They are the Harbinger of your perfection. They are your genetic destiny. God, this crisis events is essentially Stellaris Reapers from Mass Effect 3 combined with the Zerg from Starcraft 2.
jonathan kemline they remind me more of the flood from halo, now if they decide to make them giant robot squids then yes then they would be like the reapers.
The flood are less...aesthetic. They don't have any real shape. While the prythoryn's actually have a defined physical form. (Or at least in space, on the ground they might just be shapeless horrors..)
EASTER EGG: If your psionic, you can communicate with he Scourge. They are being chased by a race they call The Hunters, and that Prethoryn means survivor in their tongue. They arent laughing at you upon first contact. They are laughing that even if you beat them, you have no chance against The Hunters.
They spawned in the middle of a battle between my fleets and a fallen empires fleet. Long story short all of us got destroyed and the empires that we used to call weak declared war on my federation. They basically slapped my ally and called it for peace. I nearly lost that game but I was able to build a massive fleet again and still thought for sure I was going to lose then bam fallen empire awakened and declared war on them attacking them from behind. I waited till their fleet power was inferior and moved in to take what was mine.
your translaters can translate that message if you are psychic empire and translate is "PRETHORN, WE HAVE ARRIVED. OUR LONG JOURNEY IS OVER! FEED, MATE, AND REST. WE MUST CONSUME THIS GALAXY BEFORE THE HUNTERS FIND US!"
Iqbaal Annaafi the bright side is that since the Scourge are running away from the Hunters, if they want to pick on you once they arrive you could probably take them out if you took out the Scourge which were probably running away because they weren’t strong enough to fight the Hunters
I remember when this event first happened for me. A massive alliance war just ended, I finally broke my rivals, my colonies were prosperous, I had fleets of thousands, endless legions. However, then the war in heaven started, then the whole galaxy went to war. Countless systems ravaged Fleets lay to ruin The war economy in shambles We thought things couldn’t get any worst. Then they came Within just 10 years, they had destroyed one of the awakened empires. Consumed 50% of the galaxy Me and the few empires that remained made a truce, we took up arms, we put are petty grievances aside And took the battle to them Then paradox added synthetic dawn and made the save file not compatible.
The Sentinels would make a good basis for a mod. You could have the player start as the Sentinels in a late-game galaxy already being invaded by the Scourge. That could be fun.
I know a good basis for a mod......galaxy travel........so your not limited to a single galaxy, and they could ahve smaller, adn bigger galaxies, wich different anomalies, species, specififc events etc......like a tru universe.
@@DovaDude The Scourge and the Contingency clashing as the Contingency tries purging them. Perhaps the Unbidden arrive when the remaining empires start dabbling too much in psionics in order to combat those two threats.
@@kingbubbles9461 sorry for being too late but what if class 30 singularity means empires that have capacity to end universe with the engine and continegency was created to stop this but went rogue and started killing everything?
Buddy and I were playing on the console. They decided to spawn in my territory. The Zakuulan Ascendancy(my Empire) was the strongest in the galaxy with a 84K fleet. Other empires were barely scraping 25K. My friend warned me about the scourge, but I laughed in defiance thinking the Eternal Fleet could take them on. I was wrong. Their first invasions consisted of 5 60K fleets. I was uneasy, but felt I could still defeat them if I managed to catch one alone. Then phase two began, and I’m spawned 6 250K fleets. My buddy and I knew there was no time, so we combined our fleets, took control of our federation fleet, and went to hold them off for as long as we could. We managed to destroy one 250K Fleet, but as we retreated, we were caught in an ambush by two others. We didn’t dare retreat, instead we fought till our fleets were destroyed. We managed to heavily damage them, but it wasn’t enough. The scourge has came, and now it will purge us all.
@shadowyeager For some reason 250 years into the game my 150K fleets WAS the strongest in the galaxy by a longshot (minus an Awakened Ascendancy and one other empire whom I equaled both, I don't know either) I know this because after my fleet was halved after about 10 victories against the Prethoryn (Do they ever fucking end?) Someone waged war on me and I had to wage war on someone else because they colonized a planet which cut off the hyperlane networks in my territory and each empire only had like 30K fleet power.
@shadowyeager Well I'm on a new empire now (same setup just new game) because the "WAS" in my previous comment was due to the Prethoryn showing up. I didn't know how to go about fighting them but after annihilating a bunch of their fleets (in a 3v1 no less with about a 90K fleet) I've discovered that lasers are a good way to go about fighting them. If I had just waged a quick war against the weak ass empire in between me and the Prethoryn spawn points (it was their allies I didn't want to trigger) then I think I could have beaten them. I had 3000 naked corvettes but they were mainly using missiles. If I hadn't waited so long I think I could have beaten them
Suggestions for fighting the scourge: 1. Kinectic weapons are useless. Torpedoes are useful for their high damage, but concentrate on energy weapons that penetrate armor. 2. Create many corvettes and destroyers that have point defense systems, but do not forget to create almost the same with energy. 3. Put everything in a defensive computer. That way, your ships will create a blob/bubble of ships. That is good because your point defense will be together and defending the rest of your fleet against their missiles, their most dangerous weapon. 4. Your fleet must contain the greatest number of corvettes and destroyers. Battleships and cruisers are for support from the distance, not as important as the firsts. If you follow this, you might be able to take down a 30k fleet with a 11k fleet. That was the thing that happened to me.
by assaulting their capital I took down ~300 k worth of fleet power with 120k thanks to only battleships with defensive computers. I had Tachyons and a bunch of point defenses on them
Friendly Nail Kinetic artillery is not the same as "kinetic weaponry". Large kinart has the range of 120, in the line with torpedoes and lances, which makes them incredibly useful against most kinds of weaponry, but it loses to lances in both damage and armor penetration.
this is my first playthrough and this just happened. their overall fleet power is over 300k and they all stay in one system, more fleets spawn ( too quickly) and the AI won't help.
It happened for me after 250 years RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY SECTOR! Luckily I could contain their invasion early. The only fleet left is a rogue 50k Fleet that I could trick with a 2k fleet.
Hey here's something that happened in my game. I was able to distract the main fleet with my own and sent another fleet to bombard their home world while it was still colonizing. The fleet destroyed the home world and literally all of their fleets in my game despawned! I don't know if it's a bug but I'm glad it happened. :)
If another race captures the queen, do you get the chance to take her back, by say, blowing her up? They spawned hyper late game for me and on the other side of the galaxy with two large empires in the way. They took a modest number of systems and got no further.
Finally got these guys, it’s been an interesting game playing as a Driven Assimilator. Being the black sheep of the galaxy, we began preparing for the crisis and or war in the heavens about 150 years before it hit. The organic races once all so determined in their unity to reject the machines have all finally come to stand behind me. My fleets barely managed to contain the initial invasions, so I pulled my forces back to regroup and heal letting the allied fleets move in to cover. Worst mistake ever, now my fleets are forced to dig in their heels, we’re winning this battle but the cost is so high. On the plus side, my game finally started moving at a normal speed again with all these ships destroyed.
