PDX Games IX - EUV coming Nov. 4!

[The Knockout Gun Gals]

Sees that EU4: Leviathan has overwhelmingly negative reviews with only 12% being positive

Spicy

SPicy. I want to see how it's bad in the reviews now.

[Bralia]

Not only is Leviathan the worst DLC EUIV has ever produced . . . it's the worst rated thing on Steam. Of all time. Jesus fucking christ. If somebody ISN'T fired, I will ACTUALLY never play EUIV ever again. This kind of "accomplishment" deserves metaphorical executions. You don't get to make games anymore. Fuck you, get out of the industry kinds of termination.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Not only is Leviathan the worst DLC EUIV has ever produced . . . it's the worst rated thing on Steam. Of all time. Jesus fucking christ. If somebody ISN'T fired, I will ACTUALLY never play EUIV ever again. This kind of "accomplishment" deserves metaphorical executions. You don't get to make games anymore. Fuck you, get out of the industry kinds of termination.

mfw

[Renoa]

Not only is Leviathan the worst DLC EUIV has ever produced . . . it's the worst rated thing on Steam. Of all time. Jesus fucking christ. If somebody ISN'T fired, I will ACTUALLY never play EUIV ever again. This kind of "accomplishment" deserves metaphorical executions. You don't get to make games anymore. Fuck you, get out of the industry kinds of termination.

mfw

Hell hath no fury like a history nerd scorned.

[The Huskar Social Union]

mfw

Hell hath no fury like a history nerd scorned.

What is it exactly about the dlc that is soo bad, is it just the bugs (which ive heard there is a lot of) or is it also the mechanics of the dlc, or does it break existing mechanics etc

[Lunas Legion]

Hell hath no fury like a history nerd scorned.

What is it exactly about the dlc that is soo bad, is it just the bugs (which ive heard there is a lot of) or is it also the mechanics of the dlc, or does it break existing mechanics etc

All of that apparently.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Two more megastructure achievements for an art station and a sentry array then thats this run over with. I will depart a peaceful galaxy, a grateful galaxy united under the watchful eye of an Awakened Empire and its subjects and my empire as the second most powerful nation.

Then im gona fuck around with the shroud and psionics in another game!

What is it exactly about the dlc that is soo bad, is it just the bugs (which ive heard there is a lot of) or is it also the mechanics of the dlc, or does it break existing mechanics etc

All of that apparently.

Grim.

[Lunas Legion]

Also the pop growth nerf basically makes the reward for murdering the Grey Tide useless because the reward is a shit ton of easily terraformable worlds in the late game.

[Grenartia]

Against my better judgment I've had to form a federation between my empire (The Socialist Union), which is an egalitarian and materialist empire, with a feudal monarchy that uses slave labour. I've been forced to do it as the monarchy takes up about a fifth of the map, and thus is the strongest possible ally against a machine empire that is currently aggressively assimilating everything in sight.

Meanwhile, in my game, the machine empire that killed my first science ship ended up asking me to form a federation 20 years later. I figured why the fuck not, we already have a defensive pact and research agreement.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Sectors in Stellaris need a rework. They are soo arbitrary and bad. You should be able to make your own sectors and manually assign systems to them instead of it being a random collection of systems within a certain radius which means some systems you want in a sector cant be because they are a hyperlane away.

In fact im near certain you could manually give systems to them at one point early on in the game.

[Serrus]

Hell hath no fury like a history nerd scorned.

What is it exactly about the dlc that is soo bad, is it just the bugs (which ive heard there is a lot of) or is it also the mechanics of the dlc, or does it break existing mechanics etc

There's only a few small bugs in the DLC (carpet sieging is broken, monuments are a little busted, and Palembang's mission tree requires you to assign an estate privilege. Most people's FIX YER SHITE PDOX BYUFVGFV&V is wrongly directed at the DLC instead of the hash that was the patch.

[Lunas Legion]

Sectors in Stellaris need a rework. They are soo arbitrary and bad. You should be able to make your own sectors and manually assign systems to them instead of it being a random collection of systems within a certain radius which means some systems you want in a sector cant be because they are a hyperlane away.

In fact im near certain you could manually give systems to them at one point early on in the game.

Early on yes you could manually assign systems to sectors. This was also when the game forced you to assign planets to AI-managed sectors which the AI would inevitably screw up.

[Impaled Nazarene]

I am just amazed watching Paradox implode like this, it's just fascinating.

[Andsed]

Sectors in Stellaris need a rework. They are soo arbitrary and bad. You should be able to make your own sectors and manually assign systems to them instead of it being a random collection of systems within a certain radius which means some systems you want in a sector cant be because they are a hyperlane away.

In fact im near certain you could manually give systems to them at one point early on in the game.

Yeah I got like 10 planets in a sector at the moment and its agony. Not even just from a gameplay standpoint its just the way the UI looks bothers me greatly..

[Punished UMN]

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Click the image to see similarly functional tanks.

Actually hated this dev diary even if I like the concept because of this bit:

Ever since we revealed the ship designer in Man the Guns, people have been asking about a similar system for tanks. We did, however, want to improve a bit on the ship designer. In particular, we felt that the ship designer was encouraging too many generalist designs. Part of the problem is that ships have a very long lead time before they become available, so it is difficult to iterate on the designs in a timely fashion. When your ship takes two years to build, you can’t really specialize it too much, because you can’t always accurately predict the situation in two years.

Just shows a bad mindset about the game and its mechanics, this is something accurate, it's not a flaw.

[Weevilland]

“It’s 4 PM! Time for your paywalled glorified update!”

