As someone who played Freelancer A LOT I quite liked this one, the teleport dodge is really fun and something that fits quite well in the arcade dogfight gameplay, the nebula felt quite scary to venture into, which I love and the game seems to have a ton of lore, this is clearly a work of passion.
What I feel the game needs is more feedback on are things like the autopilot, sometimes seems like the autopilot just doesn't engage and others I think I canceled it by accident while clicking in the UI, but it was on all along, a message in the bottom of the screen saying "Autopilot Engaged" or "Failed to engage autopilot" would help a lot. Also when autopilot to a station the autopilot got stuck in a loop outside a highway gate and I had to disable and restart the autopilot.
Also I think something in the first mission glitched out, I went in the nebula, fought the dudes there, but got distracted with their loot and didn't pay attention to the objective, when I stopped collecting shit the mission objective was gone, my missions escorts were just flying around aimlessly and I couldn't see anything that would tell me if the mission was a success or not, also It didn't show as complete in the mission log, so I left the nebula and docked in a nearby station.
Also the engine loop sound is really bad, It was unbearable and I had to play without effect sounds.