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Stellaris - Paradox Dev Studios new sci-fi grand strategy game
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Giant Bomb doing a live Quick Look of Stellaris tomorrow at 1pm Eastern if anyone's interested. East coast crew.
Had Stellaris on the brain and compulsively started a new CKII game last night. So many of my playthroughs start the same, and I wouldn't have it any other way: just trying to be a cool ruler with cool traits, throw parties, fulfill ambitions and horde cash. Maybe a murder plot or two. Then I meet an untimely death before I've got my house in order and shit goes south quick.
Going to try playing with more attention towards claims tonight, force myself to dive into the mechanics I'm less comfortable dealing with.
Had Stellaris on the brain and compulsively started a new CKII game last night. So many of my playthroughs start the same, and I wouldn't have it any other way: just trying to be a cool ruler with cool traits, throw parties, fulfill ambitions and horde cash. Maybe a murder plot or two. Then I meet an untimely death before I've got my house in order and shit goes south quick.
Going to try playing with more attention towards claims tonight, force myself to dive into the mechanics I'm less comfortable dealing with.
Wow. Those unbidden. Kinda cool how some systems survived for awhile while completely surrounded by them.
LurkerPrime
Member
I don't wait to wait four more days... Release it now pls
The music, UI, gameplay, everything is looking so good.
Re: the bolded... my dreams have been answered.
The music, UI, gameplay, everything is looking so good.
Re: the bolded... my dreams have been answered.
LurkerPrime
Member
The final fungoid race (as seen in Pinstar's empire creation overview video) is a straight up zombie fungus race. Love it.
My dream of a Shadow race may have just been replaced.
My dream of a Shadow race may have just been replaced.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
I'm buying this game, (well, have already pre-ordered), and yet I feel like I won't actually play it myself for weeks after launch, waiting for more tutorials lol.
LurkerPrime
Member
Watch Quill's first video and you'll know 90% of what you need to play. He's very good at explaining everything as he goes along.
Having watched some videos, I think if you've played any 4X previously you will be able to dive right in. There's an in-game tutorial and the UI seems really good, almost Civ5-level, at keeping players appraised of what they need to know. (I haven't seen combat yet though so maybe this changes.) The grand strategy gameplay will slowly reveal itself as you go along.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Been meaning to watch Quill's vid, haven't had the chance yet. Definitely will check it out.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Weirdly, I think combat is probably going to be the hardest thing to get a hold of, in pretty stark contrast to CKII and EU4 where the actual figures involved are pretty straightforward.
LurkerPrime
Member
Since the embargo broke, Stellaris jumped up to the second spot of Steam's top sellers chart (sorted by revenue, NA region). I was actually expecting it to sit in 5th-8th place for the duration of its launch, being as niche as it is. Pleasantly surprised and happy for the devs.
hobblygobbly
Member
Yep, I expect we're going to see one of the first big expansion DLCs being a civilian/market one. In Distant Worlds: Universe it had one and it was a great addition for the genre, it was also a sort of 4x/grand strategy hybrid which the lead designer of this game has also played I believe. Would definitely like to see that.
Also since people like influence/territorial map timelapses, here's one of EVE, between 2007-2016 where I timestamped it from where it gets interesting. The far right of the map are the drone regions where Russian alliances and the Russian bloc coalition has stayed for many years as you can see, it changes a lot due to a lot of civil wars/internal fighting. On the left you can also see that reddit alliance (TEST) rise up strong, and then entirely be wiped out.
Not much unlike watching Stellaris timelapses. I've always loved timelapses since it tells so many stories, that one in EVE... so many wars, so many battles, so much politics.
Also Arumba's first episode of his LP is out.
LurkerPrime
Member
In space, the spice must always flow.
Now I think it will be again. Stellaris is one of a kind, eye-catching in the best way.
Now I think it will be again. Stellaris is one of a kind, eye-catching in the best way.
Somebody has to make a dune mod , right? The prospect makes me so happy.
Cameron122
Member
I hope it's possible to make a mod that focuses on a single star system, it'd be good for a gundam or firefly mod
LurkerPrime
Member
Never even thought of stuff like Gundam. That'd be awesome.
