I really hope this turns out how they've described it, a GalCiv/SoaSE/IS style 4X game that tries to great stories and procedualry generate threats and events sounds incredibly ambitious. Wrote about it way back when it was first announced to. If it works and I can get it I imagine I'll have a great old time playing it with Bollo and poorly explaining the rules to him whilst he bumbles around regailing me with stories about obscure WW2 history.

I'll be on this too even though I may never really figure it out, like Crusader Kings.

Let me tell you about Jack Churchill.

Hang on am I confusing Stellaris and ES2

This is very good.

There are some rough edges/unfinished stuff though .

I've been out all day but all I've been thinking about is what to do about about the goggly head alien shits that are running amok on one of my planets. Ok, technically it's their planet, I guess, but they're interfering with my power plants, blocking up food production and generally making a nuisance of themselves. They're pre sentient and I don't have to tech to help them but at the same time I don't want to exterminate them - partly because it's their planet and I did kind of invade it, even if they are thick, but also because my stance is set to prohibit it. I could change that but i I might actually feel bad about it. It could also have other terrible diplomatic repercussions that I'm not aware of.

Stumbled upon some floating jellyfish things and their empire. They immediately disliked me and when I insulted them they immediately attacked my homeplanet and decimated the place. The dirty space racists' proclaimed aim was to humiliate me, which they duly did. I now hate them and must get revenge but I have been bombed back to the stoneage. I have to say I'm loving this game - its glacial but not dull.

I hate it when that happens, bloody ungrateful bastards.

Is it the full version? There are a hefty amount of DLC pieces for it, some of them are ridiculous from what i've read.

Tempy wrote:

Is it the full version? There are a hefty amount of DLC pieces for it, some of them are ridiculous from what i've read.

Just says 'console edition'.

I haven't played a game like this in a long time. Safe to say I'm not really sure what I'm doing but it's good shit.

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The dlc isn't really necessary, each one came with a massive update to the game for free.

yeah, it's more just curioisty as it's on game pass and I would like to know. I would prefer it with all the DLC. I really want to investigate that crazy story line written by the guy who did Cultist Simulator, that has like a 1% chance of happening when you scan a black hole.

Bought this with the Apocalypse, Utopia and Leviathan DLC

After digging it turns out the Console Version is based on 1.7, whereas we're currently on 2.3, which means all sorts of things are different including the completely overhauled economy which means playing Stellaris feels like a nearly entirely different experience than it did a few years ago. It's weird how PC games still do this, as they pupate and evolve over years of consistent updates and support.

I ditched my first game after a few hours because it seemed like it was a mess and when my enemy went to war with me it seemed like a good spot to abandon and go back to the basics.

Now doing much better on a Spiral Galaxy which looks a lot better in terms of choke points and so on, it's just easier to parse what's going on in your planets at a glance (though there are still endless details to tweak) and seems to chuck things at you pretty regularly to keep things interesting. Excited to see where my race ends up going, always staggered at the amount of random shit it throws in your face via events. Some of the writing is quality too, even noticed a JoJo joke in there yesterday.

Is this on Switch?

Coming to iOS and Android! Hopefully that means a Switch version is possible.

They'll have to rework the interface a lot or you'll probably go blind playing it. Probably an Android version interests me more as it's the sort of thing I'd enjoy playing in bursts during the day.