Megacorp dlc announced.
Headliner feature is the Megacorp authority, which gets double penalties from going over empire size, but has a higher empire size (so they can get bigger without penalties, but after a certain size they'll have more penalties then other empires, basically they aren't meant to conquer the whole galaxy)
Instead they open branch offices on other peoples planets. Cost money to open and gives money as income. Normal corps require a trade agreement to do it, criminal corps don't need an agreement (and can't make it)
Income is based on trade value of the planet. Criminal corps get income based on the amount of crime on the planet (.5 to 1.5 as much as a normal corp depending on crime level)
Corp offices get building slots based on the planet population. Buildings give the corps some income or resources but give the planet owner jobs and/or trade value. Criminal buildings do this as well, but their buildings also produce crime.
Corps have special vassals called subsidiaries that can't be subsumed into their empire but both have to join in wars and give a percentage of their income to their masters.
Other paid features: Shared burden (civic) for social utopia that allows you to give people the shared burden living standard that makes all pops need consumer goods and gives stability
Caravaners who send barter fleets that offer randomly generated trade deals. Once you find their home system you can contact them at any time to interact with their space casino.
Arcologies are a new ascension perk to make city planets into ecumenopolis. Ecumenopolis replace their districts with new districts. Half of your city districts will be turned into the new city district equivalent that have three times as much housing as normal (so your housing is multiplied by 1.5 at the start) and then the other districts give as much housing as city districts as well as lots of jobs.
New galactic wonders:
Matter decompresser pulls minerals out of black holes.
Military center that gives a lot of naval capacity I guess
Mega art instillation that gives unity and amenities
Interstellar assembly site that gives diplomacy bonuses and immigration.
Galactic wonders goes from clearly the best and most interesting ascension perk to even more clearly the best and most interesting ascension perk ascension perk.
Slave market is a paid feature. No info yet.
The whole thing is a joke about freemium games with loot boxes and random gambling and premium currency.
My first thought is worry that it's a lot of interaction with and reliance on notoriously bad AI empires, but we'll see. It sounds cool.