Stellaris - All hail Blorg, Space Friends #15

[@BriefMortal777]

"I think having big ships is more important than winning." - Hirohito, 1941

[@nobleknight7472]

Friends for the Friend Throne!

[@josephfallon6705]

+Noble knight (Nobleknight747) LET THE GALAXY SPARKLE!

[@Warhammer40k47]

+Noble knight (Nobleknight747) Fear denies friendship.

[@tazz2070]

+Noble knight (Nobleknight747) All hail Partymaster Ashley Easterbrook!

[@khinzaw77]

+Noble knight (Nobleknight747) It is better to die for Friendship than to live by yourself.

[@RememberTheElephant]

friendship for the freinship god!

[@RKNGL]

party for the party god!

[@RememberTheElephant]

+ThatGezaDude friendship is peace, friendship is slavery, party is strength

[@Goraka91]

It looks like there isn't mushroom left for colonization these days.

[@Ace8280]

Some new spots might pop up spore-aticly

[@babylon218]

You sound like a fungae. :p

[@curlyfordoge4366]

Soon, soon the Blorg will reach Sol. Soon...

[@DannyGoFisch]

This stream series sold me on a game I didn't have on my radar. Well done, gentlemen.

[@ArakkoaChronicles]

I think giving currently rebelling planets out in a peace deal should work. Basically, your enemy says "you know what, these guys are your problem now, have fun!" And you're the only one who remains in a war with the rebels after the peace deal goes through.

[@SoulxCross]

why does this sound like some awkward justifications after a drunk night? "i didn't want them to leave, just open up their 'boarders' and let us in..." those blorg are some desperate men...

[@marcusrogers16]

Would it make sense to have a 'zoom to event' or 'focus on empire' when an event pop-up comes on? You seem to be having difficulty pinpointing exactly what's happening when a pop-up states something that is seemingly quite important.

[@Neceros]

Why's the game choppy in this episode? Edit: Answer at 8:12

[@Neceros]

There should be a big chance for Kul-Pox, who stumbled upon your huge army to: -be captured, -run away entirely to live in another system as a new faction, -or attempt a crazy stunt to wipe out a ship gloriously (head on). Etc

[@rickveenbergen9021]

can you strap rockets to an asteriod and crash it into a planet.

[@balverine07]

+Rick Veenbergen Da Greenskinz are coming!

[@rickveenbergen9021]

Ryan M THIS GUY RIGHT HERE GETS ME !!

[@nikolasbryant4235]

+Rick Veenbergen Pro tip: Watch the sky for moons you don't recognize.

[@rickveenbergen9021]

Rusty Shackleford XD

[@xprtgaming2901]

I have a feeling the reason why your vassal and the Penguins aren't helping is because their ship jump distances aren't far enough likes the Blorgs is. Tell me if I'm wrong cuz that's how I'm seeing it :)

[@BriefMortal777]

You guys should add a button to research all debris in a system.

[@Alduin7757]

+BriefMortal777 01_ThumbsUp_Propose

[@preuenthegreat518]

+Alduin7757 01_we_should_stop_overusing_thisjoke_propose

[@Alduin7757]

+Preußen The Great 01_Genocide_Propose

[@zam023]

+BriefMortal777 Don't be lazy.

[@preuenthegreat518]

***** but why? i want to be lazy when it comes to things like that, having to individually click each piece of debris sounds tedious and like it would take away from the game play.

[@lukicoolus7355]

i love these dev´s

[@SteelWalrus]

+Luki Coolus They seem like real *Fungi's*.

[@alexriches6957]

+Steel Walrus God damn you

[@SteelWalrus]

+alex riches lol

[@SV67943]

+alex riches I'm sure the pun is what got to you, but for me it's this rampant disregard for how to use a fucking apostrophe.

[@SteelWalrus]

*a'p'o's't'r'o'p'h'e'

[@SuperKJ6192]

I love this stream series and I can't wait to play Stellaris when it comes out. ;)

[@MenelikiGaming]

+OverseerUSA ditto!

