I love how Lathrix became the custodian "to save the galaxy from the scourge threat" and then proceeded to completely ignore their expansion as long as it wasn't on his land
I got all excited watching this playthrough & in my own playthrough when the Lovecraftian Being showed up....and then it turned out to be a Dimensional Horror with a glowing mouth. (and not on a black hole for once)
one strategy I found while playing involves a standard hivemind and nihilistic acquisition. you declare war on someone, steal their pops, then farm their pops for food. for added funnies transfer all your livestock pops to a single planet, and build a crap ton of city districts to house them fully.
I find it to be too much effort, before in 2.1 a Hive could grow livestock species and get a ton of food from early wars captured planets, now you can't reproduce these pops as a Hive but even the food output is really poor compared to a normal worker.
After consuming almost the entire galaxy, the Prethoryn Scourge collectively decided that trying to consume what remained in this galaxy, only to fail over and over and over again, was simply not worth the effort as they would start to expend the biomass they absorbed if they kept trying. So the swarm eventually left this galaxy, searching for new feeding grounds, leaving only dead worlds behind, drained of all life. For the first time in over a century, the Grand Recyclers left the confines of their heavily fortified borders and ventured into the empty galaxy, repopulating it with life using their own rapid growth as well as the Omnicodex, turning the galaxy into a lush, peaceful oasis amidst the dark, uncaring void. And while there was no indication that the Scourge would ever return, the great fleets of the Grand Recyclers remained ever vigilant, and the defenders of the galaxy patrol the stars until the end of time itself...
here to explicitly respond to the shilling. Liked, commented, and already looking forward to the next upload. I don't think you understand how damn amazing your content is and how thirsty we viewers are for more. You are the only content creator to do stellaris like you do. A huge fan !!!!
This seems like a hilariously weird idea, I love it. Also I love the event reference to the Doctor Who episode with the Vashta Nerada swarms. I feel like you haven't played against the contingency, at least in a video, in a while. Feel like that would be interesting, maybe even do a machine heavy run against them so that it's even a little bit more difficult.
17:45 eldritch horror: i shall grant you knowledge in exchange of some of your populations. grand recyclers: that's great, we have a syncretic species which we raise as livestock. eldritch horror: uh- grand recyclers: it's a win-win!
Yes! More weird ways to play Stellaris for the God of weird ways to play Stellaris! Why playing efficiently, why making good decisions, if it always leads to the very same results? IMHO, it is much more interesting to have a lot of different experiences from this game, than playing one exact empire over and over until hellish boredom overtakes everything, forcing you to abandon the game and never play it again. I am speaking about single player games, of course. If you decide to play ascetic legion hive mind in multiplayer, the other players would make a chop of you.
the ending was beautiful. I didn't expect you to become this powerful after the somewhat slow midgame. as always i'm loving the full playthroughs. my favourite moments: 38:56 'I've been speaking in silence for the last fifteen years or so' sounds even more concerning out of context 42:20 'And of course the science gets done for the people who are still alive' i understood that reference! 48:04 'that's a bit darker than i expected in my head ... haha but it's true!' the reason why i love lathrixian videos no matter what game is being played
Im so thankfull that you take the ristk and make these long videos, they are absolutely my favorite format and its amazing how much fun there is to be had in each of them!
These are my favorite, has given me the motivation to play Stellaris again and I've once again fallen in love so thank you for these videos, your amazing and keep up the fantastic work!
I have had stellaris for awhile but only played it briefly. Remembering your channel I looked it up to see what you’ve been uploading. Very excited to see you do play through of this. I can’t wait to watch more. I’ll give a subscribe too because its not often I think about UA-camrs I miss.
Past Not-Lathrix here; I really appreciate it when you tackle stuff that isn't about the meta, and is just about having fun and exploring weird combinations. Pity they nerfed the food to alloys a bit TOO hard in response to the exploit.
I'm not sure how or if commenting helps but if it does this is to help keep the full playthroughs going. I really enjoy watching them and hope I'm not alone. As always, thanks Lathland for the great content and i hope you keep having fun with your videos.
"Growth Required Scaling" would make a lot more sense if it would scale for each planet individually and not for the whole empire. If you have a large amount of pops it should make it faster to populate a new planet, but massively populated planets should get diminishing returns on growth, so your pops don't grow exponentially forever.
