Loading screens isn’t so much for a problem if you’ve got fast NVMe SSD drives. The travel is very akin to old school privateer games, where you basically traveled from loading screen to loading screen., so I don’t mind it that much. If you want something more spaceship focused, I’d recommend Everspace 2.

The gun play is basically a progression of Fallout 4, and if you go fully automatic instead of semi, you will have to spend those credits to purchase ammo and spec appropriately. People should be leveling their personal combat skills first, since that’s what the majority of the combat in the game involves and what most of the RPG components are designed around. Ships, well, you don’t even need to level anything to keep on par with them, I’ve found you can just slap particle weapons on those bad boys to cheese even the hardest fights.

Having said that, if you go the sneaky route, well, I’m going just fine with level 4 sneak bonuses without any rifle bonuses to my suppressed semiautomatic rifles (I’ve leveled melee first and am waiting to see which damage type I will prefer later on, even though I’m pretty sure I will be sticking to rifles).

You also should do the main story quests enough until you get to the game’s fusrodah moment, and then a few missions of that afterwards, since you will gain access to alternative ways of taking down enemies. You might also consider making use of and arming your companions with better weapons, since they don’t consume the ammo you give them.

The UI, well, that might hint at a performance issue again, otherwise it’s just been getting used to it for me. Most annoying thing for me has only been not being able to switch between the mission UI and the map UI easily, but I don’t consider it game breaking.