11:36 Discovers plantoid pre-ftl species: "This revelation has sent shockwaves down the vegan and vegetarian populations of earth, who now look on at their meals in horror" 🤣
@@brandonclark435 Reminds me of an episode of Married with Children when Al has to go with Peggy to her family and he finds a book. "Peg! 'To serve men'. IT'S A COOKBOOK!"
@@MontuPlays I heard you and DJ have this discussion in one of the Timelines (I think). I always operated less under the assumption that ascension was the decision of the government imposed upon the people (at least in the case of egalitarians) and more a case of natural progression and representative population numbers (in the case of organic and cybernetic ascension). Take Synthetic ascension as an example - I think less of it signifying a mandate being issued and armed forces dragging unwilling individuals into Uploading Centres and more as signifying a substantial cultural shift in favour of that idea, where it is almost universally considered an incredible opportunity and the few holdouts who don't want it done are simply allowed to die out. Much like the Digital Age in our own society - nobody marched into our homes, plonked a computer down and then pinned our eyelids open through a microsoft introduction. It's just better than not having a computer, so people make the choice to have one and then as society shifts it increasingly becomes a necessity of everyday life. If you're at work in the mines, lugging around some mining laser, and the guy next to you deploys one from his wrist, does his work in half the time and takes a nap, wouldn't you want one too? Or if you're hard at work pondering the mysteries of the universe and someone else on your research team walks in one morning and says "Oh by the way I had some gene enhancements over the weekend and I disproved, rewrote, proved and expanded upon our thesis on the way into work this morning", wouldn't you want to be that smart as well? And, for the minority who answer no, realistically, in that kind of society they're going to become functionally redundant - you don't want them slowing down your research teams, or messing up your mines with their clumsy work, so even an incredibly egalitarian society which would never force the change upon them would naturally not favour them for employment, meaning you don't see them represented in your workforce. I think of the 'holdout' minority in an ascension path to be something which is allowed to naturally dwindle, consigned to nice care homes where they can talk about how back in their day people calculated hyperlane jumps with good old fashioned sapient computers instead of as a side process in their head. Except for psionic ascension - I always considered that to be less a choice and more...a thing that happens. That, while you as a player are making that choice, the people of your empire just become increasingly psionic 'naturally' and there's no more of an ethical decision to be made about it than there was about the fact that life happened at all.
@@duncanharrell5009 Could go with the Total Annihilation backstory route and have the government force everybody to have their consciousness transferred into android bodies, in the name of keeping each and every citizen safe from physical harm.
Weirdly, I seem to have played Stellaris in reverse. First I played a devouring swarm, then a slaver empire, then a megacorp and now I almost exclusively play idealistic democracies trying to bring equality and goodwill into the galaxy, because the real world is too depressing not to hope that that will be our future
Sounds like what I used to be, I used to play as all the negative species and nation types. Just to finally be the good guys since nothing should ever experience pain, or suffering. Life is already enough, why would we need more of it? Even in a game as a thought?
I play usually as either democratic crusaders or Evangelizing Zealots. We will not exterminate the Xeno… we just enlighten them to The Perfect away of Life/True Faith by force.
Yeah, I never play with it active because it was always more trouble than it was worth, I can't believe he actually did a run with it. That species screen was actually nightmare fuel.
It's one of those super cool concepts. Until you see the actual results of it on your performance and micromanagement. I like turning everyone into machines because at least we are all the same metal.
@LuizAlexPhoenix I don't turn everyone in to Machines I just skip Straight to slaves because for some reason I never have enough energy even after I build a Dyson's sphere
"but we have much more hp, so we are not really bothered with the damage" the good old tactics against killbots, run down their kill limit. you deserve a medal for that.
That was epic. It was a shame that you got betrayed by your allies at the end. At the moment of the final test, they failed you and more importantly, themselves.
I realize this video must have taken an immense amount of time and energy but I need more like this. The length is great, I learned a lot about Stellaris watching it, and its a narrative masterpiece. I've owned Stellaris for years but never played it because the task just seemed so daunting but after watching this I have actually put in the effort to play. Thank you.
