The TEC Primacy is My New Favorite Faction! - Sins of a Solar Empire 2

[@adriangarza7352]

16:00 you can click the supply button and it will show all your capital ships, you can itemize them and also skill ups, and in a second tab you can do the same for starbases

[@4lph4w0lf]

Also I believe that if you have a fleet selected you can press the "tab" button on your keyboard to cycle through your ships in the order they are displayed in your fleet list. Hope that helps!

[@xenomaster6444]

I use this fleet supply once I have my fleet maxed out. It makes it extremely easy for ability upgrades and ship items.

[@oak-a-kola6630]

Surveys can actually give you upgrades to your ships and planets - its really useful to survey every planet you have

[@thijsv948]

It's probably a pretty good thing that you oscillate between what's your favorite faction almost every time you play. It means that they have interesting mechanics that can be super powerful if you manage to figure them out :)

[@GeekyGizmo007]

02:00 Instead of buying scout ships in the beginning, you should have the very first thing you build be a civic research station, then build the "Focused Exploration Policy" in civic research. This gets you 4 scouts in about 2-3 minutes of effort and you save about 500 gold and a few minutes of ship building. I also like to que up a military research station and research the military experimental design "prova jump computer" that shaves off 75% of the scouts jump drive charge up time which will likely put you at a major advantage in scouting speed in the beginning of the game. I timed it and by the first 3 minutes of the game I will have 6 exploration ships and by minute 4 they will have 75% faster jump charge up times and this has only costed me about 1k gold, 200 crystal, 150 metals. Just buying 4 scout ships yourself will cost half of that without the speed boost.

[@MementiMori]

Whenever you mention Titans i can't help but think of the line "The mighty titan is here!" from They are billions

[@GeekyGizmo007]

TEC Primacy my favorite too! But it's because I always tend to like the side that deals with the underworld elements like pirates.

[@glados4765]

I know it's May not matter to others, but I enjoy achievements. I like the game a lot, but I also love seeing all those achievements on each game I play. Stupid to some I know, but I've been holding off on diving to deep into the game until steam achievements are added.

[@professormutant3252]

good news! they're a thing now

[@thefinn12345]

TEC AI Sucks though for some reason. Put them next to Vasari and they get rushed every time.

[@wk6499]

I just finished rushing a hard TEC less than 10 minutes ago, it took the AI 1 hour to build up a 300 supply fleet that could do nothing but run from my 600 supply Vasari. Its defenses were cardboard as well.

[@elistewart3435]

The opposite of the trope where the video game villain is super powerful and op when you are fighting them but is super weak in comparison when you get to play as them.

[@thefinn12345]

@@wk6499 Yeah that has been my experience too

[@mace2366]

Oddly enough it's the varsi ai that seems scuffed in my games. TEC ai focuses on me where the varsi fights the advent and loses. Granted I mostly play on 6-8 player maps so that might be why varsi gets crushed

[@goutam149]

​@@mace2366vasari right now is severally nerfed (to the point of despair) especially the loyalists....yes they have a pretty darn late game boost( mobile factory and portable resonance) their shield and armor are Medicare and have no access to the shield burst ( it was universal..added as a 3 way defence system which replaced the mitigation mechanics but suddenly reworked the burst as a with cap item or research for advent)

[@araulius2132]

for every person that says something is OP, there is 10 people saying it's UP. It's been fun seeing balance rage discussion.

[@LordSaliss]

When I play solo I often play TEC Enclave so I can defend areas easier with double fortress. When playing skirmish with friends against AI though I always go Vasari for phase gate mobility to better coordinate.

[@theterrorofdimensions1326]

14:58 The Deliverance Engine isn't necessarily a "doomsday" gun, but it is still something you want to take out very quickly when you see the Advent using it. What it does, as far as I can tell, is rapidly increase the rate at which their culture spreads in an adjacent planet. And given that the Advent's main focus (especially the Reborn variant) is culture spreading, and some of their Unity abilities revolve around culture spread, it is never a good idea to let them keep it around.

[@WitchZer0]

If you can talk to the pirates early you can grab the Boarding Crew, Ship Item early and when you see a LRM Boat or Heavy Fighter grab it for free Instantly adds it to your army. I ended up with 6 LRM Cruisers before I could even research that tier.

[@KhorgosKhul]

Need more zoom ins.

[@WooBino.]

Can't game will slow down.

[@-AytaL-]

28:54 that was a stellar base actually and not a titan.

[@Cheesedream]

Such a good game. Like that there is so much research and how you really can’t get all of the research requiring to pick and choose. Maybe I’m doing something wrong.

[@MrSHADOWANGEL999]

That's a Lotta missles

[@TheShadow89090]

Little tip - try to Ally the AI factions - they do that with each other too and then normally focus down a player - but not if you Ally them first ^^

[@Tri-WestSecurityDispatch]

having the resource gathering sped up like you do makes it too easy. Try that map again on normal rates.

