I don't think that is how speedruns work. I always saw then restart the clock with every attempt. Like I get it that you only get to unlock the achievement once but also seems strange to count all attempts time as one go.
Same. I was a necrophage purifier, so I just went “oh, yet another pre-FTL, let’s invade” without realizing it was earth, much less that it was human earth in the right era in a war.
I was just invading stuff as a xenophobe and earth had no armies for some reason. Edit: they were also in the atomic age and I still got the advancement
I find it funny how "in-universe" we have this species of rock crabs that have a civilization-wide epiphany and are dedicating their entire livelihoods to chart the galaxy and find this mythical planet of meat bags in tanks and kill em
@@botrust6543 They know of the atrocities we committed against their fleshy counterparts, across multiple timelines. They can feel it through the Shroud as the apex form of evolution.
Rock Crabs:”The prophecy foretells of the coming of the Humans. We must find them before they reach the space age. Or we will all be boiled alive and eaten with dipping sauce. If we are too late, we shall restart the universe and try again until they are slaughtered.”
Would you be surprised if i said that this was only the second worst decision i've ever seen in speedrunning? There's a german gaming tv/yt channel that featured someone playing Zelda ALttP Randomizer. Dude didn't want to waste like 10 seconds on a particular chest towards the beginning. Which cost him iirc about 90 min at the end because it contained the boots! XD
I accidentally received the achievement on a Devouring Swarm playthrough. Didn't even bother checking who the primitives were. When I realized, I laughed. What's worse than Nazi's? Probably bugs.
I actually did this in my current game. Not iron mode so i did not get the acheivement. I was a fanatic egalitarian, militarist, reptilan empire and I was suprised how quickly the humans integrated into my civilization. When my 1st president finally died of old age, the only human official I hired was elected as his replacement. This just 40 years after I Invade Earth.
I got this achieve by accident, I didn't know it was _that_ hard. I thought it was really cool the defense armies were named after the major powers of the war though when invading.
In my head, I've got 3 hours, for some reason...I feel this is both unnecessarily optimistic, while also seeing the video time, and suspect you get a wildly lucky start! Or, you know, that whole speed run thing that you just mentioned, hah.
once upon a time i found "Sol III" with a pre-ftl species on it, and managed to take over, but it was before i knew of the achievement (2019, i have a screenshot) and i believe once they actually discovered FTL, just in time to say hello to the devouring swarm heading their way (run by me) other then that i swear every time i find Sol.. the 3rd planet is either already a tomb world, or they die before i get there somehow. so i guess you could say i've been working on this achievement for 4+ years... minus some times i started on SOL to get another achievement.
This was harder back in MY day. ^_^ Now they've added an event that allows Sol and other Pre-FTLS to knock themselves back to the stone age. And ways for you to force their progression. Have you ever seen the Tiles lad! Kidding aside I hope you enjoy getting all the trophies, it's a good journey.
I got this achievement on my second time playing the game by sheer luck. I was starting an extreme conquest game, saw Earth in this state and recognized it might have been wwii and had a laugh about it before invading and being shocked that I got an achievement for it. Only recently did I find out exactly how rare this achievement is.
Wow... I feel very lucky. My first time I did it using the same settings as you did after hearing about the achievement and got it on my first try, like within 5 minutes. A hour or more id probably stop lmao
Hes going to claim it took minutes, it actually took days, but he only counts specifically parts of them where he actually specifically was actively playing: normal people would take literally years IRL because they aren't speed running it on purpose with mathmaticaly optimized strategy. (Haven't watched the video yet after where he said to guess, i will post my findings on this after I finish the video in a reply to this comment.)
It makes no sense to include failed attempts in a speed run count because you can always start a new attempt at the run and not pass any progress from the failed attempts
42 tries... it took me 42 tries to get the right Sol. By attempt 36 I thought I'd try using the medieval version of Sol, actively improving its tech to machine. That did not work. You rly need to get the Sol that Spawn in machine age... God I am wondering how you are gonna get the one that also requires the brain slugs.
