DISTANT WORLDS 2 | 5 MORE Essential Tips Before you Start - Beginner's Guide

[@PartyElite]

The ship design guide video is coming asap! I want to make sure it's clear and organized, and of course, tested for accuracy against the latest patches as they drop - but I've made a lot of progress on it. If you missed the first video, here it is - kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHbVdoWOad14qJI and don't forget you can grab the game here to support the channel as you buy - partyelite.gg/game-store .

[@patricksiemens]

Bannerlord partyyy plsss🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@patricksiemens]

Also Happy Holi🤩🎉

[@bbrruuhhhhh19]

Bro please play humankind or another game series like indian series

[@Shinzon23]

Hmmn. 2 months later, I see no hide nor hair of that video...

[@jangoo1129]

@@Shinzon23 7 months later ... where is the "chunky" ship design video? ;)

[@redacted5052]

I’m just glad to see a strategy game that decided to increase the complexity for its sequel- instead of just dumbing down previous mechanics.

[@supremeownage8995]

It's basically the same game, but with a more impressive visual skin. Even most of the text from all the exploration, races, etc, is word for word the same. Was I the only one disapointed by this??

[@MalfunctioningAndroid]

@@supremeownage8995 yep. Most of us just wanted newer engine.

[@silvermarksman6834]

Tech stealing is insane. My first game I got an event where I found an advanced "empire" that just sat around in its own system. This empire seemed to have every tech in the game unlocked and was basically impossible to invade at my tech level. Then I got spies and spent the next century stealing advanced tech that I should not have had over and over again until I had light carriers invading my neighbors who could only get light cruisers to counter me. It absolutely needs to be nerfed, or at least, make it so the AI prioritizes trying to defend, as while I was stealing everything not nailed down, the ai was spending their spies trying to get my colonies to rebel, which wouldn't happen thanks to the troop tech I stole from them.

[@meroddaglenholm7924]

I start stealing from pirates as soon as I get a spy. They tend to have a decent tech selection (Identical for all pirates from what I can tell) so it's just a matter of finding the easiest to steal from. This is usually a pirate of the same race since your spies will not stand out as much. On the flip side I have rarely, if ever, seen much skill progression when I set my spies to counter intelligence. Even if I capture a spy, the spy I have had on counter intelligence does not seem to gain anything. As such, unless I have notices of tech being stolen, I tend to keep all spies on steal tech/map missions which gives a good return for concealment and espionage skills and starts unlocking the traits.

[@connycontainer9459]

Big fan of the old DW:U, just got the game today (I tried not to look into any spoilers and thus missed release date by a couple weeks) and came looking for a way to retrofit the ships - which the context menu did. Thx. First game, pre-warp, hard difficulty and got visited by 3 pirate factions (in one in-game week) after I found my first source of fuel. Had to appease 2 of them, while the third one liked me from the start. Now that's what I call fallen-empire-feeling. Game has it's flaws, but man I'm already loving it for so many details done right. I mean, when you find an abandoned station and it's component list tells you, along with a ruin or so, the story of it's system. So immersive.

[@HellyeahRook]

Thank you for breaking this video down and having it be straight to the point. And also covering things other KZbinrs are not covering.

[@TheBonzobonzo]

my god had no idea about the station upgrades!

[@ssn4k3]

Sweet! Thanks for the tips! Few from me: 1. You can hold right click instead of using ctrl+ right click (I didn't know about ctrl+ :D) for the context menu to pop up. 2. Remember to haul destroyed pirate ships with your construction ships - you can get nice tech boosts from this!

[@TESI303]

Re#2. If you mean salvage. Then that can be done by any ship, including your military ships that just killed it - regardless of having/not having cargo modules.

[@gokkiyoutube]

I guess the ship design video never came around. :(

[@stakantube]

wow.... that is soooo coool!!!!! they should make a side project where u start as a trader or maybe pirate, and then colonize then earn cash, and then maybe build factories, and then maybe colonizing and taking over the galaxy... start in pre-empire mode.

[@Eichman86]

Man, Thank you soo much for this Much needed guide you are making to help us enjoy this amazing game .. Raise my hat to you

[@Cramblit]

This was actually extremely helpful, and stuff NOBODY else covered in any youtuber video.

[@VenomGamingCenter]

The ship design guide never came out did it?

[@Roguedeus]

Great video. Honestly, all five tips were new info for me. Thanks.

[@PartyElite]

Glad to hear it, thank you!

