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The next Stellaris DLC will be The Machine Age.

It will focus on Synthetic and Cybernetic features introducing:

• non-gestalt individualistic robot empires
• A new Player Crisis path
• A new Endgame Crisis
• 3 new ascension paths for robots
• new advanced government forms for cybernetic and synthetic ascended empires
• a new Machine Cult Origin, among two others
• new Traits for machines and cyborgs
• two new mid-game mega structures the Arc forge and the Dyson Swarm

Not listed but shown off in the screenshots on the store page is that there appears to finaly be a base game machine chipset with no mods required.

Only took over half a decade but better late then never.

Any way, dispite sounding grumpy probaly I am actualy super excited for this one.

Machine Age is out!

Tried it a bit...hoo boy Obsession Directive is hell to do.

Also, from what I see from this, Synthetic Queen is going full-on Harmony (2008)

Edited by onyhow on May 7th 2024 at 12:11:28 PM

I am sad that building cyborgs instead of birthing them is gone. Oh well, neurocommerce is still pretty awesome. I can beam ads directly to your brain! And they will make you happy!

Since Machine Age allows for individualistic machine civs guess I can finally create Transformers. While Warbots & Barbaric Despoilers fit the Decepticons, any suggestions on Autobot civics?

Oh finally, South America is getting focus in HOI 4.

Huh, apparently it's not that good >.> Anyone have any idea why?

Edited by theLibrarian on May 8th 2024 at 6:16:01 AM

The Machine Age DLC was recently released.

Today is also the 8th anniversary Stellaris.

I was kind of hoping that the Machine shipset and option for individualistic robot empires would be included in the free Andromeda patch, as an update for the old Synthetic Dawn expansion to bring it up to other expansions' standards, but if I'm reading it correctly, you only get those with The Machine Age. And having to buy another $25 DLC to fully realize my $10 DLC just tastes bad.

Is it "fully realizing" Synthetic Dawn? It's not as if SD isn't good by its own merits, you won't get that specific feature but they never claimed you would. Machine Age augments Synthetic Dawn but the latter is still very much its own thing.

I wouldn't view it in terms of completing the previous DLC, you're buying MA for the content offers and on that front it more than delivers.

Edited by Fourthspartan56 on May 9th 2024 at 12:09:27 PM

Individualistic / non-hardlocked-to-one-playstyle Machine Empires has always been something I thought should’ve been in the very first Machine Empire update (to the point where I’ve always kind of felt like I wasted my money with Synthetic Dawn without it) so having to pay a second time for something that imo should have been there all along is a bit meh.

But it’s also not the first time Paradox DLC has made me feel that way, so whatever.

Spoilers for interested, as Cosmogenesis player crisis has interesting amount of endings :O

Here is something nice I figured out about astral rifts: there are 27 of them (+1 from riftworld origin) and you can see all of them in one playthrough since ai can do rifts, but doesn't do specific rift events meaning ai never blocks you from seeing events. So basically while ai can block you from getting archeology events, they can't block you from rift storylines