Stellaris - Paradox new sci-fi grand strategy game

[Goliath]

Stellaris going mobile?
This is a teaser screenshot from PDX:

Looks like a mobile / touch UI to me.

This theory is further supported by the fact that PDX says there will be two Stellaris booths at PDXCon and that the PC and the console version will share one booth.

 

[Average Manatee]

They updated all of their launchers to a really shitty mobile-esque UI, so its to be expected.

 

[Riso]

Aiming for that Ipad Pro crowd.

 

[Delterius]

the fact that playing a paradox game on mobile would be actively painful doesn't seem to faze them at all

 

[Preben]

I can imagine a good Paradox game on mobile if the UI is done right and if its not a pay2win DLC fest. Unfortunately, Paradox's track record is abysmal on both points.

 

[The Brazilian Slaughter]

 

[The Brazilian Slaughter]

 

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[Jimmious]

I personally as a Battle Brothers enthusiast, feel offended by the sudden inclusion of legs

 

[Delterius]

and here I thought this was the future

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

because what the game truly needed was another obstacle to modders work.

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

In space no one can hear you WALK.

 

[Preben]

 

[Goliath]

I hate the fact that you don't know whether these all just screenshots of a new mobile game or something they are also going to add to proper Stellaris.

 

[Alienman]

Don't you guys have phones?

Seems like suicide to hype something up just to announce it's a phone thing.

 

[mondblut]

No space for old white men, I see.

Never change, Pederax.

 

[Goliath]

No space for old white men, I see.

Never change, Pederax.

 

[LizardWizard]

Pretty much any PDS game will benefit by patching in a little CK. Stellaris' leader/trait system had always been barebones and a massive weakpoint

 

[The Brazilian Slaughter]

Pretty much any PDS game will benefit by patching in a little CK. Stellaris' leader/trait system had always been barebones and a massive weakpoint

Agreed. This would tie in well with more international AND internal politics.

Game also generally needs more stuff going on that is out of totalitarian player control. Like governors getting kickbacks from all the smuggled alien trade, noblemen plotting, quislings getting paid to spy on your for alien invaders or military leaders pulling coups.

 

[skaraher]

Still suffers from crippling endgame lags due to engine retardation. Also the economy overhaul made the AI sucks even more as they can't manage to not collapse under it. I was also surprised to see they removed different FTL travel types and the old system claiming systems. The new system lacks flavour and it's still easy to ignore expansion limitation and spam star station. Also machine empire are hilariously overpowered

 

[The Brazilian Slaughter]

They're just bad programmers. CKII makes Stellaris look like Minesweeper in complexity, has inferior graphics and YET, it manages to run far far better. Yeah I know CKII is the older game, but CKII has a giant map of Pretty Much Everything West of China and North of Somalia, with every single little barony being ruled over by someone and every single little barony and countdom is a entity into itself that includes a lot of characters doing all sorts of things as well as the people above them in ranking and all their religions, character links, constant map changes, epidemics, etc... it still runs far far better.

Yeah I know CKII is a bit more aggressive with character death for a while AND its the older game that has gotten a lot of optimization passes, BUT...

Then there's also EUIV which from top of my memory also runs far better than Stellaris while still being a pretty complex game (if not as procedural as CKII in its RPG-Strategy hybrid nature) and despicting the whole world. Its also not as old as CKII.

So really, what the fuck is wrong with Stellaris engine under the hood?

 

[Space Satan]

 

[Jimmious]

has inferior graphics

 

[Lord Commissar Alexer]

A mobile version...? LOL, good luck with that.

 

[Lone Wolf]

The Brazilian Slaughter

Every Paradox game since 2007 has used the same engine; Clausewitz.