Master of Orion Tips. Overview Master Of Orion (2016) - the return of the legend. Races in the game

Fans of Games in space setting will be able to appreciate the New Year 2016 - a step-by-step strategy of Master of Orion 2016. The Argentine Studio NGD is engaged in its development.

In the game it is necessary to solve four strategic tasks that are formulated as: "Explore", "expand", "exploit", "destroy". The player is available for ten races, which he must manage. On the shoulders of his shoulders there is a difficult load of responsibility for the development and protection of their star empire. The ultimate goal of the game is to establish domination over the whole universe.

In the Master Of Orion, there are 9 interstellar civilizations - as well as in the original. There is also one additional exclusive race.

In the Master of Orion 2016, the spirit of the legendary space strategy is excellent: symphonic sound, impressive battles of interstellar ships, colonization of the planets - and all this against the background of the majestic spectacle of distant galaxies.

The one who decides to acquire a collector's edition of the game will receive:

• Exclusive special race for owners of the Master of Orion collective edition. Her name is Terran Khanate. This is an extremely aggressive human race, who has chosen the military path of development.
• Ships in the Oldskil Style, which will look like pixel models. Especially for those who love to nostalgize!
• All Series Master Of Orion games.
• 300 pages of illustrations used in the development of the game.
• Sound album, which are really written for lovers of good music.

MASTER OF ORION 2016: Scene Review

All your efforts in the game will be aimed at developing and protecting the raise you chose. This is the construction of ships in order to fight space expanses, and the establishment of diplomatic relations, and the conquest and enslavement of other races up to their complete destruction.

In the process of managing your state and your race, you manage the four types of resources: loans, research, food and production. If it is productively used, then the colonies of your subordinates will improve, grow and develop. Your fleet will also be improved, thanks to which the battles for new territories will be available in the future. The ships can be design independently, creating deadly, but weakly protected cruisers, hard armored battleships or "Death Star" - the most powerful ship in the game.

Rasa Mrrshanov

As a result, conquering new and new races and capturing their planets, you can destroy all competitors and become the Lord of the Universe. Also available and other, diplomatic version of Victory: You can be the initiator of the world among all existing races.

Space fleets

In the new part of Master of Orion, the main combat unit is a fleet. Orders are betrayed and orders are given. The fleet may consist of a couple of ships, and maybe from a dozen.

Tasks at the fleet can be different: attack, defense planets, colonization, research. Depending on them, the nucleus of the fleet is distinguished (ships that perform a mission), escort and exploration. The core can act like ships with colonists and heavy battleships.

Another feature of the construction of fleets in Master Of Orion 2016 is not necessary to complete the ships with hypervigators. If the fleet is intended for the defense system, it is better to use the vacant place to install weapons. In general, in the game there are interstellar ships for long-range raids and interplanetary - for defense inside the stellar systems.

Line of ships race Boulochi

Ships in Master Of Orion travel from the star to the star on the principle used in the third part of the game. They move in hyperspace tunnels, at the exit of which you can put defensive structures. This allows you to block the movement of enemy races.

Master of. Orion. 2016: Features of the game

Unlike previous versions, in Master of Orion 2016 there is a lot of new. It:

• 10 races, each of which voiced separate actors;
• 75 new technologies that are available for use;
• Galaxies are really huge! Each more than 100 solar systems and billions of stars and planets;
• The design of ships for each race is different from others;
• The victory in the game is achieved not only by the military, but also by peaceful means.

In general, the game of the game in the Master of Orion is not easy, but at the same time it delays so much that it is difficult to stop.

Races in the game

Nine Master of Orion 2016, which were available in previous parts of the game, have not changed:

• Alkari. - Strong and militant. They are designed to conquer and kill. They are noble, but at the same time quick-tempered, therefore, they enter the war for very small reasons. They never retreat from conceived. Their native planet is rich in resources and artifacts.
• Boulohy - Aggressive, hot-tempered, can fight without tired. At the same time, they can be good defenders and patrons for weak. They can warn, but if they do not obey them, then the tricks on themselves. The form of the Board at Bulja is a dictatorship, and their emperor is a defender and a killer in one person.
• Darloki - Each of them is a bright personality, the greatest fear for which is the loss of his "I". They are covered with mystery and magic halo. Darloki - paranoids and xenophobes, but do not hesitate to steal them to achieve them in order to know the cosmos better.
• Clacon - All of them are combined into the swarm. They do not have personal qualities and interests. Act together. They will donate the life for the sake of Queen and since birth know their roles in society. Their planet is a cruel and crewing - it took care that her inhabitants are hardy and fat.
• People - dependent on someone else's opinion and always consider themselves deprived. Since the native planet they brought not to one catastrophe, they learned to survive in difficult conditions and became more hardened. People are democrats. Work on their blessing.
• Meklary. - These are machines that make together a single consciousness. They are logical and strong, but at the same time dwell in the network traps, which at any time can launch a secret self-destruction program.
• - They look like big cats, very elegant and beautiful creatures. They, like their relatives, are very independent, smart and fearless. Good arrows, always ready for battle, although there are often aggressors. They love adventure and traveling among stars.
• Psylons - Intellectuals, for them knowledge is the basis of the basics. The form of government in their state is dictatorship. Psychers are calm, externally do not express their emotions. They are very peaceful and not conflict with other races.
• Saccra - aggressors neglecting the interests of other races. Constantly fighting for survival, capturing the densely populated planets. They are feudal, while very quickly multiply. For this, we need new and new areas for survival.
• Silicoids - Race of mysterious creatures whose bodies consist of an inorganic substance. They are deprived of feelings and emotions. The capture of planets is happening only for the sake of minerals.
• Finally, a special race of the latest version of Master Of Orion - terrants.This is ambitious and cunning semblance of a human race. They are strong and militant, love bloody wars. Cruelty flows through their veins, and they use their strength to "instruct the true lost races".

Rasa Terranov

In general, in the face of Master of Orion 2016, the legendary space strategy received high-quality reincarnation. The new game reproduces the spirit of the classic Master of Orion, but with improved graphics and gameplay. The game will be definitely interesting both to fans of the series and lovers of serious step-by-step strategies.

Your empire is slowly, but correctly expanding. Defense means are working fine. And finally, you decide that it is time to put these annoying meklars in the next system in place. Your formidable fleet goes down and enters the fight with the enemy. But during minutes, the battlefield fills the swarm of fighters and missiles of meklarov, and you tolerate crushing defeat. Slipping the wounds, you give the engineers order to design new ships, which will be more effective against unpredictable tactics of the enemy.

