The Strongest Crisis - The Blokkats - Stellaris Lore
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- This is what we know about the Blokkat Harvesters in Stellaris the grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive. The Blokkat Harvesters are accessable via the mod gigastructural engineering. You can find it here: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
01:34 Objective Alpha
02:47 Invasion
10:49 Hyperdimensional Bulwark
12:52 Who/What are they?
14:20 Blokkframes
15:07 Blokkat Origins
20:44 Blokkat Inquietude
21:33 Final Entry
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>be Blokkats
>look somewhat cubic
>make super structure in space
>it's a sphere
Evolution 🦾
it's totally logical, and there could not be anything else that could’ve happened.
"All these squares make a circle..."
It still goes to the square hole, though
*distant screaming*
I kept thinking, “What could they possibly need all of that energy for?” Then I started to realize every thing they have start with the “Blok” suffix. That sounds eerily familiar to “blockchain”… Oh no… they’re cryptobros and they are stealing all that energy for their intergalactic bitcoin farm. They are the ultimate villains. Haha 😂
oh dear; the real enemy has revealed themselves!
Did you mean prefix?
another fun thing is every next bitcoin takes more energy to mine than the last
and considering blokkats have evidently been at it for a long time
they probably mine like 2 coins from devouring a whole galaxy
to add to billions of coins they probably already have
Depends on if you believe the blokkats are lying when they claim to be trying to stop the heat death of the universe.
OK, but the actual strongest crisis is a player who knows how to press the tilde key
A story following a species who chooses to leave the galaxy to escape would be amazing. Imagine in game if you could choose this as a scenario, and wether you succeed or fail the game just ends. You either escaped the galaxy and it’s destroyed or you didn’t and it’s destroyed with you in it.
That would be the story of the Prethoryn Scourge.
The path of constructing a gigantic ark ship to escape the Blokkats is being worked on, so it will be an option at some point.
Be cool too if your civilization did escape, you get to start fresh in a new galaxy and play that.
@@mikesmicroworlds4566 with your hard earned tech of course
@@braydenlanglois8417 haha yeah. Maybe a few things disappear but I agree
@@Noctazar YEAAAAA
The Blokkats would fit perfectly as the Hunters which the Prethoryn Scourge are afraid of.
They're actually VERY heavily implied to be exactly that. Researching one of the Blokkat-related techs has associated text about how they wiped out an "intergalactic organic hive mind" that is still fleeing from them to this day, and if the Scourge is active in the Galaxy when the Blokkats arrive the Scourge crisis just ends, as they hurry to escape the galaxy.
@@foreskinfairy8975
Really that is a very cool added feature of the mod from a narrative perspective. When the Blokkats arrive they just high tail it out of there like "screw this I'm outta here".
@thorshammer7883 yea basically
All their hive worlds turn i to fleets and they just rush to a specific system in a panic
Anny fleets that reach the system just leave
@@foreskinfairy8975 they are outright stated to be the hunters in the GSE reddit post UNTILL the stellaris team actually states otherwise
Why all of this kind of contetnt has to be so cringy AF with some ridiculous block cats reffering to Necrons from 40K by their colours and technological supremacy? Isn't there any other fantasies fit for Stellaris except some furry woke shit? FFS
Another cool tidbit of information if you play Gigastructures is that the Blokkats are even referenced during the mid game crisis with the Katzens. The whole reason the Kaiser took over the Katsens and is trying to take over the galaxy is because of the Blokkats. He knows they are coming to our galaxy and he is trying to unite our galaxy under his banner to fight them knowing full well it would take the might of an entire galaxy working together to have a chance defeat them. You don't learn this until you actually beat the Katzen crisis and it's in one of the lore pop ups about how the Kaiser mentioned on several occasions a vast threat that is roaming throughout the Universe annihilating entire galaxies.
I’m sorry but even if we defeat Blokkats what are we going to do with the heat death of the universe? Them being destroyed is not a long term solution, I think that on the future after them being fought off for like more than 1000 times they would negotiate with other civilisations, I think that the sole reason for them to harvest is because they do not know about the shroud and therefore couldn’t pump energy out of it
The Kaiser has defeated the Blokkats
still a shame that the portrait for the Katzen changed. It’s a literal fursona now lmaoo
So they're Emperor Palpatine and the Blokkats is like the Yuuzhan Vong lol
@@VexingWeeb I had the exact same thought
All was quiet until we heard another signal from deep intergalactic space.