Terrorforming those planets. The Vong were the strangest part of the Expanded Universe books. That and the Superweapon one ups that would occur (DarkSaber, Sun Crusher, ect.)
Do you know of any easy way to change the code to allow all crisis' to trigger in the game? And is its possible to make them trigger with simple "event X" commands?
In my most recent run, I had the Scourge invade. Due to dumb luck, my psionic empire had a the following at the end of it: a fleet over 40k strength aided by a Baby Ether Drake which itself added another 14k all by itself, a Shroud Avatar (rating: skull), the Dreadnought (rating: 8k or so) and the Queen with her own fleet. We made short work of our enemies, including the old empires, afterward.
So i had the scourge appear in the edge of my empire, i had 3 vassals, one of whom had a 7k fleet. My 100k fleet was very far away and could not react in time. The AI vassal did the unthinkable and went strait for the scourge homeworld. As the scourge dedtroyed the nearby systems, my vassal passed through all of them and destroyed the home scourge planet, ending the scourge in less than a year with a 7k fleet
Lucky you i just had them spawn last night and it was right in my northern sectors which i no longer own, also had a fallen empire awaken only to get crushed by the 900k or so fleets that spawned in. This was just after a bad war with my neighbours and i had a 20k fleet not much tech no lances. (about 180 years in) My federation is useless they have 60k fleet with good ships sat as far from the scourge as they can get and aint helping at all they have been in the same system for 10 years now. luckily i have a couple of vassals at my borders that have been distracting the scourge but unless i get federation president soon im probably dead XD
Tiny vanguard? Just one of their ships is more powerful than an entire fleet of my best battleships, which I only just barely managed to research. Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies.
Be me: -Get pretty far into a game and play for 5 days straight -year 2402 rolls around -Get the event of echoes being detected -Expect a small invasion force that can be slapped in the face no problem -Get the second wave notification -See 4 144K fleets appear on other side of galaxy -Crap yourself seeing that your own fleet is only 71K -Realize that your fine for probably a while -Go to send your fleet with your allies to try to stop the invasion while you still can -Have your strike fleet completely spanked and retreat with only 6 battleships left -Try to rebuild a fleet in time to try again -Notice that your ally and most powerful nation is already half way conquered and that the Scourge has 3 more fleets -Send your fleet to try to save them -Have your fleet ganged by 3 144K fleets -Your ally falls and everyone else is being overrun -Try again and again to save yourself -Fail again and again to find that your extinction is near -Be fully overrun and get defeated by the Scourge -Cry for a bit after losing a game after all this time and effort -Stop crying and shrug your shoulders and say "Guess I'll play a new game -Start a new game.
I get really nostalgic watching this, this video was one of the main reasons I got Stellaris and one of the main reasons I now have more than a 1000 hours.
This was my first crisis and I felt the brunt of the scourge’s swarms. I was forced to relocate to the opposite side of the galaxy a few years after the first wave
Being the strongest Empire in the galaxy with 300k fleet in 2387, then the Prethory Scourge spawned in my face with almost 900k in total, there are no Aweaken Empires and other empires got only 10-30k, so I'm the only one that could stop them but I can't defeat them, this game is fking exiting.
I'm pretty sure the Scourge scales with either time or galactic tech. I had one that didn't trigger until around 300 years into the game and it spawned around 8-10 fleets of 80K power each.
When they spawned for me the first time, it was right in the path of an awakened zenophobic empire. The empire was well into its war swing and had two 300k fleets. I barely needed to help (I also spawned across the galaxy). I couldn't believe my luck
For those who found this looking for Prethoryn info, be aware that it is now multiple patches later and the invasion fleets have gotten much, much larger...
This is a what if scenario... What if the Scourge event occurs during the AI revolt... Scourge meets AI and infest them and evolves into.... The Borg.... resistance is futile... >_
They spawned on me in the middle of a war of heaven. Ended up hitting 2600 trying to deal with everything and finally end the game before just giving up and having a world cracker follow my then fifty titan imperial armada from world to world to world. I won the game eventually, but I definitely destroyed dozens of not hundreds of worlds in the process.
The first time I encountered the crisis (contingency), I was in the middle of a galactic war, they spawned right next to my capital. I got absolutely destroyed. The second time, I played the whole game preparing for the crisis, taking the perks, uniting the galaxy, destroying the fallen empires. I built over 400 battleships and had over 2.5 million fleet power. So when the scourge eventually invaded, it was a bit anticlimactic (it was on normal difficulty I think, 1.5x).
In my game I was at constant war with 3 neighbouring empires, but had a fleet power of 120K to push them back. Just as the Feraxi Regime (My empire) looked like it was going to dominate my biggest rival (Saiban Sovereignty with fleet power of 89K) I got a scourge notification and that they were spawning between me and my vassel. I stayed to attack the Saiban as I thought I had about 3-10 years once they arrived, but they showed up the second I had defeated my adversary. My ships had high shield health and regeneration so I sent my fleet to attack a 50K scourge fleet...Only to be ambushed by four 98K fleets. The poor Void Shulkers were decimated in mere seconds. My vassel's husk squadrons tried to hold them off, but had failed in due time.
I've had these guys pop up in the empire below my own (who i had just warred with a few years prior) and they took a large part of their territory. However, they stopped spreading after about 8 systems and now they're just... there, and have been for about 50 game years now.
To me didnt come in small numbers, they come with four fleets each one with 17k ships, more another 4k ships and 8k ships, before I realise I was totally overwhelmed by them.
First time, I played, they started deep within my territory, no one came to help as it was so far into my territory, meanwhile at the same time a bordering fallen empire awakened, I got crushed
ASpec: "you'll be able to engage them and study them.." Me: *first wave constists of 6 50ks and 3 months later the second wave of 5 200+ks and 3 120+ks show up* Also me: Well I am done for, time to see if something can help us
I fought these guys in my very first game. My Defense Flotilla was able to handle the vanguard, but suffered heavy losses to the second wave. I was so worried about them I colonized some crappy systems on the other side of the Galaxy just in case. A third of the Nakan Union was lost but my people survived and I did get a Queen out of it.
I've only encountered these guys in one play through, but I haven't had many advanced games to be fair. While at first alarming, these guys actually put on a "shamfur dispray" once I realized they relied almost exclusively on strike craft and missiles (which are great to research). I wiped out tens of thousands of them and it took about a century to contain and exterminate them, but really it wasn't very much of a big deal other than it caused the resurgent ascendancy empires to calm down for a bit. The end result was that I ended up with massive fleets that could stomp anyone, except Ascendancy Empires, outright. I developed a ship production methodology with my colonies and placement of star bases that allowed me to produce ships as fast or faster than they could be destroyed by the Scourge.
