Sins of a Solar Empire 2 - Exclusive Early First Look 

the old guard have been summons and thus we appear

For the longest time I thought this game would never happen.

Empire at War, Sins and Stellaris are my 4X (kinda) trio. I was around 13 when I started playing EaW and Sins, mainly thanks to yourself, SuperVaderMan and Timpedia. Thanks for keeping the train rolling, Shack.

We at stellar Parallax (STA3, AOTF) Are 100% planning a mod for Sins 2 so stay tuned! ;)

A sequel that is just the previous game but better. For a game like Sins that’s all I could really ask for. No need to radically change the formula, just refine it and add that which the community already enjoys. Personally, the biggest little detail is the turrets. I love seeing each weapon be physically modeled and active, turning and firing at targets.

For those questioning how the game is any different to Sins 1, without watching more than 2 minutes of the video.. 1) Ships are no longer restricted to 4 ability slots, there are now Item slots (ships have 4, titans have 8) Starbases and Planets also have items you can choose on a whim 2) Some items require Exotics, a new resource type that can be gained by ship kills / derelict captures, or by making them in mid-game via processing structures (which will be fully moddable btw, this is massive, no longer are we restricted to 3 resource types, we can have Dozens) 3) Multiplayer drop in / drop out support with full replay features 4) The game runs far smoother, 64bit engine and proper multicore support. You can now have thousands of ships without your machine breaking a sweat. This also means mods won't crash after reaching the memory usage limit that Rebellion had, at 3.6GB, there's now no limit. 5) Moddability: Its now insane. The game has been built by modders, for modders. Modding features are requested and considered on the discord in real-time, this game has more potential than any other space RTS out there at the moment. You want 150 different ships buildable in Each faction? Done. If you want to stick to Rebellion because "It doesn't look different enough", that's completely fine. We'll continue to enjoy making full overhaul mods on it without you 😘

I love how shack said he was gonna build the experimental lab then he built the secret weapons lab 😂

They better bring back the halo, Star Wars, and Star Trek mods!!!

Can't wait for this live, and Star Trek Armada 4 being built on it :)

music alone bring me back nostalgic memories

Anyone else shouting at the screen to build a refinery and mines?

There's a comment here that's missing a lot of features so I'm just gonna post a TLDR of every significant added feature/change I'm aware of (this list is non exhaustive and gameplay focused) Complete UI overhaul with a fleet ship order menu that puts ships into construction from any available yard and sends them to a fleet automatically Orbital Mechanics for planets creating new phase lanes and removing old ones. Structures can now be rotated around a planet to account for new phase lane connections as a result Items for capitals, titans, planets, and starbases on top of the existing skill trees for any ships that had them before (capitals titans) planets cant do specializations from rebellions anymore but the items system replaces that for them giving more flexibility in specs Combat mechanics overhaul makes all missiles no longer visual only they are now part of the actual combat system. you can intercept torps and other missiles with other more tanky vessels weapons can miss striking other targets. Weapons have proper firing arcs for individual weapons as opposed to the banks system we had previous making positioning even more important then before. Races have gone through even more differentiation. Tec Loy get garrisons that build from idle shipyards and Vasari now capture their starting planet manually as examples Neutrals have more complex behaviors there's a mini space empire in one of them that actively attempts to conquest nearby planets to expand an empire Finally there's the graphical overhaul obviously but it looks really good imo Overall it looks extremely promising and looks like it brings quite a bit to the table. Personally I'm waiting for the reviews on steam before I decide to buy it or not but I'm hopeful after having to refund Homeworld 3

Biggest elephant in the room is "would there be a campaign" - because that was one single drawback of Sins 1 that kept the game from drawing in the playerbase numbers it should have based on how good the game was.

ive been waiting to see this game on steam special since i hear they did hire modders to made the game so who knows perhaps down the line some of the old mods from sins 1 will return

all the voice lines seem like og sins 1 voices but honestly i'm here for it. it's just the right hit of nostalgia without really affecting anything, and they were always good imo

4:50 Man the soundtrack is so good.

I was a bit apprehensive due to the change in art style, but seeing it in action I'll be getting it. Looks really fun.

Oh I cannot wait for future Star Wars and Star Trek videos from shack when this game comes out and the modders go crazy.

