I got all hyped for Warhammer 3, it didn't scratch the itch, and then you started covering Stellaris. I'm now leading the Dwarven Confederation across the stars, branching out from their homeworld, Dammaz Kron (the Dwarven name of The Great Book of Grudges, in case anyone doesn't remember.)
Gotta say, I’m glad they are putting so much work into the console version as well. Kept my interest since 2019 when it first came out for us and now we are being caught up with PC players. Paradox also does such a good job working on both new PC updates AND console updates that I rarely see any complaints. I’m so proud of them.
Ideas for New Species Packs 1) Amphibians (Blend of Reptilian and Aquatic with less advantages and disadvantages overall) 2) Gaseous (A new take on aquatics but with heavy air dependency, can possess lesser qualities found in other established species, including Ammonia or Methane Life) 3) Energetics (Beings that evolve on a very close planet to a sun or on a cool red dwarf or brown dwarf, similar to lithoids but with energy dependency) 4) Mycetozoans (Not just slimes but also Amoebas, some might consider this to be more Fungoids, except Slime isn't a Fungus, it is a separate Kingdom of Life from the former grouping of Protista, I suppose they would be blend of Fungoid and Molluscoid) 5) Annelids (Worms, good idea to have if you are going to include parasitic mind controlling worms, blend of Necroid and Molluscoid). 6) Chromista (Blend of Mycetozoa and Plantoids) 7) Ammonia Life (Similar to Aquatics but with Ammonia, think of the Logans from Polaris Sector as an example) 8) Methane Life (Similar to Aquatics but with Methane). These lifeforms tend to have large protruding airsacks on their body or face which they use to breathe with. Ideas for Modifying Existing Species Packs: 1) Humanoids - Essentially humanoids are most customizable species in order to reflect the human character in a custom character. So you can make them be like any other species with less of a boon, but with more other points and picks available for futher customizability. 2) Mammalian - What makes mammals what they are is their ability to take care of their young (albeit they aren't exactly special for this) and metabolism. Mammals adapt quickly and work proficiently to get a task done, making them skilled laborers. Therefore, Mammalians have an advantage in both output from laborers and specialists (since being good parents tends to produce better skilled offspring). For the negative, Mammalians are harder to manage (when they are not a hivemind) and they require more food. They are also more likely to pollute their environment and can be more prone to making mistakes. So even though you can advance faster and have a more robust economy with Mammalians, you will have a more costly population as well as more potential problems with negative situations that could happen as well as a greater need to develop cleaner technologies or practices to offset the pollution. + Environmentally Adaptive (Makes new subspecies in new environments after a few generations) + Proficient Workers + Better Specialists - Increased difficulty in Management - Further difficulty in Management brought by new subspecies - Increased need for Food 3) Reptilian - What makes Reptilians what they are is their fierce strictly Reptilian brains and being ectotherms which have a huge advantage adaptability in any tropical like environment. Since this would make it difficult to customize a species for any environment. I would say they have better overall advantages in the same environment they deem most agreeable for them with heavy disadvantages in any other environment. So home environment specialization and fierce combat prowess. Do know you can use fierce fighters in more applications than just going all military such as being better police or environmental wardens/rangers. + Environment Specialists + Fierce Fighters - Less Adaptability to New Environments - Less Ability to Recover between engagements 4) Avian - Avians are more like a blend of Reptilian or Mammalian, a best of both worlds without being as good the other. They have a smaller advantage living in the same environment as their homeworld as compared to Reptilians, while also having increased metabolism short of mammalians. They also have ability to take care of their young (albeit a smaller population growth since Avians will kill the weak to only have a certain number of spring). + Proficient Specialists (As much of a boon as it is for Mammalians) + Semi-Proficient Workers (Not as much of a boon as it is for Mammalians) + Semi-Environment Specialists (Not as much of a boon as it is for Reptilians) - Lowered Population Growth - Semi-Increased need for Food (not as much of a nerf as it is for Mammalians) - Semi-Less Adaptability to New Environments (Not as much of a nerf as it is for Reptilians) I pretty much guessed on the next three just to make them somewhat unique and realistic concerning what these species groups should be like. 5) Arthropoid + More Population Growth + Environmentally Adaptive (Makes new subspecies in new environments after a few generations) - Less-Proficient Specialists - Management issues can rise up from having multiple subspecies 6) Molluscoid + More Population Growth - Less-Proficient Specialists & Lesser degree of advantages and drawbacks from 1 to 3 other species groups. 7) Fungoid + More Population Growth + Better Environmental Controls (Less Pollution) + Environment Specialists - Less Adaptability to New Environments - Less-Proficient Specialists - More need for Food
Until some future DLC makes a Frozen oriented species pack, with trait frozen that can instant turn your ocean world to an arctic world, and have a $10 USD price tag on the ability to do so~ ;p
@@applemauzel Then they create the 40 dollar DLC where it solely advertises the ability to burn ice worlds, but the actual reason people buy it is some other amazing cool thing
Played stellaris on launch, played until they added consumer goods, alloys, etc and removed planet tile managment. Got pissed quit. Then I thought all the DLC and all the mods out nowadays might make me return. Thanks for explaining!
