About This Content The HeraldsFor as long as the records recount, the Heralds have been on the run. Chased by an unknown entity, the Heralds jump from galaxy to galaxy as entire star systems vanish in their wake, as if consumed by the blackness of space itself.Each new galaxy saves their species from extinction for a short time more. While impermanent, the people of the heralds learn to appreciate each new planet they settle, and live in hope of one day finding a place where they can end their journey.Guide the evacuation from the previous galaxy as rickety refugee ships dare the perilous intergalactic jumps to one of your jump stabilization beacons. Send resources back home to gain benefits from the last vestiges of your crumbling civilization as you prepare to deal with your new neighbours.The FirstAlthough their once great empire is gone, reduced to nothing but remnants by the ravages of time, the minds of those who chose to live forever still carry on.The planet Atrozal, hollowed out and brimming in circuitry; where a trillion souls discarded their bodies to be part of the final dream of the ancients.The First care little for the physical world, yet the arrival of the Heralds spells a threat even their paradise does not escape. Send out massive orbital replicators to find raw materials and convert entire planets into automated refinery worlds and computation hubs. The entire weight of this galaxy must be unified if we hope to stand a chance of surviving.InvasionTime is of the essence in the new co-operative Invasion map. The waves of invaders trying to destroy your defense lines are becoming ever stronger, and you must push your empire to the limits to avoid your total destruction.Advanced TechnologyResearch dozens of new technologies, subsystems, and weapons to place on your ship designs. The expanded research web has many new goodies in every corner.Discover different Secret Project technologies every game which, while difficult to unlock, can give you just that edge you need to best your rivals.AttitudesIs your empire a Warmongering siege machine, or are you deviously Scheming to annex planets diplomatically? Are you Progressive in valuing the advancement of technology? Xenophobic in the distrust of your neighbours?The new Attitudes mechanic lets you develop your empire's personality over the course of the game, gaining unique benefits from whichever playstyle you choose to adopt. 6d5b4406ea Title: Star Ruler 2 - Wake of the HeraldsGenre: Indie, StrategyDeveloper:GlaciclePublisher:Blind Mind StudiosRelease Date: 22 Apr, 2016 Star Ruler 2 - Wake Of The Heralds Activation Code [key] star ruler 2 wake of the heralds review. star ruler 2 wake of the heralds download. star ruler 2 wake of the heralds mods Great example of correctly handling an expansion - the new races are interesting without eclipsing those in the base game, veterancy ranks for ships are a great addition, and I'm appreciative of the Attitudes system as a way to flesh out your respective empire and gain bonuses for your individual playstyle. I hope that this prompts the base game to get some of the attention that it so richly deserves, because this is a frequently overlooked gem in the 4x space.. This is a solid expansion. If you like the base game, I think you will like the expansion, too.A coop map with endless waves of attacks, two different factions that certainly play differently (but don't simply obsolete the existing factions), and an alternative set of "attitude" bonuses permanent to a match that you can work towards during a game.And more - though I have trouble identifying what everyone got in the accompanying free patch that also much improved the game, and what is strictly only part of the expansion.. A review of:\u201cStar Ruler 2: Wake of the Heralds\u201d expansion (170507)(This review has been trimmed down to Steam\u2019s 1000 word limit. The full review can be found here. The full review can be found here.)\tThis is a review of Star Ruler 2 (SR2) as of March 2017 with the \u201cWake of the Heralds\u201d (WotH) expansion.More, more, more\tGood expansions should (A) introduce more of good systems, (B) improve or eliminate poor systems, and (C) streamline \u2018meh\u2019 systems. The SR2 dev team delivered in spades!\t* More Resources! In each tier of resource, the number and their effects have increased. With these new resources, \u2018specializing\u2019 a planet to produce a specific resource is more effective. \t* Two new race archetypes! These options, along with two new map options, provide more options for veteran players. \t* More Researches! The research tree has been enhanced and expanded. New paths and combinations, more enhancements to resources, general enhancements to ships, ship weapons, ship hulls, and ship modules. Additionally, \u2018infinite researches\u2019 have been added for weapon damage, engine thrust, shield capacity, support capacity, and hex health.\t* More Ship Weapons! Additional weapons in each of the three primary weapon categories (projectile, beam, missile) have been added, as well as several novel weapon designs!\t* More Ship Modules! \u2018Skip Drives\u2019 and \u2018Ion Cannons\u2019. \u201cTroop pods\u201d can be unlocked to provide an alternative to sieging a planet using time and supply. \u201cBroadcast antennae\u201d mounted on capital ships will periodically convert other empires\u2019 in-system support ships to be part of your fleet!Ship HullsDon\u2019t want a capital ship that can have support ships? The \u2018Destroyer\u2019 hull improves a ship\u2019s damage and health, but cannot maintain a support fleet. On the other side of the spectrum? The \u2018Carrier\u2019 hull doubles the amount of support capacity on a capital ship, although it cannot sport any weapons itself. The \u2018Titan\u2019 hull is still available, and can be made even bigger with the \u2018Colossus\u2019 hull. There\u2019s also a hull that decreases the costs of a capital ship by requiring an ore cost.