Not actually a difference between sins one and sins two: choosing the starting cap ship, you could always do that in base sins. i think shack is remembering the mods where you had to research the other cap ships

So many awesome memories playing Sins, I hope 2 is just as fun.

@3:00 You were always able to choose your first Capital Ship, and it would normally be free. The only exception is the Flagship. When you had that Victory Condition on, the Flagship would be the Battleship of the faction, and it would have unique (to its faction counterpart) abilities. As someone who played SOASE since before the original expansions (Trinity), I am definitely getting this on Steam when it comes out.

Can't wait. The first game is in my precious memories.

Sins is always worth getting back into

the trade ships remind me of the cryo trays in homeworld 1. please tell me i'm not the only one who sees it

I'm super excited for this game and for all the mods that can happen now. It's always been one of my favorite Space RTS's.

Sins I is a game I picked up from a supermarket sale many years ago. It was pretty much an impulse buy. I can remember the guy at the counter looking at the game and looking at me and asking, "Is this a present for someone?" I said, "No, it's for me". He said, "It's not really a girl's game!". Funny that this 'Not a girl's game' became one of my favourite games ever. A few years back, I got Rebellion and found that even more fun. This year, there are so many favourite games getting new versions: Life is Strange; Frostpunk; Dragon Age; Mass Effect to name but a few. Now, I see Sins is finally getting a much-deserved upgrade into a new version. I'd heard it mentioned a while back, but everyone was saying it would never happen. Some of the other games I mentioned are appealing to me, but none as much as Sins. This is one I will definitely be buying. In fact, it's the one game I want to play right now!

You can add your fleet to top left bookmark bar (right click) and build ships from there without looking for planets. Newly built ships auto rally to the fleet. Such a time saver

Always loved that classic TEC battleship design ever since I first heard of Sins by way of Gameinformer magazines many many moons ago 😊

Well, this video made me want to play, so I am currently installing Sins1. The new game looks very similar to the old. And to be honest, that's fine with me. I like the orbiting mechanic and like Shack said, the mods are where the real replay value will be.

This game looks beautiful. I love the first game and how detailed it was/still is. I cant wait to buy it when it comes out.

32:36 I personally can't wait for Sins of the Prophets (the halo total conversion) to come in with the new graphics and engine.

also the music is nostalgic af

The important question when can we expect the Star Trek Armada 4 mod?

I was on the fence about this game but I do like what they have going on. Keep playing shack! Much love!

I love how the first game was so good they barely changed anything for this one

Thank you for sharing this preview.

3:16 In the previous version you could also choose the initial (free) capital ship.

SOOO HYPED FOR THIS GAME! Hope the modding is as simple as in Sins of a solar empire so that we get all the great mods for the big Scifi universes again here too :)

I don't want to admit how much I listened to this soundtrack, I still find it so good!

So excited to see what the modding community does witht his game , especially with mods like Star Wars Interregnum and Star Trek Armada 3!!!!!!

Thank you for sharing this game with us.

cannot wait to get into multiplayer with ppl like this

this is making me want to get back into sins... also looking forward to any star wars mods for it

I'm of two minds. 1. This looks awesome and the new features plus better modding capability is really good. The nostalgia is high. 2. Despite some new features/changes, it just a new Sins 1 and not much else, even with the new features. So I'm not sure. I'll probably get it just for the various mods that will eventually come along, but maybe not for the game itself. Might change my mind on that later when it comes out.

I also remember that building tons of trade stations was hella OP since you got such income, it become nearly impossible to run out evenif you bought the resources from the market

I remember I liked playing Sins 1 modded, especially the Star Gate mod.

Makes me want to play sins again.

I can't wait for the Star Wars Interregnum mod for this.

Looks great! I never took the time to learn the first one. :(

I really hope for a ST Armada 4 mod!

I was at school when the the original came out. Still play that and the mods because off you and authors. Made a map from the The X3-AP universe for the eve mod and played it with the sgi mod hàlf hour ago

Would love it if the mod author for Sins of the Fallen and Fall of Kobol brings it to sins 2. Loved that mod pack almost as much as the Star Wars mods.

Ohhh I'm so excited for this game I have put a stupid amount of time in this with my brother's and dad!

3:17 wait, but that’s always been the same tho…

I sort of wish they did more with the planets, maybe even have terrestrial armies and settlements that could fight/influence the surfaces.

