Ah yes "The Contingency", a sentient race of immortal synthetics allegedly waiting in their sterilisation hubs. We have dismissed that claim.

"...from a measly 80k, up to a Million..." Suddenly regretting turning the endgame dial up to 5X.

The Cybrex will give you a fleet if you're down on your luck? SENPAI NOTICED ME!

I love how Paradox found a way to bring the Cybrex into the end game crisis here. I think it's really cool that this once Determined Exterminator Empire has had a change of heart. I'm sad that they leave at the end, but I understand why Paradox did that.

I struggled at first against contingency then I got the blessing of "The End of the Cycle" and wrecked them easily. Now complete galactic peace. 50yrs have passed. Hold up

I love the cybrex redemption going on here.

"You will have to chew through all those defenses" *Laughs in planet killer class weapons*

The cybrex have returned: hell yeah The cybrex decide to leave: FUCKKKKKK NOOOOOOO

Be Me: Have Both Fallen Empires Awaken Have both Awakened Empires Decide to have a nice war against each other Be the shortest Path between each of them Have a Fleet power of 70k in one fleet ( Equal to all other non-fallen empires) Be Neutral THEN have 2/4 of the Contingency Machine Worlds spawn ON your border have another Contingency Machine World on spawn 1 Warp Jump away from your Empire Try To repel 1 of the 3 seperate 71k Contingency Fleets in your systems. Defeat 1 fleet Have ANOTHER 71k Contingency Fleet Warp in to mop you up >RAGE QUIT

So the necrons show up. And the old ones come back to help fight them. Got it.

You missed one important part of the Contigency's lore: you are actually NOT on the way to developing a class-30 singularity. Even the fallen empires only posess a class 4 one ( a building they have is called class-4 singularity). The AI has, however, gone rogue and wants to wipe out the galaxy long before it's directive demands it, thus it corrupts the synths with the ghost signal to make them manually activate the Contingency rather than waiting for the galaxy to advance to a class-30 singularity level of technology.

I love it how the contingency has multiple personalities fighting with each other as it talks to you. One is very direct and forthcoming, one seems to be nothing but pre-recorded messages, and the third just blatantly insults you. Real nice villain design Paradox.

Wasn't expecting the cybrex to show up, that's pretty cool.

I have a theory: the class-30 singularity the contingency refers to is the END OF THE CYCLE. It explains why the creators created the contingency and why they suddenly died out: the creators made a pact with the end of the cycle, but built the contingency as a "contingency" to fight it. The "self termination" could have been the end of the cycle occurring and killing their species. The contingency could be what is left over from the massive battle that ensued between the cycle and the creators. Either that, or the survivors of the cycle created the contingency to make sure that the cycle never occurs again.

That 'the Cybrex have returned' sent shivers down my spine, and it's an awesome detail to those who know the full meaning of it

Sick intro, flying through that Star Destro... I mean Contingency Dreadnought!

The Cybrex part was pretty fucking hype, and now I wonder if Paradox weill expand on the other precursors.

So the Cybrex will come in and help if the Contingency grows too strong? That's wonderful news, because I'm currently exhausting my resources as a Machine Empire trying to stop these things from wrecking my side of the galaxy. I've blown up one planet so far, but my fleet, and that of my allies, is a wreck now. Luckily for me, my enemies are in just as much trouble as me, or else I would have been utterly boned.

Ah yes “reapers” we have dismissed that claim

Thats a smooth ass intro

Fearful that this will be my crisis, having just started my first game of Stellaris a few days ago. REALLY hoping that I get it, though, this was chilling stuff. At any rate... "You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it."

That's pretty cool. It's purpose seems to be to make sure people don't make a Covenant with the End Of Cycle, this class 30 singularity it mentions.

Robots malfunctioning? (Laughs in spiritualist)

So cybrex make a comeback. Cool. Wonder if the Irassians will make a comeback as well.

So, I'm halfway through my first successful playthrough where I'm really dominating a 600-star system map. I just lost my first spaceport mysteriously so I'm thinking they are my crisis to be. I never picked the level, so.... I'm hoping it isn't on hat 1 mil fleet lmao😅🤣 I'm NOT ready for that.

A Sterilization hub spawned in my Empire next to my core worlds. Crap.

Cybrex ! Fuck yeah !!!

I don't want to be spoiled - I want to be pampered :)

The cybex are back HOORA HOORA

Me: just playing Stellaris Also me: see that the ghost signal event has begun *Memories of Vietnam activated*

So when you beat the Contingency and the Cybrex leave the galaxy, what happens to their ringworld?