[@Bill_Garthright]

@@PartyElite Nice job. I've got a question, which you might be able to answer. I've got at least two planets in my current game which have unexplored ruins. I don't know why I even know about the ruins, when I wasn't given an option to explore them. But I'm planning to send an exploration ship back to both planets. My question is, do I need to assign the ship to "survey" the planet or "explore" it? Or does it matter? Again, I did have a ship there, earlier. I don't know why these ruins weren't explored then. But do you know which order I should give to the ship that returns there? (I've got both kinds of sensors on the ships.) Also, a little tip about pirates. With assault pods (along with ion weapons and some kind of blaster or beam weapon), it seems pretty easy to _steal_ those advanced ships from the pirates, instead of just destroying them. They give you better ships, yourself, or you can just dismantle them for a tech boost. It's pretty useful. Thanks.

[@timmietimmins3780]

I haven't really found extra docking bays to be worthwhile for a spaceport (As it's not that hard to get resources in and out already, you CAN put a second construction yard on your starting spaceport (At least, you can for humans and teekans, I am not sure about the others, other than ackdarians, who obviously can't as they get a free spaceport). this gives you a second building and refitting queue, AND a second docking bay. Makes refitting your fleet or building up for fighting pirates WAY faster and easier. Also, they are literally free, as they cost no resources, and therefore, have no upkeep OR build cost. As for fighting pirates, I didn't realize this at first, but each faction has very different ships, to the point that some races just don't have viable early frigate builds. I have settled for zenox, for example, going for mass heavy escorts, simply because you can't really get any decent large weapons to put on the size 120 frigate weapon mount. But a heavy escort can mount Dual medium concussion launchers (the true bane of pirates, these things obliterate pirates). I would say the best loadouts I have found so far for pirate hunting: Humans do well with concussion missile spam from frigates. Minimal tech, very powerful. Ackdarians can make strike craft frigates, which are INSANELY powerful. Strike craft obliterate enemies at incredible speed. Zenox have to really go heavy escort concussion missile, because their frigate's hardpoints require tech 3+ weaponry to be efficient. Delaying for star beams is not practical. I feel it's a trap to go for most other weapon systems, simply because more advanced enemies have high countermeasures (minus chance to be hit). If you have an inherently inaccurate weapon, firing at an inherently hard to hit enemy, you can rapidly fall off the cliff of "I can no longer outpace the enemy's passive regen". To give you an idea, enemy strike craft can have over 100 countermeasures at game start. Early ion weapons have 40% accuracy at max range. concussion missiles have 70% accuracy at max range, but that max range is twice as far. This also prevents fights from turning into the annoying scrum, where your ships try to ram into the enemy ship and then cannot turn fast enough to bring weapons to bear. Seeking missiles have 360 fire arcs, so you don't have to fly towards the enemy to do damage and you cannot be stuck unable to turn to face.

[@picatdim]

There is now an official DW2 Discord where you could post this if you want. Great write-up! :)

[@platiusmango7075]

You don't have to hit Control-Right Click to get the context menu. Just right click and hold it for 2 or 3 seconds.

[@DudokX]

I AM 50+ hours in and the more I play the more I think they should have released this in early access for at least few months. There is a lot of bugs, weird overlooked design decisions and placeholders. They are already fixing and updating as if it was in ea so labeling it clearly would help manage expectations.

[@ArayaPancho]

have they improved performance a bit? I tried the first days, but the game was constantly crashing and runs really slow

[@bruns_tube]

Def should have been early access. Music mix is a bit off, some controls feel really clunky. And when I send my ships to move or attack a target why don’t I have lines showing me that they are actually heading that way??? Movement lines do show on the big galaxy map but they need to show on the smaller one also.

[@1019-o2t]

Please create an economy guide also. I am always broke economically in this game lol. I only have 2 colonies and their revenues don't seem to improve. My private economy is doing fine though.

[@PartyElite]

Good to know if folks would be interested in that! I had one planned but people didn't seem as interested in that - maybe I'll get back on it. For now, if you haven't seen my first video, I've got a section about the economy in there: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHbVdoWOad14qJI timestamped!

[@seasand6705]

@@PartyElite I'd like to see this particularly as it pertains to colony management.

[@IIIJG52]

Resources and ship building are *great* ways to get your economy off the ground.

[@iamdopeasfcuk]

spam mining stations. the private economy pays you every time they build ships to haul cargo and the mining maintenance is through them too.

[@Blackreaper95]

A dedicated economy guide would be much appreciated, I'm in the negative in cash flow but still generating money, when it comes to expanding via colonies idk what to do on the economy side.

