>Stellaris
>No thread
Let's change thisWe eagerly await ork bros mod
>>337084682
>last stellaris thread was deleted despite nothing against the rules in it
what the fuck
>>337084859
too much video games apparently
>>337084859
the one shitposting about DLC is still up
says a lot doesn't it
>>337084859
Well, to be honest you can move to /vg/ instead infesting this non stop shilling here.
>>337085234
How about you fuck right off
My back hurts so bad, I've been playing all day
I have so much shit to do that I've neglected
Help me
>>337085234
>Well, to be honest you can move to /vg/ instead infesting this non stop shilling here.
how about you say that about the billion overwatch and uncharted threads?
anyone know if is 2 engineering and 2 physics research is worth a frontier outpost?
It's literally just prettier Distant Worlds
>>337085234
>you can go to another board to talk about video games, we need all the board space on /v/ for non stop shitposting instead
This is why this board sucks now.
>>337085642
Is this supposed to be a bad thing
What's the verdict?
>>337085234
Really, faggot?
Meanwhile, /v/ has been shat up by DS3 and Overwatch threads nonstop for weeks.
>>337084682
Is there a point to this game or is it just autism in space? Like would you do anything besides try and amass as many resources and planets as possible?
>>337085882
Typical Paradox game, but a smooth release and not bad.
The mod support is the golden ticket tho.
how do i mod out niggers
>Half the pops on one of my planets use gene modifications and call themselves 'Ultra'
>Even though all their traits are shit (weak, slow learners etc)
>Extremist groups from both the ultras and my normal species start bombing eachother
>A random pop dies every now and then
>Actually quite worried for the future of the planet
>>337085419
You're dead now. Video Games killed you.
>>337086038
>being unironically racist in the year of our lord 2016
Has anyone tried to have robots take over their empire yet?
Is 4chan shitting itself for anyone else right now?
>>337085234
>shilling
>ds3, overcuck and Uncharted 4 threads for miles
>>337086038
Go to the /vg/ thread. I believe they replaced the defaults with blonde, blue eyed white guys with German names
>>337086208
Not yet. I'm seriously considering purging some unhappy, recently-conquered xenos and replacing them with cold, unfeeling machines, though
>>337086206
>2016
>not being racist
I MEAN COME ON!!
>>337086038
here's a quick edit
no africans
no asians
no arabs
no dreads
no dikecuts
no non-white names
http://www117.zippyshare.com/v/QSXTjP5y/file.html
>xenophobic militaristic spiritual human empire
>conquer and enslave a medieval fungus people
>planning on purging them eventually but just have them take care of the planet until I got my people in there
>suddenly, election
>one of the fungus people is now my president
Wat
>>337086646
JUST LIKE REAL LIFE.
>>337086597
Jesus christ /gsg/ you have a problem
>>337085234
Do you only come to /v/ to make sure people don't talk about videogames?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDJn0SQehb4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXRpnt_H6FI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm8ExVJ-hIg&feature=player_detailpage#t=382
>>337085167
>>337085234
>>337086597
Literally killing this board.
>>337086801
Seconded
>>337086597
>no asians
Welp. I'll have to return them myself
Do developments on a colony push out your borders? There is this really juicy systen that's about a centimetre outside of my borders but I don't want to build an outpost if it will be incorporated anyway.
When space amazon mod?
>>337087120
They do
Im working on a russian/soviet name list, I'll post it once it's done.
>went peaceful xenophiles
>find a system with a Gaia planet and a 80% habitable planet, one massive with food the other massive with resources
>these faggots spawn right next to my new colony
>proceed to lay waste to everything in the system
Damn pirates stop ruining my utopia!
>>337084682
T
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TAU
T'AU
T A U
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FUCKING TAU?!
>>337086910
You can make them all asian if you like. I only took them out because they made no sense in my empire.
is species choice purely cosmetic? Or does it open up certain traits available or whatever?
>>337087452
>be peaceful xenophiles
>every alien race is a warmongering shit stain
>whyamiaxenophile.png
Well I played it for 9 hours today and already feel like I saw everything. Extraordinarily shallow for a paradox game. I'm banking my hopes that autists make some cool mods to get my moneys worth from this game.