\tShip design is still 100% customizable!Planetary Satellites\tA great way to improve planets using what I consider SR2\u2019s best, most unique, most fundamental mechanic: being able to use multiple types of resources to accomplish similar goals. Satellites can provide food, add pressure, improve planetary defenses, and more!DefenseIn WotH, one now has a \u2018Defense Reserve\u2019: a pool that fills at one\u2019s Defense rate, to be expended anywhere in one\u2019s civilization to instantly build support ships.\tSince Defense has always been a somewhat nebulous concept for SR2 neophytes:\t- Defense is a resource, one of the five global resources of the game (Credits\/Money, Research, Influence, Energy, and Defense). Therefore, Defense is produced on planets.\t- The primary use of Defense is to spawn free support ships.\t- Defense uses a ratio of 1 Defense : 4 Labor worth of support ships.\t- If one\u2019s Defense Reserve is large enough to cover the labor cost of one or more ships, they are built instantaneously upon triggering the Reserve.\t- The Reserve fills from global Defense production first; once it has filled, Defense production is then distributed to all star systems tagged to \u2018Use Defense\u2019.\t- Constructing Barracks on planets is a primary method for increasing one\u2019s Defense Reverse capacity.\t- And although Defense provides one with very small benefits in the early game, many players use Reserve to create nearly all of one\u2019s support ships\u2014handy when one is building carriers that can support thousandsof support ships!Changes to the Senate, and the Popularity Win Condition\t\tThe original senate diplomacy card remains unchanged. \u2018Election\u2019 cards now pop up in the diplomacy stack. Winning the election makes one the Leader of the Senate. Being the Leader of the Senate creates 3 new opportunities:\t(1) There are Leader-specific cards in the diplomacy stack. Any civilization can purchase these cards, just like any other cards. However: only the Leader can activate them!\t(2) As the Leader of the Senate, you are occasionally gifted a Leader-specific card.\t(3) Finally, only the Leader of the Senate can build the \u2018Senatorial Palace\u2019. Unlike the \u2018Host Senate\u2019 card, the Palace is an orbital. From the Palace, you can purchase three cards: Election, Galactic Superpower, and Galactic Utopia. All of these cards share a purchase cooldown.\tThe Galactic cards each grant powerful effects in their own respect, but having both in effect simultaneously activates the new diplomatic win condition. Upon passage of the second card of the pair, planets in systems bordering yours begin to lose Loyalty\u2014at a pretty rapid rate!\u2014and when they reach zero, the planet converts to your control! When your trade borders increase, you begin converting those planets, ad finitum.\tIt\u2019s a very powerful win-condition which forces your opponents to maintain a vigilant watch on the diplomacy system. It\u2019s not like Influence used to be useless; but now it\u2019s even more effective.\t\tAttitudes\tThe Attitude system is fantastic! There are six categories of Attitudes, each of which contains two quasi-mutually exclusive philosophies. Each civilization begins play with level 1 in a single attitude, based upon your Government type. As the game progresses, you may purchase level 0 in another attitude category, up to one philosophy in each of the six categories. \tOverall, the attitude system is a welcome addition to SR2 because it makes gameplay more dynamic.Art AssetsThe dev team overhauled every art asset in the game. The models, the planets, 2D and 3D surfaces all look crisper, grimier, shinier, etc. There exists some variety among art assets now, and blended effects on planetary surfaces look more natural, more subdued. Weapon, shield, and jump effects are more colorful, more smooth. And this graphical update was, of course, made available to all SR2 players, including those sans expansion.\tConclusion\tAgain: I was heavily biased for SR2 going into the WotH expansion. For me, for my playstyles, for what I wanted, the WotH expansion is nearly perfect.. Fun game - great expansion.. definitely worthwhile!. The new DLC 'Wake of the Heralds' brings new life to the game. Two new playable races, many new weapons and modules, dedicated ship hulls, new additions to the tech web, an entirely new gamemode, and numerous changes to the AI and gameplay. The developers have really outdone themselves with this one and I'm having an absolute blast! In short, this game has just had a massive amount of replay value added to it, and for only ten bucks to boot! Well worth the price.. A beautiful little expansion with something for everyone. Wake of the Heralds adds sparkly new bits to every part of this game - new techs, new races (with distinctly new abilities), a new way to customize you race (attitudes), and a new game mode. Worth it.. I'm going to keep this short and just say that an already great space 4x RTS game has been made several times greater by this expansion.Two new races, new techs, revamped research tree and overall improvement in pretty much every area make this a no-brainer.If you own the game, get this expansion, there is NOTHING to regret. If you don't own the game, get it and the exapansion together and tell your friends about this awesome 4x that far too few people know exists.Its games like this that are worth supportng way above the AAA publisher titles. A 3-man dev team made something truly amazing.
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