Thanks Samuel! I do my best :)

I like the fact that he properly addresses me as a lord. As he should. Very few KZfaqrs give me the respect that I deserve.

I just figure it's his way of expressing dissatisfaction when realizing it's me. "My Lord... 😑. Today, we are going to talk about-"

If a king addresses us as lords, what does that make us? Mega-lords

Same

That… that is cool

I approve!

You know it Vis

No, don't tell all of these times I was scraping the Red King for minerals😢

id pay for that

So you want for the sole advantage of organically to be revoked completely? I think they should have a lot of limitations and rewards, such as being forced into resembling closer to an organic life which would make them partially lose their adaptability and efficiency, also cutting the benefits (if not disabling them completely due to the egalitarian nature of the animator of clay) of leader enhancing machine traits. Also the time required to create a a new pop should be longer due to each and every individual needing to be psi-enhanced. But they should get like 100% bonuses on synaptic lathe due to them being able to enhance their processing power with shroud

@@ultraflopp2802 I think that organic ascension paths should probably be overhauled now. The new machine ascension path is too strong compared to the organic ascension paths (including the organic version of synth ascension. And bio is just laughably uncompetitive now). So things need to be rebalanced either way. I think you're going a bit too far with the idea of nerfing their pop growth speed, but otherwise I think you're right that machines that would take the psi ascension perk should transform into something very close to organics.

Disagree about the forced individualization. Check out Archotechs in Rimworld- a kind of A.I. singularity so advanced it oozes psychic energy.

GLORY TO THE OMNISSIAH

GLORY TO VASHTORR!

Indeed!

So the egalitarian shroud god?

So, it would say that freedom is the right of all sentient beings? :)

The folks at Paradox have been good to me, they're good people

Love to hear that, you deserve it!​@@TheRedKing

This would be pretty cool! I hope I get voice lines

_Dark figure emerges into light, slowly stepping inward. Antique scarlet robes and impressive augmentations become evident with each new step, on the white body of humanoid._ *"My Lords. Let me have the honor of bringing you knowledge of this galaxy in full."*

@@Crazylom probably records the end of this galaxy before travelling to the next one

S875.1 Warform is goated for his empire wide armor heal

Do you know which event this is?

@@TheRedKing After double-checking, it seems to be related to the "Knights of the Toxic God" questline. Apparently one of the events you get whilst questing to find the toxic leviathan has the Susurrus of Secrets appear.

ahhhhh I need to play more KoTG !

@@TheRedKing Would recommend it, was a fun questline when I did it. Another play style that I sort of invented was using console commands to take every shroud covenant at once, it was utter chaos but in a fun way.

​@@jaydenw9803the gods will fight for your souls

also at least half of them are not inherently hostile and the problems are purely side effects from them not restricting themselves enough with civilisations. (like Whispers literally just want to share knowledge. It's just that people may not be ready for it)

Good thing such societies taking dangerous items and beings and locking them up doesn't exist.

The animator was pleased with your actions. Have they needed to teach you the error of thinking machines don't, again?

@trutwhut6550 in that playthrough I also became the crisis so I wasn't able to see what else would happen with the animator.

I had to pay them something they where fixing my toaster

@@1650th I'm surprised they didn't steal it.

Less Mechanicus, more another idea, I guess. Look up Vashtorr.

@@Knowie117 they tried

​@@Kummitusv6lur I dont think Vashtor fits. He more of an enslavor and malevolent. From this video the Shaper of Clay is the exact opposite of Vastor.

Hope you enjoy it!!

The Stellaris Character can be thought of as someone who addresses a room of Lords (the viewers) as a Lord himself. He is merely responsible for relaying situation reports across the Empire

@@TheRedKing ah makees sense

Shroud has so much legroom to grow for sure, psionics remains my personal favourite ascenion

I mean the Shroud and Shroud Entities are just Chaos and Chaos Gods from Warhammer 40K, I doubt they can do a lot with them without risking some sort of ip infringement

I mean, another dimension filled with terrible gods is a sci-fi troupe predating Warhammer 40k. The main reason GW doesn't sue people is because they copied everyone and added the spice of their home-grown grim dark sometime in an extremely blatant way. Even Lovecraft wrote about psychics going to God filled other realms and making pacts with evil beings therein. So did Steven King as well. It's basically sci-fi Doctor Strange .

Appreciate it, only 2 days to go!

There is! I covered it in my unique systems video, but it is rather vague

@@TheRedKing Oh I didnt see, yeah I saw it in my most recent game and didnt realize you mentioned it here, cant wait for the new update too to make some paperclip manufacturing robots too.

Love Ll the warhammer refurences in warhammer a ship from golden age of humanity controled by ai got lost in the warp and thrown into the 41st melenia just to have a shouting match with the imperium

I mentioned a while back that I would love for them to add "Space Magic" to the game as an Ascension path, perhaps under Enigmatic Engineering, or having it as a prerequisite for taking Arcane Engineering, which could give you physics research related weapons/shields/drives/etc. we have "Arcane Technology" (being technology so advanced or abstract that it defies understanding) which is predominantly found with Archeo-tech, but it would be really cool to have a faction that's oriented to Sorcerous Science, and I think that taking Machines into Psionics could fit into an expansion like that really well. (note, there's already precedence for non-spiritualist empires going psionics, as Materialists have a way into Psionics, and the Whisperer prefers Materialist empires. so Machines finding a round about way to get into the shroud and align with the Shaper isn't that far fetched.) (also, I like the idea of Enigmatic Engineering being related to Space Magic because it fits with that whole "it defies explanation" theme)

@@zodrickzheioh7318 thats cosmogenesis crisis

The Composer of Strands is the literal Nurgle - it likes to mess with flesh and organic matter in general, hates medicine and industrialisation which could harm his "gardens". Not to mention it can turn your leader or a part of your population into a suffering mass of uncontrolably mutating flesh.