Same, I've owned stellaris as long as I've owned the ck games. But those games I found easy to learn, Stellaris? I've always struggled with grasping it. People usually claim it's the other way round, but for me it's not. Maybe it's all the levels of ui involved? Idk. It's a shame, because I MUCH prefer the idea and setting of Stellaris, and would love to get a handle on it
I end up playing the UNE so often - I don't have the heart to be an evil empire, even in a game, and I enjoy representing humanity. Lack of imagination; I know :|
Same. Though I vary that with trying something super alien. Like a fungoid necromancy kingdom (like the mushrooms with zombie ants on our planet) but still see themselves as good guys and are classified as an enlightened monarchy. Stuff like that. They tend towards good guys from their own POV. So yeah sure they revive dead things and turn pops into fungoids in elevation chambers, but to them it is just another stage in the natural order of things. They are like rangers and environmental engineers. Would we call them good guys? Probably not. But they aren’t xenophobes and they are just doing what their biology has them programmed to do. That is as bad guy as I can get.
Actually cant really stand playing UNE for same exact reason - want to represent humanity and if you look at history and even current affairs UNE doesnt actually represent us at all.
Lack of imagination? I think evil is what lacks imagination. Every problem you encounter is solved by war and genocide when you’re evil. Where’s the nuance? Where’s the STORY? When you treat the other species as equals you have to make difficult decisions that lead to interesting outcomes.
i like how in the second and third crisis the fleet of the galaxy is there and doing not an insignificant amount of effort because usually its just the player nation carrying the galaxy
There should be an origin akin to last survivor of a crisis. And you start with a bunch of tech and a random megastructure in the center of the galaxy.
1:05:49 I've been loving it so far montu! :) Currently watching my own UNE game in observer mode being very passive for the past 51 years. But I would say that's perfectly reasonable for the neighbouring civilizations to gaze upon as a beacon of hope considering one neighbour experienced subjugation and another had an uprising right on the UNEs border. Most likely caused by our upstanding values. EDIT Breaking news! The UNE has just now declared war on the Red Thory Commonwealth in a ''War of Belief''! The Red Thory are a Xenophilic and Fanatic Authoritarian regime who has eyed their neighbours with subjugation in mind. To prevent the death and suffering of billions, the UNE has stepped up to liberate the open minded currently oppressed.
Uhoh. Uhoh. "Extradimensional Warlock 'The Psionic Energies of this captured extradimensional maintained the dimensional portal between their realm and our own, before the portal was destroyed. Now our prisoner, the creature has been compelled to use its power to increase the sublight speed of our ships as well as the range of our jump drives." A prisoner of war compelled to service? Sounds like slavery.
A UNE playthrough? I didn't know you put out vanilla content Montu. In all seriousness this gives me nostalgia for my first playthrough. Ahh the memories, the many wars against the Mitron Purifiers, vassalization and eventually releasing of the Blorg, and the scary Contingency.
I played as a despotoc hegemony and declared war on a friendly empire for resources and expansion. The response was "human we thought we were friends, how could you?" 😢. Quit the game immediately deleted the save and started as UNE even though I was midgame and had multiple megastructures and military supremacy. Never again..
This was one of the best videos ive watched all year. I really loved this. Thanks so much. The way you removed the boring parts and RPed the important parts was incredible. It was great watching you protect primative species like the star trek first rule. That speach at 1:56:00 😊 so many great pop culture and historical references.
Great playthrough. I love these role playing campaigns. Much more satisfying than the min/maxing kind (though, it is palin that min maxing is going on within the boundaries)
funny I just finished watching your Skynet playthrough video that I put off again and again and now this pops up. Ironically I have to watch this another day, but I probably won't wait 2 years for that. 😁
Wow, the RP over game play efficiency decisions are spot on. You are a better, stronger willed person than me. I'd have succumbed to some fabricated reason why my supposedly egalitarian, xenophile, non-forced augmentation empire did such an such despite it going blatantly against my supposed morals. I never could have passed the gene-upgrade biology event chain for example to just sell it... awesome.
looking at endgame death stacks makes me wish for a military and fleet update. Maybe go for less ships overall but with more impact. A bit like Star trek or even star wars. The ships could have actual leaders as commanders or something and more character.
