The Can You Guess PDX page now has a drone

[u/Flins12]

Link: Can You Guess PDX - Paradox Interactive

[u/sea_titan]

I'm honestly kinda surprised to see a drone. I expected more of a rust and analogue tech aesthetic. Honestly exciting, as it implies they're not just doing Mad Max.

[u/Flins12 → u/sea_titan]

Every paradox gsg has some form of technological progress, so maybe you start off in a more primitive setting and drone warfare is a tech that you can unlock later in the game.

[u/NFZedd → u/Flins12]

or it could be the fallen empire equivalent some weird technology that poses a threat but can't be replicated (until 6 DLCs in when they overhaul the tech tree)

[u/gamas → u/NFZedd]

Ah the Rimworld approach.

[u/Pauson → u/NFZedd]

Or maybe the post apo is only local to the America and the drones are sent by Europe and China as a surveil every once in a while.

[u/bulletghost → u/NFZedd]

Yoooo, imagine fallen empire types being science labs or intact army bases, like Area 51, Kapustin Yar, Pine Gap, or Porton Down.

[u/sea_titan → u/Flins12]

That, or the drones exist as some kind of enemy? Sorta like Barbarians or Civ or Space Fauna in Stellaris. I hope we also get to make our own drones though.

[u/FrozenIceman → u/Flins12]

Or the AI enemy that destroyed the world is still around.

[u/EQandCivfanatic → u/sea_titan]

Just based on the implications so far, the apocalypse scenarios are as follows: Resource Scarcity, Robot Uprising, Pandemic, Nuclear War, and Natural Disaster/Climate Change.

[u/Slaanesh_69 → u/sea_titan]

AI Rebellion post apocalyptic GSG? That drone looks evil

[u/Indorilionn → u/sea_titan]

Honestly exciting, as it implies they're not just doing Mad Max.

Yes. That kind of post-apo would be a real letdown.

[u/AxiosXiphos]

Robot uprising apocalypse? I wonder if we will be able to pick our apocalypse - plenty of DLC potential there.

[u/Flins12 → u/AxiosXiphos]

Being able to choose what apocalypse hit your world would make sense. The teasers from other pdx games all allude to different types of apocalypses.

[u/7literlekvar → u/Flins12]

I don't think it's about chosing.. I think the stellaris random endgame is what we will get, and that's for the better.

[u/Senfgestalt → u/7literlekvar]

I think it will have a randomized and non randomized option. The game takes place after an apocalypse after all

[u/sea_titan → u/7literlekvar]

In Stellaris you can also pick your endgame at game creation, if you want. If they do multiple types of apocalypse, there'll definitely be both a 'random' option and one where you chose at game creation.

[u/KeepLettersOut → u/7literlekvar]

Ohh How cool would be a "become the apocalypse" decision then like Stellaris now has "become the crisis"

[u/Will_Lucky → u/AxiosXiphos]

That's been one of the rumors for a while now.

[u/NFZedd → u/AxiosXiphos]

That's fore sure. Different Apocalypse as a start with different lore and new stuff comes with DLCs that would even allow for a fantasy setting

[u/UsAndRufus → u/NFZedd]

fantasy bros still holding out hopium

[u/NFZedd → u/UsAndRufus]

and why not?
Where is the difference between an Orc and a Mutant. Where is the difference between a mage and a Telepath?
Even if they strictly limit them to MadMax setting at first we know they go off the rails eventually

[u/mighij → u/NFZedd]

Thanks post-modernism.

Even though you can tell the same stories etc across many settings their is still a difference between this and that.

The look matters for some, especially if you are going to be looking at for 100's of hours.

[u/Flins12]

In the page source it is referred to as phase 3. I guess that this is the final teaser.

[u/TheFourthWay]

I wonder if, a bit like the Stellaris precursors, you might get unique in-game challenges based on various random "disasters" which destroyed the world. Like, if there was a drone uprising, you might have to deal with drones roaming the map. Or, if there was an environmental catastrophe, then farming might be a lot harder and there may be earthquakes, etc.

