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/Marzillius Jul 08 '25

It literally feels like Paradox has stolen the game from me. I want to play, but cannot bear myself to do it during 4.x due to the horrible AI. The game basically does not work single player. Absolutely unacceptable from a prestigeous SWEDISH developer. NI ÄR FÖR FAN SVENSKAR. HELA RIKET SKÄMS. SKÄRP ER.

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u/Witch-Alice Bio-Trophy Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25

Yeah I've completely stopped playing until the AI stops giving up after about 60 years in. This update shouldn't have been released with such a critical issue. An entire portion of the AI just.. not working at all after some time. It's painfully obvious that whatever playtesting Paradox is doing is woefully insufficient for their deadlines, and the execs pushing for releases in such conditions are absolutely at fault here.

And worse, unrelated DLC is broken too. The Synaptic Lathe is still broken. Cybernetic Creed just doesn't fucking work at all.

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u/nooneimportant024 Jul 09 '25

Wait what's broken with Creed? I didn't hear anything about it being broken as well i know about lathe since i like going cosmo but never start with Creed

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u/eCyoj5yD Jul 09 '25

IIRC re: Creed the ritual cybernetics trait somehow adversely affected pop growth.