[@ImTheHeyGuy]

👋 hey 👋 pravus 😊

[@h3m1v33]

Just have a starbase with Planetary shields with repair platforms, Phase jump Inhibitor and the civilian structures behind. Then place the 1slot cannons in Front of the starbase and a couple within your civilian buildings. Planet is immune so they have to Go for the starbase and raiding civilian structures doesnt Work cause you got all your def on top of it. I Like TEC enclave cause you also have the Garrison and trade ship consort ships Just adding def power on top. When your trade hubs are on top of your def the consort ships will fly there and can actually Help.

[@b9904]

TEC Enclave for me but glad you are enjoying the game! Play nightmare if you want a challenge. Impossible if you want fun.

[@goutam149]

Yeah i tried it as vasari......got my a@@ kicked lol....tried as TEC Enclave...and used shield bash tactics and after an hour i won :)

[@b9904]

@@goutam149 using garrison offensively is so fun! You just need a fleet with siege and colonizer. Meanwhile, your main fleet is going after harder targets. On time, my main fleet of 7 Sova Carriers with mobile factory, 25 smaller carriers, and speed boost melted a 2000+ supply fleet. Run around the gravity well while the garrison was pumping out ads non-stop.

[@sunshinetab6855]

With this faction just focus on capture enemy cuisers (pirate perks wohoo) and snowball hard regarding any tatics.

[@edict34]

Is anyone else scared if Pravus becomes a warlord?

[@simonchoi973]

the way how you showcase this game, make it more like a 2D planning game with simple graphic. Scenes like 13:41 there's nothing epic about the grand scale of space battle, more like a swarm of flies...I appreciate this great video, but frankly it makes the game feel a lot less interesting and less inclined to purchase

[@dnbanb]

Something seems off about his resource income...how is it building so fast so early in the game?

[@nebula189]

I do not recall. But thank you

[@0x0404]

I tried TEC and Advent but none of them can pull me away from Vasari for long. Everything synergizes better with them.

[@60sSam]

"Let's be xenophobic, it's really in this year!"

[@staplesdex2]

Now play in the hardest AI difficulty possible.

[@remliqa]

Aren't the Advent humans ?

[@DeviloftheHelll]

can you mod this one too?

[@anishbayya2275]

More

[@HeroNotFound05]

Day 135 asking Pravus to please play eu4 Anbennar mod

[@lordmortarius538]

The Dead Asteroid can still be defended, you just have to get the Deploy Starbase item on a capital ship and you can stick one there to defend, load it up with armor and weapons and launch bays

[@WooBino.]

How much does Stardock pay you to make a video about their game?

[@AllenYCLau]

Xenophobic culture spreads like crazy in alien worlds... 😂

[@WooBino.]

Fleet supply of 2000 which means in Sins 2 you can only have one fleet.

[@goutam149]

With 2000 you can have quite a lot of supply and overpowered ones too( if you focus on building missile ships)

[@Леха1122-й5ю]

я считаю что игра не доработана. Потому что. если вы потеряли весь свой флот. То восстановить его будет практически невозможно. что бы дать отпор врагу еще раз

[@goutam149]

Purchased on epic as i was a huge a sins 1 fan.... although it says full version but yet it needs still a ton of rework and balance changes....the most funny thing they added in the test is a whiny btch system...think it like that...your cap got hit by a single hit and now its scared to dea@th pretty funny actually not until you face missiles and remember no mitigation :p

[@SS-Sovereign]

Hard A.I, gay!

[@Buddahmonk]

Dude, the SW Empire faction is mega broken

[@12vscience]

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[@mekko1413]

you are only playing on medium not hard.

[@WooBino.]

More bots than real accounts, do you make them to drive up view numbers?

[@WooBino.]

@@SpreadsheetSaysNya Mind your business, was I talking too you?

[@dynestis2875]

​​@@WooBino.You're replying on a public app where anybody can reply to anyone, you virgin. 🤡🤣

[@zachthompson9976]

​@@SpreadsheetSaysNya😂 RIGHT!! Has absolutely ZERO impact on your viewing experience lol Soooo.... Who cares 😂

[@WooBino.]

In the old radio days they called this payola now it's "sponsored". Money talks.

[@dzikdziki2983]

Quite a boring game to be honest. Not much to do if you played the game a few times it becomes old very fast.

[@adriangarza7352]

you could say the same about moba games, tower defenses, vamp survival style, rogelite....

[@dzikdziki2983]

@@adriangarza7352 I don;t play mobas but when i did they had A LOT more choices then this. Many different characters in the tens. I don't play tower defense games. Roguelites are built for replayability . This game isn't. You play a faction once and you know whats up. There is nothing more to be discovered about it. No system to encourage playing again and owning the ai.

[@Chris.M]

No, it's not boring! You need to play it more than two times to tell.

[@dzikdziki2983]

@@Chris.M Ive got 16 hours in the game. Played every faction at least twice to hard difficulty. There is nothing more to do.

[@Chris.M]

@dzikdziki2983 Have you tried unfair or MP? The game has an amazing depth. Hard is very boring indeed...

[@patrykkk3720]

Tec total suck