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I have accepted Stellaris DLC as a personalized form of taxation by now.

@dacedruss

Ай бұрын

I have accepted pirating as my personnel form of tax avoidance

@dangerface300

Ай бұрын

From the moment I understood the gap in my dlc list *crrrrrrrrshenk* It disgusted me.

@matthmatthmatth

Ай бұрын

@@dacedrusscongrats who cares

@craigwatkins3569

Ай бұрын

Yes! But unlike taxation. We actually get stuff. Now my digital society can exist! Religious machines! Muwhahaha! All will praise the source code!

@melliehaertel2404

Ай бұрын

​@@matthmatthmatth 26 people, they are greedy and we avoid it

I think it's safe to say the "its so over" period of stellaris dlc is over for now, and we are now in a "we are so back" phase.

@alternateending4841

Ай бұрын

Just wait till the next one

@ziggytheassassin5835

Ай бұрын

@@alternateending4841 ya the storm one will suck lmao

@LordMaceWick

Ай бұрын

Do you know how "its so over" it must have been in order to be this "we are so back"

Dear Paradox, I'm buying my first full priced release date dlc. Partly because of the content . Mostly because of this review. Pay this man.

@RandomUser2235

Ай бұрын

I mean they probably did considering he did like 2 pre-release review videos for Paradox

The Mommyssiah came from nowhere and nowI have coffee in my keyboard.

@isimiel3405

Ай бұрын

beeeep

@toastededcat1709

Ай бұрын

Shodan?

@heavyhebrew

Ай бұрын

PRAISE THE MOMMYSIAH!

Seeing the word yes in the thumbnail without any asterisks was such a relief

@MontuPlays

Ай бұрын

There's a first time for everything!

From the moment I discovered the weakness of my flesh...

@Thorne14

Ай бұрын

it disgusted me

@qhu3878

Ай бұрын

I craved the strength and certainty of steel

@christophebedouret9813

Ай бұрын

I aspire to the purity of the blesses machine.

@NotA-Real-Therapist

Ай бұрын

Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you

@reeven1721

Ай бұрын

One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you.

2:40 The movie is "children of men"

@paulcatindig2260

Ай бұрын

The goat dystopian movie

@InternetHydra

Ай бұрын

Funny enough that's the name of the first empire I made in Stellaris, though it has nothing to do with that movie.

@vasheroo

Ай бұрын

I was thinking the same! Such a great movie.

there is actually a few more (minor) additions i don't think you mentioned.. a new advisor voice: Cyberpunk. two new city backgrounds: Robotic and Cybernetic. (might be new 'windows" as well, not sure) new namelists: cyberpunk, individualist robotics... also i think a new cybernetic one. (still think this should be something we could mod without losing ironman mode / achievements)

@briwanderz

Ай бұрын

there is also now "Mechanical leviathan traits" such as defeating the scavenger bot leviathan gets you "+50% Mechanical pop assembly speed".. unfortunately it costs 3 trait points. the others are listed on the official wiki.

@killerp2612

Ай бұрын

and main menu image

I hope the next major one is an update to evolution mastery as it doesn’t feel nearly as powerful now to the other ascensions

@jameshildebrand907

Ай бұрын

I miss the days when biological ascension could copy the cybernetic and psionic traits if their species received it in another empire.

@arkstone3753

Ай бұрын

@@jameshildebrand907 yeah I miss those days as well

@user-vv6df8uk9s

Ай бұрын

I hope it will add biological ships

@xxgaelixsxx8151

Ай бұрын

Im good if it is either something related to psionic or hives.

@arkstone3753

13 күн бұрын

@@user-vv6df8uk9s yeah biological hive minds need a real expansion since they feel bare bones compared to machines now some biological ships even would go a long way

Machine Age setting a new standard for DLCs/Expansions moving forward woah, hard to imagine its like two or even three content updates for the price of one

@sigmamaleaffirmationhypnob7340

Ай бұрын

given the price, yeah I'd expect at least this much content

@constantinethe27th33

Ай бұрын

Super excited/hopeful for the genetic version of this…improved terraforming, ecology, habitation rework, planet strengths, etc.

