To combat that, aka stomping the AI in one battle and then moping up the planets, Paradox introduced this:įorce DisparityForce Disparity is a combat bonus applied when a smaller force is engaged with a larger one in battle (clarification required: is a smaller force one with fewer ships, lower total command limit points or military power? The English is ambiguous, but fewer ships makes most sense due to the target rich environment, whilst smaller ships evasion would mitigate the rate of fire effect) and gives a bonus to the Fire Rate of all ships belonging to the smaller force. Doom stacking is still a thing, since it's the best strategy 90% of the time, if you can blow up enemy fleet and suffer no penalties. I didn't even last till Crisis, because of how boring it was.Īnd the core issues that have been there since 1.9 are still here: The AI is so inept that if it didn't cheat all the time, it would been steam rolled by any decent player. I triggered tempest from Distant Stars and outside of being an absolute annoyance to deal with, I can't help but chuckle how the AI won't help in the slightest, no matter what. It hasn't changed much since 1.9 and it's decent, even if the events are pretty much the same all the time.Īfter that comes the dreadful midgame, where everyone is locked in an alliance, nothing happens and all you can do is put yet another pointless outpost on the map, to make it look like your colour. Early game, exploration, anomalies, expanding, etc. The first phase of the game is the same, probably the best part of it, tbh.

Long story short, decided to play an ironman on ensign difficulty with all dlcs, thanks to a friend of mine. I will admit, I come back to Stellaris every few months just to see how the game keeps getting worse with every update, somehow.

Stellaris apocalypse is a joke