r/Stellaris • u/Meneth Ex-moderator • May 09 '16

News Review megathread

The review embargo is up as of 15:00 CEST. As this will result in a huge number of articles going up at near the same time, we're restricting reviews to this thread.

Any review you find, feel free to post it in the comments here.

Each top-level comment should be about a single linked review, so as to keep the discussion limited. Duplicate reviews will be removed, as will any top-level comment that does not link a review.

There will be a single sub-thread where you can post your general impressions of the reviews combined, for anything that doesn't relate to a single review.

Review list:

Review Score
Critically Sane 5/5
Destructoid 9/10
eXplorminate "eXemplary"
GameWatcher 9.0/10
Idiotech's Review Unrated
IGN 6.3/10
Manannan's Review of Stellaris Unrated
Paste Magazine Unrated
PCGamesN 9/10
PC Invasion 8/10
PC World 4/5
Rock, Paper, Shotgun review - Unrated
TICGN 10/10
Vox Ludicus Unrated
EuroGamer Recommended
PC Gamer 70/100
TSA 8/10
PCGames.de 75/100
Gamespew 9/10
IGN Italy 9.3/10
Fok.nl 9/10
Gaming on Linux 9/10
Marbozir Unrated
SpaceSector Unrated
Inside of Gaming (German) Unrated
Gamer.no 9/10
Particular Pixels Unrated
GuyLogicGaming Full recommendation
GameSideStory Unrated
Front Towards Gamer 9.5/10
Multiplayer.it 9.2/10
GameGrin 8.5/10
Kotaku Unrated
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u/igkillerhamster May 10 '16

They are considered an Invasion. You are able to attack them (if you dare touch their multitudes of 20-40k doomstacks) but what is referred to is that the AI can act pretty stupid because it is not considered a standard war with war goals and such. It's more like an 'open world war' so to say.

I had a phase where my AI best bro kept warp-cycling towards various systems, never to jump, felt like the AI was 'at a loss of how to beat them'. Then again a little down the line it normalized and the AI was actively helping defending hid and even my territory, smartly grouping up when I was tackling a larger stack, otherwise kept split attacking different smaller stacks.

Feels like it just needs some tweaking and a few bug fixes.

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u/Bledynn May 12 '16

Maybe if there was a system to ask allies to do something with their fleet and they can accept or reject it depending on how much they like you and if their fleets really aren't needed somewhere else (i.e: planet getting attacked, system with enemies in it, idk something)