In this article we will tell how to modify the ships. In the designer of ships, you can choose different models, coloring schemes, weapons and equipment that correspond to your tactics.

CONTROL

Fast improvement of ships

When studying a new technology, you will get the opportunity to make appropriate changes to the design of all or some ships. If you decide to do this, then weapons and equipment will be automatically improved, and the time and cost of the construction is updated. This is the easiest way to modify basic ships.

Designer of ships

By clicking on the designer icon, you will get on the shield projects screen, including three main areas:

Short description of the ship is located on the left side of the screen. It displays information about the studied classes of ships, the number of ships of each class, as well as their combat efficiency (purple figures). Slots with the inscription "Create" serve to create your own ships. Classes of ships that you have not yet explored, will not be displayed.
- A detailed description of the ship is located on the right side of the screen. A technical description of the class of ships selected on the left, as well as the cost of production, command glasses, the volume occupied by equipment, systems and weapons, and other parameters are displayed.
- Control buttons are located in the lower right corner of the screen. The Delete button allows you to write off one or more ships of the selected class and get compensation in loans. The "Finish" button returns to the main screen. The Edit button leads to the ships designer screen.

By clicking the "Edit" button, you will fall on the ships designer screen where you can modify the ship selected in the brief description area. If you click on the Slot with the "Create" inscription, then automatically move to the shield designer screen. Please note that eight slots are available to create their own ships projects.

Between editing an existing ship and creating a new one there is a small difference. When editing the ship, you can modify it only within its class. When creating your own project, you will be offered all the studied classes of ships to choose from. In both cases, the base model of the ship will undergo modification.

As an example, we modify Titan Alkari and turn it into a ship capable of destroying a whole planet.

Modification of ships

APPEARANCE

Ship class. If you click on the slot with the inscription "Create" to you, all the classes of ships studied at the moment will be offered. If you have chosen a definite class ship for editing, then there will be no choice of other classes.

Ship model. You can choose one of the two models for each class of ships, with the exception of the death star, which is represented in the only option.

Coloring scheme. You can decorate your ship one of the four available coloring schemes (basic scheme, as well as schemes A, B and C).

Ship model

Ship coloring schemes (scheme C is not shown)

Description of equipment

A description of any equipment contains information on the cost of its production, the volume it occupies on the ship, as well as damage per second, if we are about arms. On the right side of the screen, the selected equipment and its functions are described in detail.

Basic modules

Basic vehicle modules - armor, engine, protective screen and computer. They cannot be removed, but you can only modify the studied technologies. You can set a less advanced version of the module, saving on the time of its production and the volume occupied by the ship. At the same time, its combat effectiveness, as a rule, will be lower.

For example, we install an interphase engine in our titan instead of a hyperdunger. The cost of its production for 4 points is higher, but no additional volume on the ship is not required.

Special Module

In these slots, you can install modules that are not related to basic or attacking armament: a forced engine, an inertial stabilizer, a system of anti-missile defense, etc.

We will install the star converter on our titanium, the cost of production and the volume of which is 500 points.

Armament

These slots allow not only to install weapons on the ship, but also to determine the amount of guns, the direction of fire and additional features. With the help of these options, you can create specialized ships for bombardment of planets, transportation, armed support, etc.

Modifiers. Here are displayed modifiers for weapons. They can be connected and disabled to their discretion. For each type of weapons, you can assign a specific combination of modifiers. It will give extra opportunities, but will require more points of production and volume on the ship. The tools in one slot have the same modifiers and the direction of fire. Examples of modifiers - point defense tools, radio electronic protection, enveloping, heavy installation.

number. You can choose the required amount of tools installed on the ship. It is limited only by the capacity of the ship.

Direction of fire. The guns for the shooting of direct vending require to choose the direction of fire. The following options are offered: Forward, back, only left, only to the right, in both directions (i.e., left and right), in a circle. The last two options slightly reduce the effectiveness of the guns, since in this case it is necessary to cover several fire sectors. For missiles, the choice of direction of fire is not needed.

Information. At the bottom of the weapon window there is information about the general damage per second, the total cost of production, as well as the occupied volume and overall capacity of the ship.

Despite the fact that Titan has a huge combat point and is able to destroy the whole planet, he needs protection against attacks of the enemy ships. Let's install two compartments for fighters to reflect the attacks, and three neutron blast servants of heavy installation, leading fire in a circle ("heavy installation" modifier gives an additional 150% damage, but three times increases the cost of production and the volume). We supplement weapons with two heavily-free nuclear missiles (the "heavy armor" modifier increases the rocket resistance to the enemy defense tools, but it takes more space on the ship). Pay attention to the symbols of modifiers for neutron blasters and nuclear missiles, which are displayed in weapons slots.

NAME

To complete the creation of the ship, you must give it a name that should be specified in the upper right corner of the screen. The Name Length should not exceed 12 characters, while you can use any combination of letters, numbers and spaces.

So, by nock our killer planets "Star Scream". Below you can compare the standard titanium alkari and titanium created by us alone:

Modified ships in the game

Now your new ship will appear in the production line. To build it, select it, like any other. As part of the fleet, the ships designed by you will be displayed under the names you were given to them.

How often in your life, bright memories from the past when transferred to the present and from the side of the lived years or objective / subjective (needed to emphasize themselves) circumstances become not so light? In computer games - one of the most subjective sectors of humanity of humanity - such phenomena occur not just often, but can be said regularly. Having plunged into the memories of childhood related to a particular computer game, when starting this game itself in the present, you begin to feel an idiot: how? How, tell me for mercy, could you like it? How could you spend 100 (300, 1000 or more) hours of your life on this ... with the permission to say the game?

Happened to you?

With me constantly. Toli age, it is stupid. But recently I even shook, if possible, project your memories on one or another novelty. As one footballer said: "Your expectations are your problems!". Therefore, it is better not to wait for nothing.

In the distance, 1993 came out and almost immediately took a worthy place among only the popularity of the Game of Step-by-Step Strategy Game Master Of Orion. And it is not surprising, as the publisher was studio MicroProse,related civilization and colonization. The game itself was in some extent simplified civilization. The main difference was the game about space.

In the game, according to an old legend, an ancient civilization Orion existed, which seeded seeds of 10 races according to different planets and watched their development. No one ever seen the Oriones themselves, but the Galaxy Sector, where everything happened began to call Orion. At the initial stage, we had to choose one of the races and set into the path of galactic power. Each race has its differences, which strategically affects development methods and makes a variety of gameplay. For example, playing for the race of people, with the proper skills of diplomacy, you can not fight almost half of the game, but to develop science and economy and crush your opponents technically, building a much smaller number of troops. And playing the sakkru or silicoids, you can fight continuously, since some unlimited ability to reproduce, while others do not require food to increase the population, and, accordingly, I can colonize and develop any planet and almost immediately build flotilla.

