StarDrive 2 -- soon to be released

Old Man · 2 Apr 2015 at 11:52

This game is looking really nice and is coming out the 9th of April; StarDrive 1 was pretty imo and well worth the time invested.

Have a look at this preview:

Neil79 · 2 Apr 2015 at 11:57

The Asgard · 3 Apr 2015 at 12:55

StarDrive 1 was at launch a serious broken mess, it's now playable with the help of modders but there are still limitations. The developer Zero was pretty arrogant and promised lots but never delivered.

StarDrive 2 does look awesome but only a fool would preorder knowing what happened with the first.

Old Man · 3 Apr 2015 at 16:27

The Asgard said:
StarDrive 1 was at launch a serious broken mess, it's now playable with the help of modders but there are still limitations. The developer Zero was pretty arrogant and promised lots but never delivered.

StarDrive 2 does look awesome but only a fool would preorder knowing what happened with the first.

Not really being fair here...

If you have a look at the review, you'll see just how polished the second game is and even though the first game was flawed, it was not as bad as you are making it out to be.

The Asgard · 3 Apr 2015 at 17:33

Old Man said:
Not really being fair here...

If you have a look at the review, you'll see just how polished the second game is and even though the first game was flawed, it was not as bad as you are making it out to be.

I agree,the 2nd game looks good but I standby my words on the first, it was bad, with memory leaks and slow downs which made the end game unplayable.

Glaucus · 15 Apr 2015 at 20:42

I succumbed, just downloading now.
First one was indeed to shallow and half a game, I hope this is better, but I love 4x and well there's not much choice. also down to £15 in steam atm.

The Asgard · 17 Apr 2015 at 02:46

Glaucus said:
I succumbed, just downloading now.
First one was indeed to shallow and half a game, I hope this is better, but I love 4x and well there's not much choice. also down to £15 in steam atm.

It's looking good, where from for £15?

Checkout Distant Worlds

Old Man · 17 Apr 2015 at 05:23

The Asgard said:
It's looking good, where from for £15?

Checkout Distant Worlds

If you bought the first StarDrive, then the price will be £15 for this second game.

Smokey Deza · 17 Apr 2015 at 16:21

Don't get the hate towards this guy. Its now turnbased and combat is real time.

So what if he's arrogant? Perhaps he should be? He's basically brought us a spiritual successor to MOO2.

Glaucus · 17 Apr 2015 at 18:52

Don't bother buying it.
It's no more filled out than the first one.

Everything about it is to small, from galaxy to research. Combat is utterly retarded. So just auto all the time.
It's not good at all. If your going to have turned based ground combat, make it half reasonable.
If your going to have real time space battles, make it half reasonable.

Not impressed at all by it. And it doesn't run well.

Not a patch on gc2

Smokey Deza · 18 Apr 2015 at 14:25

How is the research tree small? It's massive and you can continue researching for small buffs even when you've completed the tech tree.

I haven't tried a large galaxy but the one I set up with 30 systems (small) was of decent size.

'Combat is utterly retarded.' What are you on about? Tailoring your ships to counter your enemies ship designs and seeing them in action is probably the best aspect of the game. GC2 combat isn't even in the same league so there's one patch on it right there. It does however, run poorly with 100s of ships on screen.

Ground combat is and looks horrible, yes. Nice idea and whilst it is tactical is doesn't fit in a 4x game in my opinion.

My game ran fine. Less then a second a turn all the way till then end.

If you're not impressed then oh well, but just because it fails to entertain you that doesn't give you the right to talk crap and start slandering it.

Glaucus · 18 Apr 2015 at 14:30

It's not crap or slander, it is a pretty rubbish game.

Customising a ship is not combat.
Max system is 100 that is tiny for 4x.
It does run like a dog. Great you probably have a high end pc good for you.

Gc2 was released 9 years ago, so hardly surprising a few and I mean a very few parts are better/more involved. Gc2 however is still a far better game.

The Asgard · 18 Apr 2015 at 15:35

Luckily, GC3 is shaping up well.

TNA · 18 Apr 2015 at 17:12

Glaucus said:
It's not crap or slander, it is a pretty rubbish game.

Customising a ship is not combat.
Max system is 100 that is tiny for 4x.
It does run like a dog. Great you probably have a high end pc good for you.

Gc2 was released 9 years ago, so hardly surprising a few and I mean a very few parts are better/more involved. Gc2 however is still a far better game.

I think considering this was mainly made by one guy, it is good.

I found the UI scaling and AI to be very very bad. Ruined the game for me. I agree ship battles are kind of silly, can't do much. Lol

Did not have an issue much with system size and it ran fine on my system. Just that the crappy AI just messes with any immersion you may have. The AI is what I was personally hoping was going to be improved from last game, but it feels exactly the same.

I look forward to GC3.