what are the best dlc in your opinions?

[ryangoslinglover306]

hey all, looking for some opinions on what you think are the best dlcs both in terms of content and value for money

[Taso]

death star dlc

[DirishDevil]

They are all overpriced,, that's my opinion

[HappySack]

Try getting the one that adds horse armour.

[Forblaze]

If you're looking to start buying DLC, just get the expansion subscription.

Pretty much all of the DLC does one thing or another that you want, and there's a *lot* of DLC. the subscription is much better value than starting from scratch.

[MeniliteZ]

Definitely Paragons.
It allows you to choose your leaders' promotions on levelup.
(as well as adding new Great Leaders, but that's of lesser importance to me)
I can't play without it anymore.

But yeah, get all these DLC on sale if possible.

Originally posted by Forblaze:

If you're looking to start buying DLC, just get the expansion subscription.

Pretty much all of the DLC does one thing or another that you want, and there's a *lot* of DLC. the subscription is much better value than starting from scratch.

I disagree. That might be feature overload all at once.
Better to buy the base game, have fun with it, and buy the DLC you're interested in slowly over time whenever a sale happens.

Personally there's quite a few DLCs I don't want, some of which are major expansions.

[TomokoZerra]

For me I will hold my highest bias and say utopia(if its the one that added hive mind empires) is the best dlc. But in all honesty and open minded thought origins is the best actual dlc to the game as it gives your runs a bit less blandness and encourages replaying the game more.

[MeniliteZ]

Originally posted by TomokoZerra:

For me I will hold my highest bias and say utopia(if its the one that added hive mind empires) is the best dlc. But in all honesty and open minded thought origins is the best actual dlc to the game as it gives your runs a bit less blandness and encourages replaying the game more.

A DLC named Origins? I can't find that one. Which one do you mean?

[TomokoZerra]

Originally posted by MeniliteZ:

Originally posted by TomokoZerra:

For me I will hold my highest bias and say utopia(if its the one that added hive mind empires) is the best dlc. But in all honesty and open minded thought origins is the best actual dlc to the game as it gives your runs a bit less blandness and encourages replaying the game more.

A DLC named Origins? I can't find that one. Which one do you mean?

Origins was introduced as an update paired to make a dlc sell. Such as the federations DLC. So i consider it a DLC as you when it was introduced required you to get a dlc anyways. So federations is the dlc that introduced origins. Utopia despite being released much much before federations and the idea of adding origins to the game was a thing is required to get mechanist, syncretic evolution, and tree of life, Synthetic dawn gives you resource consolidation, The entire Origin thing is just to try to make you buy more dlcs so i consider origins its own dlc as you require to own a dlc to even utilize it. Though im confident by this point mods bypass this entire marketing strategy they come up with. At the time utopia and synthetic dawn released origins did not exist in stellaris as a whole.

[1200V2]

None, because it will safe you money in the long run.
There is no garantee that the game remains in a state that you want to play if Paradox decides to update a core gameplay feature.
It is more a like a free to play game with it's release of dlc's and nerfs in the core game.
And the nerfs can than be released as a new dlc for you to buy.

So none dlc's it is the most value for money.

Dlc's don't add to the game it is more a case of substracting from and releasing to the game as dlc without improving the core of the game and it feels more like an one step forward and two steps back kind of development of the game that is called Stellaris.

Just look at all the dlc's and ask your self if Stellaris is worth this much? Has it the same value, content as four normal complete, finished games?

[TheOrangeBox]

Only buy when the DLCs are at 85% off otherwise you're going to pay full price at 50% off as Paradox doubled the price of the DLC in the last year.

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by MeniliteZ:

I disagree. That might be feature overload all at once.

You can disable them in the launcher. The expansion is the price of a single, on sale DLC and there are a *lot* of DLCs. It's much more likely you'll have grown bored of the game and stopped playing before you equal the price of buying.

[TomokoZerra]

Originally posted by 1200V2:

None, because it will safe you money in the long run.
There is no garantee that the game remains in a state that you want to play if Paradox decides to update a core gameplay feature.
It is more a like a free to play game with it's release of dlc's and nerfs in the core game.
And the nerfs can than be released as a new dlc for you to buy.

So none dlc's it is the most value for money.

Dlc's don't add to the game it is more a case of substracting from and releasing to the game as dlc without improving the core of the game and it feels more like an one step forward and two steps back kind of development of the game that is called Stellaris.

Just look at all the dlc's and ask your self if Stellaris is worth this much? Has it the same value, content as four normal complete, finished games?

This is the truth. Just about every update and new dlc is paired with a complete game overhaul to a point which you need to relearn the game mechanics. Gets tedious after a bit.

Also let's not forget that the game lets you revert to previous versions of the game under the beta tab. But good luck finding mods that also let you do that unless you manually back up that version of the mod.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Every major DLC is worth getting EXCEPT Cosmic Storms, thats really the only one not worth getting.

[muffildy]

which dlc is best for exploration phase? i particularly like the random planet story anomolies and short stories that your science ships get to engage in.

[internetgrout]

I was thinking about this and realized that after hundreds and hundreds of dollars of DLC, the game really boils down to just looking at the stupid painted map anyway. So I'd advise you to just skip it