The game was well perceived by the players, and after three years in 1996 it comes out the second part. Moii has become a real hit (if this word in Russia can be applied to a computer game, since more than 90% of the population is not that computer, food in the refrigerator is not always enough). But on the forums of old school games, Batlia still boil, which of three parts is better, and most of the second part of the game. The game added three new races, a little complicated the management of the economy, adding several strategic capabilities such as: distributions of the population by planets, the distribution of the planets in the direction of activity and the emergence of outstanding personalities, which can be hired to the role of the governor. Plus, they slowed down the study of technology: if earlier it was possible to study several technologies at once, now they can be studied according to one as in civilization.

The main features of the first two parts of the series was a step-by-step militant, remotely resembling the battle of the heroes of sword and magic and the opportunity to customize the ships. The newcomer could always at first pump his skills in the management of the Empire and win the war of the army, or pump the skills of milk and win fights due to the competent control of the troops and competent customization of ships.

In 2003, the notive infogrames released the third part of the series. The game, which is called, caused contradictory reviews due to their increased complexity. The fans of the series with their heads plunged into the study of hundreds of changes, and many of them were written by players themselves on profile forums and in letters to developers, yes, yes - the game was created by the "collective mind." But to attract new players, the third part could not practically. Weak graphics, an unimaginable amount of descriptive text (localized professionally in Russian, it was only in 08-09), the subordinate system of management and development of the empire and the troops did not leave the slightest chances of beginners. Only for the study of all documentation for making decisions for the first 40-50 steps was required from 5 hours of the game. Naturally, after that, the series attached, if not died.

And here, on August 25, 2016 at 20:00 on Minsk time, the Master of Orion release was released in the GOG. The publisher of the game was the company WG Labs - a division of Wargaming.net, which is engaged in the development, support and publishing of game projects together with third-party developers. This meant that we had a full-fledged release of a new game.

The client client loading slider inspired the romantic memories of the exploration of the territory and the search for the resources of the type "iron", "oil", "paints" in Civ III, about chess battles with a computer in HMM III and the incredible atmosphere of space Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty. Here is a dream cocktail and memories. I did not particularly disturb my questions: why do you need to produce a step-by-step strategy in 2016? Will the developers be able to save the atmosphere of the series? Is this a new game series or remote? I just wanted to immerse yourself in memories of 15 years ago and some romantic of space.

The most amazing thing I managed it! Despite the slogan of WG Labs "Innovations in Gameplay" (literally: innovation in gameplay), we have a slightly simplified, improved graphically remake of the game 20 years old with the appropriate gameplay. Such games are few decrees to do currently. In principle, the review on this can be completed, since the fans of the series immediately installed the game and, as I plunged into the puchin of memories, and find new fans of step-by-step strategies in 2016 just as difficult, as re-flying to the moon and check, Lee left Armstrong there his mark or not.

But we now have a Haip wave on the space subject caused by the output of the good-quality Stellaris, disputes about No Man's Sky, the expectation of the cosmic Call of Duty and the hopes for the Star Citizen exit. So not to say a few words about Master of Orion would be a crime.

It is possible how many things should argue for a long time as it should look like a step-by-step strategy in 2016, but it is impossible to reproach the Argentine studio in the absence of the designer taste. The first screensaver allows you to immerse yourself in the world of cosmic battles. It becomes even scary: I will give me to manage a full-fledged space battle? This is a strategy ... will give, give. True, it will be implemented so that it would be better and there was no such possibility, but about it later.

An understandable interface allows a newcomer to get used in the game for 20 minutes. Everything in their places, the adviser appears with the prompts in those moments when necessary, and if you have experience in the experience of the game in Civilization, then the tutorial boldly skip and forth to conquest.

By the way, in addition to the visual component in the game, stunning sound. Professional actors (in the English version), the symphony orchestra (for everyone), high-quality effects - all together create that gracious atmosphere when you do not even need to include your favorite playlist, for the background. At least the first 10 hours of the game accurately.

The races that we are offered to choose from, moved in full of the first part of the game with all distinctive features, which, undoubtedly, should affect the ways you will reach victory. Everything is as before: Alkari - piloting and can win in a space battle even with a smaller number of ships, Boulochi - capture almost any planet with a relatively minimal number of landing, people will always be with money, thanks to diplomacy and trade skills. Newbie, having studied at the initial stage description, can even at the first time at the level of the complexity "medium" to 200 goes to have an advantage over AI. The main thing is to think a little bit and understand the mechanics of Ira.

In general, in favor of the market, the game turned out to be sufficiently easy. Moreover, if ease of development is a certain plus, then the simplicity of victory is rather minus. The fan of the series, who played any of the previously published parts, even at the maximum level of difficulty, the third-fourth game will already have several "cheat" ways to defeat the computer. Well, a player who has experience in Civilization will be able to be mastered at maximum speed for 5-10.

It is especially worth noting the tree of technology, having studied that, you can get new weapons, new buildings and other peppers. The number of technologies seems optimal. It seems that the game achieved the necessary balance. Now, for victory, you do not need to learn all the technologies in mandatory, such as, for example, in Civilization III, to open an imbial unit (hello "Cossack", launching a golden age when playing Russian). Perks from technology are not so strong, now the first hour can not improve the fleet at all, but to redistribute points for the production or growth of the population. This, however, even more simplified the game, so it is necessary to think less and everything is reduced only to the number of warships and colonized planets capable of these ships to produce.

Separately, it is worth telling about the battle system. The developers presented it as something new, adding the drive into a thoughtful oldsule gameplay by a step-by-step strategy. On check, we got a vague Real-Time militant, with a relatively good animation, but a completely understood control system. Historically, the battle system in Master of Orion is "Chess": Cells for the course, step-by-step regime, grouping of troops. And now? Now we manage real-time ships. Only manage it - it says loudly. We simply indicate flight directions and occasionally, we can apply additional weapons. The main way to win is to hide from the shot for an asteroid (or meteoride?), Which are sometimes present on the battlefield. And that - it is not always possible. Asks, why these innovations? With all the qualitatively worked out authenticity of the gameplay, insert a part so slightly implemented by the real-time system of the battle was, in my opinion, erroneously. Return a step-by-step fight immediately! In the meantime - only the author of the battle.