It was... singing. Meow meow, meow-meow, meow meow meow meow, meow mow.. and so on. A maddening tune.
At that range, our most powerful detectors could only resolve a blur as the source bobbed towards us through space, but there was a definite multicolored stream left in its wake.
Little did we know about the coming beast. Nyan cat.
Fleet power: immeasurable
Why did you have to remind me of that? Now its going to be in my head for the next few days!
Din din! I want chicken, I want liver, meow mix, meow mix, please deliver!
Sadly, Nyan Cat was not so reasonable as the Blokkats. There would be no escape from its haunting song.
@@columbien10 economic power: pathetic
Technological power: equivalent
Fleet power: Overwhelming
That was an emotional journey. The sheer helplessness...
Sadly running gigastructure drasticaly slows the ancient machine i call my computer otherwise i woud have wanted to try it.
It slows my computer - and it's a top of the line gaming computer.
I will have to try it on my new computer.
You gotta build a matroskha brain as a pc to handle it a class O star one
Noobs never constructed plantetcrafts or systemcraft and thought they stand any chance against kitties 😂
I'd recommend giving a mod called production revolution a look. It greatly helps reduce mid- and endgame lag by reducing pops without effecting productivity or gameplay too much. It also has a patch for gigastructural engineering.
The Blokkats are just making sure the simulation doesn’t crash, good on them.
If anyone is curious about Blokkat difficulties....
1. Blokkittens can be beaten by any fleet that can beat the triple crisis x25.
2. Blokkats can be beaten with a single solar systemcraft using only gigas tech. Two or three will make it much easier.
3. Bismuth Blokkats can be beaten with only gigas tech but you'd better be good at gigas. Or you can use ACOT tech, as that is what bismuth blokkats are based around.
4. Endtekk blokkats are made for ACOT tech, SBTG tech, and possibly AoT tech, but are the 'easy' mode for these mods.
5. Obliterater blokkats are made to challenge even ACOT/SBTG/AoT tech.
I’m familiar with ACOT, but what are the other two acronyms?
@@TheNinthGenerarion ACOT secrets beyond the gate and acquisition of technologies, which are extra mods for acot
I'm not gonna lie, as an xbox pleb, you just spoke chinese to me.
@@1.-ulysses334 as a console player my first thought after reading that was “hey I understood some of those words!”
Freaking thank you. I have been so confused as to what difficulty to select.
Im happy to see that mods are also getting lore videos of their own
Gigstructures is such an iconic mod pack that it's a main stay of a majority of collections
Gigastructural Engineering is propably the best mod of Stellaris. Change my mind
It's too over the top for my personal taste.
One of my favorite things to do in it is to start as a Rogue Servitor that humanity built, and then convert the entire sol system into gaia worlds... all while kidnapping every other pop in the game to put them on these worlds - including Pre-FTL civilizations.
darkspace is a pretty strong contender, we also mods like warship girl r.
it would be impossible to change your mind, because i agree aswell.
What about ancient cache of tech
I'm so happy you did this one, I absolutely love the gigastructures mod.
Same here!
Same here xD
One thing a lot of people overlook is how petty the Blokkats really are, any victory you gain against them is a shallow one because in so far as Gigastructure lore goes, any society that manages to repel a Blokkatvester successfully has their whole galaxy blown up shortly after.
You want total annihilation now or later?
My first playthrough of with these guys left me panicking, lost half of the galaxy, but man the tech you can gain were insane!
Is that lore confirmed recently? Going by the Gigastructure wiki there exists a pan galactic alliance that is fighting against the Blokkats with comparable technological level, with more worlds joining said alliance. In timelines where the Kaiser wins against the Blokkats he even leads this galaxy to join the alliance and fight the Blokkats main fleet. So it wouldn't make sense for the Blokkats to blow up every galaxy that successfully defeat their harvesters.
They only tend to blow galaxies up as an absolute last resort much akin to an exterminatus... they would rather not do this
@@zekeiyf2003what tech they give after you defeat them?
I've fought the Blokkats as an Eternal Empire (Twinks Mod, now outdated and updated by others) and they give even the literal 10th dimensional gods a run for their money.
The what?
The what?
im sorry. what mod?
I dunno, on hardest you need a fleet of more than 1 billion fleet power to beat the eternal empire, with this you can beat blokkats (although it is feasible to lose fleets if your careless).
Twinks mod?
