Stellaris - Releases 5/9

[Captain Jordan]

I expect balance will be a big part of the next few patches. They're going to keep tweaking things (as they should) until they hit upon a good balance between entertainment and simulation.

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

My review will be up via blog today.

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

My review is here in case it gets lost in the blog storm: http://starwarsrp.net/blog/98/entry-1735-stellaris-game-review/

 

[Soeht]

Holy crap, it's lag-tastic when you get a big fleet.

 

[Darth Carnifex]

I made a race of hyper-religious turtle people.

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

[member="Soeht"]
Late game lag is a big problem, even if you have a beastly gaming machine.

I did an observe run through to 2400 and the game fairly stutters even at fastest speeds.

 

[Soeht]

[member="Soeht"]
Late game lag is a big problem, even if you have a beastly gaming machine.

I did an observe run through to 2400 and the game fairly stutters even at fastest speeds.

2350 and the game has significantly slowed down for me.

Though I imagine this will be fixed in future patches. Biggest issue I have with this game (and one that's easily modded away, but still) is the interface. Lists (ships, planets, sectors) are horrible, the galaxy/planet views, etc. A lot of time is spent finding stuff in a menu.

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

[member="Soeht"]
Agreed, the scrollbars are annoying, especially for leader lists when you have more than 10.

 

[Soeht]

the scrollbars are annoying

I didn't even realize certain menus were scroll-able until halfway through my run.

Also, kind of disappointed that my galaxy looks like it has only one Fallen Empire. Luckily, it was near me so it makes things interesting. Currently planning to eventually invade it (assuming the unbidden or droid revolution or w/e doesn't happen before this).

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

[member="Soeht"]
Larger galaxies usually have 3.

The crises aside from the Zerg are quite easy to avoid.

 

[Captain Jordan]

The Unbidden jumped in to an empire three doors down from me about 50 years ago. Now they're on my doorstep. Any takers on whether I survive?

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

[member="Captain Jordan"]
If you have battleships and a good economy, yes, easily.

If you don't, you're boned.

 

[Cyrus Tregessar]

Are the Unbidden susceptible to abuse of long range weaponry and torpedos?

Or Evade-capped Corvette spam?

The above two things make combat pretty trivial late game. They don't work great against players but AI just collapse.

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

[member="Cyrus Tregessar"]
Tool up with lances and lasers on your battleships.

They use matter disintigrators which can't be shot down by point defence sadly.

If you want a wave of corvettes to go first, use shield disruptors to knock out their shields for your battleships to maul.

 

[Soeht]

I don't know if I'll get the Unbidden, but they'll have to compete against me unleashing the robotic master race on everyone.

 

[Cyrus Tregessar]

I was more talking that the combat system is flawed when a Corvette with capped evade has better damage mitigation/Effective HP than a defensively focused battleship.

Except against missile weapons, so there's that.

 

[Soeht]

Except against missile weapons, so there's that.

Slip in a few corvettes with point defense and it's GG from there.

And at 2380, found out there's an absolute max to your fleet - 1000. Looks like Zerging the Fallen Empire I want to invade will take a while.

 

[Darth Carnifex]

I literally have no regrets.

Spoiler

 

[Darth Carnifex]

Also:

#HyperReligiousSpacialTurtles
#HyperReligiousSpacialTurtles
#ZealotsInAHalfShell

Spoiler

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

[member="Soeht"]
1000 ships? You'll never need that many.

Fallen Empires have military strength of about 60,000. To get that you only need about 35 battleships with top equipment and some meatshields.