The TEC Spotlight | Sins of a Solar Empire II

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This video shines a spotlight the Trader Emergency Coalition (TEC) in Sins of a Solar Empire II.
The Traders are tough and resourceful: their unparalleled knowledge of interstellar economics grants them an industrial advantage over their rivals, while their advanced projectile weapons and armour-focused technologies are at the forefront of their combat doctrine.
The Trader Emergency Coalition are caught in a desperate war on two fronts, against technologically advanced foes. Can they survive?
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[@TrustSpiders]

Fun Tip: If you use the minor faction that builds jump gates you can connect a garrison on the backlines anywhere in the galaxy. This lets garrisons defend anywhere with another jump gate, including the minor factions home world, which can be kind of funny when a hostile ship passes through.

[@alanleigh-lancaster6361]

This is great when you win the deploy phase gate ship item, doesn't need to be a friendly planet either.

[@matthewlozy1140]

Been playing as the TEC Enclave and love their garrison ability. Having dozens of fighters defending a planet and our neighboring planets is so good for defense.

[@Erebus2075]

thematically pleasing as well

[@Aweal7]

fr

[@remcovanderpas44]

i cant play with anything else because off that ability:) wish i could chose the titan though

[@spartnmarcen5110]

Oh man. I NEED the Vasari video now!!

[@ReachStudioPro]

Same! Have been wanting one badly since the Advent video.

[@FantasyZoneGaming]

I don't think vasari is fleshed out yet. I think they are going to make some major updates for them. Or at least i hope. Vasari suck in this new game.

[@thyalchemist]

@@FantasyZoneGaming what don't you like about them?

[@CAS2130]

This will be our finest hour...

[@Anthony-jo7up]

For the Homeworld

[@Sorain1]

Firstly, I love the names picked for the TEC factions. Second, holy lord the Enclave's whole 'the more ships we are missing the more income bonus we get' is exactly the tool to flip them into an offensive powerhouse. Not in an individual push, but the ability to sit behind defenses and keep throwing out offensive fleets faster than their enemy or rivals could is a massive reason to play that faction.

[@Ruzaraneh]

"you cant throw money at the problem and hope its gone" *TEC Players* : "wanna see me run in that mountain back ? (sins:re), wanna see me do it again ? (sins 2)"

[@1forge2rulethemall88]

Love TEC, and I like the new initially shieldless frigates. It makes it feel a bit like HALO and makes me more afraid of tough engagements early in the game.

[@negative1up]

@@1forge2rulethemall88 Honestly, it's genuinely interesting. Especially considering that TEC ships have pretty decent durability and can (at least for early to mid game) can solely rely on their armor points.

[@zach942]

Armor is more valuable frl and you can research shielding for non cap ships

[@james227uk]

Note how TEC shields look like a crude bubble, whereas Advent and Vasari shields contour to the hull shape. Gives a perfect sense of TEC shields being researched and reverse engineered during the war.

[@1forge2rulethemall88]

@@zach942 Yes sorry I meant initially shieldless. And this is true, tec shields just dont last long but it does make me more eager to get repair ships since armor takes longer to regen.

[@ReachStudioPro]

EXACTLY! I'm so happy to see someone else feeling the same. Yeah, TEC gives off those Halo UNSC vibes. As well as Advent giving off Covenant vibes. I love it!

[@SliderFury1]

Game kicks ass, exactly what I wanted in a Sins sequel.

[@TLhikan]

I love the kind of faction that can face down both an ancient advanced alien empire and an ascended cybernetic psionic hive mind with just the power of Guns and Capitalism.

[@wallacewarlover]

Can't wait for the mods for this.

[@567sinclair]

Been loving my playthroughs so far keep up the great work folks!

[@RedStar441]

Really looking forward to this story campaign thats coming up. Sins has huge story potential.

[@garwynrosser8907]

Aparantly, the TEC got so tired of its captain's dumping warp cores they just built a giant gun to fire them at the enemy fleet.

[@PaleHorseShabuShabu]

*captains

[@Vevvev8]

In the endgame i had 500 supply garrisons supporting each other, a 2000 supply fleet, and two starbases on my choke points and homeworld. The TEC Enclave is so good a turtling they dont need a superweapon because they are a superweapon lol

[@LtCWest]

Bonus points that the Enclaves Titan is literally a mobile Starbase, as it gets nearly all the same upgrades and weapons. xD

[@Vevvev8]

@@LtCWest Park it on a planet with a mobile shield equipped with all the repair upgrades, and you can tell your enemies good luck in taking that planet without a massive feet lol.

