Sword of the Stars Complete or Sword of the Stars II enhanced?

[Stefanos_P]

I've had both for about 6 months now, but never got around to play them.

Given that PI games are really time consuming (I usually rotate them due to this fact) which one should I play?
Which would be a better experience, and introduction to the series?

 

[BlueTemplar]

Well obviously, as an introduction SotS1 should be better since it happens before SotS2.

SotS2 is more complex, and you start with a lot more features to play with, as well as available ship sections and weapons (since it's supposed to start when the various empires are not just starting to explore space but already have a significant presence there). You might find yourself lost with all these options if you've never played SotS1 before.

Another reason is that SotS2 is still heavily patched, and each week you wait to play it basically means one less major bug to worry about.

Also, for a race to start with I'd suggest Tarkas (or maybe Liir), their drive system is very straightforward, the only things you have to worry about is that you need to research a cheap tech to reroute in-transit fleets, and that their ship range sucks meaning you need a lot of tankers in your fleets.

 

[Tavior]

In additional to what bluetemplar said. For SotS 2 the following stuff need a work on before I will consider SotS Prime to be inferior to SotS 2. No offensive meant.

SotSpedia need a big overhaul (Lot of missing entires or doesn't make sense for battlerider to be under drone category etc...)

No feedback (Why did my fleet didn't relocated to a xyz system? etc...)

Better UI (Still hard to select enemy fleet in close proximity to a star *About half LY then you can't manual select an enemy fleet* and other stuff)

Leviathan (Mostly balancing or weapon not doing their respective roles very well *stare at invasion LV and no it is not the dual siege driver I have a problem with*)

tactical AI (Apparently they are not supposed to cheat but they do in current version)

 

[Stefanos_P]

SotS it is then.

Are the tutorials any good? Or should I just ignore them like in pretty much every PI game?

 

[Tavior]

I would in general recommend reading the SotS wiki and the SotS Manual. I think the manual come with all SotS Prime as a pdf file in the installation folder.

SotS Wiki link: http://sots.rorschach.net/Beginner's_Guide

 

[BlueTemplar]

I think there was a tutorial on the Kerberos forums with detailed pictures.

 

[Marconius]

SotS it is then.

Are the tutorials any good? Or should I just ignore them like in pretty much every PI game?

I know it sounds weird, but you should actually read the manual. The game is complicated.

 

[Stefanos_P]

I know it sounds weird, but you should actually read the manual. The game is complicated.

Yeah, I always read the manuals for PI games.
It's the tutorials that most often than not are almost completely useless.

 

[Kamamura]

It's not a PI game. It' a Kerberos game.

 

[Stefanos_P]

That makes sense.

 

[Ulzgoroth]

Yeah, the original SotS wasn't even published by Paradox originally, but rather Lighthouse Interactive. And both are developed by Kerberos, of course.