I also played on launch and also quit because of those changes. I've returned to the game some weeks ago and I can say that those changes were actually good and the game is MUCH better now. Give it a chance! Except that they just launched the 3.4 version, so you know...will need a few days for them to fix the bugs that every new update brings.
@@lkslokinhow Been playing a good bit of Stellaris lately with all the DLC's and yeah it's better than when they changed up the game originally. Still the consumer goods and alloys are so dumb bc it's just extra steps, research filler and screen clutter when they could of just kept using minerals. Play machine empire like I do so you don't need 1/3rd of all the bullshit so you have less to manage good stuff could never go back to being a meat bag. P.S influence does jack shit rn other than claiming territory and some diplomacy real sad
Love the video it’s awesome. I wish you would have mentioned that the console version is behind on dlc and some of the content. It doesn’t seem like a topic that’s talked about a lot but the console version is still miss content from some previous dlc and the newer dlc are still like two behind the pc version.
I'd like to see an expansion pack one day that is along the theme of "Identity", would let you customise ships more (colour etc.), adjust your empire's whole aesthetic (Necroid to Lithoid etc. But later a few new variants (Ultra-tech, Cuboid, Holographic, Angellic etc.) with unique buffs. Oh and UI colour, that would be amazing. With different styles too!
Utopia is a must. Brought that after I first started Stellaris. I think Federations is worth it in terms of roleplay as well (Scion and Hegemony origins ftw!) The others... well it's down to personal preference. And steam sales.
I've just spent £48 on the xbox version of this game, with expansion packs 1-4, during the summer sale. This was before I had even played it. I just knew I'd love it. It's now one of my favourite games.
New Stellaris player here! I got the base game and a few dlc on Black Friday. I got all the story packs, Utopia, federations, and apocalypse. Any other must haves?
I do love the sentient machine race could be fun maybe do a terminator style game or machine rule empire or even a symbolic army idk so many things to think of
I started with free weekend and I'm really enjoying the game so I'll probably buy I'm just not sure about the DLC and if it's like the other Paradox games like EU4.
damn shame this games greatest features are locked behind $100 worth of dlc... ON SALE. and neither of the two friends with all the dlc want to play :(
In fact i never played any paradox game also because of this. If to experience all the mechanics i need to pay for all DLCs i'm not gonna play that game!
@@samuraiwarrior8202 give a look to darkest hour! It's a very old game with outdated mechanics but it's the best version of hearts of iron in my opinion, and its only about 10 bucks
Paradox, stop selling DLC You guys need to change the engine of this game. These days, when 8-core CPUs are common, This Stone Age version of the game engine is just a... crap. This isn't an MS-DOS game, is it? No matter how good the performance of the PC, if the game is played more than half the time, it becomes a moron. I don't know why they made the in-game option. The DOT GAME that comes out these days uses multi-core CPUs Your game engine is like a stone age. STELLARIS is definitely a great game It's really annoying and stressful for us who paid for this game because of its stupid performance!
@@backstabber3537 You might not ever have realised, all paradox games lag, doesnt matter how good your pc is, their engine sucks and only uses a single core form your CPU. If you say this isnt real you can easily find out its real by seeing youtubers palying, after endgame stellaris runs at around 1 day per second at fastest speed, its terrible.
I just spent about 15 minutes trying to figure out how to pronounce ecumenopolis, and it turns out it is eh-q-menopolis, like the words 'meh' and the pronunciation of the letter q; or "iːˈkjuː.mə.ni" from the Greek ecumene, meaning world, and polis meaning city. Anyway, not to be that guy, but just figured I'd share if you're interested. Guide was great, it's very helpful that you go over the changes efficiently, giving us the freedom to pause and read if necessary (or go find out if you've been saying ecumenopolis wrong all this time). Also nice that there are time stamps.
