Should You Buy Stellaris Aquatics (Review)

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Stellaris Aquatics has finally washed ashore! A new Species pack based around the life aquatic. The real question is though; Is this worth your time and hard earned money? Today ASpec will be reviewing this new pack and give a verdict. So lets dive into Stellaris Aquatics
Early Review copy provided by Paradox Interactive.
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Video Title; Should You Buy Stellaris Aquatics (Review)
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00:00 Intro
01:39 Portraits & Ships
05:44 Traits & Ascension
11:46 Origins
15:23 Angler Civic
17:47 Conclusion
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@A_Spec 2 жыл бұрын

Dolphin thirst traps inside.

@maskedperson6545 2 жыл бұрын

What was the song at the start

@Regunes 2 жыл бұрын

That' an awfully suspicious thing to post at 00:00

@Ashainm 2 жыл бұрын

@@maskedperson6545 Its from the official trailer of the pack

@DarkWraithKevin 2 жыл бұрын

Dolphin smut

@bungus_bongus 2 жыл бұрын

Hot dolphins in your area, click now

@albusvoltavern4500 2 жыл бұрын

We all need more space shanties in our lives

@theratking3075 2 жыл бұрын

Star shanty sounds better to Rat King tbh.

@svenbrede6151 2 жыл бұрын

Some dev got hyped by warframe xD

@svenkleinplarre9461 2 жыл бұрын

What do we do with a drunken marauder? What do we do with a drunken marauder? What do we do with a drunken marauder? Early in the morning.

@Apotheosis- 2 жыл бұрын

have you heard of filk music? Cause that's pretty much what it is, highly recommended.

@AsrielDreemurYT653 2 жыл бұрын

I agree

@godouroboros8047 2 жыл бұрын

Any one else looking forward to possibly seeing some Aquatic Lithiod Hivemind Necrophage gameplay in the future?

@letsplaysvonaja1714 2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget to also make them ravenous swarm

@blacksnow7106 2 жыл бұрын

Coral Illithid?

@andoli1646 2 жыл бұрын

Makes you wish they would add the crystal spike weapon series back in

@Comicsluvr 2 жыл бұрын

Undead vampire pirates? Didn't they do a movie like that a few years back?

@MalakStarfire 2 жыл бұрын

@@Comicsluvr There is a Warhammer faction that is all Vampire Pirates

@danterovere9485 2 жыл бұрын

dont all species have a clothes-less version? we see them when they spawn as primal species, I think

@thorhaveron 2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Except humans....

@alabamaman8224 2 жыл бұрын

@@thorhaveron I don't think I've seen ANY of the humanoid species as its unclothed version. Maybe humanoids in general don't have an unclothed version while the rest do.

@vickyvvvv8182 2 жыл бұрын

@@alabamaman8224 we have a mod for that

@alabamaman8224 2 жыл бұрын

@@vickyvvvv8182 what's the name of this mod? Asking for a friend who intends to use it for research purposes.

@Vulturefist 2 жыл бұрын

@@alabamaman8224 Oh, you also have a friend just like that? Cool! Maybe it’s the same guy?

@alicemercer625 2 жыл бұрын

That damn sea shanty went so well with the trailer. I NEED it.

@ProBrosification 2 жыл бұрын

'This tree-water thing here' Did... did you mean coral?

@A_Spec 2 жыл бұрын

S...sure

@ProBrosification 2 жыл бұрын

@@A_Spec I'll allow it

@Wooper160atThePond 2 жыл бұрын

It’s his second or third language okay

@clem-lv2rw 2 жыл бұрын

Wanna know something hilarious that just happened to me? The trailer that makes up the intro for this vid played as an ad before the video started. If that ain't appropriate advertising, if a little redundant, I don't know what is.

@keirangray902 2 жыл бұрын

I can literally LARP as Admiral Ackbar now

@Daralyndk 2 жыл бұрын

I seriously hope that now, with Custodians, devs somehow specialize even other species, like Reptilians and Avians

@TheArklyte 2 жыл бұрын

Would be cool to see mammals and especially humanoids specialized too since you guys always treat humans as "el generico"...

