17:00 "These poor, poor primitive just don't know how to run themselves! And we're here to help. God we're so kind..." *Britsh Empire vibes increasing*

Because the dead sometimes want to conquer the galaxy too! Or something. Also, as I've been saying in the last few videos - Probably the last time I will paste this into the comments as things slowly get back on track haha!: Sorry for the video delays lately, lots of stuff going on in real life - Mother just had surgery which likely won't be the last this year, we may have to move apartments soon due to unforeseen circumstances and a load of other boring and depressing stuff! Should be back into the swing of recording by the end of this week! Thank you all for your patience! Fan Run Discord - discord.com/invite/cUWSMdW

Me: *About to go to bed on a school night* Lathrix, builder of the Skull Throne: "Oh, you fool!"

The species that get macrophaged are doing so on their own accord, that's why people dont hate you, or are willing to do a migration treaty with you, the entire conversion (although heavily favored) is not a slave thing, it's a thing you choose to do.

I love the design of the necrophages ships

Lathrix: *releases yet another fun and entertaining video* Me: *pauses disney movie and watches Lathrix* TFW lathrix turns off the entertainer jobs and then is surprised when the pops cant work them

When he was talking about the new origin, and how it gives you primitive species, I was reminded of the Egyptian God Osiris, and wondered if he was inspired by a long dead empire of which we were a tributary. Just a thought.

"Corporate Death Cults" is a weird way to say the American economy.

8:55 "Maybe we lived in the Ocean to makes us even scarier" ... *lives on a desert Planet*

Necrophage: can’t be a hive mine I know it might be difficult from a coding standpoint but i swear gestalt consciences have seen very little love origins wise

Thank you for the videos, I appreciate your dedication. I really hope your Mother is okay. I know how stressful that can be. My mother was in a bad car accident at the beginning of the year and that was incredibly horrid. I hope everything gets better soon lad.

Lath: I love this ship design! Me, an intellectual who who watched your From the deaths series : Of course you do, THEY'RE POINTY!

"Once every 10 years Nechrophytes are transformed into success" why does this seem like a multi level marketing thing...

My guess is that the "success" infiltrated through parasitism. They then made a nutrient fluid thing, simulating the innards of a host(the fishtank)

YES i wanted to see more from you before I actually played with it and this popped up as I head into work. gonna watch this in my last hour then go home and play!

I’m happy you got out a video of this so fast! I’m also happy things are getting more back on track for you.

Loved the video... Kinda bummed when I remembered that this wasn't a full playthrough! :P You're easily my favorite Stellaris YTer.

Necrophages: who are you? 40k necrons: I am you but stronger

Boom boom, looking forward to a continuation of your panic run and a full playthrough of both of the necrotic styles

Honestly, these Stellaris videos always make my day, keep up the great work, and I'll keep feeding the algorithm as much as I can!

This seems really similar to Meat by Poppy. “Intergalactic savages landed here in 2033, having destroyed three planets before, the star force came to feed.”

I love what you do, no matter the time it takes

Nice to see that you're still uploading videos 😁. I'm here since the good old robocraft times

Lathrix: and as u know, we're the good guys. And so as with the death cult... xD i laughed so much wen u said this xD

Really looking forward to a full playthrough with these new lads

I would name the normal beings "Daniel" and the necrophages "Cooler Daniel"

game: has giant red arrow showing job has number of pops that can work it limited. lathrix: i can not possibly imagine why these guys cant become entertainers

Hey lathirx, i know that the next few videos will probably be about the DLC, but a suggestion for when u get back to stellaris mods are "plentiful traditions" but most importantly "gwen's additional playstyles" this last one is way too much fun. As the name suggest it adds completely new playstyles, like being able to breed space dragon to serve as your fleet, or beeing tiyanki herders it adds mainly civics and origins but i think you're going to love it.

finally the new DLC has arrived and my fav stellaris KZfaqr is straight on it. GO LATH!!

Man, add a splash of illuminated red to those ships and you've got the Shivans from Freespace and Freespace 2.

I've always tried to make an empire similar to the Necromongers, from the movie: Chronicles of Riddick. Now I can! 32:07 - The strike craft sort of look like Dramiel frigates from EVE Online. wiki.eveuniversity.org/Dramiel

I really like the advisor voice.

Awwwww yeaaaah! Looking forward to Lathrix Necrophages.

Entertainer is actually the only specialist job that indentured servitude pops can't be.

coming back to watch this after about 150hrs of the DLC... and that advisor... I thought it was just that she was new.... but she is still my new fav for the game. especialy using the Star trek mod playing as the Borg

Wow I really like the new ship designs and the Advisor voice!

at 14:00 indenture servitude can be any specialist except entertainer, but domestic servant can be, if you don't want purge them, after invading them make them servant for the 10 years of the stellar shock, then once that is over change it to what is your plan with them (resettling 2 necro for your colonists-->administrator

I’m getting this DLC. I love the portraits.