Meanwhile, here I am playing UNE like Space America, forming Space NATO and using that to fight liberation wars against everyone who doesn't want to play nice with me.
Simply amazing! That was 2 hours well spent! This playthrough could be a novel series. My very first playthrough was UNE roleplaying and this was so nostalgic! One of your best videos by far Montu!
I love this form of role play, really emphasizes how hard it can be to keep culturally and ethically diverse population heading in the same direction. Really seems to make you have to use the games mechanics in interesting ways.
This is so awesomely done. Better than last several tv shows i watched combined! Keep them coming! Also as someone who plays domination victories, all the narration of space politik is a guide and tutorial on its own which can be stdied frame by frame. Love it!
I always start intending to be the United federation of planets but when jerk aliens start attacking my worlds I quickly descend into becoming the imperium of man, but still democratic and after conquering … I mean giving liberty to my unruly neighbors they get to enjoy utopian abundance too. I don’t start the wars (I kind of antagonize them into starting) but I definitely end them. For liberty.
I can't play the "good guy", because overall in 4X games I tend to expend A LOT in early game, so I usually piss off AI for being "too aggressive" or I box them in so they had no other choice but to attack me in hopes of grabbing some of my land and be able to expend themselves. Or you know, in case of let's say Civ 6, I just go-a-viking on AI in early game, and once you take out or heavily cripple your closest AI neighbor, you're just gonna snowball after that. It's just how game was designed.
Just found your channel like 2-3 days ago and couldn’t remember the name of your channel, I can’t say that anyone has ever made me want to boot up Stellaris as much as your channel has in the past like 2-3 days, big fan of your 40K crusade video wish I would’ve subbed then, don’t worry I rectified that mistake already.
Yeah that triple crisis is rough if you’re not gonna play to the meta. The only time I survived was turtling in the L cluster while they fought each other. The unbidden eventually came out on top and I was able to specialize my fleets and drive to the portal and close it. It took another 200 years to actually wipe them out lol.
That was a hell of a roleplaying, hats off. I enjoyed it fully! :D The fleets not entering the system at once really messed up the entire playthrough. Perhaps, you'd have a chance if they entered it as one. Still, 28 mln power fleets are beyond ridiculous xD Sometimes, it's better to keep the crisis level a bit more reasonable for the playthroughs in the galaxy settings. I wish the Xeno Compatibility allowed you to be selective with what races your pops can be compatible with. So you wouldn't have to deal with a long list of pops like you showed.
I absolutely love these roleplays. So many other playthroughs of Stellaris go for minmaxing, it's nice to see someone really wrestling with the questions of egalitarianism in a brutal galaxy and xenophilia during wars of agression. I think you roleplayed very well!
Its been almost 2 years since Ive played, and wow there is soo much new stuff. I love all the interactions with primitives now I was not expecting the ending to go like that. Wow!
Did the Xeno Rights Committee who ordered the callous murder of that asteroid heading towards pre-ftl LITHOIDS even CONSIDER the possibility that that was their mother coming home?
@@MontuPlays Okay, so having watched the whole video yes, you succeeded at being the good guy...aside from the bit where you decided to let the galaxy burn because rebuilding your fleet would take painfully long. I'm not saying it was the wrong choice, but it was definitely 'ethically questionable'. I really felt for you - you spent the entire playthrough dedicated to Galactic Unity and at the pivotal moment, when you committed everything, your allies unanimously said "Nah thanks" and buggered off, after you committed. It was honestly like they deliberately left you to die, and it was mean.
2:18:36 I usually always wait to get all AIs fleet who follow my fleet to be close to mine before i jump new system that usually confirms that they are going to follow.
