Just logged out after playing ~1 hour of the tutorial. The good news is that I encountered no glitch, the game is stable and 100% playable. Add to this a community manager that knows his (her?) job and provides prompt advice via chatbox. As for the game itself, I'm still just at the tutorial, so I cannot have a definite impression about it.
Anyway, I already encountered something odd: in the evasion part of the tutorial, the escort had just passed my sub, I was in its baffles (as indicated by the yellow detection marker), then suddenly, in a matter of just one second, it turned 180 degrees and headed towards me, of course leaving me no time to order evasive maneuvers or kill the engine. "Sub detected' - and here I went again to the beginning of the evasion part of the tutorial.
Oh, and another annoyance. Time compression (x4 is the maximum) is obtained via... TC points, which can be (and are) depleted. I suspect here a way of getting players pay for this "commodity" - in a free game, as advertised. Free it may be, but painfully slow unless one does not acquire TC points. Anyway, let's wait for the final product, to see how these TC points can be acquired freely, just by meeting game objectives, vs. paying real cash for them.
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