Yes, I did accidentally put the outro in at the 37 minute mark. This is because I recorded this over 3 days and edited each days worth of recording at the end of the day.. and apparently that day I just autopiloted and added the outro to that section.. yup. Keeping it in there, for fun now! Inwards perfection, with the rule of ignoring all other empires & the end game crisis! Time to build up some serious fleetpower! More regular uploads should be back very soon! Been an insane few weeks with all sorts of stuff going on in the background, with these videos being easier to record between everything! More Terratech, Minecaft and such soon! :D Enjoy the video! :)
I think I have an empire just like this one, same portrait, but it's also spiritualist. My lore is that it's a pagan religious empire worshiping nature. It's also with mods so it's more fleshed out. They're also "invironmentalist" witch another mod adds
@@signedzulu7637 america sent a lot of naval fleets after germany took down one american transatlantic supply ship destined to the uk civilians, because germany was trying to starve the uk to push her out of the war. Then america pushed for ethical war laws and the end of all coflicts in a democratic way. I dont see how america didnt do anything in ww1
after this historians of your species will have an amazing story to tell: "And there we were, letting the galaxy fall, as it did not deserve our help, when our glorious immortal ruler received a vision from a random spirit who called himself Lathrax. He told our leader 'Screw that, make a few hundred of your smallest ship, load it with amazing technology, and slam it into the Unbidden'. And so we did, and it worked for some reason."
Everyone talking about different endgame ideas, no one mentions the Crisis Manager mod series and how you can have ALL THE CRISES SIMULTANEOUSLY. AND you can get AI End of The Cycle for even MORE fun.
@@jonasfree2 I made this with the console, the Unbidden and the contingency attacked at the same time. Since the Unbidden only appears in one system I first fight the contingency and them move to attack the Unbidden but at this moment they are way stronger than I expected, luckily one of the FE started to fight the Unbidden and after 6 years I destroyed their last fleet. Was a good run.
On one side: The Scourge On the second side: The Unbidden Up top: The Contingency Meanwhile War In Heaven and the Khan still raging on. While the L Gate opens and the Tempest just floods in. All on highest difficulty. Curious now.
@@rhyscallinan4402 this is how I play my stellaris games. Although tbf I play with scaling Grand Admiral so that the advanced AI's don't just instantly roll over me with their free extra resources
Hey Lathrix, you should do the fanatic purifier challenge: max AI difficulty, every empire including yours is a fanatical purifier. It would be an action packed playthrough with lots of wars.
Ongr MtGA you can make a bunch of empires and “force spawning” to where they over ride the random ai empires spawned though how many you want in the galaxy
I just want to say I really love these Stellaris videos, but they're very clearly the hardest ones for you to make. They condense a looong Stellaris campaign into a single long video, which is super nice. I find them to be the best way of watching Stellaris on TH-cam. Thanks for all the effort you put in, Lath.
I like to imagine that the Nu Boal produce fruit on themselves. So you're not really eating them, you're just eating their delicious fruit. They are plant people so it's not unbelievable.
@@tristeneagles Damn... But if we don't eat the seeds then they'd be fine. Just like in real life fruit is a transport system for plant seeds. When most animals eat the fruit they poop out the seeds elsewhere and a new plant grows. So if you were to just remove the seeds, eat the fruit and then plant the seeds the Nu Boal would be fine.
The immature dragons from that specific L-Gate outcome can be tamed. Not that important in the grand scheme of things, but it's free firepower so, why not? :) PS: they grow up too.
That "patrolling" of the crisis ships reminds me a lot of me experience with automatic exploration. Often my science ships will just decide to randomly go away from the 10+ surveyable systems they're at, just to spend 2 years going through my entire empire to survey 1 random system, and then they'll go all the way back, repeat ad infinitum...
Have you ever considered coming back to this game and role-playing as an awakened empire? I'm kinda curious on how it would play out to suddenly jump into the galactic stage after ignoring it for the entire game.
Can you do a playthrough with the feudal ethic for the imperial government? I really like the idea of an empire conquering others and then saying "We're in charge so you do what we ask... but other then that you can do whatever you want"
This is beyond turtling. This is taking the turtle, locking it in a vault and laying a minefield in front of it with signs everywhere that say "F**c Off!". I love it. Also, once you research the Psi Jump Drives and no AI empire has finished their machine ascension, the probability of the crisis being the Unbidden skyrockets. In fact, I maybe had a couple of games where the crisis wasn't the Unbidden once Psi Jump Drives were researched. So if you're going psionics as a player more often than not you're going to face the Unbidden.
Thaaaat was a mistake. Now updated the pinned comment to read "Yes, I did accidentally put the intro in at the 37 minute mark. This is because I recorded this over 3 days and edited each days worth of recording at the end of the day.. and apparently that day I just autopiloted and added the outro to that section.. yup. Keeping it in there, for fun now! " Haha!
I'm not sure how much of a challenge it would be, but a theme I've been thinking about is: Everyone knows the best part of mass effect was wrex and the krogans, so why dont we bring them here. Turtle alien portrait, post apocalyptic civic, militarist in some way(probably fanatic) and most importantly: no shields, no energy weapons, because a Krogan ship is nothing but metal covered in metal, shooting more metal.
