Now that the dust has settled, what went wrong?
>>337052375
It's a video game.
>>337052375
6.3
I was expecting space awesomeness and instead got menuing
>>337052375
still no dlc/mods to improve the game. look at ck2 or eu4 when they came out I saw threads just like these.
Does the tutorial ever get to colonization for anyone else? I've been following the tutorial and I've built a fleet and researched colonization but right now no more tutorials pop up.
Is that all the tutorials the game has?
Its too hard
>>337053408
git gud
>>337053175
>wants dlc on launch
typical paracucks
>>337052375
>what went wrong?
Only three weapons.
>>337053408
>turn on a few advanced start ai
>a militaristic one is right next to me
I'm literally fucked all game long
>>337052375
>what went wrong?
the installation
>>337053486
I never said I did you jackass.
>>337052375
Nothing went wrong.
The game is fun but it may get stupid.
I thought I had a large ass fleet and prepared for a war only to get war declared by some catpeople.
The warped into my homesystm, crushed my huge ass fleet with their even greater fleet and then cleansed every planet in my Empire.
>>337052375
>Now that the dust has settled, what went wrong?
Doesn't scale very well, slows down and lags on bigger maps or later in the game.
>>337053486
cuck detected
>>337052375
It hasn't finished downloading for me yet
>>337052852
This.
Nothing, it's just that it's way more of a 4x than a grand strategy game, so cucks expecting Hearts of Iron in space instead of Civ in space are whining.
Like every paradox game, it throws on you large amount of mostly useless ui buttons and gives two choices - tedious tutorial or getting fucked for few hours. Hour into the tutorial and im bored as fuck, but ill finish it cause overaly it looks very promising. Oh also, who the fuck though that to build a outpost we need resources AND fucking influence points, what in the actual fuck?
>>337054203
there isn't a tutorial it's just tips in a normal campaign
>>337054203
It's really not hard to manage your influence, and yes aggressively going beyond your borders to section a bit of space off for whatever purpose your leader has in mind for it does require some influence to get done
>>337052375
No 3d map
Yes - 3d maps do work, look at Sword of the stars.
what went wrong is that i can't even get the fucking game to start. i can't even make it to the launcher and none of the shit they suggested to do works, i've uninstalled and reinstalled and restarted steam and my computer and all types of shit and the piece of shit won't start. fuck you paradox.
>>337054418
Works on my machine
>>337054486
haha xD fuck you. that's the only help you get on the steam discussions too.
>hah works on my machine you must have a toaster!
How the fuck do I gain influence? Everything else is going in tip top shape for me but I have a overflow of every resource but influence.
>being hyped for games developed by nobodies
that's what went wrong
>>337054596
Don't blame me for having have a shit PC.
>>337054596
Maybe because the internet isn't your personal troubleshooter.
>>337054596
>that's the only help you get on the steam discussions too.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/281990/discussions/0/357285562492130920/
read them you lying shit
Nothing in particular yet. This is the first time I've played a game similar to this one, and I'm having fun.
>>337054596
Nobody gives a fuck about some random nobody who can't play the game because he's trying to play it on his mothers 10 year old laptop.
This is both my first 4x and Grand Strategy game
I'm pushing my way through the tutorial but god help me I'm hyped
It feels a bit overwhelming at the moment, but I figure that if I keep at it then I'll eventually pick up on things
>>337055018
i tried everything there and most of the shit suggested by the randoms too, and i'm not the only one with this issue
>>337055038
cunt
>>337055135
>buying AMD
found the problem, buy non junk next time
>>337052375
why would anyone buy a paradox game?
it's just fucking DLC bait. that's it.
>>337055135
>ATI
>>337055135
>amd
>i5
Like I said, your mothers 10 year old laptop.
is it possible to create a waifucracy in this game? this will affect whether i purchase it or not
>>337055279
they're fun, and almost no one else makes good grand strategy games
should i stick to the tutorial? its just some advices..
>>337054696
Declare rivals.
>>337053959
Given what Hearts of Iron 4 is looking like I don't think anyone was expecting hearts of iron in space.
>>337055272
>>337055291
>>337055337
there is literally nothing wrong with AMD GPU's and i5 is perfectly fine for gaming
>>337055523
>>337053607
>its playing a small HRE country in EUIV all over again
>austria will always force you into war with french and they will completely overrun and pillage you everytime instead of austria
>>337055523
>literally nothing wrong
>apart from his game not being able to even start
Yeah, nothing wrong :^)
>>337055662
fyi people are having this problem with i7s and 980s, and also AMD cpus as well.
>>337055337
>10 year old laptop.
>10 year olld laptop when r9 series isn't even half a decade old
>>337055565
He's not wrong. Keep posting silly faces though.
>>337055798
Go away amd shill.
>>337055565
>fell for the i7 meme
>pays 500$ more for 3% preformance gain in gaming
I know this, becouse I fucking fell for it too.
>>337055762
With specs like those, my 15 year old pc could run it better.
>>337052375
>its space and explore game
>create another science ship and another constructor ship so I can do this
>explore around and build mines and research stations
>don't really care about my fleet because lol only spacecows afield and some random crystal instantly aggressive crystal species who don't come out of their systems
>get a random pirate happening
>their fleet is stronger than mine was at ever and I just lost 2/3 of my fleet trying to butt out crystal beings
>they start to completely rape me
>ragequit
Why must everything be so hard, why can't I just explore in peace.