Can you get this achievement when playing as “human aliens”? I have this achievement, and as far as I know, i’ve only played as “human aliens”. Didn’t know when I got it.
Alas, your attempt was already doomed by then Either you took too long and humanity had already left the machine age, or they started in the early space age. Pre-FTL civilisations can only nuke themselves into tomb worlds during the atomic or early space ages, so while Earth's machine age world war is taking place, humanity can't blow itself up. A small mercy for what is still a brutal achievement.
Hardest achievment ??? what about the one you need to get the galatron (Inscrutable Power) ? and the one you need to get the galatron through war (Raiders of the Lost Galatron)? Or the one to overthrown the emperor (Sic Semper Tyrannis)?
This isn't that hard. It only took me an hour or two to get it when I was achievement hunting for 100% in Stellaris. For some reason Payback (invade pre-FTL reptilians as humanoids) took me forever. Sic Semper Tyrannis was a lot harder than this one, the Galatron achievements without cheating are borderline impossible, much harder than this. I've also never got a chance to get Stay On Target and I still don't have Humble Pie because the AI never uses supremacy diplomatic stance.
this sounds like trying to find that one pokemon febas that is only on one tile. Its easy just takes time, its just hard for people who can't concentrate. But starting a game just to do this and then quit seems like you're showing that these awards are 100% meaningless. Just not what I want, in a stallaris video.
Well he said earth had a 1/2 chance of appearing at all, and a further 1/4 chance of being in the machine age. Which would be a 1/8 chance (not counting the chance of them leaving the machine age before you find Sol). Also, he discovered at the end of the video that there were actually 2 total occurrences of this (because of the abandoned run which turned out to have Sol in it). So, 2/12 seems (at least initially) to be a reasonable outcome if the base odds were about 1/8. In theory, if we ran this thousands of times, we'd get about 1/8 over time.
After about 800 hours of gameplay without every getting the horizon signal, I did a session of checking the game files until I had the system. The save that had it also by coincidence had sol III in the world war.
Stellaris must have a mechanism just to troll you because first time you start the game you get everything you asked for like good starting position,many resources or good digging sites but with huge disadvantages like spawning near a cosmic golliathian or trinyakis surrending expanding zone.
Video suggestion: simulate a Middle Earth galaxy. Do the Hobbits as Democratic Inward Perfectionists, Mordor as Dictatorial Fanatic Purifiers, Dwarves as Imperial Subterranean Miner Guilds, Elves as Imperial Pleasure Seekers/Masterful Crafters, Gondor as Imperial Ascensionists, Rohan as Imperial Environmentalists, and any others you can think of. I NEED TO SEE THIS
I did this several patches ago, back when you could still see system names if you clicked survey and then moused over any given star. Don't remember the exact patch, but sol had a quirk of spawning on the edge of the galaxy. So I literally spent 2 hours spawning tiny galaxies with 1 other ai empire, and then mousing over stars at the edge of the galaxy. If I didn't see Sol, quit to main menu and try again. If I did, build 5 assault armies and send a sciene ship straight there, with the army following them. Got Earth in the wrong age twice, and restarted, then got it in WW2 on the 7th try. Got the achievement, then deleted the galaxy and moved on with my life. I'm sure if you trawled the PDX Stellaris forums long enough, you could find the post that I did that told me about that particular way to cheese the achievement, and then cross reference it with the dates various versions of Stellaris came out, so you could roll back to that patch. Not sure why you would, unless you REALLY want that 100%, but the option is there.