Star Wars, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Dune, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica. Heck, I could see a Stargate SG-1 mod. Maybe even WH40k, although having everyone be fanatical militarist xenophobes will get old, I think. The possibilities are endless.
Star Wars, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Dune, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica. Heck, I could see a Stargate SG-1 mod. Maybe even WH40k, although having everyone be fanatical militarist xenophobes will get old, I think. The possibilities are endless.
To be honest with you some of it will just be playing with the ships and leaders. I doubt people will be looking for an authentic Star Wars replica, but having the ships, events and characters themed after Star Wars would be enough.
I'm sure we'll get some kind of mod for all known sci-fi franchises at some point. It's the quality I'm worried about. Belannear has put up some videos with very simple modding (changing text values).
Stellaris - Modding - Adding and altering Galaxy sizes and shapes
Stellaris - Modding - Name lists
Stellaris - Modding - Adding and altering Galaxy sizes and shapes
Stellaris - Modding - Name lists
k guys, help me out. I did a check on System Requirements Lab, and according to that site my laptop doesn't even hit the minimum specs, but looking at those specs and my specs, shouldn't I be fine?
Especially when it gives me the following for the recommended specs ( suddenly my CPU is fine )
Especially when it gives me the following for the recommended specs ( suddenly my CPU is fine )
KarneeKarnay
Member
How are factions/civil wars/Independence movements handled in game?
As far as I understood you have inherently different kinds of populations on each planet. See also: Stellaris Dev Diary #29 - Pop Factions & Elections
I'm getting BOTF vibes.
Yeah I think the app just isn't very good at judging laptop specs. You should be fine.
RedSparrows
Member
Paradox, yo. Superlative dev, even if there are bugs. If these were somehow on console there'd be fanboy meltdowns all day long about them
Forerunner
Member
From watching Quill's videos it does seem easier to get into. It seems like a game that is what you make of it. You probably could enjoy the game only knowing the complete basics; however there is a lot of depth in it more so than EU4. So it really just comes down to how much the player wants to really learn the game. I think this will be one of the easier Paradox games to get into due to the setting and also the UI is extremely easy to navigate and clear.
Aside from the experience of the developer in this genre, a lot of it has to do with the focus of the development team, since graphics aren't that important (though the game looks amazing) the main focus of the development is on the game mechanics themselves.
Defo. Put some custom events in to turn the Coalition of Planets into the Federation and you're there basically.
Borg, Iconians and Undine/8472 as end game crisis. Voth, Organians, First Federation etc as Fallen Empires... Gonna be glorious.
Impulsor
Member
Paradox, yo. Superlative dev, even if there are bugs. If these were somehow on console there'd be fanboy meltdowns all day long about them
Graphics look awesome in this too, though.
I understand what you mean anyways, I remember EUIV and CKII.
YOu guys can't imagine the huge hype burst that I've just suffered since yesterday. I mean.... wow.
Went and ordered and got Legacy of the Void at the same time, at last. I went for the £19.99 option.
Yep. I really enjoyed that game even with its issues. This could easily be the spiritual successor and take it to a whole new level with the right mod development.
Yep. I really enjoyed that game even with its issues. This could easily be the spiritual successor and take it to a whole new level with the right mod development.
As much as I'm looking forward to the game, I think i'm more excited for the mods.
Yeah, I'm surprised that Star Wars and Warhammer seem to be the main mods talked about on the paradox forums.
I think B5, Star Trek and Mass Effect mods will be the main ones for me. All feature a large amount of factions with diplomacy being a big thing among those factions.
PayOffWizard
Member
So how does the multilayer work? Is scaled back into a quicker experience, because it seems like a single player game would take a week or two.
ClosingADoor
Member
No, just the same as single player. Yes, it will take a while.
PayOffWizard
Member
So what happens if you have 5 or so players and someone doest have time to finish the game? save game maybe? but then does everyone need to be online at the same time to continue?
Royal_Phalanx
Member
Started getting interested in this game a week ago. Now I'm sold.
Save game and AI take over
PayOffWizard
Member
Ahh ok, so can anyone continue the saved game with AI taking over the missing players or does the host always need to be online?