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Posted on: March 13, 2022

otherl

Games: 957 Reviews: 3

Is there a game under the simulation?

This is a weird game, it can be very deep in parts and still one of the more limited 4X title in the same time. - On one hand it has a great ship and economy simulation part, but you don't have much options to tune it, and this is even more painful when the AI wants to do something very dumb. - You can take over almost anything, to do it manually, but you won't get any help from the game, I mean if you want to lose your sanity just try to keep a medium sized fleet together and supplied through an attack. - The diplomacy is mind numbingly basic, again not much options to affect your relations. You won't have the illusion that the empires are different or that they have their own goals. - There are no politics in the game other than the government modifiers. - 80% of the research tree is about ships, so not much empire improvements. - There are different populations but this doesn't really matter outside of the who can colonize what. - There are only a few planet improvements and some modifiers, nothing much to do with them. - The ground combat is just about who brings more troops. In general outside of the simulated (space) part everything is utterly simplistic. The manual control is an afterthought, not much QoL features in between of macro manage everything and automate everything. So pretty much just like Distant Worlds 1. Technically the game is more like an early access title, the performance is generally low, there are some bugs, memory leaks, crashes.

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Posted on: March 13, 2022

Olander

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Games: 59 Reviews: 7

Nice game but buggy and clunky

I like the game. Over 20hrs into it now and have the complicated UI displays down fairly well. This game needs some patching. Not sure if the devs actually play this or they would see the issues quickly. Some of the ugly ones I explain below. - Camera seems to be missing Up/Down rotation to get some nice screen shots like the loading screens. Follow camera is super jittery. - Exploring and Scanning resources is painful. Auto exploration simply sends the ships to some other system. WHY? There are plenty of UNEXPLORED resources right where you are! Scan away. haha. Manual Mode only and have to Survey Manually. Sometimes they will auto survey ~70% of a system then leave for the green grass over there. Very clunky and buggy. - Fleets. Set their home base (Right Click) and it updates in UI. Set up to Auto Defend in the current system and the Home Base switches after a couple seconds to a different Home Base (my race home). A different fleet is set up as my race home base and set it to Auto Defend the system and it decides to go to the other base where the other fleet is SUPPOSED to be defending. Very irritating and clunky/buggy. - Refueling tankers. Set them to auto and they can be found over in the neighbor systems trying to refuel cargo traders that have a restricted trade treaty. So manual control on these too. Such a pain. - Pirates. I have few pirates in my game and I like them BUT there were 4 of them and who knows where they are coming from. They just appear and start attacking. Especially if declining their protection fee. I get that but my Fleet has gone off on its own somewhere and will not defend the system. Frustrating. - Private sector. They have huge numbers of ships just sitting around waiting for transporting something. I can see a couple extra cargo ships but when 10-20 of them are sitting around the starport something is wrong. Meanwhile traders are a large convoy 10 systems deep getting attacked in someone's territory. Really stupid.

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Posted on: January 21, 2025

DomUK

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Games: 334 Reviews: 2

An excellent 4X game

Distant Worlds 2 is a great game, and has gradually improved since launch to be a superb 4X game. A lot of the criticism I see of the game is very outdated - the game has had constant free updates that have brought QOL and gameplay improvements, in addition to the DLCs. DW2 is a fantastic 4X simulation game. It has incredible depth of simulation, and has a degree of realism that other games don't achieve due to abstraction of concepts. For example all resources exist, and they have to be mined and moved to the right places to be used. There is not an overall counter of resources and spend it anywhere - there is an actual economy, with a private sector, and they run all the freighters and mining ships, and mining stations. It adds a huge level of strategy to the game - you need to secure resources, and protect your private ships so they can bring resources in. And when it comes to war, it's not just about trying to directly smash the enemies fleets but also about trying to destroy their infrastructure. You can beat a far more powerful foe if you can limit their access to fuel for example. The game can seem overwhelming at first, and I've seen a lot of negative reviews where the complaints are actually due to not knowing how to do something. Everything can be automated - the game can literally be set to play itself. This is a great way to learn the game - let the AI handle everything except for the bits your want to play and learn. It'd be great if there was a more comprehensive wiki or galactopaedia for new players to learn the game. That is missing but I strongly watching DasTactics tutorials and game play on YouTube and Twitch - he constantly shows how to play and learn the game. It's a very rewarding and fun game - it does have a learning curve but it is worth it. The DLC, particularly Shakturi DLC, is well worth it too.

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Posted on: March 12, 2022

quicksilver67

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Games: 38 Reviews: 7

Needs some work...

Distant Worlds 2 is a complicated 4x space game with some nice moves, but also some real problems. Being able to design your own ships is a nice touch, but the restrictive nature of the game means that your faction has essentially one frame for each class, and you can't do much about that. There's only so much room. Much of what occurs in the game is probably best left to automation, but there are some exceptions, notably research. It's hard to colonize without colony ships (and your early frames are really too small to support colony modules, or else the module makes the ship to expensive in rare materials), and colony ships should be one of the first things the research, when automated, should look into, but it won't. Controlling individual ships can be problematic, as even on manual control, getting them to actually go where you want means they are likely to hang up on pathing. Combining ships to make fleets is easy enought, but automated fleets are clunky. Getting a fleet to move anywhere is clunky. The tutorials are NOT well-thought-out. They overlay the action, which complicates everything, deal with issues piecemeal, instead of making of a comprehensive whole which a walkthrough (join campaign) would do. Then there are the frequent random crashes for unknown reasons. It's not EA, so that shouldn't be happening. I'd wrap it up by saying the game is very nice in concept, but only average in execution.

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Posted on: June 7, 2022

Novvorn

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Games: 211 Reviews: 3

Big Game with Big Problems

Great Game with lots of potential, but right now its more like a beta than a full release. There are still many broken mechanics in this game, which make this game more of a shore than a fun experience. As a example: The Fuel Tankers are not working with ANY sense. Have a fleet with 2 fuel tankers which are on the oposite site of the galaxy fueling some random tradeship instead of staying with the fleet on the front, no matter what automation or fleet posture settings I use. The same problem has the AI Empire which result in enemy fleets attacking without fuel, this results in extreme underperforming ships. One Defense Plattform with 2k Power was able to destroy a 10k fleet.

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