Stellaris: The Impossible Run - Today is a Good Day to Die 

I see the title and I immediately hit like. There's no universe where this video isn't going to be my jam.

Jon: "Everyone hates the Spuxulac, so if I annoy them, I could make other people my friends" Also Jon: "Let's annoy the Combine of Hulfassa even though they are not the Spuxulac"

“I need to play tall as a mega Corp” >50 minutes later “I need to be able to expand and outgrow everyone else!” Oh Jon, you never learn

Brown dwarfs are "stars" that never actually hit the mass and the pressure needed to trigger the fusion reaction in the core and start burning. So in essence they kind of are just really big, really warm gas giants.

You know, I get the feeling that playing as a merchant in a galaxy full of people who hate you would be bad for business.

In case someone was wondering the binary for the robots = KILL

The best defense is a horrifying and chaotic offense that you can unleash but can’t control

I enjoy the binary in the 0 Index description. I believe it just simply says kill

the “Apocalypse” start screen seems so much more fitting now.

Jon! I'd rush Horizon Signal so you can get your home system planets habitable. Could give you the edge you need.

40:47 who needs a ring world when you can have the Worm?

Just a heads up, Paradox changed migration treaties recently. In the past, you would have to wait for the aliens to move to your world before you could build a colony ship. Now though, you can build a fresh colony ship out of anyone you have a migration treaty with, even if none of them are currently on your planets.

"Oligarchy, so elections every 40 years". You sure about that Jon? You might get surprised a bit in... let's say 766 days? ;-)

Hey Jon, I was only saying on the recent livestreams that I'd been playing Stellaris whilst watching your skyrim series and up pops another Sterllaris series! yey! (I can't play anything though whilst watching these streams, too much goes on in Stellaris to do something else as well, you'd miss stuff!) Just a few comments / suggestions 1. Ignore all anomalies if you're concentrating on expansion - yes some can be good, but you can do them later, they slow down surveying (same to a degree with Dig sites) 2. Worm holes sound good, but they are not good in this play through, it provides yet another attack vector and another system you need to fortify. 3. You were right to stop at Discida, it'll end up being a choke point of 2 empires, plus the arm going that way is useless anyway 4. Swap out the distruptor building in the Discida base for a Crew quarters and then the fleet will be cheaper to keep there. You'll need them there eventually anyway. 5. You're low on credits, I'd possibly grab Geronth next, its +5 energy and +3 trade, which you'd get at Snorf. 6. Remember that systems at the edge of your view can tell you if they have lanes leaving them, they have little 'tails' that point in the direction of the lane, no tails = end of lane. 7. As soon as you've got the credits, get the Curator Research Assistance. +10% across the board will help 8. I'd have taken Technical Ascendancy first for the bonus to research, which you will struggle with due to lack of pops. The one for cheaper expansion is of limited use tbh, because you only have a few systems you can expand to. 9. Ignore the L Gate, in all honesty, mid game is 10 years away, you're not going to get a chance to do it before that happens anyway and even if you get the Grey Tempest, they can quickly come through your gate as well anyway, it only blocks the first wave and you'd never have the fleet to defeat it. Also spending artefacts on it is massively slow and you'll never have enough of them, you probably won't even get enough dig sites to give you 50 artefacts anyway. 10. Get Rasalgethi ASAP, that'll be your next choke point to the south. That would be where I would stop, unless there's a mega mineral system nearby. 11. Don't bother with defence platforms, if there's no fleet to help, they're expensive and flimsy. (Its one of my pet hates with the game, you can't effectively turtle without a fleet at each choke point station and a fortified starbase). To keep a border you can hold, I'd stop at Rasalgethi, fortify that system, claim the rest of the arm with the 2 black holes in and the other systems you have access to, that way you have 2 manageable choke points in the south & east, no problems to the west and probably stop at Satinias to the north. Its your colony planet so slap a fortress on it so you have a FTL inhibitor on it which will slow down any invasion from the north, once you have that tech. You can't go wide in this play through as you won't have the fleet power to hold it. Keep tight & go tall as per your initial plan. Planet spawn has not been kind though, talking of which.... To be honest, as others have said, the answer to the lack of systems may well be the Horizon signal, although again, you may not live long enough to finish it (mid game will probably hit first). One interesting tactic may be to request to be the vassal of the guys in the north east of you, that way they will protect you if you get attacked. Given that you'd never withstand an attack, its probably what I'd be tempted to do. You can always declare war on them at some point for independence if you survive the Khan and the Crisis! Just watch the credit tax they'll impose on you. Plus if it works the same as when you have vassals, you'll get cheaper tech for techs they've already got, plus I think you get a trade benefit as well, its sort of like a combined Defensive, Commercial and Research agreement. (That said, I've never been a vassal, only had vassals). Hopefully it'll last a few parts, can't wait to see how it goes. Yey! Stellaris is back!

