Galaxy Devouring CATS - Ultimate Crisis! | Full Modded Playthrough | Stellaris Gigastructures 

Must be quite depressing.

Imagine being a theoretically **perfect** extragalactic empire with goals of titanic proportions and then being absolutely shit on by a bunch of dipshit bugs that slapped planets together…

@@Chernould_ They are like cockroaches! That became robots! But are still cockroaches!

@@Chernould_ the matter they are made of is literally capable of controlling it's positioning on the PLANCK LENGTH level. And a single atom('s volume) worth of this matter has the processing power of a full SUPERCOMPUTER. This is what happens when a singularity is left to it's own devices for tens of thousands of years.

Not as insane or evil this time. I’d say it’s been a quite mild result.

Cool, I would love to see a galaxy rebuilding run (you become the fallen empire) but it seems it would become boring fast as it is post endgame

@@thefaulnt3562 imagine making some new stellar nations and then just... leaving and giving the save to a group to play in on a scarred galaxy with you as the actual fallen empire.

"Well, they aren't getting any deader. Back to work!"

What is it exactly and how does it work? I played 1000+ years after defeating the Blokkats and I was given no such option.

@@Noctazar need more sacrifice

They're lucky they didn't meet the Blockkats! 🤣

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Let us feast! ...Why are there multiple solar systems in this solar system

The be llike

Good one mate.

But they are okayish if you do not put them on 100% or more

I love this part, now for my comment for the cause! only if he knew right?

@@thedarkonegaming1 maybe

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I want the ability to travel to other galaxies to expand upon the lore of Gigastructural Engineering. Maybe even to find the galaxies that have already been consumed by the Blokkats and creating some immense gigastructure or something to rekindle/rebuild the dead galaxies.

@@Slimebolt03 that's a whole different game at that point that would be awesome. If Stellaris 2 ever happens I hope it's like that

@@Slimebolt03 pretty sure that would fry any computer on this planet atm xd

@@antiyt6211 Sections of galaxies act like individual solar systems to help reduce lag. For example, if you want to explore a galaxy divided into 10 parts, you construct a science vessel (actually a fleet, but multiple entities would cause lag) and scan each of the sectors one at a time. Each section of a galaxy can be managed like a singular world. Doing combat is similar, as you would be building units as fleets rather than individuals. All if this should help greatly to reduce lag.

I'd love to just dismantle the entire galaxy and turn it into a hypermassive fleet of Stellar Systemcrafts and then abandon that galaxy and go to another one. The game could remember all resource incomes you were getting before leaving (because your home galaxy must effectively cease to exist for your computer not to fry), and setting it as your base resource income. Then, your "arrival" at another galaxy could be computed in the form of a brand new save. The civilizations inhabiting it could be artificially strengthened by the use of a mechanism similar to the "mature_galaxy" command. And then you could be just like Blokkats, travelling from galaxy to galaxy, eradicating and harvesting everything for more Stellar Systemcrafts. But thing is, it would have so much more potential. You don't necessarily have to be evil. You could be an insanely powerful xenophile civilization that arrives at different galaxies and helps its inhabitants, for example helps them fight off their own crises. Such a mod/mechanic would change the game as we know it, it would drastically increase the game's scale and it would give the player, like, literally 4 endgame layers.

Truly inspiring.

Indeed

what! Jesus Christ, but why are they only sending civlian ship?

@@thatregularguy it’s a mining operation. And usually nothing can resist them. If the op fails they send in an actual military force (which is planned eventually as a second crisis) as for the blokkays being reprogrammed. When you capture them, their soul and consciousness escapes back into the blokkwork (their network) and the leader you get is the body running a back up of their mind

@@thatregularguy Blokkats are not really attacking anything, according to the lore, what they do is comparable to what the player does when builing an automated strip mine around a barren world... on a galactic scale.

Jesus christ. If that's their CORVETTES what is their strongest?!

@@Guardian-of-Light137 They have the Obliterator which have 100 billions HP and have enough DPS to kill hundreds of systemcraft per day. And that is their destroyer.

When I make some next time I'm naming them after the Fabulous Custodes! Systemcraft arrives: AY YAY YAYAYAAAY!

Its a missed opportunity though that he didn't just find some random corvette somewhere, and name it Failbaddon.

I was honestly expecting a trademark "we're the good guys"

papa nurgle better

Damn… that… that actually makes a lot of sense… Mein Gott

So we get: 1. Contingency is calling singularity type-51 Blokkat-like civilizations. Nothing will come living if another arises, so it attempts it's best to stop it at bay, way before True Crisis arrises and hatches out of galaxy. 2. Unbidden, being driven mad by intence and enmass communication of blokkats, resulting in similar idea of harvesting energy. But as result of madness, targeted towards living beings and anything related. 3. Scourge, being one of the few known intergalactic traweling races, escaped it's home galaxy, that is being consumed by blokkats. Since then, they are on the run, ever being too close to those monsters... Ending up with us.

