I am changing my review to negative. Not only is this a DLC farm game, but the recent update shows where Paradox's priority lies: releasing more DLCs *at the cost of current players*. The recent 4.0 update was pushed in a critically unstable state, even as cited by the devs in their Dev Diary. The purpose of this is to keep money flowing from the DLC calendar they have going. The recent update was advertised to be a stability and performance focused update, but brought the opposite on both fronts. Desync is so bad that you can't play for more than a couple of minutes on a new save without a desync (requiring a retransmission of the current save from host to every player taking abt 1-3 minutes). Comparatively, in 3.14 you really only experienced frequent desync with a lot of players in late stage gameplay where every empire has dozens of full fleets and it was more understandable. Paradox needs not just a rework of the latest update, but a rework of their priorities with this game before they completely kill the community and therefore their revenue stream

I am changing my review to negative. Not only is this a DLC farm game, but the recent update shows where Paradox's priority lies: releasing more DLCs *at the cost of current players*. The recent 4.0 update was pushed in a critically unstable state, even as cited by the devs in their Dev Diary. The purpose of this is to keep money flowing from the DLC calendar they have going. The recent update was advertised to be a stability and performance focused update, but brought the opposite on both fronts. Desync is so bad that you can't play for more than a couple of minutes on a new save without a desync (requiring a retransmission of the current save from host to every player taking abt 1-3 minutes). Comparatively, in 3.14 you really only experienced frequent desync with a lot of players in late stage gameplay where every empire has dozens of full fleets and it was more understandable. Paradox needs not just a rework of the latest update, but a rework of their priorities with this game before they completely kill the community and therefore their revenue stream