[@TrueMokael]

Friends don't let friends disband their friendly parties!

[@simonl4657]

Can you guys put in another naval stance to fire at maximum range instead of always trying to close in. If my ships have superior firing range, I want them to keep it that way

[@Mitchz95]

+Simon L There's a battle computer you can research that does exactly that.

[@cazadore9195]

+Simon L with tech advancement you unlock battle computers, which give the ships a designated role/stance, defensive for far bombardment/carriers and aggresive for brawslers/tanks

[@X32Amnity]

Thursday can't come soon enough!

[@murisnezirevic460]

"Stop attacking me AI...i am your father, your creator" still to this day cracks me up HAHAHAHAHA. Snyggt jobbat hörni :P

[@tcironbear21]

That cracks me up. The developer of the AI says the AI is getting too zealous in the building of its wormhole generators AI uses wormhole generators to quickly move an navy from the far side of the map to jump the developer the moment he lets his guard down. LOL Destroy the wormhole generators, dumbass! They may not get you war score, but if you are side that dictates when and where you attack & defend, then you are much more likely going to be the one that wins.

[@Kilhunter13]

+TC Coltharp This is exactly what I was thinking. The AI wasn't wrong at all when it extended its range inside the Blorg systems. They, the devs / players were wrong for ignoring it. They had already suffered a humiliating defeat earlier when they split their southern fleet. At that point they should have retreated that front to Blorg space and used whatever ships remained to expel any enemies from their borders, thus securing it until they could rebuild. But that doesn't make a fun, lighthearted live stream. I just hope they don't rewrite the AI because of their own failures.

[@ParadoxExtra]

+TC Coltharp It only makes sense to build them if the AI then use them. ;) Otherwise the AI is just wasting minerals that could be used to build more ships.

[@SigurdKristvik]

+TC Coltharp waste of minerals indeed

[@tcironbear21]

+ParadoxExtra The AI did use them. That is how the enemy on the far side of the map jumped you in this episode within days of you splitting your fleet. Wormhole generators are clearly the fastest means of movement, but with the big drawback that you have to build those stations. But the thing about those stations is that a savy player can use them as traps. If a player tries to destroy your wormhole generator, you can jump back while they are slowly moving across the star system. And since their is NO image of the exiting wormhole, the player has no knowledge that he is about to get jumped. And if you completely ignore the stations, then they can raid your side very effectively.

[@nufh]

+TC Coltharp I'm on +ParadoxExtra side

[@Redeemer216]

There really needs to be an indicator for occupation like their previous games. Dotted lines for partial occupation and lines for full.

[@bluetop77]

Great show, I learned a lot about throwing parties! - Hang out in the kitchen with the booze, and never split up your friends like Martin keeps doing :)

[@MCPaddyB]

Wiz' relationship with his AI is like the relationship between the Quarian and Geth.

[@SteelWalrus]

So close to making space friends of my own. The day before my birthday, no less!

[@pinkandblack9429]

Celebrate your party BLORG STYLE!

[@SteelWalrus]

*Flails tentacle-like appendages frantically* At least that way I won't feel weird when all four of my friends show up. lol

[@cosmicdj9542]

2 days before my birthday!

[@SteelWalrus]

NOICE!

[@L0RDOFCATS]

Will we be able to destroy planets entirely?

[@cazadore9195]

+Nimatsu no, not yet at least, probably in one of the future dlcs when you can build your own planets/ringworlds, and they add the deathstar/ world killer class ships. allways for endgame of course, when you rule the galaxy with your iron fist... i mean friendly wave

[@gregdrako]

8:10 Good to see devs that actualy anwser questions about optimization and overal stability of the game.

