Stellaris | Determined Exterminators FULL RUN | MAX AI & Crisis strength! 

Admiral: I have won countless battles Lath: OK Admiral: And I commited many war crimes! Lath: Welcome aboard Admiral!

I like how the stranded Admiral is so badass that even a machine empire dedicated to eradicating all organic life makes an exception and lets him join their side.

"Sometimes a pretty thing should be shot at" -Lathrix, February 22, 2019.

"Is this a Gaia World? It's a Gaia Moon... *It will be harvested.*" Best line from the Video

I love how the empire that stops the scourge and saves the galaxy is the one that is supposed to be consuming it

You didn't take the scourge as pets! AGAIN!

"Cryo Pod" is short for Cryogenic, as in Frozen Stasis Pods. Not Crypto, as in Cryptocurrency. You destroyed their Beds basically.

lol that lone admiral is literally saren from mass effect, fighting with the reapers.

The Stellaris wiki is a really useful source of info, and it does seem that you are correct, the strategic coordination centre does, in fact, give a 150 fleet cap increase, a 15% sublight speed and an increase in starbase cap as well. It also adds more defence platforms (possibly) per star base, which would be quite useful in defence.

*Hears worker voice* THE ROBOTS ARE COMMUNIST! *USSR ANTHEM PLAYS*

After the scourge has been defeated, the galaxy lives in joy. Until Rocky returns to routine and the Core harvests them all.

I would suggest using the mod for the AI, because no matter how early you make the end game crisis appear, all regular empires will be just as pathetic. And if it will spawn at the other side of the galaxy, it will chew through all of the AI without any effort and snowball to the point where it is impossible to stop untill you own more then half of the galaxy. Or at least I expect it to happen that way.

I absolutely think you should use a mod to improve the AI for future playthroughs. It would be a lot more fun to watch if the ai actually posed some threat

So, I guess you could say first contact with other empires was a bit of a "Rocky" start... :D

You might or might not see this Lathrix. But an easier way to see the resources in every system is to hit the alt key instead of manually hovering over an individual system.

I love the idea of the apathetic exterminators. "We'll destroy you all, maybe, later, if we feel like it"

You can have friends as a purifier, as long as they belong to the same species. If someone takes a few of your planets in a containment war and those planets breaak off from his Empire with your species being their dominant one, you can pick up normal relations to them

"Sometimes a pretty thing should be shot at" -Lathland Brilliant and totally quoteable.

Great vids mate always fun to watch

Loved the play through. It’s the first time I’ve seen a crisis event. Thanks for all the editing!

does anybody else find it weird that the fallen empire admiral is the only organic in the entire empire

I'm playing purifiers that start on a tomb world with a raiding perk, so I steal all the pops for the unity and resources, then bombard the planet so I can live on it and most other empires can't. It was actually fun, you should try it.

Glad you're still doing these, and you're not afraid to experiment! Your electric firing bug zappers were a cool and satisfying idea to see; but seconding a call for mods, maybe more so when you feel like you're tapped on new Le Guin vanilla runs! Aspec's channel has some good suggestions for cosmetics and basic improvements.

Love this series

Love your series lathrix, keep it going

Is your fiance cutting a tree or using the blender? Seriously, I can't tell! (And knowing you, it could be both)

Very thematic for you to fight the Scourge and have all your ships set up as bug zappers.

I dont know why but I love the term Hemorrhaging .

Yo Lathrix,been here since From The Depths Season 2 and been loving your stuff since then.It'd be amazing watching you play around with the Gigastructured mod and I can assure you that playing with it you'll have a blast making everything and using it to carve through the Galaxy for the Dark Gods

Love these styles of vids. Nice necron build too haha

I like that one guys idea of having all the empires you've made and pit them against each other, and you play your favorite one or something along those lines

Yay More Lath! >O

as far as im aware your entire navy could be stopped by... Idk a thin wall of rubber?

Yaay! been waiting for this one for a while

"I just wanna shoot at it you know, sometimes at pretty things should be shot at" -Lathrix 22/02/2019

Thanks Buddy. Learned a lot about DE!

