Stellaris: The Machine Age | Choose Your Crisis with  

Thank you Paradox, the Stellaris Dev Team and Community Team for having me - I hope everyone enjoys The Machine Age!!

I'm gonna make so many paper clips for the machine mommy.

Certana: "First of all, you need to eat ice-cream. Would you prefare it being delivered via cutlery or intragastric pipe?"

Cosmic genesis sounds like a very fun way to win through tech :-)

"The galaxy is quiet again after the queen has returned. All bless the metal lady she loves us..." Last words from galaxy 107a before it strangely turned into that huge storm visible it still is now millions of Lighter years away, apparently from a meat bag lower empire that had just got into interstellar travel. Strange indead.

They missed the chance to call her Synthia.

This DLC is in my opinion one of best DLC that ever come to stellaris.

Honestly, the thing that excites me most about The Machine Age is being able to make an individualist machine empire. I only started playing Stellaris with the last expansion and the first thing I wanted to do was make a race of peaceful machines that value the exploration of philosophy, science, as well as their individuality compared to basic robot slaves. Synthetic Dawn naturally got my interest, but I was disappointed that it only allows for gestalt consciousnesses. Fun in its own right, but the exact opposite of what I wanted my machine empire to be. Now I will finally get to create the species they were meant to be!

"Allows the Cuban Awareness to progress as Crisis". Finally, we can roleplay the Cuban Crisis in Stellaris!

“We rounded pi down” *the universe freaks out *engineers everywhere rejoice

Bro this looks like the forerunners battling the precursors

Synthetic Queen: You can't just kill everyone! Contingency: Boo-hoo. Cry, sis.

What exites me most? EVERYTHING.

just two days LETS GOOOOO

I'd love it if they retooled every other crisis(and added more) to be more like this one. The Synthetic Queen Crisis felt more like an actual military campaign against a looming threat. Imagine if during the Contingency Crisis you actually had to manage the synthetic rebellions and terrorist attacks and reverse engineer/hack the Contingencies technology and programming. Multiple different paths to concluding the Crisis' would be pretty great too, including peaceful means, like researching and implementing science and technologies that placate the Crisis and perhaps solve their problems. For example, finding an infinite renewable food source for the Unbidden and fixing the contingencies screwed up code and returning it to a lucid state that is able to explain the threat it is supposedly trying to combat and working with it to find another solution.

Finally i can become a fallen Empire

So i can finally get those Fallen Empire ship design? it cannot be true 🥺💜 I was hoping to have them one day in the future, since early days of stellaris

First and hail the Redking

all hail the blessed mother, Lili.... Cetana!

honestly, the thing that I'm most excited for is probably the simplest, and that's just the Cybernetic and Machine Reworks including Sentient Machines (non-gestalt)

All of it sounds amazing. I haven't been this excited since the Colossus DLC

This time, I don't actually know what excites me the most :o

Well that is great to see

I'm excited to see what rp combinations I can come up.

Exciting!

finally, a science victory

The biggest thing I'm excited about is how this has broken key aspects of the game restricting it for both developers and modders alike: Having to overwrite the Crisis Path, the mentality that the Crisis is a total enemy and can't be an ally for your own personal victory, the need to add mods to swap portraits and have huge amount of portraits instead of the new dynamic system, and the idea that Ascension is a singular path for each type (Psionic, Genetic, Cybernetic and Synthetic). I look forward to seeing both Paradox and their beloved community dive into integrating the ideas of multiple Crisis Paths, Crisis being more of a War of the Heavens situation, dynamic portraits to showcase our unique path of evolution, and more unique diversity to Psionic and Genetic paths that I've always wanted. Also, I noticed how one Origin specifically mixes Cybernetics with Religion, which usually are polar opposites, and I love that and hope to see that unique blend of this for that in reverse, using mechanical pops for helping Psionic Ascension, and the idea of War for Peace, Peace for War, avoid Aliens to express true Xenophilia, get with the Aliens to be a crueler Xenophobe, and some way to showcase how Authoritarian and Equalitarian cross so much IRL (like how the USSR formed as an authoritarian nation from the ideas and actions of equality and community, twisted and corrupted in the people themselves who thought the sacrifices would help them all be more equal than before). Breaking of so many molds here that are very inspiring to see how Paradox takes it, and the modding community, as showcased by The Machine Expansion's many features being utilized here, is gonna be the leader in how this evolves. Paradox sets the groundwork, the community goes wild with it, and Paradox sets more groundwork after bouncing with some of the community themselves. Gotta love that.

LETS GOOOOO RED KING SUPREMACY BTW what time does TMA come out? like, does it come out 00:00 Sweden time or 12AM EST or something else?

This is gonna be fun

The sheer scale of this dlc is amazing and i just can't waith to see what Paradox will make in the future.

Thanks to Paradox in bringing me one step closer to the Adeptus Mechanicus 😅

Why does the synaptic lane remind me of a TIE fighter

I can't believe that the lore of a strategy game has made me join a super community like this.

middle age crisis, I chose you !

what excits me: yes

Yas, queen !

It's gonna be the future soon, and I won't always be this way, as the things that make me weak and weird get engineered away.

Grate

Shodan returns!

Congrats on getting to make an official video

I like the new Crises best. Cosmogenesis feels much more original and interesting than the simple "blow up everything to win" path that Galactic Nemesis gave us, helped by the idea that it's essentially the origin story for all the other Fallen Empires. And I can't wait to see what weird machinations this "Cetana" is working towards!

parece que essa sera maior DLC de todas, fatodessa nave não ser nave de guerra e sim uma espécie de arca achei genial

Cosmogenesis sounds fun! Scientia potestas est.

Cool to see paradox giving us more tools to comit warcrimes.

All Hail the Red King!

come on, release already!

wut? dynamic portraits? i totally missed that

It looks promising in comparison with most recent DLC but I‘ve been burned too many times by paradox‘ incompetence (if not outright malice) to consider buying at launch. Wait and see.

noice

I was under the impression that there was one new crisis coming, not two!

Cosmogenesis is basically the "Go to Space" ending from Civ games.

Does the new player crisis path require you to own the nemsis dlc as well?

I wanted to fly escorts and battlecruisers since synthetic dawn so....

total algorithm fuel 🛢️

Do you need to play an organic empire to fuel the synaptic Lathe? Could you just sacrifice machine pops to it?

@theredking not another galaxy but another universe. RTFM

I really wish this was for console

Of course it is morally questionable. The question being 'Is it morally justifiable to not volunteer to enter the lathe?' The answer is no, of course, but philosophers like asking silly questions.

New toys for the Draconian Empire to play with

New Shipset?

My Quasi stellar obliterators is waiting to serve cetana.

what will happen if you leave galaxy in a multiplayer game?

Please add more midgame crisis in the next DLC.

Is The Synthetic Queen what the Contingency was built to prevent from happening again

Can u run cosmogenesis and become crisis together I doubt because it'd be op asf But would be funky

Is multiplayer working again?

What do I like about this new dlc? Well for me i only like the two new megastructures, especially the dyson swarm.

I would like an upgrade version for the PS5

Everything this dlc brings are game changer for robots and robot wannabes. Must have DLC.

Thanks for doing the pass thing. I’d rather rent the DLC for $30 for 6 months than feel the shame of spending so much money on a single title, equivalent to a couple decent CPUs.

When ground combat rework?

4:17 i choice to wait unitl mods delete that boring bad cirisis bcs it was made wrong in all ways posible.