[@lacerion2680]

It seems that Blorg, become so emotionally attached to their quest for friendships, so they turned to the Dark Side! They partied their letter 'l' away! The Blorg Commonality become the ''Borg''. Assimilating all in the name of friendship! You must comply you will be ''befriended''!

[@cazadore9195]

+Lacerion we are the blorg, your technological and biological assets will be befriended, resistance is unfriendly

[@nufh]

Hi I have 3 question... I just bring it back from the last episode -got Synthetic race? -That Ship Designer, can we make it full screen? -Can we assign short key for fleet/sciences ship/planet/systems/sectors? And any key to go to last visited planet/system?

[@james11norma17]

I identify as a Blorg from the Blorg system from planet Blorg. So don't judge me.

[@chandrakas]

The thing thats impressed me about this game the most has been the fact that AI allies *actually help* in a war. I'm a long time Civ player, and this has been one of Civ's greatest failings - AI countries were just almost completely useless as allies unless they were very strong to begin with. The blorg's oldest allies here, on the other hand, not only set a decent sized fleet to 'follow' their allies around and help out, but they actively sent troop ship escorts to help take over enemy planets. This tells me a lot about the design goals of this game, and makes me really look forward to it.

[@matthewarceneaux224]

Fortresses should be "Fortress of no more solitude"

[@GabrielenTutorials]

the movement of the ships is caused by the time speed they move corresponding to how much time passed ;D

[@ChromeDrakeGaming]

+GabrielenTutorials You're right, but they haven't done that previously. They've been neatly synced up to this point, so some interesting stuff going on there.

[@cjyo3337]

imo planet bombardment effect is too small. hard to recognize it.

[@Demiurge13]

+c jyo agreed more bigger booms is more gooder =p

[@PenguinInTheHat]

What would be wonderful is if Mercedes Romero was presenting the tutorial

[@elendil004]

Why are all the animations for ships chugging so bad on this version?

[@FrostbitexP]

+Kevin Ham They said they would fix it. Dont worry about it. This was a build literally released right before the stream

[@Toropetskii]

+Kevin Ham Development builds are laggy.

[@OrionTaltos]

Make Friendship Great Again!

[@helge5982]

for the shortcut thing... how about pushing a button and then drag over the things that have to be salvaged, for exampel

[@Spriggen1337]

im just wondering if there will be some sort of supplementary app for mobile devices to help with keeping track of systems/particulars and micromanage them

[@wyatt735]

Like most Paradox games just pause time

[@Spriggen1337]

Wyatt Campbell im talking more for the multiplayer just to keep track of large empires

[@wyatt735]

+terry kirton maybe but I struggle to see how helpful it could be since it could take your eyes away from the important things but then again it could alert you (I have struggled to see an actually helpful companion app in a while) but I guess it could work somehow

[@jimgerrick3166]

I cannot wait for the 9th! Bought the Galaxy package and scheduled off from work for a few days after release! (one of the benefits of being a night shift RN!).

[@jsalonin]

I wonder how peacedeals with work in multiplayer game. Will the leader of a player run alliance be the one who decide who looses what planets or will each player have a choice to peace out.

[@Apgl257]

Where are the ground huggers? There was not enough hugging in this stream!

[@Macluful]

wouldn't it be cool if you sent your science vessel to unknown territory and once the science vessel passes your territory of influence it disappear s from view till it responds with success or failure

[@kurtis3670]

in one of the earlier streams a science vessel was MIA. when this happened it just returned home.

[@andrewjarvinen9691]

And friendship continues =D

[@Neceros]

Respect to people who wish to change their name, but everyone has the right to call everyone else whatever they want.

[@predalien365]

hey is it possible for a Resident Evil Umbrella Corporation like empire with experiments or B.O.Ws and maybe sell them too allies or anyone?

[@gimmeadrink]

Hi cKnoor, just so you know, I would definitely buy the Blorg music pack when you release it...

[@Neceros]

I put my Vibrance (in Nvidia control panel. I think it's called Saturation in ATI) up to 75% and the game is SO colorful. I love it lol.