Is there a mod that lets me start on earth as the United states of America. Where an alternative take on history where the USA won the war of 1812 and annexed Canada becoming a strong nation over time and by accident the nation annex the earth during the 200 years from what is considered present modern time.
11:36 Discovers plantoid pre-ftl species:
"This revelation has sent shockwaves down the vegan and vegetarian populations of earth, who now look on at their meals in horror"
🤣
Plantoid species sees human vegans eating a salad. "THEY'RE EATING US!!!!"
it is the correct narration... :)
@@glennjanot8128 It's a cookbook! It's a cookbook!
@@brandonclark435 Reminds me of an episode of Married with Children when Al has to go with Peggy to her family and he finds a book.
"Peg! 'To serve men'. IT'S A COOKBOOK!"
@@glennjanot8128 They're eating her and then they're going to eat me! OH MY GOD!!!
"Dont worry, I am not a lizard. I am a human like you at home"
That sounded rehearsed.. 🤔
I'm not buying it. Pics or I don't believe you. And no AI face generation bull.
sounds like something a lizzard would say
V
I, too, enjoy oxygen and walking on leg.
@@ChildrenOfRadiation Are they your legs? As in legs that you grew by yourself, bone, tissue, and blood vessels?
We all start as une then megacorp then imperium of man
The temptation is there...
I literally skipped to the xenophobe empire part, no gonna lie
@@maximovera575 oh don’t spoiler that
The Emperor protects
I went from une feeling bad for declaring war to a determined exterminator fanboy in 5 playthroughs
Sir, passing on the gene modification event for the RP is dedication. I applaud you.
It was PAIN.
@@MontuPlays I heard you and DJ have this discussion in one of the Timelines (I think). I always operated less under the assumption that ascension was the decision of the government imposed upon the people (at least in the case of egalitarians) and more a case of natural progression and representative population numbers (in the case of organic and cybernetic ascension). Take Synthetic ascension as an example - I think less of it signifying a mandate being issued and armed forces dragging unwilling individuals into Uploading Centres and more as signifying a substantial cultural shift in favour of that idea, where it is almost universally considered an incredible opportunity and the few holdouts who don't want it done are simply allowed to die out.
Much like the Digital Age in our own society - nobody marched into our homes, plonked a computer down and then pinned our eyelids open through a microsoft introduction. It's just better than not having a computer, so people make the choice to have one and then as society shifts it increasingly becomes a necessity of everyday life.
If you're at work in the mines, lugging around some mining laser, and the guy next to you deploys one from his wrist, does his work in half the time and takes a nap, wouldn't you want one too?
Or if you're hard at work pondering the mysteries of the universe and someone else on your research team walks in one morning and says "Oh by the way I had some gene enhancements over the weekend and I disproved, rewrote, proved and expanded upon our thesis on the way into work this morning", wouldn't you want to be that smart as well?
And, for the minority who answer no, realistically, in that kind of society they're going to become functionally redundant - you don't want them slowing down your research teams, or messing up your mines with their clumsy work, so even an incredibly egalitarian society which would never force the change upon them would naturally not favour them for employment, meaning you don't see them represented in your workforce.
I think of the 'holdout' minority in an ascension path to be something which is allowed to naturally dwindle, consigned to nice care homes where they can talk about how back in their day people calculated hyperlane jumps with good old fashioned sapient computers instead of as a side process in their head.
Except for psionic ascension - I always considered that to be less a choice and more...a thing that happens. That, while you as a player are making that choice, the people of your empire just become increasingly psionic 'naturally' and there's no more of an ethical decision to be made about it than there was about the fact that life happened at all.
If you're roleplaying the Federation, that includes the Augment Ban.
Theoretically couldn’t the Gene mod be RP’d as heavily encouraged by the private sector/subsidized safe treatment by the UNE W.H.O?
@@duncanharrell5009 Could go with the Total Annihilation backstory route and have the government force everybody to have their consciousness transferred into android bodies, in the name of keeping each and every citizen safe from physical harm.