Stellaris and RimWorld, will make sleep impossible, I learnt that the hard way (in year 11 playing games at 4 o clock pm, stoping the next day at 5 am)
Here is a challenge I just came up with after reading some other comments, feel free to refine it: Tick-Tock Robot Fanatic Purifier Synth The rules alter depending on whether it's an even year or odd year. Even Year: - No fighting, period. All ships on passive, no starting wars, etc. If combat is active when the year rolls over, retreat. - Every shipyard that can be building something must be building. Same for planets. Odd Year: - No building, period. All active projects ended, no new ones started. - If you can be at war, you are at war. Prefer attacking above all else.
But that would make some buildings be impossible to build, no? Maybe every decade or something would be better because imagine having to sit and wait out a year in the middle of a war, that's just annoying.
Ancient Cache of Technologies: a really exciting mod to spice up the endgame. Instead of constant repeatables, you dive into the amazing world of "dark matter technologies" that can rival (or even surpass) fallen empire tech. It includes buildings on planets, new resources to manage, and exciting upgrades to both ground troops and naval superiority. There are also unique tech options depending on your empire civics. There are events to go with the mod, and it really does change the end-game. I would highly recommend it!
@@baseupp12 but war in heaven is mid game and mid game wont start before the endgame crisis consumes the galaxy especially becuse in most cases they will be moving trough uncontrolled territory
@@cultistofdarkness1661 unless of course the end game crisis starts near a fallen empire and immediately eats them might cause the other fallen empires to awaken quickly
Lathrix, I’ve watched you for so many years now across multiple accounts. And your humbleness has has always socked me. Every game I see you come across, I see the determination to play to your best ability and improve. You my good sir never give yourself enough credit. Your deserve praise and a self compliment more than once in awhile. Keep being amazing lath. And I’ll always be here to support you
A really synergised inward perfection build would be Spiritualist, Pacifist, Xenophobe, Efficient Bureaucracy, Rapid Breeders and Traditional (and whichever negative traits). Gets you 60 starting admin cap, +40% growth speed and +40% unity generation.
Finally! Been waiting for another full playthrough for a long time. There's only so many times I can rewatch your previous episodes. 7 or 8 is probably the limit.
Reminds me of a game I had in the early days of Stellaris (1.3 or there about) where a monster of a defensive coalition had me boxed in, couldn't go either way around the ring galaxy with my swarm without the other side jumping past my defensive stations to ravage my empire. Then the Prethoryn turned up and started wrecking shit, conquering empires and infesting planets. They soon turned up on my southern border, but their construction ships could not break through a border designed to hold my neighbors armadas. Better still their infestations was so large that I could afford to slaughter each defending fleet as it came in allowing me to slowly chip away at them and reclaim the planets for the glory of the swarm. This resulted in my empire following the scourge round the galaxy chewing up their empire like the worlds worst parasite, fun times!
Kinda what happened in my game recently, but involving the Unbidden. I spent the better part of 200 years fortifying and strengthening my defenses cause I got boxed in by my Democratic Crusader neighbor “asshole”. And his 4 empire coalition. They spent decades throwing themselves at my defenses and fortress worlds not even getting past my first line. Unbidden shows up and proceeds to push everyone’s shit in. Once they get stuck at my pseudo “maginot line” the fun begins. I was able to respec and retrofit my ships to counter the unbidden. Heavy NVB and kinetic. With plenty of plating. I went from being the small defensive turtle, to suddenly the galaxies only hope within 50 years.
well, if you are looking at mods, this collection is the first to look at imho: Cinematic Space Battles Mod+Submods adding races, planettypes, etc. is nice and all, but this collection makes the most important impact for me. (longer and massively better looking battles that you dont have to slow down time to actually watch, in fact, in the early-mid game balanced battles can last long enough for reinforcements to arrive and for you to actually speed up time.) battles raging in the same timeframe as the rest of the game realy smoothes out the flow of the game, i freakin love it! ;)
I actually did something similar once (Inward Perfectionist Materialists), but I also used the Infinity Stones mod and had all six of them by the time the crises (I enabled all three) rolled around. Eventually I was the only non-crisis empire left.
The mega structures mod is fun. Tons of new fun things to build. Some fun examples off the top of my head. Planet battle craft, put engines and tons of weapons on a planet and go ham. A disco ball moon. A blackhole bomb. Or a black hole ringworld. Four ring world's in the same star system for when you like putting rings on rings. Or how about a system that uses the solar capacity of a star to fire a laser through a wormhole and at a planet of your choice. Those are the ones I can remember.
Blackhole ringworld doesn't make sense in practicality, unless it's a ringworld surrounding a blackhole "bomb" used for superradiant scattering energy for sustenance. Kurzgesagt made a video about it. Check it out :)
i dont know why but your videos help me sleep i like them very much but sometimes when you make a full playthroug i kind of find your voice calming and in the end i sometimes fall asleep in my chair watching your videos like this one after 30 min i was gone for 3 hours it could be my constant lack of sleep but i find it very hard to fall asleep in a chair (sorry for bad grammer if there is English is not my native laguage)
You should do a Full Posadist Utopian Abundance wide research playthrought. Basically an empire centred around colonizing as fast as possible to gain as much research as possible from idle pops. The specie traits will need to be adaptive and rapid breeders + anything else, the ethics fanatic materialistic and the civic Post Apocalyptic.
