Recent reviews by Sirisma™❸

A great title for when you can't stand the idiots in multiplayer games.

The fact that Valve is marking reviews as being "Off topic" when they are
ABSOLUTELY ON TOPIC

D I S G U S T I N G

Gaijin f**ked up BAD and their very Russian attempts to cover up their failures instead of just fixing the @#$%^&*( problems with the game is embarassing.

Absolutely brilliant!

Originally released in 2008 on disk, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion is the latest standalone expansion to the first SIns title that includes all the previous content into one game. THIS is the one you want to get.

The game itself is fantastic with endless replayability and modability to boot! The community has exceptional 3rd party developers and artists that have made a great many fan projects; complete overhauls to mirror the universe of popular titles like Star Wars, Star Trek, Halo, and Mass Effect to name some of the more popular. The development team makes excellent patches with accurate notation explaining what caused problems or why they did certain decisions, showing great accountability. The game is stable on a wide variety of hardware and with stronger systems can make for literally days of entertainment on a single match if you wanted. A sequel was announced last year as well.

My 3 favorite features that makes this game stand out for me:
1: Singleplayer time dilation, i.e. 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x speeds
2: 3 Factions that are different enough to be easily distinguishable but not be so alien to each other to require a ground up relearning of the game.
3: Strike craft, and done very well, at that

I owned the disk of the original game and bought Rebellion as soon as I realized I could and have never regretted it. Great game.

The original game was so good. This alleged "Enhanced" version seems to have been enhanced with fail coding. Repeatedly disconnected from servers, massive memory leaks, low AF FPS even on medium settings, and the new squadron editor is a joke. Why change something that was just fine before you ruined it?

This is the only game I own that makes my PC lock up from overheating even when not on max settings. I can play Insurgency: sandstorm on max settings for hours without that problem but this game runs maybe 45 minutes on medium before it craps out. Not an isolated incident, either. Literally happened 2 times today and 10 over the previous two days. I only have 11 hours in the game, you do the math.

Overall it's a fun game but holy s**t does it need to be optimized.

Don't believe the hype that the developers paid for from youtubers. This game is an absolute travesty. Highly do not recommend.

This DLC is fantastic. Most of the negative reviews are from people who either don't read the tooltips that explain how the DLC features work or can't comprehend it. I personally found this DLC to be amazing. It definitely took a few hours to get a grip on how to set up the industrial areas efficiently enough to actually make money, but it was worth it.
I typically don't buy DLCs at $15 but after playing this quite a bit I think it's worth it.

NO QUARTER FOR THE CRAVEN!

The game itself can be fun but if you don't have a dedicated crew to play with, stay away. The community is toxic af and the game is saturated with idiot children that don't listen, don't have mics, and just play to go loud and be stupid. This game can be heart-poundingly fun in stealth but too many pubs ruin the experience because they want to rush everything.

tl;dr Play with friends or not at all.

Matchmaker puts you in a server you left repeatedly.
Servers take a huge ♥♥♥♥ every day with 99% packet loss with no explanation making it literally unplayable.
New devs but seems like they haven't fixed a damn thing.
10/10 would not recommend in this state. It's honestly embarassing that there are bugs from 2018 that still exist.