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 Stellaris is a 4x Space Strategy Game developed by Paradox, who are usually best known for their historical grand strategy games, such as Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, Victoria, and Crusader Kings. Instead of taking a historical approach, this quite obviously delves into sci-fi territory, where your horrible xenophobic murder geckos can enslave, massacre, and genocide adorable space butterflies, all while a variety of other factions do their own things in their corners of the galaxy until you come across them. Although the game received a quite poor rep at release for being rather feature-poor (much to the surprise of no one who has ever played a Paradox game), it has improved drastically with a number of content patches (also much to the surprise of no one who has ever played a Paradox game), and even now, it is continuously being worked on and improved, not only by Paradox themselves, but also by a variety of modders that have expanded the basic game to great lengths. Features: - Customizable Space Nations: Make Space Great Again with a number of different races, ranging from.....  Space Mammals, to....  Space Geckos, to......  Space Cthulhus! Your specific species can be customized utilizing Ethics and Traits. The best way to describe these is that Ethics are what your people believe in and are governed by, and Traits are the genetic hallmarks of your species. As the Ethics system is due for a major overhaul in the next patch which is coming soon, there is little point to going into the ethics at the moment. Traits can range from anything from your species being extraordinarily long lived, or slow breeding, or super-intelligent, or solitary loners. - Ship Designer: The ship designer allows you to customize how your ships are built, and allows for a range of different weaponry to be mounted on ships ranging from Corvettes all the way up to Battleships, with corresponding increases in firepower, armor, and specialty with each ship class.  - A Variety of Events: These can range from the mundane, like finding out that a gas giant was actually just a very barren dusty wasteland, to discovering that the planet you just settled is totally groovy man, ignore the addictive substance in the air.  DLCs (Free or Otherwise): - Plantoids Species Pack: Lets you play as plants. Adds plantoid portraits, ships, cities, and names. Generally agreed to not be worth spending full price on, and definitely not necessary for enjoying the game, as it adds no new events, features, or anything other than cosmetic stuff.  guys what do i do with my hands, help - Leviathans Story Pack: Adds a bunch of neat stuff, like giant space monsters, and a variety of events to spice up gameplay.  The Enigmatic Fortress. So enigmatic, in fact, that I recommend you find out what it does in game yourself!  A Space Dragon. It vomits lasers. - Horizon Signal: Written by Alexis Kennedy, better known for his fantastic work on Fallen London and Sunless Sea, this is an event chain that is better experienced than told about. You can access the chain through entering black hole systems with a science ship. WHAT WAS, WILL BE; WHAT WILL BE, WAS Kitchner posted:What is the state of the game? Mods: There are quite a lot of mods on the Workshop, that range everywhere from total conversions, such as the Star Trek mod, to minor gameplay adjustments, to UI overhauls, to adding your favorite Space Nazis from Mobile Suit Gundam.  Zakus Included, Warcrimes and Colony Drops Optional. Lum_ posted:Big List O' Mods! Discord: I made a Discord channel for discussing Stellaris and also for setting up multiplayer games. https://discord.gg/gGFayaj Enjoy! fishception fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Jan 21, 2017 |
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Jan 20, 2017 14:12
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Bholder posted:Yeah, but... yes
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Jan 20, 2017 15:28
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Lum_ posted:Big List O' Mods! roger that, i'll put it in the OP when you're done
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Jan 20, 2017 15:47
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there's some drama on the comments for alpha mod, apparently the creator is mad that his glorious vision isn't being fawned over by pdox
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Jan 20, 2017 16:34
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tbh my first choice for the OP title was "Stellaris - Say What You Will About The Tenets Of Collectivism, At Least It's An Ethos", but that joke is about to vanish next patch
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Jan 20, 2017 16:44
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I was halfway asleep after a night shift while making it and I wanted to do something simple and easy without trying to be witty, so let's talk about the game in this thread designed for talking about the game
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Jan 21, 2017 01:37
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Added all suggested things to OP, including "is game worth" and updated Lum's mod list as well.
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Jan 21, 2017 03:11
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I've been super inactive since writing the OP, sorry, works been super busy. Anything that desperately needs adding to the OP? Oh and AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA EXPANSIOOOOOOOOOON
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Feb 3, 2017 00:50
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King Doom posted:Wasn't that how one of those spaceship animes ended? I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW MACROSS 7 IS A MASTERPIECE OF ANIMATION AND FURTHERMORE
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Feb 3, 2017 01:02
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 Have you considered using sex to make their utopian yet joyless existence collapse?
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Feb 4, 2017 12:59
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drat I was hoping someone would get my Zardoz reference.
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Feb 6, 2017 10:58
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There was a neat idea that the Gundam mod had for its mobile suits that you could build space squadrons of, where you could select the pilots to be rookies, veterans, Newtypes, and Cyber Newtypes, maybe that could be implemented as well where the pilots of vessels could be screened for their psionic potential and give bonuses to their ships, say, for an extra maintenance cost? On the topic of Cyber Newtypes, are there any plans to allow forced psionic potential in folks? edit: I am sorry I am a giant gundam nerd save me from myself
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Feb 6, 2017 12:45
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GlyphGryph posted:Reminding people I want more custom goon races, a lot more, especially some FEs. mentioned them
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Feb 7, 2017 01:49
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it'd also be great if you could create different kinds of federations, like you could have your base alliance sort of federation, or a ur Quan battle thrall hierarchy sort of situation where there's one undisputed master of the whole shebang and everyone else provides ships or resources, kinda as like a mega-vassal thing that you can't annex
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sorry I haven't been updating the OP extensively, I honestly thought that the new expansion would be out let me know if there's anything that needs to be added on PMs, also, we should probably make a decision if we start a new thread for the expansion or not, or if you just want me to binge play it for a day and whip up a new OP once it drops
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