STELLARIS: New Paradox Game in SPAAAACE

[Syt]

In their press conference they said they aim to have high replayability (random galaxies, random alien races). Also, you start in the beginning with exploration via science ships and their commanders, then in mid game you deal with other races, and in end game they say that factions within your empire will become more important, and that in late game galactic crises can occur (Henrik alluded to e.g. robot slaves rising up).

[Syt]

Also watching the Q&A stream. Damn, Adam Smith from RockPaperShotgun looks like a hobo off the street craving his next shot.

[Caliga]

Watch out Stardock.

[Syt]

Well, GalCiv3 was a bit of a let down.

[Josephus]

Sweden looks overpowered.

[Liep]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/08/06/stellaris-paradox-strategy-game/

Sheds more light. Colour me interested.

[The Brain]

I'm cautiously optimistic. Would be nice with a space game that is actually worth playing.

[Barrister]

I'm cautiously optimistic. Would be nice with a space game that is actually worth playing.

This.

A lot of promises, could be hard to pull off.  Paradox is without a doubt my favourite game developer, but they are certainly not infallible.

[Syt]

I think they've become more cautious over the years. After the meh to bad EU3 and HoI3 launches I was ready to give up on them, but they really redeemed themselves with CK2 and EU4 (and them publishing titles like Cities Skylines or Pillars of Eternity also helps). And I hope they learned their lesson about promising stuff and then realizing it's not gonna happen (their Norse RPG project). So I'm also in the cautiously optimistic camp.

[Syt]

Steam page is online: http://store.steampowered.com/app/281990/

Explore a vast galaxy full of wonder! Paradox Development Studio, makers of the Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis series presents Stellaris, an evolution of the grand strategy genre with space exploration at its core.

Featuring deep strategic gameplay, an enormous selection of alien races and emergent storytelling, Stellaris has a deeply challenging system that rewards interstellar exploration as you traverse, discover, interact and learn more about the multitude of species you will encounter during your travels.

Etch your name across the cosmos by uncovering remote celestial outposts,and entire civilizations. Will you expand through war or walk the path of diplomacy to achieve your goals?

Main Features
- Discovery Events – Emergent Storytelling.
- Deep & Varied Exploration.
- Enormous procedural star systems, containing thousands of planets.
- Numerous playable species, each with their own traits and engineering styles.
- Vast number of Unique Random Species.
- Advanced Diplomacy system.
- Ship Designer (even civilian ships can be customized).
-Stunning space visuals.

[jimmy olsen]

Sweden looks overpowered.

Ah, the glowing ball of light race.

[garbon]

Could be cool based on what rps summarised. We shall see.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

getting a MoO3 vibe here regarding promises.
We'll see.

[Grallon]

Hmm this looks very promising, what 'Galactic Civilizations' should have been in fact; even though GalCiv 3 is a very fun game it lacks the depth Paradox usually brings to their titles ...   Maybe we'll have our antiquity game afterwards.



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[celedhring]

Could be cool based on what rps summarised. We shall see.

Yeah, it is what I hoped; taking the great character driven and organic procedural aspects of CK2 and using them to innovate the space 4x genre.

Mods for this shit can be pretty wicked too.