It's the anti-snowball factor slowing empire growth that people complain about, nevermind that huge empires with a hundred colonies to manage make the endgame laggy micro hell. You can defeat the crisis and be #1 on every measure with just 300 pops. But the pop spam habit takes less imagination and game knowledge
@@mso2013 no it doesn't. Having a large amount of pops increases the growth needed for every planet equally. So even a new planet will need the same pop growth as the capital to make a new pop.
@@tylerlambert8400 There is planet capacity where growth points are reduced when approached. The empire wide increase to points required to make a pop is there for game play reasons. If you don't want an anti-snowball factor and no brake on the most populous empires you can set the scaling to zero from the default x0.25.
I did a playthrough with the Idyllic Bloom and Master Crafter's on grand admiral. Psionic Plant people with Budding and Elf servile and it became the most powerful empire I've ever built, it didn't occur to me that if the services where budding capable it would boost growth too.
"oh it's an Eldritch horror of course i'm gonna bloody well worship it" this is by far the most reasonable reason to worshiping an Eldritch horror i have ever herd *puts on black robes* ALL HAIL THE GREAT ONE!
I like turtling so these are not boring at all. It's fun to know that the enemies can't defeat you. This series, much like the habitats only run are the sort of vanity runs that I enjoy watching while relaxing. Simply watching the enemies crash into heavily fortified systems while the homefront continues to build up, sending scout fleets to capture the odd system on a bite and hold strategy. Build all the mega structures, finish all tech, colonize all habitable planets, build habitats over the rest, just have fun.
Yeah, Wormholes, Hyperdrive, and Warp. I'll be honest, I always did prefer Warp or Wormhole over Hyperdrive, Jump Drives just don't have the same _feel_ to them, you know?
@@omegaentertainment01 I never played hyperdrives before they made it mandatory. It seemed so bland and also kinda weird that everyone is stuck using randomly generated galactic railroads but i understand why, from a development and gameplay perspective, it was the right move. There was almost no way to actually balance the three against each other and wormhole was so disadvantaged that any wars fought had to either end immediately in a rapid victory or you’d just watch as fleets moved around areas you couldn’t go and then destroy your shit. Jump drives do kinda make me sad since they are 1) quite short range all things considered, 2) extremely painful to use making them only viable if both jump points are 150% safe, and 3) tied to an insanely long cool down. But it does amuse me that in some games you can jump drive from the edge of the galaxy to the L-cluster and avoid the need for L-gates once its discovered.
@@Mankorra_Gomorrah "3 propulsion options?! Eugh, who would want empires that actually have individuallity? Need more simplification. We ain't happy until this game is an overelaborate symetric RTS." - Paradox, probably.
It’s always relaxing to listen to your full playthroughs in the background at night, and hear how your RP builds develop. You’ve also definitely got fighting the Crisis down to a science. Perhaps. I can apply some of that to my own games.
Okay, That's a great playthrough. Kinda hilarious. unyielding seems incredibly powerful. Keep up the good work man! i love watching your vids while i'm tired, it makes the already great commentary even better! :D
I love how the ending is essentially a neverending war of attrition, where the scourge send stronger and stronger fleets against defense stations that are always improving.
I actually suggested something similar to this on one of your previous videos, I mentioned how you might as well make the computer controlled empires conquer the galaxy for you, then when you and them are the only ones remaining, conquer/fully annex them, so you only ever have to deal with your own growth, while the A.I does all the micro-management and colonizing. I thought a puppet would work, but you used the end-game-crisis instead. the next logical step is to wipe out the scourge then have a puppet empire acquire all the former scourge territory, the idea being to not have to deal with all the button clicks yourself. then just integrate the puppet. I saw people do something similar to this in hoi4 and eu4.
Keep the full playthroughs coming! By far my favorite stellaris content creator! Just finished watching your fallout 4 let's play from forever ago. Would be amazing to see you do something similar with fo76 (now that it's a decent game) or for sure Starfield when it releases
Lathrix always says these full playthroughs are bad for the channel. But if you look at his videos by "most popular" almost all of them show up quite high up. That algorithm may hate them, but we LOVE them!