It seems like me and lath have similar taste when it comes to the word “adorable”, never thought I’d see the day lol

Good work. Another entertaining video, a comment to you my good sir and my thanks

"Only in death does Duty end"

In this video, Lathrix teaches us how to turn Failures into Success.

You finally covered it!

25:00 yes. Yes, Authoritarian Necrophages are fantastic for aggressive warfare and production. And blowing through the tradition tree, even when not spiritualist is easy. I'm playing Fanatic Authoritarian/Militarist. My galaxy was *much* nastier than Lath's. (2 Purifiers and a Determined Exterminator, for starters). But it's still been fun. The only things to watch out for are Empire Sprawl and managing Consumer Good output as a Memorialist. Because both necrophytes and Chroniclers gorge on CGs. 38:00 Yes. Yes you can use undead swarms to conquer planets. They accompany my xenomorphs.

Been waiting for this bad boi

I have to agree with shipset. I started yesterday Corporate Death Cult with Gospel of Masses (fanatic spiritualist-egalitirian) and it's so far amazing.

"A faliure is better then a sucses." Lathrix 12,020.

It just came out today Lathrix! xD

i once read a ficcion tale: were we sleep because we have a parasito that evolucionp with us D: i loved the idea xd. And that we died while others species lived hundred of years

How I MIGHT have done undead armies to make them better in their own right... is probably that as long as you win your engagement, you get back ALL your undead soldiers. Something along those lines... Something to make them worth that civic. Heck there are tons of ideas you can go with (for example maybe they are immune to the effect of bombardment, maybe they are free defensive armies you get for just having necro pops making your own planets difficult to defeat, Maybe the building you make them at gives far more amazing bonuses and can upgrade, maybe the civic ALSO unlocks a undead slave type race you can "clone"). . The issue is that there are just so many ways to get soldiers AS good (if not better) than the undead army that don't require you to use up a civic point... and it isn't like having an amazing army was something difficult to pull off (Honestly, you can do the entire game using just base soldiers). The only plus is that they laugh at psionic warriors, but then again I believe machine armies do too.

I dont know if anyone has mentioned it yet but necrophage fanatic purifiers instead of getting the unique building to convert pops every 10 years they get a unique purging option to directly turn other pops into the main species

*OBVIOUSLY* the first full playthrough *needs* to be as Necrony as possible. :P

A new foe approaches!

Necrophage will make great Goa’uld, excited for new mechanics.

I may not have money but I'm gonna buy this because you are very right, this is very metal.

I seriously love those ships. They remind me a bit of the Hive from Destiny (which fits incredibly well)

that colony ship looks so dope

Have you ever done a run where you aim for your main species to live in extreme luxury (like Chemical Bliss or just being of high work rank with a stratified economy) while you enslave every other pop you find? I've bene trying it out on a Gaia planet 1-planet run and it appears to be working so far.

Thanks for the video:) And Lath, why do you stop using tiny outliner mod?

We're gonna need to see that lithoid-necroid run!

Try out the Expanded Stellaris Traits (I think that's what it's called) its got a trait called "Last Children" which gives a minus 200% growth rate mod. It gives the most trait points back out of any of the traits in the mod, costing -8 trait points.

I dont know whether you saw or know it, but the undead armies use energy instead of minerals to create. I don't think it's a big deal, but it is an additional difference. It might be interesting for merchant guild civic focusing on trade value.

Great video

glory to the undead lathrix!

you should try neco lithoids ;) live bonus is crazy :D its like having immortal leaders that can live everywhere :D and with an rapid breading subspezies its amazing

Hello! Excellent gameplays. Can you make a beginner's guide on this v2021 game?

Once mysterious disappearances have happened for over 50 years you'd think the others would catch on.

3:06 Bruh I had to listen to that again. I thought Lath said "Ah fuck no let's go with Jeff"

I'm all for a lithoid necrophage playthrough!

Such a cool origin. And the way you played it is way better than what I did (barbaric despoilers and try to kidnap all the primitives. It takes way too damn long, I'm talking years of bombardment. Invading is much better.)

