It says little of gameplay this video, but colour me interested.

Here's an interview back in February discussing on the how and why the game came about. It's turn based like SOTS (Sword Of The Stars), but when combat happens it switches to RT combat, but unlike SOTS, I believe there is no time limit like in SOTS....

Here's a vid, but is is in German but at least you can see what the game will be like until the final release....

In this post, will show two of the three main factions of the game, Humans and the X'or...

Humans

War has been part of Mankind for ages. Our history has been but a succession of conflicts. How could we have been simultaneously looking for ever more power and for ever more well-being just can’t be understood. Many of us stopped believing, and more than one prophesized the end of our world.

And then we discovered how to reach the stars. While contemplating the infinite reaches of space, we understood our fate had just changed forever. It was a challenge only a group of united people could overcome. Conflicts over food, religion, raw materials or even power ended. Mankind was finally as one, and our imagination knew no boundaries. We built spacecraft we would never have dreamed possible. We were finally able to travel beyond the limits of the solar system, exploring and colonizing far and unknown worlds.

But peace, indeed, would not last forever. Soon, greed ate away at the dream of a united future. Alien planets, with unknown bounties aplenty, rekindled our race’s worst instincts.
What started as a dream for many was crushed by a few. Earth declared war on the separatist colonies and a new chapter of our history was written with the blood of Man.

In the end, the colonies were brought to their knees by the new technologies that made the Earth intervention fleet so powerful. But that victory didn’t come without a heavy price tag for Earth. The war that raged between brothers of the same race drew the attention of another race, much more powerful than ours. That race allied with Earth’s government and put an end to the troubles in the colonies. To win the war, Earth’s government sealed an alliance without questioning the benevolence of the aliens, who so generously offered to share their knowledge with us and promised the greatest of futures together. Had we been able to learn from our own History, we would have been more careful. Soon, it was humanity that faced an uncertain future…

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Ship designs

Human ships tend to be wider than they are tall to accommodate more colonization modules. This, however, makes them more vulnerable to attack from the top and bottom sides, as they provide a very “fat” target. Their ships have strong defenses but lack maneuverability. Human weaponry tends towards projectile weapons. Human captains tend to prefer fighting at long range, launching a mix torpedo volleys and particles.

Characteristics

The humans that have been brought to this sector of space are fighting for their survival and yet not all of them agree on how the future of mankind should be. There are constant tensions between the survivors. Humans get a natural race bonus on their trade skills and are average in most other skills.

X’or

Greed. Power. Hate. Some people are guided by their emotions, some civilizations are destroyed by their passions. The X’or will never share such a fate. Their single and only goal is integration, the expansion of their species. Gathering all the data, all the technologies, they implement them in their cities and in their fleets, they improve their worlds and universe. They develop new processes to improve themselves, and they integrate it in each of their drones and spaceships as a means of strengthening the unity, the nucleus, the Core…

The age before the Core belongs to the ancient past, to races long since forgotten. Nobody knows if the first beings developed by themselves or if they were experiences from other people, trying to create intelligent machines.
The past and the origins of the X’or are lost in the sands of time.

One thing is certain, though: since the appearance of the Core, machines became real, living entities. Through the Core, the X’or gave their life a meaning and they started to multiply. They were only a few, without a goal, without a frame; but the Core gave them what Nature didn’t: evolution. As they are not plagued with the problems biological races face, such as wars and diseases, they became, in a very short lapse of time, the equals of civilizations that had been evolving for millennia.

Because they have no biological needs and they can survive in the most extreme conditions, the X’or colonized planets no biological being would ever dream of colonizing. Instead of trying to compete with other races, the X’or avoid them and only observe them silently, trying to understand their technologies. Since their territories hold raw materials with very low yield and they have such a major technological advantage, the X’or don’t really fear being attacked by the other races.

In their never-ending pursuit of knowledge, they discovered forgotten technologies of a long passed civilization in some random ruins. Since then, they explore the galaxy looking for other artifacts from that race, which, much like the X’or, was mostly interested in knowledge. While searching for more clues, they encountered another race of old. A race older than the Core itself. A race that doesn’t hesitate to exterminate other life forms to acquire knowledge.

