Thought I would make a discussion thread for the new game since I didn’t see one up. I haven’t picked it up yet, was planning on getting it this weekend. I’m curious what any Trekkies who’ve also played Stellaris think of it. Is it worth getting?

  • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The only thing that has me frozen is Stellaris has so much, and Infinite has 4 factions to pick from. What is the bonus of buying this over just downloading the Star Trek mod for Stellaris? Other than that it looks great, I like the inclusion of popular Star Trek characters, it looks like a reskin of Stellaris which imo is not a bad thing. It looks interesting, but I would have preferred far more faction choices.

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      1 year ago

      Playing Devils advocate, it looks like they put a lot of flavor and assets into each of the playable factions which is why there is a limited selection. Still more would have been better. I can understand the decision to keep the Borg as an AI controlled faction, but Stellaris already has mechanics that fit the Ferengi well.

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      1 year ago

      It's only £25 and if it's successful then it shows Paramount there's a market for Trek games beyond the mobile pap we got for years. Same with Resurgence earlier in the year.

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        1 year ago

        I'm gonna be honest, I don't buy games to get corpos to use their IPs in smart ways. They won't. If they did we would have gotten a L4D style Borg game where one of the main mechanics is shield harmonics while you're running frantically. The good IPs getting wasted is just a side effect of copyright laws being given a phylactery.