Stellaris Astral Planes is the latest main expansion announced today for Paradox Interactive's popular space strategy game, and this one sound delightfully different to their previous additions and quite exciting.
A narrative-focused expansion that will include "reality-breaking technologies and systems". Opening up Stellaris for players to explore alternative dimensions and encounter creatures and phenomena in numerous parallel worlds. Giving you self-contained and branching narratives as your chart your path through the unknown.
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Feature Highlight:
- NEW CORE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES - Unlock new Technologies, Actions, and Relics to manipulate space and interact with the galaxy in unexpected ways. Explore new realms filled with mysteries and opportunities.
- NEW PLANES TO EXPLORE - Traverse the Astral Planes to discover a wide variety of unique sites, each with properties and phenomena beyond the mundane. Come face to face with fascinating and terrifying creatures, uncover long buried secrets, or choose to explore the true nature of your past with the Riftworld Origin.
- NEW BRANCHING NARRATIVES - Encounter story events with more branching narratives than ever before! The Astral Planes are full of surprises, and hard choices will be necessary to reach your desired outcome. Make the right decision for your empire and chart a course that fits your play style.
I really can't wait to check this one out. This is going to suck away so much of my time. No release date yet other than being told it will be later this year.
Stellaris is available from GOG, Humble Store and Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Linux_Rocks Oct 19, 2023
Cool, wishlisted on GOG.
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soulsource 
Oct 19, 2023
Oh, come on...
They are releasing new DLC faster than I can finish my playthroughs.
(That said: Wishlisted.)
They are releasing new DLC faster than I can finish my playthroughs.
(That said: Wishlisted.)
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Philadelphus Oct 19, 2023
Interesting! Sounds pretty cool. Maybe we'll learn some more about where the Unbidden come from? And wow, later this year, that's not that many months left at this point.
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TheRiddick Oct 20, 2023
Unless all of their DLC go for $1 each, I won't ever be playing them.
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Quoting: soulsourceOh, come on...Pfff, that's because a typical playthrough is about 6-8 months!
They are releasing new DLC faster than I can finish my playthroughs.
(That said: Wishlisted.)
Genuinely, I spent 40 hours in Stellaris, one game. And the end wasn't even in sight. I was at war with two factions, but strong enough to defend my "borders", was diplomatically aligned with one medium sized alien race, and was still expanding into unknown space at the bottom of my map.
One game. I played one single game of Stellaris.
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robertosf92 Oct 20, 2023
I kinda wish they stopped releasing this expansions, I play the game sporadically, and enjoy it enormously, but every time I want to play, there's something more I want to experience and for which I have to pay.
Please Paradox, release Stellaris 2
Please Paradox, release Stellaris 2
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Quoting: robertosf92I kinda wish they stopped releasing this expansions, I play the game sporadically, and enjoy it enormously, but every time I want to play, there's something more I want to experience and for which I have to pay.It looks like they're shifting focus away from adding mechanics which might be evidence something is in the works. Same for EU4.
Please Paradox, release Stellaris 2
Mind you, I wonder if Paradox is feeling the extended development cycles, because EU4 is over a decade old and has dlc in the pipe for at least the entirety of 2024, it looks like - and going by age EU5 is the next one in line.
They might leave HoI alone for a bit longer as 4 is selling like hotcakes, but with how long we're waiting for a new EU... it does seem like the wait is far from over.
And then those barren dlc-dispensers will need to get fixed and populated, so... EU5 first actually playable release in 2028, Stellaris 2 sometime around 2030? Will we even live to see an EU6?
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soulsource Oct 20, 2023
Quoting: GuestStellaris 40000Always has been. Also, there have been Shroud Entities (aka off-brand Chaos Gods) in the game for quite a while now.
Regarding the linked song, I'm just kidding though. I tend to play galactic carebears, trying to get everyone to join my peaceful Federation. I've done more Fanatic Pacifist / Xenophile playthroughs than I'd like to admit.
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robertosf92 Oct 20, 2023
Quoting: suchQuoting: robertosf92I kinda wish they stopped releasing this expansions, I play the game sporadically, and enjoy it enormously, but every time I want to play, there's something more I want to experience and for which I have to pay.It looks like they're shifting focus away from adding mechanics which might be evidence something is in the works. Same for EU4.
Please Paradox, release Stellaris 2
Mind you, I wonder if Paradox is feeling the extended development cycles, because EU4 is over a decade old and has dlc in the pipe for at least the entirety of 2024, it looks like - and going by age EU5 is the next one in line.
They might leave HoI alone for a bit longer as 4 is selling like hotcakes, but with how long we're waiting for a new EU... it does seem like the wait is far from over.
And then those barren dlc-dispensers will need to get fixed and populated, so... EU5 first actually playable release in 2028, Stellaris 2 sometime around 2030? Will we even live to see an EU6?
Yeah, I'm not positive Stellaris 2 will come out in the near future, your timeline seems correct, seeing how they relased CK3 in 2020 and V3 in 2022 with no announcment of a new EU yet, it might come out at the earliest in 2025-2026 a whole 13 years after EU4, so maybe Stellaris 2 in 2030 is not that much of a bet
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Quoting: robertosf922030 takes into account a couple of years of patches and dlc - "actually playable" ;)Quoting: suchQuoting: robertosf92I kinda wish they stopped releasing this expansions, I play the game sporadically, and enjoy it enormously, but every time I want to play, there's something more I want to experience and for which I have to pay.It looks like they're shifting focus away from adding mechanics which might be evidence something is in the works. Same for EU4.
Please Paradox, release Stellaris 2
Mind you, I wonder if Paradox is feeling the extended development cycles, because EU4 is over a decade old and has dlc in the pipe for at least the entirety of 2024, it looks like - and going by age EU5 is the next one in line.
They might leave HoI alone for a bit longer as 4 is selling like hotcakes, but with how long we're waiting for a new EU... it does seem like the wait is far from over.
And then those barren dlc-dispensers will need to get fixed and populated, so... EU5 first actually playable release in 2028, Stellaris 2 sometime around 2030? Will we even live to see an EU6?
Yeah, I'm not positive Stellaris 2 will come out in the near future, your timeline seems correct, seeing how they relased CK3 in 2020 and V3 in 2022 with no announcment of a new EU yet, it might come out at the earliest in 2025-2026 a whole 13 years after EU4, so maybe Stellaris 2 in 2030 is not that much of a bet
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