(When?) Will Under One Rule be finished? (2024)

Some parts seem to be incomplete event chains, with references to events that aren't in the files, so it's somewhat hard to know exactly what will be happening. It's hard to tell from the missing script, however the event descriptions make it *extremely cool* particularly for the psionic ascension path. The difficulty in summarising comes from that fact that some of the descriptions are missing too, so I only have half. These all appear to be ascension path dependent ways to get your leader out of their coma with an extra boost based on your path.

The psionic one appears to be some sort of ritual involving making a planet into a shrouded world, and channelling energy into your ruler to enhance their power. It also mentions decennial sacrifices, which is deliciously 40k. It seems to allow you to grant the ruler an extra (legendary) trait, or make them into an "astropath" which presumably makes ships faster or something.

Cybernetics appears to involve use of dark matter to build fancy implants to sustain them, which either grants a bonus (legendary) trait, increases pop happiness and cyborg output, adds army health+damage, or adds ship accuracy+tracking.

Synthetics naturally involves building an extra special synth body to host their consciousness. The bonuses are one of: extra legendary trait, leader exp gain+leader upkeep reduction, ship fire rate+weapon damage, district and building upkeep reduction, or (particularly cool) extra trait points and trait picks for machines.

Biological involves splicing in some squishy stuff floating in tanks. They can get one of: an extra legendary trait, leader exp gain+research speed buff, army health+worker output buff, leader capacity and faction approval bonus, or point defense efficiency and ship evasion bonus.

It also seems to allow you to switch to Imperial government at this stage if you declined to do it earlier on in the game, which is particularly nice and fun from a story flow perspective.

It's weird that this is all in the version of the game, just not enabled. It doesn't seem like it would be a colossal amount of work for a modder to make this playable, if barebones. It's all in the released version of Galactic Paragons that they sold and released, so I don't really know what the status of it is (I would like to).

Viengua said:

A quick googling of the names of the two developers at the top of the event file in question indicates that they both work(ed?) for Paradox Arctic (RIP). Perhaps that's why it wasn't finished.

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I presume this is also why the DLC was so obviously rushed to release. They canned the team working on it before it was actually finished.

Viengua said:

A quick googling of the names of the two developers at the top of the event file in question indicates that they both work(ed?) for Paradox Arctic (RIP). Perhaps that's why it wasn't finished.

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Seems to be a recurrent issue with the DLC. Apparently Paradox Arctic was heavily involved in it, and got shut down. So it was rushed out the door.

currylambchop said:

Y'all really shouldn't believe what you watch on the internet

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Didn't even watch his videos. The studio HAS been shut down. The studio WAS the one working on this Expansion. The Expansion was clearly rushed and not finished. Look, I get it. Some folks just believed some slight exaggeration, doesn't mean there isn't a correlation here.

-Marauder- said:

Didn't even watch his videos. The studio HAS been shut down. The studio WAS the one working on this Expansion. The Expansion was clearly rushed and not finished. Look, I get it. Some folks just believed some slight exaggeration, doesn't mean there isn't a correlation here.

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They can't shut down a studio instantly without union negotiations. The article that people are referencing said that they were going to shut it down, not that it has already been shut down. It is highly unlikely that it had shut down so early.

Viengua said:

It seems to allow you to grant the ruler an extra (legendary) trait, or make them into an "astropath" which presumably makes ships faster or something.

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triggered_modifier = { potential = { has_leader_flag = psychic_beacon } ship_shield_regen_add_static = 1.5 ship_shield_add = 200 } triggered_modifier = { potential = { has_leader_flag = astropath } ship_speed_mult = 0.2 ship_disengage_chance_mult = 0.2 } triggered_modifier = { potential = { has_leader_flag = all_seeing } planet_crime_mult = -0.2 intel_encryption_add = 2 } triggered_modifier = { potential = { has_leader_flag = the_voice } pop_government_ethic_attraction = 0.2 planet_jobs_unity_produces_mult = 0.1 }

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triggered_modifier = { potential = { has_leader_flag = psychic_beacon } ship_shield_regen_add_static = 1.5 ship_shield_add = 200 } triggered_modifier = { potential = { has_leader_flag = astropath } ship_speed_mult = 0.2 ship_disengage_chance_mult = 0.2 } triggered_modifier = { potential = { has_leader_flag = all_seeing } planet_crime_mult = -0.2 intel_encryption_add = 2 } triggered_modifier = { potential = { has_leader_flag = the_voice } pop_government_ethic_attraction = 0.2 planet_jobs_unity_produces_mult = 0.1 }

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Oh hey, I didn't catch the Dune reference in there, I was blinded by all the 40K.

currylambchop said:

They can't shut down a studio instantly without union negotiations. The article that people are referencing said that they were going to shut it down, not that it has already been shut down. It is highly unlikely that it had shut down so early.

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Still, it seems likely that there would be pressure to wrap up their current major projects.

It's only speculation, but there's enough evidence to support the idea that the DLC's been rushed becuase of the studio closing.

currylambchop said:

They can't shut down a studio instantly without union negotiations. The article that people are referencing said that they were going to shut it down, not that it has already been shut down. It is highly unlikely that it had shut down so early.

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We obviously can’t know the inner workings of a company like paradox. We have all the news articles which were picked up by YouTubers, but unless we get some insider tell-all we won’t know.

What we do know is that the last major update and DLC came less than two months before this one. That’s unprecedented. We also know that long standing issues with vassal mechanics were being worked on, but then we’re pushed to the next update. We also know that there were two dev diaries a week which still did not cover everything in this patch. Lastly we can all see this patch launched with major balance issues, some bugs, and some controversial decisions.

So yeah we can’t know for sure. But given what we do know it seems clear this release was pushed far before it was originally intended, and the players are dealing with the consequences.

We don't need to (Montutastically) speculate about "it's because they shut down a physical location!1!!!" We know exactly and precisely why it was rushed. It was rushed because they wanted to get it out by the release anniversary after having just released and bugfixed the previous DLC, so it was closer to the previous release by way too much to actually have a beta testing period or make sure all the ideas they had were finished.

Hopefully with some minor polish it'll be fine. As usual, Chicken Little is here to tell us it's a sign of the apocalypse that a Paradox game has released new content that is unpolished and/or buggy, and frankly I get it but if it bothers you that much you shouldn't play Paradox games because they have literally always been like this: release buggy/unbalanced/underpolished, a week or two later it's usually fine, then the complaint cycle resumes. Give suggestions or bug reports, complaining does nothing. Frankly, if it's this close to operational it may actually BE a bug report that this thread should be under.

I really hope that the implementation of those options are top priority. The Origin is flavour wise maybe the one i am most exited for, even more than teachers of the shroud. And going the imperial way feels in the end like a somewhat bad decision.

Sure the ruler has more traits but the internal obstacles and the problems they cause are really punishing, especially during the coma. And actually it feels somewhat...unrewarding to just get the ruler back but eternally tied to his golden throne. Sure this is a brilliant homage and for the first game completed i like it.

But in the end i want a way to get my ruler back without penalty and more power. Paying a price or do a hard project is fine but it should feel rewarding and maybe heavy shorten the duration of the coma event or even prevent it.

Meneye said:

Still, it seems likely that there would be pressure to wrap up their current major projects.

It's only speculation, but there's enough evidence to support the idea that the DLC's been rushed becuase of the studio closing.

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It's just as likely to have been rushed for the 7 year anniversary - if it's even been rushed more than the usual DLC.