>>2359560
People don't play either, noone is play Stellaris so they don't discuss it here, which is because noone wants to learn the same video game for the fourth fucking time.

I like Distant Worlds 2, but there's not much to say about it. I play a game now and then until I'm bored of colonising or the micromanagement becomes too annoying, then I put it to rest for six months again.

>>2359560
I still haven't given up on DWU

>>2359600
how do you even run it on high resolution. That shit was always annoying as fuck to deal with because of the retarded way it was coded.

Can't read shit

>>2359600
>>2359616
Kinda sad DW2 isnt getting these omega huge unbalanced alien species mod packs but it makes sense since having 3d ship models kind of limits it for modders now.
I'm not even sure if you CAN mod new species in.
I can't rememeber the name but I think it was DWU unleashed or something that added like +30 new species. My favorite were the leviathan shark dudes who had an unique overpowered huge sensor that covered half the galaxy

>>2359560
>It's basically the better Stellaris
After dozen (or 2, or 3) of hours you learned game mechanics and ready to actually play vs ai.
But then you found that ai is stupid af and can't compete even on hardest diff, and big events tied to certain triggers.
So next your step is handicap yourself even more with home rules, play suboptimal intentionally or drop the game.
On top of this design flaws and modding unfriendly engine with hardcoded things, and we got dead game.

Hey. It's me again.
Yea. Yea I'm still on the orbits thing.
I know. No its fine. I'm just not going to advocate for your game is all.

>>2359624
>>2359616
I remember the starfall mod, if you go into the forums you'll still find it through some ancient mediafire link or some shit, makes me feel ancient

>>2359644
>But then you found that ai is stupid af and can't compete even on hardest diff, and big events tied to certain triggers.
>So next your step is handicap yourself even more with home rules, play suboptimal intentionally or drop the game.
That's just stellaris

>>2359684
Correct, but its also moddable and the engine is not hardcoded, so you can make it atleast more interesting for yourself.

still not playing it until they prevent me from being able to zoom in through planets

Bought it yesterday, I looked into DW1 years ago but haven't played it. Is 2 definitely the better game?

>>2359644
What if I wanna roleplay as a xenophobic human? Is it fun? Can I turn bug pepul and reptilians into processed cat food?

>>2359827
Anyone who likes both will say they're sidegrades of each other.

>>2359827
2 actually runs on modern machines but Im still getting random crashes after some hours.
1 is impossible to run on my huge screens but I feel like I had a better "understanding" on what was going on. But 2 has too many QoL and smarter automation/Designs for me to ever go back to 1

>>2360097
You can enslave and iirc genocide, but i don't think you can recycle them.

>>2359856
> >>2360511

>>2359624
Yeah you can mod in new races, they're all loaded procedurally. There's also a video guide in the game's files that shows how to add new ship models or edit existing ones. You can also add new events, items, etc. Just about all the game's data is externalized to an XML file. The documentation on this is very bad and/or outdated though, wish it wasn't but apparently they only have one programmer lol.

>>2359560
After playing X4, it's actually just embarrassing how poorly this game runs while offering a much shallower simulation of the same things. I'm convinced whoever coded this does not know how to optimize this kind of game at all. You know it's bad when someone can vibe code an overhaul mod that makes the game run 800% faster in the late game.

>>2362508
Lmao.
Anon, in x4 your fps will be dead if you even try to get the same numbers as dw2 have. It have ships limitation per faction for solid reason, and this reason is performance.

>>2362540
?
A single carrier in X4 can carry an equivalent number of ships as the midgame navy of an entire empire in DW2 (~100). Across all the sectors there are at any time thousands of ships in the game. You lose frames when you have hundreds of ships on the screen at a time but the actual universe simulation is much larger in scope than DW2 and doesn't cause performance issues due to the low attention mechanic. And it offers an actually meaningful economy simulation that you can interact with and manipulate. In this shit game you just sit in the cuck chair and watch as civilians automatically build freighters that slow your game down and don't even serve their purpose because every colony has 40+ shortages at a time always. Just like with populations in Stellaris, you conquer empires not to roleplay but so you can genocide all their freighters and preserve your frames.

>>2362565
>And it offers an actually meaningful economy simulation
As someone who loves x4, you're full of shit

>>2362596
I accept your concession.

>>2362604
>everyone is the guy I was arguing with
True schizo hours

>>2362611
That's even worse then, because you butted into an exchange just to have no argument and make some le epic redditor quip. So I accept your concession.

>>2362620
>noooo you can't discuss games because I say so

>>2362623
You're only fueling my superiority complex by acting like this, I want you to know that.

>>2362624
Yes all retards feel they are superior

>>2362620
"i accept your concession" is a textbook reddit quip ya pinhead
you gotta lurk more

>>2362626
>no u
What a magnificent riposte, how ever will I recover.
>>2362659
Are you enjoying yourself?

>>2362565
Lmao you hard coping full of bullshit fucking retard.

>>2362776
When you're in the bullshit capital of the world, the truth is hard to swallow.

>>2359827
Having spent too much time in both, DWU is the better game by far. 2 feels like a substandard clone.

>>2368199
having spent 30 minutes in both, they both sucked and i don't want to play more of either

>>2359657
lel

Surprised this game is still getting updates when it's barely getting 3 digit concurrent players.

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>>2362659
Concession Accepted

Absolutely DEMOLISHED with FACTS and LOGIC

>>2359560
turns my pc into chernobyl so i only play during (australian) winter
it's the best space logistics game i've found but it's still disappointing
>better than stellaris
is an excruciatingly low bar
>x4
slightly higher bar but lol, lmao regardless

>>2369190
play aurora
or space empires if you want to know what it copied