Comment on Stellaris updates are slowing down to stop empires randomly destroying themselves, among other bugs

Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Kovukono@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Like every major release, they redid some management elements, so people are unhappy about that. But the big thing was that 4.0 was a patch intended to address performance with how pops were handled, so the mid-late game was playable at a good speed. Instead the update made performance issues worse, and apparently even with a bunch of hotfixes performance is still bad, and there’s a lot of issues caused by the patch other than performance.

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  • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oof, yeah that performance point is rough.

    Stellaris is such an interesting game to follow. I’ve never seen another game so willing to change major stuff regularly. It’s definitely got its upsides and downsides.

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    • Kovukono@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, but it’s starting to feel like there’s more downsides. They’ve put out so much DLC that they’re literally offering a monthly subscription service to get access to all the DLC. The new DLC costs $25 (base game costs $40), and comes with a game-breaking patch that couldn’t have been shipped without knowing there were glaring issues, and a disclosure that AI was used to make some of the assets. It’s getting harder to feel that you’re seen as a playerbase instead of a cash cow.

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      • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I was pretty ambivalent about the subscription. I don’t like subs in general, but I joined stellaris a little late and the amount of money to get all the DLC is very daunting. I can see how as a new player it would be a good offer.

        That being said rent to own is always going to be how it should be imo.

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