Had these guys in my multiplayer game with two of my friends, 152 years in they spawned in inside my AI neighbor, me and my fanatic materialist collectivist friend took them down while combating their irritating constructor ships (my nation had only just rebuilt after a huge attempt to get four of my core planets back from the imperialistic Meshben Hegemony)
First the marauders invaded one of my weakest systems while I was fighting the ether drake and then these guys show up directly behind me afterwards. Gg
You know what stellaris needs in the next set of content? A empire like this with a hivemind. I know everyone has that flood empire fantasy once or twice. I know i do. Sure it'd probably be a little restricted but thats the fun of it. Otherwise you can make hiveminds more fleshed out. I get devouring swarm and all that but a civic that give me the ability to infect pops and turn worlds into hive worlds.
Don't you love it when you only have a Max fleet of 10K altogether which is all that you have and 700K Fleets of the Scourge spawn close to you. It was scary but I have energy weapons which surprisingly dealt a lot of damage because I am a beginning player.
They popped up in an area where they literally had ten whole systems before they hit a choke point that led into my empire. It was the only way they could expand, and lucky for me they sent only a couple fleets at a time into the chokepoint instead of their full force. At the same time I could use a nearby gateway that the Prethoryn hadn’t taken to prod at them using my fleet of 120 or so corvettes. Eventually they exhausted most of their fleets trying to take that system, allowing me to stage an offensive using my 6 30-40k fleets that were specially designed to fight the swarm. Take that and add the reinforcements from a nearby fallen empire and lets just say that the Prethoryn didn’t last too long.
I tonight just got this crisis. They spawned in 2411 and sent a few scouts in. However.. I rushed tech and dominated a majority of the galaxy through either vassalisation or integrations, or just straight domination. I had a massive armada of 20+ fleets all well over 150k and some in the 200k area. Some of my vassals had a quarter of that, but that still meant they had 300k + fleet power. Those bugs spawned and 50 fleets moved in on them, took their 'home system' and after a couple years, they tried again. They didn't last long, and a year or two after all the ships were dead I got a pop-up that said all pockets of the scourge were gone. I barely did anything because I was fighting a fallen empire at the time who started invading my areas.
They came right after my federation got done fighting a huge war that spanned across my entire galaxy now no one has the power to stand against them. Plus they all spawned in my territory. R.I.P Galaxy
In my first play through (UN of Earth), the scourge was greeted by my 1.32mil fleet. They barely scratched my neighbor's territory before I deleted them off the outer rim....
They need to add another end game crisis which spawns something similar to 'The Old Ones' From HP lovecraft. It would basically spawn a bunch of leviathans who have stupid amounts of HP that go around glassing systems. You could start the event, by making a cult pop up as a faction, and slowly grow in power. After a certain amount of time, the cult could begin attempting to summon the Old Ones. If you fail to locate the Cult in enough time, it begins an even to summon the old ones. At which point a few systems pop up with a cultist fleet, and a stupidly over powered leviathan. They could spice things up by making maybe an even quest chain, where you could banish the Old Ones if you find several relics across the galaxy. Or just tank the leviathans in a few fights.
@@BigDictator5335 not really. The worm has almost no fleet power, (only about 2k total) and isnt an end game crisis. Also it doesnt involve fighting a space cult.
I have a world that is ai only and I watch what happens in those worlds. There were 4 main countries, The High Kingdom, The Combine, The Tzynn, and the Donmir. They all lived in a small galaxy together. At first tensions were hostile, they were suspicious of each other. But soon enough, they made a galactic community to vote on galactic laws. However peace was short lived, the Tzynn had enough of the High Kingdom and declared war. This is also when the two federations came into play. On one side "The Federated Sapient Nations" (Donmir and High Kingdom) and the other side the "Allied Civilized Worlds" (Tzynn and Combine). This is the first galactic war. With the combine rampaging through the high kingdom and the donmir pushing through the Tzynn it was a bloodbath. In the end the high kingdom pushed back and took what was theirs. A truce was made. The Tzynn looked broken, thier empire torn into two. But then The Second Galactic War commends. The high kingdom declares war on the Tzynn. More fighting, another truce, a third galactic war starts. This time, it ended with the downfall of the Tzynn. With the combine alone, there were ready to make thier last stand. Suddenly, the Scourge came. They started attacking systems one by one. They purged through the galaxy. Meanwhile, the donmir is breaking, 4 systems in rebellion, the combine also have this problem, this time only two systems were in rebellion. It was all down to the High Kingdom, they had the strongest fleets but yet they were coming. Now this begs the question... Will the High Kingdom save us all? Or will the Scourge purge us all? Its only a tale of time as countries being slaughtered one by one. The Galaxy is doomed.
On my last run through the vanguard fleets were around 120k a piece, and the main fleets where around 360k I believe. They landed just a couple systems north of my border. I also had "The Contigency" active at this time, with similarly scaled fleet power, and a machine world north of me, and one south. That was a fucking ride.
At this point now i am a protectorate of the Trebid Homolog and I have just lost Karka. I am retreating to my homeland of the Citadel and will rebuild there.
The way I captured the queen was it spawned in the Praethoryn Scourge territory, and so I just had my Science ship tp over there through experimental subspace navigation and then just having the defense system there ignoring me, researched and got the queen... I tried my best bringing it back from the middle of their territory. But since the queen seems like an immortal they made it back.
Just had my first galactic war with the prethoryn. My tips on console: Tachyon Lances!!! Point Defense!!! Flak Artilery!! Plasma!!! Strike craft!!!. And all the armor and plating you can throw on on your ships. If you spec right, you can demolish them half a system away before you get close. Those Tachyon Lances are a Prethoryn Scourges’ worst nightmare.
Was playing a multiplayer game with my friend last night when the scourge arrived. They arrived far from us, and since I was running a tall pacifist spirit empire, he decided not to engage yet. I built my defenses while he built his fleets. The scourge grew, and every fleet he sent was squashed by the overwhelming might of the scourge. But my defenses held. He decided since it was late and the scourge covered a quarter of the galaxy and kept growing that the game was lost. I decided otherwise. My defenses still hold strong protecting me an one other empire who is behind me with no other hyperlanes to the rest of the galaxy. We have begun our counter push and will do so slowly so that we may build defenses behind us as we grow. I hope that we may survive.
I think I'm boned cuz their fleets are spawning with about 120-160k fleet strength and max I have with a fleet of 2 titans battleships and some corvettes only reaches about 70k
played with my housemate and both got militairistic races. As soon as they spawned we piled up every bit of fleet power we had and pushed their shit in within the year. We'll have none of that shit, thank you.
Right? They just spawned in my game, and their advanced fleet was 2-4 60+k fleets. Their main fleets arrived and are moving through some poor Fanatical purifier AI systems (RIP) and I rough counted them to be some where around 500-700k fleet strength. And to top it all off, the galaxy is in the middle of the war in heaven. So pretty much RIP all of us :D.
