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Stellaris Dev Diary #246 - Announcing Overlord

Hi everyone!

A few weeks ago in Dev Diary 243, I told you that the Expansion Team would have something to share "Soon™".

Soon™ is now.


Overlord, the next major expansion to Stellaris, will be arriving alongside the Stellaris 3.4 “Cepheus” Update. Click here to wishlist.

The Brightest Star Must Guide Them​

Overlord’s thematic focus is on exerting your will across the galaxy, the projection of power, and the expansion of civilization under your glorious banner. The other galactic powers can choose to submit willingly or by force, but they will submit.

In Federations, we expanded diplomacy between equals with the federations themselves and the politics of the Galactic Community. Nemesis included more hostile forms of diplomacy with espionage operations, and some empires declaring themselves more equal than others with the Custodians and the Galactic Imperium.

In Overlord, we will explore diplomacy between empires that are explicitly not equal.

New Ways to Rule​

Vassalization mechanics will undergo significant changes.

A major goal in this revision was to make subjugation a more valuable and viable system with benefits for both sides, rather than being a delayed “Game Over” as you wait for Integration should you be subjugated.

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We’ll go into detail about the changes in how vassalization contracts will work next week, along with how contract negotiations function between Overlord and Subject.

Later, we’ll describe the three Specialist Vassals and their place in the galaxy, as well as Overlord Holdings.

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New Beginnings and Friends​

Five new Origins will arrive in Overlord (including one for Hive Empires).

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We’ll also have some new Enclaves for you to encounter.

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All Roads Lead to Deneb IIb​

Governing a galaxy spanning empire is challenging, and threats can come from any direction. If you cannot take and defend what is rightfully yours, was it ever yours to begin with?

A new megastructure will allow you to counter such threats as well as help you take what you deserve.

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Other new constructions will allow you to elevate civilization to new heights...

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...and exert your influence to build a network tying the galaxy together, with your capital as the center, of course.

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Realize Your Grand Design​

Will you be a benevolent Overlord that brings prosperity to the galaxy, or an oppressive tyrant exploiting your vassals? Or will you instead serve and become part of something greater?

The choice is yours.

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Lorenerd11 said:
It was? What's the other one?
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"or there is something, something so vast as to eclipse an entire galaxy, blocking it's light from reaching us." implying that the Hunter armada is so stupendously enormous, that it's causing an eclipse effect as it approaches.

In order for something like that to be possible, the mass would need to be much closer to our galaxy, then it is to the one they left.

Some folks on these forums consider this possibility beyond ridiculous and dismiss it out of hand...but honestly people, an machine that triggers billions of stars to go Supernova across a galaxy at the same exact moment, is far more ridiculous of an idea.

It's also worth noting, that if your civilization was able to see the galaxy in their early days, and it's 30 million light years away. Even if all the stars went Nova from the engine, you wouldn't see that for 30 million years.
 
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TheRevanchist25 said:
"or there is something, something so vast as to eclipse an entire galaxy, blocking it's light from reaching us." implying that the Hunter armada is so stupendously enormous, that it's causing an eclipse effect as it approaches.
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I mean, we still don't have any evidence of an object so massive it could block the light of an entire galaxy (even a massive intergalactic armada would allow some light to pass through), whereas we do now have evidence of an entire galaxy going out all at once, and the exact phrase "Hole in the Void" seems to point towards the latter.
 
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Tim_Ward said:
Is office politics is so bad at Paradox that the Stellaris team is now stealing expansion names from the HoI4 team? What's next, Stellaris: Barbarossa?
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Yes, because "Overlord" is a word invented specifically for World War II, and has absolutely no other uses outside of it.

EDIT: The person below me was rolling their eyes in agreement. They were one of the Likes.
 
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I think there will also be institutions in the next dlc (I think they mentioned it). Institutions could bring internal politics.
 