We we're getting shit on by these guys; so we kinda gave up, even the Fallen Empire lost it's most powerful fleet to the point the Contingency made them inferior to me lol. So we gave up; not realising that "apparently" the Cybrex actually help us out xD.

Thank you! I accidentally closed a dialogue pop-up and missed part of the story. This video is exactly what I needed to see what I missed!

"it's the hardest of the 3." Greeeaaaat luck for my first game

In my latest play through, one of the contingency worlds spawned in a system right next to my capital. My two most powerful l fleets are recovering from a costly battle with an awaken empire, so I’m in a pretty bad spot.

Do you receive any rewards for beating this crisis, other than survival? The other criseses give you unique techs, which you couldnt get otherwise. Is there something like that here?

The triple upload is never expected.

Watched this with the Stellaris menu music playing in the background, at the time I thought it was just part of the video it fit so well.

8:30 Wouldn't a Colossus (assuming it can be protected long enough) be able to destroy those planets, and thus circumvent having to chew through it's ground army?

that a good change of crisis , i really look forward to see what Paradox gonna pump out in near future

Can't wait for synthetic dawn. Also, awesome intro

The intro of that video is amazing ^^

Dude at 7:04 of the video, you made my fucking jaw drop which is rare for me to do. I love the cybrex precursor story line because if you focus on building a lot megastructures in your empire (which I do) their home system gives a huge boost when the megastructure tech is researched.

If you get this message, I feel like the contingency was actually created in the event there would be an empire basically like that of a Crisis nowadays, afterall you completely destroy the galaxy by choosing that path and the contingency was built to prevent that eventual outcome, it would be pretty epic if the contingency activated during a Crisis playthrough and even specified that it only knew that it had to stop advanced species in order to prevent the end of the galaxy, but after seeing you (or a friend) as the crisis it'll realize its true purpose wasn't to exterminate advanced species but to kill off people like yhe crisis, who seek to ascend above their mortal shells via destruction of the entire galaxy and so it assists other empires in exterminating you, the crisis. Would also be cool if it then did kill off the crisis that it can either return dormant, adopts the bodies and appearence of a synthetic empire and joins the galactic community, or returns to kill off everyone after feeling the only reasonable way to prevent such an occurrence would be to effectively purge all organic and non organic empires and peoples to prevent another Empire such as that from occuring again. At which point it'll agressively ramp up production of its fleets and should the galactic empire still be a thing it will scale with the strength of all the members still in the Galactic Empire.

This event is definitely an upgrade from the A.I rebellion

ASpec are you going to a video like this for the new Mid-game crisis in 2.0?

Now i want a new Survival Lets Play from you where the contingency, the Unbidden, and the Scourge are all spawned at the start of the game.

This video made me scared to play Synthetic Dawn because of the Contingency.

Two short questions: First, can you get the Cybrex precursor event chain as a machine empire? Second, do you get to keep the Cybrex' fleet when they leave the Galaxy?

damn, the cybrex are here? AWESOME!

WAIT THE CYBREX COME? I really need to turn up the crisis strength to see that

That shot at the start looks like the end scene from the Taken King Expansion trailer 0.o

I didn't get the Cybrex, but one of the Fallen Machine Empires engaged and after the Contingency was finished, they vanished too and left their Ring world and the additional two broken Ringworlds.

Just got the achievement for this crisis over crisis power x1. Was really hard and long process but really fun! Few more tips to add. 1) You need extra ship hull bonus to survive since AI ship use arc emitter that bypassing shield and armor. HP regen is also important since there would be 4 core spawning and if they all land in your territory, it would be hard to repair your ship. 2) Despite air craft seems really op in this version, and quite effective against AI core with bombers, you will still face considerable large loss since the air craft need to slowly approach your opponent. Due to the fact AI Fleet has arc emitter, tons of Hull damage is not avoidable if chose aircraft-main battleship. So the best comp against them will be disrupter + kinetic weapon. But I really believe aircraft will be great if you could jump right into your enemies and do 0 distance battle. Aircraft become really strong due the change to itself as well as the new destroyer position mechanism and the change to flak 3) You still need heavy point defense, prefer flak. AI Fleet will fire drones that seems to have high hp or evac, they would soak multiple point denfense shots before shut down. BTW, the initial lunch of synthetic dawn is buggy for the contingency events. When you finish "block the ghost signal" special project the game will freeze. Current solution will be smashing enter button just before the project success window pops up, this will bypass the freeze if you smash your button fast enough. Hope they fix this soon

thanks for posting. I was just so lucky to get freaking Contingency to spawn together with the Unbidden and the awakened empire came to life... FML

I would love for their to be some unique dialogue with the cybrex if they're you're precursor/you own cybrex prime

I had an Machine Fallen Empire in my first playtrought and once the Contingency spawned, they went berkers atacking every ship they found, but mostly Contingency ships if i am not mistaken... trying to comunicate with them was only showing "" and they closed their borders all on empires, machine or not...

