Good evening you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.

Join me tonight. We have our friend, freelance, writer, Fraser Brown.

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We also welcome back, T.J. Hafer.

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And finally, we are graced by the presence of the Game King once again, Sean Sands.

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Hello. And so we've sort of reconvened to talk about Stellaris once again because two things have happened with that game recently.

One is that it got its 2.0 update, the cherry patch, or as I've been calling it in my head for the past two weeks, the Cherry H update,

which tells you about how much sci-fi I actually read. And it also just got a new expansion,

the Apocalypse expansion. So we're going to be tackling both of those things and how they

change up Stellaris, since these are pretty far-reaching changes.

But to sort of lead off with it, Sean, I thought we'd talk to you a little bit,

because I'm just curious about your perspective on Stellaris as somebody who is coming to it from a position where you're really deeply invested in EU in that kind of game.

What did you make of Stolaris and what do you like and how the new changes sort of

affected your impressions?

Yeah, I've always really liked Stalaris.

I don't think there was ever a time where I was, I mean, I can see its flaws.

I can see the things that needed to be kind of built into it over time.

You know, it's, it probably is my favorite first three hours of any paradox game.

And then there's a drop off there, particularly at launch that that happened.

And I think a lot of the updates since and have been really focusing on on smoothing that out and building consistency.

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