Can I Save This DYING Species? 

We finally got a robot update and DLC, no bias to me being happy at all... What are you most looking forward to with this new DLC and patch? Pre-purchase machine age using my link! play.stellaris.com/Ep3o

Wierd to watch someone become the strongest empire in 50 years while i need 75 just to realize what the hell is going on

5:55 Ep3o has met his greatest challenge yet: the word "benevolent"

this dlc is my personal favorite simply because of robotic megacorp

Finally, "Children of Man" origin.

Hm... Interesting, how Synthetic Fertility empire might interact with Limbo or Plight of the Beta-Universe anomalies/situations.

Haven’t payed much attention or even played stellaris the past few months. But watching this video and seeing that robots actually have planet preferences now kinda makes sense. On wet planets rust would be a much bigger issue than on dry, and different alloys might be needed to help counteract that. Just all kinds of variables that come into play on different planets, different environmental hazards, wildlife, climate, etc. I think that’s a good change.

18:40 - holy crapballs, someone at Paradox read Diaspora...

Of course, this means he needs to get even more achievements with the new DLC

honestly, I'm gonna wait for gigastructure to be updated to work woth this new dlc, cause the frame world plus virtual ascension might be a really good combo.

Yesssss time to Embrace Metal and abandon this week squishy flesh.

2:11 Why wouldn’t you go nonadaptive, instead of unruly? You can’t colonize other planets anyway. EDIT: nvm, the origin trait bans nonadaptive.

I hope next video would be about traditions (Virtuality, Nanobots, Modularity)

Holly Molly this definitely origin for minmax players who know how to play.

That's Necrons

Neat. Might try this with a Technocracy/Oppressive Autocracy empire; I usually go for Police State later. Maybe not an ideal build as it requires taking regular Materialist, but it's got a crunchy mood to it for flavor. Had fun trying out Overtuned with them.

on my first run with the origin found a star with a base of 15 energy the tier 3 Dyson Swarm puts out so much credit in the late early game was putting out 500 odd credits a month base

I wonder what happens if: A. You fail to complete the research project before your species dies out. B. You fail to complete the research project but have individualist synthetics living on your planets, who could inherit your empire. C. You fail to complete the research project, but have alien citizens living on your planets, who could inherit your empire.

I waited until after I played the origin myself to watch this video because I wanted to go in blind. Turns out Ep3o and my builds were almost identical, I took masterful crafters instead of parliamentary systems to help with the consumer goods. It let me run academic privilege basically the whole time. Also I would recommend going discovery first, upon completion it give you a research speed bonus but the left side of the tree also unlocks research subsidies for even more research!

I just got to the digital dream in 2018. Ethics: Fanatic Materialist/Militarist Civics: Dark Consortium/Parliamentary System. Traits: Intelligent, Engineers, Charismatic. Only buildings I constructed were: Research labs and I replaced the commerce building with an energy grid after I researched it. I immediately went for -40% energy/+20% engi research. Traditions: Statecraft 2 picks and discovery completed. Economy was definitely struggling, I was unlucky with both hydro bays and no dark matter deposits nearby. Could finish faster with better luck and maybe skip 1 tradition.

The choice with the identity repository is an interesting one; do you regain all your lost pops, or do you keep the structure and it's benefits? As well, if you keep the repository, how many planets do you build it on to dilute the robot output bonus? Certainly challenging, but a lot of interesting decisions.

So they basically become the Necrons from 40k… fun times

I think it will be harder than Eager explorers with doomsday origin in commodore difficulty up to grand admiral. And I don't think It will be good idead to increase technology and tradition cost in game sittings.

Family feud escalates into violent power struggle between a Pantheon of Supreme Beings and their offspring, a new world is created in the aftermath.

To enforce Managed Democracy on the Purifiers you first need to sign up to Positronic Synthetic Network.

lol neighboring a fanatic purifier rng hates you! 😂

Loved this start, felt a bit busted though. I definitely would've gotten rolled if I was neighbours with a genocidal. But I was left alone for the most part and after 50 or so years I had one of the most ridiculous tech/unity leads I've ever had in this game.

Man just made some Necrons :D

Have you tried Toxic god origin, genetic, with stacking livestock pops on the main habitat?

