Stellaris (Grand Strategy, Paradox)
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moosenoodles




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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd May 2016 14:55    Post subject:
Silent_Lurker wrote:
@zmed Gratz for your meeting and thanks for the info anyway Wink

Also, dat galaxy map Shocked


reminiscent of eve onlines main star map linkage style.
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farne




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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd May 2016 15:23    Post subject:
Hope there's a honeycomb pattern style. Looks so unorganized.
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scaramonga




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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd May 2016 19:31    Post subject:
farne wrote:
Hope there's a honeycomb pattern style. Looks so unorganized.


Rolling Eyes

....and space is organized?
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Silent_Lurker




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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd May 2016 20:07    Post subject:
Now that you mentioned it ...

I always wondered why blue stars were all to the left, white stars in the center and red ones to the right.

Makes sense. Mr. Green


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Prandur




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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd May 2016 20:47    Post subject:
Oh fuck I just realized this is releasing on 9 May? Is that true?

My hype level went from "interested but it's coming out far far in the future" to "OMG I gotta finish DS3 before this beauty comes out" Smile
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scaramonga




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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd May 2016 21:19    Post subject:
Yup, Monday Very Happy , which is a weird day for a release, but hey.
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grechzoo




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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd May 2016 22:28    Post subject:
any good video that really does a great job of going over the details of the gameplay. somehting that isn;t a 1hour plus livestream?

Im a massive CKII fan, believe its one of the greatest games ever designed and excuted honestly. So this game seems to be a dream for me. but I haven;t tracked it at all...have no idea what going on with it.
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PostPosted: Wed, 4th May 2016 00:15    Post subject:
grechzoo wrote:
any good video that really does a great job of going over the details of the gameplay. somehting that isn;t a 1hour plus livestream?

Im a massive CKII fan, believe its one of the greatest games ever designed and excuted honestly. So this game seems to be a dream for me. but I haven;t tracked it at all...have no idea what going on with it.

Yeah, thorough gameplay videos/sessions like the ones posted by Zmed definitely are the only way in my opinion to have a clear idea about all the details and intricacies in the game. Smile

I've actually tried to avoid knowing too much because I like to discover stuff by myself as per usual, but perhaps an useful "in a nutshell" short recap is the official trailer that Djaoni posted a while back:
djaoni wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Huuacl6oqI
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scaramonga




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PostPosted: Wed, 4th May 2016 00:37    Post subject:
I'm sure once the embargo lifts, the tube will fill with let's plays just before release Smile
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fawe4




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PostPosted: Wed, 4th May 2016 16:18    Post subject:
grechzoo wrote:
any good video that really does a great job of going over the details of the gameplay. somehting that isn;t a 1hour plus livestream?

Im a massive CKII fan, believe its one of the greatest games ever designed and excuted honestly. So this game seems to be a dream for me. but I haven;t tracked it at all...have no idea what going on with it.


There's lots of devs from CKII on this one. It's still primarily a 4x space strategy, but you have plenty of gameplay elements from CKII and EU4 in this one. I'd say it's just a bit simplified overall, especially the combat. It has same system for leaders, generals, and different government options with elections as in CKII. Council is replaced by three scientists doing your research. Obviously, game is without family and direct succession, but leaders and explorers do age, and can die. Explorers are now the primary quest giver. You put them on unarmed ship and they explore anomalies, that can give you well written and branching text quests like those in CKII.

Another thing that is very similair is diplomacy and empire building. You have plenty of familiar options there. +/- opinion system. Vasals, allies, coalitions against you, and you even have an option to create an empire, or form a permanent alliance of different nations that they call federation.

They now have endings, and various end game invasions and fun things that should rise challenge in endgame. Extended Sunset Invasion option, I guess.

What's different the most to any game that they did is completely different map approach. Star systems in place of provinces, and they give you an option of three quite different approaches of travelling among them. https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-4-means-of-travel.886502/
This is something that will effect the gameplay the most. It's new for them, new for AI, new for combat, and something that I still don't know how it'll work out even thought I watched a lot of videos.
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grechzoo




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PostPosted: Wed, 4th May 2016 21:17    Post subject:
Thanks fawe4 and Ixi for that info and link. Sounds amazing.

I didn't really get into EU4, (CKII was still my only obsession though...)

Going to give this a proper try. Want to get back into gaming, and paradox are probably the ones to do it. Ixi, Ill follow your lead, the trailer and Fawe4's info was enough for me to bite, wont spoils myself anymore.
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zmed




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PostPosted: Thu, 5th May 2016 06:47    Post subject:
Couple LPs, seems the embargo is finally up.

