Mammalian Platypus - How do we get the avatar now?

[Greyhound_Gen.]

So you didn't get a portrait, big whoop. There are more important things in life to cry about than this. Get over yourselves and play the game.

Just because something is not important to you does not mean that it is not important to someone else.

I personally have never cared about any kind of professional sport. However - I have seen grown men cry when their favourite team did not win a match. Obviously it is something that is important and significant to them. Just because it's not important to me doesn't mean it would be okay for me to be disparaging and condescending about it.

What you are saying here is essentially: 'this doesn't matter to me so it shouldn't matter to you either - you are in the wrong for caring about the thing you care about'. Perhaps you should take your own advice first and 'get over yourself'?

You aren't the only one in this thread who has made a comment along these. The same applies to the rest of you too - just because someone thinks differently to you doesn't mean their opinion is inferior. Try being a bit more respectful to others.

 

[Holgast]

Okay, I had something weird happen. As mentioned in my first post here, I had the platypus no problem, it came with my game on launch, but now it's disappeared from my game. I had always thought it was a preorder bonus, because myself and at least one other person who preordered got it. I don't have access to it anymore so I'm not sure what's going on.

Maybe it was only meant for Augustus players, given to me by mistake and revoked at some point? It was gone with the latest patch.

 

[Druesling]

I'm pretty sure that for now it was only meant for augustus players. But it's a bit confusing in the DLC tab of the loader. It took me a while to figure out what exactly this "Project Augustus Sign up bonus" is, since the "Symbols of domination" is the flag pack.
I guess the former are the platypus and the paradox empire symbol.

 

[Peter Wass]

Simple solution. Wait six months and flog it for $20.

 

[Space_Owl]

We've discussed this, and we will sort it out. If you don't have the signup rewards, don't sweat it. We'll solve it for you. More info later.

We're still waiting for an answer.

 

[VoodooEconomist]

Simple solution. Wait six months and flog it for $20.

We're still waiting for an answer.

See, @Peter Wass ? I warned you. You've awoken the Space Owl from their slumber...

 

[Ragatokk]

What is dead may never die.

 

[VoodooEconomist]

With strange eons even death may die...

But while we're here - the sign-up bonus for HOI4 was decided to be released publicly: sign-up participants receive a forum icon, wallpaper and strategy guide exclusively, while the cosmetic rocket artillery pack will be given to all.

So I think the chances for a free platypus for all are not that slim

 

[efdi]

As an owner of the Galaxy Edition, i too would like to be able to get my hands on the platypus avatar, either free of charge (since i do have the galaxy edition...) or paid.

 

[Brent15]

Not reading the entire thread but I would like to be able to buy that race. Its one of the coolest looking ones I've seen.

 

[Brawler]

I just discovered about creatures of the void pre-order bonus. I don't have this in my game despite having ordered my copy a month in advance prior to release. How do I activate/receive my pre-order bonus for Stellaris?

Also missed out on this other platypus thing but not too stressed about that one.

 

[Druesling]

I just discovered about creatures of the void pre-order bonus. I don't have this in my game despite having ordered my copy a month in advance prior to release. How do I activate/receive my pre-order bonus for Stellaris?

Also missed out on this other platypus thing but not too stressed about that one.

Did you preorder through steam? If not I would take it to your the vendor who sold the preorder to you. If yes, I would write an email to support at paradox.

 

[Brawler]

Did you preorder through steam? If not I would take it to your the vendor who sold the preorder to you. If yes, I would write an email to support at paradox.

Thanks for advice, I emailed the vendor. I didn't even realise there was any pre-order stuff until I saw some races in a lets play the other day that are not available in my game.

Edit: That was quick customer service. Turns out it doesn't include the pre-order bonus. What a rort. Then why have option to pre-order on their site which was specifically called pre-order.

Oh well lesson learnt, won't be using that vendor again. I'll just consider myself a special snowflake without any pre-order and platypus stuffs..

 

[Mohreb]

Brawler, you should still notice Paradox about it, they might be interested if someone is reselling keys with misleading names.
As for the platypus, as long as they are not able to make a minigame that runs correctly, it should be considered to give it to everyone.

 

[Brawler]

On your suggestion I raised a support call on it. I don't think anything can be done about it now but the fact that the vendor probably banked the money from a lot of customers till the last minute then cheated them out of the pre-order bonus is quite disgusting so perhaps something can be done about it with future releases, moving forward.

 

[CurseUppl]

I'm unsure if I even want to play the game anymore even if I could due to all the crap... It's stuttering so bad on my 4790K, 980 GTX, 16GB, Raid 0 SSDs that it's pretty much unplayable.

That's pretty impressive, considering the game runs well on my 2600K, 780 GTX, 8GB RAM PC, and I play with max AI and 1000 stars.

Post your save file, then I can tell you whether something is wrong with your hardware or not. Or maybe you mean it stutters on 3 speed? In which case all Paradox games do this, regardless of how super-clocked your PC is.

 

[VoodooEconomist]

On your suggestion I raised a support call on it. I don't think anything can be done about it now but the fact that the vendor probably banked the money from a lot of customers till the last minute then cheated them out of the pre-order bonus is quite disgusting so perhaps something can be done about it with future releases, moving forward.

Could you share the name of the vendor as a warning?

 

[Tempte]

I just realised I dont have this portrait, even tho I spent 10s of thousands of clicks in that awful game.

Might just be better to release them for all, for goodwill, as it seemed like it was unlocked for everyone at the time anyway

 

[Baarogue]

As a preorder customer who signed up for the newsletter, watched the Blorg videos, and yet somehow never even heard about this clicker game, I too would like a means to acquire the extra portraits and flags.

 

[steven1mac]

I just realised I dont have this portrait, even tho I spent 10s of thousands of clicks in that awful game.

Might just be better to release them for all, for goodwill, as it seemed like it was unlocked for everyone at the time anyway

Check your Paradox account, it should be in the key section since you have the icon for it in you should have it.