But most importantly, the game delays. Having planned to play 3-5 hours, for review, discovered that I had already played 20 hours. And this is despite the fact that there is a beta battle, the season in F1 2016 has not even reached the equator, and Spartak Moskva in FIFA 2016 did not even play all the pre-season matches. You really physically want to become a master of the galaxy. Destroy cold crystaloids, bomb the nasty bears, make friends with the Feline family. Infinitely pressing the "Next course" button in no way will not stop until the victory becomes yours. And let them, on the fifth six game itself, the fact of victory will already be obvious on half of the game, and the remaining 200-300 moves will be more like a Methodical Gund from Dota 2 than to conquer the galaxies. The anticipation itself from the beginning of the new game remains unchanged. You, as well as for the first time, anticipate your victory. Planning for what strategy you will develop. You already know what, how and when you build. And still captures the feeling that now you will become the ruler of the Galaxy. This is what is the main success that allows you to close your eyes to all flaws. This is how the third civilization was held for almost a decade. And let the work in Moo study less, there is no, but sensations ...

"Your expectations are your problems!" - That's what the slogan should have a WG Labs screensaver in this game. I did not expect anything from her, and I received a bunch of memories and a portion of pleasant good nostalgia.

But there are two more indisputable advantages: 499 rubles! The game costs 499 rubles! The attraction of unprecedented generosity at current prices. This, of course, is not a product class AAA, but, gentlemen, it is not indie - the project. Hello Games was not ashamed to break the standard price tag in 2000 rubles for its procedural generated creation, without having completed the 10th part of the promises.

Well, the second, officially declare, Master of Orion 2016 will start even on the calculator with 15 gigabytes of the hard disk. Just look at the minimum system requirements: even integrated Intel HD 3000 integrated cards support. I have such a card on a working netbook 7 years ago. At the same time, even at the minimum level of graphics, the game looks worthy - graphic optimization is just the highest class. And you will have the opportunity to stick to the game for a couple of hours at some office printing machine. Just more careful - you can not get rided a couple of hours.

After entering the light ~ Civilization ~ and its broader success, it is not surprising that experts from "" began work on a new game, developing and modifying ideas laid out in the previous version. At the same time, they deliberately went along the path of making some sufficiently significant changes to the rules (which will undoubtedly be stated below) so that the playing in the Master of Orion does not have a feeling of repetition passed.

So, this time you are not unknown continents, but an unexplored galaxy. Starting the game from the possession of the planet alone and several spacecraft you will have to finish it with the Lord of the whole galaxy. This, of course, at best. And in the worst - either to stive up to the end of his days in the unknown, or fall in the last battle with representatives of all alien races.

You have to develop technologies and build a space fleet.
War and be friends with the most powerful civilizations of the Universe.
Diplomacy and espionage, science and ecology. However, let's start with the beginning.

1. Alignment of figures

Of course, you have to deal with some star map, it is better to think in advance. The benefit of the game creators provide such an opportunity, at the very beginning, interested in your appetites.

However, since, defining the volume of the galaxy, you, by and large, asks only the speed and duration of the game, I want to attract your attention to a much more important solution - the race for which you have to act. But before doing this, it is worth saying what you should strive for what this game ends.

Moreover, it is exactly the result of all your actions is quite original and significantly different from it in ~ "Civilization" ~.
Please note that the common canvas remains the same. Developing technology, you produce some combat and transport units of spacecraft. With their help or colonize free planets, or fight with enemies. At the same time, interest in acquiring the maximum number of planets is obvious, because at each of them you can organize the production of something like that. But that's not all.

When the races get acquainted with each other better (and this will happen not earlier than you will find at least a few of your neighbors - of course, we are talking about a fairly large size of the galaxy), they will create a certain High Council (Supreme Council). Constituting, this Council will immediately try to elect the Supreme Lord of the Galaxy (High Master of The Galaxy).

For this you need, as they would say in the present parliament, a qualified majority - two thirds of the votes. One voice is given for 100 units (millions of people) of the population.

Of course, it is possible that by the time of the formation of the Council you will not be so powerful to qualify for this title. Then you will open three options to influence the development of events:

First, in advance through trade and diplomacy, try to attract several powerful races to your side, who would agree to give you their voices.

Secondly, until time, to torpedo all the decisions of the Council, giving his votes the most weak challenger or refraining from the vote. Of course, periodically the Council will be gathering and arranging the robbery, but it can give you enough time for a variety of diplomatic and combat operations.

Thirdly, if you are not elected by the Supreme Lord, no one bothers not to recognize the voting results. True, in this case, all races included in the council will announce the final war to the victorious end. And you will have to calculate only on the power of the space fleet and ground troops.

Of all the above, the next logical chain is clearly revealed. It is necessary to have a large population, therefore, it is necessary to equip the maximum number of planets. In this you will disturb other races, therefore, you must be able to stand up for yourself. A little later, another link will be added: not on all the planets initially you can live, therefore, it is necessary to develop technologies that you will enable you.

And now we approached precisely why they started - for what race to enter the competition?

2. Black or white?

Initially, you are selected from ten races. Each of them possesses not only a special skill, initially declared, but also a sufficiently branched system of initially given advantages and disadvantages. Naturally, designed in such a way that your choice in no way serve as a form.

1) The alkaris. They originated from birds and still capable of flying, at least for small distances. As a result, they are excellent pilots and their ships can give up speed and maneuverability only that Mrrshan, including due to skillful design. If you choose this race, then the most profitable to build small and medium ships, which will fully allow you to take advantage of the benefits.

This race is initially initially perceived by those surrounding as "noble militarists." By definition, they do not have too good relations with The Klackons, The Darloks and The Sakkra. In terms of technology, they have pluses in shipbuilding (invention of new engines and tanks for fuel), but not too strong in the design of power fields. That is, their lot is an attack, not protection.

2) The Bulrathis.. Their ancestors are bears, which determines powerful addition and greater physical strength. Their elements are ground battles, and here a rare race can adequately resist them (of course, with other things being equal, first of all, in terms of technology). By nature, they are quite aggressive and are focused on the capture of enemy colonies, even if there are numerical advances from the enemy.

As for the development of science, they are not bad to understand the weapons and the fact that the game has the name "Construction" - the scope of technology, primarily engaged in protective equipment and use in peaceful purposes of various special materials and alloys. At the same time, The Bulrathis is weak in computer technology. They dislike the Darloks and The Mrrshans.

3) The Darlok.- "Metamorphs", changing shape, and, therefore, excellent spies. In the international community they do not trust them too - perhaps, only people can calmly digest their presence.
But in terms of espionage, sabotage and the work of the security service, they have no equal, which is not surprising, if we consider that the Darloks are capable of taking the appearance of any living being.