@Daralyndk 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheArklyte ech if I want to play humansI would play SIMS and not Stellaris or Elder Scrolls, right? :-D But yeah I would like specialization for all species anyway

@meateater1002 Жыл бұрын

I imagine a zeppelin city in the sky

@purpledevilr7463 2 жыл бұрын

I think the coolest part of this is the possibility of necroid aquatic lithoid hiveminds. There must be some amazing role play in that.

@chrismastrorocco4945 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine that with the Sea of Consciousness event

@george36615984 2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of alolan corsola... if it grew to take over an entire planet

@moderndavinci6599 2 жыл бұрын

Dead living fish rocks! Yay!

@cirkleobserver3217 2 жыл бұрын

Undead reefs? That’s pretty unique

@AugmentedOwl 2 жыл бұрын

As an Australian- my dollarydoos were well placed with stellaris

@GyroGarrison 2 жыл бұрын

As a pirate, my booty was well placed in this DLC.

@derdrache0512 2 жыл бұрын

As a fellow pirate, this video was completely irrelevant for me. Why pay when you can get it free

@ItsCrayon 2 жыл бұрын

I love the fact the voice is an Irish sailors voice. It fits very well.

@nikital.6523 2 жыл бұрын

Dolph Lunadgren is a leader that anyone should be happy to swim with into a bright and oh-so very wet tomorrow.

@Noctazar 2 жыл бұрын

They really like to put rotating parts onto science ships lately

@Haan22 2 жыл бұрын

This and the Vampire Coast dlc should both be bought for the amazing shanties alone.

@GyroGarrison 2 жыл бұрын

What is it with pirate DLCs being so damn good?

@Strangepillow 2 жыл бұрын

Vampire coast trailer so good

@JacopoSkydweller 2 жыл бұрын

@@Strangepillow The timing of the cannons and the beat. *Chefs Kiss* Perfection.

@randomlygeneratedname Жыл бұрын

Isn't the vampire coast just necroid aquatics?

@jakedude236 2 жыл бұрын

Too slow aspec, I already bought it 2 hours ago lol But honestly this has the best looking shipset so far and you can definitely tell they put a lot of love into the portraits I can't wait to try it out once I figure out which of my mods are causing my game to crash as soon as I try to start a new game lol

@zethicalyt2406 2 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure all the mods are broken rn

@breadbutcooler 2 жыл бұрын

even if i don’t like the content, the ship set and portraits made it worth it imo

@breadbutcooler 2 жыл бұрын

@@zethicalyt2406 nah bro, the wave of updates came like an hour after it released

@Roreck86 2 жыл бұрын

@@breadbutcooler wave, aquatics. I see what you did there.

@tremor3258 2 жыл бұрын

I'd love less humanoid ones for the aquatics but happy with it so far, trying a dragon origin.

@Miriromi13 2 жыл бұрын

I am now an Aquatics Enjoyer. I've never been happy with Trade Goods and largely played machine empires because of this. With Anglers however this has been resolved! Trade value, consumer goods, a surplus of food to then make into alloys... My economy is handled practically at the outset!

@cyanphoenix1414 2 жыл бұрын

With the new Deluge weapon I'd love for Paradox to add some more colossus based weapons that can be used with more utility than just "Planet is now dead." For example, I know it would never work for balencing reasons, but imagine a machine empire being able to just dump nanobots onto a biological homeworld and have them turn the planet into a Machine World or just a world of metal for future mining. That would be awesome as hell.

@cluelessroom87pc78 2 жыл бұрын

Driven assimilators can use collosus to assimilate entire planets

@user-uq9fg3lu8n 2 жыл бұрын

@@cluelessroom87pc78 they can?

@Silamon2 2 жыл бұрын

@@user-uq9fg3lu8n Yes, they can. Nanobot Diffuser weapon for colossus, only available to driven assimilator, require synthetic dawn.

