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New Dev Diary for Distant Worlds 2: Shadows Rising is now live.

Discover Pirate Factions, the Age of Shadows, Shadowports, the Black Market, Privateering, new ships and stations, and the different paths you can take to shape the future of the galaxy.

Read the full Dev Diary and wishlist Shadows Rising now: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app ... 0075823140

Sounds awesome! Can't wait to give it a spin in October.

Do we know how much is the DLC and how much is the patch? A fair bit of this, other than actually playing as a pirate faction / age of shadows, seems to be in the base game. I'm not that interested in playing as a pirate faction in the Age of Shadows, but I like what I have seen about better interactions with pirates, junkyards, and planetary minors in the base game.

The most concerning thing for me in this expansion - can AI does all this stuff effectively too as a human player does? If majority of AI pirates will struggle to evolve into standard empires or never build Anarchopolis it would be very disappointing... In Distant Worlds 1 pirates often suffered from such complicated mechanics...

WiZz wrote: Thu Aug 20, 2026 3:23 pm The most concerning thing for me in this expansion - can AI does all this stuff effectively too as a human player does? If majority of AI pirates will struggle to evolve into standard empires or never build Anarchopolis it would be very disappointing... In Distant Worlds 1 pirates often suffered from such complicated mechanics...

The AI should be able to utilize the tools available to it adequately and help make the galaxy more alive and dynamic.