Can't wait... I grabbed mods for the original.. Stardock, for real thank you.

I discovered Shack about a decade ago by looking for modded Sins videos. So this feels like coming full circle almost. Star Trek Armada 4 some day, anyone?

cant wait, was a big fan of the first one.

enjoying this way more than the HW 3 run!

Very cool, might wait till theres some mods for it though

Looks a lot like the original it with upgraded graphics. Battlestar Galactica conversion was my favorite, hope someone makes a new one.

I hope one day the creators of sins of the prophets create a new version for this game. Not sure if that’s something they are interested in doing considering the work they put into the mod for the original game but I do really hope they do.

I HAVE WAITED FOR SO LONG, AND I AM STILL LOYAL

in sins 1 you could choose your first capital ship, the only time that wasnt the case was if you played ith the mdoe/map effect where you had to keep that one capital ship alive.

Looks really good. 👍

@10:39 Bold of you to think Sins veterans have every stopped playing Sins

So excited for this game, nerver got to play the first Sins but i will defenetly play this one!

wow this is over-due!

First impressions are this seems to lean more towards a Remaster rather than the sequel. Looks fantastic though and can't wait to play it. I did always feel that the phantom enemy the Vasari were running from were going to be the cataclyst for the sequel. Amazing lore for a lack of a campaign in the traditional sense

Ive played a SHIT ton of Sins rebellion original and modded! - ive been itching for a new space game. hoped homeworld 3 would have hit the mark.. but it fell short. Falling frontier seems interresting, but Sins2 has that RTS vibe! a game you can actually play with friends over and over again and with mods :O oh boi! stargate, Eve, Starwars mods :O oh my !

sins one let you turn the alien colonizing battleship into a worldkiller that would turn habitable worlds into credits, easy way to remove a planets resistance when your on the war path

I love Sins, still an active player and regular modded, and I am very excited for the possibility of Star Trek Armada 4. I don’t feel like this should be called Sins 2 though. It should be a new edition of the base game, or something similar, as I don’t feel like there’s enough to call it a sequel. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not criticising too much, to me if feels more like a perfecting of the 1st game.

I still play Sins on a kinda regular basis. At least a few times a year. :)

Oh I can't wait

Can't wait for more sins and modded sins

Cpt. Shack we need another Genesis Alpha one Series! Feed more clones to critters! ps. Need to see the Capital ship in action!

Awesome 👏

YES!!!! Let's GOOOOO STARDOCK!!!!

Can't wait to see you do mutiplayer in the future.

Oh i cant wait for it to come out it's been too long since iv played it since Dec 4 of last year with only 415 hours

I want more!

I really enjoyed the Eve-Online mod but late game the system struggled with. Which would of been authentic to large fleet battles.

i had no idea there was one in the works i recently came back to rebellion and just playing it unmodded just on a whim then now about a day and a bit there is info on a second game i too am bad

i hope im still alive when a hq stargatemod for this comes out, hopefully with all factions this time

Can’t wait for the starwars mods

The Orbiting mechanic is it just a rotation of the map or do the planets actually change distance relative to each other

Do carrier ships (not capital ships) have weapons in addition to their strike-craft in sins2 or research that would allow for weapons?

this looks very similar to the first game, which isn't a BAD thing but I would like to see new ships and such-like

Before this one releases, gotta go back and play more STA3. Don't know if they'll do a 4, but it would be so cool on the new game

I've been impressed with some of the innovation but tbh, I feel like I'll be waiting on mods

The star trek mod was awesome for this game.

cant wait for Trek mod

This This makes me happy

Let the galaxy burn

There are both enough changes and not enough weirdly. Like, I am still gonna play it. I have loved sins ever since I watched your videos on it when I was younger. However, hearing some of the old game sounds and music with the new UI and updated systems and graphics is a bit off-putting. However, the game looks good, and the devs are big supporters of the modding scene. So, I will gladly support this game.

Sooo, any bets on how soon the first mods start coming in?

i'd just like to see the smaller ships STRAFE enemy ships and fly around instead of sitting a LINE.

Shack goes on & on about the graphics, but I'm jamming to the OG music in the game. Also, it seems like you don't have to build mining stations for your basic resources? Either that or Shack doesn't notice it.

Yes.

Ah, hello my old friend