[@HeyItsMax]

Endgame Vasari had 2400 ships plus mobile starbase, if I capture a world I'm building toward warp gate 32/32 defences then destroying it and care not if you come take it.

[@SilentNight115]

The Imperium approves of this.

[@Bloodbeard-os2xh]

This game has been amazing already! Game of the year!

[@ReachStudioPro]

I love these spotlights. I've been trying to learn TEC and there were so many things I couldn't understand until this video. This and the Advent videos are so incredibly useful. Thank you!

[@Beef1188]

This is, and always has been your crown jewel, not that galactic civilizations nonsense. Best above all, its nothing fancy, the good old formula, ironed out and brought up to modern graphics.

[@undeadfish66d98]

i love the tec dakka max defense and trade gotta love those credits

[@NovaXXX7]

Neat looking game. Found this through Montu Plays.

[@Anthony-jo7up]

It's funny because I found Montu from his Sins gameplay

[@Unazaki]

Oooo this is a very neat video!! Definitely interested in seeing the same done for the Advent and Vasari

[@ReachStudioPro]

Advent is already done and it's amazing too. Only Vasari remains.

[@Unazaki]

@@ReachStudioPro OMG how did I miss that LMAO XD

[@MehnixIsThatGuy]

I hope the TEC Rebels/Primacy Titan still talks about putting the laughter in Slaughter, always nice to hear when i deployed the B I G G U N in Sins:Rebellion.

[@blairfraser8005]

He does, and he's got a bunch of new lines as well.

[@MBOmnis]

It's all still there. One funny addition is the Marza Dreadnought captain saying "And I thought debris was some kind of cheese"

[@Anthony-jo7up]

​@@MBOmnis I also love the new unit alerts. "This is the Akkan Battlecruiser. Our shields are down!" Such a nice way to convey vital information

[@dissolution9843]

Probably one of my few actual gripes about the game so far has been a lack of informational resources. When I hover a faction it tells me the names of the technologies and unique items but not what they do. I have to actually get into the game and remember all the names in order to try and figure out what's different. The obvious answer to this would be to make an in-game compendium, but this helps too.

[@Niksaiznemts]

Hoping for Vasari next

[@JeffreyEdwards]

yes! I want to understand the phase resonance bit. It seems to be a bigger system that gives ships abilities for a time after a jump, beyond the phase tech tree?!

[@battlemode]

I'd say your chances are pretty good

[@DavidWMiller]

@@JeffreyEdwards Yes, that's exactly it. Build stuff to get resonance points, upgrade the perks. Done. Ships get boosts for a while on arrival.

[@thorveim1174]

​@@JeffreyEdwards what others said. You build structures to gain phase points (each planet has its own capacity for those, usually 1 or 2 though it can go higher), choose bonuses, and ALL your ships gain said bonuses for a while after warping. Upgrades improve the duration of said boosts. Lastly, the vasari exodus can equip their capital ships or stations with a phase collector in the endgame, allowing them to collect phase points just by moving that ship to gravity wells where points can be collected. These points are kept until destruction of the ship, and this allows you to collect phase points from worlds you do not own (a single ship can possibly do so on the whole map, there is no limit to how many points a ship can collect this way other than how many points are available on the worlds it gets to visit)

[@Abdoulaye1995]

@@JeffreyEdwards Pretty sure planets have more phase points based on proximity to nearest star and not the size

[@Superscope64]