You would probably enjoy a full trade focused empire. With federations and the new perks, merchants can be as powerful as technicians. It has quite an few options if how to play, but I find that Mercantile is quite a fun play style so figured it may be worth mentioning
I love how Lathrix became the custodian "to save the galaxy from the scourge threat" and then proceeded to completely ignore their expansion as long as it wasn't on his land
Inwardly Perfected, As All Things Should Be
As long as I’m not the one getting genocided why care?
no you forget he protected some empires... unintentionally but he still did and thats what makes a good custodian
@@rangaaaaaaaaaaaaa well he protected one out of necessity to keep the galactic council alive to reap the benefits
@@ddoc8573 but he still protected them
Just casually births a dimensional horror into the galaxy. "Feed it the livestock". I REALLY lost it when there was another right next to it LOL
I got all excited watching this playthrough & in my own playthrough when the Lovecraftian Being showed up....and then it turned out to be a Dimensional Horror with a glowing mouth. (and not on a black hole for once)
I lost it when Lathrix called it Snookums and then I imagined an Eldritch horror saying “I am Snookums! FEAR ME!”
Snookums!!
I love how Lath's Stellaris playthroughs are pretty much Dwarf Fortress playthroughs. It starts somewhat normal and then just gets _weird_
So glad I found Stellaris. can be a magical game
He should play dwarf fortress at some point
@@commanderstorm8874 now i wonder how he would be once he got over the inital curve of DF
@@lechking941 Once it comes out on steam that will be easy
Any good DF playthroughs/channels you'd recommend?
one strategy I found while playing involves a standard hivemind and nihilistic acquisition. you declare war on someone, steal their pops, then farm their pops for food. for added funnies transfer all your livestock pops to a single planet, and build a crap ton of city districts to house them fully.
gives a whole new meaning to farming planet
Get the gas planet thats bonus scales with # of pops and put em all there - you get free nearly infinite jobs lmao
Until you get nerve staples you’re gonna be screwed by stability
Aaaaand yet another instance of Crimes against fake humanity. Oh the TrAvEsTy. . . .
I find it to be too much effort, before in 2.1 a Hive could grow livestock species and get a ton of food from early wars captured planets, now you can't reproduce these pops as a Hive but even the food output is really poor compared to a normal worker.
I see "Full Playthrough", I slap that like button and sit down with a cup of coffee, ready to enjoy some quality watching!
As do i
makes perfect sense to me; its my to-do event as well
pog
@@peacemazer???
After consuming almost the entire galaxy, the Prethoryn Scourge collectively decided that trying to consume what remained in this galaxy, only to fail over and over and over again, was simply not worth the effort as they would start to expend the biomass they absorbed if they kept trying.
So the swarm eventually left this galaxy, searching for new feeding grounds, leaving only dead worlds behind, drained of all life.
For the first time in over a century, the Grand Recyclers left the confines of their heavily fortified borders and ventured into the empty galaxy, repopulating it with life using their own rapid growth as well as the Omnicodex, turning the galaxy into a lush, peaceful oasis amidst the dark, uncaring void.
And while there was no indication that the Scourge would ever return, the great fleets of the Grand Recyclers remained ever vigilant, and the defenders of the galaxy patrol the stars until the end of time itself...
And the mountain of bones was silently turned into compost
I lack the time to play this game, although I enjoyed it. These playthroughs let me experience it vicariously, thanks.
Dude, same.
here to explicitly respond to the shilling. Liked, commented, and already looking forward to the next upload. I don't think you understand how damn amazing your content is and how thirsty we viewers are for more. You are the only content creator to do stellaris like you do. A huge fan !!!!
Let's all help him. He deserves it.
me:*in the middle of playing a game* UA-cam:*Lathrix notification pops up* me: ..... well, guessing im watching a video now!
Why not both?
What game ?...?
Facts man
Personally I said it should be a perk or a trophy that lets you get more Ascension points
@@michealjackson3520 lathrix stellaris beats to optimise purges to
This seems like a hilariously weird idea, I love it.
Also I love the event reference to the Doctor Who episode with the Vashta Nerada swarms.
