Recent reviews by Shadowwolf149

first and foremost I love Homeworld my best friend who I've known since middle school exposed it to me, and I loved it since! But after years of waiting I feel like the Higarran fleet has been TERRIBLY designed! This review is solely based on the higarrian fleet while in skirmish mode testing things including combat and AI difficulty (if you aren't gonna read it all Scroll down entirely)

the higarrans only have 3 strike craft;the recon, interceptor, and bomber all which cannot survive a fight to be utilized for their strong points they are PAPER THIN with no way to improve their hp or armor! A SINGULAR CORVETTE the Railgun corvette that makes sense on paper but execution is so dumb they charge the enemy when they should be snipping from a range similar to that of the torpedo frigate but it doesn't it hugs the enemy and doesn't do much to avoid projectiles trajectories so they die too easily, the Strikecraft and CORVETTE when in fleet formation do not break formation to engage the enemy becoming sitting targets shooting their weapons so it makes them even more weak when the focus isn't on them when built in the heat of combat and dying just as quickly!

The reasons why I have this issue is because the Incarnate fleet has MORE CORVETTES to counter the hiigarran
fleet but they only have one fighter but a ♥♥♥♥ ton of corvettes

Dominance fighter: their interceptor
Disruptor corvette: slows down enemy ships
Plasma corvette: literally the Higarrian bomber fighter BUT MORE HP
Assault Corvette: another interceptor but tanky

in comparisonthe incarnate fleet has 3 more corvettes compared to the higarrans who can take a beating compared to the higarrans! which means they can counter the 3 strikecraft and one corvette the higarrans and have no care in the world especially when they throw their frigates in the mix worse when capital ships are thrown in

the next issue the A.I I have tried fighting the enemy on standard 3 times each time it felt like the ai built 5 small assault fleets and then clump them together to death ball in under 15 minutes giving you no time to send your own fleet in the mix

"EASY" you'd think they'd struggle right? Nah... they just send smaller clumps of strike groups and if you cant stop one group the rest continue to flow in overwhelming you and what makes it worse they send in carriers in the groups allowing free ship production making their strike fleet into an armada death ball wailing at your ships/mother ship I am disappointed in the higarran fleet for I would've wished for a fair fleet to combat the incarnate's fleet! They are underwhelming in comparision and I would ADVISE to add more ships to their fleet to balance it out

TLDR: Hiigaran fleet is underwhelming compared to the Incarnate fleet
give the hiigarans more corvettes
strengthen the fighters/corvette (hiigarans) hp or armor values compared to the Incarnate fleet!

The Sony Automatons have caved in we DIVE AGAIN

Stellaris is a very fun and entertaining game, it's also a good game to just have running whenever you're doing stuff in real life as the game doesn't require much micromanaging. The beginning of the game however can be a bit slow to get started, but at the beginning is where you do the most micromanagement in the game as some tech isn't unlocked yet. Meeting the other empires the game offer is fine, BUT I have more entertainment in making my own empires and meeting them , it's fun to see how they interact with my empire and with each other, although most of the time they hate each other or block off their boarders 50% of the time. Nonetheless surviving in the game isn't easy, but once you understand the economics of the game it should be smooth sailing!

Now my own personal preference is this: get mods! This game by itself is good BUT the mods make the game more entertaining as the wonderful community is very creative and fun with their ideas I would sit here to talk about them all but it would take too long BUT I can list a few I have used here are the following

Machine Shipset
Tiny Outliner v2
Planetary Diversity
Stellar-Naval Ship Art Pack

just to name a few, now I hope the new comers who see the reviews take the chance to buy and play this game and have a blast with it, I highly recommended this game to others