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Not Recommended 2,103.8 hrs on record

This is my favorite game by far (+2000 hours), so why would I not recommend a game I enjoy so much? It is because I love this game so much that I am not recommending it, cause I want it to improve and for its countless bugs and flaws to be fixed; If people refrain from buying the game until the most serious issues have been resolved, I would have helped my favorite game improve.



These are some of the various issues the game has right now, from most severe to least severe:



-The game slows down to an almost unplayable degree by the end game, even in smaller galaxies and with powerful computers.

-The AI is at best useless, at worst completely stupid. The game is not challenging at all if you know how things work.

-Awful translation (I'm a translator myself), at least in spanish (my native language), alienating and losing a potentially larger audience.

-Several evident vanilla bugs regarding the base game and the DLCs including: Continents on ringworlds turning black and losing clouds if playing non humanoid, the enigmatic fortress repairing itself in seconds, creating a vassal from a sector makes the resulting empire have no valid origin, etc.

-The combat and ship systems being a mess, having to reload the file to fix some of the issues (ships moving between systems non-stop, buggy reinforced fleet button, etc)

-A complete and utter lack of flavor for gestalt consciousnesses. Sure there are different play styles, but in the end, every single personality behaves similarly, by defaulting to the belligerent stance (even empaths and rogue servitors) and always slaving non hive-minds, so if you wanted to befriend a benevolent machine empire or a hive mind, this isnt the game for you.

-Every AI single empire gets a machine uprising, no exception, no solution.

-Missing vanilla localisations such as: canceling integration, empires with certain civics (shared burdens, trade league, megachurch, etc), some crisis ships and starbases, etc.

-A very lacking amount of dialogue, to the point of some being reused (fanatical purifiers have a single dialogue towards empires of the same species, reusing most of the dialogue used against other species)

-A lack of flavor when customizing your empire; most people use mods for this reason, and in many cases the mods make a much better job than the official developers.



These are the issues the game has right now that have annoyed me the most during my 2000 hours of playtime, if these issues are resolved, this game could truly shine and be one of the most beloved games of paradox, but until the developers listen to the community and focus on fixing current issues instead of producing more bug infested DLCs, this game is circling the drain.