[@Szyperak]

Thanks mate, I've just bought the game and spent half an hour looking for the context menu, until I accepted that "it just isn't in the game". I'm really glad that it's actually present, even though I feel really stupid now

[@gavinsnyder9789]

What ever happened to the Ship Design video? Was looking forward to your format for these videos. Steam has a 50% Discount on the game right now and interest is getting bigger. If you haven't made the video yet, would you consider making it?

[@10Boxing]

Excellent guide as always. This contains information not found (as of this writing) by other content creators. Looking forward to the ship design guide!

[@SundiataWTF]

One of your best tip videos. As others have said, you've mentioned elements of the game no one else has. Good going!

[@VeganerHippie]

These tips are so useful. This game is so complex and its hard for me to get behind everything. You really help. Thank you.

[@BGP369]

Use automation and learn the game slowly. Once comfortable, experiment with automation off or suggest only. I find I use automation for many things after tightly controlling first 10 to 20 colonies, make sure economy is stable, then let the AI manage many areas except wars. One thing I do highly recommend learning first is upgrading ship designs manually. The AI isn't that good at it, you can much more easily build better designs if you learn how. Just takes time.

[@daniel56656]

Bruh where do you play, I don’t have the game but I legit want to watch you play rather than any other KZbinr!!

[@luke1119411]

In regards to the ship/station design stuff, are these still present if you have it set to auto, or is it fixed by the AI?

[@SkewardlySkewZaneShennanigans]

hey partyelite pls we want workers and resources series we missed you

[@PartyElite]

Hey hey! I'm just trying to wrap up some of this stuff and then I can get back to the old let's plays asap! Don't worry - I miss W&R too!

[@SkewardlySkewZaneShennanigans]

@@PartyElite ok

[@337dizzyduck]

how can i .. or.. 'can I' track /follow a single ship or a fleet ? a bit 'naff' constantly wasd and 'mousing' cross to follow ship/fleet.

[@ash072]

Great stuff as always!

[@blackhat4968]

About Mining.... Which do you think it is better to focus on, Building more mining stations, or more Mining ships... And if you do feel one is better, (or it depends upon situation) Can you you describe why.

[@PartyElite]

I think mining stations are quite a bit more valuable as you can encourage freighter production to boost your economy with a bit more predictability (since you can't build mining ships outside of being a mercantile empire). Freighters can also be made faster, and able to carry more You just need to make sure not overdo it too quickly, since you might crash the private economy.

[@blackhat4968]

@@PartyElite ahh, I forgot that the private economy is the one building the mining ships.

[@halfknight1027]

Are there going to be more DW2 streams or has the hype for the game died down a bit?

[@kingdom7538]

Yes Please more of these type of video's, need all the help and advice i can, thank again :)

[@waynehynes9430]

Your DW2 tips 'n tricks are going down like digital chocolate chip cookies. Mmmm, good. Outstanding!

[@whammo11224]

This was on point!

[@TESI303]

Ground combat could be a video on it's own. Various ground troops have a rock/paper/scissors aspect - which makes for some potential counters aspect to them. How well all thats implemented and working, remains to be seen.

[@redacted5052]

Also, lots of games do context menus, but if they hide options they tend to suck. Grey stuff out and explain to the player why they can’t click that button, don’t just hide it forever.

[@PartyElite]

Yeah, agreed - at least it tells the player what they might be missing, and why!

[@EvulMonkai]

Don't know how it is for other factions, but Ackdarians (I think I got that right) start with the option of restoring an Ancient Space Port above their homeworld. It's vastly superior to anything you will have access to for a good few ingame decades so don't make the mistake of 'retrofitting' it. The space port you can put together with early tech will perform at about 10% of what the Ancient one can do.

[@PartyElite]

So, I've done a few Ackdarian starts, and I vaguely remember one where I didn't start with a spaceport. It's possible I'm misremembering, but it made me think it was a 'start' related aspect rather than a racial aspect!

[@xerxes8632]

Really nice video.

[@mikeh2916]

another great video ctrl+click has been game changing tyvm 75 yrs in and doing well

[@bradb3245]

Why do you have to click CTL when right clicking in order to see the context menu??? why why.. seems to make no sense at all.

[@mr.fleeglesmathclass9911]

So helpful! Could you explain colonizing a bit? I have four worlds colonized for many years, and they're all still costing me thousands. They're water worlds and I'm the water race, all quality over 35% etc. All at over 300 mil pop and growing well, but the support costs are insane.

[@hoabinh555]

I've heard that quality needs to be over 50% for the penalty cost to not be a factor. Think the formula is quality minus 50 plus race bonus so you'll need another race or better tech.

