HUGE NEW UPDATE - Ruins of War - Sins of a Solar Empire 2

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[@theplasmawolf]

To clarify your explanation about the speeding up or slowing down of ability cooldown (and related things like Derelict Specialists at 11:39), any number in green is a buff, and every number in red is a debuff. Your overall speedup or slowdown is determined by the calculation of *debuff/buff*, where both values are initially at 100. Derelict specialists adds 100% to the buff, so that goes to 200, so the time to capture wreckage is reduced to *100/200=0.5* , so it is halved as you said. This becomes a more interesting calculation whenever there are more modifiers. For example, the Aluxian Military Observers (from the minor faction) gives a +20% ability cooldown to your capital ships, so the calculation is *100/120=0.8333* , so it's actually a 17% reduction in cooldown times. There is also a relic that gives a +50% ability cooldown. Putting that on the ship gives *100/150=0.6667* , so a 33% ability cooldown reduction. If you put both on, then you get a *100/170=0.588* factor, so a 41% ability cooldown. So the military observers only give an extra 8 percentage points, in ability cooldown timers on the relic ship, rather than the 17 percentage points on the blank ship. TLDR: Math is fun! :)

[@Zamun]

Thanks for putting this out! I appreciate you taking the time to edit your videos the way you do. Reducing that whole 5+ hour game into an hour long video made it so much more approachable.

[@drakhoon]

Sins of a Solar Empire 2 was a perfect sequel :) not a perfect game it has issues, but a perfect sequel. Also at around 48:30 @PotatoMcWhiskey advent does not use missiles for their long range damage only beams ^.^ the blue lines were not disappearing from your flack, they were disappearing slamming into your shields ^.^

[@theplasmawolf]

I have been playing a lot of Advent lately. Their ability to improve their firepower, abilities, and (with the right upgrade) survivability through the psi power mechanic is a lot of fun. Especially watching the purple numbers go up

[@doppelrutsch9540]

The Advent powers are so great in the lategame. Taking planets left and right only through culture is so fun.

[@theplasmawolf]

@@doppelrutsch9540 Coronata: Your planet? No, MY planet. Makes AI stomping incredibly easy if you've got the capital planet victory on. Sort of takes the fun away because what you really want is fight giant fleets :)

[@colejosephalexanderkashay683]

I've always liked how effective they are at capturing ships and building massive fleets

[@Davepluslotsanumbers]

You talked me into it, Potato!

[@LtCWest]

Glad Im not the only one who appreciates the TEC Enclaves turtle approach. ^^ And yes, Kols rule! ^^

[@drakhoon]

My main faction I play :) love breaking an attack on my double starbase defenses and then counter attacking

[@theflyingalamo]

Ultimately you can deploy 4 starbases in the star gravity wells. Maybe 5 with your TEC faction. (As in SoaSE1)

[@MrMojave]

Potato I love your videos so much so that I wish your civ and other parodox games and games like civ would be longer than 30 - 50 mins I want them 1hr long videos something I can watch and fall asleep to then wake up and go "Oh cool potato is playing on my phone"

[@josuecallejero9864]

I've been keeping an eye on this game. Might pull the trigger after all.

[@arklainquirk]

You need to build Garrison Recreation Centers on every planet as fast as possible for an unstoppable defense fleet. Just make sure you change their aggression, so they help defend other planets.

[@Dracobyte]

Thanks for the news update!

[@kristoph17]

I had Sins1 back in the day, didn't get around to it too much, felt overwhelmed and didn't give a chance. So when Sins2 came out, you bet your ass I purchased it.... have I played it yet? Nope! But I plan on doing so hopefully before Civ7 comes out. 😅 I gotta watch your other videos, didn't realize you had played it already.

[@peterream6508]

34:52 "Whoo. It's tough out here, being a space leader. LOL

[@SuperBlackdog420]

been loyal to the series for years

[@niemand123]

Set playback speed to 0.75. So much better 😅

[@noway-sk3yr]

nah 2x speed for me

[@ReachStudioPro]

10x all the way for the first hour.

[@shishkabob984]

Does anybody know what the immediate effect is on the strikecraft when you kill a carrier? I havent really ever noticed if they disappear or if things keep flying around for a while, like missiles

[@samuelbrockman9566]

Strike craft used to operate for a short time after carrier destruction and then despawn. Not sure if it's still handled that way, it's been about a decade since I've played a game of soase

[@ReachStudioPro]

They all get destroyed after some seconds. This is why you want to focus on destroying the carriers first.

[@Ambilition]

Good game. Personally I only played it once after I bought it and after somehow clocking in 20 hours I was afraid to touch it again.

[@bubyCZ]

What I am really waiting for is proper map tools. No, the current state of galaxyforge is not enough. There is little to zero documentation and most of the settings are just strings which means you have absolutely zero idea what does what or what kind of values it operates in. Vanilla maps are just toooo ... mundane? They have "space terrain" features on micro scale, but they are not being properly implemented to create proper macro map that has specific design in mind. The game supports tons of options for W3 style custom maps, but the tools are soooooooooo lacking.

[@fatmanboozer1760]

I feel like vassri lost out in this patch ☹️ strikecraft buffed back up again

[@megmucklebones7538]

Only problem is there is no single player missions. For us dumbasses, I need an objective and or my hand held, initially. It adds to the atmosphere.

[@NevetsFlint]

Actually if i remember correctly, the devs did mention they were looking at implementing a campaign as well, the series has some really interesting lore so it would be nice to get to play through it

[@PeaPodScienceTeacher]

Could always find people to play with online? The game always dissolves into "kill everyone".

[@charlestaylor8344]

Doesn't this game utilise AI when making a leader? Or am I thinking of a different game

[@zreloaded5916]

are there no solar systems in this game? the maps just look like a bunch of random planets which looks really bad to me

[@TheKirboestoneofall]

Really Bad?!?!?!?!? Buddy, do you want there to be only 9 planets that are super far away from each other??? Boy howdy, that sure seems like exhilarating gameplay to me, but anything for realism am i right?

[@ChristopherHilliard-dw3kt]

Just got all of the civ 6 dlcs for $16 usd. Been enjoying the new stuff since I've got 1k hours in the base game.

[@koonbeast]

need more likes?

[@godisdead4416]

Ugh, I was right. Every time I saw art in the game it kept jumping out at me as generic and soulless, and what do I see when I look it up? AI art. Hard pass from me, even if the game looks ok.

[@jacobculp9723]

@@godisdead4416 seems like a odd complaint. The game is fun and looks good.

[@zesky6654]

@jacobculp9723 for you maybe, for some of us the AI art is a dealbreaker.

[@jacobculp9723]

@@zesky6654 opinions vary I suppose.

[@hebert7204]

Game is far from soulless, has a lot of charm in its voice lines, easter eggs, references. And arguably the details on the ship models themselves. As others have mentioned, game play is top tier, you are missing out!

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

The art in the game was created by artists and then iterated upon using AI. They basically trained an AI on their own art.