Everytime I try to hunt achievements, something weird happens. My empire becomes The Crisis and I enact EXTERMINATUS upon the galaxy. It's got to be a bug.
i see the rare crystals strat and I'm proposing one easier: loading the ironman save into multiplayer & go into observer mode to check if sol is near & if it is the age you need. Then race for it. You can easily switch from observer to playing and finish your achievements. Also if the save is ironman, multiplayer will not block achievements. One day my brother and his friend helped me eliminate slavery and once the achievement fired for me, each of them loaded my empire to grab it for themselves too. You can't look into Ironman save files because they're encrypted (unless observer mode bypass was the cheating you meant). I do think the way you did it was more interesting, though, since you actually used base game mechanics to your advantage. Also what I didn't know in ~a thousand hours in this game was that you can disable popup events thank you. my own speedruns are so, so much easier 😂
i tried getting this achievement multiple times; everytime i got sol III in the machine age, there were no armies, and invading it did not give me the achievement; so i stopped trying
yeah... there was a time when they needed the armies to be there to "represent a invasion during WW2" in this video there were no armies and the achievement popped anyway. guess they changed it
@@Ep3o yeah, Ironman was on, pretty much the same settings as you had @Shadow.24772 yeah, saw that after i wrote the comment; sadly, when i tried this a few months ago, it didn't work; maybe i try again tomorrow
From all PDX games, stellaris achievements are the most random and out of players agency. I love space and I love stellaris and my love for space and its wonders have kept me hooked, but without my love for the unknown space worlds we might explore, I think I might have droped the game by now, and thats how unrewarding games are, where you hope for a certain star to spawn, and it didn't, and you wasted an entire run. You can over rollplay only so ofter over that.
We need that spongebob bikini bottom build, a megacorp (with mr krabs) or empire (with posideon) obsessed with the krabby patty (food) as a aquatic toxoid species since they were used for nuclear testing You could do a lot of things with that, like overturned for rapid mutations, payback origin to get back at those humans for testing their nukes on you, so many fun ideas
3:21 I think you can only make peace with the Space Amoebae if you’re Xenophile or Pacifist (or RS), and since you didn’t get the “learn to co-exist” then I’m assuming you have some other ethics.
~1 hour is comparable for this achievement for when I tried getting 100%. I also did max hyperlanes and scintillating skin, which make it not as bad to search. I hope you don't get burned out achievement hunting and quit Stellaris like I did.
I'm the luckest person in the world, because I got this achievment by accident, not knowing about it. Could be better if my luck wasn't only in such useless things
In small maps, looking for Earth would be easier if you always looked for trinary star systems, meaning that it's a chance they are called Alpha Centauri, and the Sol system always has Alpha Centauri within 1 or 2 hyperlane jumps of it on average.
I just tried this, probably never played a game of Stellaris elligable for achivments before, and I got it on my first run in like 20 min lol Would have been faster if i hadnt messed up my First Contact Protocol settings and had to wait 4 in game years to attack Earth.
just yesterday i thought il start a new save. Du to recent moving i have no internet yet.Thus was not able to start the usual ironmode game. Neighbor system to home system: Sol State of Sol: In the middle of ww2 Why paradox
Hey so I dont know much about Stelaris my Dad plays it a bit but I thought you played as the United Nations Hundred of years after you left earth so how can you return to earth during WW2
i tried this before and always have ironman mode on because sometimes i do get achievemens. but this always confuses me, do you just invade pre-ftl earth during the machine age and it'll just give you it? i thought there would always be a little notifcation stating that there was a war
There is indeed a notification, albeit a variation on the usual one. If you survey Earth when it starts the game in the machine age (and if it hasn't moved onto the atomic age yet), the notification telling you "there's a machine age society on this world" will also add that it is engulfed in a global war. The war lasts throughout this entire age, but will not start again if Earth leaves and returns to the machine age later.
You can speed up exploring the galaxy by going spiritualist and taking master crafters, so you can build an alloy processing center right away and not worry about unity or consumer goods. Take the Imperial Fiefdom origin, send an envoy to your overlord to improve relations, then negotiate for shared sensors 60 months in. They'll explore with science ships, as will the other vassals, which will explore the galaxy far faster than your 3 or 4 science ships will. This woris for more things than just this achievement, such as the worm, finding 4 holy worlds, etc.
Ultra-Achievement hunting is nice on Paradox games. I remember trying to get "On the Rhodes again" in EU4, which is super hard and I did this over the course of a week, with restarting so often, that I don't even know how often I did restart.
