Stellaris vs Distant Worlds 2, How Do They Compare?

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Let's take a look at Distant Worlds 2 and how it stacks up against the grand daddy of them all, Stellaris.
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@Paddy234 Год назад

Distant Worlds 2 is for me is the new King of Space 4X. Stellaris feels dated now compared to DW2. I love the fact you can automate what you find tedious to do and focus on the things you do want to do like colonize, engage in warfare and develop your economy. Battles are better in Distant Worlds 2 and In terms of Scale Stellaris is tiny compared to DW2. In Stellaris ships travel across small systems in mere seconds. In Distant worlds 2 you need hyperdrive to travel within your own solar system and systems are HUGE. Distant Worlds 2 feels like the older brother to Stellaris. All it needs is more content and the gap between these games will widen

@lonerstrategygames4993 Год назад

The automation is truly one of the areas where DW2 stand out versus other games. Like we previously discussed, DW2 is a really great game but it still hasn't overcome Stellaris as my favorite game. Additional content would help but I'm more of an "instant gratification" kind of guy. I like exploring those systems in Stellaris early in the game but it is getting repetitive. I'll be giving this game some more playing time soon, and maybe make some more videos about it.

@dontblink9445 Год назад

It is really hard to look at stellaris unmodded. Mods completely change stellaris, for example my current game has over 15,000 star systems in it. You can also automate pretty much everything in game including research, planet management, budgets for them, leaders etc etc. But then again I also have nearly 6,000 hours in stellaris so prob had mroe time than most to add flavor to my base game via mods but food for thought. Never played DW2 but was looking into it :D

@mycaleb8 Год назад

What mods do you have?

@mada1241 3 месяца назад

1 place stellaris outshine distant worlds 2 is roleplay. And while you say scale is tiny in stellaris, infact it is the same scale. 1,000 stars. In stellaris you can also progress in many different ways, psionics, robotics, genetics. There is a bit more control and gameplay there. Stellaris does feel more simple, and I agree that it feels smaller, but its not actually smaller in scale. In fact, if you consider certain mods like gigastructural engineering, which is basically officially supported, then you see that the hypercivillization you can create in stellaris dwarf the scale of distant worlds 2. My birch world alone has more population than my entire distant worlds 2 civilization. However, in distant worlds 2, I can see the movement of resources, the movement of populations, down to the mining drone getting sent to the asteroids or planets. If some of the roleplay, like the council and political factions were implemented, as well as more detailed diplomacy, a galactic council, crisis, etc. then it will surpass stellaris. Right now, I think its offers a fresh, different take. Its more realistic than stellaris in many ways.

@lonerstrategygames4993 2 года назад

How do these two games compare? I take a look at things like game setup, economic systems and the fun factor for each game. To make it a little more fair I "dumbed down" Stellaris by turning of all the DLCs since it's a much more mature game than DW2. Which one do you like better?

@MarvinMcDougle3 Год назад

Appreciate the vid. I haven't played Stellaris, but I've recently... NM, abandoning comment but posting it anyway for algorithm

@lonerstrategygames4993 Год назад

Okay. Thanks for the comment!

@matthewbarabas3052 9 месяцев назад

subtle flex of your computer: there are no orange borders around the number of stars. anyway, distant worlds allow you to automate everything, which doesnt exist in stellaris. automating everything, at least at first allows you to learn how the game works, and its useful as roleplaying, and, its very realistic. you, as the leader, cant micromanage everything in your empire...

@lonerstrategygames4993 9 месяцев назад

True on both things you mentioned. You certainly can’t micromanage everything and automating everything at first does help you learn. Thanks for the comment.