@heirofaniu 2 жыл бұрын

This is the reason I despise the multiplayer community for this game. I don't want multiplayer, I want to play single player. I want jank. I want disgusting imbalance in order to do whacky shit like this.

@TheArklyte 2 жыл бұрын

I don't see why adding Resource Consolidation modifier with a Colossus would be imbalanced. It's a powerful modifier, but by the point when you have Colossus, you're pumping out habitats and machine worlds left and right.

@awildfilingcabinet6239 2 жыл бұрын

The deluge colossus should just turn the ship into a giant tank that just dumps an ocean over any planet.

@MatthewSmith-sz1yq 2 жыл бұрын

Nah, a massive space bucket. The animation should be it tipping over and dumping water on the planet 😂

@furiouskaiser9914 2 жыл бұрын

Nah, my brain went with the Mega Maid from Spacballs, but with a firehose instead of a vacuum cleaner.

@EMBer3000 2 жыл бұрын

They really missed something if they, in Frank Herbert, didn't think to include an event chain that spawns sandworms on a desert planet on which you can find a spice called melange that increases your leader lifespans and their stats but also makes them addicted to spice. Maybe also a variant on the event chain where a scientist becomes exposed to spicegas and develops some unique trait that lets him jump his ship as if he had jumpdrive long before your civ develops the tech. You must of course colonise the planet and name it Arrakis otherwise the ghost of Frank will appear and smite your home system.

@MajorMlgNoob 2 жыл бұрын

Arrakis is a system that randomly spawns lol

@albusvoltavern4500 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, so have many others; the best kind of RP is when it’s supported by mechanics

@A_Spec 2 жыл бұрын

This is why Origins are great.

@lonewolf3605 2 жыл бұрын

The lobster can be aquatic now! I'm definitely going to get this pack

@letsplaysvonaja1714 2 жыл бұрын

Same for the snails

@lonewolf3605 2 жыл бұрын

@@letsplaysvonaja1714 sea slugs/snails

@lonewolf3605 2 жыл бұрын

@@letsplaysvonaja1714 if I do the snail one I'd probably do rapid breeders lol

@Salmon_Toastie 2 жыл бұрын

Wish the sea coral could be a plantoid so we could use photo tropic

@lonewolf3605 2 жыл бұрын

@@Salmon_Toastie true that'd be cool

@VSLeader1 2 жыл бұрын

Heads up, they removed the 10% hull strength for aquatic admirals right before release. Something worth knowing if you wanted to buy the dlc for that reason.

@NumbingDisasterAnon 2 жыл бұрын

They also turned it from a 0 point trait to a 1 point

@Jenna_Talia 2 жыл бұрын

@@NumbingDisasterAnon the point change does annoy me a fair bit. There's plenty of other bonus traits like lithoid and necroid that cost nothing.

@NumbingDisasterAnon 2 жыл бұрын

@@Jenna_Talia I would find it understandable if they kept the hull strength bonus to make it a 1 point, but without? It’s just a habitability trait that also unlocks some special mechanics

@gabrielcamargo3010 2 жыл бұрын

Me, watching this video seconds after buying the dlc: Interesting

@notoriousgoblin83 2 жыл бұрын

Swolefin: the bisexuality awakening of at least one gamer

@Haan22 2 жыл бұрын

*Confused doki-doki intensifies*

@gusfring8451 Жыл бұрын

-rep

@MrPassive0ne 2 жыл бұрын

I was looking at swolfin for research purposes only.

@donatedorb4094 2 жыл бұрын

First! Also that sea shanty in the opening was great!

@purpledevilr7463 2 жыл бұрын

I bought aquatics literally as it released. I have everything else, I must have them all.

@DIN0911- 2 жыл бұрын

Can relate.

@DurzoBlunts 2 жыл бұрын

Honestly I'll buy it just for the artists efforts into this. It really is some of the best content imo artistically that's been added.