I always treat Gigastructure like a minecraft mod. You need to work it out from start to finish and the blockkats are well places in the end of the mode. Also the mid crisis put from the mod also make the game much more interesting.
Then there is "like it or not you will be our champion" Stellarborne
Ummmm..... Can you explain?
When you overestimate the power of your mods and the blokkats are way stronger than your mods
setting the blokkats to their highest difficulty is practically a deathwish no matter what mods you put on
@@_apsis*laughs in quasarcraft*
@@factualhat3018 laughs in comands
@@juannfd5976*Laughs in anime*
@@juannfd5976 cries in no additional mods
the strongest crisis is a late game lag due to overgrowth galaxy you just cant beat it, doesnt matter how many fleets you have
Not true. Just get enough fleets to successfully Galactic Nemesis. Galaxy can't lag if you blow it up and win the game.
My favorite part of each video is when he calls us “my lords”. I’ve been trying to get my girl to call me that for ages😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Show her 1 Peter 3. Just read it
Love that you're creating videos on fan-made crisis! I was anticipating this for a long time!
Thanks Apex :) More to come in the future! Appreicate the superthanks!!
I have fought the Blokkats once. And it was hillarious. I definitly managed the Blokkats better than these fellows (mainly due to my 3 stellar Systemcrafts, which could even survive a full attack by the Blokkat Vester), but they were able to destroy about 1/4 of the galaxy
Fun fact! In lore, your fighting the equivalent of a mining fleet with some "just in case" escorts, and now that you've proved to be an actual threat the blokkats will send a proper attack fleet to snuff you out. If you manage to handle THAT, they break out the heavy artillery and vaporize your entire galaxy from intergalactic space. They don't do this to begin with bc its inefficient, but the galaxy has to go somehow bc large clumps of matter can damage the harvest field
@@samuelcrow4701 Jeah, I guess I could Take on the warfleet with some time to prepare, but the heavy artillery would be a death sentence
@@samuelcrow4701 true
But *they will be ready*
@@samuelcrow4701 Man.
The blokkats are so
incredibly pathetic. Its like that one kid that always just went "Nuh uh, You can't defeat me, I have an anti everything shield!" but turned into a mod. Hell, the devs straight up threw a tantrum once people easily beat them, and made them even harder out of spite.
Its the least interesting form of challenge, a challenge of just "who has the highest number"
@@jurajsintaj6644 I bet you're fun at parties
The blokk-council finds this audiovisual production optimal, the Sol system bas been excluded from future harvest plans
I guess one of the scariest things is that the fleet that arrived seems to be 1/2000 of their total numbers, and there's no guarantee all other galaxies would be as successful as we in repelling the invasion, so we may expect more of them from different directions. On top of that, it's possible that the fleet that arrived is more of an industrial one, built for a recycling everything to energy rather than fighting; and if we manage to defeat subsequent industrial fleets Blokkats may send their actual military ones.
its implied the numbers are so insane thats not even that scale like on MAX diffulty mode where its ddescribes them sending the best of the best fleet they have at you is still not even 1 1000th of there actual fleet numbers.
the blokkats can only be stopped if enough species stall them at the same time making them starve with there very energy hungry tech.
The fleet doesn't even have proper combat ship, it IS a civilian industrial fleet. Most of their "weapon" from the beam that disintegrate all matter, 4d black hole cannon, absolute hot cannon and dimensional emitter is technically repurposed mining equipment.
I guess in that sense they kinda like the Aliens in Independence Day, but with a somewhat more valid reason and way more competent?
@@blacksnow7106Or the Tyranids. Just combining all energy, not just all biological matter. And with a bit better motive beyond HUNGIE!
Wish those fleets luck fighting of “Empire of Midgard”
5:23
Uh, no : At 1 million light-years of distance, and at 10 000x light-speed, that's 100 years
Glad too see a lore video on the giga lore. I remember asking about it last month and got a reply from you, always great to see someone who listens to everyone. Keep up the good work.
Hope you enjoy it!
Being an Xbox gamer, I wasn't sure about this one, then learned it was from the gigastructures mod. I wanna play PC more now.
You can get it very cheap on cd keys!
Another great video from my favorite Stellaris loremaster. I wonder how much you'd consider covering lore of a similar vein to Stellaris, like Strugatsky's 'Roadside Picnic' and the like.
