![]() ![]() ![]() I mean, Stellaris offer us a plethora of diverse options for becoming evil guys: we can be maniacal chaos-worshipper psikers, we can be genocidal fleshy hiveminds, genocidal borgs, genocidal terminator-like machines, rocks that want to genocide you, regular vanilla genociders, we can become evil emperors, evil polluting megacorps, evil totalitarian mind-controller empires, evil gene-manipulating Villians that nerve staple sentients and murder lifeforms to harvest their DNA, we can even become a game crisis and genocide the entire existence because why the hell not.Īll of those are cool as hell, don't get me wrong. More than replacing Shroud entities, the thing I want is to have actually benign and symbiotic entities and covenants, and perhaps the option to become Shroud gods ourselves, or punch evil Shroud gods. I’d like to play as space wizards without necessarily being space wizards who feed people to Khorne and Co. ![]() I hope that, once the overall Patron system is through testing, the patrons themselves will be rewritten and overhauled from a narrative and mechanical standpoint. It’s fun to have the option to play the bad guys, yes, but it’s not fun for evil to be mandatory for getting the full benefits of an ascension path. ![]() The devs went with that theme anyway, though, and really limited the roleplay and gameplay options for the psionic path. There is nothing inherent to the deity concept that requires patrons to be so uniformly insidious in their character. The mechanics and flavor text all pretty clearly indicate that your patron is slowly but steadily corrupting your empire. Why oh why, then, did the devs decide to just CTRL-C/CTRL-V the Warhammer Chaos Gods for use as the only available Shroud patrons? The blatant evil is toned down a bit from WH, but making full use of psionic ascension still feels like a deal with the devil. Fiction and mythology are filled with ideas of how such an abstract plane of reality might function and what kinds of beings might be found there. The Shroud is a fun concept: an extradimensional realm shaped by thought and accessible only through some previously overlooked faculty of the mind. ![]()
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