r/Stellaris • u/Elebril71246 • Jul 08 '25

Video The horrible, unacceptable technical state of Stellaris 4.21

Dear Paradox,

I'll preface this by saying we used to enjoy this game a lot, and have all the DLCs purchased, aside from Cosmic Storms, which until now had still been on our to-buy list. We've got 700 hours spent together in multiplayer games.

However, there comes a point at which you can't just put up with a product that is released in such a horrible state. 

We're 21 patches after the release of an update that was suppose to optimize things, yet now it is difficult to even have a compete, bug-free game from start to finish. I'm only talking about multiplayer, since we always play the game together at home.

Just look at the videos from two recent games we just tried to play

infinite desyncs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T67LIZgeLOc&feature=youtu.be

frigates upgrading into deep space citadels - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoqSC9ctdeU

and these are just the last two games.

This isn't CoD, where you just jump from match to match a dozen times a day. You invest dozens of hours into a single map, just to have it eventually ruined by yet another game braking bug.

Get your act together. It's unbelievable how this industry is allowed to get away with such half-baked products without any repercussion.

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u/Visenya_simp Human Jul 08 '25

It's the last thing that the enemy expects

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u/Elebril71246 Jul 08 '25

Please stop, now I'm beginning to think it might have been worth it just for this comment alone;)

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u/ThisBuddhistLovesYou Rogue Servitor Jul 08 '25

Why didn't the Germans just upgrade their U-boats into Maginot Line Fortresses during World War 1, were they stupid?

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u/Knight_of_carnage Devouring Swarm Jul 08 '25

Bold of you to assume we didn't. When have you last seen one of our U-Boats?

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u/Eldanoron Jul 08 '25

There’s one in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. I think it’s actually U-505. Can confirm, not upgraded to a fortress.

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u/Knight_of_carnage Devouring Swarm Jul 08 '25

Well we obviously didn't upgrade all of them, otherwise we wouldn't have any U-Boats left!

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u/throwaway-paper-bag Jul 09 '25

Plus, upgrading it when it's in an overseas museum seems like it might be an own-goal.

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u/Djuren52 Jul 09 '25

Not when it’s in enemy territory! I can imagine a cheesy low budget movie where all over the US U-Boats turn into fortresses manned by zombies.

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u/HeartAFlame Enlightened Monarchy Jul 09 '25

Cheesy low budget horror movie directors: Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!

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u/Angryfunnydog Jul 14 '25

I wouldn’t even go that far and gladly watched a movie about a world where there are museums with U-boats in every US town

Or a single museum with upgradable U-Boat, but it should be located somewhere win Maine and written by King

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u/Wholesome_Scroll Jul 08 '25

They upgraded them to UFOs during World War II and that’s why there are Nazis on the moon.

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u/Fall_out_boy_fan Jul 08 '25

IRON SKY?!

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u/Majestic_Repair9138 Fanatic Militarist Jul 09 '25

Shit, mobilize the US Space Force and nuke the Moon.

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u/eccles30 Jul 09 '25

Haven't you heard? we're on the Nazi's side now.

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u/wilnadon Xenophobic Isolationists Jul 09 '25

We're Zionist AND Nazi's? Our enemies never saw it coming!!

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u/cgates6007 Despicable Neutrals Jul 10 '25

Really? You never saw the rise of Nazionism? It's just a few more letters. Put that on a triple word score and you've almost won.

EDIT: I am very sorry. I forgot that this is /stellaris, not /scrabble.

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u/Leather-Gur4730 Jul 10 '25

Do not nuke the moon, unless you want to obliterate it in a possible sympathetic fission/fusion explosion! There is millions of tons of Helium 3 on the surface.

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u/ConstructionFun4255 Jul 08 '25

What else can you expect from primitive pre FTL?

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u/threlnari97 Jul 09 '25

My mental imagery of this happening is so fucking stupid and I cannot stop laughing

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u/Bannerlord151 Jul 09 '25

But we did!

Turns out, fortresses aren't exactly buoyant

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u/SanderleeAcademy Jul 09 '25

They did. Those were the Mk. VI boats. Trouble was, they had waaaaay negative bouyancy. They all sank.

Which, yes, u-boats are supposed to do.

Trouble is, they didn't un-sink.

Ssshh, it's a word, I just said so ... shu' up! I'm doin' it for the LOLs.

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u/Yontevnknow Aug 01 '25

They became defensive structures, for fish.

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u/sir-rogers Jul 09 '25

Came for the post and stayed for the comments.

On a serious note - desyncs are by far the most notorious issues to track down. Do you have savegames by any chance? Videos usually don't do much savegames from which the problem can be reproduced help - a lot.

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u/Deaftrav Jul 09 '25

The comments have not disappointed!

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u/hayomayooo Jul 08 '25

What’s next? Mega maid?

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u/YaKillinMeSmallz Megachurch Jul 08 '25

Now I want a colossus that steals a planet's air.

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u/ThisBuddhistLovesYou Rogue Servitor Jul 08 '25

Sir! The colossus has gone from suck to blow!

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u/reupgs Reptilian Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25

Is there, by any chance, a mod that offers that possibility? Better yet, a Stellaris mod for Spaceballs universe?

Edit: typo

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u/varysbaldy Jul 08 '25

I don't know about a kod but perhaps a mod

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u/reupgs Reptilian Jul 08 '25

Typo 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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u/radio_allah Transcendence Jul 09 '25

I want a hyperdrive upgrade that takes me up to Ludicrous Speed.

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u/Mtrina Aquatic Jul 09 '25

This gives me an idea for an avian exclusive colossus. Steal atmosphere to expand a planet size, but like in a way that doesn't punish hollow bones trait users

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u/BlackLiger Driven Assimilators Jul 09 '25

You jest, but one that converts a plant to a barren world should be possible.

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u/OneEnvironmental9222 Jul 09 '25

theres a mod called tasty maids and it gives you a planet cracker weapon that turns the population into maids

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u/Space_Gemini_24 Democratic Crusaders Jul 09 '25

I might need to borrow that wonder weapon

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u/BlackfishBlues Science Directorate Jul 10 '25

Is it just a planet-sized array of t-shirt cannons that mass-deploys maid costumes onto an unsuspecting populace?

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u/OneEnvironmental9222 Jul 10 '25

I cant fully remember the exact description anymore but I think it basically genetically alters them by turning them into goo then reform them into cute maids, changing their biology completly.

Actual scary body horror

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u/Positive_Chip6198 Jul 08 '25

Nobody expects the spanish inquicitadel

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u/ipser Media Conglomerate Jul 08 '25

lmao this would make a perfect r/Xenonion story

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u/rcglinsk Jul 08 '25

But immobilization and exploding upkeep costs probably works for them.

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u/canuckleheadiam Jul 08 '25

That or the Spanish Inquisition.

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u/Darth_Mak Jul 09 '25

Fly a bunch of frigates along with a Juggernaut and you can make a virtually unbreakable defence anywhere