@ElysiumCreator

Ай бұрын

It’s like Utopia, we are so back

@cantstopthepun

Ай бұрын

​@@sigmamaleaffirmationhypnob7340 it's not even just the amount of content but also the quality of it.

@forsee2328

Ай бұрын

I've seen someone said exactly that when astral planes came out. So I wouldn't extrapolate those things like releasing a good DLC or a poor one straight away

The amount of content pleases this unit.

That's an insane amount of content, truly impressed at the value. Will definitely be picking this one up, though I might pick up overlord and nemesis first to take full advantage.

Appreciate that you put the answer in the thumbnail, you're the interplanetary GOAT Montu

@torpedodeuce

Ай бұрын

Anticlickbait

Those arc furnaces are way better than I thought they’d be

This is what I've always wanted for Stellaris machine races!

Thanks Montu, im going to buy this dlc tonight. This gives more role-playing options and enemy empires to fight. Im so happy they added some new endgame crisis, ive been asking for that for a while. Now all we need is a few small satellite galaxies we can invade late game. You are right bro, this adds so much replay ability and role-play options

Def worth it for the amount of content you get

Me every half a minute or so: oh damn this can't get any better now *few seconds later* oh damn it just did

"Church of the Cube" Was this a reference to Rimworld or Rick the Cube?

Paradox loads up a new DLC "Ah sh*t. here we go again"

I bet you're getting tons of questions like that but here I go - I want to start my adventure with Stellaris. I've watched some of your videos and reeeeally enjoyed them. Now with this new DLC can your recommend what other ones are best to buy to fully enjoy the game? Some race packs as well?

Really looking forward to this

5th day of asking for a new megacorp civic tierlist ;p (good video btw😊)

I’m so ready for this. I’ve been playing Rogue Servitors since before they were meta. Having more machine options is great.

I for one welcome our new machine age overlords.

I really like the synthetic fertility origin, it was a lot of fun. I've tried synthetic ascension before but every single time I'd always get the techs for psionics and genetic ascension long before I'd ever get the tech for synths.

@GuerillaBunny

Ай бұрын

Synths is possible to get *relatively* early, but you really have to chase it. The problem is that while the tech might be available, it has a much lower chance to appear in your selection than the other ascension techs. To mitigate this issue, you should choose the Roboticist origin (it might not be called that, it's been a while, but it's the one with robots) and have an industrialist researching engineering tech. Both of these things will increase the draw chance of the synthetic tech. Giving Robots the best rights available (I think full rights with Cyborgs) might also help. Of course, you'll also need a way to generate a lot of Unity to obtain 3 Ascension Perks as well.

I was actually wondering which book you were referring to when talking about uplifting. Just want to look into the correct one in the ocean of book names

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Mommyssiah.

You are a champ when it comes to stellaris! It would be cool if you could control 2 or more races and have them react to each other like playing two sides to a game (solitary play style).

What a great news! I love playing tall.

montu on fireee 🔥

I would have really liked if they added some kind of super bio ascension somewhat like the cylons in Battlestar galactica

Honestly, this DLC did get my interest.

Puny flesh machines shall bow before superior synthetic lifeforms.

If things work out, then I look forward to the next DLC-set 'The Selfish Gene' to make bio-engineering more fleshed out. There's already a few things (Overtuned, clone Soldiers), but it feels a bit underappreciated compared to the rest. Perhaps let our empires become a crisis of Genetically Enhanced Leviathans, or whatever the Dimensional Horror belongs to!

Do I need the older main DLCs? I stopped at apocalypse and everything in between looked not really good. But I would like to get back in the game with this one

Amazing DLC. Into year 80 so far and having a ton of fun as a virtual spyware machine empire.

This looks like a lot of fun

Good thing I booked a couple weeks off towards the end of the month

Montu, it would be cool to see a video about the use of AI in the making of this DLC.

Unlike CA with shadows of change, paradox seems to understand that with a higher price there should be more content

Hope the applies portrait mods are fixed quick

Holy #@&!, buy it already. Amazing expansion IIMO.

