Wiz Twitter Update 1st Mar

[TwiceAHuman]

"When you complete the Synthetic Ascension Path in Utopia, you will be able to choose the name of your now gloriously post-biological people." - Wiz

Wiz on twitter: https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward
I'm going to name my species Talos Principle.

EDIT: Woops, today is march the 1st... Sorry people... I just really forget what day it is after uni exams and... Things like that... Sorry, lol.

 

[cybrxkhan]

It'd be great if we could rename species we uplift or even enlighten as well too. Heck for uplifted species it'd be cool if we could even choose the namelist they'd use.

Also it's hard to see, but that's a colonized Mars in the background. They've already talked about some barren, frozen, etc. planets having the ability to be terraformed, but I thought I'd point that out.

 

[Katsuki126]

You missed the comment from the almighty Wiz :

"When you complete the Synthetic Ascension Path in Utopia, you will be able to choose the name of your now gloriously post-biological people. "

 

[TwiceAHuman]

Also it's hard to see, but that's a colonized Mars in the background. They've already talked about some barren, frozen, etc. planets having the ability to be terraformed, but I thought I'd point that out.

Yup, and they also said that Mars will ALWAYS be avaible for terraforming. So... Choosing Sol system is a cheat confirmed?

 

[Lothmar]

If we go synthetic path, can we 'upgrade' other races, kind of like theres the thing where bio ascension people can remove/add/become a hive mind?
If so im sensing a 'Cyber-men' or 'Necron' playthrough.

 

[Tigey]

Yup, and they also said that Mars will ALWAYS be avaible for terraforming. So... Choosing Sol system is a cheat confirmed?

This is a good point, but I suspect they have probably also adjusted the other starting systems (ie: Deneb, and the option to have a randomly generated system) to also have a terraforming candidate.

 

[Lothmar]

I wonder if robotic ascension would be a good or bad thing when the AI revolution occurs. Then again that'd be interesting if you got to take that over and basically gained the 'Robotic consensus' stats since those are impressive.

 

[SevenSerpents]

Then again that'd be interesting if you got to take that over

I think the opposite's more likely.

 

[Playwars]

Sweet sweet robots ! But....Will you have to build your pops ? That would be rather problematic since it takes forever. Anyway, Wiz might answer this in tomorrow's stream.

 

[Lothmar]

I think the opposite's more likely.

I mean here's hoping your chances of ignoring it are even higher if you've converted over. That would suck to be iron manning and then suddenly you cant do anything cause your empire joins the end game threat. lol

 

[SevenSerpents]

I mean here's hoping your chances of ignoring it are even higher if you've converted over. That would suck to be iron manning and then suddenly you cant do anything cause your empire joins the end game threat. lol

The idea of completely taking over one of the crises is even more absurd.

 

[Lothmar]

Sweet sweet robots ! But....Will you have to build your pops ? That would be rather problematic since it takes forever. Anyway, Wiz might answer this in tomorrow's stream.

Here's hoping that if you replace all your organic pops with machines that there's a quicker way of making pops then queing up every slot etc. Like maybe there's automated assemblies that are equivalent to normal birth rates and the programing is a combination of Terminal A and B and then either aged artificially by fast tracking it through simulations, or the synth is made bigger over the years until it has reached adulthood etc. *chuckle*

The idea of completely taking over one of the crises is even more absurd.

If not completely taking over, gaining the benifit and being allied to but independent wouldn't be bad. At least until you became self hating fanatic spiritualist bots. *chuckle* Ahh I remember those self hating bots.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Yup, and they also said that Mars will ALWAYS be avaible for terraforming. So... Choosing Sol system is a cheat confirmed?

Oh huh didn't know that Mars would always be available. That's pretty cool. I don't think it's much a cheat because it's still gonna take a while to get the appropriate techs most likely. As long as there's a chance randomly generated starting systems might have a planet like that too I think it should be fine.

 

[Ixal]

Kinda disappointed by that as it likely means we won't see portrait changes for the other ascension paths (or gradual changes depending on the progress of the paths but instead one big portrait flip at the end).

 

[matek13]

Will we be able to change the names of species we genetically modify? I remember it being a problem when I looked at the demographics screen there was no way to tell the difference between the modified versions of my species and the rest. It's a small thing, but it would really be nice to have.

 

[Nikolai]

Hopefully you'll have more than that old robot image to choose from...

 

[Calvax]

I mean here's hoping your chances of ignoring it are even higher if you've converted over. That would suck to be iron manning and then suddenly you cant do anything cause your empire joins the end game threat. lol

Or it could be quite interesting. A bit like how in the War in Heaven the player has to choose to fight on the side of the FE, join the league or go it alone. Based on your current factions and ethics when the AI rebellion starts you could get an event message offering you the chance to choose whose side to fight on (with some sort of penalty based on how popular it would be with your pops).

The AI rebellion would have to be boosted a bit because in the few games I've had it spawn it's been killed off almost instantly, and there would have to be some benefit to the player to stave off being at war with the whole galaxy (like suddenly unlocking a bunch of unique, advanced techs as a gift from the AI overseer) but it would be a lot of fun.

 

[Super-Soviet]

Well, if it is the case you become robots I redouble my suggestion for cosmetic DLC for robots.

 

[Caspoi]

While there are fun and interesting possibilities regarding synthetic ascencion and the Machine Conciousness that particular end game crisis being an instant game over would not be one of them. It might actually be possible that if you exist they won't fire or rather upset synths will prefer to try and rebel to join you, or you might be able to actually conduct some kind of diplomacy with them and perhaps even join their war to scourge the galaxy of organics if you have the right ethos.

 

[BlackUmbrellas]

While there are fun and interesting possibilities regarding synthetic ascencion and the Machine Conciousness that particular end game crisis being an instant game over would not be one of them. It might actually be possible that if you exist they won't fire or rather upset synths will prefer to try and rebel to join you, or you might be able to actually conduct some kind of diplomacy with them and perhaps even join their war to scourge the galaxy of organics if you have the right ethos.

My assumption from the start of all this has been that Synthetic Ascension synths will simply be immune to radicalization. That's all I expect.