Do you know what I like about Jon's playthroughs of strategy type games? Explanations and justifications of why he's done what he's done. So many other playthroughs just go "I've chosen this, that and the other, let's go!" with no reason why, but Jon explains things. And I like that.

RIP Tabby.

Jon, the Tech/Tradition cost slider works the opposite way. If you put it all the way to the right, it takes five times as long for all the empires to progress, and if it all the way to the left, it takes each empire a quarter of what is normally does.

"Spiritualist got a bit better" *FANATIC MATERIALIST INTENSIFIES*

"What's everybody so excited about? We only found alien writing." Oh Jon... Never change

Quick tip for you. If you want a ship to do something while it already has a command (or set of commands), hold "Ctrl+Shift" and click the command, and it will move that command to the top of the list. For example, a science ship that has been told to survey a system, and you want it to survey a habitable world first. Rather than cancelling everything, just hold "Ctrl+Shift" and tell it to survey the planet. It will survey the planet first, and then the rest of the system.

"Let's get these to start as early as possible" Makes endgame start 50 years later than default...

Ooooooh fingers crossed this becomes a series, I miss the Mighty Duck playthrough, Jon's series led to me buying Stellaris😊

The main reason you would prbably want some shields is because it regenerates. To regenerate armour you have to go back to a spaceport and repair it. I think, I haven't played it... unlike some people.

Great video Jon! I can't wait to play this update myself. Thanks for helping introduce me to the new mechanics so I don't have to be confused as all heck when I play.

This was a huge surprise and was not spoiled in any capacity!

DO A NEW PLAYTHROUGH

This actually still stands up as a basic starter guide today, so long as you watch the Megacorp start which explains the district + building slot and pop based economy introduced in 2.2 Le Guin.

You know the whole quasar and environmental hazard things is really interesting, you could make smaller fleets dedicate for combat in those sort of environments. Like special forces.

A very useful video - learnt a lot. Look forward to the series.

Its ok Jon, it wasn't like I was about to start doing homework and stuff

Jon please be psychic so we can have tabby control your mind

I can't thank you enough for this video Jon, I have not been closely following the changes coming in 2.0, and all the posts are 'lots of changes'. The break down of the 'minor' ones is awesome, I know for a fact I would of wondered if the game had bugged when my corvettes where not able to explore

I've never wanted to get home and watch a video this badly. I AM EXCITED.

Spoiler a catapult is the final boss

Last month or so, I started reading the dev diaries out of curiosity just to see what the fuss was about, and I ended up reading all of them about this new version. It was fascinating to try and imagine how all of the systems worked together, more like a scifi novel than a series of charts and lists. It's a different game now, as this episode shows, and I can't wait to see more of it!

Now can we also see the second Orwell game

Between this and the impossible run, I’m subbed, you’re an excellent commentator, but most of all, you play well. You explain systems clearly and concisely, which is far too rare amongst commentators. Thank you for the content

How often will you be posting this series?

Yay! A new Stellaris series! I love Stellaris. And no one stellarises like you stellaris, Jon! Long live the Tabbies!

I love this, I’m going to start a massive game and just have the fun if my life. Great video as well. :D

Looking to get into Stellaris again myself recently as part of an epic long megacampaign I've been doing, from Imperator: Rome through Crusader Kings 3, Europa Universalis 4, Victoria 2, Hearts of Iron 4, and finally Stellaris. I have to say just from the start up here... the change to FTL is still something I kind of dread. The thing is the "Hyperlanes" FTL style has basically been the standard for space 4X games since... well since the early 1990s really. It's been done to death. One of the things that interested me about Stellaris when I first got it was the different FTL types and what that really meant. Like I found the standard pregenerated Terran Lost Colony an interesting concept. They're an aggressive, militaristic, expansionist empire... who has a FTL method with the Wormhole Stations and Drives that is best suited to a defensive play. Because they can't force project anywhere that doesn't have a station in range, requiring them to build in advance of areas they want to go in, and carefully guard it so no one snipes the station to take it out. I haven't played since that change to FTL because I always felt like it was taking options that were incredibly interesting and stripping down to things I've had in gaming since the old Space Empires. Everyone plays by rules I've been using in Space 4X games for literally 25+ years now. Maybe I'll be surprised by the new run I'm doing. But man even that Hyperlane density thing just makes me dread it, with either being far too linear and filled with hardened choke points or far too open to the point where they might as well not even have any sort of lane limits. Imperator: Rome surprised me while playing it. As much as everyone has slagged it as utterly trash I found it a delight to play just a few weeks ago. Irish Empire of Albion shall prevail! In a world where the only organized superpower religions on the map are Gaelic Druidism and Mithraism Hellenism splitting the map in CK3. But only one will get to go to the stars...

