+Ryan Harris to what?

+Ryan Harris Where is the reference from?

+ArkantosNilsson Councilor Sparatus (Mass Effect 2 "ah, yes, 'Reapers' ")

+Yogev Reznik Basically a massive race of robots is about to commit genocide on the galaxy and the different race's leaders don't do anything about it.

+Yogev Reznik ME2 Turian Councilor: Ah yes Reapers...we have dismissed that theory. ME3 Turian Councilor: SHEPARD THE REAPERS ARE ATTACKING MY PLANET!!! Shepard: Ah yes 'Reapers' a race of sentient intelligent machines allegedly waiting in dark space. I have dismissed that claim *disconnects Councilor* *puts on sunglasses* YEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHH

+ThePeacemaker848 What is the Big Blue Blob?

Marix54888 I was thinking Sweden. You know, because bias.

+NavidIsANoob Paradox is not biased towards Sweden, play CK2/EU4/HOI and see for yourself.

+Erc888 Sweden is not overpowered

ThePeacemaker848 but what about Prussian space marines

+hathejoker Space France

+hathejoker Someone call in the Goonswarm!!

+Daniel Birath >Goonswarm AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :')

+Daniel Birath Goons will come. They must come.

+Rodrick Anthar Goonswarm are practically on life support right now lol

+Scott Sparkman I think they were a fallen empire since they started at that size.

Lol. I didn't know.

Scott Sparkman Yeah, I didn't notice at first, but when I saw all the comments I looked again and was like "oh, that makes sense."

I CAN FEEL THE WARP OVERTAKING ME.

+Goraka91 MUGANI? HAK HAK HAK!

+Goraka91 IT IS A GOOD PAIN

+Brother Choronzon THRONE EMPEROR, YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO ME!

which sucks when you are one of the first to take on the extradimensional threat and you are outclassed by several of the normal threats on the board. expecially now that i am fighting down the hoard with a top ship of cruisers.

+Jacob Conrad Unsullied

Beaten to death by producers who think they can rewrite a masterpiece.

i dunno, those meshben fellas seemed pretty tough

*UN*

its just like the borg

Reapers

fought them, and... if you react quickly, they arent much of a threat

+FenrirAsgardwolf the AI and diplomacy need massive improvements. I just vassalize everyone, maybe have one or two strong allies but federations are so weak compared too alliances with vassals. I.e when federations liberate nations they should join the federation and the federation controller should not be on rotation, it should be the strongest nation or human players and everyone should pay for the upkeep so that small nations don't disband the federation fleet because they can't pay for it's upkeep. And wars should still be dependent on majority vote.

Well said Jim

+Chris Tater Unbiddens only goal is to destroy the entire galaxy, they are extra dimensional beings who occur due to the tearing of space from the use of a ftl jump drive.

romipunz I bet there are players in the game who exist only to use the jump drive in multiplayer to fuck everyone over. Can they be stopped?

Chris Tater yea you can fight them and defeat them but its tough.

Már itt is?

France

+SnowToad Fun fact, that is actually a viable strategy, as the color blue causes us to be more passive and think for the long term, whereas more aggressive red colors make you angry and whatnot

+Nayrisian The Unbidden are not a normal AI player, but one of the late-game threats. Like Reapers or someshit.

+Norpal They are basically demons from other dimension or something

+ShadowoftheMask So Chaos Deamons, mental note, do not invest in Jump Drives and wipe out anyone stupid enough to do so.

+SnowToad The blue wheat stalks that summoned the Unbidden and got eaten would beg to differ.

+Jim K Okay so the "liberation" force turned out to be murdering slavers, but we could try to take back our liberty with this brand new super virus!

+Erick V just like the council races in mass effect, "Reapers you say?, wheres the evidence?" mass effect 2, "ok so there was a reaper, but there couldn't be more, so we're gonna do nothing until its too late." mass effect 3 "we are gonna fight this mechanical menace individually and not help each other, until a sexy human brings us together and we all save the day."

+NecroFelix247 Well yes, all the other species are totally tsundere for humans, the entire mass effect series is just a cleverly disguised harem anime.

+Several Large Pumpkins It's harem anime on several levels ^^

I'd challenge that with either "I have a better idea, let's all ascend to pure psionic forms. Nothing can possible go wrong with that!" Or "Let's call for help from outside the galaxy, surely there's someone friendly who can reach us!"

+Aaron MK God... And to think that just a few months ago, I would have been like all those other people out there who don't get the joke... Horrifying...

As a french I can say that you just discovered our deepest secret!

Why is it ALWAYS BLUE?!

achievement get: I am become France, destroyer of worlds. ----------------->successfully spawn the Unbidden

+Joshua M suck it RED

+Justin Rice Game over, man. Game over.

+Justin Rice We all knew the shit was about to explode with all the civs at that small of an area

+Justin Rice we need shepard XD

Shepard cannot defeat the Unbidden. The Reapers are one thing, but the Unbidden are something entirely different.