Thanks very much!! I'm open to most topics, but some will always be more popular than others and I also would quite like to enjoy what i'm doing :) That said, I know nothing about Strugatsky!!
Ah, yes! The blokkats hard to get and a pest if left unchecked. And a real challenge if ou have the Gigastructural mod alone (Blessed be ACOT and ACOT sins of the precursors) as I have to admit the first time they whopped my rear very hard. (having a fleet with each group was 1.3M top of the line in vanilla components) These pests dealt with each group like a hot knife through butter and destroyed even the fallen empires with ease.
They want to gather all energy of the universe into one point?
One point that may explode
In a detonation only known to happen once before… the big bang
Yes! The Most Cubic Pain in the arse in the entire Game.
Still, I am surprised you started with the post endgame crisis.
Personally I would have started with the mid game crisis and slowly build up to the Block shaped F to pay respect to what used to be your behind that are The Blokkats.
Still, great video And I cant wait for the rest.
Compared to the amount of lore and work put into the Katzens I'm frankly not surprised the Blokkats were done first. Much easier to parse as a lot of this is reading the event notes you get in game.
I like to imagine that The Contingency was made to make sure the galaxy doesnt attract the blokkat attention
Maybe, but why not just fight the blokkats?
@@TheRedKing Same reason the Prethoryn Scourge doesn't fight it. Hiding seems more realistic than fighting.
@@anotherperson2627 the blokkats don't care about *you*, or your empire. they're not after intergalactic genocide specifically. they just want to harvest the energy in your galaxy, some of which is tied up in people.
17:50 “humongous quantities of energy” -I like it. Very scientific.
This mod is so well looking, I thought it was official. I was hoping it was the thing one of the Crises was running away from and end up in our Galaxy.
I believe that was the intention of the Blokkats creator :)
@@TheRedKing The great and mighty Red King has replied to my comment, now this is a good day indeed. By the way, keep up you good work, love your videos.
The 2000 vesters number is outdated lore
*its actually over 10000*
Oh and the scariest part? The fleet you fight in normal blokkat difficulty is actually a civilian fleet *actual* blokkat military ships shred systemcrafts like its nothing
😱
Can confirm. On top of that they revive as well.
To put it mildly,
the Blokkats come in on normal difficulties with a fleet comprising of a single Bagger 288, and the rest being basic Jeaps holding a single mining rig. None of them are equipped with any form of military hardware.
To give an example: the blokkat corvette is the terminator and has a base 1 billion hull points (this goes up with difficulty to 5 billion)
It has an absolutely absurd amount of eviktor rays (strongest blokkat weapon in the mod rn) and can easily deal with a dozen systemcraft without breaking a sweat
Oh and thats the corvette for them by the way just to make that clear
@@pokemonfanmario7694
*pulls out stellarite-enchanced ACOT systemcraft*
kitty kitty kitty!
woaaaah gigastructure lore? blokkats had to of been the hardest crisis ive fought ever still of yet to beat it, ive never seen 1 billion fleet power in life until them
The best part about giga crisises is that they have an accual unique mechanics tied to them instead of being just blobs of ships.
I've never played the Gigastructures mod, which might have something to do with the fact that I don't even play Stellaris. And yet I was watching the whole video, since it worked so well as a mere sci-fi story.
The Kitty Kats from gigastructures is certainly devastating, however, I don’t think it can stand up to the Omegan’s who wield the devastating power of Light from Ancient Caches of Technology and it’s official submod, Secrets Beyond the Gates
If you're speaking clear lore, no, because acot is purposefully made "way out there" in terms of power scaling
In terms of gameplay, the blokkats would win
ACOT is batshit insane and bullshittingly OP because the creator is a shitposter who barely knows how to write coherent lore.
Gigas at the very least, tries to make coherent lore, though elects to ignore the player's existence and tries a more "realistic" take on how everything works. Also it has recently incorporated the concept of the multiverse being other Stellaris Mods, and thus "collisions" happen during the gigas universal cycle that can make even ACOT merge with the gigas universe for a few cycles at a time.
Sad face XD
@@pokemonfanmario7694 I can't disagree, I'd like ACOT much more if it actually took itself a bit more seriously.
Lore wise, yeah, the Stellarborne shit all over the blokkats.
Gameplay wise..... I dunno, has anyone ever actually compared Deathwish Stellarborne against Obliterator Blokkats? (Those are the hardest difficulty choices for each, IIRC)
You'd have to compare just ship/fleet capabilities though, since the Blokkat vester cant be touched without the Destabilizer....