>>337084682
Game is fun but it's too fucking busted. I've had many cases where bonuses and rewards just straight up don't apply/do nothing after spending resources to activate them. I've lost one of the unique benefits of my government (Military dictatorship, no longer can build an oversized flagship). And allies are apparently completely passive and will do nothing at all during war.
My birthday present is in ruins. Sweden is a horrible place full of horrible people.
>>337087720
The species choice can matter, like if you are both mammals
>>337087767
Factions wont declare war on you if you have an embassy unless you drop to -70
So if you use your embassy's for factions you know will be issues, you'll stop them attacking you.
So how's the content? I've never played a paradox game before. Is there good end game stuff? I've heard they make games that are a tad bare without mods or expansions.
>>337086715
Seriously, who doesn't like cute asians?
>>337088106
i like asians i just dont like multiculuralism
>cute
I really dislike weebs tho
>>337088314
>friggin multi culti :/
Grow up
>>337088507
only brainwashed highschoolers like the multicult
Is there a way to quickly find the uncivilized races on planets in your borders? Just noticed one and there's no indication in the Empire screen or on the map.
>>337088621
pretty sure surveying reveals if there's life on them or not
>>337086597
thank you, I don't know if I have a bug but 90% of my generals, gover., scientists are asian-female, black-female or white-female.
how is this game, is it like Civ?
i read a lot of scifi and I want to live out my space empire fantasies without having a ton of micromanagement.
what games is this game most similar to?
>>337088780
it's Crusader Kings in space
>>337088780
There is more to do than in Civ, but it suffers many of the same problems with predictable AI and warmongering.
>>337088571
who /wormhole/ masterrrace here
How do I grow borders fast this shit is slower than Civ
>make empire lead by Reinhard von Lohengramm
>his heir turns out to be a black chick with a chinese name
>>337088893
eric, absolutely eric
>>337088953
>Devs suggest warp drive as the best introduction FTL
>its crap in comparison to both wormholes and hyperdrives
Paradox pls
Going to have to restart, these warp drives suck shit.
>>337088893
>someone actually made this
>>337088953
I haven't tried it yet, how is it?
How do you build wormholes in different systems if you can't get to them?
>>337088731
I mean after that, I guess I missed the messages when I first scanned them. I don't really want to go through 100+ stars in my empire manually looking for them.
>>337085941
No. Only one option, go wide. conquer conquer conquer. Its an issue in all of their games.
>>337089075
>>337089221
Mad /gsg/ babbies detected
>>337089050
Either frontier stations or colony ships, place them down on important clusters of stars. Iv noticed that if you put up either and there is only a small-ish gap between your existing borders and the new ones they will very quickly expand to touch each other.
>>337088741
Its a swedish game mate.
>>337089342
says the guy getting triggered by racism on 4chan
>>337089148
>tfw i wanted to use wormholes but didn't because the game told to use FTL...
Next run i'm going to go wormholes and post-singularity race and declare jihad on all the organics.
>>337089328
>Its an issue in all 4x, grand strat and strategy games
ftfy
>>337086696
Its realer than real life.
>giving a shit what color your leaders are
How the fuck do you even notice, I spend all my time going max speed to grow as fast as possible
>>337089474
At least there are different methods, and each really does have its benefits/negatives
Ill have to do a run where people can only use wormholes and another where they can only use hyperdrives and see if it mixes things up.
>xenophobe
>surrounded by "peaceful" xeno scum
>they all start going to war with eachother
>my hatefull ass is just watching these "peaceful" dipshits ruin eachother till I can go in and kill them all
Playing them like a damn fidle
when/how unlock machine races? I want a goddam hivemind
>start massive galaxy (800)
>with 20 enemies total
>begin boxed between five enemies with no room to expand
>they colonize lightning fast while I have to wait for the appropriate research
>8 out of 10 solar systems have independent enemies so I can't survey them
>the influence can't be gained faster than 1 at any time so I can't build any frontier bases
>every time my colony ship reaches a suitable system the AI colonizes the planet right in front of me
>other aliens push back my borders no problem despite not using frontier bases
>none of them ever wants to agree to any kind of trade or alliance or anything despite having +200 positive rep with me
>corvettes suck nuts and the fleet upkeep strangles your finances when you get destroyers
>don't bother the AI though they make massive fleets within only a few rounds when a war
>eventually you just sit waiting for something to pop up so you have something to do
Paradox has done it again.