[Punished UMN]

“It’s 4 PM! Time for your paywalled glorified update!”

This is why I don't buy EUIV stuff anymore. Absolutely ridiculous that people pay for that shit

[Serrus]

This isn't a standard issue Mingsplosion and I am both confused and kinda scared as to what Ming is trying to do here

[The Huskar Social Union]

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Click the image to see similarly functional tanks.

Lol at those last few paragraphs:

"Guys we're trying really hard we're not all inept please stop bullying us "

I forgot to comment about this last night but ill do it now since im back on.

I dont mind them posting that message, because i know they will get people who will treat them like shit, i.e personal attacks over things like their new dlc's, patches, balancing etc because some gamers do it all the fucking time and are so unbelievably toxic its ridiculous. I mean back in 2013 a developer for COD Black Ops 2 got death threats because they rebalanced some guns. And thats just one example from a few years back on a really trivial thing, you could easily find a lot more in recent years, especially for bigger changes to a game such as a new dlc.

Now that doesnt mean people cant criticise them for genuine reasons, such as broken poorly made DLC's, botched patches that fuck with mechanics or balance etc, which they are rightfully getting grilled for and called out for online across the board which im happy to see. But i also know some people will go way too far and make it a personal issue where they treat the devs like shit and harass them. And ive seen this on their own forums, on reddit and elsewhere as this series of threads we have is easily imo the most civilised place for talking about paradox games from my experience.

So i completely see why they have dialled back from interacting with their own forums. People need to learn to not act like dickheads when they criticise developers for what they do with their games.

EDIT: And i think a lot of this stems from a really fucked up and ultra negative culture online around gaming where people think they can treat others like shit as long as they mask it as "criticism" and that its part and parcel of giving feedback. Now im not saying anyone here is doing this, but it absolutely happens elsewhere.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Ive not bought nemesis myself as ive mentioned before because of the issues ive heard about that DLC. Now i know people dont like the new update either but its fine for me, im having a lot of fun in Stellaris, far more than ive had in years so i dont care that much about the pop changes. But if you dont like that you are more than right to give off about it and how it impacts the game.

Leviathan is a broken piece of shit from everything ive heard and was really badly done, and they deserve flak for that as they are getting. Just like they deserve flak for their DLC policy and how they update stuff at times. But it doesnt mean you can be a toxic shithead and behave like a wanker, and too many people in the gaming world act as if they are entitled to do so anytime they dont like something.

anyway rant over

[Heloin]

I fucked my previous Stellaris game quite a bit so I started a new one again. I don't know which mod it was but one of them let me pick the option Freebooter, which is like Void Dweller but not as shitty and I talk like a pirate, yarr!

It's also why there are a bunch of shitty little stations since they used to be the border. Though I still have that mode that makes Empire sprawl and starbase capacity a none issue so it doesn't really matter. More trade stations I guess.

[The Huskar Social Union]

I fucked my previous Stellaris game quite a bit so I started a new one again. I don't know which mod it was but one of them let me pick the option Freebooter, which is like Void Dweller but not as shitty and I talk like a pirate, yarr!

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We all live on

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It's also why there are a bunch of shitty little stations since they used to be the border. Though I still have that mode that makes Empire sprawl and starbase capacity a none issue so it doesn't really matter. More trade stations I guess.

And it's a-heave-ho-hi-ho
Coming down the hyperlanes
Stealing Credits and Minerals and all the other Financial Gains!
And it's a-ho-hey-hi-hey, Lithoids bar your doors
When you see the Jolly Roger on the Veil's nebulous shores!

[Lunas Legion]

Ive not bought nemesis myself as ive mentioned before because of the issues ive heard about that DLC. Now i know people dont like the new update either but its fine for me, im having a lot of fun in Stellaris, far more than ive had in years so i dont care that much about the pop changes. But if you dont like that you are more than right to give off about it and how it impacts the game.

Leviathan is a broken piece of shit from everything ive heard and was really badly done, and they deserve flak for that as they are getting. Just like they deserve flak for their DLC policy and how they update stuff at times. But it doesnt mean you can be a toxic shithead and behave like a wanker, and too many people in the gaming world act as if they are entitled to do so anytime they dont like something.

anyway rant over

Nemesis is fine, you can just mod out the pop changes and it's great. Literally played my first game of Stellaris for like a year because of it.

[Lunas Legion]

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Click the image to see similarly functional tanks.

Actually hated this dev diary even if I like the concept because of this bit:

Ever since we revealed the ship designer in Man the Guns, people have been asking about a similar system for tanks. We did, however, want to improve a bit on the ship designer. In particular, we felt that the ship designer was encouraging too many generalist designs. Part of the problem is that ships have a very long lead time before they become available, so it is difficult to iterate on the designs in a timely fashion. When your ship takes two years to build, you can’t really specialize it too much, because you can’t always accurately predict the situation in two years.

Just shows a bad mindset about the game and its mechanics, this is something accurate, it's not a flaw.

I think it can be modified to a degree, since there's plenty of instances of ships being converted or planned to be (normally from CA/BB to CV) while under construction such as Shinano, Ibuki, the Independences and Seydlitz. Likewise, some designs were modified while under construction, Vanguard, the Iowas to a small degree. Some things such as main battery and armour should be fixed upon construction, but things such as secondary mounts, floatplanes, AA, radar, sonar etc should be modifiable at a cost of minor increases to construction time.

[Lady Victory]

Why are Adamites overweight half the time? Like, really. Big guts and fat tits 80% of the time.