This "worker" or whatever voice sounds like HK-47 from star wars Knights of the old Republic fused with the battle cruiser capitain from starcraft 2

Great work. As always.

looking forwards to falling asleep on the couch watching this tonight. Had to click it now to like it though.

"Sometimes a pretty thing should be shot at" -Lathrix 2019

That's it, you've inspired me to give Stellar a go. Cheers, Lathrix

By the end you were so ridiculously strong, you could've declared war on the entire galaxy, and dedicated but a single fleet to each empire and still win.

What a great way to start the week end.

Just watching the start is making me want to watch it even more

The machine worlds look great, but I have to say that the mod devs of gigastructural engineering have created beautiful worlds and structures. I’ve been messing around with the creative mode for the last few days, and I’ve been loving the aesthetics of the mod.

I like this, I would not argue if you did more.

That +100% Shield and Armor Penetration really makes short work of the fallen empires! Also, unleashing the nanites from the L-Gates while playing as killer robots.. seems fitting somehow. :-)

@Lathland, If a scientist has a specialization, he will research that specialization faster AND make it more likely that the research type will come up. You had a logistics bot researching and waited half the game for and Industrial Tech. Next time get an Industrial Bot for your engineering research.

For my Exterminators, i'm using introspective, the Engineering space station and the replicators from each conquered world quickly add up.

Love your work ❤️

Well, "Sometimes a pretty thing should be shot at."

This is a bit late, but I did the math for which is better against the scourge, the torpedoes or the cloud weapons, and the result is that as long as the (unshielded) enemy ship's armor is less than 5 times bigger than its hull, torpedoes are better (not accounting for range, evasion or flak shooting down the torpedoes). With the scourge ships' armor being about twice their hull the torpedoes are about twice as effective in terms of raw damage, and given that the range of torpedoes is better and the scourge has no point defences I'd say the torpedoes would've been bettter pick

I feel like the Extermined Determinator playthroughs result in ridiculously powerful empires but are also still really interesting, expecially with Lath's Lathness

The Way you went to the awakened Empire reminded me of the Geißel from Warcraft 3^^

Cloud lightning battleships are some of my favorite ships. A great hard counter

I seriously thought when you were talking about taking the L-Gate systems that you were gonna say "It's like free real estate." As an aside one of my favorite tactics with the L-Gate system is to use it as a sort of "last bastion" for my species by making Ring Worlds in all systems that don't have nanite resources, a sort of backup in case I get jumped by an End Game crisis inside my own territory.

"Ya know sometimes a pretty thing should be shot at"

Determined Exterminators defending the whole galaxy alone so they can do the job themselves.

DAAR-1, the name of the planet, sounds like Darwin, as in Charles Darwin.

Thanks Lathrix! I'm not intelligent enough to play Stellaris but I can at least enjoy this wonderful game by watching you playing it!

Determined Exterminators VS Devouring Swarm VS Fanatic Purifiers

Me: playing at home as a hive mind Lathrix: hey! Watch this to not be bored 😁 Me: sure, but if I’m still bored it’s your head Video: drivin exterminators Me: YES FUN!

"Hopefully 2 hours or less..." bro it's great to see and hear all the nuances, and these take days to do. Insane to condense 3 days or game time to under 2 hours

Basically, what if the Chariot Line from Horizon: Zero Dawn discovered space travel.

amazing, never seen a leviathan hatching before

Oh god, it's the evolution of the lathrix battleship spam

Funny thing is, I might yoink this build for my version of the Tekunin

I love his reaction to the orbital bombardment @38:13 just glorious cause I'd react the same way 😂

Hey, Lathrix, have you considered playing with the gigastructures mod? I’ve played it a lot and it is super fun!

1:02:30 I don't know if you're aware, but if you left-click on a wormhole icon on the galaxy map, it takes you to its paired wormhole. I realise I'm three months late, but I'm still enjoying this playthrough. Edit: And two minutes later you do it. Never mind me!