I like how the TEC has doubled down on physical weapons in Sins2. In fact. I have some completely accurate and lore friendly quotes to justify it! "Laser weapons originate from our hated enemies. By using them, we're basically acknowledging that our own weapons are weak. Autocannons are a cornerstone of TEC Culture and if we allow laser weapons to proliferate and to eventually replace autocannons it would be the beginning of the death of our values and freedom! What next? Does the TEC allow Cybernetics? PSIONIC IMPLANTS? Why should the TEC subject themselves to such sinful technology?" - TEC Primary spokesperson (Lobbying about banning energy weapons) "We here in the TEC believe in economics, and with the lasers of the past they were not very economical. They were weak, unstable and were prone to technical failure, not consumer friendly. With the innovation of turrets and with our focus on Gauss technology we've managed to make our projectile weapons superior to the traditional lasers in practically every way. In addition, many new jobs are created with the greatly increased demand of ammunition across the galaxy. The future of warfare is physical projectiles, not energy weapons of any kind." - TEC Autocannon salesperson (On the subject of why lasers are no longer a thing) "No, the Kol's beam weapon has always been a TEC designed weapon. And it isn't a beam. It shoots super heated liquid Gauss ammo at targets. Also the Starbase beam weapon upgrade? Same thing..... Why don't we call it a 'stream' instead of 'beam'? There has been a extremely long running legal case over the last 35 years by someone called...A.Vent, that trademarked the concept and named them beams. Dumb stuff honestly, but I'm not a lawyer and you know what lawyers are like." - TEC salesperson (Selling beam weapons to TEC Primaries)

[@Sorain1]

It would be the most on brand thing for the TEC to name them beams despite the bad association because of copyright law.

[@dlx7844]

This game is really awesome, now I'm really tempted to try those new faction falvors! Also I didn't notice that the TEC minor ships didn't have shields, that's such an awesome way to make the factions more distinct!

[@Manic.miner2077]

Such a great game, first time player, really enjoying it.

[@negative1up]

Humanity first!!

[@Uncertain_Illumination]

Great video!

[@Scandic45]

For The TEC !

[@VaciliNikoMavich]

TEC for the Win :) Tried out Enclave, and they were fun. Looking forward to the Primacy next ❤

[@lapislazuli370]

Soon i will play myself

[@Der_Dekanter]

I love the defence one cause its awesome. And the offensive one because well i can research extrem Xenophobia. The emperor protects

[@coldgarden_]

Yes he does brother

[@vampiricalchemist]

Loving this game. Still trying to figure stuff out which is fun.

[@akatsukiwolf2735]

Yes. The reason why I enjoy TEC is because of the Trade Ports. It's amusing when Pirates chase and hunt down my little Trader ships.

[@molybdaen11]

Also they have the robot cruiser which can repair hulls, armor and recharge antimatter in your fleet.

[@Anttown123]

Love the game so far cant wait for whats Coming. One thing that would fit this game perfect is the same way AoE2 implements factions. Small changes to tech to get some new playstyle and one - two unique units. Think about it 😊 you pretty much done it already and i love it. Gl and wish u guys the best!

[@ReachStudioPro]

Yeah that's technically what they have already done with the current two factions per race. But knowing the current content plans, we won't be seeing that but it would be nice to get further content drops after the current plans.

[@GWRaynor]

Shields? Energy weapons? Cringe. Strapping gauss cannons to flying bricks? Real shit.

[@bomjus1706]

TEC enclave can't "build them cheaper too" in reference to starbases. their unique tech reduces starbase item cost. not the build cost.

[@giseler7936]

As this line was said in the video, they where showing a technology that decreases orbital structure cost, which also applies to starbases.

[@MBOmnis]

Is there any lore explanation for the TEC not using lasers anymore?

[@dr.garretsshow]

I hope someone makes a mod that changes the ships back to the rebellion settings

[@jacksheldon8566]

To give every faction more personality. Lasers are for advents only now. I kinda like my tec using only old school weapons.

[@thorveim1174]

Can easily find one. The biggest edge of the TEC is mass production, and maybe lasers just proved more expensive and harder to make in bulk than ballistics, and as such they were left for only a few ship models (kol, starbases and the ankylon titan)

[@Abdoulaye1995]

@@jacksheldon8566 Can we count vasari beams as lasers though?

[@jacksheldon8566]

@@Abdoulaye1995 ion tech perhaps?

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

Yep yep, instant buy at steam release.

[@Anthony-jo7up]

It's been released on Steam for a week now

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

@@Anthony-jo7up and i bought it at release day

[@MatthewCenance]

The name "TEC" reminds me of the Timecop TEC.

[@shaftoe195]

TEC Primacy's Novalith cannon (with its heavily nerfed range) feels like a non-competitor against TEC Enclave's double starbases (further supported by powerful and totally free local guards).