Humanoids pack did not add the xenophile, militarist, and materialist. It added the soldier, the technocrat, and the diplomat voice packs.
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Ngl, I didn't even know that there was the soldier, technocrat and diplomat
@@115scenario7 you gotta try the technocrat
@@insertsomethingfuni2617The laws of science govern all.
@@astrolinn no, the laws of my mother do
Utopia is a must have DLC.. The others people can buy as they get bored with the base game and chooses the ones that matches the most their playstyle.
Distant stars and leviathans are the other two musts that form the core Stellaris experience.
It’s happened a few times for me with machine people, where my scientist death notes are suicide. Yes, my robo-researchers were suicidal
I mean emotional and physical pain are different
I got all hyped for Warhammer 3, it didn't scratch the itch, and then you started covering Stellaris.
I'm now leading the Dwarven Confederation across the stars, branching out from their homeworld, Dammaz Kron (the Dwarven name of The Great Book of Grudges, in case anyone doesn't remember.)
How did you manage to get those Dwarves to confederate?
Khazukan khazakit-ha!
@@ernimuja6991 the book of grudges became so big that they decide to Unite to Go to space, the problem is that they have a space book of grudge
Warhammer 3 was just so underwhelming. The UI just felt so 2014ish. Buildings took priority over warfare which was a shame. Dropped it after 5 hours.
Gotta say, I’m glad they are putting so much work into the console version as well. Kept my interest since 2019 when it first came out for us and now we are being caught up with PC players. Paradox also does such a good job working on both new PC updates AND console updates that I rarely see any complaints. I’m so proud of them.
Ideas for New Species Packs
1) Amphibians (Blend of Reptilian and Aquatic with less advantages and disadvantages overall)
2) Gaseous (A new take on aquatics but with heavy air dependency, can possess lesser qualities found in other established species, including Ammonia or Methane Life)
3) Energetics (Beings that evolve on a very close planet to a sun or on a cool red dwarf or brown dwarf, similar to lithoids but with energy dependency)
4) Mycetozoans (Not just slimes but also Amoebas, some might consider this to be more Fungoids, except Slime isn't a Fungus, it is a separate Kingdom of Life from the former grouping of Protista, I suppose they would be blend of Fungoid and Molluscoid)
5) Annelids (Worms, good idea to have if you are going to include parasitic mind controlling worms, blend of Necroid and Molluscoid).
6) Chromista (Blend of Mycetozoa and Plantoids)
7) Ammonia Life (Similar to Aquatics but with Ammonia, think of the Logans from Polaris Sector as an example)
8) Methane Life (Similar to Aquatics but with Methane). These lifeforms tend to have large protruding airsacks on their body or face which they use to breathe with.
Ideas for Modifying Existing Species Packs:
1) Humanoids - Essentially humanoids are most customizable species in order to reflect the human character in a custom character. So you can make them be like any other species with less of a boon, but with more other points and picks available for futher customizability.
2) Mammalian - What makes mammals what they are is their ability to take care of their young (albeit they aren't exactly special for this) and metabolism. Mammals adapt quickly and work proficiently to get a task done, making them skilled laborers. Therefore, Mammalians have an advantage in both output from laborers and specialists (since being good parents tends to produce better skilled offspring). For the negative, Mammalians are harder to manage (when they are not a hivemind) and they require more food. They are also more likely to pollute their environment and can be more prone to making mistakes. So even though you can advance faster and have a more robust economy with Mammalians, you will have a more costly population as well as more potential problems with negative situations that could happen as well as a greater need to develop cleaner technologies or practices to offset the pollution.
+ Environmentally Adaptive (Makes new subspecies in new environments after a few generations)
+ Proficient Workers
+ Better Specialists
- Increased difficulty in Management
- Further difficulty in Management brought by new subspecies
- Increased need for Food
3) Reptilian - What makes Reptilians what they are is their fierce strictly Reptilian brains and being ectotherms which have a huge advantage adaptability in any tropical like environment. Since this would make it difficult to customize a species for any environment. I would say they have better overall advantages in the same environment they deem most agreeable for them with heavy disadvantages in any other environment. So home environment specialization and fierce combat prowess. Do know you can use fierce fighters in more applications than just going all military such as being better police or environmental wardens/rangers.