Weirdly, I seem to have played Stellaris in reverse. First I played a devouring swarm, then a slaver empire, then a megacorp and now I almost exclusively play idealistic democracies trying to bring equality and goodwill into the galaxy, because the real world is too depressing not to hope that that will be our future
Sounds like what I used to be, I used to play as all the negative species and nation types. Just to finally be the good guys since nothing should ever experience pain, or suffering. Life is already enough, why would we need more of it? Even in a game as a thought?
Destroyer empires are easier, especially robotic.
@@aksmex2576 I still remember an era before robotic destroyer empires, when biology reigned supreme, as intended 😈
The problem with that is that means more late game lag which I hate xd
I play usually as either democratic crusaders or Evangelizing Zealots. We will not exterminate the Xeno… we just enlighten them to The Perfect away of Life/True Faith by force.
>xeno-compatibility
rip frames and species list
Xeno-Compatibility mixed with late game lag. As someone who always turns it off, I forget how truly terrifying it can be.
Yeah, I never play with it active because it was always more trouble than it was worth, I can't believe he actually did a run with it. That species screen was actually nightmare fuel.
It's one of those super cool concepts. Until you see the actual results of it on your performance and micromanagement. I like turning everyone into machines because at least we are all the same metal.
@LuizAlexPhoenix I don't turn everyone in to Machines I just skip Straight to slaves because for some reason I never have enough energy even after I build a Dyson's sphere
@@bigguygamer733 And here i always play Xenophobe or Gestalt because i cant be bothered to augment more than 10 different Spezies.
UNE got me feeling patriotic for humanity
humans #1
HELL YEAH
FOR SUPER EARTHHHH
@@atombomb8139Helldivers to hellpods
UNE is incredibly gay tbh.
"but we have much more hp, so we are not really bothered with the damage"
the good old tactics against killbots, run down their kill limit. you deserve a medal for that.
That was epic. It was a shame that you got betrayed by your allies at the end. At the moment of the final test, they failed you and more importantly, themselves.
I realize this video must have taken an immense amount of time and energy but I need more like this. The length is great, I learned a lot about Stellaris watching it, and its a narrative masterpiece. I've owned Stellaris for years but never played it because the task just seemed so daunting but after watching this I have actually put in the effort to play. Thank you.
Check out the playlist in the description, there's a host of playthroughs like this
Same, I've owned stellaris as long as I've owned the ck games. But those games I found easy to learn, Stellaris? I've always struggled with grasping it. People usually claim it's the other way round, but for me it's not. Maybe it's all the levels of ui involved? Idk. It's a shame, because I MUCH prefer the idea and setting of Stellaris, and would love to get a handle on it
Go
The stellaris trailers go hard
Apocalypse always gets me teary eyed and actually thinking the UN is based.
"I solemnly swear..."
I end up playing the UNE so often - I don't have the heart to be an evil empire, even in a game, and I enjoy representing humanity. Lack of imagination; I know :|
Same. Though I vary that with trying something super alien. Like a fungoid necromancy kingdom (like the mushrooms with zombie ants on our planet) but still see themselves as good guys and are classified as an enlightened monarchy. Stuff like that. They tend towards good guys from their own POV. So yeah sure they revive dead things and turn pops into fungoids in elevation chambers, but to them it is just another stage in the natural order of things. They are like rangers and environmental engineers. Would we call them good guys? Probably not. But they aren’t xenophobes and they are just doing what their biology has them programmed to do. That is as bad guy as I can get.
Actually cant really stand playing UNE for same exact reason - want to represent humanity and if you look at history and even current affairs UNE doesnt actually represent us at all.
I always try to corrupt the UNE as much as possible, turning fanatic egalitarians into fanatic xenophobe slavers is always fun
Lack of imagination? I think evil is what lacks imagination. Every problem you encounter is solved by war and genocide when you’re evil. Where’s the nuance? Where’s the STORY? When you treat the other species as equals you have to make difficult decisions that lead to interesting outcomes.
Imagining a better world is the greatest challenge of all.
Those last 4 minutes are why good people build the aethrophasic engine.
With the Machine Age DLC, you can just rewrite the laws of reality.
