Recent reviews by DreonixStormblade

Game was already expensive and grindy, Auction House moves any new cosmetic content into hands of whales only. I wont reward this buisness model or it only encourages more toxic exploitation of gamers.

I am a veteran of civ series, endless legends, and various other strategy games so I am not a noob to 4x gameplay. That being said, this game is overwhelmingly complicated. The combat is boring and simple (literally, you watch the combat after you make basic choices, unlike endless legends). After 11 hours of gameplay, I am left with a feeling of Meh... It is a busy work chore list that isn't that fun. I'd rather play something else.

First off, There seems to be 20 options for everything you do and endless combinations. This would be a good thing, but it gets to the point where it is too much and nothing really matters anymore. Want to settle a planet? Well Is it:
Atoll, Forest, Ocean, Terran, Toxic, Boreal, Ice, Jungle, Mediterranean, Monsoon, Savannah, Steppes, Tundra, Arctic, Arid, Desert, Snow, Ash, Barren, Gas, or a Lava Planet, Gas Frozen, Gas Cold, Gas Temperate, Gas Hot, or Gas Burning? Each one is different and provides bonuses to different things.
Size: Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, or Huge Planet?
Size determines maximum population size of the colony.
Climate: Hot, Cold, or temperate?
Fertility: Fertile, neutral, or Sterile?
These affects the resource generation for the planet an combines with techs and populations.
Does the planet have any resource deposts of:
Strategic resource deposits: Titanium, Hyperium, Adamantian, Antimatter, Orchalcix, or Quadrinix?
These are very important for a good military.
Does it have a Luxury Resource deposit of: Redsange, Hydromiel, Mercurite, Jadonyx, Voidstones, Endless Foundries, Dustciduous Trees, Proto-orchid, Dustwater, Bluecap Mold, Ionic Crystals, Proto-Spores Eden Incense, Gigalattice, Metaenactogen, Transvine, Lost Cities, Benthic Gems, Dark Glitter, Amanthoid, Virual Artifacts, Superspuds, Gossamer, or Drift Buds
These provide large buffs to your empire and are also important.

What population type do you have? They also combo with certain planet types or other factors. ALL these combos are random generated and you have to look ate each of the types and decide which is the best one to get for your empire. Oh and each planet type you want is a different tech to research to colonize it. Different climates are boosted by other techs, Different resource deposits need differnet techs to use.
Oh But wait, when you colonize a planet, you also are taking over the entire solar system, which will have multiple planets in it that you will colonize later. Do the other planets also work into your scheme? Does the system have one good planet, but the others are not great? Is that better than another system that has two decent planets? Do you have the tech for them. Oh and also dont forget to research your military, diplomacy, social, and economic techs too! That is just one choice to make when you have a new colony ship.. figure it out this turn. others are waiting for you if you are coop....
There are few right or wrong answers, just a massive checklist to do that exponentially grows and your choice to pick which to do first. By the time you get one thing done, ten take its place.

The Combat is boring. You outfit your ships with cool stuff (Which you also research of course and requires resource deposits for the good stuff as normal) then it gets really simple.
Space battles, you choose short medium or long range on cards that also have bonuses tied to them. Want a specific bonus on a card? you are locking int whatever the battle plan on the card is. You must then make sure your ships are optimized for that card or you could be at a real disadvantage. OR you make your ships how you want to, and pick a battle card that compliments them, but you get whatever bonus happens to be on the card wheteher you like it or not. Then you start the battle and watch then fly in a curved line along the battle plan card and shooting each other until one side wins. It is over the end. Watching the battle I thought would be cool, but the trailers is as good as it gets.
Ground battles are even worse. It is a numbers game with rock paper scissors. Everyone starts with Infantry. Then you research and get armor (Tanks) that have a bonus against Infantry, SO you shift your army to mostly armor. Then you research air troops (because you know, we forgot how to make an airplane when we made our space ships travelling through the galaxy) Air troops have a bonus against armor.but INfantry had a bonus against air. SO Rock paper scissors at the end. Infantry beats air, air beats armor, armor beats infantry. you dont pick this arrangement per fleet you have or battle though. It is lacked to EMPIRE WIDE, so if you load up heavy on one type, the enemies can counter you and you cant change it well without gutting your manpower. so end result is a balanced washed out force with a little of everything and a small leaning toward something. after that it is just numbers. I have x manpower, you have Y manpower. Each turn the two sides do RNG damage to each other and lose manpower. IF i have more manpower than you I will likely win. You gain manpower each turn like a resource in your empire, like money.

Anyway, there is much more to the game, but writing this review is as much fun as the game was....

TLDR: boring combat, Tons of choices to the point of overwhelming. ot as good as endless legends.

Great game, used to love playing it for the multiplayer. THIS GAME IS DEAD!

I spent my time going straight into multiplayer, did the intro match against bots (3 kills) and started to que for a game.

waited over 45 minutes with 3/6 people in lobby. game WILL NOT START unless lobby is full, so we sat there for almost an hour. Finally it started. I played agaisnt 2 lvl 50s (max levels) 1 lvl 36, and a lvl 2. apparently the 6th person dc right after we got in. the other lvl 2 left within 2 minutes because lvl 50s were demolishing us. match ended with only 3 other people in it. Then back to lobby, ......4/6....... waiting again. after 15 more minutes called it quits.

Used to love this game, had hands down best multiplayer of any ac. But unfortunately cant play if no one else is on.

Take Two Interactive (2K parent company and this games publisher) has changed thier EULA aggreement. as much as I love this game, I REFUSE TO BE DATA MINED! The EULA now says that basically they can collect whatever personal info they want and sell it to WHOEVER THEY WANT TO including other countries where "PRIVACY LAWS ARE NOT AS RESTRICTIVE"

I WILL NOT HAVE MY PERSONL INFO SOLD TO HACKERS, IDENTITY THIEVES, JUNK MAILERS to whoever else they will sell it to for money.

dont belive me LOOK IT UP

Used to have nudity in the game. They have covered the nudity up so I will change my review to recommended now. It was a great game last I played (look at hour count), but I have not played for a while.

What can i say? The game allows anyone to join any game so new players enter and get thrashed by the few people who actually play this game for a long time. Oh and if you dont do good (which you wont unless you are lucky) you dont get anything really for playing. leave a match early because a hacker shows up, you get nothing. join a game with other low rank players and a high rank juggernaught joins and demolishes everyone? You have to stay in and get beat on for another 10 minutes until the game ends or you get absolutly nothing for it, oh and unless you win, you get 1 point to spend on stuff...Nah dont waste your time with this game.