I will fight over the enigmatic cache it can literally provide the uplifted trait to species for free through event chains, even if it does fails (partially) u still wind up getting a free research bonus trait out of it. I've had this happen to me in the past 3 games I've played and all it required was devoting a science ship and a construction ship to research 2 special projects.
I don't quite get the Ether Drake's placement. By the time I'm ready to kill it, I have immortal leaders and thus the dragonslayer trait which the fleet admiral gets for killing it is forever good. The relic you also get with a passive 10% unity is also pretty critical for me. I send my fleet across the galaxy to kill this thing even if I never get its system, and I'd appreciate thoughts on why it's worse than the dreadnought which to me is only good for its firing systems/computer you can get from it.
The list is purely subjective. Tbh I just really like the idea of a still functioning flagship that's "out of time" so to say. It's a powerful and cool looking addition to my fleets. Also, I prefer the fleet power up front rather than upgrading my admiral in the late game. The dragon is also cool and the dragon slayer trait is certainly good, I can't argue its not. The drake is certainly more mechanically deep so I can very much see why you'd pick it above the dreadnought. Tldr, its just personal preference
The worm in waiting and the other horrors are kinda meh. The only thing I like about the worm is that gives a bunch of free planets in your capital. About the leviathan traits, the matriarch is clearly best, it a bunch of free pop production. The voidspawn allows you to completely move your economy away from food (or minerals if lithoid, well your alloy production still need minerals or food) I agree the dragonscales trait is a way to weak. The dragonplate ship armour, however, is the best armour in the game! ^^ The Scrapperbots special techs are okay, if you can secure yourself a source of nanites. The enigmatic fortress' tech, well the one that increases tracking on top of chance to hit is just a straight upgrade from the basic one.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! From a mechanics perspective, you make great points lol. And yea thinking about it again the matriarch can be pretty great for most empires
Sadly I do not think that this kind of video will work if you go just by graphics design and story of the leviathans. I love your other videos but this one sadly does not work for me at all. If it was done for what do these leaviathans provide or power level (which would require lot of testing since usually you wont be seeing much more than specter fighting some of these). But if you would go purely by what techs, relics, or planetary/empire bonuses they can provide it will be way harder to make but still slightly better. I think even ranking them by age would be better xD
Yea these are my worst performing videos and understandably so, if I ever come back to making these I’ll change the format for sure. Thanks for the feedback!
@@SaintofSol I wish you succes because I love they way project to your empire builds. I spent crazy amount of time on the game and even that I still love Stellaris, I would say that I lost the way of enjoying it in the best possible way. Thank you
I will fight over the enigmatic cache it can literally provide the uplifted trait to species for free through event chains, even if it does fails (partially) u still wind up getting a free research bonus trait out of it. I've had this happen to me in the past 3 games I've played and all it required was devoting a science ship and a construction ship to research 2 special projects.
Sounds like it does a lot more for you than me lol, I don’t blame you for putting it higher on the list
Keep going man, i am surprised you got so few subs, your videos are really entertaining
Glad you like the videos, I currently don't have any plans of stopping so, stay tuned lol. Also thanks for the encouraging words man, really
You deserve more subs my guy
I don't quite get the Ether Drake's placement. By the time I'm ready to kill it, I have immortal leaders and thus the dragonslayer trait which the fleet admiral gets for killing it is forever good. The relic you also get with a passive 10% unity is also pretty critical for me. I send my fleet across the galaxy to kill this thing even if I never get its system, and I'd appreciate thoughts on why it's worse than the dreadnought which to me is only good for its firing systems/computer you can get from it.
The list is purely subjective. Tbh I just really like the idea of a still functioning flagship that's "out of time" so to say. It's a powerful and cool looking addition to my fleets. Also, I prefer the fleet power up front rather than upgrading my admiral in the late game. The dragon is also cool and the dragon slayer trait is certainly good, I can't argue its not. The drake is certainly more mechanically deep so I can very much see why you'd pick it above the dreadnought. Tldr, its just personal preference
The worm in waiting and the other horrors are kinda meh.
The only thing I like about the worm is that gives a bunch of free planets in your capital.
About the leviathan traits, the matriarch is clearly best, it a bunch of free pop production.
The voidspawn allows you to completely move your economy away from food (or minerals if lithoid, well your alloy production still need minerals or food)
I agree the dragonscales trait is a way to weak. The dragonplate ship armour, however, is the best armour in the game! ^^
The Scrapperbots special techs are okay, if you can secure yourself a source of nanites.
The enigmatic fortress' tech, well the one that increases tracking on top of chance to hit is just a straight upgrade from the basic one.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! From a mechanics perspective, you make great points lol. And yea thinking about it again the matriarch can be pretty great for most empires
Sadly I do not think that this kind of video will work if you go just by graphics design and story of the leviathans. I love your other videos but this one sadly does not work for me at all. If it was done for what do these leaviathans provide or power level (which would require lot of testing since usually you wont be seeing much more than specter fighting some of these). But if you would go purely by what techs, relics, or planetary/empire bonuses they can provide it will be way harder to make but still slightly better.
I think even ranking them by age would be better xD
Yea these are my worst performing videos and understandably so, if I ever come back to making these I’ll change the format for sure. Thanks for the feedback!
@@SaintofSol I wish you succes because I love they way project to your empire builds. I spent crazy amount of time on the game and even that I still love Stellaris, I would say that I lost the way of enjoying it in the best possible way. Thank you