Stellaris released 10 years ago today
Also I know some of you all running genocidal empires, I don’t judge (usually)
Also how many times have they reworked surface building, I picked it up again about a month ago and hey yeahhh let’s go read some patch notes, good times
Also at least it let me craft my berry own socialist polity
Never played it, but is that the game they had to nerf communism because it was too op and people complained about it?
That’s Victoria 3, which is made by the same studio. The main difference is that Vic 3 is set in 1800s earth, stellaris is in space.
Isn’t Vic3 basically a historical materialism simulator, and the chuds were mad that Communism was OP? If I recall, they wanted it nerfed, but that didn’t really happen.
Yeah p much. Turns out that if you make a pretty realistic model of mass human behavior and political economy, communism is a reliably good thing to do.
Paradox games has a huge CHUD audience, so I’d be very surprised if they actually told them “no”. They’re the reason that the Nazis in their WW2 game Hearts of Iron are absurdly overpowered compared to real life, because the Fash kept whining that the Soviets would always beat them.
Ah, Gotcha thanks. One day I’ll play one of these map games when I have a lot of free time lol
There was some update, I want to say maybe…6-7 years ago? Where Stellaris was my absolute favourite game of all time. Unfortunately they update it so much and change it so much that it is unrecognisable, almost a completely different game, and I don’t have several hundred dollars to spend on all the mandatory DLC I don’t have.
…Damn. I needed to work today, but I guess I’ll just be playing Stellaris all day now.
I don’t have several hundred dollars to spend on all the mandatory DLC I don’t have.
I haven’t bought an expansion in at least 5 years and thus don’t own the most recent 19 DLC or so.
If by mandatory you mean “considered a must have” the serious stellaris heads may have some insights on that. AFAIK no DLC is literally mandatory
I meant in the way Paradox games will make their DLC a core part of the new game mechanics and then lock those mechanics for the player if they don’t have the DLC, but not the computer players. It isn’t as bad in Stellaris as it is in EU4, where the game literally becomes impossible to win without the DLC, but it still is a shitty business model that I hate.
I started playing it wayyy back 10 years ago. Day 1 baby. Over 700h in it. In fact I plan to start an new game on Monday with the next patch.
Its basically THE game that made me interested in more complex strategy games way back and I wouldnt wanna have it any other way.
What else in strategy have you really enjoyed
Various total wars I really loved, long long ago (original shigun and medieval).
I really like Crusader Kings 3 and I also enjoy Total Warhammer 3.
I also have over 90h in Victoria 3 and I plan to get into EU5 …havent really started with that yet.
Hell yeag, seems like I chose a good time to start, I’m on my third run and I’m currently doing a Worker cooperative empire that’s inspired by China a bit, where I’m basically building tall and will have pacific relations with everyone until the late game where I’ll do liberation wars only (or defensive if some empire attacks me). I’ll post about it with details on the gaming thread if there’s one tomorrow.
Also I went through all the trailers for the game and some are really cool, the space sea shanty is great too, and the nomads dlc looks very interesting. I expected there would be a cool CGI trailer given the landmark and another freeweekend to present the game to people tho.
I should reinstall it. I have some incredible games over the years. I found diplomacy far more interesting than the monolithic genocide/isolationist gameplay loop, if only because it adds spice to the game. One of my best games was when I experimented with the new (at the time) vassal system back when fleet caps were absurd, and I ended up in a galactic battle with an Awakened Ascendancy that absolutely piledrove the endgame back into their dimensional rift. The final battle was two 1M fleets[1] slugging it out that took 45 minutes to resolve and brought my framerate down to single digits. Good times.
I brought three fleets worth 750k combined, and my allies/vassals another 300k ↩︎