I feel like you haven't played against the contingency, at least in a video, in a while. Feel like that would be interesting, maybe even do a machine heavy run against them so that it's even a little bit more difficult.
When was that
I've never seen Lath fight the contingency xD
Comment for the algorithm! Wasn't expecting another playthrough so soon, awesome! Thanks Lath!!
17:45
eldritch horror: i shall grant you knowledge in exchange of some of your populations.
grand recyclers: that's great, we have a syncretic species which we raise as livestock.
eldritch horror: uh-
grand recyclers: it's a win-win!
Budding is such a fun and silly trait. I especially love to use it on massive ringworlds/city worlds
Definitely love these videos. Really nice to just sit back, relax and watch Lath go through and consume the galaxy
I was staring at the thumbnail for a couple minutes like a gecko waiting for food
My mind was completely empty lol
Did you lick your eyeball too? :D
@@M_Sebu maybe
Thx for putzing out these videos so fast, I'm realy impressd, how good you are with many different playstiles
Yea it really is awesome!
Keep these playthroughs coming, always makes my day when I see that you made another one.
Yes! More weird ways to play Stellaris for the God of weird ways to play Stellaris! Why playing efficiently, why making good decisions, if it always leads to the very same results? IMHO, it is much more interesting to have a lot of different experiences from this game, than playing one exact empire over and over until hellish boredom overtakes everything, forcing you to abandon the game and never play it again.
I am speaking about single player games, of course. If you decide to play ascetic legion hive mind in multiplayer, the other players would make a chop of you.
Thank you for putting in the time and effort to make these episodes.
This is one of the best Stellaris playthroughs on UA-cam!!! A lot of work goes into the making of it, and I really appreciate it. Keep it up!
I never thought to use the Omnicodex quite like that, absolutely amazing
As someone who loves this genre of games but hopelessly bad at them, these play throughs are great. Thank you for posting them!
Been waiting for more stellaris! Thanks for the amazing content!
the ending was beautiful. I didn't expect you to become this powerful after the somewhat slow midgame.
as always i'm loving the full playthroughs.
my favourite moments:
38:56 'I've been speaking in silence for the last fifteen years or so' sounds even more concerning out of context
42:20 'And of course the science gets done for the people who are still alive' i understood that reference!
48:04 'that's a bit darker than i expected in my head ... haha but it's true!' the reason why i love lathrixian videos no matter what game is being played
I can't explain the dopamine rush when I see you upload a full playtrough.
The rush is real!
Im so thankfull that you take the ristk and make these long videos, they are absolutely my favorite format and its amazing how much fun there is to be had in each of them!
Nice! Perfect timing. Pls do more stellaris vids you are truly the best stellaris content creator i know!
That was a great watch! I love seeing empires which aren’t meta or anything but are just fully sort of a role play play through! :)
yes the shrooms that recycle, never new that there were such a "fun guy"
Good pun.
Nice
So bad, I like it.
I saw a lathrix full playlist, cool!
And then I saw a mushroom with a business suit. E V E N B E T T E R
Love the videos, Lathrix!
These are my favorite, has given me the motivation to play Stellaris again and I've once again fallen in love so thank you for these videos, your amazing and keep up the fantastic work!
Love the full playthroughs. Seems like I'm in for a good time!
I have had stellaris for awhile but only played it briefly. Remembering your channel I looked it up to see what you’ve been uploading. Very excited to see you do play through of this. I can’t wait to watch more. I’ll give a subscribe too because its not often I think about UA-camrs I miss.
Past Not-Lathrix here; I really appreciate it when you tackle stuff that isn't about the meta, and is just about having fun and exploring weird combinations. Pity they nerfed the food to alloys a bit TOO hard in response to the exploit.
Bit too hard? They didn't nerf it hard enough, machines and lithoids can still print a crapton of free alloys.
I'm not sure how or if commenting helps but if it does this is to help keep the full playthroughs going. I really enjoy watching them and hope I'm not alone. As always, thanks Lathland for the great content and i hope you keep having fun with your videos.
Heck yeah time for some Stellaris to watch while I play it too!
God I love these stellaris videos. I know you keep saying they don’t do well but I love when you make the time for them!