Many prior dlc was unreasonable expensive But they have also done good work on the game admittedly. Tbh i Think its expensive.. but if its quality.. adds to gameplay (and story). I dont mind paying If only they would either just keep a high standard or relate the Price better to the “actual playable value” of the package. Still its one of the greatest games ever and its still develloping.

I liked this DLC. It's so meaty and also the music sounds very cyberpunk-themed. I was jamming to the music before I started the game lol. The music on this DLC is bangers!

It is friggin awesome so far, made a diplomatic individual machine empire and Stellaris said ok, here is a devouring swarm, a fanatic spiritual crusader and a mid crisis 2 systems from my home world…. Looking forward to try 2 tomorrow lol

So jealous I have Console Ed. and I can't play this yet. I have it for the PC but I never play PC games as often as I do my Console. I can't wait.

So with this new DLC. what would be a fun Borg empire build and ascension path? Resistance is futile.

Lol arc furnaces are crazy good. Anyway this whole DLC put a smile on my face as I was playing this afternoon. And I was kind of expecting disappointment but instead I was actually having fun! who knew! Best value DLC in a long time.

Ive been wanting non gestalt machines forever now. Im sooooo happy with this

@andypham4216

Ай бұрын

Machines+trade value+trade federations is amazing!

While i absolutely agree this dlc is great in content, i urge the european and american creators to realize how expensive this expansion is for more economically disavantaged countries, paying 89 reais for am expansion to a game is like ludicrously expensive here in brazil. so i, myself, could never recommend it for anyone to buy it

@ChaoticNeutralMatt

Ай бұрын

Yeah pricing should be considered in that direction as well.

@rodrigobogado8756

Ай бұрын

you guys should ask Steam to add you to the Latam regional pricing

@Gizz101

Ай бұрын

Problem is it'll be dirt cheap in some countries UNLESS they make it a fixed price no mtter what but yet again can cause problems iirc​@ChaoticNeutralMatt

@rodrigobogado8756

Ай бұрын

@@Gizz101 they already did

Been wanting to get this game for a while, and this sale seemed like perfect opportunity. About 3 hours into my first play through. Do I know what is going on? Not at all. Is it fun? Absolutely.

Now we need an expansion like this for genetic and psionic ascensions

@Gizz101

Ай бұрын

Meh ones with the mastery of flesh need more

machine empires are my jam!

Arch furnace and habitat interactions are going to be interesting.......

Machien Empires are my favorite way to play the game, so I am extremely happy to see such a full expansion for this price.

Can finally do my autobot play through with lithoid voice pack!

I’m just curious if A: we can get the traditions trees without being a machine empire (such as the nano tech one), and get the fallen empire ascension without being a machine empire? As well as the new structures. Would be pretty limiting if you HAD to be machines/synthetics to get them

@MontuPlays

Ай бұрын

Only machines can go for nanite ascension. Anyone can go for cosmogensis (the fallen empire powers). Anyone can research and build the arc furnace and Dyson swarm. Hope that clarification helps!

@ifoundmemallet3394

Ай бұрын

@@MontuPlays Ah ok. Kinda ruins the purpose of the tradition tree if you have to be a machine empire considering if you encounter an empire from the L cluster that uses nano tech they aren’t ever machines or synthetis

Hope they add new fallen empires based on ascension paths, like a Psionic Fallen Empire or a Synthetic Fallen Empire

I've never wanted a dlc of anything more than this!! (Except Rimworld Anomaly and Boitech)

So now we need turbo DLC for Biological and Psionic ascensions, and Hive minds. Those are most overlooked now, and yet curious things to explore.

@zacharysilver911

Ай бұрын

Astral Planes focused on Psionics. Toxoids has a lot of content for Biological.

