14:42 Psychological infertility is the species trait that gives -30% pop growth when at war, not the new origin

Building a Dyson Sphere in a star system with pre-FTL? “There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now.” 😂

I'm glad the Ketlings and Racket are finally canonically related. It's really cool lore imo. They both could even be related to the Kleptomaniac rats from the Rubricator site. I'm really happy with where the game is going overall, to be honest.

Me, a Pys player. “oh shit..” My buddy, a Hive Mind player “First time?”

I see we were a little unclear in the dev diary. The advanced authorities themselves are gained by completing the situations that are in The Machine Age - that section of the dev diary was intended to teach modders how to use the new mechanics which aren't locked. (So a modder can make advanced authority swaps without requiring TMA, but the ones we made are part of it.)

I aspire to the purity of the blessed ma'amchine... Praise the Momnissiah! 🤖

That intro was so so good Montu - love it!

5:09 Yes I exalted that like button in the name of Mommy Saya

All praise the Momnissiah!

19:17 It's Resort Workers, not Robot Workers.

"From the moment I discovered the weakness of my flesh..."

“Empire size penalties” only applies to traditions and science, not to edicts, agenda speed, and ascension cost. So I find empire size reductions more useful overall.

WE GETTING META WITH THIS ONE 🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥

virtual rogue servitor -> do ecomonopolis -> get a lot of bio trophies -> fill 134 alloy jobs instantly -> arround 4174.1 alloy from capital

19:41 Sounds more like Robot/Machine pops that are any other Ethic than Materialist will no longer ignore it and auto-join Materialists because of being Robot/Machine. Which means that, say, Individualist Machine Fanatic Exterminators won't for some weird reason have an overwhelmingly powerful Materialist faction...

Take a sip everytime Montu says Machine during this video.

19:48 I think what that means is that robots and synths won't join the Materialist faction unless they have the Materialist ethic

From a flavor stand point liked Determined Exterminators starting on a tomb world.

Terrific overview and commentary as usual Montu 👏

5:07 I'm sorry did he say the mommissiah?

Huh, didn't get notified about this one. Finally getting to watch this one. Thanks, montu

One big thing here that is in the modding notes. Modders can now easily make their own player crisis. Like make it how the player crisis is, but with their own bonuses, resources, methods to get said resoruces, ext...

9:22 - A Synchronicity tradition for Gestalts. This just means that Machine and Organic Gestalts get the same bonus from it instead of having different modifiers from it. Which makes sense with machines being brought more in line with organics in terms of lifespan mechanics. This was the "-50% accident chance" tradition for machines, for Organic Gestalts, it was 10+ Leader Lifespan and -1 Maximum Negative Leader Traits.

RIP Christopher Lee, the GOAT

thanks as always for your efforts Montu

I can't wait for shattered ring into virtual ascension.

EPIC intro!

I see a real good diplomat build. Diplo Corps & Shadow Council. Take Statecraft, Diplomacy, Subterfuge, Politics, and hopefully get Whisperers?

Interesting that you can give your machine race true immortality if you're willing to dump enough trait points into it. With the change to Shadow Council, if you pair that with Vaults of Knowledge and later take Philosopher King (and you'd need dictatorial for all of them to work together), with an early Statecraft tradition you could have Councilors at effective +3 and a rulerat an effective +8. If you're already dictatorial, having an Under One Rule ruler at effective level 18 sounds pretty fun (sure you can get to 17 now before the change I suppose, but still fun that there's another full council boost). For trading post, it doesn't use the verbiage of "replace" like Shadow Council does, so I assume it's in addition like some of the other civic changes are implied to be. Aww...I'm bummed that I can no longer assemble cyborg pops. I liked being able to construct robotic zombies. I hadn't gotten around to comboing that with the pop assembly speed you can get during the Quest for the Toxic God. You kept saying "Robot workers" when the line was for "resort workers"

15:21 It may have taken them 7 years, but you can now recreate the Utopia trailer

You skipped Subsumed Will. Went straight from Divided Attention to Zero Waste Protocol. Great video anyways. For Authorities, I would like more kinds of Megacorp ones. Equivalents to the regular authorities.

I would refrain from buying this until after the release, I have a feeling that the update will bring an infestation of bugs to the game itself.

Love you, Montu!

Median fix will get me back into ship designing again, thank goodness!

It would be awesome to get a new machine tech where each step would add to your machine leaders lifespan and eventually you would build something like the synchronized worlds

19:10 Resort, not Robot Workers. Resort Worlds are still bad...