Necrophages are so much fun to play.

as a necrophage i prefer to be 1 point less materialist as to be able to put 1 point in xenophobe so that i can quickly assimilate trougth the necroid purge (specialy at early on before etablishing contact with other empire so that they aren't aware of my infamy, usualy the 2 primitive world as garante habitable world + 1 civilisation i encounter, then after that as purging would have to negative impact on relation, you might try to shift you governement more toward autoritarian or materialist depending on preference As a slaver/memorialist: i make my necrophage race intelligent and charismatic (and unruly, sedentary, traditional) slavery type servant, living standard academic privilege, that way, as administrator they'll produce extra amenities, well be well suited to do research as specialist (and the memorialist), and can use a part of the enslaved one to supplies the the rest of the amenities without using the building slot, and not much housing either, + 20% happiness from double amenities is easily attained, which make it reasonable to attain 100 stability with the memorialist for the +30%. Also as you point out later, the necrophage -10% on worker which apply to enslaved necro from the slaver don't apply on amenities, (otherwise the -10% is still not much in comparaison to all the bonus slave have) for the prepatent, with some unruly, repugnant, rapid breeder, v.strong, communal, at the start as don't have enought of them vs the number of necros, specialy after purging the 2 primitives world + 1 civ, they mostly only do the primary ressources district job, so i use chattel slavery. But later as i get robot to do those job and as the portion of my population being pre patent increase, i switch them to indentured so that can super artisan/metalurgist/refiner with them. When turning them into indentured, i usualy switch them to social welfare to minimise impact on approval from a concentration of them into a artisan or a metalurgist eucomopolis from their 0,75 political power. To min-max it, you try to uplift and genemodifie a presapient specificly for your specialist ecumenopolis idealy as close as conservative v.strong, communal. The uplifting +10% happiness, and +5% for conservative, make it easier to keep approval high on a indentured heavy ecum, and if you a specific indentured for ecum you can put those on social welfare, and keep the other world indentured to a cheaper standart of living if needed. *** i tend to overthink thing ***

In space no one can smell you rot

The colony ship looks like a deadly seed , I love it

Lithoid+Necrophage+Purifier is so much fun, and very powerful at the same time imo. Any chance making a play through with that？

Awesome fun for Halloween

So slowbreeder is good as it doesn’t apply but fleeting and slow learners are even better for your prepatent species.

I think you should do a necrophage run with the Barbaric Despoilers civic. I don't know if it's good. But it seems on theme.

I realy like the necroids mechanics.

If anyone can think of a movie or TV series in which there was a funny song about undead armies, please list them in the comments. We need dancing skeleton performers, dang it!

Thinking about it, the robot ascension perks are very much a way to beat a necrophage empire - unless they can turn robot pops into themselves as well.

These ships remind me of Vasari ships in Sins of a Solar Empire.

helps out the channel

Honsetly now I'm curious to how the xenomorphs and the necrophage could work... the xeno's was such a fun empire.

that colony ship looks like the Wraith colony ship from stargate atlantis.. who were a necrophage of sorts..

Love the necrophages

Necrophage: keeping planets clean of rotting waste!

Going to say right now that I'd rather see the Necrophage done properly before the Death Cult. You're basically a society of vampires based on the origin blurb (without the usual "sustenance" issues of course). Based on the Necrophyte ascension mechanic, this would be an empire that really wants to colonize and load up worlds to fuel the conversion rate. The primary species would just explode once you started making habitats.

What was the name of that undead race from Riddick again? Necroids remind me of them too

Have you ever thought of playing the New Horizons mod? It's so jam packed full of awesome, it really is.

Undead Living Stone! ...god that'll be fun.

The ships for the necroid expansion look like a mix of necron (40k) and hive (Destiny) ships. I like it

All shall die, that no one need die ever again.

I feel like the undead armies civic should've been baked into both the Death Cult civic and Necrophage origin, you're spending an entire civic slot for just a barely stronger army. If they made it so that the Dread Encampment provided other effects, resources, or bonus' then sure, but as it currently stands I don't see a unique (only allowed 1 per planet) building that only provides about half the research as a tier 1 research building and some more defensive armies as being worth it. You'd have to pick it for Roleplay entirely IMO, it just does not impact gameplay enough to compare to other civic choices.

Undead Armies may suck but the Dread Encampments are pretty good. Research + Naval Capacity is nice.

I'm on Xbox thinking about getting the dlc, which one do you think is the best?

Lithoid necrophage is amazing!

I've enjoyed Necroid necrophage so far. With xenophobic ethic I was able to expand very fast although none of my neighbors liked me. This is both good and bad. The origin is very high maintenance and you sometimes have to make the call whether to use your fleets to attack during a war or abduct pops which can be a tricky balance. I found out the hard way that culture shock really a big pain in the rear. I figured..... Meh. The primitive planet only has three pops left. May as well take the planet now. Those stupid 3 pops were in culture shock forever and even caused a slave revolt. Nothing I couldn't handle militarily but it was an administrative pain in rear.

Every game I have started as Necroid, I would always end up surrounded by either advanced militaristic authoritarian empires that start to hate me and declare war or some other civic but still instant harm relations and war

You kinda sealed the Deal for me with this Gameplay :D And i hope the Butler Patch will let me finish a game for once...damn slow down got me everytime Ah yes i gotta get a paysafe card tomorrow promised my man Aspec some Financial Support :p