"Growth Required Scaling" would make a lot more sense if it would scale for each planet individually and not for the whole empire. If you have a large amount of pops it should make it faster to populate a new planet, but massively populated planets should get diminishing returns on growth, so your pops don't grow exponentially forever.
it allreaddy does that...
It's the anti-snowball factor slowing empire growth that people complain about, nevermind that huge empires with a hundred colonies to manage make the endgame laggy micro hell.
You can defeat the crisis and be #1 on every measure with just 300 pops. But the pop spam habit takes less imagination and game knowledge
@@mso2013 no it doesn't. Having a large amount of pops increases the growth needed for every planet equally. So even a new planet will need the same pop growth as the capital to make a new pop.
Does it work the same way for machine intelligence empires and lithoids?
@@tylerlambert8400 There is planet capacity where growth points are reduced when approached.
The empire wide increase to points required to make a pop is there for game play reasons.
If you don't want an anti-snowball factor and no brake on the most populous empires you can set the scaling to zero from the default x0.25.
I did a playthrough with the Idyllic Bloom and Master Crafter's on grand admiral.
Psionic Plant people with Budding and Elf servile and it became the most powerful empire I've ever built, it didn't occur to me that if the services where budding capable it would boost growth too.
Yes love your Stellaris content hope you keep making more
"oh it's an Eldritch horror of course i'm gonna bloody well worship it"
this is by far the most reasonable reason to worshiping an Eldritch horror i have ever herd *puts on black robes* ALL HAIL THE GREAT ONE!
Been watching your old FtD videos and had an idea. You should make a series where you bring old ships up to date if possible
Maybe even the KHORNE FLAKE
@@koppigamer508 Yes we need this
right now
Only if he has fun doing it. This channel is just a byproduct of him loving playing games
@@squa_81 true.
I love whenever a full play through pops up on my page, thank you!!!
Oh my that thumbnail is... Well, my life is now complete
I absolutely love these videos and I'm so happy you're still doing them and happy doing them. I hope youtube doesn't screw you too much for this
Love the playthroughs!
I lOVE these long form videos Friend! Keep the coming and I'll watch immediately!
I’m surprised you’ve never seen an AI crisis before. At least one empire tries it in every game I play.
eather your unfortnate or lathrix just dont see em often
Maybe it's because of his mods?
@@supernukey419 i dout it. but i do like how one empire became the crisis
I like turtling so these are not boring at all. It's fun to know that the enemies can't defeat you. This series, much like the habitats only run are the sort of vanity runs that I enjoy watching while relaxing. Simply watching the enemies crash into heavily fortified systems while the homefront continues to build up, sending scout fleets to capture the odd system on a bite and hold strategy. Build all the mega structures, finish all tech, colonize all habitable planets, build habitats over the rest, just have fun.
Making an empire where each system is only connected by gateways beyond little pockets around each ruined megastructure could work well in theory.
At launch this was one of the 3 propulsion methods that you could chose from
Yeah, Wormholes, Hyperdrive, and Warp.
I'll be honest, I always did prefer Warp or Wormhole over Hyperdrive, Jump Drives just don't have the same _feel_ to them, you know?
@@omegaentertainment01 I never played hyperdrives before they made it mandatory. It seemed so bland and also kinda weird that everyone is stuck using randomly generated galactic railroads but i understand why, from a development and gameplay perspective, it was the right move. There was almost no way to actually balance the three against each other and wormhole was so disadvantaged that any wars fought had to either end immediately in a rapid victory or you’d just watch as fleets moved around areas you couldn’t go and then destroy your shit.
Jump drives do kinda make me sad since they are 1) quite short range all things considered, 2) extremely painful to use making them only viable if both jump points are 150% safe, and 3) tied to an insanely long cool down. But it does amuse me that in some games you can jump drive from the edge of the galaxy to the L-cluster and avoid the need for L-gates once its discovered.
@@Mankorra_Gomorrah "3 propulsion options?! Eugh, who would want empires that actually have individuallity? Need more simplification. We ain't happy until this game is an overelaborate symetric RTS." - Paradox, probably.
I honestly watch these like 5 times cause I like having your voice in the background
If the play style for this type of empire is to have loads of unemployed pops then I suggest calling it the Couch Potato Strat.
