Should You Buy Stellaris Federations? 

I just convinced my federation to start a war I don't intend to fight in, because I really need some of my fellow members to lose ships, thus diplomatic weight in order to restore my position as leader. So yes excellent buy

I’ve decided to be the Byzantine Empire with the Remnant Origin. Immediately bordered a marauder empire. Bordered a hegemony alliance below. And also have a colony currently going batshit insane. Found ancient remains of previous empire. Get stomped by Great Khan as soon as he appears. Highly recommend 11/10 historical accuracy

2:25 "Now the trade federation on the other hand, as it's name implies" _get's Battledroids_ "Is highly focused on trade" wait what?

This sounds like it belongs in the "S" tier of the expansion chart.

"I am Chancellor Palpatine and I endorse this DLC"

The Galactic community feels very realistic in my game. Only useless resolutions on the floor while the grey tempest and great khan wages war on everyone. Of course, it is more important to decide what sanctions should be used… 6 times in a row... and if we would have more laws in effect to be able to breach something, and we would have a galactic council maybe we even could use those sanctions on someone :D

Paradox: Integrates the Doomsday Mechanic Me: Selects it Also me: Raises the probality of habitable Planets to 200%

"Somewhat of a limited resource" *Laughs in 7 envoy space raptor trading empire*

"Summary": *Y E S*

Whenever you see red text in Stellaris, there will be a reckogning.

No, no you shouldnt. But you will, and paradox knows it.

Me: Picks Hegemon Origin Also Me when looking at my neigbours: F O O D!

Playing it now, although I wish my mods would update version-wise.

Last time I was so early, you could choose travel means

Bro, 21 minutes? Coulda been 2.1 seconds and you coulda just said "Y E S"

It's treason then... Also, I still really want actual backstabbing for my stellaris games; where's the spy update?!

Should You Buy Stellaris Federations? My wallet: No lul

Lord Paradox says And we obey Over Steam sales And buy away

"Galaxit". Best joke I heard all day, thanks for that.

Once had too much rabble going on in my federation. So I visited their worlds and they don't talk as much now that they are in chains with neural implants. Hard problems require easy solutions.

I made a hedge fed. Bullied a weaker empire and converted them to my ethics to make the fed. However when I forced another empire to join the fed they both instantly voted me out :(

The virgin vanilla mega shipyard vs The chad gigastructures Hyperstructural Assembly Yard

For so many years now I’ve been calling for a diplomacy expansion. I’ve been calling for it in the comment section of ASpec’s videos and on Paradox’s RU-vid channel, and now that it’s here I couldn’t be happier.

The more I see Stellaris DLC unfold, the more I realize how far ahead Crusader Kings 2 is in terms of diplomacy AI.

ASpec: "Should You Buy Stellaris Federations? Also ASpec in the last video: "This video is made possible by paradox interactive. Buy the latest update for Stellaris Federations using the linking in the description below."

One thing that is still missing is some mechanic to balance out power. Maybe that if you reach a certain level of strength where you are considerably above any other member of the galactic community they will all team up to cut you down to size unless you have positive relationships.

Bought the DLC, got mad that performance is worse (for me), got a Juggernaut, equipped it with jump drives. Best pirate killing ship this DLC is 10/10 who needs like 3 corvettes when you got a literal armed starbase to kill pirates. Again 10/10 thanks Paradox for the solution

My empire's always carry a "big stick" when I play Stellaris but it took the release of this expansion to truly let them be able to "speak softly." Thank you Stellaris dev team for this expansion and also to you Aspec for making Stellaris videos.

Meanwhile me with my Cartel Megacorp: "I sell drugs to the galactic community!"

I'm new on Stellaris, and I want to thanks you a lot for the work here to help me decide which dlc I should get first ! (it's a little too much 240 € in a one time purchase ^^" ) (I leave only this comment, but I took a look at other videos you make for dlc / tier list )

Great video, help me understand what this DLC was about and has convinced me to buy. Also first time to your channel, definite subscribe, keep up the good videos mate.

For the *SeNAtE* meme slaughter? *YES*

Great video!

I wish they would have a Diplomatic treaty system like Age of Wonders where you can buy the rights to explore in their space such as to do excavation or investigate anomalies. This would make so much sense as part of a Federation or with someone as your ally as it is really frustrating to have a mission to use a science vessel on a project but you can't because it is in someone else territory. This is true even if they are your ally or part of your Federation.

I found one of those new archeology site. The Sentinels. It's pretty.good.

Expensive for my country, but bought. I wish they did some events and stuff for hives though, not just some numbers.

1st :P Thanks for your videos and you time ASpec :)

The Doomsday text is a reference to the old NES game 'Bad Dudes." Awsome

Cant wait to test everything! (especially the federation mechanics) with my determined exterminator race lol

I started off with the Scion origin and I don't really 'get it'. There doesn't seem to be any bonuses or challenges, you just play as normal. The Fallen Empire messages you once saying "Hey we're really proud of you, phase one of the test is complete, now it's phase two" but since then I've gone onto bring several other empires into the fold and we span about 75% of the galaxy and the Fallen Empire hasn't said a single word to me since. It feels like there's supposed to be some big, overarching story and a hidden objective but so far, nothing has happened. What gives?

