Jesus christ this game is complex I feel like I am taking a college course just to understand how to start lol

opened the game for the first time and was immediately overwhelmed, so thanks for making this

So much has been changed since I've last checked this game

I had to play the whole video at 0.75 speed to be able to reasonabily start to digest the crazy amount of content in that video... amazing game, very step learning curve! I'm hooked!

i watched 20 minutes of your 2022 before I simply looked to the right of my screen and saw your 2023 guide, lmao so here i am great guides

Nice refresher video, I have not played since 3.6 was out so I needed to see what has changed since then. I was hoping the automation was improved, as all the micromanaging can be overwhelming. Also, too bad the espionage part of the game has not improve, I never really understood what options to pick and rarely saw much positive come out of it. I think its high time I give this game another solid run.

This was such a good refresher for Stellaris! I left the game alone for like a year and it feels like a different game! Thank you for taking the time to make this!

Wow thanks for the exhaustive and comprehensive video here. I'll admit my eyes glossed over a few times and I watched it in two sittings but there seems to be a ton of useful info here. I'm planning on getting Stellaris on a great current sale for my Steam Deck before said sale ends so this really helped me get an idea of what I'm getting into. Which is a LOT. Likely more than I'll want or really be able to handle but for only 10 bucks I wanna give it a go and see if the game clicks with me. Thanks again for the video!

thanks a ton for this! your commentary was smart and engaging and the video felt very accessible. big help!

Thanks for making this guide, I appreciate it! I remember your voice from somewhere, until it hit me - you're the same person who also helped me get into warhammer so many years ago! Glad to see you're still around

I just started to get the hang of the game. Left for work for a few months and came back to everything being changed. Thanks for this!

Really appreciate the effort in this and I did understand some of it. Though it may well be due to age, but it felt like the video was at 2X speed! I know we have short attention spans these days, and TBF its happening in a lot of tutorials for complex games. They race on at 500 words a minute, like it's a speed run! Thankfully,. 0.75 speed was perfect 🙂

Nice! THX! Added to my Stellaris playlist right-away

Fantastic video, so helpful!

This is a wonderfully detailed and helpful video. And I give it bonus points for talking so fast, as a lot of other videos like this make me impatient.

Been playing on ps5 for about a week. Figured out a lot so far. Excited to find out things I've been missing.

What an impressive tour de force of how to get started with Stellaris!

I used to play at release and a few years after that. I recently got the itch to play again and this video is very helpful.

Hadn’t played the game in like 3 years (at least since the covid lockdown if not longer!) - to say I was overwhelmed at the start is an understatement - thank you for making this guide!

Once you get the basic layers of the various mechanics, it becomes about scaling them. Noice. Cool vid pal!

Great guide Colonel !

Amazing comprehensive guide. Thank you!

I have not played since 1.8...... and now I have all the new DLC, so this should be indescribably helpful.

i haven't played since the toxic dudes, guess it's time for an upgraded campaign.

Guides like this are very appreciated. And good to update.

Goated guide. Thank you brother.

Why does this video sound better and more natural in 0.75% speed?

I haven't played in about a year and half and I'm ready to play again. I've got a lot to catch up on and re-learn.

Just got this game. Thanks for the guide

I was so taken off guard by the bell pepper joke that i had to pause the video and laugh for 2 minutes, incredible

Hehe, lots of good knowledge. Thx mate. Last time I played, you could choose what type of stellar drive your race starts with. XD

10 mins. in and I'm completely lost. I guess these games are just too complex for an old guy like me. Back to Asteroids for me.

Wish i would have had this when i started ive tried starting this game multiple times over the years always gave up because the amount of info would get me but i forced myself to learn it amd im hooked this os definitely a good video to learn from

Really a video new players need.

33:10 Holy information overload! I thought there was a lot to learn, but holy crap after watching your UI section I don't know if I'm smart enough for this game. Sheesh! And you talk super fast to get through all this info I'm sure. i need to remember I can adjust the playback speed in my old age.

