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ojsdad

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Reply #105 on: July 29, 2021, 09:42:22 AM
Holy hand grenades, Slitherine drives me f***ing insane with how they promote -- and release information for -- their games:  After over a week of waiting -- and no communication whatsoever until a few of us started nagging -- it was finally mentioned that the next dev diary won't even be released until a full month after the first one: 


http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/fb.asp?m=5055701



Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go bash my head against a wall.

I'll join you at the wall.

Seriously, looking at what Paradox is doing Victoria 3, and all their titles, you can pretty much you all of the Dev DIaries and videos as the game manual and have a good understanding how to play the game before it installs on your PC.  I'm not getting that from DW3.  And as you pointed out, they're killing their own hype.

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Reply #106 on: July 29, 2021, 05:53:19 PM
c'mon now, the wall doesn't deserve that!  :peace:

You don't know what the wall has done.  :censored: 




And as you pointed out, they're killing their own hype.

You can't kill what doesn't exist in the first place.  Therein lies the problem. 



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Reply #107 on: August 04, 2021, 09:16:43 AM
New trailer


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Reply #108 on: August 04, 2021, 06:19:11 PM
New dev diary as well (finally): 


https://www.matrixgames.com/news/distant-worlds-2-dev-diary-2



In (grudging) fairness, it's a good read.  The dev diary talks about story elements & events, and how each race/faction has its own storyline in addition to the main galactic storyline.  It sounds like these faction-specific stories (if enabled -- you can choose to turn them off) will count towards your victory conditions, which strongly appeals to me. 



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Reply #109 on: August 04, 2021, 07:09:20 PM
Have they said anything about ships in combat? Is still just a big mosh pit or will stand off ships actually stand off? Can you have pickets guarding carriers/battleships?

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Reply #110 on: August 04, 2021, 07:38:08 PM
Have they said anything about ships in combat? Is still just a big mosh pit or will stand off ships actually stand off? Can you have pickets guarding carriers/battleships?

I'm not sure about your last question, but the "mosh pit" seems to have been effectively done away with in the sequel.  Check out the video below for an example of space battles in DW2 (the actual combat begins around the 1:50 mark). 






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Reply #111 on: August 04, 2021, 07:49:18 PM
Yeah, I’m still seeing cruisers moving into point blank range with everything else…. :idiot2:
The fighters and bombers seem to be acting well and point defence weapons look good.
But larger ships should “sit” back, and watch as the frigates and destroyers battle it out, while firing at long range …

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Reply #112 on: August 04, 2021, 09:03:58 PM
Yeah, I’m still seeing cruisers moving into point blank range with everything else…. :idiot2:
The fighters and bombers seem to be acting well and point defence weapons look good.
But larger ships should “sit” back, and watch as the frigates and destroyers battle it out, while firing at long range …

I’m as hopeful as you that that’s not a problem anymore

Maybe it depends what the cruisers are armed with 🤷‍♂️



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Reply #113 on: August 05, 2021, 12:26:11 AM
Yeah, I suspect it really depends on what a ship's weapons loadout is.  I have a hunch that in DW2, if you designed & built a missile cruiser, it actually will do its best to keep at standoff range. 


In addition, Erik does mention during the battle that the ships in the Mortalen fleet are equipped with a good amount of short-range weaponry, along with the engines to get them in close.  So it was likely their (the AI's) battle plan from the start to get in a scrum with the Ackdarians, thus offsetting the latter's range advantage. 


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Reply #114 on: August 05, 2021, 06:44:11 AM
I have next game money burning a hole in my pocket - I can buy the rest of the stellaris dlc or wait for dw2 - I hope it’s not far away



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Reply #115 on: August 06, 2021, 01:21:09 AM
I forget which video where it was mentioned (it was from a few weeks ago), but Marco said DW2 will probably be coming out in October.  He was careful to emphasize that wasn't 100% locked in yet, but it's looking extremely likely. 


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Reply #116 on: August 06, 2021, 05:22:40 AM
That’s doable!

I’ll end up buying everything anyway I just like to imagine I have game restraint



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Reply #117 on: August 06, 2021, 09:01:46 AM
Crap, if it's Oct that'll be a toss up if I buy day 1 or wait until beginning of Dec when I have my Matrix coupon. 

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Reply #118 on: August 06, 2021, 09:35:38 AM
I have the opposite problem:  My Matrix anniversary is in August, which means my coupon will likely expire *just* before I can use it for Distant Worlds 2.  :( 


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Reply #119 on: August 06, 2021, 12:46:35 PM
I have the opposite problem:  My Matrix anniversary is in August, which means my coupon will likely expire *just* before I can use it for Distant Worlds 2.  :(

Same boat here…

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