TC65 Engine? Why can't I sell all of an item at once? The buy menu is difficult to extract info from. The item names aren't much of a clue into what the items actually do, and lastly, they aren't organized into categories, Just dumped in 1 scroll menu.

Player Interaction
Half of the players I've met have been friendly and understanding to new players and have oftered to help and explain the issues, while the other half do everything in their power to make your life horrible, from destroying the Mothership at the start to commiting Grand Theft Space while you spend time creating the perfect killing machine. it is really disheartening to have someone steal something you spent the whole game building up.

There are a few other smaller issues like no way to regenerate health to the Varity of gamemodes, but these aren't as serious as the main problems.


Iron Armada is a great game, A real diamond in the rough. But it is a small diamond with a heck'ofa lot of rough around it. The devs will need to put more time into it to fix these issues and drive up the player population Before it will be worth spending anything longer than a few hours playing in total.

Edit: UI Issues Fixed,

TL;DR: The game can be fun once you've learned how everything works and team up with friends. Outside of that, the game is let down by missing features, poor UI and lack of player populations. Play only if you can put up with Issues Pros +Great core gameplay +interesting concept with potential Netural #Players are either friendly and helpful, or actively grief, no middleground Cons - [b] No tutorials [/b] [strike]-confusing UI [/strike] -Missing Basic features -global playercount rarely reach above 20 spread over several servers. -Stability issues that reset delete the items you've bought and generally reset progress. 5/10. from what I've played, I enjoy the game. It's fun to blast someone down and take their ship for parts, then blow up their friends with a stiched up amalgamation of my ship and my fallen foe. With friends, you have a fun game that can give many hours of intense fun. But as with many Early Access games, it has a lot of problems that ruin the experience. Lack of tutorials or explanations. The game does not do anything to explain the mechanics of the game outside of a keybind menu, or tell you how the gamemodes work, what the objectives are, what item does what, how to build a good ship? Nothing. I've only found 1 tutorial made within this year. [strike] poor UI choices. What's the difference between a combat station and interceptor cockpit? How much power does this reactor make? what's the difference between a TC25 and a TC65 Engine? Why can't I sell all of an item at once? The buy menu is difficult to extract info from. The item names aren't much of a clue into what the items actually do, and lastly, they aren't organized into categories, Just dumped in 1 scroll menu. [/strike] Player Interaction Half of the players I've met have been friendly and understanding to new players and have oftered to help and explain the issues, while the other half do everything in their power to make your life horrible, from destroying the Mothership at the start to commiting Grand Theft Space while you spend time creating the perfect killing machine. it is really disheartening to have someone steal something you spent the whole game building up. There are a few other smaller issues like no way to regenerate health to the Varity of gamemodes, but these aren't as serious as the main problems. Iron Armada is a great game, A real diamond in the rough. But it is a small diamond with a heck'ofa lot of rough around it. The devs will need to put more time into it to fix these issues and drive up the player population Before it will be worth spending anything longer than a few hours playing in total. Edit: UI Issues Fixed,