They spawned with 20 62k fleets for the first wave and 20 250k fleets for the second wave. All in my territory. 590 population reduced to zero. My biggest fleet was 600k, and just couldn't keep up with the 20 different fleets. Fuck that crisis
My exterminator empire had control of 70 percent of the galaxy, then the entry points were right next to my homeworld on the opposite side of the map from every other empire, my fleet had just been in a war but it was trapped away from my territoy cause someone closed their borders then the scourge hit and took a good 20 percent of the galaxy before i could release my fleet, my 120k worth of ships killed 12 of their 70k fleets, somehow, and im currently pushing them back slowly and burning them off of my worlds while my capital sits right at the front lines reinforcing my losses, currently still have 84 planets worth of materials coming in and research is going strong, wish me luck
It should be noted that if your species is Psionic then they will be able to communicate with the Scourge and they will learn more about them, for example the word "Prethoryn" in their language means "Survivors"
When I first got this crisis the other empires destroyed them like 2 months after they arrived. The fallen empire awoke to defend the galaxy like a year after the crisis ended. I just thought... Soooooo, that's it..?
In mine their first invasion force spawned inside a xenophobic empire with closed borders to everyone... So I couldn’t even engage them until they had basically taken over that whole empire and were super fortified... Also the sentinels spawned dead center in the scourge infestation so basically got wiped out immediately
Today I was in the middle of my last conquest before taking the Alliances when this event spawn out of nowhere, really, it take me by surprise, I should declare war to them so my vassals help me in the fight but I get stuck in the middle of the battle, I had to go back to a previous save file, and now thanks, now I known that can spawn again or don't, that really lift my spirit, because now I don't known if they would ever appear again.
well the wounded queen literally spawned in the capital system of the prethoryn scourge and im fleet was destroyed by them so no chance getting the queen now :/
@@johnm.9783 Don't know what happened to you guys but my Vanguard fleets were about 20K each and the main forces are 60-70K each, for some reason my Battleships were prioritising the destroyers with the same weapons which are specifically meant for Battleships, so my 80K fleet with the Defender of the Galaxy perk took heavy casualties and had to retreat while theirs lost like 5 destroyers. Now I'm back with a 200K fleet of Focused Arc Emitters, nothing but Crystal Hull plating and armour and Plasma Cannons. Even though my Battleships focus on the Destroyers first, it kills them quick enough that it quickly focuses on the Battleships and annihilates them. Unfortunately they have probably more than a hundred 60K fleets and way too many planets so taking everything back is gonna be very difficult. To make matters worse I'm a DS so everyone closes their borders meaning I have to wage quick wars against everyone to get through to them
I made 5 different devouring swarm, all with mass breeder, and set them to forced spawn in my game. They manage to devour the fallen empire and prethoryn with 1M+ fleets, while I was fighting my neighbor over a Dyson sphere.
A friend and I decided to start a new game of Stellaris, with 3 fallen empires, 25 AI's and 15 of them were advanced start. Then, as icing on top of the cake, we entered the console command "event crisis.10" aka summoning the swarm! It was a race against time to get our starting empires ready to fight the swarm.
1st video with 100k views.
And my 1st video I saw of you!
They are the Harbinger of your perfection.
They are your genetic destiny.
God, this crisis events is essentially Stellaris Reapers from Mass Effect 3 combined with the Zerg from Starcraft 2.
this is obviously modeled to the tyranids from warhammer: 40K
jonathan kemline they remind me more of the flood from halo, now if they decide to make them giant robot squids then yes then they would be like the reapers.
The flood are less...aesthetic. They don't have any real shape. While the prythoryn's actually have a defined physical form. (Or at least in space, on the ground they might just be shapeless horrors..)
EASTER EGG: If your psionic, you can communicate with he Scourge. They are being chased by a race they call The Hunters, and that Prethoryn means survivor in their tongue. They arent laughing at you upon first contact. They are laughing that even if you beat them, you have no chance against The Hunters.
A. Cunningham would be cool that if you manage to beat the scourge the hunters would invade 20 years later.
So they are laughing at you.
Devouring swarm hive minds can talk to them too.
So the hunters are the Timurids
Tyranids soooo much xD
for me it was rather anti-climactic since the scourge spawned right next to a fallen empire and got their butts spanked
They spawned in the middle of a battle between my fleets and a fallen empires fleet. Long story short all of us got destroyed and the empires that we used to call weak declared war on my federation. They basically slapped my ally and called it for peace. I nearly lost that game but I was able to build a massive fleet again and still thought for sure I was going to lose then bam fallen empire awakened and declared war on them attacking them from behind. I waited till their fleet power was inferior and moved in to take what was mine.
This is happening to me but the fallen empire is losing
They spawned directly behind me
Oof
lucky you, on my capital/home world was practically on the rim of the galaxy, and can you guess where the scourge arrive?
your translaters can translate that message if you are psychic empire and translate is "PRETHORN, WE HAVE ARRIVED. OUR LONG JOURNEY IS OVER! FEED, MATE, AND REST. WE MUST CONSUME THIS GALAXY BEFORE THE HUNTERS FIND US!"
So they are being chased...
That's creepy.
Iqbaal Annaafi the bright side is that since the Scourge are running away from the Hunters, if they want to pick on you once they arrive you could probably take them out if you took out the Scourge which were probably running away because they weren’t strong enough to fight the Hunters
Hiveminds can communicate them as well
I want the hunters to be like a secondary Crisis, like if the current crisis gets steam rolled the hunters appear.
I remember when this event first happened for me. A massive alliance war just ended, I finally broke my rivals, my colonies were prosperous, I had fleets of thousands, endless legions. However, then the war in heaven started, then the whole galaxy went to war.
Countless systems ravaged
Fleets lay to ruin
The war economy in shambles
We thought things couldn’t get any worst.
Then they came
Within just 10 years, they had destroyed one of the awakened empires.
Consumed 50% of the galaxy
Me and the few empires that remained made a truce, we took up arms, we put are petty grievances aside
And took the battle to them
Then paradox added synthetic dawn and made the save file not compatible.
I was expecting an epic ending, but this works.
There’s a way to opt into the access to older versions
@@badpiggies988how?
@@Bobbybobwat Go into some dropdown if I remember correctly, with an option labeled “Betas”.
The Sentinels would make a good basis for a mod. You could have the player start as the Sentinels in a late-game galaxy already being invaded by the Scourge. That could be fun.
You could have the player starting as the rogue AI too
You wouldn't do that, right HAL?
I know a good basis for a mod......galaxy travel........so your not limited to a single galaxy, and they could ahve smaller, adn bigger galaxies, wich different anomalies, species, specififc events etc......like a tru universe.
My high end pc can barely handle 3000 stars at late game. Having multiple galaxies would be a nightmare dude
+KC Wong specs?
If ever there was a film about stellaris the scourge seem like the best one to use
The unbidden would make a brilliant film
Honestly the contingency works really well, with the class-30 singularity being expanded upon with the new become the crisis event included
what about the scourge attacking first and then 100 years later the contingency and then another 100 years later the unbidden
@@DovaDude The Scourge and the Contingency clashing as the Contingency tries purging them. Perhaps the Unbidden arrive when the remaining empires start dabbling too much in psionics in order to combat those two threats.