Nope. Random Sol and UNE cannot coexist, and the CoM force spawns the UNE (not sure what happens if you set one of the other Sol Empires to it, like the Earth Custodianship or the Children of Gaea.)
Being friendly with space amoeba requires xenophile. It'll always show up as an option if you're xenophile. It gives you a project to research instead of doing tech, and that makes you friendly with them.
I can’t believe it…
Watch the full series here: ua-cam.com/play/PLK9xgSZGwHOjnEZ2L_EUJPMw6HD2i2y6b.html&si=8qpTd__tS5QIikq
ep3o, are you excited for the new endgame crisis?
@@eliminatorvr1350 1000%!
@@Ep3o : you know the new content means new achievements, right?
I saw the teacup at 7:21 that's supposed to be an Easter egg, right?
I don't think that is how speedruns work. I always saw then restart the clock with every attempt. Like I get it that you only get to unlock the achievement once but also seems strange to count all attempts time as one go.
Imagine if in HOI4 there was an incredibly rare chance of there being a stellar invasion when the war starts
United States of Prikkiki-Ti
The Sunset Invasion of HOI lol
oddly enough, there is a stellaris invasion in eu4 with the xt-489 eliminator invading the world if you enter "syntheticdawn" in the debug menu
@@ryanluther5785 don't forget about jan mayen that's the other meme debug spawn
@@spookyaction3236 that sounds like something from an hp lovecraft novel
I got this acheivement purely on accident in my first purifier playthrough, i didn't even know it was rare until much later 😅
that is the best way to get it
lol just purifying the galaxy
Same. I was a necrophage purifier, so I just went “oh, yet another pre-FTL, let’s invade” without realizing it was earth, much less that it was human earth in the right era in a war.
I was just invading stuff as a xenophobe and earth had no armies for some reason.
Edit: they were also in the atomic age and I still got the advancement
I wasn't aware it was a rare achievement.... I dunno how I got but I got it lol
I find it funny how "in-universe" we have this species of rock crabs that have a civilization-wide epiphany and are dedicating their entire livelihoods to chart the galaxy and find this mythical planet of meat bags in tanks and kill em
rock crabs really dedicated
They're out for revenge
@@botrust6543 They know of the atrocities we committed against their fleshy counterparts, across multiple timelines. They can feel it through the Shroud as the apex form of evolution.
not only that, they are literally the only other sentient life in the galaxy
Rock Crabs:”The prophecy foretells of the coming of the Humans. We must find them before they reach the space age. Or we will all be boiled alive and eaten with dipping sauce. If we are too late, we shall restart the universe and try again until they are slaughtered.”
Just a tip: if you hover over the system in map view it will say the class off the star. Sol in real life is a g type star.
The real G 😎
The goat star!
a star that sits in the G spot of our galaxy
I remember finding Earth in the midst of ww2, and instead of doing this, I technologically uplifted them. I didn't know this existed.
That's how wolfenstein happend)
You RUINED THE EARTH
The question is WHICH OF THE THREE IDEOLOGIES BENEFIT
@@razakeldrukata6502Tanu Tuva.
@@razakeldrukata6502 non aligned.
Would you be surprised if i said that this was only the second worst decision i've ever seen in speedrunning? There's a german gaming tv/yt channel that featured someone playing Zelda ALttP Randomizer. Dude didn't want to waste like 10 seconds on a particular chest towards the beginning. Which cost him iirc about 90 min at the end because it contained the boots! XD
An hour of Sol searching. A lifetime of achievement.
Every alien civilization according to Hollywood be like:
thank you for making this !!!
ive been trying to get this achievement as well, and really enjoyed the video :0
Congratulations Fleetlord Atvar
What a brilliant series. Praise the emperor *lowers eye turrets*
I'm a sucker for achievement hunting so I'm loving the series!
I accidentally received the achievement on a Devouring Swarm playthrough. Didn't even bother checking who the primitives were. When I realized, I laughed. What's worse than Nazi's? Probably bugs.
