The Complete Beginners Guide to Stellaris | 2022

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[artur_pc]

A guide for beginers and for people who stopped playing for a couple of months and are now completely lost.

[Kaylx]

It's the kind of game that is a bit too scary to start out of nowhere. Thanks for making a video that goes across most of main features without making it an hour long :D

[mb-electricalservices]

I have a love/hate relationship with Stellaris. Perfect example is starting off with everything falling into place and you're doing well only to find your nearest neighbour is a fanatical purifier who then instantly swamps you with powerful fleets. Frustratingly beautiful.

[yummyzerg]

23:05 I would add that you probably want to have armies on aggressive stance pretty much always. Instead of constantly micromanaging where armies go (after having to spam-click to build them in the first place), aggressive stance has them automatically follow the nearest fleet and invade any worlds they come across that they'd most likely win. They're smart enough not to invade with a hair more army strength either, I think they wait for 1.5x strength or something.

[maxducks]

Just the guide I was looking for. Quick, to the point, but very informative.

[jbarr]

It’s funny, I bought Stellaris the same day I bought warhammer 2 and never really got into it because warhammer was so good. I finally pulled it back up because warhammer 3 was so bad and loved it (knew I would, I’m a huge paradox fan, just hadn’t gotten back to it) and a week later saw that this video might be coming on a channel I started watching because of warhammer 2. And now here is the video, which is a very nice overview, and the world has come full circle. Now my teravores need to go back to eating the galaxy.

[artstsym]

Some newbie notes from someone with just a tiny bit of experience:

- Even more than most 4Xs, Stellaris is the equivalent of steering an 18-wheeler via remote control. Choices you make won't see their effects for ages most of the time unless you're aggressively micromanaging your populations (including shipping them from one colony to another). The smaller the map, the shorter the truck in this analogy.
- Ship design will win you a lot of fights you'd otherwise be unable to take, so don't wait too long to learn it, but you can probably skip it your first game.
- Unlike most other 4X, Stellaris doesn't have a tech victory, so keeping up with the neighbors isn't strictly necessary. Research what helps you do what you already want to do, except insofar as new ship classes/resource harvesters are concerned (you definitely don't want to fall behind on the former, and the latter gives you so many more ways to solve logistics problems).
- EDIT: You can get up to one additional influence per month by having a large fleet. This isn't massive, but considering that you will almost always need more and there's very few ways to increase it, always try to max out your ship capacity unless you literally can't afford to maintain it.

[scionofdorn]

Owned this game for a long time now and barely touched it because I wasn't ready to bury myself in so much detail, even without DLC content. Now I've got several DLCs (mostly species, Utopia, and Synthetic Dawn - because I <3 robots and hiveminds), and your guide is preparing me to get a handle on the game before I busy myself with picking up and mastering the other DLCs.

Thank you. This is a good head-start.

[HotFreshTofu]

great overview. This helped me come to grips with all the basics I peripherally picked up in my first 2 and a half hours of play. I am ready to jump back in and sort my planets out, and upgrade my star bases which I didn't even know I could do.

[tylerwright]

Just started playing this game and he just went through the menus for 8 minutes and I’m like wtf this game is so huge lol. Great video.

[Floorberry]

I'd love a creating your own species video, especially one that goes into some of the DLC options. Thanks for the super helpful guide!

[joshuanaoko]

Wow, this is the perfect tutorial for Stellaris! Perfect tempo and clear explanations. I'll watch along with my impending next playthrough at which I hopefully won't be hot garbage by mid-game... :)

[ForgottenArmy]

I've been excitedly waiting for this guide! I know how to play already, but I'm happy to enjoy your video and give my support.

[Bamboozled_Once_More]

I just bought stellaris last week, this is perfect!

[lukedemler]

One of my favorite most underrated creators, making a guide for a game I desperately want to play lol

[sonnysonny]

Ah yes just completed my phd about the game, feel almost ready to play it for the first time

[mattthekiller]

Wtf i have been playing stellaris for some time, yet i never knew some of this stuff 👍 exceptionally well put together guide, good job colonel

[xhizornl]

I always wanna play these kind of games, but when getting into it im overwhelmed...

[DahVoozel]

Yeah. I am completely lost. I played the first two expansions and was like "Oh, Stellaris is on a hugh sale? Let's catch up and play." I load the game and immediately my brain crashed because the experience is so different.

[aptspire]

Some origins, like "Prosperous Unification"(comes with vanilla Stellaris), are simply 'here is setup and resources, go nuts', while others, like "Knights of the Toxic God"(Toxoids DLC), have lore and events over decades. You'll want to pay attention to those popups, especially the first time through.