@@kingbubbles9461 sorry for being too late but what if class 30 singularity means empires that have capacity to end universe with the engine and continegency was created to stop this but went rogue and started killing everything?
Buddy and I were playing on the console. They decided to spawn in my territory. The Zakuulan Ascendancy(my Empire) was the strongest in the galaxy with a 84K fleet. Other empires were barely scraping 25K. My friend warned me about the scourge, but I laughed in defiance thinking the Eternal Fleet could take them on. I was wrong. Their first invasions consisted of 5 60K fleets. I was uneasy, but felt I could still defeat them if I managed to catch one alone. Then phase two began, and I’m spawned 6 250K fleets. My buddy and I knew there was no time, so we combined our fleets, took control of our federation fleet, and went to hold them off for as long as we could. We managed to destroy one 250K Fleet, but as we retreated, we were caught in an ambush by two others. We didn’t dare retreat, instead we fought till our fleets were destroyed. We managed to heavily damage them, but it wasn’t enough. The scourge has came, and now it will purge us all.
A story for the ages
Same thing is about to happen to me, that's how I ended up here
On which console since xbox only has levaithins plantoids and utopia and i dont know if there on the leviathins or utopia or maybe not at all
@shadowyeager For some reason 250 years into the game my 150K fleets WAS the strongest in the galaxy by a longshot (minus an Awakened Ascendancy and one other empire whom I equaled both, I don't know either) I know this because after my fleet was halved after about 10 victories against the Prethoryn (Do they ever fucking end?) Someone waged war on me and I had to wage war on someone else because they colonized a planet which cut off the hyperlane networks in my territory and each empire only had like 30K fleet power.
@shadowyeager Well I'm on a new empire now (same setup just new game) because the "WAS" in my previous comment was due to the Prethoryn showing up. I didn't know how to go about fighting them but after annihilating a bunch of their fleets (in a 3v1 no less with about a 90K fleet) I've discovered that lasers are a good way to go about fighting them. If I had just waged a quick war against the weak ass empire in between me and the Prethoryn spawn points (it was their allies I didn't want to trigger) then I think I could have beaten them. I had 3000 naked corvettes but they were mainly using missiles. If I hadn't waited so long I think I could have beaten them
Suggestions for fighting the scourge:
1. Kinectic weapons are useless. Torpedoes are useful for their high damage, but concentrate on energy weapons that penetrate armor.
2. Create many corvettes and destroyers that have point defense systems, but do not forget to create almost the same with energy.
3. Put everything in a defensive computer. That way, your ships will create a blob/bubble of ships. That is good because your point defense will be together and defending the rest of your fleet against their missiles, their most dangerous weapon.
4. Your fleet must contain the greatest number of corvettes and destroyers. Battleships and cruisers are for support from the distance, not as important as the firsts.
If you follow this, you might be able to take down a 30k fleet with a 11k fleet. That was the thing that happened to me.
Just beaten down 3 subsequent 78K fleets with a 27K-25K using this strat. Lost 15 Corvettes.
This strat is the stuff.
yypuk Ha! Very good!
by assaulting their capital I took down ~300 k worth of fleet power with 120k thanks to only battleships with defensive computers. I had Tachyons and a bunch of point defenses on them
What do you mean it's useless? My 20k fleets armed with Kinetic Artillery could take on a 70k scourge fleet with minimal losses.
Friendly Nail Kinetic artillery is not the same as "kinetic weaponry". Large kinart has the range of 120, in the line with torpedoes and lances, which makes them incredibly useful against most kinds of weaponry, but it loses to lances in both damage and armor penetration.
Had them arrive 175 years in, with multiple 60k fleets ;_; RIP in peace galaxy
same happenned for me. They arrived just one year before I've won the War in Heaven. I dont even have a chance now...
this is my first playthrough and this just happened. their overall fleet power is over 300k and they all stay in one system, more fleets spawn ( too quickly) and the AI won't help.
It happened for me after 250 years RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY SECTOR! Luckily I could contain their invasion early. The only fleet left is a rogue 50k Fleet that I could trick with a 2k fleet.
They could only take 2 planets.
300k fleet power, i dream of 300k fleet power. In my game they have combined fleet power of 2.4 million+about 40 5k stations.
When you send in your 160k fleet to beat up the scourge and 600k of enemy ships jump in....
you easily beat them because prethoryn are bad?
CapoUgh he was sending in his best fleet and then a 600k fleet came in a raped him
Same happened to me but with different numbers. Dont go to their home sector before main body arrives. You may get surprised..
When you have 7 fleets of around 180-200k power each:
Finally! A worthy opponent!
Dear god what have I done wrong . . the vanguard is here. . one fleet is like 100k strong already . . rest in pepperoni my lovley galexy. . .
GamingV0LTAGE they are nuts in 2.01 update. I cant beat them
I had 3 at 100k rest at 60k
I had 3 at 250k and 3 at 59k and managed to kill them in 1 battle with my fleet of 130k,90k,75k and 60k
Which they comed in my game with 5fleet of 200k.
Hey here's something that happened in my game. I was able to distract the main fleet with my own and sent another fleet to bombard their home world while it was still colonizing. The fleet destroyed the home world and literally all of their fleets in my game despawned! I don't know if it's a bug but I'm glad it happened. :)
these things are landing at my homeworld with 203k fleet power.... so all my Fleet are busy at frontline damn sick
It's pretty exciting isn't it.
agree but this so much surprise me at first i have to made peace with other empire emmidiatly for put all my fleet back home haha
PURGE THE ALIEN.
WALK SOFTLEH AND CARRY A BIG GUN
+Justiciar For the Imperium of Man, AND FOR THE BATTLEFLEET GOTHIC!!!!!
Elijah Kelley FOR THE GLORY OF THE IMPERIUM , FOR THE EMPEROR OF MANKIND
If another race captures the queen, do you get the chance to take her back, by say, blowing her up? They spawned hyper late game for me and on the other side of the galaxy with two large empires in the way. They took a modest number of systems and got no further.
Now I want to start a devouring swarm playthrough, call myself The Flood, and capture the Swarm Queen...
Finally got these guys, it’s been an interesting game playing as a Driven Assimilator. Being the black sheep of the galaxy, we began preparing for the crisis and or war in the heavens about 150 years before it hit. The organic races once all so determined in their unity to reject the machines have all finally come to stand behind me. My fleets barely managed to contain the initial invasions, so I pulled my forces back to regroup and heal letting the allied fleets move in to cover. Worst mistake ever, now my fleets are forced to dig in their heels, we’re winning this battle but the cost is so high. On the plus side, my game finally started moving at a normal speed again with all these ships destroyed.
So basically, the Vong. I'm so going to get revenge on these bastards!
Falling skies for the win!
+paul josephs I was referencing Star Wars.
Terrorforming those planets. The Vong were the strangest part of the Expanded Universe books. That and the Superweapon one ups that would occur (DarkSaber, Sun Crusher, ect.)