Could you do a hive mind that expands rapidly, assimilates any species it attacks. It then returns to its home world for a predetermined period of time, during that time it heavily upgrades. Then it again expands and crushes anything outside of the sphere it just attacked with the new tech. Repeat? Regardless, love the vids keep it up
Good fun that. Did the same playthrough once, even got the same crisis. I grew much bigger than you though, because in the beginning I managed to goad a couple of empires to attack me by having a really small fleet and angering them. Once they did, I built up the fleet and crushed them. I didn't bother finishing the game because it all got so slow in the late game.
I'm too patient for my own sake. Can play a single Stellaris game in a day from start to end. I'm a bit too invested with my technology-obsessed not-human race.
i'm loving these video's i loved playing stelaris but with less time on my hands watching a video while cooking is about as much as i can spare. i miss the blissfulll days of the past
Watching this makes me see how terrible I am at this... I just started playing stellaris last week. Anyone have any tips/guides for me to watch to understand more? This play-through had more situation log events in like 40 years than I do in like 200. Also, my strategy for science seems terrible...
Keep in mind he isn't playing with standard settings. I recommend looking into Aspec's beginner tutorial series. Immensely helpful, but it's a lot to take in at once.
Maybe this video is already out there, but I'd love to see you try this kind of run again now that we have an entire Tradition Tree dedicated to defense, better AI, and a bunch of other really cool stuff that could make this interesting
an idea for a challange you will probably loose fast: a no expansion challange. you are not allowed to build any thing outside your starting system. no planets, no stations, nothing. if you get stuff from events, trading, or bribing opponents, that fine. getting stuff through war, thats fine. BUT! you are not allowed upgrade them or build anything on them. you play with what you get and thats it. building ships in conquered stations is also not allowed. if you get a relic, event or ability to instant spawn something, that is allowed, just no building. the details of the race are all up to you. this is already hard enough with your usual starting settings. i would consider this challenge a success if you survive till the endgame crisis spwns. try to stay free, to not become anothers servants for protection if you can.
Amazing video, loved it! How do you micro manage so many planets? (in a sense that your economy doesn't die completely? Also do you use your habitats purely for refineries of rare resources and having no single refineries on your planets?
For mod suggestions: Twink's Playable Fallen Empires: Play as an Eternal Empire with the goal of getting the entire galaxy to submit to you before the MAX-STRENGTH EGC spawns in 2250 (Use Crisis manager or just use the console to force the spawn that early). Once the EGC spawns, your goal is to defeat it without building a fleet with more than 100 in fleet capacity, while ensuring that the AI loses as little territory and ships as possible. By the end of the playthrough you must have at least 8000 Eternal pops in your empire and have built and populated (if applicable) at least 1 of each of the following Eternal megastructures: Materialist Ascension path - Cosmic Ring - Astropolis - Cosmopolis (x4) Spiritualist Ascension path - Heart of Eternos - Psionic Storm Expanded Megacorp Civics: You are Space Walmart (The mod adds a civic which adds a branch office building that produces money in exchange for Consumer goods). Your goal is to become the ONLY Megacorp (out of 3-4 others at start) in the galaxy with a "Walmart" on EVERY colonized planet in the galaxy. There are no other rules ;) Psionic Re-Expanded: Your goal is to make your species ascend to become like the Unbidden, including clashing with them as the EGC. You will turn every world in your empire into a Psionic World, build no megastructures except Dyson Spheres, modify your species to have Psionic World preference, and change your shipset (an event should pop when you finally ascend via the Ascension Perk "Psionic Perfection") into the Unbidden type. You can also only use energy weapons and shields (no armor) once you ascend to the Unbidden-like energy forms and ships (making fighting the Unbidden that much harder), and if you get so far that you defeat the EGC, you must become the EGC for everyone else.
Had an idea for a United Nations of Earth run -most ai empires have advance start, since humans are usually a young species in sci fi -max hyperlanes to make it almost like star trek warp travel -only liberation wars in order to make more friends -strong crisis early on -ideally as much of the galaxy in your federation as possible -force the commonwealth of man to spawn probably not interesting enough for a video i'm guessing
When you do another run, I'd like to make a request! WIth your next empire, use Ringworlds not as research or production- but war machines. Fortresses that the enemy die on. You could say... Ringfortresses.
One challenge I've tried in the past, but can't quite get to work right is the Robot Uprising run. You have to develop AI, treat it badly and let it revolt. Then you're given the chance to play as the uprising. For some reason, I can't get it to trigger on purpose, but I'd love to see someone else try.
Dunno if you know, but the Rubricator relic world has a decision to restore it to a fully functional Ecumonopolis, regardless of ascension perks last time I checked.
