This sound more like an expansion lite than a species pack

Chose Portrait with face tentacles + Play Necroids (increase your pops by infecting other pops with parasyte) + Psionic ascention + have slave based empire = congratulations, you are now playing Mindflayers.

Death is but a door. Time is but a window. All my mods are out of date!

I'd really like for the devs to go back and give Plantoids a quick pass. Even one trait or civic would be a wonderful addition.

Pros of regular updates: game stays alive, new stuff! Community thrives Cons: have to update all mods

I think each species pack needs to be standardized and at least add: 1. At least two origins 2. Species specific traits 3. Maybe technologies 4. anomalies + archeology sights I’d like to see stuff with mechanics and flavor!

Made up my mind to get this a while ago. Still watching for Aspec

Xenocompatibility should blend over time all of your Empire species into only one.

The only reason why you should 100% buy this pack is because of Jeff. Nothing else.

I personally love the new ship set. It looks very gothic and imperial. Even if you aren’t big on playing as the necroids, I could see someone using that set for just a regular xenophobic empire.

I'm definitely buying it... as soon as it goes on sale. Even if they only shave off a couple dollars, those are my terms.

Finally! I can live out my Noblility-Vampire-Genghis Khan fantasy in SPAAAAAAAAAAACE!

Listening to all this I wished Pdx would add a "Photosynthetic" trade to Plantoid species pack

Wish the Plantiod would get a similar treatment to the necroid and lithoid treatment.

I'm still waiting for aquatics

I have already decided I'm doing space aztecs with the death cult civic when this eventually comes to console

"Yes, but only if its your thing". There. Saved you some time.

Between the name of the DLC, and then seeing the ships, my first thought was "Necromungers" -- the antognists in Chronicles of Riddick...

Now that I think about it, I would love an army update (more dept and gameplay, even though I hope it doesn't have micro) That and a vassal update. I imagine vassal to work in similar way as federations.

had to come back to the video to order the pack thru your link and support the channel. so, watched twice, ordered and commented.. i'm soo supportive. as for people requesting special abilities or whatever for different species like lithoids had personally i think a much better idea, especially for a role playing option, is to give us a set of 'free' civics that have both an advantage and disadvantage.. like have the lithoid one be a single civic that let's your species eat minerals instead of food, but it also makes pop growth much slower... etc.

Mall-Ninja Feel to it..... I love that. I would have actually wanted a more High Gothic meets HR Giger on a Necromonger Toast vibe

I quite like the ships they look a bit like the cylon basestars/ resurrection ship from the 2004 Battlestar galactica series.

Hopefully a revision of armies is coming out at some point. It’s one of the most undercooked features of the game.

Thanks for these informational videos, they have really helped me learn and understand Stellaris.

The main thing I take away from this is finally having the audio and cosmetics for a properly immersive Necron empire.

Before starting my game I was kind of disapointed with the normalness of the game mechanics for such a weird concept but after starting a Necrophage game I realised that having primitive civs to invade instead of colonisable planets is a real game changer. Not having to do anything related to colonising changes a ton of stuff about your usual opening moves and warps how your entire game plays out from month 1. It's a weird experience to look at the Expansion tree and go 'wow half of these bonuses do literally nothing'.

i love the shipset. i love it.

Isn't it a conflict of interest to review a paradox product while being sponsored by paradox

Definitely gonna be buying it. Gonna make another time-lapse with them once they are out.

Ah good thing you told me about that Link, because i would ve bought it over steam the second it comes out xD Now i am happy to be able to support you finacially for once :D

Definitely getting it, can't wait to try the necroids faction. The downside need to wait the modding community updated the mods but hey I can wait

Thanks for all the hard work Aspec. Because of you I've been enjoying hours upon hours of this game.

I like the origin approach here. I'd love to see the old species packs have an origin added to them, that has a unique species trait. Plantoids could get something dealing with photosynthesis for example. I'd have to look at all the packs to figure out what we have and think of what might be interesting ideas to suggest.

Still waiting for Oceanic species

I see alot of comments about plantoids getting unique traits but I feel each species type should have a baseline trait to make picking them overall more interesting, i understand making iteasier to pick the kind of race you want but if that's the case species type could be a selectable option instead of portrait defined.

I was expecting 3 seconds Video , just you screaming YES.

Thanks for the video, great like always. Sadly they missed so much potential on this one, some of the design decisions doesn't really seem impressive to me. I was looking for to something quite dark and more sinister. Even the added voice is not great, it reminds me too much of the celestial one. Some darker male voice would have been better. Also the ship's look a bit too ninja like in a cartoonish fashion for me.

How do you get those nice cinematic camera angles of the ships and planets?

Sacfrice pops to decrease the late game lag! I love it.

Hey, thanks for the informative video as usual Aspec. Just wanted to alert everyone the new Necroids release trailer - it definitely has a "ESPIONAGE" tab showing on the diplomacy screen around the 24 second mark (trailer on Steam, have not yet found the release trailer on KZfaq). Unless I have completely missed something in the news around Stellaris - could this be what we were all hoping for coming in the near future? A little tease?

I really would have wished for a new planetary tranformation and new colossus weapon that fit the expansion and the connected ascension perks aswell as maybe some other undead ascension path though.

Anyone have any idea what the next big expansion for Stellaris will be?

Gotta be honest; first time i saw that ship set i was sold

I made a Lithoid hivemind that for me worked out really well.

You are so critical this is my favorite ship and city set yet

Cant wait for the downscaled ship mod to be updated when this dlc hits

Necroids + Synthetic Ascencion = Necrons add that to the warhammer references list

Still waiting on that Machine ship set thats never gonna come out

I want a Skeletor advisor voice...