The first thing you need to do to make the AI like you is to guarantee their independence. This builds Trust, which raises opinion, which allows you to do the other diplomatic deals. Once you have other deals going, you can revoke the independence guarantee. Also since you are Xenophile, the influence cost is reduced. P.S. Giving them random presents does give an opinion boost, but it's relatively small, so not usually worth it. It's good if you need just a few more points to get the next deal though.

Ah yes Jon starting a new series about some really hard camping in a strategy game. Getting some flashbacks to barbarian invasion.

"End-Game Start Year: 2250 - Crisis Strength: 5x." Yeah...that's unwinnable...

"Wait! I think today is actually a good day to retreat! Can't we push dying to a week from friday? "

"Three scientists seems a bit much." I usually run like 5 science ships o.O

All those ice planets, I feel you should be following the horizon signal asap. Tomb world preference lets you live anywhere, also you'll get nat physicist as well as nat engineers. Worst case, you're pops might go a bit pacifist. The worm loves you.

Anyone else notice how the desert planet with the "weird phenomena" hatched just over a month after Jon first saw it? That's gonna be a surprise when he gets sensors on that system...

25:40 it was just a container filled entirely to the Brim with literal fart jokes. Excellent.

I believe a terrifying plant-person's fringe would be referred to as foliage and not plumage. "Nobody wants to go to Snivlet Starbucks." It's the mucus they put in every cup.

oddly triggering the endgame crisis early might actually help the player. if the endgame crisis triggers early enough it could force one of the fallen empires to waken early and trigger the federation/vassalization event. the ai would be more likely to join the fallen empire due to them having more relative power then they normally would. an underdeveloped but unified glalaxy might just be able to win were an more developed but divided galaxy would fail. assuming the player survives the endgame crisis then they have a nice frendly empire to keep them safe while they grow in strength.

It's been a while since a good MATN challenge run

Hive mind to the south of me, xenophobes to the right here I am, stuck in the MATN

Ah yes. The Impossible Run. Oh, how I remember when this series first came out. Good times.

Hyperlane density, Abandoned Gateways, and Wormhole Pairs actually do influence the difficulty in a way. More Hyperlanes means that you would have less chokepoints to guard and more ways around them, Gateways and Wormholes would also impact the ease of defending your borders. I can understand why you didn't change them for this run, but really they should all be super high to make an impossible game.

found your channel on the Stellaris videos. Good to be back.

I have never watched Stellaris before, but I'm hooked! I hope this turns into a longer series.

This is just the 40k Tau empire play through

He brought up the live stream where he says that he tries to play the sequel to a game as quickly as he can, I can't believe he actually did it. Maybe that's a hint that after this series Xcom 2 is coming. I really hope so.

Jon: I've got a plan Everybody else: Yep, we're all going to die

This might be the best idea you had so far, Jon!

Anyone else play these in the background of doing something else, without paying attention, just for the sake of hearing Jon's soothing voice?

I can see the DLC now "Rogue planet" were you can find planets between stars and move your planets freely. Cool idea for a dlc man.

