Stellaris Dev Diary #263 - Announcing Toxoids

[jaketoms16]

Will the paradox store exist again by the time this is released?

 

[Silesian Burd]

Since this seemingly adds the birth of Nurgle, will it add a quest for an air fryer?

Gosh, I'm hungry.

 

[Garfazz Steamfang]

I doubt it. But it'd be cool if Toxoids can pull something valuable from Toxic Worlds similar in nature to how Aquatics can grab stuff from Ice Worlds, eventually turning them into Barren worlds.

Seems like they can according to the banter. Honestly it would be very odd and blank if they can't. All those portraits just scream hostile and toxic environment. I suppose that the colossus can make normal planets toxic and i hope that they will be a terraforming tech for other species to be able to terraform toxic world, making the toxic worlds of toxicoids a bit more catching eyes for regular empires.

 

[Veras]

hmmm interesting.

Though, this will probably be the first species pack I won't purchase. I don't think it's badly done, and the origins/civics sound fun. The ships and buildings also look great.
But the designs are a bit too repulsive/disgusting for me (as in purposefully ugly, not bad designs) I mean the second portrait in the steam screenshot that shows all the portraits looks like it's straight out of W40k. Ew....

Though glad for everyone who likes them.

I find it interesting that although the portraits don't look bad, they kinda don't fit that well within the Stellaris' aesthetics

 

[Atomcreator]

This looks awesome. Some good news

Surely they exist on toxic worlds.

 

[Spaceception]

I wonder how inhabiting toxic worlds will work. Like if it's what I thought and it leads to some sort of mild terraforming before you can inhabit it. Or if it's colonizable directly, which seems like it might cause problems, and why you can't inhabit terraforming candidate barren worlds. Maybe very limited pops/districts with higher upkeep?

 

[Getty]

Welp. I'm almost 100% gonna get this. If you can't tell from my profile picture, I love the ruthless industrialist trope, and having a DLC centered around it is pretty nice. I hope the DLC isn't too mechanically isolated from other game features, but I'll definitely enjoy playing around with this nevertheless.

 

[wisecat]

Will Toxoid worlds get defence bonuses against enemy invasions?
Invading a land of toxic sludge can't be much fun whether you are poisoned by it (as an organic Space Marine) or corroded by it (as a shiny metal soldier).

 

[Arcvalons]

Most interested in the assoicated Machine portrait.

 

[Dire]

I wish this had a bit more "science" flavor than "Glowing Green Goo Is Good To Us, Actually" but the art is really good. Might be a pack I get just to interact with even if I don't use them much myself.

 

[steptioit08]

That ship set reminds me of the collectors from mass effect for some reason

 

[ItThatAltersSanity]

It's a good concept. Design space I hadn't realised was untapped. The one concern I have is on what sort of detail there'll be in the flavour text and advisor voice lines. Certain kinds of humour dancing around the topic of particular types of filth are very hit-or-miss.

 

[FleetMaster]

With a taste of your D-L-C, I'm on a ride
You're toxic, I'm slippin' under
With a taste of a poison paradise
I'm addicted to you
Don't you know that you're toxic?

 

[Strager]

I'm reporting this thread for it's toxicity!

 

[Soup4ever]

Can't wait to see the other changes coming with this update Also make lithoid trait optional for lithoid portrait players!

 

[Lorenerd11]

It still feels weird that every single portrait pack gets it own room, but Plantoids were never retroactively given one.

I hope there will be a Megacorp equivalent of Relentless Industrialists? It would be weird if there weren't, I mean, it is such a good fit for empires like Chinorr.

 

[Critical Ethics]

With all these species packs it would be great if there was an "enforce theming in random empires" checkbox or something. So if you turned it on then the aquatic portraits could only show up on ocean, continental, and maybe arctic empires, they would be much more likely to show up on oceans than any other portrait, and all aquatic portraits on ocean planets would have the aquatic trait. Similarly random necrophage empires would start with a necroid portrait etc.

Obviously player empires could still be whatever, and you could leave it unchecked if you wanted the current pure random, but with all these neat themed portraits and civics and stuff it would be nice to have an option for stricter theming.

 

[Spaceception]

Toxic Baths: Grow your population fast with a fresh infusion of mutagenic sludge - so long as you’re willing to tolerate the costs to your planet and your people!

Incubator: Repopulate quickly when your planet is empty, but those growth facilities can fill up fast!

Are these linked like Anglers and Aquatics were? Like you can just have the trait, or you get some additional features and the locked trait by choosing the civic?

 

[Arcvalons]

With all these species packs it would be great if there was an "enforce theming in random empires" checkbox or something. So if you turned it on then the aquatic portraits could only show up on ocean, continental, and maybe arctic empires, they would be much more likely to show up on oceans than any other portrait, and all aquatic portraits on ocean planets would have the aquatic trait. Similarly random necrophage empires would start with a necroid portrait etc.

Obviously player empires could still be whatever, and you could leave it unchecked if you wanted the current pure random, but with all these neat themed portraits and civics and stuff it would be nice to have an option for stricter theming.

Species Packs are all over the place though. For example Molluscoids have a bunch of ones that look aquatic, arthropoids could reaistically live anywhere, and so on

 

[Franton]

Let me think: Toxoids plus Xeno-Compatibility Perk =

(credits: Dr Who, Love And Monsters)