I love the Cat Empire with the Human serviles, Stellaris doesn't get better than that.

This new version reminds me a lot of Sins of a Solar Empire, namely that your fleets take a while to get places so you ether have to split up your fleets or invest a lot in defenses.

I need a complete series of this.

Series please Jon, Its what we neeed, its what we want!

You can Ctrl+Shift+Right Click to add orders to the beginning of your queue

You’re advisor sounds kinda like Tali from Mass Effect

You need to play the other Paradox titles, Crusader Kings II, Europa Universalis IV, and Hearts of Iron IV.

I had no idea you were going to be playing this early, I never could have guessed, the only possible way I could have guessed was if someone told me, someone like Claire, but she would never do that right?

You can hear the joy in his voice during the first few words of the introduction! :-D New mini-series :-D

Put all other series on hold and do this! I could watch you play this game forever.

So excited for this! Loved the mighty ducks.

I'm not sure if its meant to be the Tenets of Tabby - as in a doctrine or belief, or its meant to be TeneNts of Tabby and Jons just misspelled it, as in like humans living under the roof of the Tabbys? I'm off to a confusing start haha

This seems to play remarkably similarly to Sins of a Solar Empire now, just with more stuff to do. I can get on board with that.

Jon, when you want to prioritize a planet while surveying you can just start with it. From the galaxy map, "Survey System" starts with the closest planet to the ship's entry point, but from the system view, it'll start with whatever you've right-clicked on. You don't need to first tell it to survey the Tropical planet and then survey the rest.

All this is telling me is that I really need to find the time to sit down and watch any of the Stellaris playlists.

Awesome advise! Thanks!

I started a new game a few days ago. There's one of those cosmic terror world-eating things 3 jumps from home, and about 4 of those random spawn 2-5k enemies between 1 jump from home and 4. My fleets keep trying to auto-pilot through one of them. I'm looking forward to taking those systems when I'm strong enough.

This made my day thank you :)

No Tabby's star? :( I like how you explain your set-up so it makes watching easier. Thank you!

There’s a mod in the Steam Workshop that prodces a map that’s mid-point, between 0.75 and 1. I think that 1.25 vanilla is ideal, though.

Three tips, Jon: 1) If the ideal spot for the planetary capital is covered by a tile blocker, you can colonize the planet, clear the blocker, demolish the reassembled ship shelter, and rebuild it in the ideal location. 2) The bonus from full food storage is based on the food surplus and number of planets growing. With +3 food and 1 planet, you were getting +7% growth. In my current game with +64 food and 13 growing planets, I'm getting +24% growth speed. 3) Growth rate is divided among all species on a planet. With a base rate of 1 and +20% growth rate, your Tabbies were only growing at 0.60/month. The Humans are growing at 0.50/month. Syncretic evolution doesn't give you double growth.

My body is ready for this to be a series

All hail our Feline Overlords. May they knock over every glass cup off every counter in the galaxy!

For some reason I had closed captions on and it thought your name was Jasmine Jones and I'm cool with that.

this guy might be the one youtuber who I can watch play stellaris

This new update/expansion looks so good!

You always start with two close habitable planets its how the empire initializer is setup.

please make this a series !!!

id like to see a way for the devs to counter warp travel, like a tractor beam from a star destroyer but capable of pulling nearby passing ships out of warp traveling to another star if they travel too close to the star they are passing by

Im so happy with the beginning of this series Long Live TABBY.

You seem to be really lucky with planets Jon. I have had several playthroughs in the old version with no fully compatible planets within seven jumps before. Indeed I had one with only red compatibility until five jumps out and that one was a size eight with tile blockers.

Anyone getting sins of a solar empire vibs from the new fleet movement system?

