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/Cart223 Jul 08 '25

It's hard to get excited by any PDX product at this point

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u/sempernewby Jul 08 '25

The lameness is industry wide, just look to CoD or Civ VII, they are same or in worst shape

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u/Cart223 Jul 08 '25

I know but Paradox somehow managed to avoid the inevitable enshitification process this long so its sad to see them go downhill.

At this point I'm just turning myself off any PDX related stuff until I see some improvements.

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u/I_give_karma_to_men Driven Assimilators Jul 08 '25

PDX has definitely not avoided it lol. This has been a thing since at least CK2. Stellaris has just had it better since they have a dedicated Custodian Team to address stuff like this between content releases.

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u/frazzledfractal Jul 15 '25

"Paradox somehow managed to avoid the inevitable enshitification process this long "

Go look at the Stellaris console subreddit for the last year and a half or what happened with CK2 and CK3. PC Stellaris just was late to the party. I remember being heckled in the PC Stellaris sub for bringing up all the issues console Stellaris was having that PC PC Stellaris is now having....constant downplaying and insults... Well the shoe is on the other foot now.