Good to see you back to Stellaris playthroughs
I'd like to see the Contingency. I rarely get them as my end game crisis, typically ending up with the Unbidden as mine.
Love listening to you and playing Stellaris. Thank you for the awesome commentary :)
New vid pog
41:50 Lathrix, a masterclass in self doubt.
I like this series a lot so here is my comment
It’s always relaxing to listen to your full playthroughs in the background at night, and hear how your RP builds develop. You’ve also definitely got fighting the Crisis down to a science. Perhaps. I can apply some of that to my own games.
How you even make 10000 of anything in this game is beyond me 😲
Full Stellaris PTs are my favorite content, tbh. I really like them!
Also, Contingency as the balanced crisis will be interesting to watch.
Blood for the blood god, and comments for the algorithm!
Have a like and a comment, I genuinely chuckled at that
Okay, That's a great playthrough. Kinda hilarious. unyielding seems incredibly powerful. Keep up the good work man! i love watching your vids while i'm tired, it makes the already great commentary even better! :D
:)
I love how the ending is essentially a neverending war of attrition, where the scourge send stronger and stronger fleets against defense stations that are always improving.
First comment finally!!
Love your work btw!! Absolute unit in stellaris!
Always love these videos man. My favourite stellaris content out there by a long margin. Keep it up cause it’s just great. Long live the shrooms!
I actually suggested something similar to this on one of your previous videos, I mentioned how you might as well make the computer controlled empires conquer the galaxy for you, then when you and them are the only ones remaining, conquer/fully annex them, so you only ever have to deal with your own growth, while the A.I does all the micro-management and colonizing. I thought a puppet would work, but you used the end-game-crisis instead.
the next logical step is to wipe out the scourge then have a puppet empire acquire all the former scourge territory, the idea being to not have to deal with all the button clicks yourself. then just integrate the puppet. I saw people do something similar to this in hoi4 and eu4.
Amazing Play-through! You are one of my top five channels and this is the content I come for. Thank you!
Thank you for making these! It's always so fun to watch.
I always wait eagarly for each new Lathrix video!!
Happy to contribute to the algorithm for such a great series! Keep up the amazing work and effort and I hope the views will rack up
Me as well!!
It's good background for me, I can focus on what I'm doing while enjoying lathrix's ramblings
We gotta keep the algorithm happy, so comments away! Love your videos, always have.
Thanks for doing these playthroughs, you're the only Stellaris streamer I bother watching!
I love these so much, love your full playthrough's.
Thank you so much for doing them Lath
These video's are great for my insomnia, and i mean that in a good way tnx lathrix
Thank you for making these vids I really like them.
Commenting to make sure more stellaris videos will be made, never played the game but its thoroughly enjoyable to watch!
being able to sit down and just chill to these long vids is so nice
Keep the full playthroughs coming! By far my favorite stellaris content creator!
Just finished watching your fallout 4 let's play from forever ago. Would be amazing to see you do something similar with fo76 (now that it's a decent game) or for sure Starfield when it releases
Thanks for yet another full playthrough, love these
Lathrix always says these full playthroughs are bad for the channel. But if you look at his videos by "most popular" almost all of them show up quite high up.
That algorithm may hate them, but we LOVE them!
Thanks for the full play through! I love your videos
what a sophisticated young mushroom
Comment for the algorithm
also, love the Stellaris full playthroughs. Thank you Lathryx (rix) dunno. You're still awesome
+1 Looking forward to the lp. Always enjoy these
Keep up these play throughs! They are so fun to watch
I love watching these so much! Thank you for all of the amazing content!
Always appreciate these playthrough Lath
I cant believe i havent been subscribed this whole time. But i love these videos man keep it up!!
You would probably enjoy a full trade focused empire. With federations and the new perks, merchants can be as powerful as technicians. It has quite an few options if how to play, but I find that Mercantile is quite a fun play style so figured it may be worth mentioning
i love watching your full playthroughs :D
I love your playthroughs. Please keep doing it
Watching this while stalling on being productive so I can play stellaris afterwards while watching more Lathrix playthroughs.
Always a great time watching you play Stellaris!
Full playthrough!! Yes please, perfect for my background whilst working.
I love your stellaris videos I hope they keep going
Always a fun video when you enjoy what you’re doing!