>>337056104
>Why must everything be so hard, why can't I just explore in peace.
Because this isn't an space exportation game.
>>337056104
>explore
>when there was an angry war race right next to you
What were you thinking
How is it visually? I'm a strategy casual and I cant really get into map painters unless there's something cool to look at
>balance trait points fine
>game won't let me advance without picking a final trait
Do you have to pick exactly 4?
>>337056707
Looks like shit
>>337056248
But it wasn't even, it was just those wierd crystal beings that stay in one place. I got attacked by a random event pirate fleet, for which I had no time to prepare and was at least 5/3 as powerful as my own fleet.
>>337056789
No, post screenshot
>>337057340
Worked it out
I can't take decadent with something, maybe my gov type, but the game doesn't tell me it won't work
![365D24B4813F5B612E3FA242A98785847DFA5F3D[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/CNPzpTa.jpg "365D24B4813F5B612E3FA242A98785847DFA5F3D[1].jpg")
>>337056707
It's decent looking but nothing mindblowing. The bigger issue is that you're going to spend most of your time zoomed out and looking at menus.
>>337057231
>>337057534
Is there any sort of ship or city customization?
So I can at least imagine what my space civ looks like
If anyone wants to play as a robot (pic related) then copy this:
"AI"
={
name_list="AI"
ship_prefix=""
species_name="AI"
species_plural="AI"
species_class="AI"
species_adjective="AI"
portrait="ai1"
name="AI"
adjective="AI"
government="machine_consciousness"
ftl=wormhole
weapon="tech_mass_drivers_3"
planet_name="Origin"
planet_class="pc_tundra"
system_name="S-001"
initializer=""
graphical_culture="mammalian_01"
city_graphical_culture="arthropoid_01"
empire_flag={
icon={
category="blocky"
file="flag_blocky_18.dds"
}
background={
category="backgrounds"
file="stripe.dds"
}
colors={
"black"
"dark_grey"
"null"
"null"
}
}
ruler={
gender=male
name="L-001"
portrait="ai1"
texture=0
hair=0
clothes=0
}
spawn_enabled=yes
ethic="ethic_materialist"
ethic="ethic_fanatic_collectivist"
trait="trait_strong"
trait="trait_intelligent"
trait="trait_repugnant"
}
into the user_empire_designs.txt in the C:\Users\(your name)\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris
I spent quite some time fucking around with .txt and finding names of portraits, goverments, etc. so I decided to post it here in case someone else wanted to play as a robot but didn't know how.
>>337057534
ugh i hate the UI and font. makes it looks like a cheap iPad space game, or (((fucking vomit))) sid meiers starships.
>>337056707
All the ships, planets and everything are represented visually. they actually look pretty nice.
>>337052375
haahwaaw look mom i said it again
>>337057878
Can you choose what they look like, or does it depend on what race/attributes you picked?
Also any screenshots would be nice
>>337053323
that happened to me and then realized I wasn't always exiting out of the dialogue properly and it worked again on my 2nd attempt
i'm having a good time tho, but my brain dries up pretty quick
>>337058042
You can choose from 6 different ship styles and then you put 2 or 3 pre-created hull sections together. It's not like Galactic Civilization but there's quite a bit of customizability.
>>337057746
ship customization as far as weapon systems and such, dont think it changes anything graphically unfortunately
hate saying this but mods will fix that
>>337057814
Cool, thanks. You should post it in the Steam community too dude.
It's a Paradox GS with 4X influences. People who weren't expecting menu diving probably haven't played Victoria II or HoI. It's a lot cleaner than CKII UI-wise, even better than EUIV.
I'm five hours in with my peaceful explorers and loving it so far. For a 4X/GS it looks above average, the start has gripped me. 22 in game years and I'm pretty steady on resources, fleet isn't huge but it's getting there. Two colonies in.
I'm sure that I am still at the beginning of the learning curve but I already seem to struggle less than in CK2, I'm probably going to spend a lot of time in here.
Also, ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY UNIFIED CH'LOXOR DIRECTORATE
>>337058486
You can change the larger ships around a bit visually, they have a couple front/mid/rear sections to choose from with different weapons each.
People say paradox always fixes their games months after they come out, do you mean by adding dlc or free updates to enhance the game ?
>>337059149
Both
It's just really really dull.
I'm going to play Uncharted 4 instead.
>We will never get a new Homeworld
>We will never get a new Sins of the Solar Empire game
hold me /v/
Stellaris is decent, but it doesn't even touch the epic space combat strategy of those games.
>>337052375
NO FUCKIN DUST PAN
Can we all agree that the way tech trees work in this game is fucking retarded? What the fuck is up with randomization? It's confusing.
A lot of you guys seem to not have played Paradox games before. This ain't your dad's Galactic Civilizations.
>>337061369
>A lot of you guys seem to not have played Paradox games before.
Yeah because 90% of them are pure trash.
>>337059453
Different genres m8.
There may be a new Sins at some point, don't loose hope. Shame they dumped so much in to that awful dota clone.
>reroll quest
>win 2 games while in a party