I love that you can hear Jon smiling in the intro

Yeah Clair and Jon and Stellaris Christmas has Come Early

YAY!! I'm so excited!!!!!!!

I was looking forward to this but now I'm not sure. because how they have re done everything I cant play the way I normally play, which is expand quickly and have one large doom fleet and jump drive so I can plan my attack on enemy systems better. although I like the change to recruiting new admirals, scientists etc. but the rest seems I'm unsure about.

Oh god a strategy game that has peaked my interest. Oh no, there goes all my free time.

*thinks within seconds of hearing Jon's voice* "hoo boy! He's excited for this one"

What days will new videos uploaded? I didn't catch if this will be a once a week thing or two.

Thank you so much for uploading this. I'm currently stuck in bed with chicken pox (I'm nearly 30) and you've distracted me from the constant itchy misery :)

Jon, about the randomness of neighboring systems I can attest that they are indeed not so. The game files contain a series of system startups, some of which are for your neighboring systems and they are guaranteed to spawn the same kind as your homeworld. I don't know if this applies to the new gaia world start though.

Anyone got a time stamp for when the tutorial section ends?

Hooray a new Stellaris playthrough! Is this an early access review type build? I don't seem to have the update.

Oh god I'm seeing a bunch of Apocalypse stuff popping up on KZfaq and Twitter and I'm so excited for Thursday. Planning on getting it after the launch stream and getting to grips with the new systems a bit before diving into multiplayer in the evening it's going to be great asdfgagakjfdghakdjfhg

This already looks so good

If this doesn't become a series I'm gonna cry! A video series too, I don't like live streams

_I just read the entire Stellaris TVtropes page and I want to find out _*_moar_*

Wonder when jon is going to bring his benor obsession into this series

I imagine the reason they raised the amount of hyperlanes was because of the slow movement of the fleets, so that it doesn't take too long to get anywhere

one thing: the UI is very small. im watching this on a laptop and i cant read anything

Rewatching this to fill my Stellaris void.

This feels like a better Sins of a Solar Empire. I like it!

YESSSS! I was worried we wouldn't have another strategy game to watch because medieval is coming to an end!

Ive had Doomsday weapons since the release, so it's nice of them to catch up to 1970s scifi

Are you planning on showing up at Paradox CON? Would be great to meet you and discuss strategy games :D

Wow. The first thing you killed in this run was a rock. Never heard that one before lol

You should try the NSC+ mod once it gets updated. Adds so much more depth to wars

I'm sitting 7 feet away from a 42" TV in 1080 and I can just barely read the text onscreen. Are you planning/able to increase the size by any chance?

Something you should know about multiple species - All species on a planet SHARE growth rate, having two doesn't make you grow at double speed, it makes each of them grow slower, proportional to how many of them there are, so for example right off the bat having 4 of each means they each grow at HALF the speed they would if you had just one species.

YES

Three different kinds of hitpoint pools stacked on top of each other? Hyperspace lanes as the only way of interstellar travel with jumpdrives being way up the tech tree? Environmental hazards in systems with more exotic types of stars? Pushing sov by building space stations? This game has become EVE Online - Singleplayer Mode.

Maybe just me but the resolution might be a bit too high - hard to read the things on the screen.

cant leave the thinking to the humans *said the human who controls the tabby lol*

Also Jon Jump drives don't work like that anymore, they're now an emergency jump type of movement, so lets say you need to get your military to the far end of your empire quickly that's the only way you can use it, otherwise it's normal movement.

Does anyone else think that Jon should play hearts of iron 4 with the old world blues mod

How do you get two species in one plant??

you get 2 habital worlds near your starting system

I think I am in love with this game again, all these changes are perfect and makes it feel so much better in my opinion

Jon can you please increase the overlay HUD size? I really cant see stuff like minerals per month etc. without squinting

Jon can you please make the HUD larger? It's slightly smaller than previous and hard to read on phone. Thanks if so.

I can just see some tabby downloading those alien souls into futuristic cat toys, dooming them to being batted around with "accidental" claws for eternity

Isn't Agrarian Idyll still the way to go if you want to max Unity?

I have realised even though I only moderately like or understand stellaris, I was super excited to watch this because I got to hear the spoiler. Claire accidentally performed genius marketing!