Yes, I already sent you mine yesterday I believe.
Let me know if you missed it and need it again.

Hi guys,
So I took a week or so off the game and came back to it, and I dunno if it's just me or not, but the sounds of rigs, speed boosts etc. just sound way more obvious to me now. I know some sounds were boosted in volume last week some time, so maybe I'm finally noticing it. Racing feels a lot smoother for me now, especially when I'm in first place I can now tell if someone is on my tail. For some reason I wasn't putting two and two together before. Anyway, I have two more questions now.
First how are you meant to steer? When I hold h and then hold d and f to steer, I either end up crashing into walls and losing health, or I am not really moving. At least it seems like I'm not, it's hard to tell sometimes. So are you supposed to hold d and f to steer, or just tap them a few times to go in one direction?
Second, I think I understand how to steer into the slipstreams now. It took long enough, but it's probably my fault . My guess is that the airy tire squeal sound is the slipstream, and I have to steer into it i.e. center it? Do I have that right?
Once I get a better handle on these two things, I think I will finally feel secure about the mechanics.

There seems to be a bug with audio cues 1 for the Heremod's Theme track. The sound for a successful pattern doesn't play at the end of the repeated pattern but half way through.

Ugh. I think I'm about to give up for the moment. I got past a lot of the hard stuff like antiviral, death contract, Mia Green is missing, Hospital 113 etc. stuff that was really challenging and which I dreaded, but through the skin of my teeth I managed to get through one way or another without changing accessibility settings. Now I'm on bot swarm and I am getting to the point where I can't keep doing this as it's too much even for me. I don't want to brag about how good I am but I thought I was pretty good. But this game is making me feel like I suck. That's cool and all but I'm kinda curious if it is meant to be this hard. I have so much trouble now keeping track of the ever-growing convoluted patterns along with the shape of the track and trying to stay ahead of bots. I'm the worst at multitasking and I think it shows here. With practice in the arcade, I am getting better at the tracks and the notes that give me trouble, but they're just getting harder, and this is on standard difficulty.

I think the problems I used to have in the demo are coming back to haunt me now. I still can't really get a grasp on whether boost/drift is more affective in a particular spot. I basically try one, see how I do, restart, try another etc. I of course use drift when there are many notes though, I have a feeling that's what you're meant to do. But beyond that I don't know. Steering is still as enigmatic for me as before. I can sometimes steer around barriers but hit the walls constantly and I'm not sure if that's normal or not. I also don't really notice the speed changes with the top speed/acceleration/cornering stats, the game feels the same to me. The only times I can really see stats making the game feel different is with health, and if I increase top speed, the reading for my top speed in the f1 mission performance dialog does go up, but everything else, I can't feel a difference when I change the stats. It's just overload for me now, and I'm almost certain something in my strategic brain isn't firing right and it's making me miss something.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to criticize or fault the game really. If I sound too negative, it's just because I'm a little frustrated and lost. I'll keep at it, though.

Oh, are there videos of sighted people playing this game? I looked the other day and didn't find much though I didn't do an exhaustive search. Even though I know I won't be able to follow a sighted person playing since there aren't audio cues, I still am interested to hear the differences in the way the game sounds.

@musicalman,

Yep, there is 1 video of someone playing for a good while. If people like, I can put a link to it.

Beat every single optional mission, you're missing 2 class upgrades I think. Also if you played the demo and then bought the full game, play Welcome to Daemon Space again to trigger a class upgrade.

Yeah, certain missions give you class upgrades. Each upgrade lets you allocate one more stat point to something. I don't know which missions trigger the class upgrades, though. I'm up to class 4, but I've been trying to do everything. Still a little intimidated by robot swarm and the stuff around that, though.
How do you guys know which missions are which acts? I've heard acts referenced before but I don't know how to distinguish between acts in the game.

The antiviral mission was hard but I completed it! I ended up having to swap the scratch sounds to hear the right notes to play near the end when two notes are playing at once.
There aren't sound cues for collecting items yet, right?
Also, the Wolf Fragment mission isn't announcing the different medals while driving.
I'm still having trouble steering. Even though I know it's kind of first person perspective. I think I'm just finding it hard to get a sense of where in relation I am to the bots. and other elements on the track. Despite these frustrations, I'm definitely still enjoying the game. I started playing with audio cues 2 a bit more and I think it'll take me a bit of get used to but I like it.

There is a bug with the upgrades.
When you go to upgrades from arcade, it's kind of a slight spoiler because it states you can get LVL5 upgrades without being in the specified class.
As for steering, it's mainly practice.
I thought I would never get past the brutal defences mission, but after trying 50 10 times I got better at it

yay! game complete. now it's time to have fun with missions and such. gonna see if it's possible to upgrade everything hahaha. I had a blast playing this. can't wait for whatever comes next!