Is it worth playing yet?

[Bintang9]

Pre-ordered Stelkaris when it first came out and found addictive as hell for a couple of weeks. Then just lost interest due to lack of depth and a few deeply annoying mechanics. Always figured Paradox would eventually sort it out.

How's the game now. Worth playing, or better to wait for Utopia?

 

[Mauer]

If you found some of the release mechanics too irritating to keep playing, then I'd say wait until Utopia. The game is definitely better now than at launch, but it may not be better enough for you.

Utopia will apparently address many of the more common criticisms of the game as of now.

 

[Bintang9]

Yeah. I'm sure I'm going to love this game eventually. I think it's got some good foundations. I never had any complaints about the state it was in. No less finished than endless legend is now really. Just could be so much more immersive once internal politics and trade/economy are added in

 

[Sanny]

Wait until Utopia if you're wanting the best experience. The game is very good right now just a little bit shallow. But more and more depth is being added to it with every update.

 

[prismaticmarcus]

Pre-ordered Stelkaris when it first came out and found addictive as hell for a couple of weeks. Then just lost interest due to lack of depth and a few deeply annoying mechanics. Always figured Paradox would eventually sort it out.

How's the game now. Worth playing, or better to wait for Utopia?

why not just try it and see for yourself?

 

[Zwollenaer]

It was always worth playing.
I can't motive myself to play again until the Utopia DLC comes out because it adds so much stuff I've always wanted in Stellaris. It has me almost as hyped as I was pre-release.

 

[terrycloth]

Pre-ordered Stelkaris when it first came out and found addictive as hell for a couple of weeks. Then just lost interest due to lack of depth and a few deeply annoying mechanics. Always figured Paradox would eventually sort it out.

How's the game now. Worth playing, or better to wait for Utopia?

Which mechanics were annoying? They changed some stuff but not everything.

 

[zanaikin]

It really depends on what you came here for.

If you want very deep mechanics for you to strategize and exploit (especially in war/combat), there are tons of competitors better than Stellaris.

If you want to actually roleplay a space-faring civilization, to feel like you're experiencing the story of a species as they head into the stars, Stellaris is better than any 4X I've played.

If you want to understand some of the problems plaguing us today, like cultural clashes brought by immigration waves, by using science fiction as a mirror of modern sociopolitics (like any good scifi should be) Stellaris is also better than anything else I've played.

 

[Bintang9]

I'd quite like something that doesn't constantly crash right now. Just been playing for two hours and 2 ctds.

Like some of the UI improvements. Haven't seen that much else new yet.

 

[Bintang9]

And third time. Bit fed up with it really. No mods running. Seems a little buggy still for 9-10 months in

 

[Neocv]

I only started playing stellaris a couple of months(2-3, I don't remember now) after the release, so I don't know exactly how it was in the very beginning, but looking in the dev diaries and from experience there were some nice changes in the game, nothing too big, but were nice and improved the game. The Leviathans DLC added some nice stuff too and the Horizon Signal DLC basically only added a chain event(it was free and was rather big so I'm not complaining).
I'm currently waiting the Utopia DLC release to start playing again, the features seem really cool so playing now just seems empty.

 

[GamerSteve]

I dunno, I play MP all the time; I have 186 hours logged, again in MP mostly, which I'd think would be more crash prone than solo, and I have never had a CTD. Might wanna check how your system is allocating resources, especially RAM.

 

[grandad1982]

And third time. Bit fed up with it really. No mods running. Seems a little buggy still for 9-10 months in

Never had it CTD. Make a tech support submission.

 

[safe-keeper]

Ask again after 1.5 comes out .

It's absolutely better than at release, though. Lots of things make far more sense now, diplomacy has been reworked a bit, for example.

 

[Strager]

Not quite there yet. A friend bought it before I could so I've been playing on and off when he doesn't need his laptop and found it similarly incomplete. Trying it again with each new patch and it's just not quite ready yet. To be honest I don't think Utopia is going to add enough but most likely by the following major expansion it should be ready.

 

[Melabranche]

No.
Still lack of diversity, and a free feature (Factions and Unity system) is, from whot I see, only a illusion of diversity. But "Utopia", as a paid feature, will maybe give something special / interesting like mega-structures. Maybe...

 

[Adamsrealm]

In short. Without mods. No.

It has very little replay value and using different ethics doesn't provide a distinct experience for each combo.
-Fleet combat is floored. And boring.
-Static defences suck.
-Diplomacy is a mess.
-Sectors AI managment is arbitrary (which it shouldn't be)
-Recourses have very little value overall (not strategy for depriving enemies of them)
-Weapons are not balanced.
-Impossible to defend a planet without a fleet.
-End game seriously lack luster (cap repeatable techs so it can get interesting near the end)
-Food should be a global resource
-Strategic recourses have little to no value, with the exception of terraforming liquids/gases (they are very useful)
-Wargoal/Warscore system encourages empire flattening in a single war.
-End game crisis are underwhelming as a whole, even the war in heaven was a washout for me.

That's a short and concise list as well...

 

[Summin Cool]

1.5 is looking like a fun update.

As mentioned there are concerns about the game however. They should be ironed out in time.

 

[thekaje]

Hi there! I'm a bit in the same boat.

Although I know Paradox is brilliant and everything they do is amazing, I too was a bit disappointed (!) by Stellaris.

Threads like yours pop up before every expansion or patch, and people always say to wait until the "next expansion" (or patch), because this is when it'll get really good! So I'm waiting for that "next expansion"!!

 

[Pavane]

I dunno, I play MP all the time; I have 186 hours logged, again in MP mostly, which I'd think would be more crash prone than solo, and I have never had a CTD. Might wanna check how your system is allocating resources, especially RAM.

I've never had a crash in single player or multi-player.