Hello Stellaris Community!
We hope you’ve all had a great holiday season, and we’re excited to see people starting to trickle back from their well-earned vacations. That means more Stellaris news is just right around the corner, with regularly scheduled dev diaries picking up in the next week or two.
But before we get too hyped over what’s coming next, we have to finish up some bookkeeping from last year. Specifically, we mentioned last year that we would be retiring Stellaris: Season 08 early in the new year. That time is now, specifically, tomorrow.
After tomorrow - around 3 PM CET - Stellaris: Season 08 will no longer be available and the content will be rolled into the Ultimate Bundle in order to make space for a new Season for 2025.
What is Stellaris: Season 08?
Stellaris: Season 08 contains all the major Stellaris releases from 2024, including The Machine Age, the Cosmic Storms Mechanical Expansion, and Grand Archive Story Pack and the illustrious non-spherical Rick the Cube machine species portrait.
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/46229/Stellaris_Season_08__Expansion_Pass/
The Machine Age contains:
- Individualistic Non-Gestalt Machine Empires
- Gestalt Machine Intelligence Empires (also unlocked by the Synthetic Dawn Story Pack)
- A new End-Game Crisis - The Synthetic Queen
- A new Player Crisis Path - Cosmogenesis
- Three new Origins
- Cybernetic Creed
- Synthetic Fertility
- Arc Welders
- Civics
- Guided Sapience
- Natural Design
- Obsessional Directive
- Protocol Droids
- Tactical Cogitators
- Augmentation Bazaars (requires Megacorp)
- Two Mid-Game Structures
- Arc Furnace
- Dyson Swarm
- Three New Ascension Paths
- Virtuality
- Nanotech
- Modularity
- Cybernetic and Synthetic Ascension (also unlocked by Utopia)
- Exploration of the effects of the cyberization or synthesization of society, with Advanced Government Forms for those who complete it.
- New Species Traits for Cyborgs, Machines and Robots
- Cybernetic portraits that change based on advancement through cyberization
- Synthetic portraits with both organic and synthetic variants that changed based on synthesization, usable by either organics or machines
- Two new Shipsets, Diplomatic Rooms, and City Sets
- 7 new music tracks synthetic and cybernetic inspired music tracks
Cosmic Storms Mechanical Expansion contains:
- 8 New Space Storms
- Storm Chasers Origin
- 3 New Civics
- Planetscapers
- Astrometeorology
- Storm Devotion
- Galactic Weather Control Ascension Perk
- Weather Forecasting Map Mode
- Two new Precursor narratives, with two new Relics
- Events, Anomalies, and Archaeology Sites
- Storm-related technologies, Edicts, and Galactic community resolutions
Grand Archive Story Pack includes:
- Space Fauna capture, breeding, and modification systems
- 151 Specimens to collect and display across events from Grand Archive and the base game
- Over 240 Specimens total including those distributed across other Stellaris content
- 15 new Relics
- New Megastructure - The Grand Archive
- Two new Tradition trees
- Archivism
- Domestication
- Two new Origins
- Primal Calling
- Treasure Hunters
- Two new Civics
- Beastmasters
- Galactic Curators
- Two new forms of spaceborne life
- Cutholoids
- Voidworms
- A new possible mid-game crisis - the Voidworm Plague
- Three new music tracks
- Events, Anomalies, Archaeology Sites, Technologies, Galactic community resolutions, and more!
Season 08 Bonus Portrait: Rick the Cube
This is your last chance to get all the content above, plus the bonus Rick the Cube portrait at a 20% discount (outside of the Ultimate Bundle)!