I don't even know what Stellaris really is, but these lore videos have me hooked
THE MAD LAD ACTUALLY DID IT
Thank you for helping parse all this info I have yet to find the focus to sift through myself!
Gigastructures mod brings more content than all official DLCs :D
The scariest part about the blokkats is that this is basically a civillian fleet you fight in game (excluding higher difficulties which use proper battleships). Their actual military force makes the xeelee look like a firecracker.
Incorrect. The Xeelee consider the bisection of galaxies with their cosmic strings as mere.....bullets.
“We are truly in the middle of a war zone,” Uvarov said coldly. “This galaxy, with the bullet of cosmic string aimed so accurately at its heart, is merely one incident among ten million in a huge battlefield. To our fleeting perceptions the field is frozen in time-we buzz like flies around the bullet as it hurtles into the chest of its target-and yet the battle rages all around us.”
-Ring, Ch. 27
Not to mention in Canon Gigastructural lore time travel is nigh impossible. In the Xeelee sequence?
Now the antiXeelee turned to its last task. Seed pods, spinning cubes as large as worlds, were scattered everywhere in an orderly array, millions of them dispersed over the unraveling curve of space. The antiXeelee ran metaphorical fingers over each of the pods and over what lay within: beings with closed eyes, ships with folded wings, refined reflections of the antiXeelee itself.
The work was good. And now it was ready.
...There was a discontinuity. All over the Universe the pods vanished like soap bubbles.
The seed pods' long journey back through time had begun. They would emerge a mere hundred thousand years after the singularity itself, at the moment when the temperature of the cosmos had cooled sufficiently for matter and radiation to become decoupled - so that the infant Universe became suddenly transparent, as if with a clash of cymbals.
Then the creatures within would unfold their limbs, and the long Project of the Xeelee would begin.
-Vacuum Diagrams, "Secret History"
Next time actually know what you are talking about before you speak gibberish.
@@infantrytactics1233 damn bro xeelee got hands
Finally! I've been interested in the lore of Gigastructures but haven't had chance to really play and find it out.
Biological life that took the form of a robot animal, are the blokkats just the final form of protogens?
Unsure what a protogen is (even after googling) so maybe!?
im excited to see what other crisises from Gigastructural engineering.
Me too!
There’s a lot like Katzen imperium
Discovered this channel a few days ago and was somewhat disappointed that there was nothing relating to the Gigastructures mod, but of course this video fixes that and more than compensates for the previous lack of Gigastructures content! Great video!
Aha! Happy to deliver then, I plan to cover more Giga and other modded stuff in the future :) Hopefully I'll do it justice!!
@@TheRedKing I look forward to your eventual video on the Aeternum and their birch world then!
@@TheRedKingHope you cover the Katzen's and ACOT. And United Fleet too they might be more busted then the Blokkats
So the blokkats are a type 3 on the kardachev scale
I've been waiting for you to cover them and now I am extatic.
hey, at least they tell you that if you're inconvenienced by your galaxy getting juiced, you're free to leave to another galaxy.
Unless you play as the Stellarborn. Then they are just cute little simulated kitties that you wanna maybe adopt 😊.
Everything about this content is S tier, even down to the addressing of fellow sentient beings as Lords. Are we all not the ancestors of great lords of the stars?
Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed it!
Gigastructrual engineering mod is one ive flirted with playing but hesitated due to its complex nature but this crisis has me intreged!
It is complicated, but it also has insane depth, i'd recommend it trying it out :)
@@TheRedKing thanks also you earnt a sub ive watched a fair few of your videos and they are deffinately interesting
if you ever wanted the ultimate power trip get the ancient cache of technologies mod and wait to do the end game crisis alongside this one to see the galaxy be entirly helpless in the face of a seemingly all powerfull threat only for one of there galaxies own species to be chosen as a champion of a even greater MULTIMDIMENSIONAL power.
and the blokkats are so salty in dialouge after you do so thats its hilarious its like when a rich kid who bought pay to win items suddenly runs into a high skilled player who starts destroying them.
The great irony is that even with 2000 fleets consuming a galaxy a year the Blokkats have zero chance of stopping the expansion of the universe. Is just too big.
Your Majesty, may I just say, your videos are so good that I play them to my kids as bedtime stories. I hope that you continue your wonderful works.
Love to hear it!! I hope they enjoy them!
