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Bujakaa said:
So guys anyone tried and playing new Stellaris update and DLC?
Watching videos and thinking to pull the trigger, but **** it will be time consuming to learn and play.

Is it too hard to get grips with Stellaris?
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I'm about to load up the update but for me stellaris is probably the easiest of the main paradox titles, I mean its complex but the early stage is done so well that it will guide you through it.

I mean learning curve wise for me from hardest to easiest Ive stuck well over 100 hours in each game too, not sure who else has these titles (Subtle, Tyton, Vanja, Gramps?)

CK2 (genuinely have zero idea whats going on in this game)>VIc2>EU4/HOI4>Stellaris

but that's only my opinion, but yeah I never once struggled with the learning curve in stellaris not like I have in the other titles but I am a paradox veteran tbf
 
Do not have Stellaris as I don't really like space games, even though its a grand strategy.
Crusader Kings 2 is complicated, like really, when you start the game. It's hard to manage everything since there's a LOT of things that you can do wrong. But after you learn thing or two, it's not that complicated. It focuses more on politics rather on combat ( which I find lackluster - basically if you have larger army, you win). However the shenanigans you can do to screw someone over is pretty in depth and amazing. Also Game of the thrones mod for CK2 is probably the best mod I played.

I would recommend sticking to vanilla EU4, since it's not that complicated. If you start with someone like Castille or Ottomans, you can learn basics really quickly. Note that vanilla EU4 is much more different than EUU4 with all the expansions. You'll lose hundreds and hundreds of hours trying new stuff. There's a new expansion focusing on Japan and it looks dope.
 
Bujakaa said:
EU and CK where not that hard for me. Have played those games a lot, specially EU. Big bonus for me is that I got a degree in History so I can get into history games like these bit easier.

Never got into space sim that much, but Stellaris looks amazing and first space one to try out for long run. Not used to Galaxy maps and so on, looked some late game maps, and they seem very hard to understand.
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If you are ok with those games then you will be fine with Stellaris all a case of whether you want a space game then.

Average Joe said:
Paradox sale discounts Stellaris, Cities: Skylines, Tyranny, Crusader Kings 2 | PC Gamer

Some of the games you guys are talking about are on sale by the looks
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Yeah its the token Paradox sale to accompany two massive DLC being released. I'm excited about Utopia but i cannot wait for the plans to be announced for HOI4 as that game really isn't far away from being a stonker imo
 
For me Stellaris-style open world space strategy was always the least favorite strategy subgenre. I am very geography oriented in how I play these games, I like to make medium-sized empires using natural borders as sort of a backbone. So that sort of total lack of structure on the map where you can expand endlessly in every direction is just annoying. Certainly intending to try Stellaris again once it gets enough expansions under its belt, but yeah, probably biased against that one.

I think HOI4 is easiest to start, they streamlined it a lot compared to previous games in the series, plus its WW2 so you know what's going on. The problem with medieval politics simulator is that to a lot of people it's about as alien as science-fiction, I've had a friend trying to learn CK2 and she was constantly like, how am I supposed to know this and that? EU and CK2 not only don't the game mechanics, they don't explain the history as well.
 
Bujakaa said:
So guys anyone tried and playing new Stellaris update and DLC?
Watching videos and thinking to pull the trigger, but **** it will be time consuming to learn and play.

Is it too hard to get grips with Stellaris?
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It's ******* incredible. We're doing a game right now when I'm playing as gene splicers, rushing forward to find bio organic tech. I started off with a subserviant slave race to do all of my manual labour and we have a semi symbiotic relationship. I scour the universe for atomic era civilisations, nurture them, get them to go the way I want, then bring them into my empire and modify them to suit my needs. I've recently created a race of migratory aliens like this, only they're ******* awful. All they're good at is moving and adapting to any planet, but they're weak, horrific and honestly complete ***. They are banned from resettling anywhere in my empire bar their breeding planet, but I have open emmigration for them, so they can leave. Basically I have created a biological plague race that are absolute dogshit and go infest other people's worlds and use up their resources, whilst causing discord. For pacifist and xenophilic empire, this is awful as they can't purge these abominations from their lands. My friend can't close borders because he is a xenophile and his major factions all want it to stay that way. He is slowly getting more and more frustrated as his empire fills up with garbage space snails and it's amazing.
 