Jon I just finished your entire Stellaris: Apocalypse series today what are the odds there would be this new series coming out just as I do. I'm hyped but I may have to wait a while before watching it since binging isn't possible with weekly uploads haha

thanks for explaining the clerical thing. I honestly knew something along those lines was coming when you chose to play a mega-corp.

YES! Literally just last week I was thinking "I hope Jon will make another Stellaris series soon, I'd really like to watch him play Stellaris again." and now this! It's a wish come true! Love you Jon, well... not literally but.. you know what I mean.

Good luck jon, i have high hopes, you can do this!

Jesus, no lies to be found in this title. I hope if this run doesn't last that long, that this won't be the only bit of stellaris for another few months. Oh, also, you need to grease the wheels by just picking people that don't fundamentally hate you and throw alloys at them for nothing just to get that +40 diplomacy boost. Then you put down the non-aggression pact and commercial pact and let trust tick up and carry the diplomatic load from then on. Also, robots/synths if you make it long enough to allow settling all those cold worlds.

fun fact: the binary in the description of the 0 index at 4:43 translates to: KILL

Jon: “So we just need to stay friendly with local species” Me: *Glances at light militarist ideology* “Mmmhmm sure you will, Jon”

Jon and Stellaris means I click. Quirky challenge run sounds fun.

55:44 the borders look like a kitty cat

Perception -1 Everyone is evil and aggressive, Jon goes for trading empire. Naw, it'll be fine. Faster survey is 90 influence or 30 months of influence, which you need to have to expand.

37:50 lock down, build a goddanm fortress, reinforce the fortress with a fleet, and man the guns

Did Jon learn nothing from FTL hard mode?

I’m just crying tears for those 2 Green Mana up to the NE that Jon didn’t grab. You *need* Green Mana. Much more so than Crystals or Motes.

truly worth the watch

If you are wondering the description text for 0 index says KILL.

Watching this now and the comment Jon makes about the flying planets is actually a hilarious Mega structure mod that allows for Battlemoons where you fully convert a moon into a death star like battlestation and go to town on your enemies.

Yayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayaya. Stellaris Impossible Run. When are we getting are beautiful Oblivion Let's play. I have many filled out forms and info docs if you need to know more on how the game works percentage wise.

I really like messy chokepoint, it means if the person on the other end wants to fully protect their side they have to build multiple starbases or risk me just jumping right past one of them

This game reminds me of Masters of Orion, which was an Amazing game in the 90s.

I've never seen stellaris, found it hard to get into, hopefully this will help

Now THIS is what I call a proper Galaxy!

I'm ten minutes in so I don't know if it's mentioned later, but Snorf's orbit is 100% in the path of one of Fincastle's moon's orbit. And the moon itself looks like either a 1/3rd or maybe half the size of Snorf. How boned are these poor little bastards? Edit 1: There's no way in hell that Discida isn't going to turn into a nova at some point. Considering how close it is to Snorf in galactic terms? A bit worrying. Best case scenario, scanners are gonna go a bit wonky in that direction, and, well, EVERY direction for a long time, and you'll wanna avoid looking at the sky for a minute, maybe, depending on just HOW bright it'll be. Worst case, nearby planets are pounded by tons of space-dust.

I have to say the snivlett at the starbucks I work at isn't horrible...it isn't easy to work up front with him, the smell...

I know this video is old, but I started my own version of an impossible run (basically an easier one) and I got surrounded by 6 empires with advanced start. My space is so small!

Embrace the worm!

you can gift the empires some resources you don't need and they will like you more.

This needs to be stated just how clever a name 0 index is for a swarm that wants to amalgamate everything. Hats off Jon.

Series where players impose such difficult challenges on themselves are my favorite to learn new things about the game in question :3

Jon is basically a primitive civilization you find that eventually goes space age.

That's pretty much the universe in the series "Old Man's War".

Tech cost does impact the difficulty, does it not? The great Khan, the war in heaven and the endgame crisis does not care about how much tech you have. The higher the cost, the less tech you have against them.