@marcelgrabowski5939

Ай бұрын

@@zacharysilver911 I don't have Astral Planes so I can't discuss it, but Toxoids had only one biological origin that give you bunch of traits with side effect of lower lifespan. It isn't complete remake like with machine age. It is one origin that let you have more resources at a price of leaders dying more often. Machine age, on the other hand, open multiple avenues of ascension for all machine empires, not even considering all the rest of stuff, it isn't origin-specific. Honestly, I think that each ascension should have its own theme: Psionic being high-risk high-reward, except it isn't, only end-of-the-cycle event is powerful enough to matter in this case. Biological uniqueness; like traits that make pops produce some resources all the time without proper jobs for them, like on example scilinating skin, that give your pops unique properties (each pop of species allowed military service will produce defense army no matter where it works, species consuming more food instead of consumer goods, species with in-built chemical behavioral alteration that result in them being unable to not being model citizens of your empire no criminal activity or non compliant ethics from them or exact opposite making species members as independent as possible for more egalitarian empires and many, many more) Cybernetic multi-role and synergy, (idk if it is how it works in machine age now) Synthetic about raw efficiency and specialisation that it does very well as of now.

@FantasticKruH

Ай бұрын

Hive mind dlc could be super cool.

@marcelgrabowski5939

Ай бұрын

@@FantasticKruH Yeah, I feel like there is a lot of possibilities, since hive mind DLC would neatly fit into both psionics and genetics. Hive minds are psionic by the lore after all. I feel like genetic ascension theme should be uniquety (passive generation of resources like scilinating skin, each pop allowed military service generating defensive army no matter where it works, pop being able to support more than one assault army, pops being completely compliant to empire ethics, unable to rebel or generate criminal activity, etc etc) instead of raw efficiency, uniqueness. And psionics, well, high-risk high-reward that it really isn't now, even with side effects of deities, safe for End of the Cycle. I feel like using more meaningful modifiers instead of flat increases and decreases, unless very big ones, would improve it, like instead of +10% from pop jobs, +10% monthly resources for empire at large.

on mentioning geth lol virtualisation ontop of gastalt we basicly have geth now

This just makes me want player Hive ships models now

My favorite bug from this update is that when I synthetically ascended with synthetic fertility my politicians became unemployed for a month until they had their citizens rights restored

Me happy, Alloy Monke find new home in Arc Furnace.

I have just started down the Stellaris rabbit hole. I generally lose within the first hundred years so there's that. Machine age looks awesome, but I feel that I need to work on the base game first. Is that a good assumption or should I just add DLCs and go for it???

can you make a late game meta build for ships?

If Montu says "best DLC ever" the last time we've ever had something like that was when Utopia came and we got megastructures. I can't wait to get home and do a playthrough!

this sounds amazing (plays another imperium of man run)

At first I was worried about the price increase for dlcs, now I can say it's worth the price, the question is: is this the new expectation for dlcs from now on? Anyway I'm broken this month so I'll have to wait another month to actually play this lol

2023 was pretty catastrophic for stellaris DLC releases and updates. I think this is bringing me back to the game!

I like that this DLC has a focus on boosting space resources because as they were before its really not worth the minerals until you have invested into your planets

Who else loves the new portraits of cybernetic mushrooms that replace their heads?

watching this video after i bought the DLC as soon as i found out it was out :P def worth it guys!!! SPEND YOUR MONEY!!!!!!

Can't wait to get home from work 😂

Genesis Guides, sounds like a pre-origin for enigmatic observer fallen empire

Just dawned on me, I can RP pseudo-Precursor Humans with Genesis Guides. Drop ai empires to 0, x5 pre-ftl, and build/expand, gifting technology and and uplifting wherever I find new friends!

Honestly, I just bought it and launched it. Just hearing the new OSTs makes it worth for me.

I can play my Roman Empire as Mechanicus? Hey, that's good enough for me to buy the whole Season-Pass! This expansion alone is worth it at full price, so with two more expansions being included the 40 Euro for the season pass seems like great value!

6:44 Am I reading right- does that say you get +60% resources from jobs… for 1 dark matter per 100 pops (0.01 per pop)? Please tell me I’m misreading

Finally able to RP the great Lord Yawgmoth in his quest to bring blessed perfection to the stars.

Did they get inspiration from the series Pantheon?