[@deathtoad88]

Hesitantly agree, since I've only done one 6 hour game. Towards the end when I could actually build them, most enemy planets had shields and were invulnerable so they were pretty useless, whereas I had enemy fleets poking my flanks where a second starbase would be more beneficial

[@shaftoe195]

@@deathtoad88 I've played for over 11 hours now, tried all factions, but mostly heavily focused TEC. I've found out that, to put simply, TEC Enclave is better adapted to reality of the game, while TEC Primacy (which I played more than Enclave as part of my research) simply feels underwhelming.

[@dog209]

@@shaftoe195 Well TEC Primacy hase insane credit gain and if Pirate Fleets would only cost credits instead of influence might be insane but yes for now primacy feels weird

[@Superscope64]

You say that, but the Novalith's secondary effect lets you 'turn off' defenses for a short while.

[@lonelighters]

The fact that the titan can get the novalith cannon makes up for a lot of it, you can basically enter a system kill the starbase because with your titan it going down is basically a guarantee, novalith cannon the planet to rush the bombing and be out of it in a few minutes. Way too fast for anything to really respond

[@I-Love-My-Family1432]

I LOVE CRASHING THE STOCK MARKET AHHHHHH

[@ComradeTomatoTurtle]

I hope they add a 4th faction, the one thats hinted in the intro, the thing the vasari are running from. Its more than a likely hood than any other time in the history of this game with a reboot.

[@cmsx1016]

That is listed as something they will add in dlc.

[@dissolution9843]

Yup it's listed last in the content they plan on releasing. It comes right after the single player campaign.

[@thorveim1174]

A fourth race in the future is guaranteed, and if its not the thing thats been running after the Vasaris, no idea what it could be. Especially as the intro cinematic of sins 2 make it clear that they have now reached TEC space and are starting to make worlds fall silent

[@unendingvoid]

Did they confirm they're working on a campaign?​@@dissolution9843

[@Alblaka]

@@thorveim1174 Since the Vasari are more of an Imperialist-Individualist alien faction, yet afraid of their pursuers, and there's already multiple "we hate everyone and will kill you" mindsets... I'm thinking biological swarm or maybe AI replicators as the 4th faction. Either would fill a niche the game doesn't yet have (thematically, and lorewise), even if both would be a tad cliche in the grander sci-fi genre.

[@ricardobermudez1279]

I'm new to sins and wants to know, should I start with TEC to get used to the game or go with other faction?

[@LtCWest]

Id say go with TEC, their lineup is straight forward in both design and function, their focus on economy also gives them a massive boost in the long run.

[@Ghost-Raccoon]

The trading goods slightly confused me in my game. Did I get this right that putting points into "metal export" leads to more metal income? This seems counterintuitive because when I export something, I do not have it anymore. Or is that the colony exports it to my empire?

[@Anthony-jo7up]

You are using export points to acquire metal as an import.

[@Ghost-Raccoon]

@@Anthony-jo7up That makes sense but I think calling it "Metal Import" or something like that would be a better wording. The in-game tooltip currently does not make it much clearer either.

[@Alblaka]

The latter. Essentially, the theming is that you have a huge private industry base, and can selectively syphon the colony exports for your empire military. But ye, they could have made it slightly more clear, labelling wise.

[@Superscope64]

TEC! TEC! TEC!

[@killer342i]

Why wasn't the tec primacy titan mentioned? It look like the previus game ragnarov titan is it the same?

[@battlemode]

Yes, it is the Ragnarov Titan. I cut some stuff to meet the strict time limit I have, however I'd not intended to not mention it at all, that's an oversight on my part, apologies.

[@Anthony-jo7up]

The big change for the Ragnarov is its Overcharge level 6 ability is replaced with being able to fire Novalith warheads. Novaliths have limited range now, but that's still super badass. And the titan is now integrated with the new combat and item system, obviously.

[@uupdown2]

Er, wait, so weapon types have different effecacy against different targets? is there a clear rundown of what's good/ bad against what?

[@Anthony-jo7up]

It's not some innate hidden value like in Sins 1. Now, it's done through the Pierce and Durability stats. If you have a ship or structure with high durability, say 500, it will require an attacking weapon to have 500 pierce to do full damage. More pierce doesn't do more damage, but the less pierce you have in relation to durability, the less damage you will do. So a corvette with 10 dps but 0 pierce will do almost no damage to a starbase or titan, while an Ogrov Torpedo Cruiser, with a pierce of 1000, will do full damage to everything. Missiles generally have high pierce, but the downside is that they can be shot down. Durability applies to all health: shields, armor, and hull. It isn't a value that goes down, but rather a general measure of how durable something is. Armor strength stacks with durability, so high durability + high armor strength can be very difficult to break through.

