Still downloading... I think. Started it at 3am this morning, but am only on a 1.5mb connection.
I checked in for about 2 hours this morning and it just said PLEASE WAIT.
Meanwhile, flew the Hornet and 300i (love that grey colour scheme) on a friend's PC last night.
The Hornet is a complete ASS of a ship. Flipping thing moves like a dead cow!!
"Gates of Heaven my BUTT - You give me a fully loaded Hornet... and I'll show you the gates to the frikkin' Glue Factory, mate!!"
By contrast, the 300i was fantastic - I hit Vanduul Wave 5 without even trying, or knowing what all the keys did!
I own a 300i and Aurora myself, so really happy about that.
I then went away and started reading the manual and all the loooooooooong explanations about how to get a 'Firing Solution'... "Seriously, it'd likely have cost me less to join the RAF and become a fighter pilot in order to learn all this crap".
I do get what CR is trying to do and I really appreciate every inch of it... it's just a bit of a shock to *have* to read a game manual before you can really get stuck in. My brain took some time to wrap itself around the idea, as I haven't really had to do this since the late 1980s!!
So yeah, after many agonising months and even years, the game is starting to show a lot of promise. It will likely take FAR longer to reach full release and have everything all good than people are expecting, but I think this will eventually be very very cool.