Next DLC

[Yámáto]

....should be ONLY performance, Im willing to pay 20 € just for that.

Im not trying to make fun of pdx or anything, I greatly appreciate the good work on Le guin patch, I love the new economy.

 

[Fourthspartan56]

I laughed

Personally, to be more serious I'd like a story pack. I'd rather Paradox focus on performance improvements, QoL changes, and other needed free content without investing too many resources on a full expansion. A story pack could provide some nice new content and revenue stream for Paradox without overly taxing their resources.

 

[Eled the Worm Tamer]

If we are seeinga story pack, how about something on internal politics /culture shifts and generational conflicts? That would lead intoa diplomacy rework nicely too.

 

[Nirmara]

The devs intent to focus on QoL, bug fixing and performances point toward a patch without an accompagning DLC.

Edit : A specie pack would be a possibility. (I really hope we get one for machine empire)

 

[Delthor]

A specie pack would be a possibility. (I really hope we get one for machine empire)

I'd love to have the main team focus on quality for a while, with the art team releasing a species pack for machines. It's really sad that there are something like 100 portraits for organic races, but only 9 for machine empires. They could at least increase it to the 15-20 all the other categories have. Plus, I'd love to see some machine empire portraits that are distinctly machine and not available for robots. Things like an abstract hologram or a server rack that has no anthropomorphic traits. Machines shouldn't all use a mechanical version of biological bodies.

 

[Ramiren]

I'm all for them fixing their game in a patch, but I'll be damned if I'm paying for it. We already paid for the content and it was supposed to be working, it isn't and that's on Paradox and their management. If there's an open beta and they need bug reports I'll help out but other than that it's not incumbent upon me to pay to have their mess cleaned up.

 

[Olliganak]

Personally I suspect the next big patch will be mostly QoL focused, probably released alongside another ship/portrait pack.

A specie pack would be a possibility. (I really hope we get one for machine empire)

A machine empire species pack seems unlikely, simply because machine empires were released as a DLC, and I don't think PDX will want to be known as the company that released a DLC that requires another DLC to use (see: EA with that one pet clothes DLC), but hopefully we will get new machines portraits anyways, either as a small part of other dlcs, or as part of free updates.

 

[Talanic]

I'm all for them fixing their game in a patch, but I'll be damned if I'm paying for it. We already paid for the content and it was supposed to be working, it isn't and that's on Paradox and their management. If there's an open beta and they need bug reports I'll help out but other than that it's not incumbent upon me to pay to have their mess cleaned up.

That's why people are saying story pack or graphics. QOL fixes in the free patch, story pack or portraits as DLC.

 

[Molikroth]

They haven't charged us for bug fixes yet, I can't imagine that's going to start now.

 

[Fourthspartan56]

I'm all for them fixing their game in a patch, but I'll be damned if I'm paying for it. We already paid for the content and it was supposed to be working, it isn't and that's on Paradox and their management. If there's an open beta and they need bug reports I'll help out but other than that it's not incumbent upon me to pay to have their mess cleaned up.

I don't know why you're taking OP literally, they're obviously joking.

 

[Livigy]

I would like to see some story packs tied to the mutually exclusive civics and the unremoveable civics. Some quest chains decisions events etc to help flesh out some of the internal flavour of taking on those civics.

 

[Ramiel]

As with how the game's always done, next DLC is almost certain to be a Story Pack, making some neat new content without any drastic underlying changes so the team can spend a large chunk of time and resources working on further QoL/performance/AI improvements.
My best guess would be some kind of new species-type playstyle, like silicoid/mineral races. Though a hefty Strategic Resource overhaul/expansion would be nice too, and allow more development on the current resources for the free component.

 

[Foefaller]

Next DLC will probably be a species pack with balance and QoL changes. Think the big three people have been asking for are Dinosaurs, Fish/sea mammals, and silicon based life.

Could also be a story pack. I would personally like the next one focused on primitive civilizations. Events for first contact, more interactions, maybe some unique forms of primitives (like maybe one that is quite advanced, just have never figured out FTL) plus some starter civics for empires who might have had first contact with another race before FTL.

 

[Jambrandt]

PDX alternates between story packs and expansions. Usually it's 10 months between major expansions so I think we could see Diplomacy around October next year. They usually release the story pack around 4 months after a major expansion.

 

[Eled the Worm Tamer]

Of corse the unexpected kitten on our wrapping table is that the game has a new Director who may direct it in another direction, so we really have to wait and see hwohe thinks it should go.

 

[Blurb]

....should be ONLY performance, Im willing to pay 20 € just for that.

Im not trying to make fun of pdx or anything, I greatly appreciate the good work on Le guin patch, I love the new economy.

Paradox releases an update (and accompanying DLC for €20) which introduces several ridiculous bugs.
Now you're begging for the chance to pay another €20 to get a game that's properly working.
As I see it, that's condoning and promoting a very unsanitary business model.