Yeah overlord looks awesome but the real question is what's the next portrait pack gonna be? :)

[exi123]

My bet too, something with primitives would be a low hanging fruit, seeing as they're just upgrading vassal mechanics, they could overhaul what happens when a primitive stops being primitive, and throw in situations.

True. Grekulf also mentioned some more functions for trade value a few months ago. This would also go well with the new HRelays and some new things regarding piracy.

 

[HFY]

the robes, capes and cloaks expansion

Seriously: yes.

We need a lot more portrait accessories.

We should be able to run a "Galaxy of Hats" (with just human portraits but every "species" has a unique accessory, like a specific hat).

Also slave collars (or chains nailed into plantoid trunks), also psionic halos, also cybernetic augmentations when you Driven Assimilate a new species (or when they're assimilated via Flesh Is Weak), also special extra-smart looking glasses when you genemod them to Erudite, and so on.

 

[great lakes]

probably not cohesive enough on its own, but I could see a grab bag of 2-4 new portraits for existing classes. I would be pleased with octopoid beings and a more kitsune form of fox...

perhaps such would happen alongside a trait rework (much of that system shows its age.)

 

[Kapi96]

I'd like something different. Too many fleshy things already! Some pure energy species or something could be cool.

 

[Peepijeep]

We have cat and fox (my favourites), but wolf and rodent (mouse/rat) would be amazing.

 

[Calvax]

I'd prefer a portrait pack that was more about outfits and customization of the portraits we already have. I want my purifier geckos to wear the skins of butchered xenos, and sharply tailored suits for my corporate overlords.

I know it would be an insane amount of work, but an outfit, items, and modifications pack would be awesome. When I make my pops cyborg I want to see some implants!

 

[ZomgK3tchup]

I'd prefer a portrait pack that was more about outfits and customization of the portraits we already have. I want my purifier geckos to wear the skins of butchered xenos, and sharply tailored suits for my corporate overlords.

This.

I really want a human outfit pack similar to what the guy in the Overlord trailer is wearing. It looks way cooler than the Star Trek-esque outfits we currently have.

 

[Dementor4]

Not to mention: cybernetic parts on cyborgs and psionic auras for psionics.

I'd like to see a "subtle synths" update that adds in synth portraits which are designed (in-universe) to look mostly organic. So for synth-ascended humans, for example, the portraits would look basically like humans do, but with an odd plastic shine to the skin and "this-is-a-robot" seams here and there.

 

[great lakes]

I'd like to see a "subtle synths" update that adds in synth portraits which are designed (in-universe) to look mostly organic. So for synth-ascended humans, for example, the portraits would look basically like humans do, but with an odd plastic shine to the skin and "this-is-a-robot" seams here and there.

wouldn't that run right into the uncanny valley? not that I want to shut down creativity, but I wouldn't want pop screens to look unnerving. also, robots work differently enough that telling them apart at a glance is desirable.

 

[HFY]

but I wouldn't want pop screens to look unnerving.

 

[Peepijeep]

I want a "predator" species pack with some wild animals! (wolves, etc.)

 

[Holiness]

I want a gaudy portrait pack like angels, the pretty or biblical kind. Or shroud portrait pack with a new origin where your shroud things controlling or possessing others. (Different from necrophages.)

 

[TimeMask]

I still want that mutant/aberration portrait pack

 

[Wade Smith]

Plasmoids
(Plasmaoids?)

A remaining trope.
(Also in upcoming release of Spelljammer, Adventures in Space, Dungeons & Dragons 5e RPG)

 

[Meneye]

The only tropes left that I can think of are silicoid, plasma/energy beings, and gaseous or semi-gaseous beings. Maybe amphibians, but that's kinda covered by other already existing species.

 

[Bezborg]

Bling.

TONS of bling for the existing portraits. All of them, along government and ethics lines.

I want all the zoo animals in space to have a different aesthetic depending whether they’re a genocidal militaristic nazi regime, or a theocracy, or an egalitarian republic, or a materialistic technocracy.

Some may say it’s not relevant to the gameplay. I say it’s the only thing that’s relevant

 

[Orphalesion]

HlI'm always up for a new portrait pack. Right now I'd like to see Gasoids or something like that (you know those hypothetical, floating organisms on gas giants) though I assume they'd have to live on regular planets for game balance.

maybe smth truly alien that does not resemble any lifeform present on earth? check some from star control franchsie like ur-quans or x-chaggers you can't put em into any of those

A generic worm/arthropod thing with tentacles and a species of micro organisms... Ooooh soooo alien