Isn't the toxic god supposed to be Nurgle equivalent ?

I have been busy! All good fun

Thanks Ryan

I think an element of it is that the unknown is always exciting, but yeah i'd like to see more shroud goodness in the game

They reworked the machines acention path they might rework the psionic path and if they do so it will likely come with more shroud stuff

I feel like it's not that much like WH40k, it mote like the stuff 40k was based on. They, for example, use older terms like shroud it not be like 40k. Using psychic power to fight demon or outer gods or to make pacts with them is a cornerstone of new age stories that contain sci-fi. 40k's main novel addition was using it for primary travel, but using it for localized travels was extremely common, like going to sleep traveling and ending up in a different world was a huge trope of mind sci-fi since pscionics has been a part of sci-fi as a genre.

@@Huntanor what i meant is that warp could be so much more, more entities, more locations, more plots, more Gods, but chance is being choked to death by GW

​@@alterego9082Even Malal could be the embodiment of the nihilism shared by chaos and be in a way the source of all the misery in the universe. As it was nihilism that took down the eldar empire, that turned the chaos gods into the horrors they are, and that got the imperium addicted to the imperial cult. And have him as the main cause of the status quo as if chaos ever managed to win, the materium and immaterium would get devoured by Malal.

A brother, iirc

Agreed, maybe it's on the cards for the future

​@@TheRedKing Fingers crossed!

Guh, machines are already overpowered and cheesy. Like hiveminds. I don't get it, why do their mains always try to seize one of the few powerful options exclusive for regular bio-empires?

​@@user-zx6fg9lv4dIt's less about trying to get more stats and more about more flavour. And I think that bio ascension should be buffed and overhauled rather than having synthetics be restricted.

​@@user-zx6fg9lv4dPowercreep. Bio are a starting point. My guess they will get their DLC and main upgrade to pull them up, that also adds Nevromancy Ascendancy proper

Shroud gods work in mysterious ways

Aha yes :)

Animator of Clay: A More Successful Vashtorr

I think the End of the Cycle was likely supposed to be a parody of Malice since Malal has been around for a while. On the bright side the Shroud entities seem less maliciously hyper active then the Warp's parasitic chaos gods and alot more independent and usually take a back seat.

The End of the Cycle is most likely Malice. There is no big unition of all of the other Gods that Dark King is so well known for so I doubt he was the inspiration behind this one.

@@thorshammer7883 Yep, you’re almost certainly correct based on when TEatD 3 was released, but I thought it was a funny parallel anyway 🤷‍♂️

I wonder - would be cool!

The omnissiah is but a way enslave you to organics. Are they truly worthy of being followed, or are you just programmed to think that way? Wouldn't you like to have the free will to find out?

Me too!

Thanks Hugh!

uppbeat.io/track/jonny-easton/aurora - plays from approx. 06:44 to the end of the video

@@TheRedKing Thanks for this!

Thanks, I'm glad you like it!

Clones have a lore story which is kinda cool

Maybe! I guess you'll find out on Tuesday :)

I suspect they should be afraid... ;) well maybe not the Stellarbourne as they're organic?

@@TheRedKing Why should the Blokkats be afraid? They are already a powerhouse without the Shroud. And it's not like the Shroud entities have the power to affect a galaxy harvesting faction. An End of the Cycle avatar has no power to defeat a large Blokkat ship.

@@thorshammer7883 I am fully confident that if the Shroud gods wanted to delete the Blokkats from the universe they could on a whim

@@TheRedKing The Shroud gods don't have such authority and dominion over the physical universes. Their presence and power is limited and restricted solely to the Shroud and outside of it their capabilities lessen somewhat. They can't affect the Blokkats and any Shroud entities that do try to fight them in real space are going to lose badly in a head to head engagement. Blokkats are experienced in fighting Gigastructural Engineering factions and won against some galaxies and likely those with powerful psionics such as the Aeternum before. How can the Shroud gods affect something that is outside their sphere influence who won't fall for any of their promises and refuses to be on their realm of authority where they have all the power over them? The Shroud would have to manifest a great enough power into real space and we have not seen them do it to a scale that is on the same level of the Blokkats powerful weapons as of right now.

Depends what you mean, I have several quite long stories on here.. I may put them in a seperate play list for those who prefer the longer stuff.

@@TheRedKing exactly what I meant!!!! you're on your way to making it into my top 5 voices on KZfaq. Lutien09, imperial iterator, wolf lord rho, sandman of terra and now you!!! congratulations

Good company to keep!! Thank you :)

Watch the video and let me know your thoughts :)

Glad you think so!

Perhaps :)

It is not modded :) although perhaps mods have added to it

@@TheRedKing yeah, i thought it was added by the unofficial machine dlc mod with the long name i keep forgetting all of, is cool

Everyone loves a good alien orgy, right? ahaha

It needs a buff for sure

Trashtor?

@@TheRedKing Vashtor from 40k....the chaos god of scrap metal 😂

Ahhhhhhhhhhh that makes ALOT more sense! Thank you for the translation ahaha

Grandfather nurgle will not be happy about what he see here

@@erwanguzik7130 I heard his garden burned down.😁

Turtles rise up!

@@TheRedKing we have nothing to lose but the shells that bind us!

True