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rather fond of it id say

Overall, incredibly frustrating. This game calls itself challenging, but in reality it's just obnoxious. Strategy really doesn't matter, since no matter how you plan, react or adapt to any given situation, you are going to regret starting your playthrough when after going so well for so long you are suddenly confronted by a dinky pirate ship with infinite missiles and infinite drone parts that puts holes in every compartment and disables every system when it ambushes you out of the blue after making the mistake of giving this game an hour or so of your time.

This is not a game of strategy. This is not a game of chance. This is the developer kindly recommending that you drink bleach and jump off a bridge after drawing you in with promising gameplay elements and interesting mechanics. This is a game that punishes you in every aspect: you are punished for experimenting, you are punished for optimization, you are punished for exploration, you are punished for fighting, you are punished for fleeing, you are punished for just playing the damn game.

The real challenge is finding yourself actually being satisfied at the end of any given run. I have nothing but loathing for this waste of time and every time I give it a chance I only come away bitter and frustrated. Definitely a hard pass. This is a bad game.

There are serious, glaring issues with the way Paradox treats their playerbase. For several years, lategame was virtually unplayable due to a limitation of their engine which slowed the game to a crawl as populations grew larger. Perhaps if the game were not consistently billed as an "immense" experience meant to emulate the feeling of grand-scale conflict in a game of empire, this would not have been such a glaring oversight; in any case, it has been resolved, so why care?

Well, because instead of working on this issue, Paradox spent those several years consistently pumping out core content as paid DLC, each time drastically altering the structure of a game to the point where it was either terribly hollow or felt like an early access release without them. While a grand strategy enthusiast can still find it loads of fun, the fact of the matter is that this game feels incomplete without shelling out for DLC which should be included in the base game to begin with, and the developers have the gall to advertise them to you in the game itself just to drive home the fact that you, the buyer, possess an incomplete product, and it is an especially egregious smack in the face when the lack of said DLC causes problems not present in the original release. While you can roll back to earlier versions, the sheer disrespect Paradox shows in these releases is insulting, and I can in no way advocate any potential buyer spend their money rewarding this kind of behavior.

Acquire this game through any other "SAFE AND LEGAL" means than through purchase. Paradox does not deserve your money, and will continue to do its best to shaft the consumer at every possible opportunity. I AM NOT GOING TO PAY 10 DOLLARS TO PLAY AS FISH PEOPLE IN A GAME I ALREADY PURCHASED.

p good i like it :)