Stellaris Dev Diary #288 - Payback and Insights

[PDS_Iggy]

"Satisfying Insults" - will First Contact now give us a non-RP reason to use the Insult action? It would be nice to be have the option to start pointless yet domestically popular foreign policy initiatives.

Indeed.

Is there any relationship between the "insight" situations and the new diplomatic/spy interactions with pre-ftl civilizations?

Or are the "insight" situations automatic as long as you have an observation post on the planet?

No relation, just an unfortunate name.

Looks interesting so far!

I don't know if this was answered before, but would it be possible to play "Payback" and "Broken Shackles" with two players in MP? So one of them plays "Payback" and the other one "Broken Shackles" and there will not be additional uplifted pre-FTL civs?

Indeed, the Broken Shackles empire even gets pops from the payback one. We do encourage this playstyle!

How many Unique Techs are there? Is it likely that i get all of them in a regular game if i never invade a pre-FTL civ?
What happens if i have all of them? Do Observation posts lose their main value or do they get a new value? If not, i guess that's the point where you swap from observing to invading. (If roleplay isn't a consideration)

If you manage to get all techs there are still benefits from completing the situation, like a permanent +5 unity from the observation outpost and such.

 

[CheerfulGoth]

1) Is there a preset empire with one of those origins? If yes, players that normally disable primitives would always have to deal with them right?

Yes, there are preset empires for the new origins, but they won't be used by the AI.
If you play an empire with the Payback/Broken Shackles origin, the MSI and another empire with the other Origin will spawn, but the AI will never create a Payback/Broken Shackles empire and fill the galaxy with all these people you don't care about.

Looks interesting so far!

I don't know if this was answered before, but would it be possible to play "Payback" and "Broken Shackles" with two players in MP? So one of them plays "Payback" and the other one "Broken Shackles" and there will not be additional uplifted pre-FTL civs?

Yes! We hope you'll have fun playing them together.

 

[Alfray Stryke]

And we don't know when 3.8 will come to PC. Oh no. Anyway.

I would expect 3.8 would be the Q2 patch this year assuming we maintain our current release cadence.