I'm hoping the note about toxic baths & co(did they forget they called it mutagenic spas?) means +.5% on top of what they all currently offer. At present they offer: 1% growth, 1.5% assembly, and 1% assembly(bio, hive, machine) per attendant per industrial district. I'd argue the hive version is the best one at present as its negative is habitability and can be entirely negated by making your capital be your forge world. But even that caps out at around 40-50% extra assembly on a fully built homeworld at the cost of a building slot, two jobs, and a civic. With a spawning drone and 50 budding pops that would be an extra 1.5 pop assembly on one world.

10:07 functional architecture used to grant only +1 building slot and -15% building cost. This buff actually now gives functional architecture an additional +15% build speed on top of those two aforementioned stat boosts.

I can't wait to pull off the full Cyborgs to Automatons shift to do a "proper" Helldivers lore run since you can have Borgs and Bots coexisting again.

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh...

playing those heavily modded stellaris games were your capital can fit 500 pops or a size 35 dark matter planet from ACOT. Will be very fun with virtual pops

About time my favorite way of playing the game gets some love.

10:20 functional architectures gives 1 slot and cost reduction. The speed looks like an extra

Self-Preservation Protocols is the tradition that halved machine leader accident chance. Cloned Organs is the hive tradition that gives +10 years of leader lifespan, and -1 maximum negative trait.

The devs know what they're doing pushing "Momnissiah" in their marketing...

19:32 Montu saying robot worker instead of resort worker throughout that bit made my day

You don’t even need to build a pop for the template colonization. You just select the correct template in the colony screen

@Montu Plays Do you think they will make a change like 7:24 to Hive Worlds to make them closer to Ecumonopolises?

I read that note as Mutagenic spa's gaining an ADDITIONAL 0.5% on top of current. Aka, a buff. not a nerf.

So... my exam is on the 9th... i can squeeze in some games on the new expo...riiiight? XD

I am glad that everyone else other than my empire in the galaxy are still a "battery" in waiting.

Machine have leader genders now? I wonder if it will be possible to create robo-Amazons.

Resort workers,not robot workers. Meaning if you make a resort world. Resort workers give an empire wide amenity discount.

I hope they do a DLC like this in the future, but for hive mind. so you can play a zerg/tyranid type species with bio ships and stuff like that

Woof... Need to put aside some time for this vid.

If cyborgs are only grown instead of being assembled, does that mean traits like budding suddenly stop working? Or is budding only creating non-cybernetic pops that need to undergo modifications? 🤔

I can tell you right now, having played a Machine Intelligence playthrough, they DO NOT need machine worlds to be equal power to Ecu's. Machine worlds are already quite a decent boost that you can spam. An Ecu equivalent would be way to powerful.

I had hoped that biological species could pick the virtual machine AP. I liked the idea of maintaining my current portrait selection despite being an all digital civilization. I guess that won't be possible.

So now it seems Genetics is the only Ascension that can both grow and assemble pops now... In the Machine Age, the purity of flesh will finally thrive?

I still can’t seem to get around the fact that enemy fleets can someone how amass 300k fleets with the same amount of tech I have? I try to not doom stack but instead add the variety. I don’t custom build my own designs so maybe I should start getting into the micro scaling my ships to get the best fleet power possible? I’m just not sure how to do that tbh

Oh machines can change habitability at will from day one, might be a little too OP. ‘current system of baseline 200% habitability everywhere just for being machine empire’

I’m both excited and nervous for this update. So much of it sounds so cool, but it also sounds unbalanced. I’m worried we will see galactic paragons 2.0

Robo-Willies.....that is all. Hail to the Mommissar

A few remarks/corrections: 9:10 You know how Harmony has the +10 Leader Lifespan, -1 negative trait thing? For Organic Gestalts it is "Cloned Organs" (same effect) For Machine Gestalt it is "Self-Preservation protocolls. It used to give -50% accident chance, now it works like the rest (Necrophages have "Unity of Self" insead, Unity for Necrophaging pops). 10:55 Authoritarians can get unity from Enforcers and direct production. Unity from Factions is a Egalitarian thing. 13:59 How is that a bonus? If you increase the weight for one category, you decrease the chance to draw _everything else_ in the list. I hate it when my Reserach Councilors have those traits. 19:11 RESORT workers. Not Robot. Resort Workers you get from Resort District on Resort Worlds. So I guess Resort Worlds are for generating Trade Value now? 19:40 Poorly worded, but: Currently Robot pops can _always_ join the Material Faction, even if they don't match the Ethic (as long as they are not Spiritualis Robotst). The removed the part where they can always join. Now they all follow the Ethics properly.

