Utopia at this point is a must buy.

@@MrDeflador agreed.

They went all out on Utopia for their first major expansion, and the result afterwards was them going "Well fuck...probably would've been a good idea to have cut a bit of the content out to sell for later expansions instead of adding all our ideas in at once" Like it's honestly insane how much Utopia added and how borderline essential it was (and still is really)

@@terrypennington2519 what does utopia have again? It must be so essential I don't even know what it adds besides megastructures lol.

@@felipegdesouza2011 megastructures, habitats, ascension perks, government and slavery expansion, primative indoctrination.

I just want to be able to reorder my fleets. (Maybe a decent fleet manager for the federation and custodian fleet) I also always get the DLC. In the end i will keep playing the game, and if you think how it looked at the start and how it has evolved, worth every euro i spend on it.

Honestly all I can say is 'Welcome to Paradox' I promise you, Stellaris is tame by comparison to their other titles.

Probably, I don’t really give a shit myself. Guess I’m just used to it

I’d agree to some extent but for the most part…I actually enjoy the UIs, in the current game…not the overlord DLC UI. It’s worse on the peasant box

@@erikaverink8418 it would be really nice if you could organize your fleets in the outliner. Sometimes I have fleets on the whole other side of the galaxy mixed in with other crap over near my empire and it’s a whole mess figuring out where everything is…what to multi select…blah blah blah…I all GREE!

Early game has too many events, mid and late game too few. I wish they would spread them out more.

@@rake483 can agree on that.

mods easily fixes that

​@@rake483 mods easily fixes that

Use those events mods

I think there should be an option to pick the type of human clothing you want. Gothic Military sci fi Feudal Science I don’t see why the UNSC should dress like they’re in Dune.

Such a weird decision to get rid of the old portraits. The new ones honestly seem less diverse.

That would be very interesting thing to see worked out.

Dude. That's a really cool flavor Seems a bit too broken, though.

*Reinforce is the military term.

Agreed, its done in well in civ 6, would be super nice to have in stellaris

Agreed

that would be soooooo cool

There was a mod like this. I considered it a must have to play the game. Sadly it’s broken now, I think it was called Sow Unrest. You were able to sow rebellions on planets close to your borders with special buildings and starbase modules. Then you could back the rebels in a proxy war. I used this to wreck havoc, and also, had it used against me by a very shrewd AI that almost killed me with it..

I know right? It’s got a few bugs and questionable decisions, but this feels like a much more worthwhile purchase than Nemesis

I feel like I am the only one who gets consistently bodied on anything but the lowest 2 difficulties lol. I have over 1000 hours and evetybody around me still manages to triple my fleet size by mid game

@@hypnoticjelly its the same as with every other grand strategy ever. tech rush and survive the early. thats really the only time where any ai ever shines

*cries in can't win a cadet game after 1.4k hours*

TBH Ai has been fine for a few patches now when fighting the player. Still made some weird choices every now and then but good enough for most players I'd say. Main problem I had with the Ai was when the crisis rolled around and the AI just kinda didn't get how the crisis worked.

@@hypnoticjelly Are you playing with scaling difficulty turned off? If yes, the game will be much harder probably. From what i have seen, the standard difficulty for experienced players seems to be admiral or grand admiral with scaling difficulty turned ON.

When you pay full price for a game you expect the full and completed product with some minor and far between bugs, DLC is DLC when it simply ADDS to a completed product and not completes it. This is not a DLC, this is them completing the game Stellaris over the course of 4 years and milking you for money everytime they get off their ass and start fixing the game. Stellaris at launch was like a early access title and it was waaay overhyped, just Like Hoi4 had barely any content at launch compared to what they hyped up before they released it (Play Launch Hoi4 and compare it to launch HOI3 roflmao) . I suggest you open your eyes and stop kissing up to Paradox as if they were a small indie studio in some random village in Sweden. They are a Studio who has made millions off gullible people like you who just think "Oh they will patch it after launch" "Oh they will add that in a DLC" "Oh it just released dont be too harsh on the game" you are the people they are marketing these crappy point and click games to, open your eyes and realize that and stop giving them your money and maybe they will start putting actual effort into games again. All of this makes them one of the most greedy and anti consumer companies ive ever seen just because of their policy of released Half Baked products for FULL PRICE and then charging you a further 4 times as they release "DLC" after "DLC" just so you can get half of the product you paid for. And in the end people still sing their praises and jerk them off so much that people like you leave comments like this misleading people into thinking Stellaris is a halfway decent game on its own without DLC or mods (Because it isnt even after a billion patches) Take better care of your money bro.