[@IIIJG52]

The colonization Techs are very helpful. Ive jumped 10k income on saved support costs in my 20 colony empire by researching the improved versions sometimes. Especially early on you simply cant afford to colonize many different worlds, so its better to find a really good one and start there, or colonize an independant colony instead. Colonys only really become somewhat profitable at the 800Million Population mark id say. If you raise taxes too early the growth goes down a LOT.

[@salientblue6584]

The metric you want to look at is habitability. +20 or higher means the planet is good and will have minimal support costs. +10-19 means it's doable but support costs will be higher. Less than +10 you shouldn't bother with. You'll often find planets that fit your race's type, but the habitability will be very low, possibly in the negatives.

[@Bleilock1]

Colonies become profitable actually after 2kM pops And you need to have at least 20+ sustainability for them to ever make profit Quality and sustainability are not the same btw

[@teambellavsteamalice]

Cool! I had an idea both stations and ion weapons had a lot of potential, and especially the combination. Stations have so much room on them, maintenance will be a bottleneck before room until you are a huge empire, right? Besides stealing tech, a huge fleet of exploring ships (on auto) will let you find ancient debris and ship wrecks that can be repaired. MonstersAbound could have just been lucky and find a treasure trove, but finding a bunch makes for running start. Would you design combined explore/survey ships or have specialised ships and do both faster? Would a big combo refuel survey ship be an idea, with docking bays and lots of tiny explore ships assigned to each? Would you add a space station to every interesting planet? Could be expensive, but cool. I think I saw upkeep was a few hundred, much less than a colony but it won't go down. They could act as fly catching strips to pirates, especially with ion weapons. Are mining stations upgradable to be militarily strong and get the same modules (research, trade, medical, recreation)?

[@IIIJG52]

Large Mining Stations with decent-ish midgame tech can fend off single or dual pirate ships fairly easily. The problem with those ideas isnt really upkeep, but hull size on most stations. If you put everything they need for their original mission on them, they dont have the space left for weapons and armor From my experience so far.

[@meteerdogan1478]

@@IIIJG52 with bettet reactorsband Crew Moduls you can use the space more effizient.

[@Thanaeon]

I had no idea the context menu even existed, wow!

[@qwe5qwe566]

I have stopped playing and waiting for patches. It has a potentially but right now the game is too clunky and buggy. So far the biggest annoyance was when creatures spawning too fast and my 3 fleets were unable to deal with them as they were very clunky and unresponsive. I had to lower ship count in fleets yet they still managed to get stuck either attacking monster inside a star or by refueling when the last ship was blocked by another one and it efficiently blocked the base for all other ships including cargo and remained there until I noticed and manually moved them away. Another time wrong colony ship was assigned to colonize a planet and it ended with unsuitable population which stalled colony's progress and I was unable to migrate suitable species there for the rest of the game. Also multiple designs per ship role are still not addressed (inherited from DW:U). I generally have mixed feelings about it compared to DW:U. There are some upgrades over it but AI seems far worse, pathfinding as well, ship design is more limited due to slots so you cannot be that creative anymore. Far more tedious upgrade of ship and especially base designs. Why there need to be 3 identical small space ports with different sizes? In DW:U you simply researched greater size and you could easily update your current designs to it but here you have to design space port 3 times from scratch. Also there is obvious lack of content. I get simplification in mining as there is no longer gas/mineral/luxury miner but simplification to only one fuel type is disappointing. In DW:U I usually had military and civilian ships using different fuel. Also it has the same design "flaw" in research/ship components with interesting mid game where components split into variety of subtypes with different pros and cons just to merge into one super component for the late game that is best in all parameters.

[@adrian82141]

If you start at level 7 the medical and recreation goes up to 5 happiness.

[@spartnmarcen5110]

I didn't even consider that I could design Space Stations. I'm about to lose all my free time.

[@MrHellknightimp]

I like getting protection agreements with pirates of my own race (current game about 1/4 of the pirates are human) as you can get other treaties with them faster (you no longer paid the protection money if you can get above a non-aggression pact) and now I have some free defense in my empire. I like to think that you are turning the "evil" pirate band into a "good" privateer or mercenary outfit.

[@steeneugenpoulsen8174]

I find your advice on research labs weird, you do know that the lab is a 60 size and a SSP/MSP only has one, so how are you adding more than one? Research Station does come with two, but even then a very hard limit, due to requiring a special and super rare unit size slot, so why would you throw in adding more, you can either add one on space ports or two on research stations. Now if you would talk about the fact you might be able to add labs to mining ships, now that is something I doubt many people will consider. A mining ship has a 100 size slot, but we also have the small miner, so could put a lab in the 100 size slot. Oh and mining stations with labs perhaps.