I actually did this in my current game. Not iron mode so i did not get the acheivement. I was a fanatic egalitarian, militarist, reptilan empire and I was suprised how quickly the humans integrated into my civilization. When my 1st president finally died of old age, the only human official I hired was elected as his replacement. This just 40 years after I Invade Earth.
Did you really beat them if they were the one ruling you empire in the end ?
SO you playing the Worldwar Series from Harry Turtledove. Where Aliens try to invade during WW2.
in like 1:56 your armada was fighting in Klendath system which is reference to Starship troopers im 100% sure
90% of achievement hunters give up just before they find machine age Earth
I was in a game where Sol made it from pre-FTL into an empire, which then promptly took like 10% of my 1,000 star playfield. It was wild.
I got this achieve by accident, I didn't know it was _that_ hard. I thought it was really cool the defense armies were named after the major powers of the war though when invading.
There needs to be a hoi 4 mod where stellaris aliens come in and start fkn sht up, it would be hilarious
In my head, I've got 3 hours, for some reason...I feel this is both unnecessarily optimistic, while also seeing the video time, and suspect you get a wildly lucky start! Or, you know, that whole speed run thing that you just mentioned, hah.
Ouch! What could have been!! 😂
Still, cheers for the research - didn't even consider trying it like that!
Should have taken a whiskey shot for ever attempt restart yah did. :p
I kinda wished that they instead payed homage to Harry Turtledove's World War
once upon a time i found "Sol III" with a pre-ftl species on it, and managed to take over, but it was before i knew of the achievement (2019, i have a screenshot) and i believe once they actually discovered FTL, just in time to say hello to the devouring swarm heading their way (run by me)
other then that i swear every time i find Sol.. the 3rd planet is either already a tomb world, or they die before i get there somehow.
so i guess you could say i've been working on this achievement for 4+ years... minus some times i started on SOL to get another achievement.
This was harder back in MY day. ^_^ Now they've added an event that allows Sol and other Pre-FTLS to knock themselves back to the stone age. And ways for you to force their progression. Have you ever seen the Tiles lad! Kidding aside I hope you enjoy getting all the trophies, it's a good journey.
"Sol III is a Tomb World" well dang, Stellaris is good at predicting the year 2200
I got this achievement on my second time playing the game by sheer luck. I was starting an extreme conquest game, saw Earth in this state and recognized it might have been wwii and had a laugh about it before invading and being shocked that I got an achievement for it. Only recently did I find out exactly how rare this achievement is.
I got unreasonably lucky trying to go for the 12 insight tech achievement. I was in disbelief that I randomly found it.
I have 100% in this game and this one was one of the last I got. It was restart simolator. Never again.
Wow... I feel very lucky. My first time I did it using the same settings as you did after hearing about the achievement and got it on my first try, like within 5 minutes. A hour or more id probably stop lmao
I thought this had to be done while that event chain happens for sol. Good to know.
Hes going to claim it took minutes, it actually took days, but he only counts specifically parts of them where he actually specifically was actively playing: normal people would take literally years IRL because they aren't speed running it on purpose with mathmaticaly optimized strategy.
(Haven't watched the video yet after where he said to guess, i will post my findings on this after I finish the video in a reply to this comment.)
It makes no sense to include failed attempts in a speed run count because you can always start a new attempt at the run and not pass any progress from the failed attempts
This was one of my first achievements funny enough.
Eye spy a cup of tea! :p
42 tries... it took me 42 tries to get the right Sol. By attempt 36 I thought I'd try using the medieval version of Sol, actively improving its tech to machine. That did not work. You rly need to get the Sol that Spawn in machine age... God I am wondering how you are gonna get the one that also requires the brain slugs.
As an Stellaris Achievement Hunter I can guarantee you that this achievement isn't even in the top 5
Stay on target is a fun one to achieve
Can you get this achievement when playing as “human aliens”? I have this achievement, and as far as I know, i’ve only played as “human aliens”. Didn’t know when I got it.