They have a reputation of "aggressive diplomats" and are well understood in computers. If you choose this race, it will be the most reasonable to focus on one-two technological directions, knowing that the rest will always be able to steal.

4) The Humans. - People who gods were delivered by physical strength.
So they have to take their own through trade and diplomacy. They, perhaps, most chances of conquering voices in the Council not weapons, but by friendliness and timely concluded contracts for friendship and trade. Began initially, they have calm and even relationships with all races.

People are excellent specialists in the field of power fields, they are well versed in planetology and engines. Obviously, their advantage in as quickly as possible friendly contacts with other races. Thus, if in ~ "civilization" ~ peaceful (humanitarian) path of development and, accordingly, the acquisition of points is available for almost any people, here he, by and large, the lot of people alone.

5) The Klackons. This is an industrial society in insecting, which preserved strict distribution of duties, characteristic of their ancestors - ants. If your element is production, there is no doubt that this race will attract your special attention. Among other things, they are quite prolific, so there should be no problems with the population of new colonies.

True, "ants" are fairly xenophobic, which often creates problems with them when communicating with other races. In the engines, they disassemble badly, but the dog ate on the design.

6) The Meklars.. Their gods were offended even more than people, so that this unfortunate race initially had to develop cybernetics to compensate for their physical weakness. As a result, they are so jobs in robot engineering, which are capable of controlling more than others, the number of factories, and create more powerful industrial complexes.

It is not surprising that they are docks in computer technology. And, oddly enough, enjoy sufficient respect in the galaxy: they only have stretched relationships with The Darloks and The Sakkra.

7) The Mrrshan.. What happened from huge predatory cats, they still love to hunt, especially on other races. They are excellent arrows and can compete with "birds" in shipbuilding. It is obvious that this race is initially quite aggressive. Therefore, for her the best way of defense is an attack.

At the same time, the Mrrshan hunting instincts are not a secret for others. Not everyone can get along with them, and The Sakkra is immediately located almost on the verge of war - the rarest case in this game. "Cats" perfectly disassembled weapons, but weak in design.

8) The Psilons. . This race has long been developed primarily the brain and achieved remarkable results on this field:
The best researchers in the world simply do not exist. They are equally good in all branches of knowledge and quite peaceful.

Researchers dislike, perhaps, only metamorphs, living alone and friendship with all others. However, they have to spend considerable efforts to protect their developments from spies. Playing for this race, remember that your power is to the rapid introduction of all developments in the production and use of them against more primitive (from the point of view of technologies) races.

9) The Sakkra. Descendants of dinosaurs, cold-blooded (and cold-blooded) reptiles, still slapping eggs and similar to huge lizards. The speed of their breeding is able to force to faint even "ants", which easily explains their stretched relationships with other races.

After all, for the successful development of life, lizards have to capture as many new planets as possible. Often at the expense of neighbors.
You will undoubtedly remember that the voices in the Council are obtained depending on the number of population. Thus, this race has a considerable order here, but you still have to have to settle. From here their magnificent knowledge on planetology, which is largely engaged in an increase in the size of the planets and a device for the lifestyle of planets with a bad climate.

10) The Silicoids.. These are silicon structures, at a closer look at the most resembling rude pieces of rocks. They breed twice as slower than everyone else, and regardless of the fertility of the planet on which the colonies are located. However, their nature did not adopt some advantages: silicoids are still on which planets to disembark. Tundra, desert, increased radiation - they are all nipple.

At the same time, this race is not in freaks with science. Not bad to think in computers, they extremely slowly turn the brains in all other areas of knowledge. But, apparently, innobiva and harmless: These phlegmatics with all support even relations, except for "cats" and metamorphs.

As you can see, the choice is quite rich, and in this undoubted plus ~ "Master of Orion" ~. Personal experience shows that choosing a race from the point of view of its large or smaller chances of winning - a deaf business.
They are more or less than all. Rather, it is necessary to take care that the distinguishing features of the race are not in contradiction with your character.

The nuance is here next. You can be quite peaceful by nature, but, nevertheless, preferring "cats" in memory, let's say, about the beloved cat Vaska. It will very soon, it turns out that without suspecting that The Mrrshan got so harmless emperor, the rest of the races will be extremely careful to treat your attempts to establish quite strong diplomatic relations with them. And in the end you will not succeed in either a military nor in a peaceful field.

However, this initial choice is laid and a certain element of chance. After all, choosing your race, you know only how many neighbors you will get, but do not know which one. However, let's hope that the flour of choice is behind, and the game begins.

3. Debut

Experience shows that the most favorable strategy for starters - with a sufficiently large size of the galaxy - trying to populate the maximum number of planets. To do this, it is reasonable to examine the surrounding star systems in the help of small and large ranges and make yourself an idea of \u200b\u200bwhere it should be directed first.

In the "Quick Start" section you can familiarize yourself with the classification of the planets. It is quite obvious that at the beginning it is to prefer the planet with the highest possible amount of the population, or with the pros of research and production.

By the way, on research. Do not be lazy to look in the "Tech" menu. The level of development will be displayed to each of each of them. Irrenestly recommend, based on the qualities of the selected race, mobile over-the-line capital from one sphere to another, holding the development of approximately one level.

The fact is that, as it is not paradoxically, there are no more or less necessary among them. No matter how you have developed a weapon, you will still need protection. With whatever speed, the planets are not settled, suitable for the life (if you, of course, not The Silicoids) will soon become missing. Therefore, it is better to analyze it, which scope of research for which is responsible - after all, the most favorable time for the development of science is the debut.

If you do not neglect it from the very beginning, it can, on the one hand, give a significant game to other civilizations, and on the other, to reduce the cost and increase the rate of production of anything.

Disceiving that we will tell me far from all possible in one or another sphere of inventions, let's start with computer technology.

• - Battle Computers (Battle Computers) guilty of your spacecraft and affect their maneuverability;
• - Battle Scanners (Battle Scanners) will not only provide you with detailed information about the possibilities of enemy ships, but also help with attack. Please note that ground bases are equipped with combat scanners automatically;
• - ECM Stations (ECM Jammers) - create interference when attacking enemy rockets;
• - interdimensional communications (Hyperspace Communications) will allow you to contact the ship in flight and change its route;
• - Space Scanners (Space Scanners) will warn your colonies about the movements of enemy ships. At the beginning of the game, you can "see" only on three parties, in the best case this indicator will be three times more.