@@TheRedKing they do, your majesty, they do.
4:42 That's creepy. It's as if it realized it was being observed.
Blokkats have several types of vessels.
Blokk-Evictor and Blokk-custodian, large strike crafts deployed by the Blokk-dismantler, the fleet is usually called Blokk-escort. The fleet power will be equal to the number of vessels as each of them appears as 1 due to data overflow. Let that sink in, a large strike craft more powerful than attack moons, usually about 30 of them.
Blokk-Dismantler: The large ship dismantling systems. Destroying them yields a lot of alloys, unity, and Blokkat scrap, delaying there harvesting operations. Their number varies greatly depending on the difficulty. On Endtekk, they cleave through half the galaxy in a matter of months if uninterrupted.
Blokk-Terminator: An actual Blokkat warship, appearing on Bismuth difficulty and higher. They come with 16x Evictor Rays, capable of one-shotting anything less than a Stellar Systemcraft. One of those can go up against a system craft and win, as well as instantly crack all colonized planets in a system upon entering.
Blokk-Vestor: Blokkat industrial vessel, with an invincible shield. The different difficulty options correspond to the fleet load of the harvesting operation. Endtekk is a fully loaded fleet, while Blokk-kittens is a relaxed fleet.
Very cool. Would like to hear about the Stellarborne from Ancient Cache of Technologies: Secrets Beyond the Gates.
Yes
Well done. For the most part dedicated horror stories make me chuckle, but this actually creeped me out 😱
Would be pretty much interesting how a WIH Necron, Pre-Fall Eldar and DAOT Humanity in WH40K would go up against this power.
Given the 40k galaxy is actual galaxy size, the blokkats are gonna need a few more vesters
@@samuelcrow4701 According to lore, it can spawn about a million dismantlers at a time. So no, it doesn't need more Vester.
And it is not like anything in 40k barring actual Chaos God, Old One, and maybe WiH Necron can do anything to a lone Dismantler. Since the ultimate weapon of Speranza (black hole launcher) is merely an average torpedo for the Blokkat, and they can directly harvest the Warp too, there is nothing anyone else could do to even scratch their paint job.
And depending on what Chosen One in Stellaris equalize to (that is the psychic power of your average Blokkat, mind you) they might be able to kick the Chaos God's asses in their domain.
@@samuelcrow4701i guess it depends on whether you believe that stellaris is logarithmic and / or representative, iow if you think each ship is one ship or if it represents thousands or millions, and if the systems ahown in game w are the only systems or if they are representative/capital planets of sectors.
@@tungleson7066I'm dubious about how your t getting your numbers
@@cosmictreason2242 They were told them in a dream.
I really don't understand people simping for the blokkats. Its just the creation of a "You can kill my action man, he has an anti everything shield" child.
Okay, thats a bit too harsh, but they are just a challenge to make the game non extremely boring due to the op nature of gigastructures. The "bigger number" solution to the "big number" problem created by the mod itself, if you will.
Dude thank you for your work! I Love nerdiness like fr fr❤
Glad you enjoy it!
Something about a message sent at a great cost always gets me
I just got them in my run and let me tell you, I’m in hell it spawned right in my system and I’m fighting for my life rn, I can’t kill them even with my best ship 💀
Gigastructures is a cool mod, but theres alot of stuff on the surface like the Katz and Blokkats that i immediately disable because theyre extremely broken without the use of mods or metagaming to the absolute extreme on their lowest difficulty settings. Sometimes you straight up cant kill them with mods, either.
yeah they are just supposed to be a challenge to people who meta game and build up the best they can with gigastructures.
This thing eats galaxies -> :▽
Keep up the Great Work Red Rex :)
I'll try!
If anyone is interested, the book “project hail mary” follows a similar premise of this video :)
And it’s made by Andy Weir, aka the guy who wrote the martian
My playthrough wouldn't be complete without the blokkats (with the anime portrait) destroying half of the galaxy and all of my RAM
Will you work on the compound next? Or maybe the katzenrig imperium? Or maybe even whatever spawns out of the jupitwo system neighboring jupito where the imperium can spawn from?
The Compound are more or less broken at the moment and due for a major rework. Compared to the Blokkats, the Kaiser crisis actually has the most lore and content of anything in GSE, by far. Since they show up pretty early it transforms the entire game in a way post-crisis factions don't.
@@dark7element The blokkats have post crisis lore as well, but it is... a little underwhelming, by comparison, in some ways.