Ren-Miruu made Contigency, and Blokkat's history (their conflict with Paluushian, their time travel) doesn't match that. Contigency is older than Blokkat. It will make much more sense that Contigency's maker is currently a threat to Blokkat, large enough that they have to strip-mine anything they come across to even stand a chance. The fact that individual Blokkat visit habited world to record suggest that they aren't unfeeling or uncaring monster, they really don't want to be that mean. They just have no choice but to harvest as much as possible, recruiting native civilisation only slow them down. Unbidden is in a massive civil war for the Eternal Throne, and so far we have only seen 3 faction. Who is it to say that that is all?

I think that the creator of the mod intended the Blokatts to be the 'hunters mentioned by the Preythion scourge.

That's completly wrong, but nice try ;)

Sire Per'uby the XII, the Q'gawar Emperor: We haven't used this thing for literal millenia, there's no use for it anymore ever since long ago. Dismantle. 2nd Blokkat dismantle operation, with actual warfleet: _:| surrendar._

@@Crazylom the blokkats take a lesson from the bugs and staple a bunch of their vesters together with an active galactic nuclei as the reactor.

@@EvelynNdenial the blokkats sent a construction ship to build extractors - the setting where they see you as a threat means that the vester has some billions of hp every stat has at least +1000% a blokkat ship being in the same system as a colony instantly kills the colony

The thing that always gets me is vanilla pirate fleet names personally.

According to the lore, they will barely notice. The fleets you encounter are barely the equivalent of construction ship for the player. They are thousands of others fleets like this harvesting galaxies over galaxies. Like you can be slighly annoyed when one of your construction ship get's destroyed by amobeas.

@@jhtrq1465 That is inaccurate. The Blokkats were already concerned about the Stellaris galaxy before they arrived, the defeat there was only increase their fear.

@@martind2520You are wrong. We blokkats actually consume multiple galaxies at a time and the fleets you see in your galaxies are simply corvettes. If we wanted to we could devour your galaxy in a year. - From the blokkats propaganda agency

​@@TheContingency25x not even corvettes the ships you see are mere scouts Their corvettes are known as terminators and they can easily slap a dozen o class systemcrafts out of existence like its nothing

@@factualhat3018Listen it was my first day on the job ok.

I found this out the hard way: I customized some civics to increase the amount of upkeep of ships and it ended up costing around **7000 energy** to upkeep a single NSC battleship.

Thats insane. I love it.

Yep, I had a two O class dysonspheres and I wasn’t keeping up…

May Shadow-sphere Birch World be with you

Get acot and build void speres planets with like 600 pops make like 300k alloys 300k energy 100k minerals it's great lol plus acot components are even more expensive

For the algorithm

Imo longform content is so much more interesting than the short 10-15 minutes that are favored by the algorithm. Don't know if any of these other topics interest you, but I can reccomend a couple other channels that do mostly longform content. If naval history interests you, Drachinifel usually has around a 1 hour video out every week, plus an hour long q&a, and a longer livestream twice a month. My other recommendation, if you are interested in media analysis, (mostly movies and TV, but occasionally they cover a game) is a channel called Mauler, he does a podcast called Every Frame A Pause with a few friends, (archived on his alternate channel, Mooler) breaking down what works and what doesnt in a variety of different shows and movies, as well as why it doesnt work. The streams are usually around 6-10 hours, although part of that is usually reading through superchats.

The most impressive part about Lathrix is that he edits his longform vids. There are many people who just upload whole 9 hrs of gameplay, while Lathrix cuts it down into interesting parts and makes extra commentary. Its on whole other level than most other youtubers.

Follow this up with doing youtube searches of cats vs bugs. And see how many matches turned out the same way, or differently to, how it turned out in this galaxy.

It craps FPS dude, let it rest

These might be insane.

I think the tip under the max difficulty option highly recommends to play with other OP mods. It's like, "We appreciate your enthusiasm but could you please prepare yourself properly." XD

I tried max difficulty one. It can only be described as star system swarm...

@@krystal_vector5412 Yeah you're recommended to play with that one op mod with the lightbringers and delta tech and whatnot. Not that it'll save you lol

@@samk4480 My go to for OP mods is the godly species perk mod, it gives you some absolutely broken perks that stack well with the other OP mods. It’s like lore friendly cheating XD

Sire, have you ever heard the story of To'partz the wise? That's not the story fallen empire would tell... For context: This session of stellaris i played with Q'gawar race: sentient, born out of geisers quartz-topaz with electrocinesis (and, as result of further progress, psychic) Monarchy Empire - Haru'qvaer's rule of brilliance (that dude being first-founder of current empire). Eventually, i got to the point of encountering Lightborn, from ECOT. To put it simply - i steamrolled their systems with THREE stellar systemcrafts (Each being named after Haru's weapons and relics). So yeah...I have no fear in Blokkats

There was no flash though. You just got banged Nice

@@meeperdudeify for some reason the sudden shock of brightness from the galaxy also blinded me. The loudness just kind of overwhelmed it

"Not again."