Thus, computer technology is primarily engaged in the problems of defense and attacks, both for space ships and for planets. Close to it will approach the technology of weapons:

• - Anti-missile defense (Anti-Missile Rockets) will help your ship avoiding enemy rockets;
• - Beam Weapon (Beam Weapon) inflicts almost instantly and does not need recharging and ammunition;
• - Manual weapons (Hand Weapons) will allow your ground forces to beat much more effectively;
• - Emitter (Stream Projector) deprives the part of the trim all ships in the group, making them more defenseless.

However, before you attack, sometimes it is worth thinking about the defense, about durable rear. And here the power fields will come to the rescue.

• - reflective shields (Deflector Shields) will reduce damage from enemy weapons;
• - Individual shields (Personal Shields) surround ground troops with a power field and weakened the impact of the enemy fire;
• - Planetary defense shields (Planetary Defense Shields) will cover the entire planet.

However, this branch of knowledge is sometimes engaged in the development of the most powerful weapon of the attack. This, as, for example, is a black hole generator (Black Hole Generator), which will create a field destroying all living things. In case of good luck, the crews of enemy ships will be completely destroyed.

Another direction of development is the design, which is engaged in the latest forms of structures and materials.

• - Automatic repair modules (Automated Repair Units) will allow damage to the ship during the battle;
• - Power Armours will allow dramatically to increase the strength and mobility of ground troops;
• - spare tanks with fuel (Reserve Fuel Tanks) on three parses will increase the range of ships;
• - Reduced emission to the atmosphere (Reduced Industrial Waste) will help you more successfully solve environmental problems.

In addition, do not forget about planetology, which, it would seem directly not related to the growth of weapons, but, nevertheless, it is important in terms of the final results of the game. It will ensure design - antidote from biological weapons (Biological Weapon Antidotes), which will help in the case of biological impact on your planet;

• - Controlled Hostile Environments (Controlled Hostile Environments) will still fall on such planets;
• - ATMOSPHERIC TERRAFORMING (ATMOSPHERIC TERRAFORMING) - will allow some fee to cope with unsuitable conditions on other planets, changing them to ordinary;
• - Increased area of \u200b\u200bthe Planet (Terraforming) will simultaneously increase both its population and industrial potential.

Well, if you care for the construction of the space fleet, you undoubtedly share special attention, engine technology. With it, you will be available

• - Star Gates (Star Gates), allowing ships and transports to instantly move between the stars equipped with them;
• - Subspace teleports (Subspace Telepors) instantly move your ship in battle at any point of space:
• - Flight Range Magnifiers (Increased Ship Range) will allow you to go further into the galaxy.

Here, perhaps, all that is initially worth knowing the development of technology. But, suppose that you already have a few colonies, your life is about them, new ships are being built with databases, to fall on a couple of lured planets.

And then you suddenly stumble upon another race.

4. Mittelspil

First of all, the question arises: what to do in case of an attack. After all, before, seeking to quickly develop the shapes, you hardly have the opportunity to pay a lot of attention to martial ships. In addition, technology (if you followed our advice and did not stumble) so quickly developed that weary and the means of protection were carried out directly before our eyes.

Now the time has come close to the construction of the space fleet. You entered the "Design" menu and stopped before the problem - what and how to build. By the way, pay attention to this difference from ~ Civilization ~ - there you had standard combat units, and here each spacecraft is your own small masterpiece (or big failure).

The first commandment is to try to make the ship as little as possible.
Inside the class - Small (small), medium (medium), Large (big) and Huge (huge) can fill it in what you want. This, by and large, little on what will affect.

But here is the movement between classes, first of all, in the direction of increasing, is a step over which it is worth thinking. Not to mention the fact that the Huge category ship can be built for 200 years or more, it will lead to a sharp increase in the duration of construction and its cost.

However, first, probably, it is worth it for more to show what it can be installed on your ship.

Computers. They guide the entire life of the ship. The more powerful computer installed on it, the more chances of success in battle, the faster movement near the enemy.

Shields. They protect the ship, absorbing, absorbing shocks applied by enemy weapons. The classes of the shield will show how much conditional units of the shield can absorb.

Interference generators. Complete enemy rockets. When the computer finds out whether the rocket fell into your ship, then not only the activity of radiation weapons, but also the force of interference generators is taken into account.

Cleaning. Each ship has a number of conditional units showing its viability. As in many games, they are called Hit Points, shock units. What they are more, the harder it is to destroy the ship. The presence of the trim increases the number of Hit Points. In this case, an ordinary or double trim is possible from each material. Obviously, in terms of viability double better, but it takes a bunch of place.

Engines. They are not only responsible for the movement of the ship, but also nourish all its cars and devices. The more powerful the engine, the faster the ship will move along the star map. But the more the place will be required for its installation.

Weapons. It can be divided into several types. There are quite a lot of them, so consider only the main:

1. ~ Raewy ~. It, as a rule, does not require recharging and almost instantly affects the goal, but usually differs not too much a radius of action. Experience shows: so that the ship does not remain defenseless, especially at the beginning of the game, forget about this type of weapon is not worth it. Of course, if the place and time, it would be better to establish something else on it.

2. ~ Rocket ~. It has a much greater range. However, missiles take some time to fly to the enemy, and this often provides him with the opportunity to use anti-missile defense systems or interference generators. Rocket weapons are equipped with homing systems, which increases its chances of success even in case of moving the enemy ship in space.

However, this type of weapons has a big minus, forcing it to relate to it with some caution: it requires a certain reserve of rockets. After all of them released, the starting unit turns out to be useless. Thus, putting a rocket weapon on the ship, think about what will happen to it after its use.

3. ~ Torpedo ~. Circles of energy that can be shooting through the round. Rechargers do not require, but cannot pass through the atmosphere, which makes them effective only against space purposes.

4. ~ shooting projectiles ~. For example, this is a neutron gun (Neutron Pellet Gun). Especially effectively against power fields, but requires recharging.

5. ~ biological ~. Extremely effectively against the population, can even worsen the living conditions on the planet as a whole. However, emperors of other races of use of biological (more precisely, probably bacteriological) weapons are considered as a sign of extremely bad tone. Its use can worsen your relationship with everyone, and not just with immediate enemies.

6. ~ Automatic ~. Such, as, let's say, some types of lasers (Gatling Lasers). It can shoot several times in one move, both one and different purposes.

7. ~ Bombs ~. Used only against terrestrial purposes. If the planet has a shield, often only bombs are capable of breaking it.

