Paradox have today launched the new Season 09 Expansion Pass, which initially launches with the Stargazer Species Portrait. There's stuff that's actually interesting to come though, but you have to wait until May 5th.
    • voracitude@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      16 days ago

      Take the following with a boulder of salt as I haven’t even finished a single campaign yet, but:

      I’ve found it a lot slower than even most of the 4X games I’ve played. It seems much more story- and exploration-focused than Master of Orion or anything like Starcraft; there are a great many cool things to find on the map. Diplomacy is your main path to victory, military conquest seems almost discouraged. To actually conquer worlds you invade, you have to assert a claim beforehand. Simply flooding the system with troops and ships and killing everything that isn’t your empire doesn’t work for some reason.

      It was fine, but I don’t think I really understand it. If you’re after recommendations, though, do you like The Expanse? You might like Starsector, if yes and you haven’t played it.

      • terabytes@lemm.eeEnglish
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        16 days ago

        Diplomacy is your main path to victory, military conquest seems almost discouraged. To actually conquer worlds you invade, you have to assert a claim beforehand. Simply flooding the system with troops and ships and killing everything that isn’t your empire doesn’t work for some reason.

        Devouring swarms simply don’t have this problem.

    • Weslee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      16 days ago

      I pirated it to test it and I really enjoyed it, I went to buy it and the moment I saw over 30 dlcs (around £250) I noped out and never went back.

    • mitchty@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Stellaris is a trip, don’t buy it expecting Mario. The fun is in adapting to random events and where you start. I’m biased but my fave thing to do is to enslave empires that eff me over early game by bio engineering their population to be sapient livestock. The game is awesome but it’s deep. Be prepared to lose.

    • triing@reddthat.comEnglish
      31·
      16 days ago

      Because it’s fucking epic and amazing fun! A true gem. Buy the DLCs when Steam Sales come up and it’s actually not all that expensive, given AAA games are hitting £80 at new these days, getting a game that’s been extensively fleshed out with DLC for around the same on sale is a bargain, and the game play runs incredibly deeply. It is one big management tapestry, optimisation of your planets, your sectors, your systems, your leadership, your scientists, your fleets etc etc etc - there are so many ways to play it. It’s fucking amazing and the music kicks ass.

        • triing@reddthat.comEnglish
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          15 days ago

          Ooh I hope you enjoy it! It’s a steep learning curve but once you start getting the hang of things it becomes very addicting.

    • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
      2·
      16 days ago

      Didn’t regret buying it. They normally have super sales for base game and there are tons of mods. Issue is campaign length is long.

    • 10001110101@lemm.eeEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Haven’t played it in years, but really liked it. Probably have hundreds of hours in it. I really liked a Star Trek total conversion too.

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    One of the many games in my steam library that I bought and still haven’t played. I need to force myself to play some games…