It would appear from some recent reviews that a lot of you dont know or understand instant action mode.
In the next update i will be renaming this to easy, and story mode to normal.
Based on feedback the instant action mode was introduced to:
*Shorten the game start and intro
*No Perma-Death
*Gives the player a variety of weapons at start
Instant action mode is for those who are new to the game so you can get some quick experience with weapons and different enemies and have no perma death. This mode was to help settle both sides of the camp by keeping the nomral game "story mode" intact for those who wanted a challenge. Instant action mode is a much easier mode which is also random and is basically the same as story mode with only a few achievements. And the Hassle Free DLC gives you the full ship with no enemies or objects for the explorers amoung you.
This game as you should know is designed for VR (Virtual reality) and being designed for VR it is slow paced, made for 3d and is very different in the VR version. This game is not an FPS and if thats the game you prefer then be sure to check out CDF Ghostship!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/263640/
In the next update I will be including a tutorial option as well as more options and hopefully custom keybinds.