Adding videos explaining systems like this without overwhelming players with information is perfect. Also: thanks for all the constant dev comments and feedbacks in discord and Reddit. Y’all are doing great! ❤

Guys I'm not even kidding - this os a MONUMENTAL STEP. I'm shocked at the improvements that have been made systemically throughout the entire tech stack. In a world where many "xxx 2" games are just... the same original game with a lot more content to where it's really "xxx 1.5", this is actually a deserving 2.0. I can't wait!

this video series is straight up selling me the game. Before this, I really just considered Sins 2 an engine and graphical update, but these UI upgrades are worth the price alone.

Sins 2 "You made the right choice" After seeing what became of HW really looking forward to the steam release.

The item system, for planets, ships and structures is an insane amount of content by itself The gameplay also feels pretty polished, which is more than I can say for alot of games considered "finished" Has alot of potential

Pause is god sent in these type of games. Thank you from a low skill rts player :)

This looks quite promising! Improves on most of the UI troubles I had with Rebellion. Love that we get so much customization options!

This is actually looking like a proper sequel to one of my favorite games since I was a teen. I have very fond memories of lugging my friend's old computer and 50 pound IBM monitor in the back of my minivan so we could LAN Sins, and we're planning to hook up and play the sequel as well. I'm cautiously optimistic, can't wait to see what the full game is like at release.

As an old school Sins Rebellion fan, I am beyond excited. SoSE II is looking so great!

I really hope we get a good german translation. I'm absolutely hyped for Sins II, waiting and hoping for it since years. I first played Sins of a Solar Empire in 2009 at my school. Our IT teacher showed us the game and we played it together. Yes, we had some gaming sessions in our IT lessons. Glad that you're evolving without forgetting what makes Sins of a Solar Empire so great.

I hope the Mod scene for this game takes off

Can't wait for steam release, this game is truly one of a kind

Day one bought this on Epic. Day One buying this on Steam. Stardock is the best. Wish we could get Demigod 2 :P

Looks fantastic, more excited for this than any other upcoming release!

I remember playing the original back in -08 on our high-school LAN-parties! This brings back fond memories, really looking forward to play the sequel when it's ready! All of these new features are looking like great improvements across the board!

I am genuinely amazed at the effort that went into designing the interface. Like a lot of people have said: the interface between the game and the player is really important. Yet somehow glossed over by many game devs who adhere to tried-and-true, but old and outdated UI elements. The amount of customisation is amazing too, I can’t believe many games still launch without key remapping. So yes I guess that settles it, once the Advent arrive on the battlefield it is time for *P-U-R-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N* …. The Unity demands it.

thats pretty good UI management, pretty cool

God, i have been licking my lips and cracking my knuckles in anticipation for sins. 2. I loved rebellion and the original to the point where i broke the original disc twice 😂 so when this comes to steam im grabbing it ❤

Imagine if hw3 had early access and this level of communication pre-launch

Looking very cool! Can't wait for this to be available on Steam!

i cannot wait for this, i picked up sins in gamestop one day as a teenager, was only 34$ and looked fun. i crunched hundreds of hours into that game. the new improvements and visual updates are nothing short of amazing i cannot wait to get into multiplayer games

Stardock truly shines when it comes to beautiful minimalistic UI without compromising on functionality. These guys are so good that they should be hired by Microsoft to handle Windows 12's UI design and functionality. Sadly Microsoft is not that smart

Great job. Everything about this game looks amazing.

Thats exacly what I wanted fron a new Sins Game. Its even more than I hoped for. I do have one question thats been on my mind for some time now. I have seen some new ships before, but is it possible to get some more capital ships in the future? Or are there any Plans for the game after its launch exept Bugfixes and Ballance and so on?

Keep that scuttle key away from slippery fingers.

I love you all! @Devs @Stardock! Thank you very much! =)))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Can’t wait to get my hands on this

high anticipation

How hard was it to put in all the new features over the prior game? Was there a feature much harder to implement than the rest?

These are some great improvements upon things which always bugged me about the first game. The new UI is looking promising. Looking absolutely forward to getting to play this. Just one additional QOL feature which I would love is, to be able to easily access half (or quarter, etc.), not just all or individual ones, of all ships of a certain type within a gravity well via the selection window, say if i want to split up my frontline or repair ships.

Everything looks good. Game sold. The feature I want the most at this point is a template and document for learning to make a mod. Something simple. Or at least broken down. A small core to learn on.