Special devices. As technology develops, some devices that can be equipped with a ship in addition to all of the listed. With some of them you will get acquainted at the very beginning of the game. First of all, it is a colony base (base for colonists), which must be installed on a ship intended for the adherence of a new planet. In the future, other species of the same device focused on special types of planets will be available: Dead, with increased radiation, etc.

Then, these are spare tanks with flammable. Gradually, you can, inventing new materials and technologies to make them more and more accomplished.

I want to hope that soon your scientists will open and excellent adaptations, indispensable in battle. This is a combat scanner, anti-missile defense, car repair machines, but you never know what else.

And now, when you thoroughly know, the ship consists of, you can design new models to your liking. We only remind you that at the same time in the go may be no more than six different models.

In addition, keep in mind that money and working time spent on the construction of ships tend to accumulate. I will explain what is meant. Suppose you build a ship for the colonists, and build it 50 years. It takes half the term - you have changed my mind. By changing the model to a simpler (say, at the scout), find out what can be done in just one year, for example, eight scouts.

It is very convenient: because nothing disappears, you always have a wide field for maneuver. (By the way, see Cartinke, which depicts several types of ships, of various classes and equipped with various special devices.)

I will allow myself not that advice, and so - a remark. With a fairly high level of development of technology and industry, I somehow lay on the most developed planet cruiser. And decided to equip it with all the newest achievements of science. And, as the new weapons were invented, computers, the means of protection, I all had it helped it.
Fortunately, as already mentioned, the forces spent accumulated, not to disappear.

What is the result? Around 160 years have passed, war began. And the cruiser slowly, but rightly continued to build on the shipyard ...

5. Endspil

Having wondered by plenty, you will very soon find out that, unlike ~ "Civilization", where it was possible at least at the lowest levels of difficulty, here alone not to win a rough force. You need to use diplomacy (menu "Races", "races").

Therefore, as soon as you manage to come into contact with the new race, it makes sense to try to install some relationship with it.
Best of all, of course, the Union. But it is unlikely that anyone will go to it from the very beginning. The path to the Union (which ultimately can bring you extra voices in the Council) is not covered with roses, but quite pass. Especially if you are not burdened by some particularly perverted reputation.

Note that all your requests for audiences and actions against each of the races, a computer, and therefore the emperor of a particular race, perfectly remember. Think about it before you bother stupid requests in the third time or break the contract.

Most likely, before all, you will be able to agree on trade.
And this is not so bad - trade in the end turns out to be mutually beneficial and strengthens the relationship.

Do not be surprised that your trading rating will initially be negative. Before he goes into a plus, a lot of money is spent on the creation of an appropriate infrastructure: laying a safe way and its protection, building customs. This work will be carried out unnoticed for the eye, but, nevertheless, demand money.
Usually after 10-12 years of trade, the rating becomes positive.

The second stage of relationship is the exchange of technologies. Not always you will be offered what you need. Not always the proposed exchange may be equivalent. But note that in case of refusal of exchange (especially those initiated), the alien emperor can be offended, deciding that you will be forced the newest achievements of its technical thought.

The right way to the Union is an aggression imperfect agreement (Nonaggression PACT). It implies the peaceful coexistence of ships in the orbits of still unoccupied planets. It should be noted that the direction of its military or transport ship into the orbit equipped someone else's planet is a fairly open demonstration of force so that it can lead to a sharp deterioration of relationships. And even to war. For these cases, an agreement on the imperfect of aggression does not apply.

Well, and of course the Union is the most durable, which can only be in a relationship between two races. Although, if some of the civilizations rush to world domination, you will not hold it any contracts. We ask to refrain from the analogies.

In addition, you have in your hands and another important lever of diplomatic relations - a bribe, which is delicately called tribute (tribute) - respect? .. It may be money, and technology. Often it is a bribe - the only way to prevent war or stop it, if you have to fight two fronts.

Do not forget about the espionage - it is often extremely useful. It is also not necessary to launch your security service: the enemies do not sleep, what you can easily make sure of the war.

But why then about diplomacy and espionage speak only in relation to the end shpil - did they not have tedious? Not only needed, but also necessary. But often only by the end of the game you begin to understand that they can not do without them.

There is another way of obtaining information that is often neglecting - messages of the Galactic News Service (see Cartiginku).
Please note that with their help, a fairly powerful element of the chance is made to the game: the gods can shiver you, the worshol - from a space monster to a computer virus, but they can also encourage, adopting the appearance of a generous merchant, who dropped several thousand coins.

1. At the very beginning of the game, look at the common map. The likelihood is large enough that the world chosen is located on the edge of the galaxy. In this case, with the colonization of stars that you have "behind your back" can and wait, the main efforts to capture planets closest to the center, since it is in this direction that you have the greatest chance to meet with competitors.

However, it does not mean to "wait" at all. After all, even if you explored the star system, it is possible that someone else wants to establish a colony there, and you can't keep all the free stars to keep the battle fleet. In the middle of the game there will be time and painted planets, otherwise you will be able to get around with a rear and flanks.

2. Before stamping ships with colonists, it would be nice to find out to which stars they can fly. And do you need these stars. And is it possible to live on them. The situation is not excluded when for successful development of colonization, it takes almost immediately to lay ships with additional fuel tanks.

3. Finding out the range of the flight and the area of \u200b\u200breaching their ships, do not forget that it is not absolute, but relative. And measured in parties from the nearest colony. Therefore, given that the ship with all sorts of increments of the type of excess fuel is built very longer than the usual, most often it makes sense to develop colonization gradually, step by step, slowly selected to the most "profitable" planets.

4. At a certain stage of development of colonization, it is not necessary to discern even planets with a low ceiling of the maximum population. Firstly, it is possible that scientific achievements will be able to change the situation. Secondly, having under a side of a smaller enemy under a side - pleasure below average.

5. Try to prevent the error characteristic of beginners:
Sending a ship with colonists to planets with unsuitable (at this stage of development of your science) for living conditions. There is a second option: Already opening the way to survive, let's say, in the tundra, forget that for this, the ship must be equipped with a special module.

6. When you colonize a new planet, it is usually believed that only 2 million people initially arrived at it. If you wait for them to multiply there, for many years the colony will be turned off from active production. Therefore, the most reasonable thing immediately after disembarking to transfer an excess population on the planet from one of your worlds.

7. If pirates were activated in some area, it would be the most reasonable to send several powerful ships there. Otherwise, you will receive not only serious interference to trade. The option is not excluded that a whole planet will be turned off from the active life. And then a few.

8. Directing ships with the colonists during the war to the enemy planet, make sure that there are no vehicles of the hostile race (or destroy those in advance). Otherwise, the likelihood of a laconic report is great about the fact that your transport cosmologists are shot down on the approach to the planet and all the colonists died.

