Stellaris Dev Diary #95: Humanoids Species Pack

[FieldMedic]

Looks great! Will definitely be picking this up

 

[Ketilsen]

Space goats!

 

[jose2534]

I will gladly buy this cosmetic DLC. The portraits are a welcome addition (specially for those who have tired of eating the same chicken) but what I'm looking for is the new VO, honestly, keep them coming, more of them are welcome.

 

[DannoBundy]

@Wiz : Could you please post more screenshots from the shipset? Especially the other ship classes? I need to hype me a little more until 7th

 

[Blackplant]

I see proto-star destroyers, I like.

 

[Ferrumius]

I'll pay $8 only for that ship set. Curious how different classes look like.

 

[Wizzington]

Will we be getting new name lists too?

No new name lists planned for 1.9, though I'd like to do a general expansion of them in the future.

 

[Stadhouder]

New ship set! That's very nice!

Also I'm really happy with these voices! Only kind I'm missing the a 'Corporatism/Capitalist' voice. Something like the Hyperion voice in Borderlands 2. I now use either the Egalitarian of the Authoritarian one for those kind of empires, but neither fit perfectly. But for all other empires there's now an appropriate voice.

 

[ross-g]

It will release as 1.9, which is built off 1.8.3. So yes.

Does this mean there will be a 1.9 update before Cherryh is released? (assuming that will be 1.10 then)

 

[Wizzington]

I'll pay $8 only for that ship set. Curious how different classes look like.

Some of the models aren't quite ready to show off (in final rigging/texturing), I'll post more screenshots when they are.

 

[Wizzington]

Does this mean there will be a 1.9 update before Cherryh is released? (assuming that will be 1.10 then)

Yes, there will be a 1.9, but it's a minor update. Mostly just stuff required to release Humanoids.

 

[Bergest]

Awesome! The portraits are great (love the "beastman" portrait) and the ships and "disciplined militarist"-VO are everything I ever wished for for my Galactic Empire roleplay runs. Great!

 

[Tim_Ward]

The hull shape on those ships looks sweet, though the guns could do with a little toning down, even if it is only a corvette. Probably going to end up getting this in any case, though.

I wonder how much of the price kerfuffle with plantiods was due to them focusing on the portraits rather than the ship set in the marketing and promotion, so people just thought they were paying 7 quid for a bunch of jpegs rather than dozens of detailed 3D models.

 

[Aotrs Commander]

*Listens to samples*

So, the new advisors are Not-British-Lady, Not-Sort-Of-Galactic-Empire-Woman and Not-Quite-CABAL from Command & Conquer?



SOLD!



Yeah, with the addition of that bit of extra content over what we got in the Plantoids (which - while as a CAD modeller myself I fully understood the amount fo work that goes in for pricing - I did not get until it was on sale), this one I can justify. (For one thing, the VO is a much more noticable freatures that the ships, whch you don't always look at because of zoom.)

Hell, that last one might well go for a Machine Empire (again, thinking CABAL who is the BEST user-interface voice in any game, like, ever...)

 

[Alblaka]

I love the fact someone speculated along the lines of 'If they put this much effort into code reworks, wouldn't the artist have time to make us some new skin packs' earlier today, just for this dev diary to come out.

Neat little surprise. I think I'll hold off with purchasing the pack until Cherryh rolls about, though. I'm still on my 'the long awaited update better be worth it' mentality, plus the fact I'm not playing Stellaris currently anyways.

 

[razaron]

Do the portraits come with multiple hair/horn styles?

The distinct genders and hairstyles of the human and elf portraits make them much more immersive than the others.

 

[Stadhouder]

Oh @Wiz, btw. I have heard you in the stream that you don't think Machines need there own ship set, but if the artist have some time left still, could they egt their own city background?

 

[Derenegade]

Call me mindless minion, but I instabuy it.

 

[Wizzington]

The hull shape on those ships looks sweet, though the guns could do with a little toning down, even if it is only a corvette. Probably going to end up getting this in any case, though.

I wonder how much of the price kerfuffle with plantiods was due to them focusing on the portraits rather than the ship set in the marketing and promotion, so people just thought they were paying 7 quid for a bunch of jpegs rather than dozens of detailed 3D models.

I think the majority of controversy about Plantoids can be chalked down to timing - releasing a cosmetic DLC after a month of vacation/silence when people were clamoring for content updates was not the best timing on our part.

 

[Wizzington]

Oh @Wiz, btw. I have heard you in the stream that you don't think Machines need there own ship set, but if the artist have some time left still, could they egt their own city background?

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.