Distant Worlds 2

Un space 4X qui manque de travail sur l'interface ce qui rend redondant et peu pratique les actions. Surtout quand il faut selectionner plusieurs appareils ou leurs donner un ordre rien ne valide vraiment ou confirme. Beaucoup de choses sont automatisées mais de manière médiocre ça ne marche pas souvent. difficile de recommander car ça ne conviendra qu'à peu de monde. Il y a aussi des bugs et ce n'est pas traduit en français pour ma part ça aurait aidé un peu. bref c'est un mi-cuit. malgré du potentiel

Better battle management than Stellaris, more complex tech tree and better automation. Not so deep in the narrative as Stellaris and lacks the capability of forming your own species.

Boskara are gigachads

Way more accesible than the first one.

Absolotuly love this game, wish Fleet control was more precise during combat for more realistic engagements, but overall it is a great game most close to Aurora 4x

Зачетный х4 на уровне Стелариса.

I loved DW:U, but I can't get myself to really like DW 2. In essence it is very similar to DW:U, but I feel like some of the changes made the game less fun(although probably easier to learn), there are fewer choices, and the choices that are present don't really matter. Instead of making strategic choices to best benefit from the circumstances I'm in, I'm just playing my empire the same way every game and hoping for good RNG (for example: research speed is very dependent on how many locations for research stations you get around your starting position. Another big RNG factor is when and where you get the first hive-ships, though in my more recent games I just turned the hive off, which I think leads to a more enjoyable game). (another example of RNG with a big impact are debris fields. these are abandonded, repairable ships way more advanced than what you can build yourself early game. yet you don't need to research any tech to start repairing them. It's nice when you're fielding a fleet with cruisers and carriers way before anyone in the galaxy can build them, but it's all RNG, there is no strategic choice or trade-off involved to get to that point) For example ship design: DW:U just gave you a maximum size allowance per ship model, but complete freedom which ship components you used within that size limit. This gave the option to go hyperspecialised (I.e. either make a glass canon ship that's all weapons and no shield/armor, decide between more fuel tanks for a larger attack range, or decide to skip out on fuel tanks because you're just going to use this ship design for defense within your own territory where a fuel station is always nearby, or make sure you built a fuel station in some gass cloud right next to the borders of the empire you're going to invade). This freedom did alllow for some cheesiness in ship design, but that potential for cheese was also part of the charm of the game imo. You could always decide to give yourself a rule to not use certain cheesy tactics, if they made the game too easy. DW 2 instead puts way more restrictions on which components you can place. This limits playing the game in 'unintended' ways, but it also makes ship design boring. There is still some choices, but way less impactfull: weapons can now only be put into weapon slots (which you cannot use for anything but weapons), likewise shield/armor have dedicated slots. So no more hyper specialisation going either all-in on survivability with no/few weapons, or all-in on weapons making a kamikaze glass canon that hits hard and then immediatly dies. I now end up just making the same all-purpose ship designs every game, or even using the automated designs because I can't be bothered making new designs all the time when it barely offers a benefit over the automated design. Another thing I liked in DW:U was the huge variety of resources. Not having access to a certain resource at a certain location would completely halt construction. This could result in annoying situations where a certain spaceport or mining station would be under construction for decades and never get built because a required resource was not getting delivered. But imo this made logistics fun, because it really mattered, in DW:U I made a lot of use of basic space port designs, which were designs with as few components as possible, and mostly low tier components(=no fancy resources needed to build), which I could quickly build over new colonies to get the logistics up and running. It also provided a reason for sometimes not using the most advanced components you had researched, because you did not have the logistics to get those resources to the place where you needed them. in DW 2 even resources you're in shortage of somehow do get delivered. The whole economy and logistics with lots of resources and freighters flying around delivering those resources still exists, but the impact of all of that seems minimal. You'll never be crippled by a resource shortage like in DW:U, basically you can just ignore the whole resource screen, click ok on all the auto suggestions to build mining stations, and you'll be all ok. In DW2 I also never struggle getting my military ships fueled up. While in DW:U I found the planning of my fuel economy to be one of the cool, fun parts of the game. In essence all of it is still in DW2, it's just that I never struggle with fuel shortages in DW2, so it's just 1 more detail that exists, but doesn't require special attention. Even a bigger fleet can fully fuel up from a single fuel mining station on a low quality source, and do it quickly. I remember in DW:U I had to put more attention into my fuel station designs depending on what I wanted to use it for (add more docking bays so more ships can refuel at once so a fleet can return to combat faster, more cargo space so it can handle a larger fleet refueling at once, but all of that at the expense of room for either mining engines, making the fuel station refill slower, or at the expense of shields/armor/weapons, making it a sitting duck for enemy fleets, requiring putting a defense fleet next to it). The way pirates work between both games is imo another example where on paper they are similar, but the in-game impact is way less: I think DW:U handled the pirate issue very nicely. Pirates start off at superior tech. When you first meet a pirate faction, they offer you to pay protection money, which is a drain on your early game economy, but worth it since you can't beat them. If you choose to ignore that offer, and they actually start attacking your ships/stations, the cost of the protection money goes up. Meanwhile, pirates get an option to create hidden bases at inhabited planets (which eventually will allow them to transition into a more standard empire, and at that point the pirate faction will take over the planets with hidden bases present), so ignoring the pirate threat for too long and just keep paying them money to not attack you will screw you over in the long term. So you need to carefully consider the moment where you transition from paying them, to wiping them out. In DW2, most of those pirate mechanics in the early game are the same: they still have superior tech and strength at the beginning of the game, and you still need to bribe them early game and wait for the right moment to start destroying them. However, the bribe will always be the same low amount of money, no matter if you just met them or they are actively attacking you. They also cannot create hidden bases or transition to a regular empire, so at some point they'll just become irrelevant. There is no real danger to just keep paying them off, besides the small drain on your economy(which you could easily pay later on, the protection money amount does not scale with your economy, and also the ai empires will start destroying them, so they'll disappear no matter if you deal with them personally or not). p.s.: regarding automation, I think I should say something about that as well since it's one of the unique mechanics in this game vs. other 4x. Regarding automation I don't really feel like there's a difference from how it worked in DW:U, so if you've played the previous game, you know what to expect. If you have not: part of the game consists of fighting with your empire automation. You'll have the most fun turning off automation for everything that you care about (in DW:U I'm a full manual player, in DW 2 I use automation for some stuff). Hoever since there's a lot going on, it 's still usefull to use automation for some stuff that you don't want to pay attention to. Just be prepared that it will sometimes work against you.