So tried two similar runs First (with your empire build) and to be frank didnt realize i usually use 1.25 tech difficulty but even so A: Could not match your tech output (so unless that is like the only thing your doing dont get how) B: it just feels slow (like super slow tech wise even though it shouldnt) Went with a Fanatic materialist, technocracy civic instead of inward prefection. (still xenophobic) Start felt stronger, Tech feels smoother, and even though I dont match your tech #'s (3k at 100 years or so in compared to your 4k) it still felt great and much more unity invovled. I did reduce tech difficulty from 1.25 to 1.00 and NO i do not own the Relic expansion.
We need a mod allowing you to play using the unique ship types, species, and governments. (The Unbidden and Friends, the Contingency, Raider Government, Great Horde government, etc.)
Started a run the other day and quit after 50 years because I knew I'd won by year 10. Had a section I could block off about as big as yours with 1 Atomic Age primitive, 2 machine age primitives, and 1 space age primitive in it. By 30 years in I'd claimed all of them and invaded and then 10 years later when stellar shock wore off I was equivalent to about 3 to 5 empires worth of population/production.
Yes, I did accidentally put the outro in at the 37 minute mark. This is because I recorded this over 3 days and edited each days worth of recording at the end of the day.. and apparently that day I just autopiloted and added the outro to that section.. yup. Keeping it in there, for fun now!
Inwards perfection, with the rule of ignoring all other empires & the end game crisis! Time to build up some serious fleetpower! More regular uploads should be back very soon! Been an insane few weeks with all sorts of stuff going on in the background, with these videos being easier to record between everything! More Terratech, Minecaft and such soon! :D
Enjoy the video! :)
Sup lath. Hows you week been goin?
I think I have an empire just like this one, same portrait, but it's also spiritualist. My lore is that it's a pagan religious empire worshiping nature. It's also with mods so it's more fleshed out. They're also "invironmentalist" witch another mod adds
Embrace the imperfection.
add mods that increase the civics you can use and more trait points and picks, and add just extra small stuff. I'm sure it'll be great
At the 37 minute mark I panicked because I thought the episode was over and I got really sad😂. Really good episode I must say
“We hate Xeno’s to such a degree that interacting with them, even in a hostile capacity at long range, is utterly unthinkable.”
risker34 The "I wouldn't touch you with a 10 foot pole" run.
hedgehog3180 *10 light-year
when u hate someone so much u cant even shoot them
"Aiming the gun at you would require having to LOOK at you, and shooting you would be a waste of MY precious minerals!"
Imagine being one of the guys managing the plant people.
Unbbiden: We are the eater of worlds, destroyer of galaxies.
Zelvan: Yeah whatever. I Dont care.
Universes actually
Zelvan: "Didn't ask"
Didn’t know politicians *ate* planets...
*FEAR US MORTAL BEINGS. YOUR END HAS COME.*
"Go away. You're interrupting our science."
@@AndrewChumKaser More like nothing being said.
The "Not my problem" run, I love it.
Justen Rules so like America in WW1
@@signedzulu7637 Swiss in every war
@@signedzulu7637 america sent a lot of naval fleets after germany took down one american transatlantic supply ship destined to the uk civilians, because germany was trying to starve the uk to push her out of the war. Then america pushed for ethical war laws and the end of all coflicts in a democratic way. I dont see how america didnt do anything in ww1
Aurelio it was a joke. Mainly poking fun at America for never declaring war. (Or something else I honestly don’t remember. Was 7 months ago)
@@signedzulu7637 mhh okay
after this historians of your species will have an amazing story to tell: "And there we were, letting the galaxy fall, as it did not deserve our help, when our glorious immortal ruler received a vision from a random spirit who called himself Lathrax. He told our leader 'Screw that, make a few hundred of your smallest ship, load it with amazing technology, and slam it into the Unbidden'. And so we did, and it worked for some reason."
It worked because they are an infirior species with infirior technology
@@samiradunstan2703 imagine being superior to 5d beings
That one ship that fell was immortalized in the anals of history as the brave heroes who gave up their lives for the whole galaxy.
"I'm going to play them as cherishing their pristine homeworld."
((invites the Worm to make their home a tomb world))
So much for that idea! :D
Ever heard of loving something to death?
Lol
Everyone talking about different endgame ideas, no one mentions the Crisis Manager mod series and how you can have ALL THE CRISES SIMULTANEOUSLY. AND you can get AI End of The Cycle for even MORE fun.
But wouldn't the crises end up taking each other out
Sometimes, though there are options to make them peaceful with each other if you want to go full hardcore mode
@@jonasfree2 I made this with the console, the Unbidden and the contingency attacked at the same time. Since the Unbidden only appears in one system I first fight the contingency and them move to attack the Unbidden but at this moment they are way stronger than I expected, luckily one of the FE started to fight the Unbidden and after 6 years I destroyed their last fleet. Was a good run.
On one side: The Scourge
On the second side: The Unbidden
Up top: The Contingency
Meanwhile War In Heaven and the Khan still raging on. While the L Gate opens and the Tempest just floods in.
All on highest difficulty. Curious now.
@@rhyscallinan4402 this is how I play my stellaris games. Although tbf I play with scaling Grand Admiral so that the advanced AI's don't just instantly roll over me with their free extra resources
-Plays peaceful race
-Kills its last ancestor despite it being harmless
SO harmless, they commit martyrdom on their own...
