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hey everybody i'm steve from gamers nexus dotnet and we are joined by the wargaming team to talk about Master of Orion which many of you are familiar with as a Forex game from 20 years ago now so it's got some history before getting to that all this coverage is brought to you by cyberpowerpc who are awarded the reader's choice for best gaming desktop pc by PC Magazine so let's let's get start on the newest stuff here so master but Ryan has this whole espionage and economic victory element where do you want to start today well I can tell you that we've been in early access for a couple of months now and today we're launching early access 3 first which brings us to be feature complete for our races and the rest of the features in the product right so we're super excited to bring that that brings us to more races we've got the DAR locks who are all about espionage which is one of the features that we brought with them and we've got the silicones that have come into this so that's all of the 10 original races from Master of Orion one which is really cool for us we've also got the collector edition which offers the Terrans voiced by Robert Englund which is really sweet they're they're evil humans and they live up to it alright so that's very cool so the Espionage mechanic is something that was really impactful in the early games and we wanted to do justice with and we knew that we could tie that with this race the DAR locks they're shapeshifters they have stealth ships they have different technologies like it's a very different playthrough and so within master of Orion's espionage system you can revolt planets you can steal technologies you can cause famine you can stop research from being happening there's lots of really cool things to do with espionage it creates a very different gameplay experience which which also happens with the silicones because they don't need food they're just huge rock things right and it they're done really well they look really cool they're compelling they're scary and right now they're crushing so there's a there's a couple bigger name voice actors in here give us alan tudyk yeah we've got alan tudyk he's voiced one of the characters for us mark hamill john de lancie robert englund and of color of course nolan north right that it got to have him so we've got some really cool stuff going on very cool and then on the economic victory side so what'swhat's there that people should know about right so that's our fifth victory condition so this one is really about kind of playing a non-aggressive playthrough right if you want to win it without crushing everything and you want to win it without being super diplomatic like the humans and John delancey's character is really good at this is a really cool different playthrough based on economics right so you've got to own the GDP and you've got to own the shares in the market we've got independent planets that we brought in for this release and those are like non spacefaring races that you can make relationships with and you can buy and sell stocks and all sorts of different things so it creates another victory condition which brings us to 5 and it allows people to have a different gameplay experience and the the GDP and the stock so you have to hold a certain percentage for 10 turns right so you got to hold 51% of both for 10 turns which sounds easy but it isn't it's very difficult because you have people like me will just buy as many stocks as possible and not sell them so it gets very interesting and quick so one thing here I was just reminded of with the spine side of things there was a spy tree we looked at what were some of the different approaches the spine that we're available well one of theirs there's four different paths right so you can deal with technology you can deal with the resources you can deal with the agriculture agronomy and you can deal with the revolts in the diplomatic part right so one of the most fun things for me is to be able to ruin people's diplomatic relationships and then send their world into total chaos and revolt show up with my ships and call it mine right so that's a very fun mechanic sounds cool so more information on Master of Orion in the link in the description below this is the early access 3 yeah and you can check that out on Steam yep it's on Steam and good old games very cool so more information below as always thank you for watching we'll see you all next time