>>337089485
You can go tall in civ.
>>337089706
git gud
>>337089706
>the influence can't be gained faster than 1 at any time so I can't build any frontier bases
??
I'm still early on and get like 4 a turn after a few researches
Should I?
>>337089706
>not being adaptable
>not being intelligent
>>337089823
Research is semi-random between playthroughs
>>337089868
Dont you dare. Go buy 3 copies of the universe edition right away for thinking such thoughts.
>>337089868
I got fitgirl repack
>>337089927
I literally have negative dollars money.
>>337089868
>not going fitgirl repack
>>337085234
>shilling
fuck, /v/ really is dead
>>337090025
how the fuck do you survive
>>337084859
If only it happened to all of the overwatch threads.
>>337089978
>>337090032
>fitgirl
does anyone know how to fix the fucking stuttering?
>>337090170
>stuttering
I haven't seen it stutter once
>>337085419
>tfw I've been saying that from freshmen to junior year in college and my GPA has suffered
S-senior year will be the one.
>>337090170
sorry
>>337090170
get a decent computer
>>337090223
Senior here
It gets worse every year
>>337090109
Lentils, chick peas and budget grade beef mince.
>>337086801
You sensitive butterflower, you.
>>337085234
>go to /vg/
/vg/ is where videogame discussion goes to die
i swear you cannot even remotely discuss the game until you have like 500 filters to get rid of the avatar fags, the attention whore, the waifu posting, and the r34.
not to mention half the thread is wasted on
>xth for..
>play as a human race
>after about four hours encounter other humans on the other side of the galaxy
>the realization that other humans exist doesn't phase them for even a split-second
>they treat me precisely like any other four-eyed, six-armed alien piece of garbage
>they don't acknowledge how fucking bizarre and incredible it is that the same race managed to develop despite lightyears of distance between us
>we have the same exact culture but they couldn't give a lukewarm shit
>they declare war on me because they don't like my militarism
>>337085419
>want to play
>have bad eye pains
I really should stop looking at these two giant fucking monitors blinding me
>>337090256
its well beyond the recommended specs
>>337090318
>humans kill each other on earth all the time and are massive assholes
>'omg not earth humans, why you so mean to me :('
This just in, humans are assholes.
>Doing well in a 4 Spiral Arm huge galaxy
>Butted up right next to a fucking mushroom
>I really don't like mushrooms
>Decide to finally go to war
>Be real cautious about it as they are listed as "superior" to my fleet
>Go in, BTFO a couple stations, move armies to pacify the mushrooms
>See no sign of any ships
>Ah well, must have been boasting
>Suddenly 4k strength fleet with Cruisers barges in
>I have 3 fleets of around 800 each
Where's my mobile suit gundam mods so I can be a retarded faggot and colony drop people
>>337090318
they're fucking shapeshifters, wipe them all out
>>337090047
Bit overdramatic there. Also, you're late. This place died 6 years ago.
>>337089461
says the guy triggered by black people in his space game
Research moves along REALLY slowly in this game, or do I suck?
>>337090452
says the guy triggered by the guy triggered by the black guy in a video game
>>337090452
You'd be triggered too if you saw people barely capable of tying sharp stones to long sticks being capable of spaceflight, future science and engineering.
>>337090534
says the guy tiggered by the guy triggered by the guy triggered by the black guy in a video game
Does the game have more depth then Civ 4 or 5?
>>337090318
Kill them.
Kill every single man woman and child.
You are the best humans.
I have xenophobe trait in my empire, but for some reason the purge button is greyed out, saying my current stance prohibits it.
>>337090678
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
What a question.
It's more simple than fucking EUIV.
Boring as all living hell. Horrible combination of not enough going on and too much going on. Game bores me then gives me fucking anxiety. It feels cool for the first half hour but within that half hour you've experienced everything the game has to offer. I refunded.
