Get ready for invisible battleships and heinous violations of scientific ethics.
Stellaris' new story pack has been announced, and presents players with a whole new avenue for profoundly unethical behaviour. Focusing on pre-spaceflight civilisations, the First Contact pack includes new origins, new ways to interact with species that haven't reached the stars yet, and cloaking technology for your ships.
The new origins all hew to the pack's first contact theme. There's one where your species was quite literally abducted by aliens, but managed to cast down the subjugators; another where you only figured out spaceflight by repelling an alien invasion and using their tech; and a final one where your civilisation is a kind of galactic, with most of the population favouring staying at home and out of contact with whatever other polities might lie outside your solar system.
Cloaking, meanwhile, lets you"Equip your ships with cloaking devices to survey in secret or catch a foe unaware," and just generally be the biggest creep in the galaxy. You'll be able to keep tabs on less advanced civilisations with cloaked observation posts, and spy on your enemies with invisible ships. Of course, they'll be able to do the same to you.
The First Contact pack will launch alongside Stellaris' upcoming 3.7 Canis Minor patch, becoming the latest in a long line of DLC for the game stretching all the way back to 2016. Thankfully, we have a guide to tell you exactly. I don't know whether First Contact will join that list, but I'm pretty into the idea of dumping laser weapons into ancient Rome and seeing what happens.Sign up to get the best content of the week, and great gaming deals, as picked by the editors.
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