Stellaris Game Info

[adrians69]

I've just got to say I am stoked for this game, can NOT wait!!

 

[Togee]

Hmm, I am afraid that would translate into no, then , because EUIV seems to be on the edge of what (last generation, from 4000) Intel graphics can handle properly.

Well buy an GTX 950/r7 260X

 

[brylex]

So hyped Can't wait

 

[Roguemonaut]

Can't stop the hype train! I can't wait till this comes out.

 

[piroxeno]

Well buy an GTX 950/r7 260X

Easy to say, more expensive to do.

Will wait and see if it is enough, if not bad luck!

 

[Igorovitch]

I'm no sure to understand '' french being my first language and not English so ...'' This game is already ready and buyable, or it is developping right now ? It sure seem to be a great game, can't wait to play.

 

[Thure]

I'm no sure to understand '' french being my first language and not English so ...'' This game is already ready and buyable, or it is developping right now ? It sure seem to be a great game, can't wait to play.

It's close to beta testing. You can't buy it currently and it's not finally finished.

 

[Essecibo]

i hope Hans Zimmer will make the music. musics like Time would be awesome

 

[Kepheren]

I am so excited for this to come out! Tried to play my old Masters of Orion 3 game last night to tide me over but couldn't get it to install and run on this pc. Major bummer there.

 

[Sir Pellew]

i hope Hans Zimmer will make the music. musics like Time would be awesome

I think his salary is only payable for Paradox if we all preorder 20 copies

He's doing great music. Chevaliers de sangreal and Time was epic

 

[Sam L]

When can we pre-order?

 

[Potkin]

this game sounds somewhat similar to distant worlds, hope for same level of automation but paradox level of diplomacy.

 

[badbromance]

Waiting for packaged game and deep discount is definitely the way to go. I plunked $50 down simply because I loved GCII and wanted to support Statdock. HUGE mistake! GCIII has been a huge dissapointment to date. Been trying to improve it through modding but the game is currently less balanced than GCII, and CPU controlled factions play absurdly wonky. It is beyond frustrating at this point.

Needless to say I cannot wait for Stellaris.

GCIII is...not very good, and I think that's a pretty big understatement. No espionage system, absolutely terrible AI, uninteresting invasion mechanics, combat is almost exactly the same thing as in GCII, it just has more variables and a ship role system that doesn't seem to change much. The campaign is an absolute joke. There are only three missions and for 2 of them you're given a ship that single-handedly screws up enemy fleets, AND you're also given huge fleets. They also copypasted the single worst mechanic from GCII (starbase upgrading) straight into the sequel with no fixes whatsoever. I'm willing the bet the DLC nickel and diming will be humongous.

To me this tells me exactly how worthless early access is. The game is much worse than GCII and yet still manages to be similar in all respects, which also makes it boring. It's a mechanically worse version of GCII with shiny graphics.

I hope Stellaris won't be merely EU4 in space. Honestly I really dig the POP system à la Vicky 2 and the RPG-lite characters à la CK2. But there are errors that Paradox has committed in the making of EU4 that must not be repeated here. I don't want to see sci-fi mana, for instace.

 

[Demiansky]

When using a country_flag, do you need to do anything more than set the flag? I'm still a little foggy on how flags work.

 

[Heath-Bar]

This game could be the answer to my dreams if they (the awesome people at paradox) can pull it off! I'm so excited! Gal Civ 3 is okay but really lacks depth in diplomacy and a few other areas.

 

[Tuscan]

Very interesting! I'll be keeping an eye on this.

 

[JediBear]

can you elaborate? are you talking about size of theprocedurally generated game? or the various features?

there is tactical combat. the only known caveat is that you can't directly control your ships during combat, though its been hinted that there are things you can do to prepare for a battle.

emergent storytelling means that there's no previously esablished story. and yes characters are confirmed so there is an RPG element much like CK2

1. It is written "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."

So, the question is twofold. First, just how much interstellar real-estate are we talking here? A single galaxy, of which there are billions in the universe, can be thousands of light-years across. Traditional space strategy games don't operate on this kind of scale. Second, what level of representation are we talking about here? Planets? Star Systems? Space Counties containing dozens or hundreds of stars? For reference, our Galaxy (which is big, but not unusually so) contains around 200-400 billion stars.

So my expectation is that we'll be fighting over star systems in a constrained little chunk of space rather than fighting over the whole galaxy, but there's a lot more room out there and if you try for truly galactic strategy, it can get unmanageable fast.

2. So, something like Gratuitous Space Battles? I could be down with that.

3. EUIV technically has characters too. They just matter a lot less.

 

[BraveLunatic]

Stop the hype, please!! I'm already so excited to get this game!

 

[Tuttu]

I'm really looking forward this one. Finally, a Grand Strategy game set in space !

 

[AKronblad]

I would really love if there is some mystery attached to this, like there being only humans initially but alien life forms appearing later in different shapes and forms and on different planets, a little like Prometheus.