Do you know of any easy way to change the code to allow all crisis' to trigger in the game?
And is its possible to make them trigger with simple "event X" commands?
You can mess around with the script files, though you need to be careful to make sure that you're not overwriting more than one event.
In my most recent run, I had the Scourge invade. Due to dumb luck, my psionic empire had a the following at the end of it: a fleet over 40k strength aided by a Baby Ether Drake which itself added another 14k all by itself, a Shroud Avatar (rating: skull), the Dreadnought (rating: 8k or so) and the Queen with her own fleet. We made short work of our enemies, including the old empires, afterward.
So i had the scourge appear in the edge of my empire, i had 3 vassals, one of whom had a 7k fleet. My 100k fleet was very far away and could not react in time. The AI vassal did the unthinkable and went strait for the scourge homeworld. As the scourge dedtroyed the nearby systems, my vassal passed through all of them and destroyed the home scourge planet, ending the scourge in less than a year with a 7k fleet
You better donate a shitton of minerals and planets to that vassal.
Lucky you i just had them spawn last night and it was right in my northern sectors which i no longer own, also had a fallen empire awaken only to get crushed by the 900k or so fleets that spawned in. This was just after a bad war with my neighbours and i had a 20k fleet not much tech no lances. (about 180 years in) My federation is useless they have 60k fleet with good ships sat as far from the scourge as they can get and aint helping at all they have been in the same system for 10 years now. luckily i have a couple of vassals at my borders that have been distracting the scourge but unless i get federation president soon im probably dead XD
MUGANI? HAK HAK HAK!
Tiny vanguard? Just one of their ships is more powerful than an entire fleet of my best battleships, which I only just barely managed to research.
Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies.
Be me:
-Get pretty far into a game and play for 5 days straight
-year 2402 rolls around
-Get the event of echoes being detected
-Expect a small invasion force that can be slapped in the face no problem
-Get the second wave notification
-See 4 144K fleets appear on other side of galaxy
-Crap yourself seeing that your own fleet is only 71K
-Realize that your fine for probably a while
-Go to send your fleet with your allies to try to stop the invasion while you still can
-Have your strike fleet completely spanked and retreat with only 6 battleships left
-Try to rebuild a fleet in time to try again
-Notice that your ally and most powerful nation is already half way conquered and that the Scourge has 3 more fleets
-Send your fleet to try to save them
-Have your fleet ganged by 3 144K fleets
-Your ally falls and everyone else is being overrun
-Try again and again to save yourself
-Fail again and again to find that your extinction is near
-Be fully overrun and get defeated by the Scourge
-Cry for a bit after losing a game after all this time and effort
-Stop crying and shrug your shoulders and say "Guess I'll play a new game
-Start a new game.
This is exactly what happened to me..
@Christopher Corriveau Cool story haha
I get really nostalgic watching this, this video was one of the main reasons I got Stellaris and one of the main reasons I now have more than a 1000 hours.
'Spawning with several 20k fleets...'
looking at my own 150k-ish feet: 'Oh, that's cute.'
Not any more buddy it could easily reach 350-400k in 2x crisis difficulty
150k feet??
This was my first crisis and I felt the brunt of the scourge’s swarms. I was forced to relocate to the opposite side of the galaxy a few years after the first wave
Being the strongest Empire in the galaxy with 300k fleet in 2387, then the Prethory Scourge spawned in my face with almost 900k in total, there are no Aweaken Empires and other empires got only 10-30k, so I'm the only one that could stop them but I can't defeat them, this game is fking exiting.
I'm pretty sure the Scourge scales with either time or galactic tech.
I had one that didn't trigger until around 300 years into the game and it spawned around 8-10 fleets of 80K power each.
With 3.0 patch notes, the Scourge have an equal chance to spawn now, in theory. Though it seems it is still slightly weighted towards the Unbidden.
When they spawned for me the first time, it was right in the path of an awakened zenophobic empire. The empire was well into its war swing and had two 300k fleets. I barely needed to help (I also spawned across the galaxy). I couldn't believe my luck
For those who found this looking for Prethoryn info, be aware that it is now multiple patches later and the invasion fleets have gotten much, much larger...
i wish the vid was longer. the sense of epicness and grandeur is giving me goose bumps
This is a what if scenario...
What if the Scourge event occurs during the AI revolt...
Scourge meets AI and infest them and evolves into....
The Borg.... resistance is futile... >_
only 1 crisis can occur per game :|
@@bodedfreder1440 I think they're thinking about the A.I Revolt as in Rebellion rather then the contingency.
They exterminat them.
They spawned on me in the middle of a war of heaven. Ended up hitting 2600 trying to deal with everything and finally end the game before just giving up and having a world cracker follow my then fifty titan imperial armada from world to world to world. I won the game eventually, but I definitely destroyed dozens of not hundreds of worlds in the process.
The first time I encountered the crisis (contingency), I was in the middle of a galactic war, they spawned right next to my capital. I got absolutely destroyed.
The second time, I played the whole game preparing for the crisis, taking the perks, uniting the galaxy, destroying the fallen empires. I built over 400 battleships and had over 2.5 million fleet power.
So when the scourge eventually invaded, it was a bit anticlimactic (it was on normal difficulty I think, 1.5x).
In my game I was at constant war with 3 neighbouring empires, but had a fleet power of 120K to push them back.
Just as the Feraxi Regime (My empire) looked like it was going to dominate my biggest rival (Saiban Sovereignty with fleet power of 89K) I got a scourge notification and that they were spawning between me and my vassel. I stayed to attack the Saiban as I thought I had about 3-10 years once they arrived, but they showed up the second I had defeated my adversary.
My ships had high shield health and regeneration so I sent my fleet to attack a 50K scourge fleet...Only to be ambushed by four 98K fleets. The poor Void Shulkers were decimated in mere seconds. My vassel's husk squadrons tried to hold them off, but had failed in due time.
I've had these guys pop up in the empire below my own (who i had just warred with a few years prior) and they took a large part of their territory. However, they stopped spreading after about 8 systems and now they're just... there, and have been for about 50 game years now.
To me didnt come in small numbers, they come with four fleets each one with 17k ships, more another 4k ships and 8k ships, before I realise I was totally overwhelmed by them.
I remember first running into them when I had an empire that was 40x deep into energy weapon tech. My 200 stack of corvettes lost only 10 vessels.
First time, I played, they started deep within my territory, no one came to help as it was so far into my territory, meanwhile at the same time a bordering fallen empire awakened, I got crushed
Mine arrived in my capital system after my fleet had been destroyed by the neighboring awakened empire.
ASpec: "you'll be able to engage them and study them.."
Me: *first wave constists of 6 50ks and 3 months later the second wave of 5 200+ks and 3 120+ks show up*
Also me: Well I am done for, time to see if something can help us
I fought these guys in my very first game. My Defense Flotilla was able to handle the vanguard, but suffered heavy losses to the second wave. I was so worried about them I colonized some crappy systems on the other side of the Galaxy just in case. A third of the Nakan Union was lost but my people survived and I did get a Queen out of it.
