What's going on in Asteroids Outpost?

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There's a lot that is strange about Asteroids Outpost, but the most obvious is surely the way this supposed evolution of Atari's 1979 arcade game has literally nothing in common with its classic ancestor.
In the original, you guided a triangular spaceship around a black play area, shooting large asteroids which then broke into smaller asteroids, which then broke into...and so on. It was simple, ingenious and one of those early game concepts that still works perfectly today.
In this bizarre spin-off, you play a space miner foraging for ore on an airless moon in a sort of base-building, tower defence, first-person shooter multiplayer sandbox thing, a jumble of genres and ideas that very rarely coalesces into something that makes sense.
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