+ Environment Specialists
+ Fierce Fighters
- Less Adaptability to New Environments
- Less Ability to Recover between engagements
4) Avian - Avians are more like a blend of Reptilian or Mammalian, a best of both worlds without being as good the other. They have a smaller advantage living in the same environment as their homeworld as compared to Reptilians, while also having increased metabolism short of mammalians. They also have ability to take care of their young (albeit a smaller population growth since Avians will kill the weak to only have a certain number of spring).
+ Proficient Specialists (As much of a boon as it is for Mammalians)
+ Semi-Proficient Workers (Not as much of a boon as it is for Mammalians)
+ Semi-Environment Specialists (Not as much of a boon as it is for Reptilians)
- Lowered Population Growth
- Semi-Increased need for Food (not as much of a nerf as it is for Mammalians)
- Semi-Less Adaptability to New Environments (Not as much of a nerf as it is for Reptilians)
I pretty much guessed on the next three just to make them somewhat unique and realistic concerning what these species groups should be like.
5) Arthropoid
+ More Population Growth
+ Environmentally Adaptive (Makes new subspecies in new environments after a few generations)
- Less-Proficient Specialists
- Management issues can rise up from having multiple subspecies
6) Molluscoid
+ More Population Growth
- Less-Proficient Specialists
& Lesser degree of advantages and drawbacks from 1 to 3 other species groups.
7) Fungoid
+ More Population Growth
+ Better Environmental Controls (Less Pollution)
+ Environment Specialists
- Less Adaptability to New Environments
- Less-Proficient Specialists
- More need for Food
Honestly, I'd play as a worm
8 new dlcs? stop giving them ideas bro
Bro my wallet
@@Qiwaemedotekevjae2 Good bye wallet, such a wonderful time to live in with so much inflation.
Fair warning: Aquatic trait makes starting on an ocean World OP. The cost of 1 trait point is still really cheap.
Until some future DLC makes a Frozen oriented species pack, with trait frozen that can instant turn your ocean world to an arctic world, and have a $10 USD price tag on the ability to do so~ ;p
@@applemauzel Then they create the 40 dollar DLC where it solely advertises the ability to burn ice worlds, but the actual reason people buy it is some other amazing cool thing
I didn't know you covered Stellaris. I'll keep watching this.
I hope for a Fallen Empire Story Pack to make them more interesting.
Played stellaris on launch, played until they added consumer goods, alloys, etc and removed planet tile managment. Got pissed quit.
Then I thought all the DLC and all the mods out nowadays might make me return. Thanks for explaining!
I also played on launch and also quit because of those changes. I've returned to the game some weeks ago and I can say that those changes were actually good and the game is MUCH better now. Give it a chance!
Except that they just launched the 3.4 version, so you know...will need a few days for them to fix the bugs that every new update brings.
@@lkslokinhow Been playing a good bit of Stellaris lately with all the DLC's and yeah it's better than when they changed up the game originally.
Still the consumer goods and alloys are so dumb bc it's just extra steps, research filler and screen clutter when they could of just kept using minerals.
Play machine empire like I do so you don't need 1/3rd of all the bullshit so you have less to manage good stuff could never go back to being a meat bag.
P.S influence does jack shit rn other than claiming territory and some diplomacy real sad
Same. When they changed planet management I got confused and quit 💀
Nice, a stellaris dlc video that's not an hour long👍 next, could you make a best dlcs video?
The Leviathan that Looks like something from HP Lovecrafts universe is very hard to beat but my favourite DLC is federations
Love the video it’s awesome. I wish you would have mentioned that the console version is behind on dlc and some of the content. It doesn’t seem like a topic that’s talked about a lot but the console version is still miss content from some previous dlc and the newer dlc are still like two behind the pc version.
I'd like to see an expansion pack one day that is along the theme of "Identity", would let you customise ships more (colour etc.), adjust your empire's whole aesthetic (Necroid to Lithoid etc. But later a few new variants (Ultra-tech, Cuboid, Holographic, Angellic etc.) with unique buffs.
Oh and UI colour, that would be amazing. With different styles too!
Appreciate the video!
Also, most of the DLC is on sale right now on Steam.
Same on the PlayStation store
Bought em all. Hope it's worth it.
@@nightmareseer3755 1 month later checkin ?: was it worth it?
@@flawlessvicstill waiting
Awesome video thank you
Utopia is a must. Brought that after I first started Stellaris. I think Federations is worth it in terms of roleplay as well (Scion and Hegemony origins ftw!) The others... well it's down to personal preference. And steam sales.