Looks great cant wait to put bounties on my friends!

easier to manage and control your micro and macro without sacrificing depth? This makes me a very happy camper

I like what I see, much appreciated is the graphics update and refining the systems. After release you really need to add a new faction.

After the disappointment of Homeworld 3, I hope this one is good.

Crossing my fingers for a color slider for the UI. Or maybe even TWO color sliders for that dual-shade fanciness.

Give me advent or give me death.

I wish someone made a small scale RTS with a dev team like it. Dawn of War successor or remaster would be great with a team, which is sooo on the ball, with their designs.

Looks great! I've bought it, but will let things mature a bit while watching what you're up to. Will be awesome to see a modernised version of SOASE!

I played so many hours of Sins of a Solar Empire

Wonderful! 😍😍💕💕👍👍

hype!

Ive always praised the original sins for being ahead of its time with fleets being rally points. Second version looks fantastic and once again settingnthe bar with its cleaver ui elements and focus on macro rts strategy rather than who can click fastest micro. Very excited to see rhe full release. 1 question i have is, has the victory conditions changed or end game improved, one thing i found with sins 1 is you knew you had won but sometimes still needed to play another hour to make the ai or players surrender/die

B A T T L E M O D E E N G A G E D

I hope you still work on the graphics, especially some effects look weird (and too big) and the projectiles homing to the target is weird as well. Other than that, everything seems fantastic. 5:05 Aaahh i know that feature from Ashes of the Singularity ;)

Just curious do carrier ships (not capital ships) have weapons in addition to their strike-craft or research that would allow for weapons?

This might actually be it: the game that might bring me away from Stellaris as my go-to space-4X

Do ships prioritize what they are strong against as a default? Say if my fleet drops into a grav well.

You had me at sins 2

Ngl one thing that would be interesting is civilian traffic between planets, maybe merchant shipping,and you can disrupt the economy by shutting trade or capturing it

All of this looks great!!! But…….what of the enigmatic entity that the Vasari are fleeing from?? Does it spawn in game like a roaming boss? OwO

game looks amazing I dont need any more drip feeding me videos I just want to play it. My only complaint and its not really a complaint more of a preference, is that the game looks a little to clean in visuals i like the rough and ready ships that look ready for battle or like they have just been in one and space that looks more gritty. some of the ships along with the players color choice make them look more like kids toys. But it wont put me off buying games a day one buy it looks great fun

Really annoyed that its not out on steam yet because I cant wait. Loved the first one especially with 4x mod and it would run out of memory on the old engine...(even flagging exe for

If only we could play its before release on Steam like people do on Epic Games Store.

Will there be potentially a 4 race? Also something bigger badder than the Titans?

Is there a system to replenish lost ships from a fleet? So replacements are ordered from the fleet groups rather than hunting down planets with shipyards?

Will ship formations be in game (like ST Armada II)?

Does it record battles so I can watch in a more cinematic style?

UI showing the ships on the top right is going drive me crazy. Please make it where you can close it

Can't wait to see halo mod on this game :)

🫡 Nice

I wish there r new race coming ... like a bio race

Can’t wait to be play ! Will be my first entry in this series, does anyone know if I can make a swarm of strike craft 😅

I assume the team is hard at work just getting the game ready. I’m playing the Epic version and there’s no pointers or tutorial yet to practically use what’s mentioned here. (And that’s ok!). I’m still trying to figure out if the new style is more confusing than the old or if it’s just adjusting to the new learning curve with things looking so different. But my hopes are we still have the ability to make all the changes to victory and gameplay elements as the previous, Some are there but having more customization would be great I.e. disabling culture, I assume super weapons will be able to be disabled, limiting fleet size etc. . But for starters, the game with an Easy enemy is not easy. I had one capital ship and a few frigates, and was enjoying taking over the planets just in my vicinity, only to find the easy enemy took over far more, had a much larger fleet. Was just bummed It was going to take a while to build a sizable fleet to even stand a chance. I also dislike that orbital mining takes up logistics now. I guess it’s sort of offset by civilian or military labs just being allocated to the planet but, annoying that you can forget building any other structures on the small asteroids. Also worth mentioning the slots on the ships to customize add a whole other layer of confusion. Some items have limited uses and I don’t understand if you have to rebuy them for the ship. That aspect I wish was kept the same as rebellion. It’s definitely a lot more confusion. Just as the planets have the specialization. It may play out better, who knows. It just seems like some things were added that add another layer of complexity while other quality of life changes help ending in a net result of 0. Anyway, I know it’s not done yet so I’m happy to wait. Looks beautiful, the effects and color customization is awesome, I really like the refined music. I just hope once I settle in playing it, it doesn’t feel like a bunch of work to build fast enough to not be outnumbered and require hours to get to the fun part. It seems impossible to even get far enough down the tech tree without having to go to war to acquire more than the 4 starting planets to get enough military slots to unlock the rest of the tech tree. Rebellion you could get a titan built with 2-3 planets. I don’t think it’s even possible in SOSE2.

