Home Trending Latest threads New posts Developer diaries
Jump to latest Follow Reply
  • We have updated our Community Code of Conduct. Please read through the new rules for the forum that are an integral part of Paradox Interactive’s User Agreement.
Stellaris 54209 Bug Reports 37590 Console edition 1312 Suggestions 21759 Tech Support 3216 Multiplayer 392 User Mods 4794 Stellaris AAR (After Action Reports)
Previous dev diary Next dev diary
Show only dev responses

Stellaris Dev Diary #263 - Announcing Toxoids

Hello everyone!

Today we’re announcing our next Species Pack that will be released alongside the 3.5 “Fornax” update, the Toxoids!

Whether you burn the future for the benefit of today or scavenge the past, Toxoids are survivors. Toxoids gives you the chance to gamble the future of your planets for immediate gains, and make the tough sacrifices necessary to survive a hostile galaxy.

Pre-Order the Toxoids Species Pack today!


The Toxoids Species Pack will be bubbling over with things such as:
  • New Origins:
    • Knights of the Toxic God: In the depths of your homeworld, rumors rumble of a true power buried under the toxic sludge. Do you dare to dredge up the secrets of your past - and potentially unleash them upon the galaxy?
    • Overtuned: The candle that burns the brightest, burns itself into the galaxy’s memory! Play as a species that can gain more and more traits at the cost of its own lifespan, and live for today without worrying about sticking around for tomorrow!
  • New Civics:
    • 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!
    • Scavengers: One empire’s trash is your empire’s treasure! Don’t be too proud to harvest debris and destruction for quick construction projects of your own.
    • Relentless Industrialists: If you’re going to keep up with demand, you’re going to have to learn to ignore all of those petty regulations and negative opinions. The surviving population will thank you for all of the resources you gain!
  • New Traits:
    • Incubator: Repopulate quickly when your planet is empty, but those growth facilities can fill up fast!
    • Inorganic Breath: Your own people are a source of valuable exotic gasses! It’s a shame the respirators are so expensive.
    • Noxious: Other species can’t stand being around you, and it seems like your mere existence is making your planets awful places to live. On the other hand, other empires have a very difficult time wanting to fight or subjugate you, and it’s hilarious to see the look on their faces when you’re in the room!
    • Exotic Metabolism: You’ve adapted to ask “are you going to eat that?” where other species would be calling the hazmat team. Eat faster, live longer, and enjoy a terrifying rainbow of flavors!
  • New Cosmetics: Species portraits, ship models, and cityscapes that only a mother could love.
  • New Advisor: Grow your empire alongside a relentless source of noxious sarcasm!

The Toxoids Species Pack and the Stellaris 3.5 “Fornax” update will be released on September 20, 2022, and will be playable at PDXCon this Friday and Saturday at Münchenbryggeriet here in Stockholm.

We’ll be moving to a rapid dev diary release schedule for the next few weeks as we attempt to cover everything that’s in the Toxoids Species Pack. We’ll see you next Tuesday with the next Stellaris Dev Diary.

Toxoid Ships


Pre-Order the Toxoids Species Pack today!
 
  • 96Like
  • 58Love
  • 14
  • 8
  • 6Haha
  • 5
Reactions:
Sort by date Sort by reaction score
  • New Civics:
    • 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!
    • Scavengers: One empire’s trash is your empire’s treasure! Don’t be too proud to harvest debris and destruction for quick construction projects of your own.
    • Relentless Industrialists: If you’re going to keep up with demand, you’re going to have to learn to ignore all of those petty regulations and negative opinions. The surviving population will thank you for all of the resources you gain!
Click to expand...
Will these have Megacorp equivalents? Particularly the last one.
 
Eladrin said:
I expect to have dev diaries on those in October if things go well, but Saturday at 12:15 there's a session at PDXCon where @Alfray Stryke and I will be talking about those experiments - well before we normally would feel comfortable doing so since they're still ongoing.
Click to expand...

For anyone attending this - I hope you like placeholder art.
 
  • 26Haha
  • 6Like
  • 2
  • 1Love
Reactions:
Eladrin said:
[*]Relentless Industrialists: If you’re going to keep up with demand, you’re going to have to learn to ignore all of those petty regulations and negative opinions. The surviving population will thank you for all of the resources you gain!
Click to expand...

I hope thats not exclusive to Toxoid species. Sounds like a fun civic, in general.
 
  • 3Like
Reactions:
I'm really loving these species packs! They add exactly what we need to make our next game unique while allowing the custodian project to continue humming in the background without a hitch. Also:

rubert said:
Required question: full music track used in the trailer when and where? :)
Click to expand...

I for one would happily pay a few € for some kind of 80's-techno-industrial-bleep-bloops-with-guitar music pack :rolleyes: just saying. :cool:
 
  • 1Love
  • 1Like
Reactions:
On the one hand - the more portraits and shipsets the better.

On the other I feel like if it won't come with changes related to planet habitability, planet exploitation and happiness it will be a huge missed opportunity.
 
  • 3Like
Reactions:
Eladrin said:
Gestalts have access to some of the civics and other elements of Toxoids.
Click to expand...
"some"

So we're not totally forgotten just an afterthought like with everything else?

I don't mean to be critical, I know you guys work hard but we keep asking for something more than table scraps but yet again that's all we get.

I´ll probably buy toxoids anyway, so don't mind me.
 
  • 5
  • 4
  • 1Like
Reactions:
Eladrin said:
I expect to have dev diaries on those in October if things go well, but Saturday at 12:15 there's a session at PDXCon where @Alfray Stryke and I will be talking about those experiments - well before we normally would feel comfortable doing so since they're still ongoing.
Click to expand...
Thank you for your reply OMG now I can hardly breathe with excitement! But.... maybe there must be things like Youtube live or something, right?
 
firenze419 said:
"some"

So we're not totally forgotten just an afterthought like with everything else?

I don't mean to be critical, I know you guys work hard but we keep asking for something more than table scraps but yet again that's all we get.
Click to expand...

Now now, don't become the Toxoid yourself.
 
  • 21Haha
  • 2Like
Reactions:
firenze419 said:
"some"

So we're not totally forgotten just an afterthought like with everything else?

I don't mean to be critical, I know you guys work hard but we keep asking for something more than table scraps but yet again that's all we get.

I´ll probably buy toxoids anyway, so don't mind me.
Click to expand...
I'd say the Megacorp gang is right there with you, but honestly even we get more than gestalts. Brutal.
 
  • 9Like
Reactions:
Nice, my prophecy was true :D

Gonna wait to see how the origins and civics and other things are. Still not beating necroids for sure :D
 
I already know what I am making with this one. Teacher of the Shroud Volus, with merchant guild under the imperial cult of the Psionic God Niftu Cal.
 
  • 3Like
Reactions:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back