Then itвЂ™s a balancing game of вЂdo I use this extra coolant tank we have and turn on the pumps, draining a finite resource we have to resupply at stations?вЂ™ vs. EveryoneвЂ™s demanding more power, and you can give it to them, at a cost of raising the core temperature. That whole ExoSuit mechanic is again, implemented a little clumsily (you have to run to Life Support to pick one up, which can be on the other end of your ship from the teleporter padвЂ¦ but it makes sense if your shipвЂ™s life support itself has been shot out and youвЂ™re asphyxiating)вЂ¦ but the fact that you really need someone on the Science console to initiate a scan of the planet and then read the report to figure out whether itвЂ™s safe to breathe or not is <3Д®ngineering is, of course, a hotbed in firefights. Some systems have planets in them you can scan and beam down to for away team missions (though the FPS combat feels both just as clunky and somehow less clunky as STOвЂ™s no special abilities, just point and shoot, but you have the option of going down as-is but with a jetpack, or when the situation warrants, climbing into an ExoSuit that protects you from harsh elements). ItвЂ™s very STO-like, but the better parts? You still have quests to pick up and turn in that amount to basically вЂgo here, kill the guys, take the loot and return the special item(s), you keep the restвЂ™. Had tweaked my HOTAS setup, so jumped in as Pilot. Then saw someone start up a game with only 1/5.

I did a lot of Engineering and Sciencing at first, jumping into fill whatever the last open role was in most peopleвЂ™s games. The following is a lightly edited chat dump of my thoughts on ~7 hours of playing Pulsar: Lost Colony the night before:

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