+BrotherGodhand but mashben homeworlds could possibly since they are a fallen empire

+Filipe Barroso They call it a donut where I come from

+JStank Unbidden even sounds like an alliance name.

+lethrington They are actually energy beings that have a chance to come trough a tear in the fabric of reality when someone uses the experimental jump drives, a very fast type of ftl travel. What's close to the reapers are the extra-galactical invaders who are very similar to the tyranids.

+Insertnamehere188 the galaxy's doomed

+Calder Hall not unless we have a captain Sheppard to save the day! Oh shi~ wrong universe! :D

+Stalker Von Neuman Judging by how far they are spreading, I say its a bit to late for that.

+TriHeldan well, if we will clone an army of captain Sheppards I think it is possible to pull it off...

+Mr2000V it wasnt a civil war they used an ftl drive and ripped open a portal into another dimension when this happend to me i was humans and i had become like the empire in 40k and these fcks where tough to beat even with almost the whole galaxy under my command

+cleverslim T that's sounds fucking amazing. Even though it was hard I bet it was the funnest thing ever.

SkyNet ya and the longer they are out the more that show up and they fight eat each other which was how i managed to beat em

+BoydofZINJ Because it expanded so quickly

+BoydofZINJ Its a group of extra dimensional beings that occur when a ftl jump drive tears hole in space. Obviously one of the civilizations had a ftl jump drive and used it creating a hole that the unbidden came through. The unbiddens only goal is to essentially kill everyone in the galaxy.

+romipunz Can you even defeat them?

+Master Hiei Yes you can kill the unbidden, but due to the AIs ignoring them it has to be you. They dont start on the map since they enter the game when someone hits a specific tech

Master Hiei they are tough but yes they are beatable.

+Milan Pavlovic god damn, just got wiped by them.. should have taken the clues more seriously

+Milan Pavlovic we need shepard and his/her crew XD

David Do Hell.. Any way that you "make peace" with them even if you are pacifist race or they don't give a fuck? A separation is about to happen in one of my sector so I am wondering what else to expect...

+Milan Pavlovic No they are not interested in peace, they are here to kill everything.

+halo97423 This game need a mod to make mechanic spices and/or a mod to bring ME trilogy stuff like the reapers 😍😌

+Fireiy "Ah yes the 'Unbidden' we've all heard so much about..."

+blahblahghost Kek, Council, lol.

+disgaeachic Let them fight!

+disgaeachic ai uprising is a thing, so , I suppose yes.

only one crisis can occur per game :(

+Duhad ALL HAIL THE UNBIDDEN OVERLORDS!!!!!

+Duhad we need shepard XD

i read that in Kent Brockmann voice

Maybe the reapers

+EyeMaze The game's AI treats them as if they don't exist. IT'S A FEATURE

+Remi Maloney Fallen Empires do not rebuild. Once they lose a ship - its gone.. forever.

Ohhh... suddenly, the Minbari's obsession over losing the Trigati makes a LOT more sense..

hey I got this game on the phone which does this basically its called galimutor

+BoydofZINJ I think Fallen Empires are be awoken under unique conditions and can become a galactic threat.

+Remi Maloney The Minbari aren't a Fallen Empire. That would be the Vorlons and Shadows, I guess.

+BritishHistoryGuy And if you say "Undbidden" very fast, it sounds like... Sweden! Conspiracy uncovered!

... You can't beat the Drej, NO-ONE CAN! They're pure energy!

MAKE IDIOT AI's GREAT AGAIN

+GameGabster If viewers are your prime metric, your heart is in the wrong place. Do what you enjoy.

+DDRJake well knowing what you enjoy doing is viewed and liked ir would most likely make you enjoy it even more right?

Views are a metric for income though. Even if I love making videos, more views means I can make more videos. (As I am sure you know)

+DDRJake I have done what *I* enjoy for the past 10 years on youtube. I have less than 300 subscribers.

+Zeithri #Feels

+Eisvisage I wonder how long the South fought between each other before the Unbidden became too much of a threat.

+Eisvisage Love to create the Federation of Biological Life to stand up against the Unbidden.

Dimitri Goryenko I wonder what the Unbidden are actually *doing* Do they conquer every planet, spread a zombie virus, or do they simply eradicate all life?

+Eisvisage They are a race of energy beings form an other dimension that absorbs life. Quite pleasant folk really...

+agidyne967 I got lucky and they spawned outside my huge empire. So i was able to jump in and pop the wh before they got to big. The only problem is i keep seeing you can get a new ftl from them that is awesome but all i got was some denominational death ray :(

+agidyne967 Bruh, if my 5k stack with a few ally stacks could fight off a 24k FE stack with vastly inferior power _and_ technology, anything is possible.

Try that solo, because I knew about the crazy stacks the CPU like to put my computer through.

You certainly don't want to end up like the Bartarains.

+AnAutisticTeen The Emperor protects.

That he does. But those were xenos, so fuck 'em.