@magnithorsson2154 2 жыл бұрын

Adolphin Gustafish will reform the Swordfish Empire

@adhdoug925 2 жыл бұрын

Very much looking forward to that overview on Here Be Dragons

@jaybee8862 2 жыл бұрын

I might actually try going Spiritualists for once lol... Psionic dolphins is something I kinda wanna try

@christiandaniell6835 2 жыл бұрын

That’s my current playthrough! It’s good fun 🤣🤣

@JacopoSkydweller 2 жыл бұрын

Scionics aren't the strongest but damn, more fun for me than Robotic Ascension or Super Organic mega troopers by a fair margin.

@Delphineas Жыл бұрын

Oh hi Liir! Waiting for 3.6 revamp to ascensions before I retry my ocean paradise.

@put1996 2 жыл бұрын

The song in the intro is a remix of the song [Fish in the Sea] from Assassin Creed 4 black flag. I motion this to be made a full song! All praise Paradox, the madlad did it! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pah8bMeF3LzNZH0.html

@mr.omitted7774 2 жыл бұрын

Please do that was amazing!

@nedaronnax6193 2 жыл бұрын

I can't resist creating a desert thrallworld for the dolphins

@LoicJ29 2 жыл бұрын

Watching this video even though I've already bought the DLC : classic

@theautisticveteran2466 2 жыл бұрын

@ASpec... Where can I find that rendition of "Fish in the Sea"?

@blacksnow7106 2 жыл бұрын

upvote to hopefully get the answer

@Plastikdoom 2 жыл бұрын

When I make my first aquatics empire, definitely picking swolphin…and naming my leader…dolph lundgren…yes! And the motto/advertising for this, shoulda been, “it’ll get you wet”! Or at least for the colossus. Haha

@molybdaen11 2 жыл бұрын

This will be the first politician to hold his promises - since they are on a ocean world already :)

@JacopoSkydweller 2 жыл бұрын

10/10 This will make waves for sure.

@bibby659 2 жыл бұрын

The song sounds like the ones that made the really catchy one from Warframe ages ago when the first open world area was released. They are a really nice group that really know how to make good songs like this.

@MegaOgrady 2 жыл бұрын

The dolphin singlehandedly made me a furry and homosexual in one go. Amazing

@snarkymoosesshack8793 2 жыл бұрын

It physically hurts to laugh this hard.

@chrisdutoit4526 2 жыл бұрын

I was rewatching this video in the background and the way you said SMUT? just broke me lol

@user-hu6ut9gx8j 2 жыл бұрын

“Tree water thing” that’s called coral, aspec.

@clausbohm9807 2 жыл бұрын

Great intro! I like "tree water thing" ... ha ha ha!

@kotzpenner 2 жыл бұрын

Really like it so far, amazing portraits, sounds and ideas for gameplay!

@ravager2-636 2 жыл бұрын

Wow a Galactic Sea shanty & Pirate advisor voice I wasn’t expecting that.. 😂

@bluephoenix3986 2 жыл бұрын

Nice intro song! It would make a nice sea or space shanty.

@levilewis6622 Жыл бұрын

That interruption was perfect!

@kokaomf 2 жыл бұрын

The colossus is easily fixed: just add more tentacles and a visual like a swimming squid or octopus with the tentacles waving a little.

@foxmcqwerty608 2 жыл бұрын

i am going to say it right now. the second i saw the anglers civic i knew catalytic processing was going to synergize with it.

@A_Spec 2 жыл бұрын

Catalytic Processing synergises with anything economy related.

@phoenixdblack 2 жыл бұрын

"Oh no he's HOOOOT" - Squidward about the Dolphin

@Tobascodagama 2 жыл бұрын

It seems that Pearl Divers consume Minerals. They take 2 Food and 2 Minerals to produce 3 CGs and 2 Trade Value, compared with 6 Minerals for 6 CGs for standard Artisans.

@fumarc4501 2 жыл бұрын

The announcement posted had that liquid filled robot body looking portrait, but I didn’t see it in the ones displayed in game. Is that an alt outfit for one of them?

@davecrupel2817 2 жыл бұрын

Holy shnikes that intro!!!!