[@silvercat18]

Ragnarov is the only true TEC Titan - a giant gun, covered in other guns.

[@shaftoe195]

But its onboard Novalith cannon ability unlock takes far too long to open.

[@eriantoestrada5721]

Wonderful! 😍😍💕💕👍👍

[@evansra1987]

Overall loving the game so far! My one gripe when playing TEC is, I do find the Sova Carrier feels very underpowered, it has aweful guns, small fighter detail, never auto casts the missile battery and only being able to build corvettes make it such a weak choice :( Please consider fixing the autocast and letting it build frigates too!

[@ReachStudioPro]

I kind of had the same initial impression until I built two fairly early in my still ongoing match and oh boy are they incredibly useful. Being able to produce a constant stream of fast and agile units have allowed me to play hours of not needing to produce any new units from my factories. It allows me to keep pushing several planets away and stay aggressive without the need to fall back. I end up overwhelming the existing defenses and even most of the reinforcements. The small fighters also provides great protection for my capital ships since they end up soaking up much of the enemy's firepower as well as splitting their attention. Also, continuing to pump out more units while fighting is kind of awesome too. I recommend running at least two and focus on the abilities that allows you to build units and ignore the missile ability.

[@jacksheldon8566]

Is it normal that Tec Corvettes never face the enemy when flying around? Makes them never use their frontal guns.

[@MijnAfspeellijst1234]

When can we expect the next dlc for sins 2?

[@johnshepard7630]

Where is the other factions videos!!!

[@voswouter87]

How are infrastructure costs determined? They where negible early game, but much bigger later. Is this a form of taxes?

[@Anthony-jo7up]

The costs scale up the more you make. Like actual taxes irl.

[@ikesau]

man i wish this was ported to mac. used to love playing the original

[@staplesdex2]

The Enclave doesn't get the Novalith Cannon anymore?

[@stardockgames]

Primacy has that

[@Athenianz]

Vasari next, please!

[@yunsha9986]

Are there Titan class ships in this game? I would love to destroy worlds with those.

[@Anthony-jo7up]

Yes

[@whatdoicare2002]

how did you manage to make your tectree layout look like that ?

[@battlemode]

You mean when using the text filter? If not, leave a timestamp in the comment so I can see what you mean

[@whatdoicare2002]

@@battlemode at the 6.20 min mark i just bought the game and the normal tectree looks awfule compared xD

[@stardockgames]

Hello! Right next to the search bar in the tech tree there is a button that changes the layout view type from compressed to regular

[@prismaticbeetle3194]

would you like to know more...

[@GeekyGizmo007]

Ran into one issue with Primacy. When you send out pirates using the 10 influence option they seem to do nothing to enemy factions that may have made a truce with them, which is unfortunate and a waist of 10 influence points. At least give some secondary bonus.

[@Sorain1]

See, I'd have that at least negate the truce effect. (if at 50% fire rate because they're trying to balance getting cash from both sides.)

[@stardockgames]

Thank you for sharing this, I'll try to replicate and share with the team

[@manemjeff7686]

ranked multiplayer leaderboard pls

[@prismaticbeetle3194]

lets hope the new 4th faction is some weird bio-organic hive like race

[@kihl5374]

yeah i need vasari next to learn the strengths. tdc seems to win most games ffa

[@battlemode]

We're covering the Vasari soon, don't worry. In short though, they field somewhat less ships but they're more powerful than their TEC and Advent counterparts, with incredible regeneration and far-reaching strategic mobility, so they're very strong raiders who can beat larger forces with their specialised tactics.

[@kihl5374]

@@battlemode i tend to hit the early raiding and aggression early but since they deplete resources generally fast around mid late game tdc is very tanky. i think i need to go and get specific research instead of going well rounded. i usually get early warfare then go to lvl 3 civ tech to get phase gate then go full warfare

[@battlemode]

@@kihl5374 I'll be honest, the Vasari are my least played faction but now I've got my head around what they're supposed to play like, I think I love them!