>>337089706
yes there's purposely advanced AIs that start ahead of you, because the idea that every race in a galaxy in a space game has the same start and discovered FTL at the same time is pretty stupid
>>337090318
They must be destroyed
They chose this fate, not you
Burn the heretics just like xenos
>>337090763
that doesn't really answer the question
civ 5 is simpler then EUIV
saying that a game is simpler then EUIV doesn't automatically make it simpler then civ 5
>>337090763
Then what the fuck is the point?
>>337089265
They are more like mass effect relays; they give you a range and ships can jump to any star within it, but have to return to the wormhole system to jump to another star.
just got home
what's the verdict?
>>337091104
blunder of the century
>>337090809
>Horrible combination of not enough going on and too much going on.
this is the perfect description of paradox games
>>337091104
It's fun
Lots of stuff to do and I can see a lot of room to expand inDLCWhich doesn't bother me because everyone knows that you buy Paradox games and pirate all the DLC
>>337091104
Wait for mods to make it enjoyable like every other Paradox release for the last 5 years. Anyone who doesn't know this routine is a newfag.
>>337091203
this is false
ck2 vanilla was already good
Man i'm the luckiest fucking guy. I start out with two gaia worlds like right next to me of good size and random planets here and there that have like 6 society on them or shit like that, plus plenty of energy and minerals
>>337091104
Nice barebones, can't wait to pirate the dlcs that would probably turn it into one of the big guys of the space X4 genre.
What happens when you go over 5 planets?
Mink masterrace reporting in
>>337091521
You have to split the other ones off into sectors that are controlled by a governor that decides their buildings and actions
It's actually good, it means you have to micromanage less.
>mfw i didnt fall for the paradox meme
Sounds like another game to pick up on 80% off with 2 years dlc included.
>>337091521
Adding to >>337091708 you can increase that number of planets you directly control through
>>337091757
*pirate after 2 years
>>337084682
>no succession laws
>can't have women only Amazon Empire
>can't have male only God Emperors
Paradox pls, I want more CK2 elements.
>>337091104
Pretty good. Enough depth to keep you entertained and thinking about multiple things you need to do, but also passive enough that you can relax.
>>337088314
>i like asians i just dont like multiculuralism
You mean multi-racial societies, even though that's what earth would have to be if it's united.
>>337091757
Thinking the same.
>pretty good as a base game
>modding + Paradox post release support
Say what you will about their jewishness, at least they do add some good content post release. Stellaris will only get better over time.
>>337091521
You start getting a penalty I believe, not sure what it is though. You have to start using sectors then as you've grown too large to have a single government properly overlook it all without any "lower" forms of it to help with that.
This means they manage the planets and you tax them however hard you'd like for whatever they acquire, they develop and whatnot along the lines you set for them and leave them to it then. You can also inject resources into these sectors if they need further development before they can stand on their own more properly
Overall it means less micro management, which is good considering you'd eventually end up with like 100+ planets or whatever
>>337090170
Turn off autosave
>>337091875
>b-but we could just remove all the kebab and the niggers and the gooks and repopulate it all with glorious white blood because muh racial purity fantasies
>>337091852
>Enough depth to keep you entertained and thinking about multiple things you need to do, but also passive enough that you can relax.
So it's Civ 5.
>>337092007
why remove what you can exploit/enslave
>>337090419
looks at what weapons they have, fal back to station and refit accordingy: i replaced all small turrets with a CIWS after spotting a race with only missiles, and now they can't do anything to my fleet, I'M FUCKING INVINCIBLE
>>337092038
Not really comparable games honestly. If you like space you'll get more out of Stellaris if you like civilizations you'll get more out of Civ.
>>337092074
e d g y
>>337086532
Don't bring DS3 into this. He's just GOTY.
>>337092087
Valid strategy, which is why players shouldn't trust other players even if they happen to be friendly at first. They might just be friendly because they wanna see what you got first before adapting to it in the most hard counter build they can manage
How do I stop the fucking stupid noise the Unbidden are making constantly
>>337092414
Just kill them :)
>>337092414
>The unbidden
What have you done. Better stop their rifts maggot or that entire galaxy you're in is doomed
>>337092268
can always run a balanced mix of weapons and defence to fuck with them. i don't really see how you can possibly hard counter a balanced fleet.
How do I make the lazy slackers in my Federation actually contribute to the navy? It's literally just me fighting this war.
