What DLCs to the game would you expect?

[Krajzen]

Yeah yeah I know, we know almost nothing about the game compared to its sophistication but we still may have this fun thread

(of course it's based on the trustful assumption that Pdox won't cut anything from the release version but develop those afterwards)

My hopes:
*Ex Machina - DLC introducing artificial/robot/synthetic/AI/however you name them races not spawned by organic evolution. They are deeply different from the organic races and you can set thei origin in the very beginning:
- Exterminated creators
- Defeated but not killed of creators
- Left by mysterious creators
- Creators wiped out by natural phenomena or nuclear war
- Origins unknown
Additional features: cyborg modifications of genome, cyborg armies (von Neumann probes), AI uprisings etc
*Incognita - DLC introducing new alien phenotypes (Plant, Coral, Wormlike), new Genetic Traits, new special advanced Ethos governing systems such as Hive Minds or Randist Economies (radically differing from usual gameplay)
*Arise - DLC allowing on the gameplay as pre-spacefaring race put in the galaxy of major Stellaris races, you need to survive, advance and outsmart them
*Exodus - DLC allowing to play as the race without homeworld, entirely packed on a starships
*Synesthesia - DLC introduxing culture and cultural gameplay to the game, along art, spirituality, tourism etc
*Music and art packs

 

[valergain]

I think there def will be a DLC focusing on trade and the like. Probably one of the first ones.

 

[Xanthoc]

Horizon Invasion/Beyond the Sunset: Get invaded by super advanced, mega powerful aliens from outside of the Galaxy. Perhaps robots akin to the Reapers, perhaps beasts like the Tyrahnids, perhaps sentients like the Yuzhan Vong.

I Am Become Death: Add the creation of world destroying weapons in the late game, resulting in massively bloody wars and pacification of your Empire. Also adds the ability to create mecha robot fighting units that can fight on land and in space.

 

[RebelScum88]

Transcendence: your species can transcend into another level of consciousness as an end-game strategy, either a cybernetic singularity, alternate dimension(such as Q continuum) or some sort of merger of consciousness with the planets they inhabit, as seen in the later Foundation books. Then it would be fun to play on as newly emergent species that fill the void left by your presumably galaxy-spanning race

 

[Cuthuthulu]

-Playable robots
-Nomad Fleets
-Songs from the Machines
-Alien graphics pack

 

[bas198]

*Arise - DLC allowing on the gameplay as pre-spacefaring race put in the galaxy of major Stellaris races, you need to survive, advance and outsmart them
*Exodus - DLC allowing to play as the race without homeworld, entirely packed on a starships

Especially those two sound really cool. Playing as a nomad species rampaging the galaxy, or playing as a species, whose homeworld was just destroyed by other player in the game, in search of a new home.
I would also like to see superweapons, like mentioned earlier, but then with an extra function: Fear. Just like the Death Star in Star Wars it would suffice threatining to use your weapon to restore peace and order to a rebelious system and spread fear through the galaxy.

 

[Fireplay]

*Fandom Galaxies - DLC allowing you to start a game within a special galaxy and choose a bookmark of their time to lead your favorite civilization.
New Events - Civilizations - Tech - End-game catastrophes.
-Mass Effect Galaxy
-Star Wars Galaxy
-Halo Galaxy
-More to come with updates.

 

[viola]

Since the Robot races have always been proposed by OP...

Inevitable Arachnids/Tyranids/Zerg/Rachni-themed Expansion: It introduces your classic Hive Mind-ish, Swarm-loving, Biomass-eating, quickly-adapting and Organic-Technology-using races to the game. Because no self-respecting Sci-fi videogame should lack an option to play as the Swarm.

"Heart of the Swarm" was already taken unfortunately.

 

[Kollatius]

Whatever DLC there will be, there will be a certain type of people pointlessly complaining about this feature being behind a paywall or that feature being overpowered before the DLC is even released!

 

[Finnway]

Hard to say when we know practically nothing about the game. It really depends on what's missing when the game launches.

 

[Draculdraconis]

Horizon Invasion/Beyond the Sunset: Get invaded by super advanced, mega powerful aliens from outside of the Galaxy. Perhaps robots akin to the Reapers, perhaps beasts like the Tyrahnids, perhaps sentients like the Yuzhan Vong.

that is already confirmed as an endgame disaster in the core game.
Take my Love: Firefly-Chasey-Sprite
Take my Land: Country for space explorators
You can't take the sky from me: After a failed rebellion a loosing faktion leafes your Empire and settels an uninhabitated planet outside of your reach
Features
- Mecanaries
- Pirates
- Organized Crime
- Private Colonisation
and Voiceovers for special events by Nathan Fillion

 

[King Ari]

Lots of new ship skins and races, to keep adding new things to explore and spice up my gameplay.

New techs and events too. I don't expect them to have everything thought up by release so there is lots of room to make improvements and add fresh content to play.

 

[Krajzen]

Hard to say when we know practically nothing about the game. It really depends on what's missing when the game launches.

Well, for example we know there won't be playable robot races in the release version.

 

[kemerover]

Sunset Invasion.

 

[Fireplay]

Sunset Invasion.

Sunrise Invasion sounds more sci-fi to me.

 

[aitaituo]

Brannigan's Law/The Kirk Initiative/The Stellarians: Hot Date: Step into the life of one of your captains or scientists and boldly "go" where no man(part) has gone before! Enjoy a full 3D exploration of interspecies relations in a private penthouse suite in one of three head-blowingly beautiful locations. Once you've become exhausted with all the romantic possibilities, you and your buxom conquest/conquistadoress can view the chaos spreading across the galaxy due to your willful neglect from the leisure of a water bed.

 

[Fourthspartan56]

*Fandom Galaxies - DLC allowing you to start a game within a special galaxy and choose a bookmark of their time to lead your favorite civilization.
New Events - Civilizations - Tech - End-game catastrophes.
-Mass Effect Galaxy
-Star Wars Galaxy
-Halo Galaxy
-More to come with updates.

Those things would probably be restricted to mods, because I highly doubt that Paradox wants to risk a lawsuit by selling dlc based on intellectual properties not owned by them.

 

[PyscoJuggalo]

Dyson Spheres... all I got to say....

 

[Xanthoc]

that is already confirmed as an endgame disaster in the core game.

Yes but then they should be playable. And should be space Aztec culture

 

[Fireplay]

Those things would probably be restricted to mods, because I highly doubt that Paradox wants to risk a lawsuit by selling dlc based on intellectual properties not owned by them.

It shall be an unoffical DLC for the game, free of cost and created by the players. lol