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New beta build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Multiplayer_Alpha_And_Beta#Beta_2.716_The_Great_Balance_Curve You need to use the current_beta branch on Steam to play this one. This one has a TON of balance changes, mostly in the favor of players. Hopefully we have not made things too easy, but we can dial up enemies as-needed. The overarching goal of this new balance is to make it so that most of your ships get stronger, faster, at lower mark levels, and then get diminishing returns at higher mark levels. Enemy ships largely still get stronger in a roughly linear fashion. This keeps the progressive linear challenge of enemies, while giving you the freedom to invest more widely in techs than you could before. Frigates also got a number of really major buffs, and should be a lot more viable. Units like turrets, minefields, station-keepers, and other planetary defenses now start with much larger ship caps and then only grow in power -- not ship cap -- as they mark up. No more paucity of turret coverage in the early game, or touring back around your planets to place turrets every time you mark up. There are a lot of quality of life improvements in general, mostly aimed at informing you better on tech upgrades, and also for purposes of making for a wider variety of playstyles. More balance tuning is expected soon (based on feedback, mainly), but we also have a number of other exciting QoL additions and game-flow improvements planned. This version already makes you a bit less at the mercy of the RNG at high levels of play, but we're going to be doing even more in that area very soon.

[ 2021-01-16 03:02:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

AI War 2

Arcen Games, LLC Developer

Arcen Games, LLC Publisher

2019-10-22 Release

Strategy Simulation Singleplayer Multiplayer Coop Tags

Game News Posts: 506

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Very Positive (1068 reviews)

https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:AI_War_2

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

AI War 2 Linux [1.72 G]

Available DLCs:

AI War 2: The Spire Rises
AI War 2: Zenith Onslaught
AI War 2: The Neinzul Abyss

AI War II is a grand strategic RTS against an overwhelming, inhuman enemy who has conquered the galaxy. The enemy has made only a single error: underestimating you.

You must steal as much technology as you can, and take enough territory to fortify your bases and launch your attacks. But every conquest you make turns the attention of the AI ever more in your direction... so choose your targets with care.

It's "a sequel to [Arcen's] enormo-space RTS AI War, which we called'one of this year's finest strategy games' back in 2009" (Tom Sykes, PC Gamer)

What's New?

We still have a lot of work to do on the game, and we're undergoing some major work with our beta testers before heading to Early Access, but a lot is already awesome:

The game is crazy moddable.
It's multithreaded to take full use of modern computers.
The new 3D graphics are working out great.
The UI has already been dramatically improved by the introduction of a tabbed sidebar in the main view, and streamlining of several other mechanics that felt very difficult in the past. More to come, there.
We’ve got art for over 130 distinct units (not counting different mark levels), and there's more to come.
We’ve got over 1500 lines of spoken dialogue from more than 25 actors, focusing primarily on the human side at the moment; we have a few hundred lines of AI-side taunts and chatter, some of which is recorded but just not processed yet.
There are hundreds of high quality sound effects for a varied battlefield soundscape (with distance attenuation if you’re far away, and positional 3D audio if you’re down in the thick of it), all routed through a tuned mixer setup for optimal listening to all the various parts.
We have a set of music from Classic that is over four and a half hours long, and the new music from Pablo is partly in, but mostly set to be mastered and integrated within the next week or two.
There’s also a ton of map types, many of them new, and with a lot of sub-options to make them even more varied.
And a whole lot more.

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MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 12.04+. SteamOS+
Processor: Dual Core 64bit CPU (2.2+ GHz Dual Core CPU or better)Memory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 510+. Radeon HD5900+. or Intel HD4000+
Storage: 4 GB available space
RECOMMENDED SETUPProcessor: Any Quad Core or 3.0+ GHz Dual Core CPUMemory: 6 GB RAM
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB / AMD HD 7870 2GB
Storage: 4 GB available space

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