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2018-03-29, 09:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
So um .... did the game become substantially easier since the latest update? I generally have a sort of 50/50 chance of winning or losing, and this game has been an absolute cake walk. Just now, I build a colony on a holy world to trigger a FE response - early, they were still at well over twice my strength - and wiped the floor with them.
That's just not ... generally the picture.
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2018-03-29, 09:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Depends what you mean by "latest update". I'm not running the beta patch and it took some effort to wipe the floor with a Fallen Empire, and the Prethoryn were impossible until I had control of the doomstack federation fleet, even with an awakened empire on my side.
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2018-03-29, 09:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
I'm running the beta patch. And the game before that - not on said patch - I got steamrolled by the prethoryn. Maybe those will still be overwhelming to fight against? The FE was too easy, I won't even have to rebuild, I can just go squash the other one now.
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2018-03-29, 09:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
In the latest version of the beta patch the AI picked up a serious aversion to building fleets. Possibly something to do with the new difficulty levels.
The actual 2.0.2 patch went live today though, so if you opt out of beta it will update to it. Maybe the AI has found the "build ship" button again.
(I remember back in 1.6 when it forgot how to declare war).
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2018-03-29, 09:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
These are pre-awakening FE's. It's my understanding they don't build ships at all, until ...
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2018-03-29, 10:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
New difficulty levels? What am I missing? The only reference I can find to scaling difficulties is in a mod.
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2018-03-29, 10:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
2.0.2 has new difficulties. Instead of Normal/Hard/Very Hard/Insane it's now Ensign/Captain/Commodore/Admiral/Grand Admiral representing a 0-100% resource production buff as you go up.
There's also one called Scaling which starts at 0% and goes up to 50% by 2400.
However, the AI might be paying full upkeep now (it used to pay half, people cried when they found out) which means that its legendary economic incompetence means it is worse off even at higher difficulties and isn't building fleets very well. (Upkeep is higher now).Last edited by GloatingSwine; 2018-03-29 at 10:28 AM.
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2018-03-29, 10:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Ah, thanks.
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2018-03-30, 10:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Well, I won the game, but rather annoyingly didn't get the achievement for doing so, even though I'm playing on Iron Man mode? Maybe that was because the update to 2.0.2 came in just before I did my final session. Anyway, one of my federation partners made the decision for me by asking to declare war on pretty much the largest remaining independent empire in the galaxy, so I voted Yes and we went to town. We actually captured every single one of their stations and all but one of their planets before either side hit 100% war exhaustion, and the transfer of the 13 planets which federation members had claims on pushed us over the finish line. First time I've ever achieved a victory condition in the game!
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2018-04-06, 09:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-04-06, 10:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Select both fleets and in the corner of the UI there should be a 'merge fleets' button - I THINK its the top left corner but I'm not at home so I can't actually check it may be top right corner.
However it won't allow you to merge 2 fleets into 1 if this will exceed the fleet cap (i.e. if you have 2 fleets of 70 and your fleet cap is 100 it won't let you merge).Last edited by Olinser; 2018-04-06 at 10:07 PM.
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2018-04-07, 12:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Also, both fleets must be of the same type, so you can't merge an army transport fleet with a normal one.
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2018-04-07, 02:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Also certain things cannot be merged into fleets. (Psionic Avatar and Ether Drake for instance).
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2018-04-08, 01:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-04-19, 08:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Aaaaah 2.1 looks so interesting so far I haven't even tried 2.0 and I want to wait for 2.1.
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2018-04-19, 11:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
2.0 is generally better than many reviews might lead you to believe (although apparently the 2.03 update is stupidly broken). The game has generally more interesting choices to make strategically, and wars don’t feel quite so stupid in terms of hair one huge dog pile and then clean up (even though that still happens).
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2018-04-19, 11:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-04-19, 11:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Well, given the faily larger and catastrophic bugs with the new patch (i.e., weapons fir not displaying) I am now glad I DIDN'T buy Apocalypse to start a new game last night. (I'd held off until now, because there was no point until I'd finished playing Witcher 3). So I think I'll hold off a bit longer still (I mean, my last proper game was 1.5, I think, so a bit longer won't hurt)... The final patch/expansion for War for the Overworld is out in a couple of days, so...
That's the second time they've released a patch with a massive flaw. I am tolerant to a point, but c'mon, guys; you didn't even beta this one like the last couple and clearly you should have done.
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2018-04-19, 01:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Honestly, I probably couldn't tell what weapons fire in this game actually looks like if my life depended on it so that part at least doesn't sound terribly game-breaking
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2018-04-19, 03:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
I personally haven't had the chance to play it (between work and recent travel), but it was apparently in a bad enough shape that Wiz, the lead designer, publicly apologized for it. Of course, it might not be awful, but registering enough of a response to get a public apology is something.
I've heard that weapon animations are broken among uncounted other things. The issue seems more to be that very little to no QA testing was done.Former Owner of GiTP's fanciest Bloodbowl Team: The Fancy Lads
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2018-04-19, 06:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Well, as others said weapon animations don't work, turret textures in some ships fail to load and are replaced with a multicolored cube, sometimes defensive armies spawn during combat, and the AI stubbornly refuses to build anything on their starbases. Those are the main problems I've heard.
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2018-04-19, 07:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Well they just reverted back to 2.02. They've made 2.04 available in the meantime, but only as a beta as of yet.
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2018-04-23, 03:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Took this back out after half a year or so of not playing, and it's interesting. Everything is different, of course, but I've come to expect that of Paradox.
So, I'm playing a friendly robot civilization this time. No special civics, just a focus on having tons of minerals and research. And it's now mid-game, I've never had a war, everyone is associated with my federation and I'm absolutely crushing the galaxy in the power rating without really trying. Just by very aggressively spread mining stations everywhere and using my planets mostly as research centers. Everyone is inferior to me across the board and I've just now started to build habitats everywhere for yet more research and energy. Inferiors across the board, down the entire list.
I may just start a dumb war or two just to make this interesting. Maybe take on a fallen empire. Or crank up the difficulty a setting or two, next time. It's interesting, really. Last time I played, I kept being dominated by NPCs.Resident Vancian Apologist
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2018-04-23, 10:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Trailer for the next story expansion is out! More anomalies, new spaceborne critters (giant Tiyanki!!!), and a gateway with a mystery behind it. Sounds like fuN!
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2018-04-23, 10:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Also hyperlane distribution will be more blobby, with clusters separated by a few lanes and the hyperlanes won't be visible at game start, they'll be discovered as you explore.
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2018-04-23, 11:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Ooh, binary and trinary star systems.
With a bit of luck they could be real powerful systems.
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2018-04-23, 04:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-04-23, 07:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-15, 02:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Just appropriated the most delicious system I've ever seen
(took that screenshot when I discovered it, and just stole it, some 30 years later as it was quite distant from my core)
73 tiles worth of planet in one systemLast edited by Sian; 2018-05-15 at 02:15 PM.
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2018-05-15, 02:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
It's not quite 73 but.....
SpoilerMaybe can't happen any more. But get the "deceptive giant" anomaly in your capital system then embrace the worm to make every planet there a tomb world.
Sadly only 25 tiles actually available...