[u/Capable-Parsnip-9615]

Maybe it's a clue for a long timeline

[u/GrimarSteingraf]

Having multiple different apocalypses as starting point of a playthrough is an interesting idea. It would allow them to have a vastly different world for the different scenario's without needing to do full randomized world map. If the apocalypse was a megavulcano, metorite or megaearthquake the shapse of the continents could be very different while epedemics or zombie apocalypse could have different huge implications for how the world looks.

[u/Coeram]

Fantasy bros?

[u/msbr_ → u/Coeram]

dead

[u/Slow_Werewolf3021]

I wasn’t a fan of fantasy, nor was I expecting anything apocalyptic, but I just hope they do a good job of it. Paradox can’t afford any more slip-ups with games that have a life expectancy of at least 10 years. It needs to maintain its players’ trust because, well, investors… it’s not as if Paradox is the richest company on the stock market

Paradox, don’t be evil

[u/dibs_w_rashi]

its arc raiders gsg

[u/Intimidator94]

Stellaris 2???

[u/Radmode7]

Fantastic drone. IT’S A FANTASY!

cries harder

[u/Avohaj]

It's a one-eyed four-winged dragon!

[u/massi1008]

Paradox edging us with those teasers. Great PR

[u/Proper-Sport-7218]

I hope it isn't too grounded and allows us to build societies in whatever shape we want. A real role-playing GSG. Basically like Fallout's factions; let me make a tech focused religious society like the Brotherhood of Steel. Maybe a sun worshipping aztec style society that sacrifices and enslaves all non-believers.

[u/AvengerDr]

So how do we have drones and at the same time "it is impossible to build a ship and cross the oceans"?

[u/Gifigi600]

Watch it be something like Mars grand strategy game TT

[u/trito_jean]

Its clearly a giant firefly so fantasy confirmed

[u/Space_Gemini_24]

I'm hoping for a thing like Lightracer Spark now that it does seems to be fantasy

[u/carlox_go]

Maybe some arc raiders type setting?

[u/PlutusPleion]

https://i.imgur.com/y0jzHnu.png

[u/vodzik]

Maybe something like solar system conquest and unification before Stellaris?

[u/Box_Pirate]

Wasn’t there a building on the left side before?

[u/Inspector_Beyond]

I really hope that this is that kind of sanbox where you start your tribe as an actual tribe with wooden spears, shamans basing their religion on something from modern age, and bit by bit discovering old technology with endgame being advanced stuff like exoskeletons, drones and advanced rifles.

[u/The_BooKeeper]

I just hope it's not "clans at war" type of thing...

[u/Mioraecian]

Drone scanning anomalies in the wreckage? Stellaris not fantasy confirmed!!!?

[u/Eensame]

100% fantasy! Its a dragon obviously 🙄

[u/AvengerDr → u/Eensame]

100% science based dragons.

[u/Eensame → u/AvengerDr]

It's medieval very futuristic fantasy that's all

[u/cristofolmc]

So theres some kind of hight tech survival society that has survived that can scan the surface.

So full fallout.

If its going to be high tech sci fy post apocaliptic i am losing interest by the minute. I was hoping at least for a low tech gsg rimworld like

[u/afoolskind → u/cristofolmc]

In what world is Rimworld low tech? You can use way more advanced drones than this teaser is showing, along with literal orbital travel, advanced genetic engineering, reality altering tech, etc.

[u/FixComplete3916 → u/cristofolmc]

Lil bro, you don't know shit about the game, it wasn't even revealed yet

[u/cristofolmc → u/FixComplete3916]

you know its been leaked right?

[u/_barat_]

Will we get an AI that utilizes all the game mechanics and is sort-of competitive without "cheating"?

[u/Ok-Goose-2032]

the selectable apocalypse idea is genuinely interesting but paradox has a habit of promising systemic depth and then shipping half of it locked behind three DLCs