[@kihl5374]

@@battlemode i just recenrly got my first full term earned win with them yesterday in a 8player ffa

[@stalliontv8788]

I’ve been trying to learn Advent, I match up well against TEC. But man Vasari wreck me and I have no answer for them. Their capital ships just dominate and their frigates are leagues more powerful and I have nothing to take out their capital ships until the illuminator but they are T3 Hostility when the other factions get theirs at tier 2. If the Tempest was switched to do better against capitals and not smaller ships that would fix the Advent. Advent is the weakest early to mid game. I’m on unfair diff btw and haven’t seen anyone do good on high diff against the AI with Advent only with the TEC.

[@jacksheldon8566]

Advent is the weakest faction in direct confrontation. But, you can use their abilities to turn the tide early on. Use the maledictus (i think it is called that) capital ship. And abuse the mind control ability. Tempest frigate don't use credit. So you can actually be on par with vasari early on. Your weakness is missiles tho. Late game advent will get wrecked by vasari. Try to use the penitent canon to steal their ships. You can also try to play safe with mass fighter n bomber. Vasari don't have fighters so you can go for mass bombers vs them.

[@francisgerson2052]

Bring back the old BGM pleeaseee

[@dominikandreasemmerich9559]

Absolut geil! Ich besitze Sins II bereits auf Epic! Herzlichen Dank! Gibt es einen Rabatt, wenn ich es auf Steam nochmal kaufe? Alles Liebe und Gute! Danke Ironclad! Dank Stardock! Gal Civ 4 ist ebenfalls super! =)))))))))))))) Macht ihr bald einen neuen Ashes Teil? DANKE! Ich liebe euch alle! =))))))))))))))))

[@aresivrc1800]

Ich glaube das es für Epic Spieler auch einen Steam Key gab.

[@Jetthemasterchef9784]

im seriously considering getting this game. anyone have anything to add seeing as i never played sins 1 or rebellion

[@Anthony-jo7up]

If you like slower paced RTS games and also like 4x games, this will be perfect for you

[@Nugire]

So the TEC was founded by human Ferengi

[@valhallasashes4354]

Wait a minute. First you take the Kostura Cannon away from the Vasari, and now you're giving the Kostura's defense disablement ability to the TEC Novalith? I am not happy about this.

[@StrikeNoir105E]

The Vasari in Sins 2 are already pretty strong even without the Kostura, especially the Vasari Exodus and their improved ability to just go full nomadic without planets.

[@odsgaming105]

tempest needs a nerf pls

[@blairfraser8005]

It's nerfed internally. Update coming soon.

[@ManBung]

Hope you guys rework the AI artworks in the game and replace them with actual assets, but so far game's great!

[@dr.garretsshow]

Ive been watching TEC videos on other channels and i have to ask... why do TEC look more cartony than before? Anyone else got this feeling about their ships?

[@TheGeneralSkye]

Its the oversized guns on units like the KOL battleship and main battle cruiser i think

[@kenpachizero]

while playing, i have never use trade feature, it might be helpful in the beginning but it takes up orbital slot for research then one you have all the 50 research buildings, trade are useless

[@spartan8090]

Honestly the biggest thing I don’t like about the TEC so far is the design of their combat cruiser and the javelin.

[@LtCWest]

Turst me when I say, the original design of the Javelin from the 2008 release was far worse xD Im on the fence about the cruise, but I do feel like that the Kodiak looks a little better compared to the Harcka.

[@RayisX]

Man, the Advent are lucky they invaded after the Tec was locked in war with the Advent

[@JoaoSoares-rs6ec]

Wait two things, first why do the smaller ships. Lose shields, they had them in sins 1, second why would the TEC need to reverse engineering advent beam weapons, they already had them, before the advent even arrived, the kol was built before the advent and had four powerful ones, why do vasari and advent ships look like the ones from sins 1 but, the TEC don't.

[@jmewall]

Still no achievements for AAA price :(

[@Deathelement53]

The vast vast vast majority of people don't care and have never cared about achievements. But if it's important to you then make it known and don't buy it

[@jmewall]

@Deathelement53 the last game had achievements. I am making it known, that's why I'm commenting. I bought the premium, that's why I'm salty. Only Early Access games release without achievements, not AAA priced games. Most people will play this single player, as with Stellaris. Missing them completely is a dumb oversight.

