Recent reviews by Dominating David

-opengl added to launch options finally lets me play this game. On a Vega 64 using Ryzen 1800X Win10 x64. Enjoy!

-2.02 update (still requires -opengl) launch open to work.

First I would like to point out this game is very slow start off. If you don't have the SETA drive everying will take a very long time. With a full time job, and a family it might take you a full solid week to complete the first several missions.

So basically I wanted X3 Reunion but with better graphics, and a better engine. To start it wasn't like that several years ago. It was more like the original X series which is okay, but with a lot of bugs (some still exist but you learn to work past them -

( Like when you undock from some carriers you go into a crazy spin but if press the pause button and try to autopilot to something and try to escape the crazy spin you can get out of it... Sometimes you just got to press the thrust button and try to get out of it for a solid minute).

On X Reunion I make a massive empire and owned the stars. I eventually began wars, and system after system with massive losses I eventually owned a lot of sectors but not all of them. X Rebirth 4.30 now has many of these features to create an empire and dominate the galaxy from even the standard campaign start you can do this.. This is what many expected from the start and now it is here after many years.

**Bugs & notes**
The large prison ship you capture.... It takes a long time but once it is repaired it WILL move. It takes like a solid real life 30 minutes to repair with an engineer once an engineer is on board. It will not repair itself without an engineer. It will take longer if the drone bay was destroyed.
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Fly me to?
When you issue this command you need to actually DOCK with the ship that is taking you somewhere. It will take like 5 minutes after you dock before you actually start moving. If you don't have jump fuel it will alert you of this. If this is the case it will take 15 real life minutes to complete each jump.

**Will update as new data is discovered**

**My Specs**
So maybe the game is more optimized or maybe I just got a setup finally so powerful it plays this game. With my FX 8350 and R290X this game lagged hard.

On my 1800X and Vega 64 this game plays without skipping a beat. The only problems I have are in game bugs.

This game is SO fun! I love it! The AI is okay so yes it is better to play with people.
-We was in a bad spot so I preformed a blind jump.
-We came out of warp lost power, and drifted straight into the arms of a space squid!
-A fire in the engine room sent us over the edge and it was all over...

Should of released as early access. I'll give a thumbs up on the basis it will improve.

Cons:
On an AMD 8350 and a r290x it still had preformance problems.

Very good! I really loved the first one and really like this one too. I'm tore whether or not I like this one more or less then the first one though ;(

For me Endless Space 2 has been a successor to the first in every way possible! :)

3/8/2017
-I am happy to see the game is still improving.

I originally game the game a positive review and forgot to switch it to negative. Since the foundation update my desire to switch it to negative is no more. It has made the game WAY more fun.

Cons
-Still not up to the original hype, but its a start.

To this day this total war game is a vision of what new ones SHOULD be.

They created hype, and did nothing.

I love the total war series.

Pros:
-Runs great on AMD
-Graphics are great
-Game is simple to pickup
-100% different races
-Workshop
-Improved diplomacy mechanics
-Fun battles

Cons:
-Overly simplistic campaign
-Less diplomatic options than other total war games
-Replays don't replay the battle the same way it happened
-Probably doesn't work on older PC's
-While it runs great on my PC I have a AMD-8350 with a 290x, and my GPU runs about 70% fan speed to keep it below 90c on ultra, but the thing is EVEN on low its like this... maybe its my pc?