>>337091843
>can't have women only Amazon Empire
This troubles me.
Either mods will fix it or will not buy.
>>337092573
I believe if you travel to their space or set a wargoal or something they start following you/acting towards it
>>337092138
Fuck this deadbeat meme.
I wanna enslave aliens and abhumans.
God damn, those fuckign space slugs sure love double teamign my ass with massive navy. Jesus christ.
Also, wormhole fuckery is annoying as fuck
>>337092119
The real-time element kind of makes it iffy for me.
I like being able to take my time without having to manually pause.
It becomes substantially less relaxing if it's a race against time.
So if you start the game researching anything other than colony ships you are absolutely fucked?
What's the point in giving you two other options in Society then, when does New Worlds Protocol pop up again if you do not research it immediately at the start?
>>337092784
Thats why they let you pause and the game auto pauses during important things
Or play at slow
>>337092784
>It becomes substantially less relaxing if it's a race against time.
That's why there is a pause button.
>>337092826
Colony ships will almost always reappear each time you finish a research. Its also not that important early on and you can get away with not making colony ships for a long time.
How do I change hotkeys in this game damnit
>>337092784
I pause in Total War battles.
It's not like save scumming.
>>337092927
Config file.
Stellaris-CODEX torrent on Kickass comes with all the DLC, and it runs great with no crashes. I'll let you guys know if the multiplayer works with Evolve.
>finding a Gaia world early on
What's the deal with sectors?
the tutorial told me to make a sector so I did and now 20% of them want independence
>>337093061
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
WHY DO I HAVE TO DO THIS THE HARD WAY
At least I can change hotkeys and they're not hardcoded, I guess
>>337092919
I see, figured as much but got worried when it didn't show up again.
Too used to traditional research trees, but this adds a bit of spice kind of like sots randomized tech tree.
Probably a good thing for making quicker decisions in multiplayer as well.
Never played a game like this before. I have crusader kings but I have never played it. My buddy gifted it to me for no reason and never tried it.
He got this so I bought it to.
>starting as humans with militaristic, quick learners, solitary and engineers.
>literal furries below me that are pacifist militaristic
>declare war on me out of proxy and send 3k ships to my planet Mars
>get rekt and retreat to other planet Albion
>buddy comes in with his bug race and swarms everyone like fucking starship troopers
>I still got rekt but they surrendered to him right after
Game is pretty fun and I am going to try to learn more now.
>>337091559
Purge the furries
>>337092862
Where are the settings for autopause at "important things", and can you define important?
>>337093146
I'm just pulling shit out of my ass. I don't know for sure if you can.
How does it compare to this though?
So are wormholes just fucking shit?
You have to build things and pay maintenance to move slower than anyone else basically.
>>337093214
>and can you define important?
You're the one who's going define it. That's the whole point.
I just want space amazon / angels.
Is that too much to ask?
Fucking shit. Some furry motherfucker starts to push back my territory so I decide to blast him. I send my 900 strength armada and ruin his fleet, then park over his planet. After taking out his planetary defences nothing happens. He has no troops and still I can't take it.
I look up what to do on the wiki and it says to make armies to land on the surface, so I do that. Fly the army over and tell it to land on the planet.
Then it tells me I got BTFO despite the furries having no armies and no anything.
Bullshit.
Be honest with me /v/
Is this game as good as distant worlds or its just dumbed down distant world with hand holding paradox gameplay?
>>337092891
>I like being able to take my time without having to manually pause.
>That's why there is a pause button.
Thanks idiot.
>>337093159
Tried to make the Golds from Red Rising but every time I get a new heir its a black bitch and I got cucked.
>>337093214
Finding new anomalies sometimes triggers it, finding new species, getting contact from other species.
But you can always pause with space bar, it isnt that hard anon-san. Stop getting panicked.
>>337093363
Currently the latter, but after 6 patches/DLC it'll be the former+
>>337093412
Not my fault you're such a fucking stupid casual piece of shit that you can't press the space bar when you need to take time to plan your move.
No wonder new Paradox games are so fucking shit, they cater to subhumans like you.