All I want is significantly deeper interactions with pops. Meaningful events with decisions that matter. I want each primitive civ to feel like its own civ. I want cool roleplay events that change your empire. Etc etc etc. Could care less about species portaits and stat stick origins.

@valdonchev7296

Ай бұрын

While I generally agree with you, what would that actually look like? You can change your empire's ethics or civics, is there something that would encourage you to do so? Could a change to how Factions work achieve this? Do you think the origins and civics from First Contact are better for roleplay? What about Toxoids? One problem is that forcing players to play around narrative events would be a drastic departure from Stellaris's current sandbox nature. I am a huge fan of Frostpunk because it manages to meld gameplay and roleplay, but as the devs themselves put it, it results in "player disempowerment". Also, the relatively fixed nature of Frostpunk's narrative limits its replayability. How many times would you be willing to read through roleplay events that you've already seen before you start skipping them?

@IDIlII

Ай бұрын

Facts bro also no end game lag🧍‍♂️

@bluepittgames3551

Ай бұрын

@@valdonchev7296 I think the biggest thing that would help with it would be improvements to the games AI. If AI empires felt unique, actually engaged in trade, and had different goals and ship designs based on some themes, it would already be a huge improvement to the game feel. Story driven events like pops revolting or being swayed due to good relations with another empire to push for an ethics shift with the ability to use espionage to create these events for another empire. Maybe that megacorp primitive species finds a strategic deposit and sells you the rights. Maybe they stumble upon some ancient knowledge and sell you their findings. Maybe that religious civilization sends missionaries that actively proselytize converting some of your materialist pops, now you have the birth of churches dedicated to the machines. Or maybe spiritualist primitives view you as their God paying tribute and asking for your aid and blessings. Maybe even after they are uplifted to space faring they decide to become knights of you. Maybe that race of artisans who use their molten world as a massive forge decides to offer their services constructing megastructures despite seemingly being primitives. Maybe the fallen empires intervene in our conflicts in ways dependent on their ethics. Maybe the leviathans are actually living in symbiosis with an empire. The options are endless, and you don't need every single one on every single game, don't even need a game to have any of them. But the more of these interesting and thematic interactions we can get on the game the better

@commandershortsight

Ай бұрын

@@IDIlIIhow though

@theshadowkid2000

Ай бұрын

Couldn't care less*

I’ll be excited when they bring this to consoles

In my contry it jump like 10 euro and it bad... I buy it in the end meyby asyer sale but paradox rly need look at difrends country prices

Now they just need to update the bioscience centric options. I want my flesh cult/church origin.

I hope they make a superhero DLC specifically for genetic mutation. It'll be fun if there's an origin where people just become mutants :))

Wasn't there also a trait that gave you several months worth of Unity when clearing a blocker?

I preordered, waiting on a day off to learn how to play robotics 😅😂

I feel like bio way but for machines are litle bit to similar machines shoud be a bit difrend that bio

id hope it adds more than other dlcs, its significantly more expenisve.

I think this is first positive dlc on steam. Also I love to play machines in stellaris. So yeah ez buy.

What’s the point of synthetic ascension if you can just start as individual machines?

I get the feeling this dlc was inspired by orion's arm, a collective sci fi worldbuilding project because orion's arm is all about trans-humanism, it is a regular thing to have a computer interface integrated in your organism and there's tons of different types of "people": cyborgs, intelligent computers, enhanced humans, human minds uploaded into computers... it's bonkers and very hard sci fi but i'm deadass sure this and some other things are the inspiration behind this dlc, pretty cool

Dont sleep on arc furnaces. They are soooooo wonderful

with this out, should you buy the Season 8 Season pass? Considering its only 15€ more expansive, and The Machine Age alone is already this good.

THEY MADE THE FUCKING NECRON ORGIN TOO THIS NEEDS TO BE ON PS5 yesterday

this should be the deafualt size DLC with the previous price!

@MontuPlays

Ай бұрын

In an ideal world we should just get given these games for free. But capitalism...

@Gizz101

Ай бұрын

​@MontuPlays even without capitalism it will have a price money or not

tbh more portraits is all I need to buy a new dlc. I just wish I had money.