Anyway, on the piece of news itself - I already bought the expansion pass, of course, but will probably postpone playing the game till the Shroud expansion is out.

I mostly play with psionic ascension anyway (even through I usually play fanatic materialist empires) so SotS is the most anticipated DLC for me. Plus, I would prefer to wait for a few balancing patches for 4.0 update and BioGenesis DLC... :).

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I have Stelarris, but I don't think ill ever play it. 200+ euros of DLC? I don't think so...

Don't worry, the game is on sale now! Oh, wait, 200 euros price already includes all discounts from this sale... :).

On a more serious note - as others mentioned you don't need to buy all DLC's. Even having all "major" DLC's is not strictly necessary. The base game should still be good or if you want to buy something - only a select few DLC's would be considered essential.

Plus remember of the subscription option. You can pay 10 euros and have a month-long campaign with all the game content - just don't forget to unsubscribe after :). This will also give you an idea of what you enjoy the most in the game, in case you will want to buy some DLC's after.

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Oh, a China/Japan DLC, really? Knowing the game I'm already anticipating to see Confucian vikings building up a hegemony and christian samurais going on crusade to Korea... :).

Already bought the expansion pass, of course, but with this and a horde expansion I really fear if Paradox put too much on it's plate this year...

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It's part 2, of what will be a trilogy.

O. K, thanks. :).

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FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE Project Trilogy Part 2

Why does it called "Trilogy" but "Part 2"? From what I know, plot-wise, FF VII: Rebirth is a continuation of FF VII: Remake Intergrade, and should be played after it. But is Rebirth still not a complete story and some kind "Trilogy Part 3" game is planed? FF VII: Final Chapters or something?

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DLSS 4: "...by using AI to generate up to three frames per rendered frame"

As someone on the Internet already asked: Can we now pay fake money for fake frames?

:).

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Quoting: ShmerlIs there some way to skip that "Setting up profile" screen in the beginning? It seems to be doing something and then failing anyway and I have to press Esc to proceed there.

I guess it's some another weird thing(?) - I'm not even sure what you are talking about. Maybe there was some profile setting up on first launch (through I don't remember that), but it's not showing since then for me.

P.S. Steam version if it's matters.

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Well, I was still lucky in this regard. No hangs (or crashes) so far. So can't really recommend anything except hoping for patches. :(.

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Oh. At least I didn't have any problems launching the game. But then again, people are reporting weirdest problems on different systems. We will wait patches I guess...

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Quoting: ShmerlJust got the game from GOG. Is it compiling shaders for this long on every startup?? That's just insane.

And something is seriously wrong with such design. I can understand first time compilation, but if there was no underlying hardware / graphics driver change, there is zero reason to recompile any shaders again unless the game doesn't cache stuff.

First launch compilation is the longest, it will be much quicker later. But yes, it will compile shaders every time. People are speculating that on subsequent launches the game only validates the cash instead of recompiling it, but it's not confirmed. (And honestly the question why the game needs to do it every time still stands).

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