+AnAutisticTeen Must be the Eldar earlier in their evolution when they reproduced like space rabbits :D

+Nikolaus Sonninen when were they space rabbits? They merely inherited the universe from the old ones

+eli odum I believe I read that something like before and after the war against necrontyr and c'tans when they were the dominand species in the galaxy or something. But now they barely reproduce because of bad evolution/genes or something like that :D I know, I can't 100% remember the facts.

LOL

they are more Like the Reapers.

+GtfoGoogle Not exactly. Just create a federation/alliance (The AI could very well have a large alliance in this video. But we have no way of knowing) and prepare to combat them when the time comes. Also it would be be a stupid move by the AI on the other side of the galaxy to sail their troops for a year to fight the unbidden. Who knows what their neighbors might try to do. And the southern part of the galaxy seemed to be quite weak and divided anyway.

+NaniSore Have you read the Dev Diaries on these events? You can't take your sweet time and let them fester. They get WORSE over time. They took the robot revolution as an example and how either you deal with them early, or they're going to go out of hand and effectively crush you. Also the Star Hegemony (brown Empire) was about as big as the ones on top, they were overrun quick quickly. If you look at the lower red Empire, they also extended quite a ways up which you can see at their sigil moving as the Unbidden driving them back making them as big as the upper red Empire. So forming a federation/Alliance is great and dandy, it wont help you when they already crossed the treshold of snowballing out of control and will simply keep growing stronger as you at best stall them much less push them back.

+GtfoGoogle I think its fair that AI nearing ground zero fail to the disasters frequently.

+Will Ferrous Oh I don't disagree. The AI shouldn't really be able to deal with it. The issue I have is, imagine you're all the way in the North or North West. You couldn't really get to this to deal with it before it snowballs out of control. That's my problem.

GtfoGoogle That is a valid concern, though i honestly think the spread isn't as fast once it hit a certain size. It seems all the mechanisms that limits a normal empire to grow is also holding the menace back. (Also, federation)

Actually, these are not the HAK HAK things. These are extra dimensional beings, not extra galactic invaders.

+Frank Fish Implying extra-dimensional beings can't also HAK HAK HAK. Check your four-dimensional privilege.

+Frank Fish [...Food Intensifies] just didn't have the same ring to it, sorry.

the problem is if the AI uses it

+Legatus Flagrans y?

+Izzder The research is the dangerous part.

At least 100 years must have passed since game start. 2000 year MTTH for each empire with no jump drive technology (Jump Drive or Psi Jump Drive). 200 year MTTH for each empire with one jump drive technology. 20 year MTTH for each empire with both jump drive technologies. 20% less time if empire has completed Wanderlust event chain. From stellaris wiki. The research is the danger, not the usage.

Saw "Research Sentient AI" pop up as a research option the other day. Said "Oh hell no!" and chose a different option

+Moskitgp Very likely, by using a console command to spectate, like in many other Paradox games (ie: Europa Universalis IV you use the command 'observe'.)

+Moskitgp They actually said on they're multiplayer livestream that there is a button to play as an observer, so you shouldnt have to use console commands

+taocosta123 Thank you very much!

Praetorian HiJynx the song is called faster than light. it's one of the songs in the game that plays. I love it and can't get enough if it.

+Gabriel Grey do you remember ftl? because i do

I'm supposed to be conquering the galaxy but this one unbidden keeps kicking my ass

fallen empires dont expand and generally ignore the rest of the galaxy unless you piss em off, then they come kill you

+Lewis Carlin Perhaps most of the AI are set to advance start and high difficulty, maybe.

Robert Clark I suppose it could be highly random as well, could be 100 year periods from which they can trigger, but I see it as being reasonably easy to edit if its my preference. My preference is for a fairly slow start with lots of exploration and colonisation before I even meet another Empire.

+Lewis Carlin Something you also gotta keep in mind is that you get research from planets. There's always the chance that this was just a really high research galaxy.

+Lewis Carlin Considering it's a day by day Grand Strategy 4X, if you were to actually sit down and play it would likely end up being a 'late-game threat' after at least 8 hours, judging by the Blorg stream and the fact that they've had no late game threats yet, and this game which is in a smaller galaxy. It's also pretty certain that it's designed to be random; I'm guessing some empires are advanced enough to fight back, but there's a lot of new or rebel empires that spawned halfway through. Just like CK2 and EU4, if you're planning to play as optimal as possible and you know every mechanic in and out you could easily crush them. But luck of the draw with tech, with random planets with random events and random resources? There's never a guarantee when you start what you'll end up with.

+Lewis Carlin Tech is semi random. Someone could have drawn the jump drive tech really early. You probably wont get end game disasters until 15-25 hours in.

+Marqan Just finished the book end of last month. It's so much starship troopers :-D

you need population

unbidden every time, though.

Unbidden would probably win every time they are basically space nazis and there only goal is to destroy all life and different races around them.

Any endgame crisis GGs.

Pre 1.1.0, end game crises always exterminate the galaxy because the AI ignores them due to a bug.

+fourthspartan56 ...and now I want this game even more.

+WolfyMcMarmalade Only goes for 200 years. Though it's a day counter, so it feels a LOT longer.