And I was about to say this whole premise reminds me of the Three Body Problem and look at that a three star system

If you read Niven's novel Ringworld (i.e. where the idea of a ringworld came from) he actually talks about how he thinks you would need to be able to move planets between and around star systems before you would be able to produce a Dyson sphere or ringworld.

Love the uploads, it's good to see content from a rightwise speaking country 😍 This game just dropped on Xbox and is on my wishlist, Awesome content cheers from Oz 👍

Trade policy changes is available to all government types, not just megacorps :x

“I’m going to play mega corp as they can grow tall” 30 minutes later “MUST GROW! MUST EXPAND! TAKE! ALL OF UNIVERSE FOR ME ME!”

Oh dear lord the four words you never wanna hear Jon say, "I have a plan!"

good luck jon cant wait to see more

I've never played without enduring as a trait, and I was legitimately confused as to why 51 was bad for a moment. Then I remembered, oh yeah. I'm the outsider here with my 300 year old foxes.

Whenever Jon says he has a plan I get worried.

interesting that you had two Black Holes within one jump of each other. The patrol feature for the science vessels would allow patrolling those two to have a lovely increased chance for starting the worm event

I wonder how many episodes this will last. The fact Jon *didn't* spawn next to fanatical purifiers is encouraging, and Jon might be lucky enough to make this work...

Jon, you are such a savage! :D

cant believe its been 3 years since this series. still happy to watch it again

Jon, if we've stuck with you through "American Jon", then we'll stick with you through clarks. No need to apologize.

You know how sometimes you get those weird coincidences in life? Well this video has just made that happen to me. Only days ago I bought Stellaris, albeit the console edition because my PC is a pile of garbage, and while the game isn't exactly unpopular I am not subscribed to anyone who plays it regularly and so for Jon to release a video on it out of the blue shortly after I buy the game feels like a sign for me to get on with it and finally play it.

YES finally more challenges on the channel

Thanks for the great video Jon.

The society researcher is named Bi Pan. That’s rather apt.

... so you are basically playing the Ferengi.

I always take One vision first. lets you get a seconf perk faster and less factions to worry about is great in the long run.

11:15 Those systems aren't linked up. Hyperlanes in systems at the edge of your detection range are visible but fade out before they reach their destination. (eg. the system just above those two has a hyperlane going to the left.) 20:40 "Celebrate diversity" gives unity in addition to the ethics attraction. 42:12 That is a good system, but not as good as it appears. Mining and science stations show the total yield, counting all modifiers including the bonus production the AI gets from difficulty level. 44:45 The tooltip is wrong. The upkeep of the job is reduced by 20%, not the upkeep of the pop.

Hey Jon, I stumbled across a unique little game you may or may not be interested in. Starsector is a very interesting game with Mount & Blade elements in space in addition to some light 4x elements. Only costs about $15, still in early development with a small Indie team, but overall very solid game if your upload schedule ever frees up.

Gigastructures allows you to make basically any planet liveable so you could move your capital to that planet

Btw for anyone who doesnt yet know. Stellaris on the xbox is actually really really well done. It does have less sliders though 🤔

I say we compromise and just call them Clairks.

Started to watch this series, about an hour in and realized its still the first episode...this is going to be very good LoL

Thank God this is back! I missed Stellaris a lot!

Coming back to watch again from the start after that spectacular ending. such a good series...

get as many corvets as possible because they're really fast and they can avoid being hit better than most ships you can use them to swarm the enemy ships while your real Ships Take potshots at it

I like how I got two notifications, both saying ‘today is a good day to die’, one from matn and one from nerdcubed

For those who can't be arsed. The 0 Index biography translates out to just the word "Kill".

The Snivlets of Snorf speak Snorfish, which is an incredibly annoying language because it sounds like snoring. Hence repugnant.

Next playthrough remimber to always check system directly connected to your homeworld. They usually host habitable planets. Checking them is enough, surveying them is optionnal if there is no planet to colonize and you have choke point to claim