[@Deathelement53]

@jaywall4591 absolutely fine to hold this opinion. Mine however is that achievements are the lowest of the low content that could ever be added in and it would make no difference to me if they were ever added in but for your sake I hope they do

[@stardockgames]

Achievements will be added at a later date, first we want to work through some of the vast amount of feedback we've received

[@ccubearch]

Oh come on we've been playing these factions for 2 decades, surprise us with a new faction/factions dlc,

[@stardockgames]

We've outlined a fourth faction as part of the content pass/dlc plans for later, all the current factions are updated and reworked in some regards while trying to stay true to the feeling of the original

[@ccubearch]

@@stardockgames awesome thats so good to hear

[@2ndpanzerdivision]

I am enjoying the game. But damn, am I the only one who wanted some new content beside the graphic overhaul?

[@qaulthir4894]

I like how the crappy AI generated images used for the research has nothing to do with the game and its artstyle. It'd been better if you didn't have any images for them at all.

[@DaWhim2380]

Sins II feels like a lesser experience to Rebellion. While some new additions and aesthetic choices are nice the TEC is the most cut down from their original aesthetic philosophy and feel bland to play. They had lil lasers, ships looked like they were a straggler army thuggin it out in war and their fleet felt like it had some real indomitable human spirit Kol lost a lot of its luster No Corsev bein snarky The corvette lost its diversity no ship has any real upgrade changes to it outside shields - like the Harcka could get a light gauss the way the flak ship gets an autocannon, or the pecheron some pd WHAT THE FUCK IS THE DESIGN CHOICE FOR THE COBALT?????? Was so excited for this and have just had such an underwhelming feeling after sinking 20odd hours into it

[@mehmarcus1995]

. . . I hope there's a future mod that replaces the AI generated tech images with ones made by y'know, humans? They are soulless, generic and maximalist.

[@jforozco12]

Been playing the game since release, it really needs a campaign to keep it interesting. Also AI is WAY too easy.

[@stardockgames]

A.I is constantly being tweaked with player feedback, and the campaign will be coming as part of a later expansion

[@jforozco12]

@@stardockgames it can't come too soon, love the game btw, this all comes from a place of love for your creation, it has so much potential.

[@user-zp4ge3yp2o]

How will a campaign keep it interesting? You'll play through it once and done.

[@jforozco12]

@@user-zp4ge3yp2o compared to the alternative of playing against easy AI in different scenarios?

[@Sitz_Krieg]

The AI art sucks sooooo much just hire an actual artist it isnt that hard

[@UnlimitedFlyers]

So, *over 20 years* pass in real-life but to the setting in Sins of a Solar Empire, pretty much STATUS QUO IS GOD? The Vasari are STILL on the run from their "elusive and oppressive shadow", the TEC is *still* resisting Vasari occupation and the Advent is *STILL* bitter that they were found dancing naked hugging their keyboards on some desert party world and exiled? Is this game gonna be a new Homeworld 3, where people who worked on it never even _played_ the original game?

[@Alpha4Sierra]

Tell me you haven't played the game without telling me. The game has stuck to its roots and improved its existing mechanics whilst introducing some new ones that doesn't subvert the core gameplay loop which makes it fun. I would recommend you to try.

[@disillusioned8686]

I too was underwhelmed initially with basically being the same three factions as the previous game but a fourth faction has been announced as future content and factions and abilities have been reworked quite a bit from the previous Sins Rebellion

[@shaftoe195]

You can certainly try to make that kind of comparisons, but so far it does not seem they will resonate.

[@user-zp4ge3yp2o]

The fourth faction won't make any sense lore wise unless it's horribly overpowered, otherwise it won't make sense why the powerful vasari fleet are still running away. It'll probably be some kind of grey goo scenario given vasari use of nanites, but I hope it's a race or force that can be reasonable and has a proper reason for going after them and not just want to consume or destroy or whatever. Either way I'm not that interested.

[@jayhome2715]

This game is unchanged from the First one. It's just a re-wash. Blizzard does this with content all the time. Absolutely nothing NEW in this game.........

[@dmytroshulga4578]

that's not exactly true - there are many small changes, including the durability thing which changes the damage formula quite significantly

[@aresivrc1800]

No. I played and owned very game of the franchise from the original Sins all the way to Rebellion. This is a vastly improvement game and I honestly recommend you to buy it, because if you liked the first one, you will love this one.

[@alwaysquestionyouropinions1119]

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