I love Amazing Adventure games and this one is no different...except for a couple of glaring glitches. #1 - the game keeps shutting down on me and I have to restart...sometimes having to go through the same level quite a few times. #2 - when I leave a level, when I come back, I've lost most of the minutes and will have to restart the level. Where did my minutes go?
Stellaris is a great game already. So expansions should make game features evolve, not just add clunky additions.
Federations is not the "diplomacy rework" I was expecting. New federation types are fine, but Stellaris lacks the "granularity" where this feature would really be useful (galaxies are too small... or empires too big to make the diplomatic game plenty meaningful).
But what is not working at all is Galaxy Community (sort of a "galactic senate" á la Star Wars). Too generic laws, unexisting internal dynamics... You barely pay attention to it.
What I've found better is the "origins" feature (your empire background).
My conclusion: as far as developers are still tweaking and balancing this patch and expansion I wish some of the features will improve. Meanwhile... I don't think Federations is good enough.
My personal ranking for Stellaris DLCs (expansions and story packs):
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