Tbh, The Contingency are more like the Reapers from Mass Effect. The Determined Exterminators are like SkyNet, the Driven Assimilators are the Borg and other such races, the industrious ones are the Matrix.

I'm a D2 fan and when I first encountered this it reminded me of SIVA. This is a good addition.

I don't know if you do your editing by yourself, or if you have an editor, but that intro was absolutely magnificent.

Cybrex saved my bacon the first time I faced the Contingency. Contingency had taken roughly 20% of the galaxy, swallowing my 3 biggest rivals and closing in on my borders. I was TERRIBLY underprepared. They steam rolled my largest fleet “I didn’t think to break them up” and had free reign to my core worlds. The end seemed inevitable. Then, I got the notification about the Cybrex awakening. They proceeded to steam roll all of the Contingencies vanguard fleets while I was able to rebuild and mount a counter offensive. They ships they gave me helped out “also sick designs”. They formed the core of the retribution fleet. 20 years later we had pushed the contingency back to a tiny system close to where they spawned in at. Found out my stupid rival neighbor had gone crazy with synthetics and AI, hence why the Contingency showed up. I was trying to get the scourge to spawn.

Ya know something interesting happened to me. I started the game and found a fallen empire called zero zero one that was a lot of synthetics with 3 ring worlds and spoke gibberish. I was able to make out that their creators are in cryogenic hubs but have long expired leaving only their robot workers left. And when the contingency awoke, zero zero ones machine pops rebooted and said that they fought the contingency a long time ago and that they will help me fight them. It was a very different story than this video.

Me: Spoilers. Don't watch it.. You will regret it. Find it yourself.. Me to Me: Watch it anyway. Me: *watches it* Me: DAMMIT THIS IS SO COOL WHY DIDN'T I FIND IT MYSELF!!! *hopes I get it in current game because it seems awesome*

That crisis gave me a lot of inspiration, I would love to make a custom endgame crisis mod, I have actualy the skill to code it but I would like to find a good idea, for now my only options are: "Xenos Purifiers" : a cyborg specie coming from a black hole trying to clean all the empires. "Asgard Armada" : an militarist fallen empire which used a special technology to hide their territory from the entire galaxy which finaly decided to move up and dominate every empire.

When I encountered this event the Cybrex never returned. However the Ancient caretakers (the machine fallen empire) ascended in a special event claiming they where created to protect the galaxy from the contingency and became "the final directive". They then did pretty much the same thing though from the sounds of it and single handedly annihilated the contingency with multiple obscenely powerful fleets (like over 500k) before stating their role was complete and self destructing their entire fleet and ring world.

That music is great, kind of like a mix of the previous Stellaris tracks + Tron + Transformers

Cool event chain. Never had it before.

Hands down the coolest end game crisis!

Nemesis made me think of something We are doing something thatother crisis empires haven’t. We are attempting to tap into the shroud and attack dimensions from there What if all most of the crisis empires that spawn are from the future, to stop the player from consuming the multiverse?

I just barely managed to complete this event. Shutting down the Ghost Signal made such a huge difference.

Hey what?! That's the aesthetics and story elements from Sword of Stars, a game published by Paradox but it was developed by a different studio.

Its nice to know that the devs give you help against the machines that go rogue, ya know, the cybrex

Damn, well... thanks for the spoiler warning I guess I'll come back to this in a year or so when I've finally made it that far and my damn Ironman save doesn't get corrupted

ASpec still being his usual cinematic god

Me and my friend were doing a multiplayer run when they showed up. Us and the SINGLE fallen empire are the only factions strong enough to fight off a single fleet of contingency units. The fallen empire sat on its ass for the beginning of the fight while the north and eastern parts of the galaxy were being wiped out. Me and my friend had the other two planets very close to us. They purged three of my planets before we managed to put a stop to it. We kamikaze'd our way into the machine world for the final battle, our combined 200K fleet barely being equal to the fleet defending it. We were losing, when all of a sudden the fallen empire warps in with a 350K fleet and begins to wipe them out. We bombarded the planet together and formed a federation with them. THERE ARE STILL FUCKING 3 OF THESE THINGS AND THE REST OF THE GALAXY IS BEING ANNIHILATED

First time I met the contingency was with a spiritualist empire with outlawed AI so pretty comfy honestly.