After watching this informative video I subscribed :)

The mobile shipyard as been saving my bacon since i built it. Espeshaly since i am up against 3 massive federations and keeping my ships on the line would be otherwise diffecult. Since the deadnought counts as a rally point for youe fleets it has ment that I have won several encounters simply because I could withdraw and refit at the shipyard and my oponant had to withdaw an intire sector this gave me a masive momentum advantage which ment i was able to continualy throw fully repaired ships back into the fight before my opponent had repaired or even resurfaced from our last encounter. I will admit that it does need carfull watching so as to not get overrun if things are going porly but, unlike a starbase, it can get out of the way of an invashion.

An alternative to making every other empire into a tributary I guess... But seriously though I make 500 credits and 500 minerals from 7 tributaries on my current playthrough, it's 50 years into the fucking game and everyone besides fallen empires are pathetic.

I did um and ar about this but as You said ASpec its a yes and I willl be using your link to get it right now

Before watching this here's my answer after playing a few hours.. BUY IT SHUT UP DO IT NOW! Have fun. Now to finish this vid.

As a console gamer I do feel sad we dont have this yet. (Its very possible in the future as it looks like we are getting up to mega Corp when you look at the available achievements)

The point of the Juggernaut is not it's auras. It's not it's shipyard capabilities. It's simply to assert your dominance.

Not in-voy It's aan·voy. As in like the word: On. Voy. Envoy is ON-voy. It's French.

Guys, greenmangaming has the DLCs on sale. Think Steam does too. I love federations, really throws things for a curveball and the origins are all fun

Sounds like a great expansion, that came with an also great free update ! I still havn't bought Ancient Relics (even if I'm a huge archeology fan, thanks Stargate !) and Megacorp, so I'm probably going to play with what I have, and once I'm bored, I'll just grab these three and it will feel liek a brand new game !

I'm finding I have to juggle influence a lot more. Started as Void Dwellers and having to keep 200 influence to build a habitat, influence to build outposts, and then influence to call in favors is a real balancing act.

Thank you God bless you.

The only thing I honestly was happy about is that there is an effect to remove empires from a war as participants, which has been a long time coming. Kinda sucks that we can't Victoria 2 White Peace in vanilla, but with that effect, it wouldn't be impossible anymore to script up a separate war system.

You should totally put Flak and point defence on that Juggernaut Florida man style 😆

Oh my god the Molluscoid Juggernaut is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen (in Stellaris) (and just generally)

Aspec should start doing guides for some of the more difficult acheivements

I feel that the Juggernaut is not really necessary. I mean having a mobile shipyard is great and all but by, the mid-game you can put regenerative tissue on your ships and just repair them in the field.ot use a captured starbase.

Its too late for this video but still going to watch it

I love favors in the galactic council. Once there was a vote nearly everyone opposed minus 3 or so empires. Thanks to favors the vote was in our favor and we all laughed

Paradox strategy released DLC with a price tag range of 15 to 20 dollars for the next 6 years like CK2 or EU4, the tactic really worked for paradox.

I just bought the Starter pack which price was reduced on steam . So far I love it. Basicly the buy was influenced by you haha

I have been enjoying it this corona vacation

"Always make sure you stab the xeno in the back" Come on man do you think this is our first purging?

Utopia, megacorp and federations. All those are amazing together. Megacorp and federations makes some incredible diplomatic moments!

I bought it because I knew I can't hold off for too long and would rather have it right away than live with it for a few months lol. Also I really wanted to repay the devs in a sense, because they honestly improved the game a lot. My first game in a year and the AI wrecks me a lot, it's like playing against a human player. Constant warring against 4 neighbours, 2 wars on average at all time, it's insane, never had such intensive gameplay before, I can't even enjoy the Federation part lol because I fight for my life.

Very good point about not joining a federation. I could'nt say more. It is event worse with not joining the galactic senate (no bonuses, no galactic market...). All you say in your review is true, just one thing in my opinion, inward perfection is dead at the moment, I'm on a spiritualist run now with IP(~2550yo) struguling to join the head of the race, without megastructure it would be impossible...

Doomsday should have had a menu for different options as to why your planet is exploding: - Unstable Core: The current version of the Doomsday scenario. - Ancient Sabotage: A fallen empire placed a bomb in your planet eons ago, and it can't be defused in time. You can find and confront said empire later on. - Interdimensional Consumption: A portal will open up, from which a Lovecraftian horror will devour your planet. You can slay it later on with enough fleet power. - Intentional Demolition: You have the option to blow up your depleted homeworld to harvest its last remaining resources, as the planet is becoming unlivable, even as it isn't naturally going to explode.

Got it at the release, today I couldn't stop playing, well worth it.

Hold on I don’t have federations but I already have the galactic community. Is this expanding on it or just another way of getting it.