Coming from a few 100hrs of endless space 2, i thought i could figure out stelarris without issue. Boy was I wrong, this guide is awesome thanks

Are you teaching the stellaris 223 class too? That's a bit out of our scope but I like your style.

I have 150 hrs in this game and still have no idea what im doing

I played for few days then watched this. It was easier to understand

watched the vid you made last year only to click on this literally right after Started playing the game yesterday - have you been spying on me? For how else can this video come out at such a perfect time ;)

Feeling kindof like im finally grasping the basics of this game. When i first bought this game i thought id instantly be creating the systems alliance from mass effect or the imperium of man from 40k. When really im just figuring out how to survey a system

Only thing I can think of that was missed was diplomatic weight: what it is, how one gains it, and what it is used for. When it was first brought up while looking at the government tab in the interface section, you said it would be discussed during diplomacy, but it wasn't as far as I can see.

21:17 The Galatron 🤤

good guide

I have 50 hours in the game and know most of the things you have shown in this video. Maybe even more such as mass research focus on the capital. Even though, I feel like I know nothing about the game. So I started a new save with xenophobic and fanatic militaristic empire. I was able to take on 2 other empires at the same time. I won 2 wars by taking their planets and their planets were just criminally criminal. No seriously they rebelled against me and I didn't know how to stop rebellion so they brought 3 times more fleet power than the 2 empires I defeated. Just a single planet that hade 15 cruisers while I only had 4. My question is Where the fuck they are getting this massive giga fleet out of a small slave rebellion. Literally their empire is 10 times more weaker and they just pull the guns out and start blasting. I dont understand how this game works. And I can't do this anymore with all the micro and brainmelting features such as why in a fight I win I lose more ships and their ships just escape somehow?

Thank you sir for this

playing an organic empire for the first time in 250 hours and giving this a watch just in case lmao

I don't remember this game being so complex! I played it years ago and I did fine, but I feel is too much learning to do to retake playing.

100 hrs later and I finally kinda get it

That background music, that's from Skylines yeah?

I just got this game at Steam, and now you're telling me the "beginner's guide" is a 1 hour video!? Dear me!

To anyone wondering the best way to learn games, watch a tutorial while you play. If you can learn and listen then good, but if you need a practical learning session then playing while you learn is the way to go. I learned alot in 2 days aftet i declared war and they had 3 alliances :)

I've had the game for a very long time but I'm coming here lol . I got Stellaris when the console version was differnt to the PC version. I loved the console version, got really good at it, but then they changed it to be like the PC version and I wasn't good at it anymore . I just don't understand the food , energy, industry, commercial goods and housing system they put in. I kinda scraped by with it and then they released the machine , killer machines dlc and I got good at the game again, but I guess it was OP cause they scaled their strength back . The last time I played it about 3 years ago , I tried playing with the machines and got beat swiftly , I was rocking only about 20-30k fleets when the computer had fleets of over 100k , really not sure where I'm going wrong now I don't understand the systems anymore . I use to love this game, was one of my favourites before they switched things to PC version and now I don't want to play it even on easy settings I get my butt kicked . I recently feel like I want to play it again so I've come here to watch some Stellaris videos that hopefully can bring back the love for the game I once had .

When you say "with every DLC" are you referring to the $130 "Stellaris: Ultimate Bundle BUNDLE" on steam?

where should i go for stellaris builds? i want a good robot build i can learn over time

These beginner's guide that's made every new major expansion is the lifeblood of this game.

am a massive paradox gamer with 3-4k hours across mainly eu but also hoi4 vic 3 and ck2 and 3. but stelaris is just way too overwhelming. the game is so much more complex than the other 4 at a base line level for me to engage with and while i HATE vic3 because of how unresponsive it feels to your player made decisions, i dislike stellaris because it tries to teach you too much insantly and doesnt give you your own time to learn about things as they come up. so thanks for this.

The most important tip I don't see being said is that you can ignore like 90% of the mechanics and still have a fun game, don't get overwhelmed with the nitty gritty when just starting out and have fun (:

After seeing the complicated UI, I am good.

