The Flesh is Weak

Ascension path · Ascensions

ascension pathafter 2 other perks

The Flesh is Weak is an ascension path perk in Stellaris 4.5.2. It needs 2 other ascension perks taken first. It cannot be taken with Biomorphosis and Synthetic Evolution.

Kind: ascension path
Perks first: 2
Excludes: 2 perks
Opens trees: 2
ID: ap_the_flesh_is_weak

What The Flesh is Weak does

Modifiers from the perk's modifier block, then the game's own effect texts (the custom tooltips its card shows).

Gain Access to Tradition Tree: Cybernetics - Requires an available Tradition slot Unlocks Agenda: The Flesh is Weak, which grants Cybernetic technologies as Research Options.

Tradition trees it opens

Cybernetics5 traditions

The Flesh is Weak requirements

Read from the perk's possible (to pick it) and potential (to see it) blocks; the game's own texts where it has them, our words otherwise.

Cannot be taken with

Biomorphosis

Synthetic Evolution

Synthetic empires are incapable of starting down the path to Synthetic Ascension.
Requires two other Ascension Perks to be selected first.
May not have the Biomorphosis Ascension Perk.
May not have the Mind Over Matter Ascension Perk.
May not have the Synthetic Evolution Ascension Perk.
Requires an empty Tradition Tree slot.

Who can see it (potential)

None of
- Ascension perk: Biomorphosis
- Ascension perk: The Flesh is Weak
- Ascension perk: Organo-Machine Interfacing (base)
- Ascension perk: Organo-Machine Interfacing (assimilator)
- Ascension perk: Synthetic Evolution
- Ascension perk: Mind Over Matter
- Ascension perk: Synthetic Age
- Origin: Teachers of the Shroud
- Origin: Cybernetic Creed
- Origin: Synthetic Fertility
- Origin: Evolutionary Predators
- Origin: Endbringers
- Origin: Hard Reset
- Any of
  - Country flag: is_decyberized
  - Country flag: is_cyberized
Not: Gestalt Consciousness
Not: Is individual machine
Not: Is natural design empire
- Any of
  - Civic: Natural Design
  - Civic: Innate Design
Not: Is chosen empire
- Any of
owner species
- Not: Trait: De-Cyberized
Not: Is entropy drinkers empire
- Any of

In the game

The limits and constraints imposed on us by our feeble organic bodies are simply unacceptable. To reach our full potential, we must turn to cybernetic implants.

Console command

Typed in the game's console (the ~ key); achievements are off for that game.

effect add_ascension_perk = ap_the_flesh_is_weak

The Flesh is Weak: questions

What does The Flesh is Weak do in Stellaris?

Gain Access to Tradition Tree: Cybernetics - Requires an available Tradition slot Unlocks Agenda: The Flesh is Weak, which grants Cybernetic technologies as Research Options.

How do I unlock The Flesh is Weak?

Pick it in a free ascension perk slot. It needs 2 perks taken before it. Its other conditions are listed under Requirements. Empires have 8 slots in all; they open as tradition trees are finished (each finish bonus gives +1) and through Ascension Theory.

What is the ID of The Flesh is Weak?

ap_the_flesh_is_weak. The game's scripts grant it with the effect add_ascension_perk = ap_the_flesh_is_weak; in the console that is: effect add_ascension_perk = ap_the_flesh_is_weak (Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/ascension_perks/00_ascension_paths.txt and localisation/english, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776).