You forgot
-profit
Hey Lathrix, you should do the fanatic purifier challenge: max AI difficulty, every empire including yours is a fanatical purifier. It would be an action packed playthrough with lots of wars.
Is there a way to customize the other empires?
In my last game, almost all of them are robot gestalt consciences.
In the grim future that is 40K there is only war
Ongr MtGA you can make a bunch of empires and “force spawning” to where they over ride the random ai empires spawned though how many you want in the galaxy
guntere in the grim darkness of the 41st century, there is only war.
Warhammer 40k?
I just want to say I really love these Stellaris videos, but they're very clearly the hardest ones for you to make. They condense a looong Stellaris campaign into a single long video, which is super nice. I find them to be the best way of watching Stellaris on TH-cam. Thanks for all the effort you put in, Lath.
I like to imagine that the Nu Boal produce fruit on themselves. So you're not really eating them, you're just eating their delicious fruit. They are plant people so it's not unbelievable.
You'd just be eating their unborn children then
@@tristeneagles Absolutely cursed
@@tristeneagles Damn... But if we don't eat the seeds then they'd be fine. Just like in real life fruit is a transport system for plant seeds. When most animals eat the fruit they poop out the seeds elsewhere and a new plant grows. So if you were to just remove the seeds, eat the fruit and then plant the seeds the Nu Boal would be fine.
@@tristeneagles It's okay, that's the Nu-Boal's fetish.
The Nu-Boal looks at the master race as disgusting since we eat the embryonic sac their babies come in.
Crisis shows up,
This channel: I WILL INFLICT UPON THE ENEMY THE GREATEST INSULT THAT EXISTS! to be ignored
Marshall Kuhn you talk too much. *gunshot*
Sir, the Unbidden are invading!
LALALA CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALA
The immature dragons from that specific L-Gate outcome can be tamed. Not that important in the grand scheme of things, but it's free firepower so, why not? :)
PS: they grow up too.
Firepower? Don't you mean a fine addition to your ship collection back at your home system?
That part goes without saying :)
Scorpixel your lightsaber will make a nice addition to my collection
Benjamin Matthews that’s music to my audio receptors
That "patrolling" of the crisis ships reminds me a lot of me experience with automatic exploration. Often my science ships will just decide to randomly go away from the 10+ surveyable systems they're at, just to spend 2 years going through my entire empire to survey 1 random system, and then they'll go all the way back, repeat ad infinitum...
Sir, we just to the that system you totally wanted us to survey! See ya next year!
Wtf did I type?
Have you ever considered coming back to this game and role-playing as an awakened empire? I'm kinda curious on how it would play out to suddenly jump into the galactic stage after ignoring it for the entire game.
"Maybe if I just don't acknowledge my problems.. theyll just go away."
Lmao
“Oh you’re good farmers, huh? Can you start farming yourselves, please?”
During creation:
"we are all about preserving the beauty of our planets"
17 minutes later:
"all of our planets are now tomb worlds"
Can you do a playthrough with the feudal ethic for the imperial government? I really like the idea of an empire conquering others and then saying "We're in charge so you do what we ask... but other then that you can do whatever you want"
Personally I had a lot of fun with feudal and would love to see lath do a feudal run.
Is that available on console? Sounds super fun
I tried this, it is really fun.
You just have help out a bit early on...
@@justinchalifoux4424 get a pc you peasant
@@genericpinesol Stop being a jerk you peasant.
So we're not going to imagine how brokenly powerful this empire could have been with Gigastructural Engineering.
54:27
PREEWPEWRPEWRPWPEPEWPWPERPEREWRPREWPPREW!!!
"That is all"
-Lath
Keep posting stellaris runs, I absolutely enjoy stellaris my good sir !
This is beyond turtling. This is taking the turtle, locking it in a vault and laying a minefield in front of it with signs everywhere that say "F**c Off!". I love it.
Also, once you research the Psi Jump Drives and no AI empire has finished their machine ascension, the probability of the crisis being the Unbidden skyrockets. In fact, I maybe had a couple of games where the crisis wasn't the Unbidden once Psi Jump Drives were researched. So if you're going psionics as a player more often than not you're going to face the Unbidden.
42:25 my favorite moment "haha i'm possessed :)"
37:47 Is it a mistake or a way to signify you feel asleep?
Thaaaat was a mistake. Now updated the pinned comment to read "Yes, I did accidentally put the intro in at the 37 minute mark. This is because I recorded this over 3 days and edited each days worth of recording at the end of the day.. and apparently that day I just autopiloted and added the outro to that section.. yup. Keeping it in there, for fun now! " Haha!
I'm not sure how much of a challenge it would be, but a theme I've been thinking about is: Everyone knows the best part of mass effect was wrex and the krogans, so why dont we bring them here. Turtle alien portrait, post apocalyptic civic, militarist in some way(probably fanatic) and most importantly: no shields, no energy weapons, because a Krogan ship is nothing but metal covered in metal, shooting more metal.
This should be done
Post apocalyptic... civic? what?
@@Jay2480 It was originally a civic and was moved to the new origin mechanic since I posted this, or at least when I originally had the idea.
@@towerofignis ohhhhh
“I will issue our enemy the greatest of insults...to be ignored.”