I intend to cover them all eventually :)
I hope we can get more gigastructural videos.
More to come!
@@TheRedKing well, the transmission, the preparation, the age of gigastructures...
That seems to be setting things up somthing that could be described as a great war, a final war.
Kinda like how every war agingst the blokkats tends to be
A lengthy discussion of what the Atom Shredder is supposed to be ensued.
tyranids: finally! a worthy opponent! our battle will be legendary!
Great video, hope you do the Aeternum at some point.
That's the plan, eventually at least!! :)
Happy 50k-Subs when it comes! Top Notch.
Haha! Very kinda of you, I hope it happens one day :)
@@TheRedKing One day, your channel will just explode. The ammount of effort & A+ scripting proves that.
You'll see & if it doesn't, it's a damn Crime. Keep on keeping on, friend! :)
The strongest crisis isn't the blokkats. It's the Omega Empire from ACOT: Secrets beyong the gates. Compared to them, the blokkats are little kittens.
Huh, wasn't expecting to see this in my recommendations. Im the creator of the current Blokkat ship models! (My credit is in the gigadiscord, though Im not present there myself anymore)
Ive moved on from Stellaris for various reasons but its cool to see something I helped on crop up now and again, its always a bit surreal in this case! Im still decently proud of the wacky Vester and Custodian ship models.
Funny that the "triple ringworld" text is still present, thats based on the old kitbashed model that used some even older assets of mine
Very cool shipset indeed, love the work :)
Gigastructural Engineering should be added to the game as an expansion, adds so much to the end game.
Yes
Or broke up into several
As all that at once would loght my series x on fire haha
no, it's cheaper this way
@@antimaster6432wise man
here’s another bit of absolutely horrific lore the ships they employ, the evictor and custodian are the equivalent of mere police vehicles and mining vessels the smallest of their military ships are know as terminators they are the equivalent of mere corvettes
i shudder to imagine a blokkit battleship or and other class of ship
Play Blokkats on Obliterator difficulty and you'll see their second smallest military ship.
Obliterator diff gives you a single obliterator (their equivalent of something inbetween a cruiser and a battleship in class) its just as absurd as its name suggests
I only managed to defeat all 10 blokat invasions once. And that was because i started the game with late game start civic.
I haven’t got gigastructural engineers, probably because it would melt my PC, not to mention it is a cult in the Stellaris fanbase. But I’d like to imagine that at normal strength the Blokkats are like a 25x crisis. Now just imagine them as the fourth and final crisis where every crisis gets a 2x exponential increase.
Thank you for your wonderful tales and stories Loremaster.
Thanks for listening!! :)
Next thing i know The Red king covers the Shroud Invaders from the Ancient Empire mod
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it !! :)
What’s funny - if you have the swarm as your crisis along side this mod - they (the swarm) will scream “THE HUNTERS! THE HUNTERS!” When the blokcats appear
What made my play through hilarious was the swarm was modded as the Flood from Halo.
So watching the Flood scream about something worse than them…was hilariously terrifying
"if this inconveniences you, you may leave the galaxy" u wot m8 💀
Laughs in alternate blockat image sets. 😏
There was a little bit of lore when u restore a square world about a cube deity
I think im unironically a bit scared of the Blokkats, or at least, the concept of them.
the Blokkats are legit the only crisis that manages to defeat 3 of my fully geared up O Class Celestial Ship in a blink of an eye, they got me the first time they revived when i didn't do a single blokkats research as well lmao
My prayers have been answered
Gigastructures has an unhealthy obsession with cats.
lag: am i a joke to you?
Imagine if they land on 40k Milky Way.
Tyranid will be so terrified of them to even attemp contest.
I wonder what would happen if you used the Nicol Dyson Beam or even the Quasi Stellar Obliterator on the Vesters System.
Nothing, they are shielded from it there is an event around it kinda funny first time you do it
Love it this is awesome 😎
Thanks 😁 glad you liked it!!
Their story and gameplay mechanics are so cool. But their appearence is something meme tier...
A surprise to be sure but a welcome one
An awesome mod, always needed a systemcraft to beat them. By that time i can usuasly have two to 3 made wih another coming online
Didnt know you would create lore videos about mods, great work Red King!
Thanks!! Hope you enjoyed it :)
I was hoping they would have a more borg like aesthetic, literally a robot species called blokkats who have cube shaped space craft