DramaticPopcorn
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They are DLCs now, man
Can't be arsed to wade through the big thread in Strategy Gaming, so, for those of you have it... how is it? D1P? Wait a year until it's patched to a playable state? Just plain bad?
I'm a bit of an explorefag as well. Too bad about the resources if it really is that thin; perhaps it's something they'll address in patches as well. Tempted, and forty bucks is no huge hardship, as long as this isn't a R2:TW (as released...)
Can't be arsed to wade through the big thread in Strategy Gaming, so, for those of you have it... how is it? D1P? Wait a year until it's patched to a playable state? Just plain bad?
And yeah, don't mind MoLAoS. Despite having been playing it non-stop since it's release, he seems to have made it his personal mission to destroy this games image on the codex. I personally find this unwarranted.
Can't be arsed to wade through the big thread in Strategy Gaming, so, for those of you have it... how is it? D1P? Wait a year until it's patched to a playable state? Just plain bad?
dont listen to MoLAoS, he have a gigantic axe to grind with Paradox.
Yet, despite me liking it quite a bit I would suggest waiting a bit. The things that the game do best, like exploration and interaction between species are things that will be heavily improved upon and expanded over time, so you would be better off waiting for some package deal later.
I am a explorefag, so I am having plenty of fun and often discovering new things even if some events obviously are repeated often. I am even yet to find my first fallen empire.
The game looks and plays well, some parts are just a bit barebones. What I like least otherwise is the resource system which only have one superimportant resource to build everything (minerals) and how easy the game is will depend heavily on your early access of minerals.
It doesnt translate into anything in the game and thats one of the big problem with this game, you could be very well declared as rival by some pacifist alien dwelling on the other side of the galaxy but the militaristic xenophobe ones no doing anything at all . That all sounds very great on the paper but nothing works .My neighbours don't seem all that friendly though. Says something like "Fanatical Purifier" on the description. That can't be good, right?
It doesnt translate into anything in the game and thats one of the big problem with this game, you could be very well declared as rival by some pacifist alien dwelling on the other side of the galaxy but the militaristic xenophobe ones no doing anything at all . That all sounds very great on the paper but nothing works .My neighbours don't seem all that friendly though. Says something like "Fanatical Purifier" on the description. That can't be good, right?
You can forget all your civ reflexes, for example if you take a planet during a war, AI will never counter invade, wont take your planest either, wont harass vulnerable stations its just not in the game.All it can do is mass moving it fleet to your capital if and only if it outguns your fleet, no matters what kind of defenses you built .Hm, that's too bad.
The early game has been going rather too smoothly. Bumped into two empires blocking my expansion, one is the xenophobic one and the other is just generally unfriendly. I also lack the tech to settle non-ideal worlds, which is crimping my style as well. Cleared out the space monsters. I've still got my Civ reflexes on and am expecting to get swarmed Any Time Now, but if it's not happening it's not happening. Guess I'll have to start a little interstellar war of my own then. Just invented antimatter missiles; guess we'll see how they work against the Avar Empire.
Overall I'm liking the tech development -- prefer the unpredictability of the system to the always-same tech trees in Civ -- as well as the exploration. The resource system seems very thin on the ground though; just exploit everything you can, taking care not to exceed your energy budget.
So . . . wait until DLC fixes it, then?