@Misterkus____ 2 жыл бұрын

Thsnkue pardadox ,i love runtime errors,

@1bulak 2 жыл бұрын

Im absolutely in love with the island paradise concept, it actually give you teeth to build tall on a single planet. I cant wait to try it out

@queenbrightwingthe3890 2 жыл бұрын

It should be notist that aquatic trait now has one point up from 0 to balance it out.

@PillBoxUK 2 жыл бұрын

Not played in some time. This is the only DLC I do not have. Considering getting it and trying again. Pretty much forgot how to play so will have to check out your tutorial videos.

@plurk7397 2 жыл бұрын

aah the intro music makes my inner Michiel de ruyter wake up

@A_Spec 2 жыл бұрын

Gekoloniseerd?

@Scandic45 2 жыл бұрын

It's currently on sale In Europe for 20% , as well as most expansions and the main game. I Created cyberneticly modifed species of cetacean ops. preety greaat so far

@kajvajkaji6642 2 жыл бұрын

I know I'm month late, but is there any chance you could tell me how you opened the specie portrait file? I assume you used GIMP from the looks, but it doesn't work in mine by default.

@redwings0142 2 жыл бұрын

You had me the moment the robo pirate started singing his space shanty.

@GeoTexans 2 жыл бұрын

I love your content!!

@A_Spec 2 жыл бұрын

I do to

@warrenjehosephat231 2 жыл бұрын

Gonna be real. I thought arctic worlds were essentially frozen ocean worlds and there was liquid water under the ice. If that were true they really should at least have the neutrality afforded continental and tropical. Hell, I thought tropical was basically a wet world where it is mostly land. Lots of rivers, swamps and lakes. That would benefit an aquatic specie more than a desert, sure, but here we go shaking my perception of things.

@Realripper 2 жыл бұрын

Aquatic civic costs 1 point in the current live version it ain't free anymore it's also locked to either aquatic paradise origin or just ocean world i didn't check it out enough i just noticed 1 point and not removable

@eduardomattosalves4940 2 жыл бұрын

The ships are beutifull! I will wait until christimas to buy it along with other xpacs that i still dont have, hope will be 50% off or more

@subjectdelta7210 2 жыл бұрын

Auto play+ me vibing to the music+ aspec starts to talk= no! That awesome song

@kyotocrossley8103 2 жыл бұрын

What was that song in the intro it was fantastic

@ElJorro 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent Analysis

@michaelkennedy1212 2 жыл бұрын

Silly question but how do you get access to ship designer with all designs/species sets? I'd love to look through at all the designs in engine

@krzysztofmikosz 2 жыл бұрын

wait, wait wait! Does this deluge Colossus weapon work on all planets or just habitable ones? Does it mean that you chan insta - terraform Barren / Molten / Frozen planets into Ocean??

@turkeyallalong9850 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know, but I'm of the opinion that if you deluge a molten world it takes twice as long and generates a nebula in the system. You know, for making a sauna on a stellar system scale. 😆

@HateMachinist 2 жыл бұрын

I bought it as I saw you upload this vid. And I'd buy it regardless of verdict. Because I like stellaris and want Paradox to keep its work alive.

@HateMachinist 2 жыл бұрын

@Acolyte of Dagon Yeah. Some people think pay-2-win will be the unhealthy future of games. I think it will be making games as platforms, then steadily release expansions and content to them.

@HateMachinist 2 жыл бұрын

@Acolyte of Dagon It's good. The novelty of having some new stuff is good by default after 1K hrs played, which probably makes me biased, but it's not expensive. The price is in my case justified by the hrs played many times over, even if I don't play aquatic empires too often. I wouldn't say it is "necessary" like utopia, apocalypse and synthetic dawn expansions which I can't play without anymore, but still brings something new to the table like Necroids. I do love how it is integrated with apocalypse for makeshift aquatic-terraforming though.

@gavinjohnson3757 Жыл бұрын

What was the song in the beginning it sounds neat

@albusvoltavern4500 2 жыл бұрын

lithoid aquatic necrophage hive mind when?