Started this video, decided to go for it, and got it on my fourth try.
EDIT: EZ clap.
Congrats
Тыкаешь на кнопку научного корабля "изучать" и с зажатым альтом смотришь названия систем
В любом случае, контент х)
How many hyperlanes does one man need
Yes
Umm....aren't speedruns in paradox games all about the ingame dates instead of literally run a clock in RL to see how long it takes?
I once got sol spawn literally 2 hyperlanes away from my capital
Can’t you search in the game map for the Sol system at the start? That’s not looking at the game files, but just lets you know if it exists
You cannot see the system names anymore until you’ve explored them!
roflmao this is based on harry turtledove
What's the song in your intro?
Huh. I have it from playing naturally.
I’ve annexed 1machine and one early space earth before
I found earth but it randomly blew up and became a tomb world😢
Alas, your attempt was already doomed by then
Either you took too long and humanity had already left the machine age, or they started in the early space age.
Pre-FTL civilisations can only nuke themselves into tomb worlds during the atomic or early space ages, so while Earth's machine age world war is taking place, humanity can't blow itself up. A small mercy for what is still a brutal achievement.
Would starting as xenophile to befriend space fauna help?
Does it reference the books this is based on?
Hardest achievment ??? what about the one you need to get the galatron (Inscrutable Power) ? and the one you need to get the galatron through war (Raiders of the Lost Galatron)? Or the one to overthrown the emperor (Sic Semper Tyrannis)?
i guess 97 minutes
I believe, the achievement would be easier with a stargazer build
Nevermind, you play with max hyperlane.
You can’t auto explore either with it!
I was Betting 69 min because funny number
For the bloody algorithm
This isn't that hard. It only took me an hour or two to get it when I was achievement hunting for 100% in Stellaris. For some reason Payback (invade pre-FTL reptilians as humanoids) took me forever. Sic Semper Tyrannis was a lot harder than this one, the Galatron achievements without cheating are borderline impossible, much harder than this. I've also never got a chance to get Stay On Target and I still don't have Humble Pie because the AI never uses supremacy diplomatic stance.
you look and sound like ItsJabo
this sounds like trying to find that one pokemon febas that is only on one tile. Its easy just takes time, its just hard for people who can't concentrate. But starting a game just to do this and then quit seems like you're showing that these awards are 100% meaningless.
Just not what I want, in a stallaris video.
24min
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Isnt stellaris speedrun based purely on game years because a better cpu mean faster speed ?
1 out 12 attempts, thanks for helping find the odds
Well he said earth had a 1/2 chance of appearing at all, and a further 1/4 chance of being in the machine age. Which would be a 1/8 chance (not counting the chance of them leaving the machine age before you find Sol). Also, he discovered at the end of the video that there were actually 2 total occurrences of this (because of the abandoned run which turned out to have Sol in it). So, 2/12 seems (at least initially) to be a reasonable outcome if the base odds were about 1/8. In theory, if we ran this thousands of times, we'd get about 1/8 over time.
Hitler: *sees aliens* vhat ze schnitzel
Nah just get it randomly like i did.
The Sol tombworld can actually spawn in a galaxy that has a different sol system.
Oh
Yeah but that’s not the same as what the achievement asks for.
So you can have two Sols?
@@itzmedb8290 Yes providing you have created your own empire and just chosen Sol as the starting system.
@@andrewleah1983 I've seen games with both a sol tombworld and an AI earth empire that had grown from the sol pre-ftl
After about 800 hours of gameplay without every getting the horizon signal, I did a session of checking the game files until I had the system. The save that had it also by coincidence had sol III in the world war.
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Stellaris must have a mechanism just to troll you because first time you start the game you get everything you asked for like good starting position,many resources or good digging sites but with huge disadvantages like spawning near a cosmic golliathian or trinyakis surrending expanding zone.
