The Patch!

[Puke]

seriously. the pause ability makes the game. i especially use it for manual point defense. if it was an arcade action game, you would have direct cursor / mouse control over your ship. maybe move with cursor, target with mouse. but this isnt that.

[Foosnark]

I pause all the time to give orders, or to take out incoming fire with beams... but I'd still like a hotkey for "fire" since it's one of the most common activities

[Puke]

and by cursor, i meant keyboard. im an idiot.

[eelektrik]

So uh, did the patch lower the ammount of times you encounter the Horlage of Primordious or the Yellow Kawangi? I believe Ive only seen either once in my entire time playing, but my friend runs into them damn near half the time and he never installed the patch. And he still managed a higher score then me without the patch that supposedly made scores scale to your difficulty.

[Shadowcat]

IIRC the patch won't enable you to get you higher scores than before, but it will (correctly) make it harder to get them on the easier settings.