Stellaris Dev Diary #95: Humanoids Species Pack

[Axe99]

Cheers for the DD Wiz, and a very nice surprise . You should give your artists a big pat on the back, Humanoids looks great, and more portraits are always welcome (as well as having a greater choice for what we play ourselves, it also means less repetition in terms of the portraits we see in-game, helping our in-game foes to have more unique identities). Ship sets tops too, for same reason .

Its awesome!

Still Chaotic Evil .

I've been thinking about whether we could do some sort of overlay for machines, so they can use any of the city-sets but they look a bit more like machine worlds. All depends on what we can feasibly do with the resources we have.

This would be a very cool idea .

I think you are selectively forgetting rather a lot of the content that came out alongside those things you are talking about. Unless I missed the Narnia book where Aslan builds a Dyson Sphere.

C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Leviathan?

 

[iniudan]

indeed, there are plenty of Earth lifeforms that have more than 2 eyes, and not just the bugs either(though they certainly make up the majority of critters that do), Starfish for example have one eye at the end of each of their legs.

and then there's this thing(and other Cambrian era animals):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opabinia

Wouldn't look as odd if the trunk was retracted.

 

[Jonnno]

YESSS! I've been hoping for this for so long!

 

[John_Titor]

Very good. The Commonwealth advisor is exactly how I imagined the militarist should have been, but now we have both the savage and disciplined. New ship consmetics are also very welcome.

 

[chrisjwmartin]

Must be another game?!

Maybe? I'm sure though that I remember him saying that he thinks that excessive starting options dilute the experience of the game, and often people ask for options that wouldn't actually be enjoyable in practice.

 

[Zoinker]

So now that 1.9 is a smaller-scale patch (like Kennedy and Adams?), who will you be naming it after?

Considering the subject matter, I propose Roddenberry, after the Godfather of the "rubber-headed alien"

 

[Veras]

It will probably be the Humanoids Patch

 

[Veras]

Or dwarf patch, orc patch, Voor patch, snakeman patch. Who knows

 

[Zoinker]

Each content patch (1.x, or 2.x as of Cherryh) is named after a Sci-Fi author.

 

[JoeMad]

I think I've only ever played as a humanoid once, as a custom human race based on Mars. I've always liked aliens a lot. That said, this is cool. Humanoids need more pictures. Might actually give them a try once this hits. Orcs are calling my name.

 

[Darrenb209]

I'll probably get this just for the ships. They look really good.

 

[Jorlem]

So what's in the Humanoid Species Pack? Here is the feature list:
- 10 new Humanoid portraits
- A completely new ship set inspired by classic western sci-fi
- A new city set for Humanoids
- A new pre-scripted empire, the Fanatic Authoritarian/Materialist Voor Technocracy, with a portrait inspired by the 'loading screen aliens' from our own official art
- 3 new advisor voices offering alternative takes on existing ethics, based on the United Nations of Earth ('Dignified Xenophile'), Commonwealth of Man ('Disciplined Militarist') and Voor Technocracy ('Ruthless Materialist'). Samples from each of the new voices has been attached to the bottom of this post.
- 3 new music tracks that are remixes of classic Stellaris songs

Any chance we might get some expanded namelists to go with these?

 

[RELee]

Well, at the risk of repeating myself ...

 

[King of Zoot]

indeed, there are plenty of Earth lifeforms that have more than 2 eyes, and not just the bugs either(though they certainly make up the majority of critters that do), Starfish for example have one eye at the end of each of their legs.

and then there's this thing(and other Cambrian era animals):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opabinia

I bet nobody was surprised when that thing went extinct.

 

[PalmettoExplorer14]

My only compliant is that they're not using any new outfits just using those from Mammalians portrait set.

I do hope that they create some new outfits for us to use. Like powered armor!

 

[Klokwerkaos]

I'll buy it, but I feel like $8 is a little pricey for this. I'd be happy if I paid 5, this seems a little gouge-y. I'm glad and grateful for the content, but this is a minor update at best and that means no real new content as far as game play goes, all cosmetic. When you compare it to synthetic dawn price wise (latest release at this time), this isn't going to hold up. This feels like a bethesda creation club move, too much money, not enough content. Not insanely expensive mind you, but also just enough to make the purchase of it feel uncomfortable so you have to think about whether it's going to be worth it.

 

[YaumeLepire]

Hooray for the Loading Screen Aliens! I'll nickname them... Loadliens! =)

 

[Viper0122]

Yay!

You know, getting one of these for each species type would actually be really cool.

 

[Thomas Gideon]

Neat! I'll have to buy this.
Wait, Cherryh Update is coming.
Never mind.

 

[Praseodymius]

Hurry up and TAKE MY MONEY!

Edit: I'm interested in the portraits and the ship designs. But what I'm really excited about is the 'Disciplined Militarist' voice, and the other two voices.