Paradox Interactive has sleepless The Machine Age, the next major expansion to its 4X space strategy game Stellaris, which will focus on “cyber, synthetic and machine themes” when it launches on PC in Q2 2024.
“Scientists have discovered advanced means of communicating with the machine, allowing life to overcome the biological limitations of mind and flesh,” explains Paradox. “The Machine Age ushers in an era of technical glory, but raises new ethical and social dilemmas. With these times of unleashed ambition, new threats will emerge that will question the true meaning of life itself.”
And with that bit of scene setting the path, Paradox moves on to some of The Machine Age's new features, including a new Endgame Crisis, based on the return of an ancient synthetic threat, along with a new Crisis Path focused on the technological advancement at any price.
Welcome to the machine age! | Stellaris DLC AnnouncementBoth arrive alongside the introduction of individualistic, non-Gestalt machine empires, which can have individual personalities and bring new stories and origins. Paradox also promises three new Machine Ascension Paths for further customization.
Elsewhere, The Machine Age introduces three new origins: there's Cybernetic Creed, if you want an empire that worships the sacred fusion of the body and cybernetics; Synthetic Fertility, for an empire left unable to reproduce biologically due to a new genetic disease, and Arc Welders, a space-hungry robotic society that turns to the stars for resources.
Additionally, The Machine Age includes new Reactive Portraits, six new civic aspects: Guided Sapience, Natural Design, Obsessive Directive, Protocol Droids, Tactical Cogitators, and Augmentation Bazaars (this one requires the Megacorp expansion), new population traits, and two new traits. of population. In-game structures: The Molten Arc Furnace and the powerful Dyson Swarm. Oh, and it also includes seven new music tracks featuring synths.
Stellaris' The Machine Age expansion will be accompanied by the free Andromeda update when it arrives on PC sometime in the second quarter of this year.