I know this is an old comment but if you win against the stellarborne, become them, and then the blokkats spawn, you actually get an event popup from another stellarborne that pretty much says, "Hey it's the blokkats, they're cool but go fight them and see if they're worthy of joining us to fight against the dark okay? If you win, great, if you don't, invite them to join us"

Same here, the massive micro requirements and lag are just....

fun fact your hardware doesn't matter past a surprisingly early point. its a bad engine. fortunately we have some MAJOR performance fixes coming in an update soon.

@@zeehero7280 Date?

Running a economy and government constantly is tiring and is just micro management *laughs in literally every civilization that has existed*

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Lol... when I get to about 2300 and I've finished my first few gigastructures eg. Penrose/Ringworld/Sci Nexus/Strategic Coordinator I usually start spamming kugelblitzes on all my moons/asteroids and arcologies on every planet I have lol

Eh. Vid is just below 2 hours. You should be fine, at least i hope so.

It's a mod that I never play without anymore.

It's like Sonic 3 & Knuckles being seperate games, but being able to be joined into ultimate experience. Except one is just a mod that could be it's own game, like REALLY

Startillary :D

I- ish there a problem... u- unbidden? *hiccup* Whats inside that systemcraft? The unrivaled power of the sun

“Still warming up sir”

Im not sure it would be working that well.

Would be fun, and corvette swarm tactic would actually be counterable

@@Crazylom No need. I once played with a mod crisis who have insane attack speed (their L slot deal 40-60 direct hull damage per 0.1 days, and that is the countdown time for all of their weapons), and corvette swarm get countered hard. Even screening isn't that effective anymore. And when I finally acquire their tech, I realize that insane attack speed help enemy disengage, which the crisis is so talented in (their admiral all have +65535% disengagement chance, mean that unless you one-shot their remaining half hull they will run away.

@@tungleson7066 Hm...Can you name mod's name they come from, by a chance?

Sistem craft would have aoe damage to anything smaller than a moon that wouldn't be anything very techy would literally just be the gravity of the sistem ship pulling the ships into it crashing them

Its a psychological thing. Most humans can't effectively identify how skilled they are at something. Like, I think my writing is shit but thus far I've really only been told good things. Or Miniature painting channels, where you've got dudes making epic pieces of art and they go "But its not great," and its infinitely better than anything their viewers can make.

@@shadowofhawk55 when you're good at something you know all the aspects you're bad at.

@@hedgehog3180 Exactly

@@hedgehog3180 It's like grammar: only when you know the rules, you realize how bad your grammar is

I dont think our current technology would be able to simulate multiplazer gigastructures.

@@jurajsintaj6644 It's hilariously imbalanced from what I've heard, there are a lot of powerplayers in the community so there's almost always someone who rushes a gigaforge in 10-20 years and absolutely steamrolls the galaxy

The entirety of their fleet can probably crush the galaxy from afar, or at least destroy the whole galaxy with their deceleration. So we need an expansion of the fundamental game, allowing for many galaxies so there could be a war throughout the entire local group of galaxies. Then maybe the observable universe? Then beyond? :)

Never trust humans. The elves are fine.

You can reason with human, you can make trust with ork, but never with elves...

They actually tell crisis empires to get fucked, and then disable their Win Engines. Kinda annoying.

@@alexdavidson239 Damn, thanks for the warning though. It would have been a massive exploit as well

​@@alexdavidson239When you try to turn your entire species into higher dimensional beings, but then the ULTRA HIGHER DIMENSIONAL BEINGS say "get fucked" 🤣

in a short stance, what you mean is 'a predator predates the galaxy, but the predator gets predated by a even bigger predator but at the size of a intergalactic territories'

@@froggamonke1832 pretty much yeah, except that for some reason or another the original prey can't even tell the new predator is even there, they just see the original predator acting terrified with no idea what changed for them to suddenly turn from aggressive to fearful

Lag

Our battle will be legendary!

So essentially blokkats are discord players with hyperspeed power builds?

I played it through it with Gigas. There's big sencation of megalomania when you build 3 stellarcrafts, go to Lightborns, and whack their strongest system in 10 seconds, barely living with 2.8 systemcrafts. Yeah i had hell of a game back them

And this was the Blokats on their LOWEST difficulty setting.