I've only encountered these guys in one play through, but I haven't had many advanced games to be fair. While at first alarming, these guys actually put on a "shamfur dispray" once I realized they relied almost exclusively on strike craft and missiles (which are great to research). I wiped out tens of thousands of them and it took about a century to contain and exterminate them, but really it wasn't very much of a big deal other than it caused the resurgent ascendancy empires to calm down for a bit. The end result was that I ended up with massive fleets that could stomp anyone, except Ascendancy Empires, outright. I developed a ship production methodology with my colonies and placement of star bases that allowed me to produce ships as fast or faster than they could be destroyed by the Scourge.
It's worth noting that untill recently, this crisis was unbeatably bugged. Bombing swarm planets was impossible and they would never leave.
Oh. no an overpowered bug in a paradox game? that never happens!
+Dano X I say leave the bug and bring in Leviathan and Death Star class ship builds for us to play witj
*Prediction*
Good old 2016... Sometimes I wonder what the YT algorithm is doing, but then I get hit by nostalgia...
Had these guys in my multiplayer game with two of my friends, 152 years in they spawned in inside my AI neighbor, me and my fanatic materialist collectivist friend took them down while combating their irritating constructor ships (my nation had only just rebuilt after a huge attempt to get four of my core planets back from the imperialistic Meshben Hegemony)
That intro music and then BAM ASpec. Brilliant editing :-)
now you can talk to Scourge when having unlocked the shroud
First the marauders invaded one of my weakest systems while I was fighting the ether drake and then these guys show up directly behind me afterwards. Gg
You know what stellaris needs in the next set of content? A empire like this with a hivemind. I know everyone has that flood empire fantasy once or twice. I know i do. Sure it'd probably be a little restricted but thats the fun of it. Otherwise you can make hiveminds more fleshed out. I get devouring swarm and all that but a civic that give me the ability to infect pops and turn worlds into hive worlds.
Don't you love it when you only have a Max fleet of 10K altogether which is all that you have and 700K Fleets of the Scourge spawn close to you.
It was scary but I have energy weapons which surprisingly dealt a lot of damage because I am a beginning player.
smells like Reapers to me, sitting in dark space, suddenly jumping into your galaxy to destroy all life, where is Commander Shepard when you need him?
They popped up in an area where they literally had ten whole systems before they hit a choke point that led into my empire. It was the only way they could expand, and lucky for me they sent only a couple fleets at a time into the chokepoint instead of their full force. At the same time I could use a nearby gateway that the Prethoryn hadn’t taken to prod at them using my fleet of 120 or so corvettes. Eventually they exhausted most of their fleets trying to take that system, allowing me to stage an offensive using my 6 30-40k fleets that were specially designed to fight the swarm. Take that and add the reinforcements from a nearby fallen empire and lets just say that the Prethoryn didn’t last too long.
I tonight just got this crisis. They spawned in 2411 and sent a few scouts in. However.. I rushed tech and dominated a majority of the galaxy through either vassalisation or integrations, or just straight domination. I had a massive armada of 20+ fleets all well over 150k and some in the 200k area. Some of my vassals had a quarter of that, but that still meant they had 300k + fleet power. Those bugs spawned and 50 fleets moved in on them, took their 'home system' and after a couple years, they tried again. They didn't last long, and a year or two after all the ships were dead I got a pop-up that said all pockets of the scourge were gone. I barely did anything because I was fighting a fallen empire at the time who started invading my areas.
They came right after my federation got done fighting a huge war that spanned across my entire galaxy now no one has the power to stand against them. Plus they all spawned in my territory. R.I.P Galaxy
In my first play through (UN of Earth), the scourge was greeted by my 1.32mil fleet.
They barely scratched my neighbor's territory before I deleted them off the outer rim....
Ah yes, Prethoryn Scourge. We have dismissed that claim.
Very well made and quick, excellent work sir! Can you do one on Sectors?
They need to add another end game crisis which spawns something similar to 'The Old Ones' From HP lovecraft. It would basically spawn a bunch of leviathans who have stupid amounts of HP that go around glassing systems.
You could start the event, by making a cult pop up as a faction, and slowly grow in power.
After a certain amount of time, the cult could begin attempting to summon the Old Ones. If you fail to locate the Cult in enough time, it begins an even to summon the old ones.
At which point a few systems pop up with a cultist fleet, and a stupidly over powered leviathan.
They could spice things up by making maybe an even quest chain, where you could banish the Old Ones if you find several relics across the galaxy. Or just tank the leviathans in a few fights.
That already exists in the game
GRAVITY IS DESIRE
TIME IS SIGHT
WHAT WAS, WILL BE; WHAT WILL BE, WAS
THE LOOP IS ALL
PRAISE THE WORM
@@BigDictator5335 not really. The worm has almost no fleet power, (only about 2k total) and isnt an end game crisis. Also it doesnt involve fighting a space cult.
@@noahwalters2732 but it's Lovecraftian as fuck
So an infestation takes over part of the galaxy then sentinels spawn and help you
...
Sounds familiar...
I have a world that is ai only and I watch what happens in those worlds. There were 4 main countries, The High Kingdom, The Combine, The Tzynn, and the Donmir. They all lived in a small galaxy together. At first tensions were hostile, they were suspicious of each other. But soon enough, they made a galactic community to vote on galactic laws. However peace was short lived, the Tzynn had enough of the High Kingdom and declared war. This is also when the two federations came into play. On one side "The Federated Sapient Nations" (Donmir and High Kingdom) and the other side the "Allied Civilized Worlds" (Tzynn and Combine). This is the first galactic war. With the combine rampaging through the high kingdom and the donmir pushing through the Tzynn it was a bloodbath. In the end the high kingdom pushed back and took what was theirs. A truce was made. The Tzynn looked broken, thier empire torn into two. But then The Second Galactic War commends. The high kingdom declares war on the Tzynn. More fighting, another truce, a third galactic war starts. This time, it ended with the downfall of the Tzynn. With the combine alone, there were ready to make thier last stand.
Suddenly, the Scourge came. They started attacking systems one by one. They purged through the galaxy. Meanwhile, the donmir is breaking, 4 systems in rebellion, the combine also have this problem, this time only two systems were in rebellion. It was all down to the High Kingdom, they had the strongest fleets but yet they were coming. Now this begs the question...
Will the High Kingdom save us all? Or will the Scourge purge us all? Its only a tale of time as countries being slaughtered one by one. The Galaxy is doomed.
On my last run through the vanguard fleets were around 120k a piece, and the main fleets where around 360k I believe. They landed just a couple systems north of my border. I also had "The Contigency" active at this time, with similarly scaled fleet power, and a machine world north of me, and one south. That was a fucking ride.
Hawkons I had 0.25 crisis strength.😁
At this point now i am a protectorate of the Trebid Homolog and I have just lost Karka. I am retreating to my homeland of the Citadel and will rebuild there.