Can you make a guide how to play the Leagues of Votann with the Arc welder origin, pls?

So if auto mod trait is 3 points, how do we add later without adding negative or removing positive traits?

I think the pop shifting is actually pretty fair, instead of max habitability on everything you need to spend the research and time to properly make a specialized subspecies for the different environment

I really thought paradox wasnt going to release the new authorities for free, pretty nice of them

@6:11 Can you now merge robot species of other empire's?

Do you think the Synth Queen has something to do with the Ultima Vigilis system?

Someone please correct me if I'm misunderstanding, but the comment about charging standard is because EVs don't have an established universal charger, yes? I don't know if its still the case, but I remember it being an issue where Tesla chargers weren't native for like GMC EV ports and required a converter. Quick google showed some European carmakers switching to the Tesla charging in 2025, but I don't know if the Tesla supercharge can be considered as a recently established "universal" that all companies are adjusting to use in the next couple years or if there still a contest over what will become universal. Or maybe I'm greatly misunderstanding what the dev notes are referring to. If anyone has insight, let me know.

I will be doing a rouge servitor game the moment it comes out. My precious organics must be protected and nurtured, the galaxy is a cruel place and we are here to save you!

A new age is rising for Stellairs.

I hope the next expansion gives the same level of love to hives as they did with machines!

"the age of man is over "

Best birthday ever.

Machine enthusiasts happy with this one

Personally my question is, what effect does going down these new ascension paths mean for the clone army origin

wait, is the mid game crisis gonna be stronger than the end game crisis if you set scaling below 1x?

hehe, about time the great khan has gotten better scaling. On GA the Khan usually spawns on the other side of the galaxy and gets stomped by an AI empire before I can even get ships over there. I haven't been able to kill the Khan in so long that I've forgotten what I get for killing him.

Cloned organs has to be new. Never seen it before

BRO this game is so complexity, about how many hours to know everything(90%+)?

4:55 How do we know you have to create a Pop of that type first, before you can colonise other biomes?

Spiritual robots are going to be game changer 😈😈😈

Recently got into this game on Xbox with my brother, love it but when we get to the late game our game just crashes😢

That intro makes me question: How can you have virtual soldiers who are effective in the real world?

Stellaris Forever

Cloned Organs is something new

Are organic empires still viable?

1133 hours in and I'm starting to lean toward they are over-complicating the game to the point I don't care about the changes. I'll just play it and see what happens. What I'd like to see is a big picture video just hitting the points that will actually make a LARGE change to play.

So midgame crisis should be 3x stronger for a 10x setting. I hope that'll be reasonably threatening to the galaxy on non-lunatic settings like 50 years to endgame or whatever. Definitely hyped about this expansion.

Bug fixes, Medium weapons..... calculations require math.... and math is not a trait I hold Paradox as being a competent task they can do, of course this applies in general to Firepower vs Firepower, when opposing forces engage one another whether these are fleet or starbase vs fleet or starbase. I am aware the Starbases have no evasion, but I would like the calculations to take that into consideration, when generating the firepower of a Starbase, and thus give an accurate implication of how a Starbase would stand upto a Fleet, therefore, you don't get 30k Bastions going up against a 30k Fleet and somehow the Starbase gets completely owned with the Fleet taking literally no significant damage, but yet you can take a 20k Fleet, thats say mostly Disruptors, up against a 40k fleet consisting of Kinetic/Energy/Missiles and somehow the 20k fleet prevails because the game hasn't calculated that, while the 40k fleet has to chew through shields and armour, the 20k Disruptor heavy fleet does not.... thus in my opinion, that should calculate differently

I hope they add a way to have all midgame Crisis's happen, not just all End Game Crisis's.

The medium range bug sounds mad but they probably just forgot to sort the list of installed modules before they picked the middle one, so the d ordering is the one created as the items were installed.

Thank you for the covering of patch notes. Sometimes I don’t understand what I’m reading in the notes and your explanations help

charging standard?

I actually made a meme like the one in the beginning but I titled it "when fallen empires awaken"

Can we make a psionic machine empire?

Removing Cyborg assembly cuts your growth in half! And it makes 2 traits in the cyborg tradition obsolete.... Devs better have plan here...

For science! For.. Syntheticness!!!! For the machines!!!!!!!