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deadpoetic




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PostPosted: Thu, 5th May 2016 18:26    Post subject:
Im not usually a big fan of 4X games but this one looks amazing! Can't wait to try it out!
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PostPosted: Thu, 5th May 2016 18:47    Post subject:
deadpoetic wrote:
Im not usually a big fan of 4X games but this one looks amazing! Can't wait to try it out!


Big fan of the genre in general but the likes of galciv I just couldn't get into - Stellaris looks brilliant though, might end up sinking 100s of hours into it.

And even then it'd only be a fraction of how much I've played Civ. Embarassed
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zmed




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PostPosted: Fri, 6th May 2016 01:54    Post subject:
Holy shit, dat Unbidden invasion...



For context, the Unbidden are a late-game disaster thing, where an empire abuses some form of esoteric FTL tech, rips a hole in reality, and extra-dimensional energy beings flood into the galaxy, killing everything.
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deadpoetic




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PostPosted: Fri, 6th May 2016 14:19    Post subject:
Pre hurr durred it! First strategy game I preorder in my life!

#YOLO

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fawe4




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PostPosted: Fri, 6th May 2016 14:52    Post subject:
Love those generic names. Shenn'Tell Assemby of Systems, Holy Savix'Qast Confederacy, Assembly of Churassix...
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zmed




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PostPosted: Fri, 6th May 2016 15:01    Post subject:
Of course they are bland. They are randomly put together, and the name-gen only has so much to chose from, since it's supposedly taking everything from name-lists.

Just wait until the modders start to tinker with it, add ridiculous new possibilities, and throwing it into the name-gen blender. Smile
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PostPosted: Fri, 6th May 2016 15:06    Post subject:
fawe4 wrote:
Assembly of Churassix...


I'll wipe them out, clone them with frog DNA, put them in cages and call it... Churassix Park! Pffchh


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PostPosted: Fri, 6th May 2016 15:20    Post subject:
Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No???? Y U No????

Sad


release still too far :I


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PostPosted: Fri, 6th May 2016 15:48    Post subject:
mtj wrote:
Sad


release still too far :I


I would say release is spot on, just after Overwatch free open beta Very Happy


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fawe4




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PostPosted: Fri, 6th May 2016 17:24    Post subject:
zmed wrote:
Of course they are bland. They are randomly put together, and the name-gen only has so much to chose from, since it's supposedly taking everything from name-lists.

Just wait until the modders start to tinker with it, add ridiculous new possibilities, and throwing it into the name-gen blender. Smile


Check your sarcasm detector, it appears to be malfunctioning.

What their generator came up is better than most names for original aliens in other games.
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zmed




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PostPosted: Fri, 6th May 2016 19:07    Post subject:


All right then. Smile

To be honest, that 'generic' threw me off. Plus in the LPs I watched, every player used very bland empire names (X Republic, Y Empire, Z Collective, etc). Since I didn't pay attention to the AI ones, I kinda rolled with it. Very Happy
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djvelho




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PostPosted: Fri, 6th May 2016 21:06    Post subject:
just watched Giantbomb´s quicklook live.

Mind Is Full Of Fuck

man....it´s looks crazy on my eyes but still pretty cool.
never kind of played 4x games. just tried a bit.
have to tried this one on isodemo then maybe buying this game Smile
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Badrien




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PostPosted: Sun, 8th May 2016 02:57    Post subject:
So close now cant wait! anyone know what the actual release time is? what TZ etc


RTX ON
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scaramonga




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PostPosted: Sun, 8th May 2016 03:05    Post subject:
Badrien wrote:
So close now cant wait! anyone know what the actual release time is? what TZ etc


1800 (6:00 PM) GMT.
2000 (8:00 PM) Sweden.
1400 (2:00 PM) EST.

Have a play about, meantime, with this...

http://stellarisspeciesgen.com/

Smile
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Badrien




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PostPosted: Sun, 8th May 2016 06:32    Post subject:
scaramonga wrote:
Badrien wrote:
So close now cant wait! anyone know what the actual release time is? what TZ etc


1800 (6:00 PM) GMT.
2000 (8:00 PM) Sweden.
1400 (2:00 PM) EST.

Have a play about, meantime, with this...

http://stellarisspeciesgen.com/

Smile


Ah darn ... then again whats a few more hours. Thanks for the link!
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Prandur




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PostPosted: Sun, 8th May 2016 13:25    Post subject:
Badrien wrote:
scaramonga wrote:
Badrien wrote:
So close now cant wait! anyone know what the actual release time is? what TZ etc


1800 (6:00 PM) GMT.
2000 (8:00 PM) Sweden.
1400 (2:00 PM) EST.

Have a play about, meantime, with this...

http://stellarisspeciesgen.com/

Smile


Ah darn ... then again whats a few more hours. Thanks for the link!


Are those times for 9 or 8 April (i.e., today or tomorrow)?
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