Mouse input (or touch screen) will be required to get through a partially obscured pilot selection screen on first boot. Controller input works fine afterwards, but there's this persistent issue during menu navigation where mouse cursor will randomly popup in the middle of the screen, this can result in two different options being highlighted on the menu (mouse and pad cursors), your pad cursor has higher priority when making a selection so it doesn't matter much, is just confusing. Going to Options -> Gameplay -> Software cursor and toggling it on the back off will make the cursor graphic dissapear, but the bug may still show itself up just with an invisible cursor. You can also use mouse input to move the cursor to a corner or something to avoid this. Didn't notice any adverse side effects during actual gameplay.

Game loads with very low settings and resolution by default, but can be manually adjusted to the highest settings with no performance issues.