Why do the UNE and CoM use Humanoid ship sets ingame, but Mamalian ship sets in trailers?

[Friedrich von Deutschland]

Extremely weird thing to be bothered about, I know, but seriously it’s bugging me. If you own the Humanoids species pack humans use humanoid ships, but trailers from Apocalypse to Season 9 continue to depict humans using Mammalian ships! What is canon? Are human ships humanoid or mamalian. I want answers PDS Green!

 

[ranma100]

Humans ARE mammals, so nothing wrong with this.

 

[Friedrich von Deutschland]

Humans ARE mammals, so nothing wrong with this.

But they don't use the mammalian shipset if you have humanoids.

 

[MannheimCouncil]

Not sure which trailers you're referring too, since I never had the patience for videos, but Humanoids came out later than the base game. So maybe that's the reason? In later trailers they might just have forgotten the fact that they switched the sets.

 

[House Centipede]

It's because humanoid portraits came with their own shipset, and also placed the 'human' portraits in the 'humanoid' portrait category.

Nothing wrong with that on the surface, but I do honestly find it a bit annoying for the CoM, because the more utilitarian ships definitely look better for them IMO. The humanoid ships just look too... Star Treky? I don't know, but I vastly prefer the mammalian shipset for them.

The worst little annoyance is that you can't change it back, or deactivate the humanoid shipset. If you alter the CoM civ and save your changes, it just creates a new custom civ that's identical but uses the mammalian shipset; it doesn't actually change the CoM itself.

 

[Newbee53]

You answered the question already:

If you own the Humanoids species pack humans use humanoid ships

The trailers cannon have them using the 'old' ship set because that's how the trailers started. the most recent one implies they've switched over to the spiny bioship set. As far as I know, changing ship sets isn't possible. the trailers aren't beholden to the limitations of the games. Also, canon doesn't exactly make sense for a game like stellaris.

 

[Friedrich von Deutschland]

the most recent one implies they've switched over to the spiny bioship set.

I read that as the UNE having allies who use spinovores, not that they adopted them themselves.

The trailers cannon have them using the 'old' ship set because that's how the trailers started.

did we see the UNE prior to the Apocalypse trailer? I know the CoM appeared in Utopia but I don’t think the UNE made an appearance pre-Humanoids.

 

[Newbee53]

I read that as the UNE having allies who use spinovores, not that they adopted them themselves.

Maybe. I can be taken that way as well I guess.

did we see the UNE prior to the Apocalypse trailer? I know the CoM appeared in Utopia but I don’t think the UNE made an appearance pre-Humanoids.

I wish I could find a chronological playlist of trailers and such, just because every new one makes me feel like I'm missing stuff and want to go back and see what I missed or forgot. Plus, they are extremely well made and I would enjoy the processes.

Ah well.

 

[Friedrich von Deutschland]

I wish I could find a chronological playlist of trailers and such, just because every new one makes me feel like I'm missing stuff and want to go back and see what I missed or forgot.

Here’s the official playlist. It stops at Paragons but most of the trailers/cinematics are still there.

 

[Newbee53]

Here’s the official playlist. It stops at Paragons but most of the trailers/cinematics are still there.

Thanks! I went searching for this right through their channel and couldn't find it. I can work the rest out pretty easily.

 

[Lorenerd11]

The trailers may have been created before the Humanoids DLC, and if you don't have the Humanoids DLC, they use the Mammalian shipset.

 

[Scyobi_Empire]

humanoid ship pack came out after the game launched, without the humanoids species pack all humanoids use mammal ships

 

[Mechalibur]

I dunno, maybe to avoid someone complaining about not having access to the ships in a trailer because they need to own a separate DLC for that? Or they just think the old shipset looks better in trailers.

 

[Edorath]

that's because the humanoids pack came like a year or more after the game was released proper, so many of the trailers just plain use the old shipsets by default since humans used to have the mammalian shipsets at first

 

[Friedrich von Deutschland]

I dunno, maybe to avoid someone complaining about not having access to the ships in a trailer because they need to own a separate DLC for that? Or they just think the old shipset looks better in trailers.

The humanoids shipset shows up in a lot of trailers though, just never used by humans themselves. I suppose the former point still applies though since humans are a vanilla portrait but the humanoid shipset isn't.

 

[Ryika]

Personally I find that the Mammal shipset fits a bit better anyway. It looks more to me like that's the natural progression from earth infrastructure with its blocky forms, whereas the humanoid ships set seems a bit too "slick alien design" to me.

 

[ashbery76]

Yes the mammal ships and city space were clearly designed for Humans.The mammals should have got their own ship class.