>>337093363
DW has more content for now, but Stellaris will be far better once it gets updated
And its pretty good as it is now anyway
Can someone give me any nba code
>>337086646
This is what you get for running a democracy
>>337093597
uwut-m800-cm4d
>>337093275
IIRC warp drives cause ships to more expensive, and hyperdrives are stuck on galactic highways. Wormhole ships are cheap since they don't need to be equipped with advanced engines since that's what the stations do.
>declare war on guys for two of their planets
>outnumber their navy 3:1
>capture first planet
>taking second one, warscore 60%
>click to my homeplanet for a moment
>suddenly literally my entire navy is destroyed
>warscore -20%
>attack my capital
wat happened?
Do sectors automatically colonize new planets? Or do I have to micro that shit.
>>337093639
Theocratic republic, faggot
>>337093275
>can jump any distance as long as you have wormhole stations
>faster than any other type of travel
>cheaper ships
tnx
>>337084682
seroiusly, I keep hearing about it.
How is it?
>>337093230
Doesn't even compare. It's a generic and shallow grand strategy; a gimped space EU4.
Sins was truly original and remains at the top of space RTSs. And don't even get the started on the amazing mod scene.
Fuck Stellaris. Fuck Paradox. Fuck Sweden.
>>337093703
That makes sense, with the negative ethics divergence the shroom probably adopted your ethos and got elected.
>>337085234
>40 Overwatch threads per day
>25 Dark Souls threads per day
>a handful of threads about a game that launced 13 hours ago are forbidden
Remove yourself from my presence, wastrel.
>>337093863
Its pretty gud
>>337093230
Stellaris will be a better gameif it gets updated
>>337093901
Don't you get it?
/v/ is for shitposting and memes only, you want to talk about vidya? Get the fuck out of here
>>337094018
niceme.me
>>337094010
duh....
>>337093884
Shouldn't have, though, I set leaders to only elect from the primary species
>>337093529
So you admit the game is shit.
Thanks, that's all I needed to know.
Should've said that from the beginning.
>>337094148
>real time games are shit
Heard it here first folks
>>337094010
Stellaris will never be a better game because of the simple fact that it has 0 combat.
>>337094053
That's the spirit
Now post more memes and we can derail this vidya thread together
>>337094213
You missed your stop at the CoD thread
>>337093931
Can you make ships like in Galactic Civ 3?
I used to play that making Star Trek ships and pretending it was Birth of the Federation 2Life is suffering if there are no star trek games.
>>337093882
>not distant worlds
Oi I'm laffing
>people are mad about the game
I don't know why, I'm having a great time with it
>>337094270
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-17-ship-designer.902967/
Pls i dont have many to buy any nba can someone give me code of nba 2k13
>>337094386
Niche audience. Not many people are going to like it when the typical Paradox fans are too autistic to enjoy anything not "historical" and most 4x fans cant like anything that was made post 2010.
>>337094263
Sins actually has combat
I don't ever feel like I'm actually in control of anything. Tell ships to do shit, wait. Tell ships to build things, wait. And then pirates show up 10 minutes in and rape everything I have, with my own fleet being completely useless since the starting fleet is apparently pooptastic.
>>337094471
Too shallow for the hardcore gs player, too deep for the casuals.
I'm an idiot so i enjoy the game immensely.
Man, how much did stellaris rip off sword of the stars? It sure seems to borrow a lot of the core elements.
>>337094620
It's a space strategy...
>>337094620
sots was turn based, and more tactical.
I don't mind that they borrowed elements from sots as far as the node drive is concerned but I don't see the similarity.
If anything this game is closer to start ruler 2 and distant worlds.
>>337093073
Found a beautifull Continental world for my humans.
+5% hab +15 fuckign percent Happines. 18 slots too.
Earth done gone 2nd fiddle.
>>337094737
>>337094827
The semi-random techs was really what prompted this. Can't really think of any other 4x games that does that.
>>337094471
>Niche audience. Not many people are going to like it when the typical Paradox fans are too autistic to enjoy anything not "historical" and most 4x fans cant like anything that was made post 2010.
The thing people keep forgetting about as sci-fi 4x is that if you're going to make it space-based, you better make sure you double or even triple down on the lore and immersion to give players something to care about in absence of actual historical places and figures.
It's bizarre how many devs forget this even after SMAC proved it's the best way to go.