You are being rescued, please do not resist

I like how when most people get bored, they watch a movie or occupy themself in some way. However, when Lathland gets bored, he conquers a universe in two days.

If you bild the stratigic coordinations center normaly it will show you wich bonuses it will give you. in your case it seems like it's bugged, probably because it was a repaird one and not manuly build.Enertaining vidoe, allways a joy to watch :)

I just startet the same civ. The same civic picks, the same species traits, Only diferent names and galaxies. XD

“Lovely”

Tempest made me shiver. They made my last playthrough so friggin hard. To summarize, everyone was late to the L-Gate thing. They were kinda far from the borders of everyone (can happen with these bigger galaxy mods I was on a 5000 stars map). Anyways. The Scourge invaded the galaxy and everyone was already in a big scuffle with someone else me included. So of course this idiotic democratic crusader empire goes and beat me to the insights and opens the gate. And it's the tempest. So I am fighting a war on two fronts already. To the south the scourge is aggressively trying to eat me. To the north this awakened empire is giving me trouble. And now there are nano fleets pouring out of the gates to my east and west. After all this, very few empires were still somewhat standing once the scourge, tempest and big ole awakened empires were dealt with. It sent the galaxy back 200 years in terms of territories...Previously owned clusters of hundreds of stars were now barren and full of debris (thank you battle debris mod). It was glorious in it's special way.

If you hover over the mega-structure in the construction ship menu it will tell you what it produces at each stage

5:32 How the hell did my dog become a robotic leader?!?!?!? 🤣

I love the smell of the fried Scourge at the morning

Live watching your games, has helped me so much. I don’t feel like I’m good at the game, because I only play on Normal/Ensign, no bonus to them. But what I find hardest is the difference to Sectors. Unless I manually put resources in, that I can’t ever get out again, they won’t self develop. But they will, even without a Governor. I just don’t see any point to giving them Energy, they don’t clear blockers.

"Is that a Gaia world?..It's a Gaia moon oh how adorable, it will be harvested.."

To demolish, you can push Delete and enter to speed up the process Also as a machine empire, use Habitats to replace your mining stations, with a Martial Law habitat with the mining job thing, and the unity building, you can get upwards of 200 minerals per habitat... and about 100+ fleet capacity

i once kept terrorising a primitive planet that were early/late space age. i kept attacking with 1 or 2 droids that they kept destroying. and all the primitives garrisons eventually became Veterans (didnt even know veteran level existed till i saw them at that level)

"bombard a world into a tomb world" EXTERMINATUS

This is basically the plot for universal paperclips

These are perfect to watch while generating 15k star galaxies.

I would love to see you restart some from the depth videos

"Ooh a thing😃😃 I like things😃" 🤣🤣

You can use the delete key, to demolish buildings. Just click the building, and hit delete, then enter to confirm, or left click confirm.

I'd say let's explore mods to make the AI better.

Nice work. ME after 2.2.5 patch are OP, before 2.2.4 they was weak like meat. Got insane boost compare to old patch.

You beat the escourge so much that you will end invading their galaxys and becoming the scourge of the scourge

1:16:55 I think the fire control only increases accuracy, and since it's already at 100% it has no effect. Edit: Yeah you should absolutely get the Glavius AI mod. Better AI also improves sectors so you can maybe turn over some of the micromanaging to your governors in the late game. I always go Tall so I've never done that but with how many planets you had I'm shocked you did it all manually.

>Harbinger would like to know your location

“It so adorable......it will be harvested”

definetly go with the mod option!

Harvester under attack.

I think you should definitely use the improved AI mod to help with the challenge. Plus any other mods you think would make it more fun. I really enjoy your play throughs of this game.

In one of my playthroughs, I had +280 armor bonus! With everything else to match of course. I just enter a system and it's mine because there was a titan pre fleet total of 14 fleets each 100k and with the offensive aura to give -230% fire rate to all enemies!!!

If you think about, the nanite world cluster makes you practically invincible if noone else can get there