Not gonna lie, while I do enjoy space strategy games I’m not much of a strategy game player and I mostly bought Stellaris to play with the custom empires creator and use it to recreate some alien species’ that I’ve made for a Sci-Fi story lol. I purposely started with 0 AI empires so I can focus on learning wtf all the menus do and it is very intimidating, but I think I could get the hang of it eventually; despite all the confusion I can tell Stellaris’ UI design is trying its best to be user friendly even if it’s complicated. Thanks for the guide 👍

What's the name of the background song? Thx😅

Anyone remember the micromachine man commercials

How do you scout what you may be fighting regarding enemy ships?

just bought this game but I might be too dumb to play it. thanks for this

Im stuck trying to figure out how to expand so i can colinize

i played so many cycles of stellaris that i forget how complex Stellaris actually is for a beginner, especially when (heavens forbid) you buy all dlc's and then just jump in the hyperbolic arctic sea. There are soooo many mechanics to worry, war fleets, economy, pop growth, the Galactic Council, Endgame Crisis, Fleet Movement time (thatnk the lord there is no real attrition lmao) and so on and so on. Now it is just "Ok, i do this, settle 5 planets by 2206, this is consumer goods, this is energy...." It is all automatic, but me and my homies hate traderoutes. It is only good that if you have enough repeatables normal outposts can beat pirates by themselves haha

I got stuck in the tutorial because my singular combat fleet refuses to budge and attack the enemy fleet that's mere pixels away from destruction, thus preventing my science ships from doing anything.....

"The Stellaris Guide" for me could be summed up in a sentence ~*Lets be xenophobic, its really in this year!*~

bell pepper bro? is there anyone on the planet that thinks a bell pepper is spicey?

If only by default you can build more than one Dyson sphere

Thanks for all the effort it really helps but speaking a littlebit slower would made it from an 8/10 to a 10/10

Not even 30 seconds in and I'm wondering why a beginners guide would include hundreds of dollars worth of DLC...

6 minutes into video i got overwhelmed...

You should get college credit for learning games like this.

Just bought the game. Played for 6 hours. Still no idea what is going on.

Great guide, but can you zoom in during editing or scale up the ui? I can’t see shit, especially watching this on a phone.

After this game any kind of Ui is gonna feel empty and devoid of stuff to do.

I am the epitome of boring, I've never played as anything but humans.

Playing the atar wars mod and im getting my butt kicked as the sith empire 😅

If you think this is on par with a college course I would say whatever you're taking in college isn't going to get you anywhere lol.

Hows about an even NEWER one, lol

even after 10 years THEY WILL ALWAYS BE SOMETHING TO BE DISCOVERED I THIS GAME ITS AS COMPLEX AS DWARF FORTRESS OR CVATACLYSM DARK DAYS AHEAD

I don't think you can reasonably expect a new player (myself) to own ALL dlc. if you're trying to explain something using dlc choices you are only going to steepen the already steep learning curve. How does a biginner know what is dlc or not?

jesus christ. "beginners" guide. "BEGINNERS"

Bro lost his voice for a week after recording this.

EN SIGN!

.75 playback speed👍

I wonder what the average IQ of this playerbase is lol

Slow down not only what your doing on screen cause cant keep up and understand what your clicking but also your speech you are talking so fast its more like a mosquito buzzing in my ear than words i can understand

your just click click click clicking, explain what your doing slowly as all i see is click click click clicking... Remember you know what your doing, people like me dont... Please go slowly especially on the start of a new game... I know less than i do before i watched...

Still new to Stellaris, but one thing I've noticed... why are leaders 80% female?

I REFUSE TO PLAY THE GAME THE GAME IS GREAT BUT TOO COMPLEX

quit 5 min in, way too fast for a beginners guide. and as always, todays beginner guides are for advanced players

a beginner's guide is 1h long? this game hates new players huh?

VICTORIA 2 IS THE BEST GAME BY PARADOX

PARADOX RUIN ALL THERE GAMES LIKE PRISON ARCHITECT

Whats the song you use in the first few minutes?