Welcome to the Machine Age! | Stellaris DLC Announcement 

+5% research speed -10% pop happiness

I love how they paint the dystopian horror of what amounts to a checkbox in game.

FROM THE MOMENT I UNDERSTOOD THE WEAKNESS OF MY FLESH IT DISGUSTED ME I CRAVED THE STRENGTH AND CERTAINTY OF STEEL

that went "the matrix" so fast

EVEN IN DEATH I SERVE THE OMNISIAH

A quick look at the steam page is enough to notice that this story trailer doesn't really show the true scope of this new DLC. Really excited for this

Im really hoping for several additions in this. -Cybernetic potrait options for all pops. -machiene ship designs -a cybernetic origin and a synthetic assention leaning orgin (mechanist kinda fits the bill, but not the best) - more to do with spycraft

Love how the machine voice is basically Geth from Mass Effect in this trailer!

At 1:13 in the background there is a portrait of Keides from galactic paragons.

when i hear "let him play fool" it sounds like the father not only mean to make foolish faces like kids do but to not let the government show that he is smart so he won't end up like his father and that gives me chills on my spine

Stellaris: Adeptus Mechanicus

Hopefully we will get a new "Stellaris Song" for the update :)

I still cannot stress enough how good Paradox music team is

I am immediately having flash back to Dark Tide when I saw the tower of Super computer, and each one of them have a servitor fused into it, their brain connected directly into the machine with thicc cable.

God if paradox ever made a Stellaris movie or show you know it would be insanely amazing and dramatic. Even though the game itself is just a fun spreadsheet manager with a map mini game

mechanicus cult like in stellaris aww yea, the toxic knights also are fun

Guys trust me, translate the description to hexadecimal and then put it backwards and translate it into swahili and it says "we are removing planets lmao"

1:30 Are they using a dark Black Hole to propel the spaceship forward? I have never heard of this game.

Pro-cyborg and possibly pro-robot spiritualists are all but confirmed after the teaser! I'm predicting this expansion will add more scope to the 'ascension path' system, maybe including an origin to start with cybernetics, or even a whole new ascension path (like a spiritual awakening for machine gestalts)?

Bro has that thousand Galaxy stare

Driven Assimilator origin story? Also, poor Dad, protecting his family like that...

I'm hoping for full on religion mechanics. Maybe in a similar vein to how civics work. Being spiritualist with no religion just feels lacking.

This expands on a really interesting concept, that I was really wanting to see for a while now. In sci-fi, there is no reason for galactic empires to abide by any external regulation whatsoever, the only reason you can't break a truce, exploit resources to the absolute maximum as machines, use overpowered technology and etc is purely because of game balancing, and limits to the game's scope. This idea, expands so much on the concept of unhinged, galactic threats spawning out of empires in a way that feels much more meaningful than the previous player crisis, and genocidal empires, since one just wants to explode the galaxy for... some reason? and the others still abide by the game's balancing to not be overpowered. This seems like a more reasonable goal of just conquering and assimilating everything in the galaxy, for the reason of machine directives, and unbound by the game's usual laws. I can't wait for this DLC.

I don't know if it's the same but the species in the trailer and the one from Keides heavily resemble the "Humanoid #3" portrait, which I love! That was my first Stellaris species back in 2018, I associate them with the "Yldar" randomized name and even after all these years I keep playing with them💙

ground combat rework confirmed

The flesh rots The machine rusts The divine corrupts And so the rot remains supreme. I love the worm and the worm loves me

After reading the announcement, all the comments saying "+5% research, -5% pop happiness" are quite funny. New player crisis _and_ new endgame crisis? I might actually have to start playing again.

Man this look so much darker now that I know what's coming with the DLC and where that man is going to.

"Protect our son, let him play a fool" Darn. That kinda stings. Better for the son to pretend being dumb or he'll get added to the brain matrix.

PRAISE THE OMNISSIAH

Haunting and horrifying. As a father I wept. Best Stellaris trailer to date.

Just when I thought I was done, they pull me back in with new content 😅

all that for a lousy +5% research speed -10% pop happiness wow

The theme gets cooler every time!

Horizon needle, black hole propulsion? A new wonder or a new ship?

This looks awesome, i would love for Stellaris to become big enough to support a Series or a Movie

Ah, the Necron DLC

I really wish Paradox would incorporate these updates and DLCs into the actual base game or at least expand apon the DLCs that they have made. Seems OUTRAGOUS, the whole DLC bundle for stellaris is like 200 fuckin bucks now.

This is SO 40k AND IM HERE FOR IT

Still waiting on that Organic shiptypes and city types.

idk why but imo this is one of the darkest stellaris trailers

So... she's single now?

I really REALLY hope that Machines are finally going to get their own ship set.

I waited a long time for an expansion like this.

"Citien with an IQ of 120 or above must report for duty at once" more like "Population without full citizenship must report to the local officials for indefinite resettlement"

Distributed Processing holding be like:

I'm guessing that this will be a Cults and Religions DLC with a focus on synthetics, cyborgs, machines, releasing somewhere in May. EDIT: ended up being another machine DLC which was expected.. tho its not focused on religions like its teased to be, tho there seems to be origins focused on cultist machines.

hmm i found "They're refusing to know it's wrong to break promises and behind lies in hate will fall."

OMFG!!! I am so happy. Kindest reagards, a Machine Empire player.