Video suggestion: simulate a Middle Earth galaxy. Do the Hobbits as Democratic Inward Perfectionists, Mordor as Dictatorial Fanatic Purifiers, Dwarves as Imperial Subterranean Miner Guilds, Elves as Imperial Pleasure Seekers/Masterful Crafters, Gondor as Imperial Ascensionists, Rohan as Imperial Environmentalists, and any others you can think of. I NEED TO SEE THIS
My only suggestion here would have Mordor be Barbaric Despoilers given their penchant for pillaging and slaving.
This Please.
@@NouveauSaboteur Yeah, Sauron wanted to rule Middle Earth, not exterminate it.
wtf is middle earth
I believe a better portrayal of the Hobbits are not as Democratic, they are Oligarchy. They are run by a couple of "fine" families.
I started a habitat Play through with Humans and Earth Spawned right next to me
I did this several patches ago, back when you could still see system names if you clicked survey and then moused over any given star. Don't remember the exact patch, but sol had a quirk of spawning on the edge of the galaxy. So I literally spent 2 hours spawning tiny galaxies with 1 other ai empire, and then mousing over stars at the edge of the galaxy. If I didn't see Sol, quit to main menu and try again. If I did, build 5 assault armies and send a sciene ship straight there, with the army following them. Got Earth in the wrong age twice, and restarted, then got it in WW2 on the 7th try. Got the achievement, then deleted the galaxy and moved on with my life.
I'm sure if you trawled the PDX Stellaris forums long enough, you could find the post that I did that told me about that particular way to cheese the achievement, and then cross reference it with the dates various versions of Stellaris came out, so you could roll back to that patch. Not sure why you would, unless you REALLY want that 100%, but the option is there.
Sol probably spawns on the edge of the galaxy because that's where it is IRL.
@@dragonmastergrantno, it’s about halfway between the center and edge
Everytime I try to hunt achievements, something weird happens. My empire becomes The Crisis and I enact EXTERMINATUS upon the galaxy. It's got to be a bug.
i see the rare crystals strat and I'm proposing one easier: loading the ironman save into multiplayer & go into observer mode to check if sol is near & if it is the age you need. Then race for it. You can easily switch from observer to playing and finish your achievements. Also if the save is ironman, multiplayer will not block achievements. One day my brother and his friend helped me eliminate slavery and once the achievement fired for me, each of them loaded my empire to grab it for themselves too. You can't look into Ironman save files because they're encrypted (unless observer mode bypass was the cheating you meant).
I do think the way you did it was more interesting, though, since you actually used base game mechanics to your advantage. Also what I didn't know in ~a thousand hours in this game was that you can disable popup events thank you. my own speedruns are so, so much easier 😂
I want to try and avoid MP shenanigans for now, but may need to use it for the colossus achievement 😂
@@Ep3ogodspeed, still havent earned that one
The closest I've gotten was spawning right next to the Sol system, but as soon as I finished the survey Earth became spacefaring federation builders 😭
Lol, I’m five minutes they go from tying to rip each others eyes out to “let’s all be friends”
i tried getting this achievement multiple times; everytime i got sol III in the machine age, there were no armies, and invading it did not give me the achievement; so i stopped trying
Did you have iron man mode on?
yeah... there was a time when they needed the armies to be there to "represent a invasion during WW2" in this video there were no armies and the achievement popped anyway. guess they changed it
@@Shadow.24772 ah makes sense! I would have been very upset if that happened
@@Ep3o yeah, Ironman was on, pretty much the same settings as you had
@Shadow.24772 yeah, saw that after i wrote the comment; sadly, when i tried this a few months ago, it didn't work; maybe i try again tomorrow
From all PDX games, stellaris achievements are the most random and out of players agency. I love space and I love stellaris and my love for space and its wonders have kept me hooked, but without my love for the unknown space worlds we might explore, I think I might have droped the game by now, and thats how unrewarding games are, where you hope for a certain star to spawn, and it didn't, and you wasted an entire run. You can over rollplay only so ofter over that.
Congrats, you did it. You are super cool. I'm proud. Good job.