I have this weird feeling about this expansion. I'm not saying it looks bad, the things it introduces are very interesting... but they are very few. There seems to be a huge lack of information regarding what specific content the expansion is going to have. Maybe that's what makes me think "this really should be an expansion and not a minor dlc or even a free update? As I said, perhaps this is due to a lack of information. In any case, I think Paradox is not doing a very good job of advertising this product.
 
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I wonder if the Galactic Emperor will also get some new toys to play with. Currently there's not much difference between a Custodian and the Emperor.

To be blunt: I want galactic taxation and the ability to hold hour-long speeches that everyone is forced to listen to.
 
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Tim_Ward said:
What's next, Stellaris: Barbarossa?
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Facial hair DLC confirmed!

Silens said:
the ability to hold hour-long speeches that everyone is forced to listen to.
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You monster.

I suppose you could implement a sort of "unity tax" where the Emperor's unity is boosted at the expense of everyone else's, which might be explained as either favoritism by the Vast Galactic Bureaucracy (tm) or an enforced cultural hegemony by the Emperor. Or forcing your bored subjects to listen to extremely long speeches about your glory.
 
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Minuro said:
I have this weird feeling about this expansion. I'm not saying it looks bad, the things it introduces are very interesting... but they are very few. There seems to be a huge lack of information regarding what specific content the expansion is going to have. Maybe that's what makes me think "this really should be an expansion and not a minor dlc or even a free update? As I said, perhaps this is due to a lack of information. In any case, I think Paradox is not doing a very good job of advertising this product.
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what? they've just announced it!
 
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Jamaican Castle said:
I suppose you could implement a sort of "unity tax" where the Emperor's unity is boosted at the expense of everyone else's, which might be explained as either favoritism by the Vast Galactic Bureaucracy (tm) or an enforced cultural hegemony by the Emperor. Or forcing your bored subjects to listen to extremely long speeches about your glory.
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I was thinking along the lines of a special resolution, which gives every non-emperor member a modifier for 5 years. You can choose the type of resolution: energy, minerals, food, alloys or unity. Everyone who isn't the emperor get's a -5% to the chosen resource, the value of those 5% is stored on a monthly basis and added up in a single variable.

The Emperor then gets the value of the variable as additional income for the duration of the tax resolution (and a penalty to opinion, but Overlord is about relations on non-equal terms, so the Emperor shouldn't care).

The speech could also be a special repeatable resolution: everyone gets unity and stability, and a 1% chance to get a negative trait for their president/king/leader.
 
prismaticmarcus said:
what? they've just announced it!
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Alfray Stryke said:
That might be because we've just announced it and haven't had time to do the follow up dev diaries? Give us a couple of weeks :)
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Ok, relax. I'm just saying. How could I have hype for something that is barely explained? It just seems to me that, compared to other expansions, the cover letter of this one seems a bit ambiguous.
You say that the announcement just came out, so you know that there is very little information, that's basically what I'm saying. Until we know more, there's little point in getting defensive (I say this because of the "respectfully disagree" bombardment I've received).
 
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Will we be able to subjugate Fallen/Awakened Empires & Genocidals again ? I want to keep a Devouring Swarm as a glorified attack dog.
 
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Lorenerd11 said:
I mean, we still don't have any evidence of an object so massive it could block the light of an entire galaxy (even a massive intergalactic armada would allow some light to pass through), whereas we do now have evidence of an entire galaxy going out all at once, and the exact phrase "Hole in the Void" seems to point towards the latter.
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Hole in the Void, is what the Scourge Queen said to describe the lack of light. Their not exactly articulate in the normal way, as you've noticed. However it's worth reminding, again, it's 30 million light years away, and your scientists saw the galaxy in their earlier history. It's a safe bet 30 million years have not passed since they last noticed it. You remember ancient Persia threatening to block the sun with Arrows? Historians predict they could fire like a million arrows in almost an hour, because that's what Persia focused on. Remember from our perspective, that galaxy is just a tiny little light dot in the distance. A hilarious fuckton of ships COULD block it from view.
 
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