@A_Spec 2 жыл бұрын

Totally possible too

@godouroboros8047 2 жыл бұрын

You read my mind.

@sirkilium8549 2 жыл бұрын

You could also do planetoid traits instead of Lithoid so it could have phototropic & budding

@maxrander0101 2 жыл бұрын

on another note i love these sort of games and Stellaris does it well yes people new to these sort of games will find it hard with how the things work and have trouble min maxing things but all the dlcs are worth it as they add many new things to the game and when combined with the right mods the game is so much fun that i have never not wanted it on my computer

@madjack5593 2 жыл бұрын

The dolphin smut comment got me 😂

@Woodlerx 2 жыл бұрын

ASpec, did you manage Ecumenopolis with your aquatic playthrough? Will it synergy with traits you mention in the video? At the end Ecu is not aquatic world..

@A_Spec 2 жыл бұрын

The traits are for base resources, and ecu's don't generate those

@Woodlerx 2 жыл бұрын

@@A_Spec ok thank you for the answer. I assume Ecu will have (habitability) penalties due to not being ocean world. But I might be wrong, I not played several months.

@chrisburlingham1024 2 жыл бұрын

Would aquatic work with gaia world's? If it works on those worlds then if u get Nu Baol life seeding as a relic this could be very power as it would make expanding much easier just look for big worlds ever 3600 days just got it in my most recent playthrough and it's amazing

@memebigboy3542 2 жыл бұрын

Okay so that Colossus design is amazing I've always wanted like a reaper from mass effect type looking ship and that is close enough

@machionrender6409 2 жыл бұрын

That dolphin is swol with big brain intelligence glad I got mine and love intro video that paradox interactive made theme song inspiring

@rainer8137 2 жыл бұрын

Yo what’s the shanty in the intro? It kinda slaps.

@virtus12ful 2 жыл бұрын

Aquatics needs a mod with a portrait for Captain Planet

@Techburn997 2 жыл бұрын

With an option for Don Cheadle version of Captain Planet :D

@blackmib 2 жыл бұрын

i just needa know about the dragon hatchery

@Regunes 2 жыл бұрын

No i do not have that song stuck in my head since yesterday, you do

@brandondanforth8342 2 жыл бұрын

Wow last time I was this early... Well let's just say I was on console and was hyped for megacorps... Should I get it? Idk I can't watch the video yet, I'm about to head off to work. Will I get it? You God damn right I will.

@robertfarr9186 2 жыл бұрын

Is the “tree thing” actually coral?

@whimsicalcellbooster 2 жыл бұрын

The Trailershanty is epic 😁

@J.Moore1172 2 жыл бұрын

sea shanties in the trailer? im sold already

@FARBerserker 2 жыл бұрын

can you do necro fish and take control over your dragon or revive it when it has been killed?

@letsplaysvonaja1714 2 жыл бұрын

I think you have to personally kill it to raise it? In which case it would be more efficient to just keep it alive and befriend it

@RealCodreX 2 жыл бұрын

I see your a man of culture aswell.

@Jacob-pu4zj 2 жыл бұрын

6:58 the _slightly_ less well-known spaghetti Western...

@quazarKiragon 2 жыл бұрын

when i look at the ships and structures i think "this is avian...but better" although i would love to see a mod where if you had the dragon and this dragon could get together, you can sacrifice a world to them which will remove them from the field but allows you to start your own dragon breeding program

@Kaimuund 2 жыл бұрын

Have I got news for you! You can breed dragons now

@blackspiders741 2 жыл бұрын

Anglers says uncapped, but it still takes slots and cots slots for making them??.. also the aquatic slot cost -1 point when I made an aquatic empire...

@MrMarinus18 2 жыл бұрын

The biggest thing I would like to see them expand on though remains diplomacy. Maybe introduce something that makes the galactic community try to maintain a balance of power. That if you grow too strong they will all team up to cut you down to size. That would make diplomacy relevant later on cause you would need to maintain relationships with the strongest members at all times.