EverSpace: You Ready!? Combat Strategy and Tips. Let's Play Everspace Ep 1

Any strategy that ends with "shooting a couple of missiles" will do wonders in EverSpace. I certainly hope that strategies involving the 3d landscape will have a place in the future. It doesn't yet seem to be the case. I hope to have a better indication of the location of enemies. We are missing a "globe" kind of indicator. The enemy arrow indicator gives little clue where the enemy is in relation to you, which would be very useful in a game where you try to use small items to break Line-Of-Sight.
Your approaches makes sense, but I don't feel that the game really rewards those strategies yet.

Joystick sucks balls when it comes to aiming and aiming is very very important.

I would always choose precise mouse aiming over small movement increments of a joystick.

A very decent tutorial. Thanks.

How are you playing this?

This game is impossible, and all around horrible!!!

Reminds me a bit of the old game Descent – you have the same movement axis as this game.

I like watching the first-person mode. But you should really stay away from the rocks as much as possible. You keep hitting them and hurting your ship. I always head out into open space when the battle starts. I have yet to wowie myself on a rock. FOV=field of view.

"I have no strategies for fighting war ships" immediately gets one shotted by war ship
Moral of the story: do not fuck with war ships. lmfao
Great tips m8, i just got this game on Switch and looking for any advice i can get, this was extremely helpful especially the bit about boosting at the last minute to avoid missiles, i had no idea you could do that.

Just started playing this beautiful, wonderful game. I had a real hard time at the start because of the controls! So if you are finding it tricky to get into this game, it might be your control scheme as the default one was bonkers for me. It took over an hour of messing around to find the right setup as there are so many controls and not so many buttons. I found it really confusing to hover up and down using the Left stick when it feels like it should be thrust. Here the perfect controller scheme that works for me (Xbox 360 controller):
Thrust – left stick up
Reverse – left stick down
Strafe – left stick left + right
Boost – left trigger
Fire primary weapon – right trigger
Hover up – left shoulder button + left stick up
Hover down – left shoulder button + left stick down
Roll – right bumper + left stick left / right
Target enemy – left stick button
Fire secondary – right stick button
Next primary weapon – B
Next secondary weapon – Y
Next consumable – X
Next item – A
Use consumable – D pad left
Use item – D pad right
Change camera – D pad up
Freelook – D pad down

Great tips, I also didn't realise that you can craft more missiles.