Stellaris

Rip my weekend plans.

Not sure if it is delirious with the flu, but this really, really feels like a 'whole new game'.

I have to wait until next payday to get it, bah. At least I get to play with the changes, minus the new ships and whatnot until then.

So, what's the verdict with the purchased version vs. just the update?

Leviathan is the other DLC with some content iirc. Not as big as Utopia, but it adds some new encounters, independant stations you can interact with and I think FE fighting each other as a possibilty.

I think it is worth it when it is on sale. Gives you more to do in mid game.

LachiusTZ said:

What the fuck, forced starlanes?

Spent a few hours playing around with all the DLCs . . . not sure if I like the forced starlanes thing or not . .

Its the single reason I never picked up the recent MOO game

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There are jump drives and stuff that you can unlock later.

LachiusTZ said:

What the fuck, forced starlanes?

Spent a few hours playing around with all the DLCs . . . not sure if I like the forced starlanes thing or not . .

Its the single reason I never picked up the recent MOO game

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I havnt looked but I bet a mod was made to enable old wormholes/warp about 5 minutes after this dlc came out.

Game is much, much slower early with forced Hyperlanes. There is a toggle to speed up tech advancement in the game set-up at the start of a campaign, but I have not fiddled with it yet.

Got the 'Rise of the Machines' achievement (remove all biological entities from the game) just by starting a game. Turns out, the other four empires were all robots as well. GG Random AI.

Looking forward to play robots or swarm again. Genociding my way through the galaxy is just my cup of tea.

Looking at purchasing the game. It looks like from the post above I should consider Utopia and Leviathans or just get the discounted bundle.
Would it be best to pick up Apocalypse straight away too?

How good is the AI in this game?

Drat said:

How good is the AI in this game?

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If it's the AI empires, it's decent and in my opinion way better than Civ VI or some other 4X games. On the other hand if it's your own sector AI, it's downright retarded and needs to be babysat all the time. Forcing hyperlanes removed some of the silly jumping around all over the place trying to catch their fleets part, especially now that you have to travel inside the systems to the other edge. But like someone said, it also slowed down travelling by a lot. Even thought I had a lucky gateway that went from one end of my empire to the other, when a Fallen Empire declared a humiliation war (I turned into perfect machines and they were holy guardians), they took 5 systems before I got my fleets there to meet them. It was kind of silly also that I had 4 fleets of 32-40k power with 5-6star admirals and the galactic contender tradition thing and lost 33% of my ships to a 99k fleet that lost only 3 ships but fled when their power was at 50k, all because of the new running away during the fight thing (of course they had tech edge but only a tier or two). Thought I could take them on because I had just kicked the khan's ass (the new mid game crisis, they stood no chance).

The AI in this gets very predictable once youve learned what to look for. They seem to be coded around triggers, once you pop one the AI has an immediate response based on that trigger and their government.

Not enjoying the update at all.

They've slowed the early game down to a crawl, if you get no space minerals in your close systems you're just completely fucked because the mineral sinks are enormous now.

I picked up Utopia and Syn. Dawn in Dec. I like them both. Especially making a homicidal robot race.

I skipped Leviathans, though. Didn't really feel necessary.