@@kingofkemet5736 The issue of not delivering a complete and playable product and milking their fans is a main Gaming industry as a whole issue not just a Paradox Issue..As for Paradox Compared to their Competition, Civ and Total War specially dam Total War recently they make Paradox look like Angels. and funny enough, less greedy... and if not mistaken it seems Paradox has passed Civ and Total war so I dont think their policy will change any time soon since they are more and more succesful

@@kingofkemet5736 I agree with you 50% you are right about paradox not being a consumer friendly company. They hire a community management team that is pompous and narcissistic. And Devs who get mortified at criticism. So the treat their customers poorly (just look at how they handled EU4 Leviathan) They do have a point that they need more revenue. Most games are more expensive to make, and the cost has stayed the same sense the 2000’s. So they offer the bases game incomplete with DLC to help cover for the development cost. But this constant stream of DLC has gotten to their heads. And the sheer quantity of “needed DLC” they sell borders on micro transactions. This stifles them making new games that run smoothly, and doesn’t feel like a 10 year old game. It’s a shame there isn’t another game developer who makes Grand Strategy. Paradox needs healthy competition.

@@kingofkemet5736 tell me you're a tool without telling me you're a tool. Lmfao

@@kingofkemet5736 so you expected like, all of this at launch?

They're like an overclocked version of the Kahn

@@A_Spec your opinion is biased because you want to have a good relationship with the developers. the new human faces are horrible, the game is full of buggs, the vassal mechanics make you want to never have vassals and the primitive worlds rebelions are super idiotic. the selling point of this DLC is so poorly implemented that makes you want to avoid vassals.

@Achronic Deth I just use them for the money they generate. Usually by the time I need them I can recall them since I'm their patron.

If u opened them

Jump drive doesn't work so I assume not before opening.

Same.

I just bought the 100$ pack for all the DLC…wish me luck I guess I’m going to have 0 clue what is going on

I would strongly recommend turning on own expansion each play through. Or maybe every other. Not counting distant stars. That one is mostly stories, and you should turn on right away..

This keeps it from being overwhelming, but also let’s you appreciate what each expansion brings.

@@taylorledet3993 -- I also just bought it. If you watch a few KZfaq videos you'll soon pick it up. (I have had the other DLC's turned off while I pick it up though.)

@@taylorledet3993 you will do great, people like to overstate the complexity of the game.

Imagine letting xenos into your empire….

Buy it again

what other games do you like? looking for alternatives.. seeing you seem to have a good taste of games

Slipways

Probably because Sweden is obsessed with dying.

Yes

@@A_Spec Excited for that!

I dunno sounds good for deep strikes into unprotected territory

@@ProvostZarakov that is the purpouse. What about the price? Would you rather build this or a dyson sphere? The answer is obvious.

@@UnusualDeathCause I mean you act as if it's one or the other? Por que no los dos?

@@UnusualDeathCause why not both?

You're welcome

No need for that tbh. I have played for about ten hours with no major bugs encountered.

It's a bit of a mess in places though

@@A_Spec like the yellow pages. ;p

Quite

It had 4 new tracks

@@A_Spec 👀Just listened to them and they're great. Stargazer would be perfect in the main menu.

Ah yes, my opinion is different from the norm therefore it's prolly an ad...

Tons

wait how much is it in cad? wtf are they charging?

I’m not Canadian but isn’t it only like 27CAD? In Iceland it’s 1usd/134isk or in Vietnam 1usd/20,000vnd . Not saying you aren’t paying a little more but a kick in the teeth seems a little exaggerated.

@@historyrepeat402 i did the conversion math and it's literally cheaper here lol

Don't buy this bug infested pile of crap until Paradox has fixed at least all of the gamebreaking bugs. The whole specialized vassal hype is a complete fraud, at the monent it doesn't work at all in single player mode. There are a lot if crashes and the mercenary enclace mechanics are completely broken. It will take at least several weeks until the major bugs will be fixed. And there are tons of possible exploits. They released this dysfunctional DLC without proper testing and charged us 20€ for an alpha test. This kind of fraudulent and greedy policy by Paradox shouldn't be tolerated by us customers. The very negative steam reviews are justified.

You get them much earlier on.

You also have special edicts for them.

I would say Utopia & Distant Stars. Utopia adds some really important fundamentals such as enclaves, megastructures and deeper population management. Distant Stars adds more Stellaris. It's an event pack that adds nearly a hundred new things to encounter in space; events, unique solar systems, ect. It really adds to the story without bogging the player down with new mechanics.

@@A_Spec Cheers mate, will grab those as soon as I can then! :)

How do you do it without adding busy work though? Wars are already stressful trying to manage everything at the same time (on top of your economy), even when you have the overwhelming advantage. If you had to refit ships to deal with different set ups mid-war it would be a nightmare. Especially if you are fighting more than one empire at a time. And the fact that you don't actually have to manage the battles themselves is one of stellaris' biggest strengths compared to other 4X's which always get bogged down as soon as wars kick off.