Stellaris and RimWorld, will make sleep impossible, I learnt that the hard way (in year 11 playing games at 4 o clock pm, stoping the next day at 5 am)
Lathland can you please play from the depths it has had many updates and i would love for you to go over it
Here is a challenge I just came up with after reading some other comments, feel free to refine it:
Tick-Tock Robot
Fanatic Purifier Synth
The rules alter depending on whether it's an even year or odd year.
Even Year:
- No fighting, period. All ships on passive, no starting wars, etc. If combat is active when the year rolls over, retreat.
- Every shipyard that can be building something must be building. Same for planets.
Odd Year:
- No building, period. All active projects ended, no new ones started.
- If you can be at war, you are at war. Prefer attacking above all else.
But that would make some buildings be impossible to build, no? Maybe every decade or something would be better because imagine having to sit and wait out a year in the middle of a war, that's just annoying.
I swear I seen this exact comment on some Many a True Nerd video
I love the Stellaris videos and your kind of humor
First time watching ur content and when u said “I’m possessed!” Auto clicked like and sub
Woot first. wanna say I love these videos they always make my day plz never stop making them
Ancient Cache of Technologies:
a really exciting mod to spice up the endgame. Instead of constant repeatables, you dive into the amazing world of "dark matter technologies" that can rival (or even surpass) fallen empire tech. It includes buildings on planets, new resources to manage, and exciting upgrades to both ground troops and naval superiority. There are also unique tech options depending on your empire civics. There are events to go with the mod, and it really does change the end-game. I would highly recommend it!
Yay! I love playing as Space-Switzerland!
Spawn the end game crisis at the beginning of the game
Advanced empires allowed
Fallen empires allowed
Umm everyone would die by year 2250 probably
@@cultistofdarkness1661 maybe not if war in Heaven fires quick
@@baseupp12 but war in heaven is mid game and mid game wont start before the endgame crisis consumes the galaxy especially becuse in most cases they will be moving trough uncontrolled territory
@@cultistofdarkness1661 unless of course the end game crisis starts near a fallen empire and immediately eats them might cause the other fallen empires to awaken quickly
@@baseupp12 I guess but that's just a dice roll and not a game of stellaris
Lathrix, I’ve watched you for so many years now across multiple accounts. And your humbleness has has always socked me. Every game I see you come across, I see the determination to play to your best ability and improve. You my good sir never give yourself enough credit. Your deserve praise and a self compliment more than once in awhile. Keep being amazing lath. And I’ll always be here to support you
@54:27 I was not ready. I don't know why but it made me snort coffee all over.
A really synergised inward perfection build would be Spiritualist, Pacifist, Xenophobe, Efficient Bureaucracy, Rapid Breeders and Traditional (and whichever negative traits). Gets you 60 starting admin cap, +40% growth speed and +40% unity generation.
I wanna see Lathrix play a game with the endgame at 2250 and see if he survives xD
Finally! Been waiting for another full playthrough for a long time. There's only so many times I can rewatch your previous episodes. 7 or 8 is probably the limit.
54:27 “that is all” my favorite part of this entire video
Reminds me of a game I had in the early days of Stellaris (1.3 or there about) where a monster of a defensive coalition had me boxed in, couldn't go either way around the ring galaxy with my swarm without the other side jumping past my defensive stations to ravage my empire.
Then the Prethoryn turned up and started wrecking shit, conquering empires and infesting planets.
They soon turned up on my southern border, but their construction ships could not break through a border designed to hold my neighbors armadas.
Better still their infestations was so large that I could afford to slaughter each defending fleet as it came in allowing me to slowly chip away at them and reclaim the planets for the glory of the swarm.
This resulted in my empire following the scourge round the galaxy chewing up their empire like the worlds worst parasite, fun times!
May the best swarm win then!
Kinda what happened in my game recently, but involving the Unbidden. I spent the better part of 200 years fortifying and strengthening my defenses cause I got boxed in by my Democratic Crusader neighbor “asshole”. And his 4 empire coalition. They spent decades throwing themselves at my defenses and fortress worlds not even getting past my first line. Unbidden shows up and proceeds to push everyone’s shit in. Once they get stuck at my pseudo “maginot line” the fun begins. I was able to respec and retrofit my ships to counter the unbidden. Heavy NVB and kinetic. With plenty of plating. I went from being the small defensive turtle, to suddenly the galaxies only hope within 50 years.
Where the heck is this man from.
Why does youtube recommend me this? I've never seen stellaris in my life.
What the heck is this game :D
Welcome 💜
well, if you are looking at mods, this collection is the first to look at imho:
Cinematic Space Battles Mod+Submods
adding races, planettypes, etc. is nice and all, but this collection makes the most important impact for me. (longer and massively better looking battles that you dont have to slow down time to actually watch, in fact, in the early-mid game balanced battles can last long enough for reinforcements to arrive and for you to actually speed up time.)
battles raging in the same timeframe as the rest of the game realy smoothes out the flow of the game, i freakin love it! ;)
zenophages + thrall world + mod that allows for you to raise the space amoeba = fun times.
I actually did something similar once (Inward Perfectionist Materialists), but I also used the Infinity Stones mod and had all six of them by the time the crises (I enabled all three) rolled around. Eventually I was the only non-crisis empire left.
