A new expansion is arriving to Stellaris and it's going to introduce The Machine Age. This all started when scientists discovered more advanced means to commune the machine. As a result, the biological limitations that has been set for the minds and flesh have been overcome. Once The Machine Age begins, it means a time of technical glory. However, it also increases bot social and ethical dilemmas.
Here are some of the key features of this upcoming expansion:
- New Endgame Crisis & Crisis Path
- Players get to face a new synthetic threat in a brand-new Endgame Crisis.
- It's also possible that they become the threat themselves and fight for the balance of the universe in a new Crisis Path.
- Individualistic Machines
- The machine empires are no longer limited to gestalt consciousness.
- They can have individual personalities and more diverse stories and origins.
- Players can further customize their empire with the three new Machine Ascension Paths.
- New Situations & Advanced Authority Swap
- As players move ever closer to the mind of the machine, they'll have to face new challenges for their society.
- Each decision matters and the only certainty is that the empire won't be the same after its Ascension.
- Three New Origins
- Cybernetic Creed
- The empire pursues a divine calling which is the holy fusion of the body and cybernetics.
- Augmentation is worship.
- Synthetic Fertility
- Once a thriving society, a novel genetic disease has resulted empire being unable to reproduce biologically.
- Digital salvation seems the only option to avoid extinction.
- Arc Welders
- Coming from a world that's long starved for space, a robotic society turns to the stars for resources.
In addition to the features already mentioned, the upcoming expansion also comes with:
- new reactive portraits
- 6 new Civics
- 2 new mid-game structures
- Molten Arc Furnace
- Powerful Dyson Swarm
- new Population Traits
- 7 brand new music tracks
Stellaris is a 4X grand strategy video game first released for the PC in May 2016. The game was then launched for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in February 2019. Stellaris was developed by Paradox Interactive whose game portfolio includes other popular franchises like Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, Crusader Kings, Cities: Skylines, Prison Architect, the Surviving games, Age of Wonders and Victoria.
