If you were looking forward to more gwent like in witcher 3, the first 30 minutes of the game has none. The enemies all have unique decks with unique abilities. They are all puzzle "battles" with each enemy card having weird abilities requiring you to read their cards to try to decipher what they do. You'll see cards with specially highlighted terms like "blitz" that are their special abilities but the game won't actually describe what it does. This is not gwent.
I've spent over 100 hours unlocking every ship on classic, but the enhanced edition breaks balance quite badly. A lot of the battles, especially early on, are unwinnable, especially with the very niche ships like mantis. Hacking drones, mind contro, and cloning labs especially are overpowered on AI ships that care not for how many drones they spend or how many skills points are lost through deaths. Combined with Zoltan shields, you end up in scenarios where at the beginning of battle the AI can control one of your units, teleport 4 attackers onto your ship, and teleport bombs into your ship within the first 10 seconds. Their zoltan shield prevents you from doing the same to them, so you die before you can even get to warp. This is very badly designed.