>>337093063
Multiplayer doesn't work on the cracked versions; we tried Hamachi and Evolve, neither showed the game to be visible.
Oh well, time to shell out the chump change of $30 for the game.
>>337094827
>sots was turn based
>>337094386
This might turn out to be one of my favorite 4X games beside the likes of distant worlds, sword of the stars, and endless legend.
Haven't played much of it, but it seems rather entertaining. Perhaps not as deep or tactical as other games but certainly not as bland as say endless space.
>>337094548
Seriously. CoD is the other way kid
>>337095057
Smac was amazing. Not every 4x game has a recommended reading list in the manual. Every single tech quote, especially the philosophical ones, felt like something out of a Frank Herbert novel.
>>337095151
Yes combat was real time but I meant the empire management was turn based. Not that it is a bad thing, I love sots.
I think it is a welcome addition that they borrowed some of the interesting bits of sots like semi randomized tech trees and unique drive tech with different play style.
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>>337084682
I'm suspicious that /v/ mods are all just paid by various large corporations.
I really like the basic gameplay systems, just needs more content tbqh.In $20 expansions every 3 months because lolparadox
>>337095898But anon, you also get "free content" that breaks the game in a way that you need the dlc to deal with
>first ever time playing this style of game
>create a Military Junta, radical materialistic
>slowly crawling along expanding out
>no idea what I'm doing but try to focus military power
>massive faction right next to me proceeds to declare war
>rocks up with a fleet twice the power of mine
>proceeds to cripple my home planet
>start to occupy a planet further back
>they rock up with a fleet now triple the size of what I'd rebuilt
>destroy my old home and proceed to snowball into my new home
>enter vassalage with them as I set up my third planet
>the war they've taken over my last two planets has formed a nice shield of their territory around me
>or so I thought
>they declare war on a small faction I was previously allied to
>they're using that FTL that allows free travel
>they jump right into my brand new, unprotected home
>>337095984
Speaking of that. How hard do 'free contents' break the game without DLCs anyway?
>>337095984
They also break every mod that makes the game playable and then by the time they are up to date another shitty DLC has been released.
>>337096021
Welcome to Paradox games
>>337090292
Are you one of those retards who lives in an abandoned house and has a 90's TV for a computer screen?
wondering, the ridiculous penalty to influence from being in an alliance (real nice of the game to put me right next to 3 fanatical empires with directly opposed ethos), does that still apply if you upgrade it to a federation?
Is allies wormhole stations bugged? My fleet seems to alternate between moving and idle really quickly when they need to pass through allied wormholes.
>>337096237
So it's not just me being a retard, more the game itself being heavy on punishment? That's a bit of a relief...
>>337096098
In eu4, your main resource system is mana, military, diplo, or admin. Its tied to your rulers stats, which are 100% random. You spend it on stuff, Mil has a lot fewer things.
The most recent free update added this thing called corruption, which ticks up over time for just about everything, and includes "unbalanced research", so too much mil, or dip tech. This penalty is increased costs on all your tech. Now, the problem is that mil points don't really have anything to spend outside of tech, and there is a cap on how many you can hold. So you inevitably spend the useful admin and dip points on things, and get corrupt as fuck, or you have to hold mil at cap and lose a bunch.
The fix is that a older DLC let you sink points into provinces to upgrade them, but if you don't have the DLC, enjoy wasting your monarch points.
>>337096516
Paradox games are all about snowball, and blobbing hard and fast.
>>337096560
How's the corruption system anyway? Feels like they've been adding nothing but bloats to the game since Cossacks.
>>337096668
Corruption is shit. It slows down blobbing a little bit if you are a western nation.
If you are a non western nation, you basically lose if you get a bad king, due to mil points having less useful things to spend on.
Basically, you get corruption from things like overextension, low religious unity, I think low stability, stuff you were already punished for. Its literally a lose-more mechanic, that's supposed to keep people from blobbing.
How do I mod humans out of the game?
>>337097098
By uninstalling, species traitor.
>>337093363
>>337093532
But distant worlds has had two expansions released and tons of patching(and its still fucking shit), so you cant compare it to a game that was just released.
>>337093668
You got nuked.
This game is hard af
