Distant Worlds 2 Christmas 2020 Peek

[Hawawaa]

Wonderful! Sign me up for that beta in January please!

Das- hahaha love it!

[:D]

[Medway]

Looks great, thanks for showing.

[Cauldyth]

I really like the "hammerhead" ship set too!

[LordMM]

Saw your video, can't seem to find your stream for DW1 on twitch though.

[DasTactic]

ORIGINAL: LordMM

Saw your video, can't seem to find your stream for DW1 on twitch though.

That was on the Slitherine channel. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/841789954 but will most likely expire after a week or two.

[OnePercent]

My immediate thoughts about the galaxy view, it doesn't really look very "galaxy" if you know what I mean. I loved the way Distant Worlds 1 showed the galaxy, it was very cartographic, would love to have the ability to add custom galaxy images for the backgrounds to games, also where are the gridlines? how will I find that darn abandoned ship floating around some backwater system if I don't get a "Sector B11" notif? [;)]

[Siddham]

Thank you Eric and Merry Christmas [:)]

[TanC]

Much appreciated, Erik! Truly a great Christmas gift for me this year!

[Handbanana]

Had to do something as rare as login just for this. Ty so much for this, really looking forward to the reveal!

[Ranbir]

What is the largest galaxy size? I'm already impressed by that being 2000 and I would love it if that was just 'normal'.

And I hope private sector shipping is still visible and present!

[Wolveen]

[&o][&o][&o][&o][&o]
Rarely log in but had to do it and say thx
Use to have barely 1200 hr in the original DW because of Das ... Your fault Das hehe!!!
Tank you so much Eric and team behind you for this dream comming true!!!
And sorry if i do misspell some words my french go over it [8D]
Merry Christmas to all...

[Cauldyth]

ORIGINAL: Ranbir

What is the largest galaxy size? I'm already impressed by that being 2000 and I would love it if that was just 'normal'.

And I hope private sector shipping is still visible and present!

We don't know details, but a year ago Erik said that "suffice to say there is still a private economy."

Thread here.

So yes, hopefully that means there's still the ant farm of countless private ships going about their business. [:)]

[balto]

Just saw this on Das channel. I hurt my back due to the unplanned massive erection I had while watching.

[Premislaus]

DW2 looks so good! BTW what about Linux support?

[Erik Rutins]

ORIGINAL: OnePercent
My immediate thoughts about the galaxy view, it doesn't really look very "galaxy" if you know what I mean. I loved the way Distant Worlds 1 showed the galaxy, it was very cartographic, would love to have the ability to add custom galaxy images for the backgrounds to games, also where are the gridlines? how will I find that darn abandoned ship floating around some backwater system if I don't get a "Sector B11" notif? [;)]

The look of the galaxy map is not final, FWIW.

[wetpig]

Looking forward to it now more than ever!

[OnePercent]

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins


The look of the galaxy map is not final, FWIW.

Good to hear, count me in on the BETA next year! i'm super interested in providing feedback

[rollhax]

ORIGINAL: Premislaus

DW2 looks so good! BTW what about Linux support?

I asked this in another thread and Erik said that:

DW2 is only planned as a Windows release, unfortunately. The engine does not have the ability to run natively on Linux. I don't know how well it will run in emulation on Linux or Mac, but we'll find out before release and testers who have both Windows and Linux/Mac systems to give that a try during beta would be appreciated.

My account isn't old enough yet to add links; pg 15 of the 2019 xmas sneak peak.

[Miletkir]

DWU is the best, so high expectations are lurking! But that's a hell of a tease and Christmas present.

Where do we sign up for the beta?

Edit: No character tab... Mmh... slightly worried. By the way, I'd bet this "radar" icon is influence, which is displayed over non-colonized systems as a strength value.
Edit2: Yeah, no, scratch that, may just be detection strength. But then why a tab of its own?
Edit3: Expansion planner? I give up.

[Resok]

Looking great! Excited to see more and to get my hands on it when it's ready


-Resok