I see the Matrix & the Borg, but the curveball in the chip looking very Eldar (even has things that look like soulstones)

Research complete: Horizon Needle Your population can now repair their own buttons easily, without getting wound up trying to get the thread to go through the eye. Happiness + 3%

from the moment i understood the weakness of my flesh it disgusted me

The engine of the Horizon Needle looks like Event Horizon Offset Facility from Gigastructural engeneering

OwCyZ8r is what the title translates from in binary

0:22 "It just works." -Hodd Toward

Machine empire update Machine empire update Machine empire update

I would love to play spiritualist robots, it would feel like these Ai priests from The Creator

Hear me out Paradox. Add to your games Legacy DLC Pass that costs the same amount as the base game. This pass would contain ALL dlcs that are older than year, so it would automatically include older dlcs with time. You still would be able to sell newest expansions for full price to players who are playing game regularly and people who had longer break would be happy to test new content knowing that they have all previous dlcs from the Legacy DLC Pass.

I don’t think you guys understand how good these trailers are. These trailers look and feel like a Denis Villeneuve movie🔥🔥🔥

finally a dlc for our beloved machine empires, been waiting for years for my shafted favourite playstyle

I- hold up... is that a matrix

This better be the score this is fire

ok tbh that shit is scary af

Mr. Anderson...

This is the Stellaris equivalent of "My dad just left to get cigarettes at the gas station. He will be back any day now..."

live chat got cleared so i'll repost my analysis here: - title and description is obviously text encoded in binary - title decodes to 'OwCyZ8r', description 'RlYPCZuY9cZQVuE0zwL1mKa5G4axzQSxavxd7xHV2p5178PFADCC11QAwcs+4nxyqerNMcDlc1AxRDLlr6Ae6WsAZFAEOnIAPbI2Nf1dRhx/3S/PxhIBDBfLnuXljhT1IK7XFWRv60vBeWTfa4jpDbXi3WvzochfPrqg=' - the text in the description ends in '=' and uses characters in the range A-Za-z0-9+/, indicating base64-encoded data - but, the length of a base64 string always has to be divisible by 4-- the length of the description text is 165 chars long. - if we concatenate the title and the description (so 'OwCyZ8rRlYPCZuY9cZQVuE0zwL1mKa5G4axzQSxavxd7xHV2p5178PFADCC11QAwcs+4nxyqerNMcDlc1AxRDLlr6Ae6WsAZFAEOnIAPbI2Nf1dRhx/3S/PxhIBDBfLnuXljhT1IK7XFWRv60vBeWTfa4jpDbXi3WvzochfPrqg='), the string is now 172 characters long which is divisible by 4. - if we decode this, we get 128 bytes of random high-entropy data - completely random data with a length divisible by 16 indicates a modern block cipher like AES being used - since this is a modern cipher, the best attack you can do against this is just 'guess the key' - if they used an online site to encrypt it (google "encrypt text online" you'll see what i mean), the key can be of any length, but if they directly encrypted it the key has to be 16, 24, or 32 characters long

god damn it im still on terminator theme now we going into space come on Skynet and Legion bring it on GDI awaits "sir you know we're augmented" but still we resist aint we

Megamind true lore

Awesome, but when we can we have new precursors? I’d love a little more expansion in what happened before we took to the stars.

Can we get some real focus on the console side? The new guys (haven't learned their name yet) still need time to learn and adapt Tantalus' work. Console is already 18 months behind and we will be over 2 years by the time we get First Contact later in '24.

At long last what I wanted so much. The Empire of intelligent non-Gestalt machines. AI rules all.

can't wait to do the horizon needle event chain to obtain it and then park it in a system for the next 200 years because I don't want to lose it.

I for one welcome our machine overlords.

The beginning of the Dark Age of Technology.

I couldn't help but notice that the Horizon Needle has employed a quantum singularity at the back. Do you think they are using it as a power source, or a new means of propulsion?

Individual machines, its the transformers update

You can be Matrix You can role play cyberpunk civilization You can worship omnissiah What more can you ask from dlc

Paradox I desire a Zerg, Tyranid, Splicer table top rpg ext esque biological ascnesion dlc to complement this in future!!!!

it carries a miniature BLACK HOLE IN THE BACK

We are closer to having more lore accurate Daleks now.

> *is about to cheer* > *looks at the price* Your financial distinctiveness will be added to our own.

99% that moment when it’s better to be a fool all your life and just live!

BLOWS IT OUT OF THE WATER WITH MUSIC AGAIN

That's the voice of legion from the geth!!

I KNOW THE SECRETS OF THE MACHINE!

1:20 Andreas really cooked with that leitmotif, didn't he...

Praised be the Omnissiah

Probably going to be a single new ship type, cost $25, and make changes that make the game less fun, judging from how Paradox are handling Stellaris these days.

Thebattl3tw33nlightanddarknessragesonSaxa1mathandArtax3s3ekthebattl3upon3Pa1aq=4nyth3battle=risesandrHxh12/3L/2hfXf+Lf3d3s1aNablen3lighta1Fav3r6HstirringahFonwardShallath=3coming= used the bianary conversion from the trailer and got this for both combined... there is still more but I hope this provides an outlook

Turned bro into a GPU

“You may say, it is impossible for a man to become like the Machine. And I would reply, that only the smallest mind strives to comprehend its limits.” - Fabricator General Kane

"from the moment i understood the weakness of my flesh"

I hope there will be a psionic rework in this DLC too.

I WILL NOT LET THIS HAPPEN TO MY POPS

GLORY TO THE OMNISSIAH !

Fanatical Materialists be like

OK. Who's translating the binary?

Why don't these guys create new updates and dlcs where you can create planetry defense cannons and planetary invasions and add some kind of cut sense for them

Stellaris: Become the Cyborg Overlord!

I never get hyped for video games anymore. For this, I am insanely hyped.