This is perhaps the strongest empire i even seen in stellaris :)..i mean it's like 10 times more stronger than awakened empire...it's amazing
"No other way for them to jump into our territory" Uh... Nice job missing that L-Gate Lath.
The mega structures mod is fun. Tons of new fun things to build.
Some fun examples off the top of my head.
Planet battle craft, put engines and tons of weapons on a planet and go ham.
A disco ball moon.
A blackhole bomb. Or a black hole ringworld.
Four ring world's in the same star system for when you like putting rings on rings.
Or how about a system that uses the solar capacity of a star to fire a laser through a wormhole and at a planet of your choice.
Those are the ones I can remember.
Blackhole ringworld doesn't make sense in practicality, unless it's a ringworld surrounding a blackhole "bomb" used for superradiant scattering energy for sustenance. Kurzgesagt made a video about it. Check it out :)
@@jeaneljaylamputi2215 I figured that video was where the idea for the blackhole ring world and bomb came from.
That was surprisingly fun to watch! Thank you very much for this video:)
i dont know why but your videos help me sleep i like them very much but sometimes when you make a full playthroug i kind of find your voice calming and in the end i sometimes fall asleep in my chair watching your videos like this one after 30 min i was gone for 3 hours it could be my constant lack of sleep but i find it very hard to fall asleep in a chair (sorry for bad grammer if there is English is not my native laguage)
As a new player, I was incredibly satisfied with my 2K science output at 2350-ish. This...puts things into perspective...
Yeah... and I though my playthroughs were at max science at 1k in mid game...
> Mid game start date 50 years in
> Marauders in the middle of your territory
oh, this wont end well.
You should do a Full Posadist Utopian Abundance wide research playthrought.
Basically an empire centred around colonizing as fast as possible to gain as much research as possible from idle pops.
The specie traits will need to be adaptive and rapid breeders + anything else, the ethics fanatic materialistic and the civic Post Apocalyptic.
I like your "Shower of death" fleet config.
Defender of the galaxy is more of a "our star systems are the galaxy and that is all we need to defend"
The United States circa December 6th, 1941. Colorized.
Could you do a hive mind that expands rapidly, assimilates any species it attacks. It then returns to its home world for a predetermined period of time, during that time it heavily upgrades. Then it again expands and crushes anything outside of the sphere it just attacked with the new tech. Repeat?
Regardless, love the vids keep it up
Isn't that just a tech rush build?
A little bit
**the tomb will give us a small fleet from the fallen empire**
me: HAPPY ZARCLAN DAY ALL GLORY TO ZARCLAN
Good fun that. Did the same playthrough once, even got the same crisis. I grew much bigger than you though, because in the beginning I managed to goad a couple of empires to attack me by having a really small fleet and angering them. Once they did, I built up the fleet and crushed them. I didn't bother finishing the game because it all got so slow in the late game.
I'm too patient for my own sake. Can play a single Stellaris game in a day from start to end. I'm a bit too invested with my technology-obsessed not-human race.
i'm loving these video's i loved playing stelaris but with less time on my hands watching a video while cooking is about as much as i can spare. i miss the blissfulll days of the past
Watching this makes me see how terrible I am at this... I just started playing stellaris last week. Anyone have any tips/guides for me to watch to understand more? This play-through had more situation log events in like 40 years than I do in like 200. Also, my strategy for science seems terrible...
Keep in mind he isn't playing with standard settings. I recommend looking into Aspec's beginner tutorial series. Immensely helpful, but it's a lot to take in at once.
Maybe this video is already out there, but I'd love to see you try this kind of run again now that we have an entire Tradition Tree dedicated to defense, better AI, and a bunch of other really cool stuff that could make this interesting
an idea for a challange you will probably loose fast:
a no expansion challange.
you are not allowed to build any thing outside your starting system. no planets, no stations, nothing.
if you get stuff from events, trading, or bribing opponents, that fine.
getting stuff through war, thats fine. BUT! you are not allowed upgrade them or build anything on them. you play with what you get and thats it.
building ships in conquered stations is also not allowed.
if you get a relic, event or ability to instant spawn something, that is allowed, just no building.
the details of the race are all up to you. this is already hard enough with your usual starting settings.
i would consider this challenge a success if you survive till the endgame crisis spwns.
try to stay free, to not become anothers servants for protection if you can.
It’s nice to see someone shredding the unbidden after they showed up 50 years early yesterday and trashed my beloved Zenak Assimilators...
Never doubt the worm!
-Ralf Waldo Picklechips
Also the avian corvettes look like whales
Amazing video, loved it!
How do you micro manage so many planets? (in a sense that your economy doesn't die completely?
Also do you use your habitats purely for refineries of rare resources and having no single refineries on your planets?
