star drive 2

[Fabio1701]

Just came across Stardrive 2 lets play:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1igIGSF0uw

it looks very similar to sid meiers starships as in civ in space, minus the tactical battles that startships is mostly about. this is more classical civ i think. kinda galciv.

what do you guys think?

 

[civvver]

I have star drive 1 in my library, never played it though.

 

[GrayingGamer]

This is definitely a "wait and see."

SD1 was basically abandoned by the developer to make SD2 - some people are happy about this, because they like the major changes that came with SD2, but other people are upset that SD1 never really got finished (according to what some have said).

I love MOO, and that's clearly what this game is trying to reboot, so I'm watching it... but I definitely wouldn't jump on it unless you don't mind disappointment/buyer's remorse.

 

[civvver]

I mainly heard the end game sucked in the first one. The only way to win was completely killing everyone else which made it very hard to finish games. Think if every original master of orion game ended in the total war scenario.

 

[GAGA Extrem]

I still have Stardrive 1 sitting here, yelling at me: "FIX ME! PLEASE DADDY, FIX ME!", so I am not 100% happy about how the dev decided to go. But then again, it seems like a true turn based game now, so maybe the re-work from ground up was necessary.

Stardrive 1 was a decent game for the price and development capacities, so I'd give an optimistic guess that Stardrive 2 will at least be decent as well. I'll wait for reviews & stuff, though.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

This looks a lot like MOO2. Does it do enough things differently and/or better ?

 

[puwen]

I've played it around 20h now.

It is realy a combination of sd1 and moo2.

Techtree like moo2 (Just a few changes realy). The battles like sd1.
map as both sd1 and moo2, a realy good change how the constructionship works.

Since I've played so much moo2 through the years i still feel that is the better game.

Was still imo worth buying though, especially since if you already own sd1 you get 33% discount.