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Ship designs

The ships of the X’or are assembled by combining ring-like structures with insect-like spikes, giving them medium attack and defense abilities and average maneuverability. The X’or prefer lasers over particle weapons and try to evade their enemies in battle with complex maneuvers.

Racial Characteristcs

The X’or are a robot race with a central hive mind. The resulting efficiency gives them a very high production rate. As there is no individual in the X’or collective, the race lacks overall creativity. They have slow research and very weak diplomatic skills. The X’or get natural race bonuses on mining and production and penalties on research and diplomacy.

Purely from visual perspective, Sins looks IMHO way, way better than Legends of Pegasus. I mean both in technology and actual art, ship design, etc... the same thing with the other competing game, Endless Space, although that one has quite nice looking 2Dish stuff, i mean user interfaces and stuff like that.

In this link, the vid will show how big of a galaxy to play in, customization of ships and Terra forming planets. Enjoy...

I watched the vids.  Visually it looks like it will be fun to watch.  I hope the game play mechanics keep pace with the graphics.

Not to be that guy, but this game was actually released today (10th).

Not to be that guy, but it's a turd. Avoid.

There is a Steam forum for LoP and it's not good.  All bad comments.  VERY different from Endless Space who got most good comments and great reviews.  Wow, so glad I listened to my instincts and stayed away from this one.  Endless Space will have hundreds if not thousands of hours of replay value until the next good 4x game finally happens.

Must be DL verison only, the DVD-Rom is for the 14th then...

If that's the case, very disappointed...

And they released a new trailer for the Arthrox....

Just thought I would throw in my 2 cents. I was one of the poor idiots who bought into this game which is such a smoldering pile of trash. It's a real shame that games are allowed to be released in such a condition without refund. In any other retail form you would be allowed time to return poorly designed products, but in this new age of "licensing" we get none.

Anyways STAY AWAY FROM THE GAME....its very bad

The game is incredibly buggy and Ive had ships spin in circles for a millenia before completing their orders. The game lacks tons of tool tips and is incredibly unclear about its missions. In one piece of the campaign it told me to approach some way points, but failed to tell me where to find or see said way points or even an idea of what they looked like. I spent about 10minutes moving around the solar system before finding tiny pentagons in the distance that I was apparently suppose to follow with my ship. In another example it will tell you to use X or Y but give no direction, and the buttons lack tool tips or information when highlighting so you end up clicking on 50 buttons to find what your looking for.

It also has the worst research system I have ever seen. It features bland enhancements like +1% or +2% laser damage and other lame features. And some of the tech's don't even seem to give a reward or are lacking tool tips or information to describe their benefits.

Ironically though the game shares a few similar features to SOTS 2 that it does better. It has the same sort of battle system were you position your fleet before, and after battle and then play a real time battle among the solar system. Only it works about 50 times better since you can warp across the system, and moving fleets and ships around before battle is more intuitive and straight forward.

Its a real shame at how this blessing of 4X games has turned out. First we had the abomination of Sots 2, then we had gemini wars which was really bland, and then we had Endless space which while fairly well polished and designed, it lacks any sort of real depth.

Heres to hoping Stardrive can redeem this struggling genre. It sure looked like we were going to have the best year ever with around 4-5 4x games in a years time.

Just make sure you save yourself and don't dare buy this awful game. It doesn't have the core design flaws of SOTS 2, so maybe in a good 6-12 months it can become fully realized and finished, but at the moment its just awful.

We have a winner. It's sad but true. Pre-orders are for suckers. If you're smart, you a week (or two) and watch the reaction. Seems to be doubly true for strategy games. Genres like 4X have been plagued by truly awful releases in the past year (and Endless Space, which stands out if for no other reason then that it actually works).

In this case doing so was a good way to save some money. I really want this genre to do well, so it's disappointing that it keeps happening. Only question now seems to be if it's a worse launch then SotS 2 or not.