[@rugar85]

I've been watching all the streams, and I've noticed that there is a lot of things the dev said they're fixing before release. Hopefully that's all just because they use an old save game, but some of the things seem pretty basic for having a release coming up soon. Hope they can make it by then

[@BYoNexus]

+bla moep basic bugs are usually the last ones to be fixed. That way they focus on the more complex bugs, and dont fix something easy, only to break them again later when they fix something bigger.

[@Tairneanach]

+bla moep They've said they're working with hot code, meaning that they use a version so new that it hasn't been tested yet. There are also some problems related to them using a save that's several versions old and has probably dragged a few bugs with it or led to new ones. They basically use the stream for testing, and we've seen some bugs being fixed already.

[@rugar85]

+Tairneanach I hope they can work it all out. So stoked for 9 may :-)

[@Tairneanach]

bla moep Totally! I preordered the second it went up - I don't usually do that. I trust them, though. Maybe some minor bugs might slip through, but I'm confident it won't be anything serious.

[@mrmelkor8262]

Duuuuuude. Why not have an even bigger ship class? DREADNAUGHTS???? :D and have them be so big you have to build a special space station that builds them??? :D :D :D :D

[@MCPaddyB]

+Melkor Arhostis Paradox loves DLC. Don't be surprised if new ship classes are sold later.

[@Axz92Axz]

You should consider aiding a transfer timer when moving leaders, or at least prevent the player from moving them around when at war and in enemy territory.

[@simulation0139]

Are there other fleet formations besides the wedge formations i'm seeing?

[@Macluful]

can't recall in earlier streams if they had mentioned that the limit of the galaxy. I want a bloody massive system.

[@hafrepo]

+Maclu Z They went through the game options in the first episode of the Blorg series. Looks like max is 1000 stars, and they're playing in a 600 star map, so max is nearly double what we see here.

[@wyatt735]

You can make special galaxies for scenarios above 1000 but it's not as supported as 1000

[@nasxeno]

wtf battleship biggest? where is the dreadnought class HOW AM I MENT TO MAKE THE WARSPITE!

[@guilhermesfk]

+SnowToad Oh trust me. There is going to be Tons of DLC for this game. Paradox is in LOVE with DLC.

[@FrostbitexP]

+Nasa Farah Battleship is not the biggest ship

[@guilhermesfk]

NaniSore Well that's good to know. But how do you know?

[@nasxeno]

apart from the one you get from having a certain government type but thats not for my nation

[@HVH-swift]

I really want to know is there a way to get a higher planet cap? It's been at 5 this entire time and you have a sector limit of 3 which very quickly limits the size of your galactic empire. What if I wanted to play on 1000 star map is there any way to increase your Planet Limit? 1000 stars and only being able to have 20 in your control is pretty shitty.

[@cazadore9195]

+Stephan Renaud in one of the earlier streams they said the sector cap is bound to how many planets you have in your empire, the 5 is only your core cap, sectors grow exponentially with the size of your empire and research probably.

[@Moneyone218]

+Stephan Renaud sectors have no planet cap, also it was stated the more planets you take the more the sector limit goes up.

[@reclaimingfire7903]

please release early for preorders :((((

[@wyatt735]

Paradox has a pretty anti early access standing

[@ahloz8359]

I put myself in cryosleep untill release!!!!

[@ThePiousMan]

Kuma-kun? A bear?

[@Tairneanach]

+Avoan Black Well, Bjorn (or however it's spelled) means bear too.

[@ThePiousMan]

Let him go "Miś" or more manly "Niedźwiedź" for polish then.

[@greenmushroom4258]

So the question "what happens to pops after the planet is full?" And the answer was if migration allowed then pop moves to other planet... So if no migration pop growth is just wasted after planet is full?

[@Ryzen776]

+green mushroom Seem like it.