You can't be a good guy, it is just not possible.
Why isn't it possible?
Probably not. But you can try to be a lighter shade of grey, nonetheless.
Well, based on the ending, he wasn't the bad guy. #Speechless
"this is what it looks like when the galaxy comes together as one"
PC exploding, running at 1 fps.... Good to know i won't be doing that 😅
"There is a small state expenditure of consumer goods..."
The small state expenditure: multiple empires' worth of consumer goods production
"Looks at own robots in concern" - UNE Leader
1:04:00 "The coordination center has been strategically placed, behind Uranus".
I most certainly was not expecting that one.
"Don't worry, I'm not a lizard. I'm a human like you at home ladies and gentleman"
Haha, nice try Montu, nice try... 😎
I believe Secretary-General Montu, who is definitely NOT a lizard, represented the values of the United Nations of Earth exceptionally. Huzzah!
i like how in the second and third crisis the fleet of the galaxy is there and doing not an insignificant amount of effort because usually its just the player nation carrying the galaxy
Montu roleplaying as "good guys"? I can't believe i lived long enough to witness it.
Playing good guys, also recruit the army with 500% colateral damages. Because everyone is equaly free to die.😂
I don’t think Montu knows what a good guy is, so unless he stumbles into it on accident…
The UNE is what I play basically on repeat now, with gradually increasing levels of Crisis difficulty. For prosperity and liberty!
i always have a soft spot for the UNE
Had to liberate that like button for this amazing playthrough
There should be an origin akin to last survivor of a crisis. And you start with a bunch of tech and a random megastructure in the center of the galaxy.
1:05:49 I've been loving it so far montu! :) Currently watching my own UNE game in observer mode being very passive for the past 51 years. But I would say that's perfectly reasonable for the neighbouring civilizations to gaze upon as a beacon of hope considering one neighbour experienced subjugation and another had an uprising right on the UNEs border. Most likely caused by our upstanding values.
EDIT Breaking news! The UNE has just now declared war on the Red Thory Commonwealth in a ''War of Belief''!
The Red Thory are a Xenophilic and Fanatic Authoritarian regime who has eyed their neighbours with subjugation in mind. To prevent the death and suffering of billions, the UNE has stepped up to liberate the open minded currently oppressed.
Uhoh. Uhoh. "Extradimensional Warlock 'The Psionic Energies of this captured extradimensional maintained the dimensional portal between their realm and our own, before the portal was destroyed. Now our prisoner, the creature has been compelled to use its power to increase the sublight speed of our ships as well as the range of our jump drives."
A prisoner of war compelled to service? Sounds like slavery.
"Some sort of rendezvous with Rama" I saw what you did there. I actually loved this book.
A UNE playthrough? I didn't know you put out vanilla content Montu. In all seriousness this gives me nostalgia for my first playthrough. Ahh the memories, the many wars against the Mitron Purifiers, vassalization and eventually releasing of the Blorg, and the scary Contingency.
Really enjoyed this full playthrough of you, was hooked the entire time and i hope to see more of this format
Thanks Montu
I played as a despotoc hegemony and declared war on a friendly empire for resources and expansion. The response was "human we thought we were friends, how could you?" 😢. Quit the game immediately deleted the save and started as UNE even though I was midgame and had multiple megastructures and military supremacy. Never again..
There really need to be more videos like this. Full playthroughs are so fun to watch
This was one of the best videos ive watched all year. I really loved this. Thanks so much. The way you removed the boring parts and RPed the important parts was incredible. It was great watching you protect primative species like the star trek first rule. That speach at 1:56:00 😊 so many great pop culture and historical references.
Now we have to do one with the Commonwealth of Man.
They feel more.... honest
Great playthrough. I love these role playing campaigns. Much more satisfying than the min/maxing kind (though, it is palin that min maxing is going on within the boundaries)
funny I just finished watching your Skynet playthrough video that I put off again and again and now this pops up.