9. In wartime if you should have strengthened on some planet, but it has neither bases nor warships in orbit, note that the enemy will absolutely optionally take landing. He just can send several of his cruisers to her, which in every move will be methodically bombing your colony until it is destroyed at all.

7. Broken figures

And now it's time for an answer to the question: "How interesting the authors manage to make it interesting and better ~" Civilization "~, develop the ideas laid in it?" Perhaps everyone will have their own opinion on this. I can only say that the decoration's change has not brought special novelty. The emerging outlines of the studied stellar systems also want to apply to a single plane-card in order to see the usual contours of the mainland from ~ "Civilization" ~.

With the exception of only one, quite an important nuance.
If earlier, based on a new city, you were guided only by common sense, our desire and concern that its inhabitants would have to eat, now you are tightly tied to an existing star map. Since you cannot build a new planet, you have to explore existing ones. It sets some frames in advance, but sometimes it adds a lot of interest.

It is a pity that the flying of the tar in ~ "Master of Orion" is much greater than in the old good ~ "Civilization" ~. We honestly wrote about most of them. But the main thing is not this, but the fact that this new game I want to play with a few interest again and again.

8. So what is "Orion"

By the beginning of the XXIII century, when, actually the game begins, ten races, ten civilizations are ripened to enter the space and active colonization of other planets. And they soon realized that the unrestrained expansion would inevitably lead to war with his neighbors.

Reading the following lines, dear friend, please take into account the fact that the Master of Orion game is in early access. Much can change, upgrade, turn new features. But it is believed in it with difficulty, given the studio-developer portfolio. It was very strange to put the project on the creation of a global space strategy Argentine Studio NGD, glorifying ... nothing. Despite the fact that the developers in the diaries are trying to convince fans in what they know and love the Master of Orion series, the result speaks about the opposite. Rather, this is the child Endless Space and Civilization.

What is a modern Master of Orion, in detail you can learn from our traditional dialogue review. Vitaly Cazunov for 45 minutes pours soul to Mikhail Shkredov. He chopping and sympathizes:

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Topics:

• 00:30 - Famous Argentine developers;
• 01:45 - races, planets, colonization of gas giants;
• 06:15 - Slow intelligence, slow development;
• 07:55 - diplomacy;
• 09:25 - battles;
• 12:10 - Comparison with other global strategies;
• 15:10 - Why do you need builders;
• 16:00 - linearity of the development system;
• 16:50 - fictitious construction of ships;
• 18:45 - user reaction to the game;
• 20:10 - population management;
• 23:30 - inadequate artificial intelligence;
• 26:00 - Master of Orion's main problem (2016);
• 30:30 - Remembering "Dream Line" Sergey Lukyanenko;
• 32:20 - Actors of voice acting;
• 35:00 - not the game;
• 39:00 - finally, it's just boring;
• 41:50 - Real Master Of Orion.

To lean to watch and listen, bring a small description of the game, which, we note this again, continues to develop. That's just the direction is chosen not at all towards Master Of Orion.

In the proposed version there are six races that differ from each other by appearance and 3-4 parameters. Development tree one at all. You can set up all the planets without parsing, change them for the needs of the chosen race there is no need. Gas giants are compressed without problems in lifeless planets - and colonists are immediately planted on them.

Star systems are associated with hyperspace tunnels, but this path is not overcome immediately, but for several moves. By sending the fleet for affairs, I just have nothing else to do.

Studies are slow. Open technologies allow you to build a new functional building on the planets, slightly increases the happiness of the population or food production, the rate of production or research, increasing the limit on the number of warships or the increasing income received. Development linear and uninteresting. Technologies that open up new opportunities or at least ships are rare, so science works mainly on a simple increase in characteristics.

Construction of ships abolished. Instead, it is possible to re-equip them, change some types of torpedoes, bombs, reservation to others in the respective cells. Moreover, the number of cells is strictly fixed. After the study pops up the menu, offering automatically re-equipping all the existing ships, so that this component does not pay attention to this component. The technological tree very rarely offers a fork, but the choice almost does not matter. This is not at all a classic Master of Orion 2, in which development is radically affecting the possibilities of the race, and after one party you can get completely different impressions, simply heading through another path.

Diplomacy is a well-known Civilization model. Several options with the proposals of cooperation, the growth of reputation at the conclusion of agreements. If desired, you can see a diplomatic victory. To do this, it is necessary to obtain support for all races in the Galactic Council. And it is very difficult to achieve their grace because of chaotic artificial intelligence, which suddenly declares war, then suddenly, after a few moves, climbs with proposals of cooperation and peace. His ships randomly blossom in the galaxy. It is quite funny to see how the powerful military fleet of the race, with which active fighting is being conducted, calmly passes by your new colony, to destroy a trifling laboratory in an asteroid belt and get out.

Battles for such a simple game could be salvation, but no. The magnificent tactical scheme of Master Of Orion 2 with step-by-step battles gave way to a stupid dump in real time. In the overwhelming majority of cases, you simply watch the fight from the side, putting the process on samonek. The ships themselves are shot by each other, the losers turn into a debris, the winners of magnifyingly occupy a controversial position on the global map. If there is a desire, you can try to control the fleet in manual mode, pointing to the directions to the ships, but there is no sense in it, because it does not matter the position of cruisers (as the board is substituted under strikes) nor additional abilities (they are activated automatically). Over time, all this is terribly bored, and you begin to use the option "Family simulation" with the instant receipt of results.

Analysis.

The problem of the game is not even that this is not Master of Orion and that creators for some reason decided to abandon the exceptional features of the famous series. The problem is that while this is a very boring game. The development system linearly increases the characteristics of ships and planets and extremely rarely awards with new features. She is alone on all races, and the choice of the path most often does not affect anything. There are no construction of ships. Battles are primitive. The buildings on the planets are built faster than their scientists invent. Long transitions between systems turn the process of studying the galaxy in the routine. Diplomatic relations and wars surprise only the inadequate behavior of partners. Economic relations are built in the format of "give money", "money." From boredom declare war and over a dozen moves we erase the neighbor from the map of the galaxy.

Yes, you can note the smart engine, a pleasant picture, skillfully drawn figures of representatives of different races. But in global strategies it is far from the main thing. Moreover, this genre is famous for its schematic. It is important that economics, production, development system, battle are interesting. It is important that each element of the game is interesting and that all this works as a single well-established mechanism. But Master Of Orion (2016) at this stage surprises only the simplicity of the realization of all components and the short-sighted refusal of the conquests of predecessors.