[@Miraklum]

I wish the game would come out on day 6 instead of 9..gotta work :/

[@ghoayg]

Suggestion, If the AI attacks with one ship and the War Goal slightly increases... maybe that should be fixed. (Not the AI sending ships to their doom, because I'm sure that may have been a slight bug you guys will fix.) I'm referring to incredibly small space battles with minor skirmishes increasing war goals. Maybe minor skirmishes shouldn't count as increasing war goals. Just a suggestion, don't stone me to death.

[@Jepskiator]

Look what happened, now you made me buy the game...

[@madespain7582]

The game its going to be in spanish?

[@BigBlackGlock]

Im actually quite concerned from the chugging of the game (lag) I keep seeing with the fleets. I hope its just because they're not an optimal computer, because they're streaming, or because its an old save with fresh builds.

[@TFHDeathUA33]

+Tex They addressed it several times in the videos. They are playing hot builds. Bugs will be coming and going throughout this series.

[@Karthos1000]

It is nice, btw, to see an AI that actually can win some battles.

[@fortunatojr.butihen7671]

Yeah, sometimes the AI in this game are actually smart

[@paulbobenhausen8031]

Question? Will Stellaris feature modding support? Cause while i think the game will be great, it would be even better if you're pummeling those rivals into "Friendom" with ancient warships, or blasting literal klingons.

[@Blinndsnipers36]

+Paul Bobenhausen they said everything is movable

[@hugemaps8376]

Your supposed to play the kazoo with your nostrils!

[@BYoNexus]

is it just me, or does it look like the performance is a bit lower then earlier in the game? The blorg fleet was flying smoothly before, but now it was doing all those starts and stops

[@benbailey08911]

+Brenden Y they said something they did from the last set of fixes broke something causing frame rates to studer

[@benbailey08911]

+Ben Bailey it is weird that it seems to only effect the ships.

[@bananaenor]

I want it out Naow T_T

[@patriklindsath1392]

awsome!

[@SigurdKristvik]

Liked commented.. and subscribed-ed... :D

[@Demiurge13]

kuma-kun? really? REALLY?? laaaaaaaame

[@kristofferterbush2610]

uhm, you DO know that Mercedes Romero is a male right??? you've been referring to him as a her this whole playthrough.

[@Demiurge13]

+Kristoffer TerBush so you say, sounds like a chick name to me. Besides how the hell can you tell what a blorg is anyway? They seem like they would be asexual

[@kristofferterbush2610]

it was on one of the first 1-3 vids they looked at mercades and it said on the bio male.

[@kristofferterbush2610]

that being said i'm sitting here on baited breath waiting for someone in sweden to push the button and make the game live... almost 8am in sweeden now

[@EMPHRAlM]

nice Coyote shirt

[@LordCHull]

Remove Friend.

[@lordhigglebottum8377]

#1453NeverForget

[@wyatt735]

Rest in peace Byzantium

[@seanbodah1406]

Just a subjective thing, the alien races look pretty dumb. Wouldn't stop me from buying the game but kinda kills the immersion when your fighting the Penguin Empire.

[@Selandr]

Cmon! It's painful to watch - please use older build rather than such laggy one

[@astrolys3482]

+Andrey Seleznov I think it's a good idea to use the most recent build. They're like beta-testing the game. Sort of.

[@RobertSmith-bz5ug]

While I love a complex game, I'm thinking there are far too many ships available... battles will be sluggish and choppy and it'll become the worse part of the game.. also far too many SIGN TAGS involved !!!! the interface for space looks like a political convention floor... !!!!

[@KingHedgehogYT]

It's not called the Political Map for no reason..

[@rzrx1337]

the combat looks boring.

[@FrostbitexP]

+RazorX53 To me its more like the people playing it are boring (when doing combat). Not the combat its self. This game is obviously much more about out maneuvering and out smarting your enemy rather than fancy star wars battle animations.

[@rzrx1337]

NaniSore that doesn't make the combat any less boring.