I am the RP/narrative type of player, I wish they make the origins more narrative. On the shoulder of giants is my favourite one and I would love for them to expand those type with more introspective narration of your species and origins.

Nevermind wasting a Building slot on the Undead Armies! You’re wasting a Civic slot! Those are scarce... hashtag #opportunitycost

Would be really awesome if they addes vampiric portraits to go with the necrophage origin - but looks like a great dlc as it is . To be honest I for one really love the ships aesthetic...

hello I have a question I play stellaris console version and I wonder if 600 star systems is the maximum size ?? or somewhere in federations it will be possible to choose larger galaxies ??

Bought it through your link, just for you brother XD

I LOVED the ships, definetly using them all the time.

Excellent. Now if only i had money to buy it with.

Nothing short of it bricking my computer is gonna stop me but I'll hear you out anyway.

The shipset reminds me of a slight bit of Cylon ships from BSG.

I wonder if you pick necrophage can you be a hivemind and if so have the parasitic embryos and the wraith trait from Stargate universe mod then use special decision to hunt prey and have a chance to obtain human pop

Well, they really need to give other "species"/appearance categorie bonuses, like Lithoïds. I always wondered why they didn't give specifique bonuses to these, it's so important ! I might get back into modding to fix that...

I still would like to see some kind of update to plantoids. On console, and I have it, but that one's never felt worth it, really.

Necroid portraits might look good as cyborg pops with the drivin assimilator

Hope the Star Wars Mod uses this DLC to give more substance to the Yuuzhan Vong or even better makes them a playable faction

I really wish they would go back and rework all alien types. They really wouldn't have to do all that much, mammalians could get a bonuses to habitability on cold worlds, molluscoids could gain a bonus to wet worlds, arthropoids could gain a bonus on dry worlds. Reptillians would gain a massive penalty on cold worlds, but get big boosts on wet words and maybe slightly smaller bonuses on dry ones. Plantoids could get a bonus for energy production but gain a penalty to mining, humanoids could get extra trait points or extra trait picks. There are so many little things they could do to make the various species feel actually unique, it's kind of shameful that they haven't gotten on it yet. Hopefully after the next update.

Necrophage and the spoopy profiles are the real sellers. It's not really Human tier with the advisors and other cosmetics expanding an existing species type but anything is better than plants. I REALLY wish this was more like robots or even lithoids where it fleshes out the species. I'd like to see more machine origins or ways to mix species and origin bonuses that push your species in a very interesting direction, and there's always room for peaceful unification avians. Spirituality got some bonuses if you choose to play them but I think it just needs more wide sweeping bonuses to make the shroud more appealing vs synths and biological ascension, maybe even work on gene manipulation to give it some better end goals away from materialist.

Gave up on paradox about 1 1/2 years ago no bought or played, only really watch some stuff on them now like your vids, over playing them/buying stuff from them.

Fastest like and comment in the west

that ship set do kinda feel a bitt like drucharii.

Yes. Buy it. Always. Helps development.

Are the necroid traits enforced with the portraits like Lithoids? If so that sucks.

TALK ABOUT ESPIONAGE IN THE NECROIDS TRAILER AT 0:25

They should have added instrumental death metal to the soundtrack, like beyond creations instrumentals

I now want a SG-1 Wraith ship update more than ever.

You forgot to answer the most important question for us players: is the late game finally playable at a reasonable speed? That is what makes or breaks the game.

Given I've wanted to properly roleplay as the Necrons, yes, I will buy this.

I’m just waiting for someone to make a necron civ mod led by Trazyn.

Do I need to buy Necroids to have the 2.8 patch, or is the patch free ?

What’s the new name list for Necroids?

Does anyone know how to fix stellaris no matter what I do it keeps saying that launching game failed.

I aways thought that the game was lacking the Ithkul from MoO3, while not exactly the same at least we got the parasite thing going on now. Not sure about buying it.

6:58 why is that last one censored?

I want to play as a Primitive someday

I think it is worth it. Stellaris is a wonderful game. Adding some more is always nice. And here you get a bit of everything. Overall, thumbs up.

Flavour is the spice of life?? Great video, though.

is the performance better?

Honestly, this is the best one yet. The advisor alone is my favourite one from the Species packs, perhaps out of all of them

So how do you combine Necroid and lithoid?

While I love the Jeff/Palpatine/Wat portrait, my favorites are definitely the cyborg, the eyeless monster, and the masked robed thing.

YES

I like the new ships, they're clean

ASpec going to have to REALLY disagree with you on the ship design, I think it looks lovely, much better than most of the ships currently in the game. This might be my go to from here on out when playing Stellaris.

So what I take away from this is that Necroids is basically a species pack for other species packs/origins in that it modifies the way you would normally play for example the near-immortal lithoid necrophages that Aspec created that have basically zero downsides for the primary species. That and Necrophages are the Go'auld.

Reminding you to turn that undead.

I was hyped when I saw the trailer, but this pack seems less intersting than Lithoïds in terms of gameplay... I'll grab it later only for the ships and portraits.

Who am I kidding I'm going to buy it regardless of watching this vid.

I don't really like the cityset, something about it just clashes really hard against the planet backdrop. Maybe something to do with the quality of the file? Love the ships and portraits, though!

Ships look amazing.

Looks cool unfortunately will have to wait till Christmas time for me. The time where steam ambushes my wallet XD

Can you choose what pops to sacrifice? Ex: Only sacrifice slaves

Their ship set may not be exciting to me but their colossus IS. SO. COOL.