Worth it to start new campaign with Distant Stars?

[Songbird]

My campaigns usually last 20 hours each, is it worth it to get the new small DLC or play it together with the next big DLC once that releases? So essentially does it add enough new stuff?

[Chastity the Celibate]

Yes. It’s an exploration focused DLC, I am starting a new game this weekend aswell.

[Prometheus]

It has a lot of refinement of existing mechanics so they work better. Anomalies and special projects are way better. With lots of more interesting effects. Map generation is better. Not every strategic resource requires a tech now and you can see them before the techs so you know if researching the tech is valuable or not. They are also distributed much better. Seem to see at least one per cluster of stars.

Overall not a great leap forward like the big updates but its the kind of gradual improvements you'd expect from a game that is properly supported by the devs.

[mcsproot]

Originally posted by Promethian:

It has a lot of refinement of existing mechanics so they work better. Anomalies and special projects are way better. With lots of more interesting effects. Map generation is better. Not every strategic resource requires a tech now and you can see them before the techs so you know if researching the tech is valuable or not. They are also distributed much better. Seem to see at least one per cluster of stars.

Overall not a great leap forward like the big updates but its the kind of gradual improvements you'd expect from a game that is properly supported by the devs.

The old way, you just ended up getting them after the fact.

The new way, you can identify beforehand what systems are valuable and there may be a mad rush to get them.

Also some resources have multiple deposits on one planet. I've only ever seen single deposits before.

[Land]

You have a choice??

[mcsproot]

Originally posted by Land:

You have a choice??

It's called playing the previous version to finish your current game.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Originally posted by Promethian:

It has a lot of refinement of existing mechanics so they work better. Anomalies and special projects are way better. With lots of more interesting effects. Map generation is better. Not every strategic resource requires a tech now and you can see them before the techs so you know if researching the tech is valuable or not. They are also distributed much better. Seem to see at least one per cluster of stars.

Overall not a great leap forward like the big updates but its the kind of gradual improvements you'd expect from a game that is properly supported by the devs.

That's all free update, not just dlc.

[mcsproot]

Originally posted by Elitewrecker PT:

Originally posted by Promethian:

It has a lot of refinement of existing mechanics so they work better. Anomalies and special projects are way better. With lots of more interesting effects. Map generation is better. Not every strategic resource requires a tech now and you can see them before the techs so you know if researching the tech is valuable or not. They are also distributed much better. Seem to see at least one per cluster of stars.

Overall not a great leap forward like the big updates but its the kind of gradual improvements you'd expect from a game that is properly supported by the devs.

That's all free update, not just dlc.

The DLC adds many new anomalies, the L Cluster and L Gates, as well as three new leviathans (and the curators if you don't have leviathans dlc).