You can now undrstand them in 1.5 if you have breached the shroud as Psionics.
The way I captured the queen was it spawned in the Praethoryn Scourge territory, and so I just had my Science ship tp over there through experimental subspace navigation and then just having the defense system there ignoring me, researched and got the queen...
I tried my best bringing it back from the middle of their territory.
But since the queen seems like an immortal they made it back.
Just had my first galactic war with the prethoryn. My tips on console: Tachyon Lances!!! Point Defense!!! Flak Artilery!! Plasma!!! Strike craft!!!. And all the armor and plating you can throw on on your ships. If you spec right, you can demolish them half a system away before you get close. Those Tachyon Lances are a Prethoryn Scourges’ worst nightmare.
You know.....if I knew we could benefit from the scourge....I would have spared them....
*_Do not be afraid! I am peace! I am salvation_*
The Scourge is some fusion of the Tyranids and the Flood
They took my home world but one day.. just one day.. my people shall return to take back what was ours
Was playing a multiplayer game with my friend last night when the scourge arrived. They arrived far from us, and since I was running a tall pacifist spirit empire, he decided not to engage yet. I built my defenses while he built his fleets. The scourge grew, and every fleet he sent was squashed by the overwhelming might of the scourge. But my defenses held. He decided since it was late and the scourge covered a quarter of the galaxy and kept growing that the game was lost. I decided otherwise. My defenses still hold strong protecting me an one other empire who is behind me with no other hyperlanes to the rest of the galaxy. We have begun our counter push and will do so slowly so that we may build defenses behind us as we grow. I hope that we may survive.
Just got them , they spawned on the opposite side of a large galaxy to me thank god
I think I'm boned cuz their fleets are spawning with about 120-160k fleet strength and max I have with a fleet of 2 titans battleships and some corvettes only reaches about 70k
played with my housemate and both got militairistic races. As soon as they spawned we piled up every bit of fleet power we had and pushed their shit in within the year. We'll have none of that shit, thank you.
Thanks for the Mechanics video.
Mine spawned with 200k fleets... Should I just uninstall at this point or
Individual or is that the total of all fleets
*MODS.*
Right? They just spawned in my game, and their advanced fleet was 2-4 60+k fleets. Their main fleets arrived and are moving through some poor Fanatical purifier AI systems (RIP) and I rough counted them to be some where around 500-700k fleet strength. And to top it all off, the galaxy is in the middle of the war in heaven. So pretty much RIP all of us :D.
by the way a video about titans in stellaris would go great with your style, also thanks for videos.
They spawned with 20 62k fleets for the first wave and 20 250k fleets for the second wave. All in my territory. 590 population reduced to zero. My biggest fleet was 600k, and just couldn't keep up with the 20 different fleets. Fuck that crisis
My exterminator empire had control of 70 percent of the galaxy, then the entry points were right next to my homeworld on the opposite side of the map from every other empire, my fleet had just been in a war but it was trapped away from my territoy cause someone closed their borders then the scourge hit and took a good 20 percent of the galaxy before i could release my fleet, my 120k worth of ships killed 12 of their 70k fleets, somehow, and im currently pushing them back slowly and burning them off of my worlds while my capital sits right at the front lines reinforcing my losses, currently still have 84 planets worth of materials coming in and research is going strong, wish me luck
so basicly, removing the Flood without a Halo
I recon it’s just the tyranids have the same colours and similar looks. They also drain planets out into husks
It should be noted that if your species is Psionic then they will be able to communicate with the Scourge and they will learn more about them, for example the word "Prethoryn" in their language means "Survivors"
When I first got this crisis the other empires destroyed them like 2 months after they arrived. The fallen empire awoke to defend the galaxy like a year after the crisis ended. I just thought... Soooooo, that's it..?
Update: They now spawn with fleets of 90k fleet strenght. Fuck my life o.o
In mine their first invasion force spawned inside a xenophobic empire with closed borders to everyone... So I couldn’t even engage them until they had basically taken over that whole empire and were super fortified... Also the sentinels spawned dead center in the scourge infestation so basically got wiped out immediately
Today I was in the middle of my last conquest before taking the Alliances when this event spawn out of nowhere, really, it take me by surprise, I should declare war to them so my vassals help me in the fight but I get stuck in the middle of the battle, I had to go back to a previous save file, and now thanks, now I known that can spawn again or don't, that really lift my spirit, because now I don't known if they would ever appear again.
Save scumming, oh my. :)
well the wounded queen literally spawned in the capital system of the prethoryn scourge and im fleet was destroyed by them so no chance getting the queen now :/
The initial strike force for these guys is way too weak, every single time I've had them spawn the AI just mops them up immediately.
Questionable Object Really? The initial strike force I got were several 20k fleets that the AI was too scared to fight.
On console the first wave are 175k lol no way to change it
@@Daedalus257 yeah they buffed them, they were way too weak for a late game crisis
@@johnm.9783 Don't know what happened to you guys but my Vanguard fleets were about 20K each and the main forces are 60-70K each, for some reason my Battleships were prioritising the destroyers with the same weapons which are specifically meant for Battleships, so my 80K fleet with the Defender of the Galaxy perk took heavy casualties and had to retreat while theirs lost like 5 destroyers. Now I'm back with a 200K fleet of Focused Arc Emitters, nothing but Crystal Hull plating and armour and Plasma Cannons. Even though my Battleships focus on the Destroyers first, it kills them quick enough that it quickly focuses on the Battleships and annihilates them. Unfortunately they have probably more than a hundred 60K fleets and way too many planets so taking everything back is gonna be very difficult. To make matters worse I'm a DS so everyone closes their borders meaning I have to wage quick wars against everyone to get through to them
Jack Gribble is their too fucking strong.
I made 5 different devouring swarm, all with mass breeder, and set them to forced spawn in my game.
They manage to devour the fallen empire and prethoryn with 1M+ fleets, while I was fighting my neighbor over a Dyson sphere.
Every sci fi has space bugs...
They spawned in the year 2377 with 5 fleets that were 24.1k strong
For me the fucking main body arrives so soon after the vanguard that I can't even get my ships to engage the van.
"Their first fleets are tiny" *Looks at 1M power first fleet.....Pretty sure we're all screwed, time to find a new galaxy.
A friend and I decided to start a new game of Stellaris, with 3 fallen empires, 25 AI's and 15 of them were advanced start. Then, as icing on top of the cake, we entered the console command "event crisis.10" aka summoning the swarm! It was a race against time to get our starting empires ready to fight the swarm.
+TheBerchie throw "event crisis.1000" in there as well for ultimate gun.
This was my first end game and all landing points WERE IN MY HOME SYSTEM
Those things are basically the Yuuzhan Vong!
This is in desperate need of an update...
Even more so with 2.2, they're not even infesting other worlds!
I had a 6 million fleets i booted the scourge immediately when they arrived to my galaxy
If your species is psionic you can communicate with the scourge.