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Also, Steel Division looks great. Eugen Systems are the most innovative RTS developer out there with their own unique brand of grand-scale RTS. Their R.U.S.E. is still one of my favorite games, and Wargame series has been amazing as well. Teaming with Paradox should give them a bit of marketing muscle so hopefully they'll can finally have well deserved big success.
 
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I don't understand why Blizzard decided to make Timewarp a card. In pretty much every single TCG imaginable, getting an extra turn in a row has been gamebreakingly stupid, to the point that printing balanced cards with that mechanic basically involves making everything else about them utter garbage. The fact that Blizzard have included it on a decent card, in a very good deck, with an infinite loop combo is just mindboggling. I get that Thaurissan and Ice Lance going to wild ****** Freeze mage, but replacing them with ******* Timewarp makes me feel like I'm playing football in the park but oh look John needs to go home now so I'm going to sub in Messi.
 
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I don't understand why Blizzard decided to make Timewarp a card. In pretty much every single TCG imaginable, getting an extra turn in a row has been gamebreakingly stupid, to the point that printing balanced cards with that mechanic basically involves making everything else about them utter garbage. The fact that Blizzard have included it on a decent card, in a very good deck, with an infinite loop combo is just mindboggling. I get that Thaurissan and Ice Lance going to wild ****** Freeze mage, but replacing them with ******* Timewarp makes me feel like I'm playing football in the park but oh look John needs to go home now so I'm going to sub in Messi.
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I'd like to know if they bothered properly testing the Rogue quest. That was just fking ridiculous-it's at the point I just auto-concede against Rogues now. The fact that even if you Hex an enemy minion it still ends up being a 5/5 because of Crystal Core is absolutely disgusting. And on top of the increasing costs of the game aswell has left this expansion with a bitter taste in my mouth. $50 for the pre-order and you don't even get half the expansion-you can buy a AAA game for that (in some cases a AAA special eedition). It's more expensive than Overwatch ffs.

Along with the fact that only 24 hours after release people were netdecking. All those new cards and people don't even make an effort-and these are people with legend card backs and full collections. The lemming mentality is just mind boggling. Blizzard have dumbed down the playerbase now that it's obvious the majority of players have lost the ability to at least try and make decks themselves. Reaching legend means absolutely nothing now due to how easy the game is.

I'd rather lose games with a homebrew deck than be forced into some lame *** meta where I'm using broken AF cards. Until they do something with the Rogue and Mage legendary's I simply refuse to craft the quest cards. And it's a shame as I love playing Rogue decks. Sticking with Priest.

Apart from that I'm not really salty...............
 
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Everything else aside, the model is so greedy I will never pay for another Blizzard game. I used to put money into OW because I think Kaplan is fantastic but I refuse to support a company that disrespects their fans to this extent. Wrote a short, polite email, sent it to them and will now never put another penny towards their products. Did it the same to The Guardian back in 2015 over the vile hatemongering **** they posted in CiF for clicks, did it to Dota back in the same year for their absurd greed, will keep my word with it just like then. Doubt it will even be read but that isn't the point.
 
Endless Space Collection for £1 on Steam. Good entry point to space based X4. I'm buying it. For that price it's a no-brainer
 
ajt09 said:
Endless Space Collection for £1 on Steam. Good entry point to space based X4. I'm buying it. For that price it's a no-brainer
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Endless Space 2 about to come out and supposedly way better though.
 
Subtle said:
Endless Space 2 about to come out and supposedly way better though.
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Aye it's the reason for the £1. First one isn't too bad though and I can use it as a refresher of the genre. If I don't play a certain type of game for more than 2 days I'm rusty as ****. So god knows what I'll be like after my month away from World of Warcraft............
 
Stellaris Utopia, wow just absolute ******* wow! This is the game we all wanted and finally it has arrived. Now if you can work your magic on HOI4 that would be most excellent
 
Bujakaa said:
In my first playthrough mid game, it is amazing game. But some aspects already are bit strange and need updating. Mostly war aspects, warscore, fleet management (that I dont have to manually build them all for example, maybe u could save a template of your different fleets), in battle bit more control what is going on maybe?
It is very good, but like all their game, some tweaking is needed.
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You wont get more control as its paradox and war is abstracted. Best we can maybe hope for is formation settings but even then unlikely. Same with warscore its a paradox thing but you will get used to it but it does change from patch to patch.

Is there not a template setting? Honestly no idea EU4 has one so I imagine Stellaris will get it at some point. It will forever be tweaked but we are finally getting there after a long wait. It needs performance tweaks first imo as mid to late game slowdown is noticeable
 
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