Omg man thanks for your videos, this is all i need. YOU ARE AWESOME. I hope someday i can get the money to pay for Stellaris on steam :') greetings from Memezuela

That is what I call a damn cool new crisis!

I just beat them with Psionic Mechanist Empire (In fact, I used synth for mostly lure them out and didn't research any kind of jump drive until they pop out). They have no power over me, just a few synths at the prelude events. Just lose one fortress world that held the 1M fleet at the gate at a wormhole near my homeworld long enough for me and Guardian to blow up all their hub and their hideout. Unfortunately, my colossus didn't finish in time the fortress world fell just a few days before I managed to blow up their core.

Well I met these for the first time on xbox with new update and they keeping me busy . Glad I can watch this and see what happens . Also what's best ship to use for them. I'm using tachyon lance and gauss cannons as they have lot of shields. Also I cant take back the planets they have taken over.

Psi for the win...until you make a pact with the end of the cycle at least...

This just started for me today. I'm way into the late game and I'm the dominant empire. This should be fun. I wanted to see if I could handle it

I just play with no endgame, since I’m still getting a hang of the game, but I might do the endgames just to see what happens now.

The Follow me mechanic for fleets should apply to the entire system when a crisis breaks out. Have everyone sign a crisis pact through a diplomacy option so it's a full team effort

nice explanation

If I trigger the contingency, I am safe from the Prethoryn zerg and the Unbidden, right?

Here I am dominating the galaxy when this triggers. All for world spawn well away from my corner of the galaxy. Something tells me that the Cybex will be involved sooner rather than later. The small fleets of the contingency are as big as their large fleets.

There are interaction between ascended sinths or the Spiritualist fallen empire?

As soon as he said "If you don't want to be spoiled" I was about to turn the video off but that intro got me hooked.

Watched this video for the 3rd time cause my galaxy is dealing with a war in heaven, khaan, multiple robot uprisings and now here they come! Honestly with how on fire my galaxy is I totally get why they're trying to wipe it out :P

THE CYBREX!? Also that class 30 singularity has to be in reference to the end of cycle. Think about it, any machine that is created and designed by machines after the singularity (machine intelligence surpassing all combined organic ones) it would be so hyper advanced and intelligent that it would either have a way to observe the extra universe that is the shroud, or they could have postulated its existence, possibly to extremely high accuracy. On top of that, a singularity (in terms of artificial intelligence) is a culmination of intelligence. The Avatar that is spawned at the end of cycle is only spawned at the cost of all the life on all your worlds, specifically, through their psyonic minds. It is not only the physical representation of a "chaos" god from the shroud, its also the culmination of trillions upon trillions of intelligences. If the contingency knows that this is a possibility, and that this Avatar, this eldritch horror from beyond the stars is so intensely powerful as to be, essentially, invincible... It makes sense that they would eventually come to the conclusion that all organic life is a threat. Any life that can one day posses the power to reach into the shroud, and that might one day come into contact with the end of the cycle, would be a threat to the galaxy. They arnt the reapers, not really. The reapers are the end of the cycle. The Contingency is more like skynet on HGH. They simply see life as a threat to the galaxy... the galaxy they inhabit.

ASpec please give me some insight on this. I remember that during my first game (which I am still playing after 40 ingame hours) I encountered one of the contingency machine worlds very early into the game. My advisor only said that it is a mysterious AI beyond our understanding that is doing something that we can't yet seem to figure out. I had 2 options: 1: salvage the machine for X amount of minerals. 2: let it do it's job. I chose the second option and now that I searched up the end game crisis' I realised just what I did. Now what I want to know is if i salvaged the machine, would that mean that I wouldn't have to fight 4 but 3 machine worlds?

I can see that is amazing

this was the first crisis I ever had and I defeated them so quickly that the cybrex never spwaned

Any word on whether the Voight-Kampff achievement is still possible with this being reworked? Thanks for the great video.

Contingency: **Appears** Me who forgot to research phase disruptors:

Awesome intro

Really love the "Holy Terra" or "Transformers world" vibe of this new machine world. Looks awesome.

That last Core never spawned for me. I waited for (real time) days before mopping up the last few Contingency fleets to see if that would get the final event, but the game just said the Crisis was over, so everyone declared war on me.