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I'd still stay away from feds, there are still aspects of them that are still bugged. Not really worth losing the 20% fleet strength unless you really need the protection.

You can still order the magazine through the GW website if you want to get him. I don't know how I missed it before. It ends up being pretty expensive for a single lord though, especially if you include the shipping (26$ to ship it to where I live, + 12$ for the magazine itself). I think I'll wait 'till he comes out for free

Yeah they only seem to follow you if you're at war, even then they don't always feel like it. The conflict with the unbidden doesn't actually count as a war so my allies aren't interested in going with me.

I did get to close the portal though. After relentlessly throwing my fleets at it I finally managed to get to the portal before their reinforcements showed up.  They still have a pretty large fleet but I think I'm going to leave them alone to keep my neighbours on that side of the galaxy weakened.

My Federation partner, the friendly fallen empire, keeps voting no on all the wars I propose so I think I'm going to have to ditch them if I want to progress any further.

edit: Had to abandon my game. Seems to be a bug right now where you can't leave a federation if you form one with an awakened fallen empire. So I was stuck doing absolutely nothing because I had explored, researched and colonised everything I possibly could. All that was left was expansion through wars, and I couldn't do that because the fallen empire would always vote no on wars. 

Any tips for surviving the late game?

The fallen empire that borders my empire woke up and became Jingoistic Reclaimers, so they're pretty hellbent on retaking the galaxy. Unfortunately at almost exactly the same time the Unbidden arrived on the other side of the galaxy. I would have liked to have dealt with the Unbidden ASAP but the Jingoist Reclaimers declared war on a member of my federation. They had a fleet strength of 140k which put to shame my 40k fleet pretty easily. Thankfully he mostly wanted the planets belonging to my ally (though he did take my shiny new gaia world ). After the war was over I abandoned my federation to strike out on my own because I figured I'd be better off without them.

I was licking my wounds and rebuilding my fleet when another fallen empire woke up beside me. This one was of the guardians of knowledge (or whatever they are called) variety. I thought they'd be pretty mad at me because of my synths and other various dangerous techs but they sent me a message that was something along the lines of the galaxy is ending lets be best buds. So I formed a federation with my new Watchful Regulator friends.

At this point I'm pretty sure I've lost though, my new awakened fallen empire friends are decently strong but not as strong as the big angry reclaimers on the other side of my empire. And the Unbidden have been expanding unchecked for a while now, I have a feeling it is too late to stop them, last time I sent a fleet over it got instantly devoured by a multitude of large unbidden fleets. You don't seem to be considered at war when fighting the unbidden so I can't really get my Fallen Empire buds to go on a field trip across the galaxy with me as far as I can tell. Not that the follow my fleet thing always works anyway, seems pretty hit or miss if they follow you or not. I still can't seem to figure out how to control Federation fleets when I'm el presidente either, they seem to go where they please.

I'm curious to see what happens in the long term, I'm assuming the unbidden will devour everything including the reclaimers. In the meantime I'd like to see if I can find any remaining space boss monsters, I've killed two so far. I haven't seen the dragon yet though.

I didn't realise it was coming out today.

edit: somehow managed to post a message before I finished typing.

I went to a store yesterday.

I don't live near a store, I had to go quite a ways to get to one. When I got there I realised I could have saved the trip and just called. oops. It's not a GW store anyway, just a boardgame shop that has some warhammer stuff. They said they weren't getting codes but they would have the magazine. Too bad I'm a dumbass and went early, I'm not going to be out that way again for a while. haha.

Is there anywhere to order the magazine, or is it too late for that, because I can't seem to be able to find a source for November's issue.

The Android version of Planar Conquest doesn't seem to take forever to load for me, and I don't really have a fancy phone, I use a Samsung Galaxy S4. It does ask for access to your google account. I find a lot of games on Android do this though, I'm assuming part of it is to track your achievements, but I don't really know what all it gives an app access to since I usually opt for no. I do wish it would remember that you chose not to let it access your google account though, it is rather annoying to refuse it access every time you run the app.

I'm not really sure how I feel about the game yet because I haven't even finished playing a campaign. The presentation and mechanics seem decent enough so far though. It is also worth noting you don't have access to a lot of race / world choices when you buy the game. If you want variety you will have to pay to unlock other races and worlds through microtransactions.

On another note the GO series of puzzle games from squenix are on sale for 80% off. I've heard a lot of good things about Lara Croft GO and Hitman GO so I decided to pick up one up. Since people seemed to like the Lara Croft one more I went with that and I've been enjoying it so far. I haven't really heard much about Deus Ex GO so I avoided that one.

Yes, you are right there is something that keeps players coming back to early access games, in this case I think that it is promise that keeps people coming back. This game felt like it had promise during early access, but it hadn't yet fully delivered on it.

It took me 20 hours to get to the point in the game where I felt like I had experienced a lot of the content and could decide if it was a good game or not. Obviously the game isn't terrible or I wouldn't have put that much time in. But it wasn't great either, I kept playing hoping the game would build up to something, that I would get to experience the eldricht horrors hinted at throughout the game. But when I got there I found that the events were uninteresting and all that waiting had been for pretty much nothing.   

So lets say it takes you 20 hours to decide if the game is good. The game has been in early access for over two years (2 years on steam at least, pretty sure it was available through their site for longer). It has had multiple releases in that time so maybe this user tried the game through multiple releases over a period of years. Sure if you take 60 hours and put it into a time block of seven and a half days it seems like a lot, but when you put that time over a period of years it's not really that much...

Besides, I don't think the reviewer was trying to say that they didn't get their money's worth (since they outright say they got their money's worth). They were commenting on the quality of the game.