I was wondering when they added "subjugation"... must've been a free update in tandem with Overlord. (9:42)
I've just spent £48 on the xbox version of this game, with expansion packs 1-4, during the summer sale. This was before I had even played it. I just knew I'd love it. It's now one of my favourite games.
New Stellaris player here! I got the base game and a few dlc on Black Friday. I got all the story packs, Utopia, federations, and apocalypse. Any other must haves?
With so much content and variety they should really embrace a RP focused start where the generated universe is more random and less balanced.
Thanks man, I was playing base stellaris and I was just wondering which dlcs were worth it : )
Awesome video! :)
AS SOON AS I BUY STELLARIS I SEE YOU POSTED A VIDEO 6 DAYSC AGO WOAH
Oh wow these are a moneysink
I do love the sentient machine race could be fun maybe do a terminator style game or machine rule empire or even a symbolic army idk so many things to think of
Which dlc has the incubator?
I started with free weekend and I'm really enjoying the game so I'll probably buy I'm just not sure about the DLC and if it's like the other Paradox games like EU4.
Has just as many updates as Minecraft does at this rate.
Fallen machine empires spawning as a result of machine rebellion? What the hell are you talking about?
I got lucky on humble bundle and got pretty much every dlc there is, plus the game, for maybe $30 max? Now Im here just to know what i even have 😂😂
I love this game. I suck at it, but love it nonetheless
I've all the DLC but Overlord and have barely played the game. I'm quite sure I'll suck at it badly for a long while before I get the hang of it.
I got the base game, on Console, (as well as pc, but play console for convenience)
I seem to have more than the base game, but haven't bought dlc.
The price of all these packs combined equal to one tank of gasoline
damn shame this games greatest features are locked behind $100 worth of dlc... ON SALE.
and neither of the two friends with all the dlc want to play :(
Okay first, great vid.
Second, you forgot distant stars!
4:48 my guy lol
@@ColonelDamneders man i am dumb, sry for this
You're not gonna convince me to play Stellaris! Too many DLC's. My wallet can't handle them haha.
In fact i never played any paradox game also because of this.
If to experience all the mechanics i need to pay for all DLCs i'm not gonna play that game!
@@samuraiwarrior8202 give a look to darkest hour! It's a very old game with outdated mechanics but it's the best version of hearts of iron in my opinion, and its only about 10 bucks
Just play with a friend and get the docs on sale pice by piece it goes on sale alot
Use Cream api then
Utopia alone makes a huge difference to the base game. Its usually on sale. You can easily play with just the base game and utopia honestly.
My problem Is all of them sound good except humaniond species pack so 200 dollars here it go's...
Paradox, stop selling DLC
You guys need to change the engine of this game.
These days, when 8-core CPUs are common,
This Stone Age version of the game engine is just a... crap.
This isn't an MS-DOS game, is it?
No matter how good the performance of the PC,
if the game is played more than half the time, it becomes a moron.
I don't know why they made the in-game option.
The DOT GAME that comes out these days uses multi-core CPUs
Your game engine is like a stone age.
STELLARIS is definitely a great game
It's really annoying and stressful for us who paid for this game
because of its stupid performance!
Yeah, it becomes less of a problem in short games like hearts of iron 4, but stellaris is very long
get a better pc i never had any problem
@@backstabber3537 You might not ever have realised, all paradox games lag, doesnt matter how good your pc is, their engine sucks and only uses a single core form your CPU. If you say this isnt real you can easily find out its real by seeing youtubers palying, after endgame stellaris runs at around 1 day per second at fastest speed, its terrible.
@@shrekeyes2410 ever since I got my new pc lag has been minimal to none I’ve yet to encounter any lag tbh nowadays only lag I get is in my laptop
@@backstabber3537 Yeah, youre thinking of FPS lag, you cant avoid the engine lag though, no matter how good your pc is you will lag.
Every stellaris dlc explained wrong
I just spent about 15 minutes trying to figure out how to pronounce ecumenopolis, and it turns out it is eh-q-menopolis, like the words 'meh' and the pronunciation of the letter q; or "iːˈkjuː.mə.ni" from the Greek ecumene, meaning world, and polis meaning city. Anyway, not to be that guy, but just figured I'd share if you're interested. Guide was great, it's very helpful that you go over the changes efficiently, giving us the freedom to pause and read if necessary (or go find out if you've been saying ecumenopolis wrong all this time). Also nice that there are time stamps.