This all looks amazing but the one thing that I'm still unsure of is the animation for the exploding ships. It doesn't look, to me, as good as SoaSE 1

Any new unit?

We haven't seen the advent yet. I do hope they're not DLC

love everything ive seen so far und cant wait for the release. only critique i have is still the UI ... atleast the artstyle of it. before it had so much personality and now it looks kinda soulless and replaceable. reminds me of the time when many big companies switched their logos from something with personality to a minimalisitc designerstyle. not gonna lie... it doesnt look good.

This looks exactly the same as the first Sins

It mostly looks good, but I just can't take that UI. I've seen some alpha videos and criticism by veteran Sins players saying that you hired some mod developer who made some Windows Metro style UI for Sins(I don't recall seeing it anywhere in best rated mods at least on Nexus), but if this is the FINISHED state - then... yeah. It's bad. Tasteless, like a bland soup. The original may have looked all "2000-s" and bricky, but damn was it just... illustrative. It looked... like Sins. And this looks like... some UI you could've slapped onto ANY game, 4x or not, and it would've been fine. Because it is a mod. I hope there'll be a mod for this mod. I'm also not sure about that planet layout on the big map. It looks disturbingly like a mobile game, and a cheap at that. Is that also the input of that mod developer? I mean, a planet has a COLOR-CODED SYMBOL above it. Does it really need a huge circular blob? I could imagine some RED ALERT(not the game) circle for planets with active fleet battles, but having each planet with a distinct color reduces the visual impression of a FOUR-X map to a mobile\tryhard RTS color glimpsing for accessibility. I also hope that either options or mods would fix it. I wonder - did you bring back Paul Schuegraf for the score? His score may have been polarizing between various players, with some thinking that it was bland and repetitive, and others finding both gem themes(many of which didn't make the paid OST) and generally very balanced presentation that you can actually listen to without getting tired or bored. Yes, Sins is one of the EXTREMELY few games where I haven't turned off audio. But overall his score was signature to the game's impression. I strongly hope that the new score didn't get the "UI treatment". Then again, maybe there'll be mods porting the original game's OST tag-wise into the new game.

Sooooo is this better than stellaris? Because that is my favorite game and it’s on ps5

Less talk, more Steam EA :D

eh still wont be playing it until my advent comes out

While it's great to see all of the ships' new models, animations, and FX, I can't help but be slightly disappointed that there aren't entirely new ships shown so far. Especially the TEC, whose warships were lore-wise mostly repurposed commerce vessels - surely after decades of war they would have designed more than just the Kohl-class battleship and the two Titan ships? Of course, at the end of the day this is a very minor nitpick and I suppose modders could do some sort of unofficial lore-related mods to add or replace ships. Ultimately though, I genuinely can't wait to play this game since Homeworld 3 was disappointing, all of the other announced RTS games still aren't out yet, and it's been forever since the RTS market got new content.

Please update the UI

I thought this came out way back, is this a new update?

Well, even though stardock became same shit as paradox, I am tempted to buy this one. Good marketing!

Adwhent?

I hope you will add an "Tavern"-Station to the capitals in which Heroes can be recruitet to attach them to Ships, Stations or Planets. Different Types of heroes could give different boni. My hopes are high!

I am the only one who stills sees the background image (space) a bit blurry low quality ? Like the old games

well could use 1 more race as a 4th and campaning like realy its 2nd game with no campaning and lacking in story it could be having campanng could be far more intresting if it had decent story

Evolved? I've played it. It's 99% the exact same game. RTS will NEVER be great again because the core fanbase promotes stagnation and holds them back.

it looks just like its predecessor, even the interface is identical. ☹

shame sin2 will be on EPIC forcing you to DL spyware instead of on steam. RIP

This is not evolution. Come on guys.. Can't we just sometimes be real.

sorry bro but the graphics of their game is so outdated , we are living in 2024 yet they simply took their old game, and reskined it with a slightly better graphics .. i dont like it, there is no innovation here nor in their engine nor in their design or gameplay , and this is coming from a guy who played their original game for over 600 hours