For mod suggestions:
Twink's Playable Fallen Empires: Play as an Eternal Empire with the goal of getting the entire galaxy to submit to you before the MAX-STRENGTH EGC spawns in 2250 (Use Crisis manager or just use the console to force the spawn that early). Once the EGC spawns, your goal is to defeat it without building a fleet with more than 100 in fleet capacity, while ensuring that the AI loses as little territory and ships as possible. By the end of the playthrough you must have at least 8000 Eternal pops in your empire and have built and populated (if applicable) at least 1 of each of the following Eternal megastructures:
Materialist Ascension path
- Cosmic Ring
- Astropolis
- Cosmopolis (x4)
Spiritualist Ascension path
- Heart of Eternos
- Psionic Storm
Expanded Megacorp Civics: You are Space Walmart (The mod adds a civic which adds a branch office building that produces money in exchange for Consumer goods). Your goal is to become the ONLY Megacorp (out of 3-4 others at start) in the galaxy with a "Walmart" on EVERY colonized planet in the galaxy. There are no other rules ;)
Psionic Re-Expanded: Your goal is to make your species ascend to become like the Unbidden, including clashing with them as the EGC. You will turn every world in your empire into a Psionic World, build no megastructures except Dyson Spheres, modify your species to have Psionic World preference, and change your shipset (an event should pop when you finally ascend via the Ascension Perk "Psionic Perfection") into the Unbidden type. You can also only use energy weapons and shields (no armor) once you ascend to the Unbidden-like energy forms and ships (making fighting the Unbidden that much harder), and if you get so far that you defeat the EGC, you must become the EGC for everyone else.
Had an idea for a United Nations of Earth run
-most ai empires have advance start, since humans are usually a young species in sci fi
-max hyperlanes to make it almost like star trek warp travel
-only liberation wars in order to make more friends
-strong crisis early on
-ideally as much of the galaxy in your federation as possible
-force the commonwealth of man to spawn
probably not interesting enough for a video i'm guessing
That actually seems really interesting! Might try that out myself
This brings me back to the megacorp dev clash when the Church of Chains player denied that there was an endgame crisis.
Naked Corvet Spam used to be the best tactic in the game lol. That's why they added fleet sizes.
When you do another run, I'd like to make a request! WIth your next empire, use Ringworlds not as research or production- but war machines. Fortresses that the enemy die on. You could say...
Ringfortresses.
Titans are generally worth it just for the auras. Something like shield dampener against the unbidden is massive really.
Lol watching these backwards he is amazed by 1 million in this if only he knew he would wreck a 8.5 million crisis in like 7 months
The Galaxy is 90% mineral and Lathrix found a way to have a shortage
25:30
Emperor Palpatine liked that.
One challenge I've tried in the past, but can't quite get to work right is the Robot Uprising run. You have to develop AI, treat it badly and let it revolt. Then you're given the chance to play as the uprising. For some reason, I can't get it to trigger on purpose, but I'd love to see someone else try.
Fanatic Pacifists with insane levels of technology? Sounds like the Chozo to me.
Lathrix- plays stellaris 20x better than me
Also Lathrix- I only pretend to be this bad
You should get a mod that makes the end game enemies more powerful. 5x just isn't enough. Or make them spawn 50 years into the game or even 25.
The avian ships look like swords, especially the titans
Pretty sure they’re supposed to look like beaks or talons
You basically roleplayed the Vorlons from Babylon 5.
Until one of them was killed and they decided to destroy world's
Dunno if you know, but the Rubricator relic world has a decision to restore it to a fully functional Ecumonopolis, regardless of ascension perks last time I checked.
i would love to see you play the mod forgotten queens unofficial hive dlc. it gives some interesting options.
So tried two similar runs First (with your empire build) and to be frank didnt realize i usually use 1.25 tech difficulty but even so
A: Could not match your tech output (so unless that is like the only thing your doing dont get how)
B: it just feels slow (like super slow tech wise even though it shouldnt)
Went with a Fanatic materialist, technocracy civic instead of inward prefection. (still xenophobic)
Start felt stronger, Tech feels smoother, and even though I dont match your tech #'s
(3k at 100 years or so in compared to your 4k) it still felt great and much more unity invovled.
I did reduce tech difficulty from 1.25 to 1.00
and NO i do not own the Relic expansion.
Isolationists with insane defense, tech and all the megastructures available? That’s exactly my playstyle ;)
So much planets and habitats and your Consumer Goods is 30+ how dafuq?! Mine is -100
amazing as usually
We need a mod allowing you to play using the unique ship types, species, and governments. (The Unbidden and Friends, the Contingency, Raider Government, Great Horde government, etc.)
The Unbidden during the end of the video "Oh god not the bees"
Play through idea Randomize empire let's see were stellaris takes us
It somehow took me until now (the time this comment was posted, not the time the video was posted) to notice that cap was short for capacity...
Pause the video at 27:24 and see if you can see a familiar name in the galaxy map...
What was shall be, what shall be was
to be truely peaceful, you must be capable of great violence, otherwise you are just harmless
Started a run the other day and quit after 50 years because I knew I'd won by year 10. Had a section I could block off about as big as yours with 1 Atomic Age primitive, 2 machine age primitives, and 1 space age primitive in it. By 30 years in I'd claimed all of them and invaded and then 10 years later when stellar shock wore off I was equivalent to about 3 to 5 empires worth of population/production.
Fanatic Pacifist.
Pulls the plug on an ancient tree that the last of its kind without ever respond to its last question.
xenophobe
I was hoping for more after that last outro.