Ironically I have to watch this another day, but I probably won't wait 2 years for that. 😁
This was an outstanding play through. The fleet battles against the scourge is how I imagined Mass Effect 3 should have ended :D
i would love to see a "generic" imperium of man empire play through since ironically there arnt many of them on youtube
FOR THE EMPEROR
Wow, the RP over game play efficiency decisions are spot on.
You are a better, stronger willed person than me.
I'd have succumbed to some fabricated reason why my supposedly egalitarian, xenophile, non-forced augmentation empire did such an such despite it going blatantly against my supposed morals. I never could have passed the gene-upgrade biology event chain for example to just sell it... awesome.
"Ah! Is that what the big ring shaped thing over your bed is for? A 'docking clamp'?"
Now I understand where the flat ringers joke in the recent Ring World video comes from 😂
A simple start, but a good one.
UNE: *exist’s*
The galaxy: “and I took that personal”
looking at endgame death stacks makes me wish for a military and fleet update. Maybe go for less ships overall but with more impact. A bit like Star trek or even star wars. The ships could have actual leaders as commanders or something and more character.
Dude your storytelling is top notch. Have been binging your playthroughs today. Keep up the amazing content 🫡
“Supported 12 times”
hmmmm.. I’m starting to see where this is headed
THIS WAS SO FUN TO WATCH, THANK YOU AND PLEASE DO RP MORE
I used to watch ESO do great Skyrim builds, sometimes with some RP.
Swear you remind me of those.
Thank you, great stuff. 😁
57:12 Ring World Defenses: "Are you sure about that?"
Meanwhile, here I am playing UNE like Space America, forming Space NATO and using that to fight liberation wars against everyone who doesn't want to play nice with me.
Simply amazing! That was 2 hours well spent! This playthrough could be a novel series. My very first playthrough was UNE roleplaying and this was so nostalgic! One of your best videos by far Montu!
I really enjoyed the RP run. It makes things much more interesting that optimal play.
This was really awesome would love play throughs and RPs of all the pre made civs!
thank you for not using ai photos, or at least as far as i can tell lol. enjoying the montu movie so far :)
I'm pretty sure its all art made by people!
I love this form of role play, really emphasizes how hard it can be to keep culturally and ethically diverse population heading in the same direction. Really seems to make you have to use the games mechanics in interesting ways.
Damn that just got dark at the end I did not expect things to do a full 180 that quickly.
I absolutely loved this, the commentary, the RP. Brilliant mate :).
This is all great. It would be nice to see what kind of ship builds you were using as well.
Can't believe I watched the whole thing. Great entertainment, maybe a "misunderstood pop eating hive" next?
I think I might do Commonwealth of Man next
@@MontuPlays I'm still waiting little boy
I love this. I love the RP but really love the difference between this and ever other series I’ve seen.
This is so awesomely done. Better than last several tv shows i watched combined! Keep them coming! Also as someone who plays domination victories, all the narration of space politik is a guide and tutorial on its own which can be stdied frame by frame. Love it!
This was so entertaining to watch. I would definitely watch more.
I always start intending to be the United federation of planets but when jerk aliens start attacking my worlds I quickly descend into becoming the imperium of man, but still democratic and after conquering … I mean giving liberty to my unruly neighbors they get to enjoy utopian abundance too. I don’t start the wars (I kind of antagonize them into starting) but I definitely end them. For liberty.
I can't play the "good guy", because overall in 4X games I tend to expend A LOT in early game, so I usually piss off AI for being "too aggressive" or I box them in so they had no other choice but to attack me in hopes of grabbing some of my land and be able to expend themselves.
Or you know, in case of let's say Civ 6, I just go-a-viking on AI in early game, and once you take out or heavily cripple your closest AI neighbor, you're just gonna snowball after that. It's just how game was designed.
@@njmfff always be yourself, except in Civ 6. Then always be Gandhi.
@@damianjblack Stop it. We have nukes. 😂
@@njmfff so does Gandhi ;-)
Good one Montu. I am indeed enjoying these play throughs. Your quite talented at the Story telling. Thanks. ;)
Just found your channel like 2-3 days ago and couldn’t remember the name of your channel, I can’t say that anyone has ever made me want to boot up Stellaris as much as your channel has in the past like 2-3 days, big fan of your 40K crusade video wish I would’ve subbed then, don’t worry I rectified that mistake already.