We need that spongebob bikini bottom build, a megacorp (with mr krabs) or empire (with posideon) obsessed with the krabby patty (food) as a aquatic toxoid species since they were used for nuclear testing
You could do a lot of things with that, like overturned for rapid mutations, payback origin to get back at those humans for testing their nukes on you, so many fun ideas
3:21 I think you can only make peace with the Space Amoebae if you’re Xenophile or Pacifist (or RS), and since you didn’t get the “learn to co-exist” then I’m assuming you have some other ethics.
~1 hour is comparable for this achievement for when I tried getting 100%. I also did max hyperlanes and scintillating skin, which make it not as bad to search.
I hope you don't get burned out achievement hunting and quit Stellaris like I did.
I know I've found Earth at least once in the middle of WWII but I don't ever play Ironman. I almost always play Human anyway with different origins.
I dont understand the ww2 part as in his play there were no armies on the planet. Is "being in the machine age" enough to count as world war?
I'm the luckest person in the world, because I got this achievment by accident, not knowing about it. Could be better if my luck wasn't only in such useless things
Honestly, I wish there was an event you could intervene in the world war. Soviets, Axis, Allies, or yourself taking over the world.
nailed it
In small maps, looking for Earth would be easier if you always looked for trinary star systems, meaning that it's a chance they are called Alpha Centauri, and the Sol system always has Alpha Centauri within 1 or 2 hyperlane jumps of it on average.
I just tried this, probably never played a game of Stellaris elligable for achivments before, and I got it on my first run in like 20 min lol
Would have been faster if i hadnt messed up my First Contact Protocol settings and had to wait 4 in game years to attack Earth.
i got that achievement without noticing it
just yesterday i thought il start a new save. Du to recent moving i have no internet yet.Thus was not able to start the usual ironmode game.
Neighbor system to home system: Sol
State of Sol: In the middle of ww2
Why paradox
Hey so I dont know much about Stelaris my Dad plays it a bit but I thought you played as the United Nations Hundred of years after you left earth so how can you return to earth during WW2
Developers should add alternative achivement for loosing to the Earth, and than, there should be rare chance for Earth to become a crisis 🙃
Why didn't you reset the timer every time you start a new game? Isn't that the purpose of the speedrun - to reset after a restart?
Humanity nuke there planet into a tomb world…. Serously what?
ohh its that hard to get? oh well got it: 2020-06-15. Any how nice done! =)
i tried this before and always have ironman mode on because sometimes i do get achievemens.
but this always confuses me, do you just invade pre-ftl earth during the machine age and it'll just give you it? i thought there would always be a little notifcation stating that there was a war
Yeah it’s just if they’re in the machine age!
There is indeed a notification, albeit a variation on the usual one.
If you survey Earth when it starts the game in the machine age (and if it hasn't moved onto the atomic age yet), the notification telling you "there's a machine age society on this world" will also add that it is engulfed in a global war.
The war lasts throughout this entire age, but will not start again if Earth leaves and returns to the machine age later.
If only they got addicted to ginger
You can speed up exploring the galaxy by going spiritualist and taking master crafters, so you can build an alloy processing center right away and not worry about unity or consumer goods.
Take the Imperial Fiefdom origin, send an envoy to your overlord to improve relations, then negotiate for shared sensors 60 months in. They'll explore with science ships, as will the other vassals, which will explore the galaxy far faster than your 3 or 4 science ships will.
This woris for more things than just this achievement, such as the worm, finding 4 holy worlds, etc.
Ultra-Achievement hunting is nice on Paradox games. I remember trying to get "On the Rhodes again" in EU4, which is super hard and I did this over the course of a week, with restarting so often, that I don't even know how often I did restart.
Can they exist with Humans also spawning normally?
Nope. Random Sol and UNE cannot coexist, and the CoM force spawns the UNE (not sure what happens if you set one of the other Sol Empires to it, like the Earth Custodianship or the Children of Gaea.)
Being friendly with space amoeba requires xenophile. It'll always show up as an option if you're xenophile. It gives you a project to research instead of doing tech, and that makes you friendly with them.