[@PartyElite]

Appreciate the feedback! I try as much as possible (and perhaps I should change this) to state things in a way that lets people know what to check for notionally, rather than be precisely prescriptive. This keeps things open for future updates where devs might tweak things (like how many bays of what size are available), for future mods that might tweak things in a similar vein, and also, hopefully, it allows people to take the suggestions and run with them a little. I also have a tendency to belabour a point, and I try to keep these concise - it's very possible I overcorrect at times!

[@GloriousEagle69]

please tell me how to increase m espionage power and success

[@Villain_in_Glasses]

I'm no master but from what I've noticed, if you just pay heed to the percentage and select to say steal a low level tech at 90% - 95% over and over then your spy will start developing their abilities. You can also leave them on counter-intelligence and assuming another empire is trying to spy on you, they'll level up that way by preventing it. Basically it's practice makes perfect.

[@PartyElite]

Yep you have to spend time with 'easier' jobs, and improve over time first. You can use counter-intelligence to improve spies who are otherwise useless, first, too!

[@MattWalshSkinnyJean]

In this game if a race becomes too much of pain, can you eradicate them?

[@PartyElite]

You can definitely eradicate an entire group based on their species, yeah.

[@philippemalacher2649]

Thanks, that's interesting. Max 2 mn per tip should be sufficient though!

[@noneofyourbuisness2539]

I normally love this sort of game but I am finding DW2 super boring. I loved DW:U though. I don't know what it is, it just feels like there's something missing here.

[@thehaberdash]

Somebody remind me in 9 hours so I can buy this when I get home

[@PartyElite]

I'm like 15 minutes early, but - reminder! It's also available at my store if you wanna grab it there (no pressure!) Enjoy!

[@thehaberdash]

@@PartyElite its showing sold out on your store!! What am I messint up lol

[@BookGeekCorner]

Really missing PZ

[@WNxLordofWar]

My game just crashes every 5-10 minutes

[@LagTheKiller]

This game is soooo boring. I mean you can just pop some auto explore, approve mining station popups and crush AI whenever you feel like it. Why do I need to colonize independent colonies who are willing to join anyway? Pirates are boring and easy to deal with. Events are simply pay 10,000-25,000 for a buff with a minimal markup. Automatic ship designer put bomb module into everything. Diplomacy is as bland and uneventful as in almost any other space SIM. Colony managment is even more boring than rest of the game. Public sector serves no purpose beside being a speedbump on colony taxes. This is ultimate 4x forward self play. Only good thing is space battles and unit designer. But again even Star Sector got better one so it's not saving grace. It means you can do something while the game autoplays. And sure I don't need to turn on autoplay. I don't have to autopopulate excel sheet either and type everything manually but is it fun?

[@bruns_tube]

Finally a comment I agree with. Plus everything takes forever to happen… it’s such a sloooooow burner and to what point really when everything can be automated to the same result? I regret the £32 I spent on it.

[@IIIJG52]

One of the main things that annoyed me a lot was : Nobody fucking told me i nthe game where to reassign the homebase. Had to google that there was a context menu in the first place basically. Colonization is difficult to get the hang of, and the economic impacts of it. Also economy is difficult until you understand the relationship of state and private economy and what a HUGE income boost shipbuilding can be. (be sure to upgrade and introduce new ships with every tech Kids ! ) Looking forward to the ship building thing. Economy and Colonization are the big factors most people seem to struggle with id say.

[@PartyElite]

Yeah trying to juggle a ship building guide and an econ guide (which will probably include colony management... at least the economic side of it). Dense game, with lots to get through! The context menu I literally discovered by accident myself, too - a moment of "there have *got* to be more orders" and then just trying ctrl/alt/shift + click lmao

[@bruns_tube]

Automate everything and you’ll be fine 😂 even though I’m on negative my money keeps going up 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@GloriousEagle69]

tbh put recreation on all ships even small escorts or frigates saving 10 a months is 120 a uear if u have 10 frigates thats 1200 credits which is basicallu a whole tax % which could be better used to colonize

[@IIIJG52]

Very true. Also damage control as well. Being able to repair and such is great for long distance work or long deployments.

[@BGP369]

Tip1 just longhold rmb. Easier.

[@bbrruuhhhhh19]

Bro please play humankind or another game series like indian series

[@NopeSecret]

15 minute video that gives VERY little information.