What an amazing video! great storytelling, great pacing
great video, loved the rp aspect of it and the humor sprinkelt in, keep it up
Yeah that triple crisis is rough if you’re not gonna play to the meta. The only time I survived was turtling in the L cluster while they fought each other. The unbidden eventually came out on top and I was able to specialize my fleets and drive to the portal and close it. It took another 200 years to actually wipe them out lol.
Montu, you are already a good guy. Please keep up the fun and awesome vids!
That was a hell of a roleplaying, hats off. I enjoyed it fully! :D
The fleets not entering the system at once really messed up the entire playthrough. Perhaps, you'd have a chance if they entered it as one.
Still, 28 mln power fleets are beyond ridiculous xD Sometimes, it's better to keep the crisis level a bit more reasonable for the playthroughs in the galaxy settings.
I wish the Xeno Compatibility allowed you to be selective with what races your pops can be compatible with. So you wouldn't have to deal with a long list of pops like you showed.
Loving the roleplay, i need to do this again instead of min maxing everytime! Actually way more fun
I absolutely love these roleplays. So many other playthroughs of Stellaris go for minmaxing, it's nice to see someone really wrestling with the questions of egalitarianism in a brutal galaxy and xenophilia during wars of agression. I think you roleplayed very well!
Damn the intro. I yearn for a democratic human union free from capitalist & burocratic opression.
Yes, indeed, all of us are normal, human people.
I wonder if it would be mutually beneficial if you released these full play throughs as episodes in a series
Loving the roleplay :) Keep it up :D
Maybe you should roleplay your native species next, you know the Tzynn.
I'm doing my part
Its been almost 2 years since Ive played, and wow there is soo much new stuff. I love all the interactions with primitives now
I was not expecting the ending to go like that. Wow!
I loved watching this, thank you for your service
Hive mind Human is the most cursed thing in this galaxy
Hive mind Humans basically = "WE ARE THE BORG. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE."
Incredibly well spoken narrative. Was hooked for the entire video
Imagine your a newly accended space faring civilization, and the first alien message you get is ‘target aquired, beggin purification protocoles.’
Pretty sure that's the plot of Independence Day.
Great video - it was fun to watch. Well done!
Did the Xeno Rights Committee who ordered the callous murder of that asteroid heading towards pre-ftl LITHOIDS even CONSIDER the possibility that that was their mother coming home?
... no, no, he has a good point!
@@MontuPlays Okay, so having watched the whole video yes, you succeeded at being the good guy...aside from the bit where you decided to let the galaxy burn because rebuilding your fleet would take painfully long. I'm not saying it was the wrong choice, but it was definitely 'ethically questionable'.
I really felt for you - you spent the entire playthrough dedicated to Galactic Unity and at the pivotal moment, when you committed everything, your allies unanimously said "Nah thanks" and buggered off, after you committed. It was honestly like they deliberately left you to die, and it was mean.
I'm glad you give a vocal point of view since I can't watch I'm at work I'm using this more as a podcast :3
1:37 thanks for the confirmation
1:30:40 Creative storytelling highly appreciated.
Stellaris Challenge:
RP as the good guy
Difficulty:
Impossible
Kitty Hawke being a missile BB instead of a carrier 0/10
2:18:36 I usually always wait to get all AIs fleet who follow my fleet to be close to mine before i jump new system that usually confirms that they are going to follow.
Very nice! I'm always a fan of United Nations of Earth.
I love this narrative style, it's how I used to play before I discovered your competitive discord lol.
I freaking loved this video!
This was an incredible video! Nice work!
Is there a mod that lets me start on earth as the United states of America. Where an alternative take on history where the USA won the war of 1812 and annexed Canada becoming a strong nation over time and by accident the nation annex the earth during the 200 years from what is considered present modern time.
really hope you do more of these very inresting