Can we all for a minute appreciate how Aspec says Hegemony

I wonder what Paradox could do for a next big expansion, if there will be one? Maybe they'll go to Stellaris 2 after Federations, but I hope they keep adding content and expansions to Stellaris

Mind bullets? Oh wooooonder boiii what is da secret of yo powerrrr

Where does _Federations_ fit on the tier list? I call upon and ask lord ASpec himself!

"Hegenemy" XD

I wonder if every time a galaxy is made, it pops into existence somewhere? 😱😮

I kinda wanna see a doomsday civ that also has the psionic crisis get devastated twice.

They should allow us to have 2-3 juggernauts, depending on the empire’s size/political weight/technology, but make those really expensive to have.

I might wait on buying the DLC but I'm also very very fond of the free update so many things were fixed!

Nice content as always. I have one question can you still play tall in this patch and with the dlc?

Is there £15 or region equivalent value in federations: I'd go with yeah overall, great artwork and a couple of interesting events/reskins of old events, music is pretty good (though not quite as good as previous music), gameplay additions are significant and varied (though some of this is the update), there's no significant QoL improvements I can think of except performance which is slightly better but not that good on my mid range laptop, I like that domination victory isn't quite as default a route to victory as it used to be. Whilst balance may be way off I think that's not really why people play Stellaris and there are still plenty of ways to balance the difficulty of your playthrough for almost any start if you want them and it feels like the galaxies in federations are more interesting and distinct than previously - particularly with things like scion, federated starts, ringworlds, voidbourne etc. (I've played about 2 campaigns for 50ish years and one ongoing one for 100 years) P.S. don't play Hegemon on higher than normal difficulty or you will find yourself subservient to your former vassal within 5 years - unless you're into that sort of thing 😉

I've found it wise to never underestimate the Federation's technical skill - or Captain Sisko's resourcefulness.

I'm excited to buy this when I can afford it!

Litterally didn't even make it through five minutes of the video, gonna start playing stelllaris again listened to your end verdict of yes and bought it, hope it's worth it lol

Personally I kinda stopped caring what happens in the galactic community That’s probably gonna bite me in the ass some day

I got the federations DLC but it seems to me it overshadowed some of the story packs that I liked, the story segments seem like they are less likely to occur?

It looks like AI actually did get better. Now they actually hold their own in fleet strenght to me: earlier it was very rare to even see any other player being equal in fleet strenght with me, but now it's not rare at all to see AI players with "Superior" in fleet strenght and everyone who had normal start are now my equals. Really, only primitives civilizations that started from early space age, are pathetic in fleet strenght. They also now try to find routes to your territory without trying to go trough your Starbase-chokepoints. I thought when they withdrew from my allies territory when I started to pick up their fleets one by one, they were preparing for me to invade their territories(I had no intention of that, just helping my ally to get back his territories.) Turns out that wasn't their plan either: I had put starforts on most obvious routes to my space....so, they circled back from quite a hike with 12.7K attack fleet and fucked my shit up. They took out whoopping 75 percent of my fleets (they won the battle but lost 50-60 percent of their fleet strenght and decided to sue for peace). Another thing I noticed, AI players are more willing to make peace. Old patch you could have ally/federation war and it didn't matter if your opponent had 100 percent war attrition, they just kept fighting. Now, they seem to be willing to take up peace when ever massive loss in battlefield comes their way.

Can't wait to have it on my ps5 😈. What about galaxy size ? Is it biger then 600 star systems ?

With the galactic Council who gets the diplomatic weight with pops when you have your species pops in there empire? Is it you or the empire who controls your pops?

I wish you could join and manipulate town federations at once. Becoming the Senate

I brought it yesterday its really fine so far

Any news of this coming to console? Or if consoles are getting an update soon?

on the shoulders of giants is one of the best things the devs have ever introduced to stellaris i sware.

my friend has all the dlc and hosted a lobby. We hosted three times and every time we desynched 80 years or so in, big bummer.

I agree with doomsday, the least they could do is to give a reward for completing the evacuation of your pops. E.g. having an empire-wide modifier to happiness and stability for the next 5 or 10 years reflecting the fact that your species continues on, or maybe a big unity boon from successfully evacuating everyone from the planet.

How is the diplomacy AI? I'm thinking of jumping in Stellaris, but I heard in another review that the diplomacy AI in Stellaris is bonked (has been since start apparently), in that they'll never accept a deal unless it massively benefits them and they'll never accept a deal that is fair on balance. What is your assessment?

I'd very much love to use this expansion, but trying to buy it with $20, but also it came with tax that I don't have, but I do live in USA.

Is there a mod that makes AI always rebel? I really like that idea from Mass Effect!

Back there when i debated about empire sprawl and possible fix i see they went with it.So even back there when everyone said it would not work its officialy in game.Hows that for irony.

DID Aspec just say he want's to see a random Schmuck like me in Multiplayer? Sign me the fuck up!

So far everything about the update is one of the best updates they've done. The DLC itself...they deserve the $20 for the update.