>Granted, I haven't poked my head back in the game since... I guess
>February, so some of that stuff may now be easier and/or actually
>explained in game.

Apart from some basic tutorial missions that don't really do a lot of tutoring (most of which have to do with the combat system in one way or another), not very much appears to be explained in-game, which is my biggest reservation about it so far. It's like the player character just arrived from a parallel universe, has no knowledge of the tech base, politics, personalities, or culture of the 31st century, and was lucky enough to acquire a Sidewinder and a thousand credits somehow or another, but is otherwise completely at a loss as to what anything is or does.

Which is, admittedly, how it would go down in UF, but still. As a gameplay experience it's a bit bewildering. :)

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