So in thsi origine your prety much playing the Necrotyr becoming the Necrons, with space AID being replace by space infertinlity and no vampire star gods. Nice

Can someone explain why would i WANT to save that race in this origin? It seems that the biggest benefit from the origin is the Identity Repository and the more pops you get in it, the bigger the bonus. Heck, when I play it, I don't tech rush but rush alloys so I can take over someone's empire, then I get their pops that do not die so i get pop growth in the empire. Just get the first tech so you start building robots and the second so you can start colonizing planets, then wait until all pops migrate into the repository. Homeworld with the repository filled with all pops provides an insane boost (like over 50% to robotics and a few hundred research/unity) is awesome to turn into ecu later on. Someone did not think it through when they designed that origin. There should be some sort of real benefit from taking that risk of tech rushing at the beginning of the game to save a race and lose a large chunk of a bonus from that building. Maybe they should make you get extra points for robot race customization based on how many people you save? Just a thought.

Could you do the cybernetic creed next? That one I am looking forward to the most

I wonder, because when I was starting collecting more achievements in Stellaris, I stop playing the robots for very long time. So I want you to ask, how you feel with this changes of robots? There is a major change in playing as the robots, more challenging that before or less, creating more possible combination for robots empire and someting like that?

I wouldn't have thought the parliamentary system would be very good as it's tied to your pops and that only goes down with time. edit: 13 minutes in you saw it a bit too late.

I'm going to try the synthetic fertility origin with a fanatic materiaist, xenophile megacorp and the relentless industrialist and masterctaft civics

You can build colony ships as soon as you have robots up.

The scenario is horrifying but the idea is interesting.

So based on the novel disease thing, I am assuming that this is just when Eren Yeager decided to do the rumbling, but Zeke still got his they can’t reproduce wish

The background music is driving me insane.

Looks like the humans got any new skin package.

This seems a really interesting start

Finally the time of robots has come!

isnt there a event cchain where you find a digital repository on a planet and later you can bring them back with some technology?

Literally the nekrons from 40k 😂

Cyberpunk advisor sounds like Tom from toonami

If I return to my organic species to robots, can I access nanotechnology, modularity and virtuality?

finally i can become the geth OR JUST STRAIGHT UP MALWARE

Surely nothing horrific will happen by letting Ep3o save people 😅

Next. Go head to head against the new endgame crisis and defeat it

its hella cool origin but at the same time i feel like it has unexplored opportunities like finding a cure/modifying genome enough to make them fertile again

30 YEARS TO EXTINCTION?!?!?

Cybor Ascension vs synthetic ascension Which one is better in the new The Maching Age DLC?

Will watch after i get to play it. Im not a fan of spoilers but i love your channel and will watch later

Nice video, this looks like a lot of fun!

I'm genuinely triggered by the fact you didn't take slow breeder as a trait, it was an easy 2 genetic points.

Does this origin still glitch out with sol starting system?

I'll be back to watch this in 2-3 days :)

That origin seems hard

The God's will not be chained

Aside from everything else, hearing "matrices" instead of matrix-es, 😎👍

Virtuality video when?

Can you go through and turn back to biological pops?

Its a very interesting origin, all hail the machine

Ooh this is really neat to see early :D also it’s said ben-ev-ol-ent

Asgard LARP... Finally...

Why doesn't cybernetics appear in the traditions part?

Whats up with the human portraits?

Can you be spiritual or not materialist, and have this background

I'm loving your content, but the weird glitchy Nintendo music is driving me absolutely nuts. There is so much awesome royalty free music that would fit the content in your channel so much better, and would be much more worthy of your quality of content.

It should have been a update for the synthetic dawn dlc not a new dlc

So do you think we are getting a Psionic Age after this?

I wonder how AI with this origin will fare...

Benelovent

I know having faction soon is good but i maybe there is better because faction unity increase with pop and we are loosing pop

Wait... PDX added Koreans on Stellaris?

I gotta put this one in. The eldar race is dying, press f to make them die faster.

I wondet if u can get machine uprising playing with this. That would be ironic...

Idk what to comment so. Uh. Good vid

🤔that origin hard I'm sure is type sabotage other empire in espionage.😂

Could you imagine though? The only way to “save” your species is to become something unlike you in every way? Like…this origin is just severely depressing.

Im good ill pre-pirate it instead

Your trouble with the word 'benevolent' shows that you should either get more sleep, drink more coffee, or both before recording.

Watch AMC Pantheon

The IVF future.

Am i the only one hearing weird audio from the voice ? Almost like each word is cut up and strung together

I have yet to see a single thing in this DLC that hasn't been in a previous DLC or an already existing mod. That is some Bethesda-level of cashgrab.

Simp