I like how the stranded Admiral is so badass that even a machine empire dedicated to eradicating all organic life makes an exception and lets him join their side.

Admiral: I have won countless battles Lath: OK Admiral: And I commited many war crimes! Lath: Welcome aboard Admiral!

"Sometimes a pretty thing should be shot at" -Lathrix, February 22, 2019.

"Is this a Gaia World? It's a Gaia Moon... *It will be harvested.*" Best line from the Video

I love how the empire that stops the scourge and saves the galaxy is the one that is supposed to be consuming it

You didn't take the scourge as pets! AGAIN!

"Cryo Pod" is short for Cryogenic, as in Frozen Stasis Pods. Not Crypto, as in Cryptocurrency. You destroyed their Beds basically.

lol that lone admiral is literally saren from mass effect, fighting with the reapers.

The Stellaris wiki is a really useful source of info, and it does seem that you are correct, the strategic coordination centre does, in fact, give a 150 fleet cap increase, a 15% sublight speed and an increase in starbase cap as well. It also adds more defence platforms (possibly) per star base, which would be quite useful in defence.

*Hears worker voice* THE ROBOTS ARE COMMUNIST! *USSR ANTHEM PLAYS*

After the scourge has been defeated, the galaxy lives in joy. Until Rocky returns to routine and the Core harvests them all.

I would suggest using the mod for the AI, because no matter how early you make the end game crisis appear, all regular empires will be just as pathetic. And if it will spawn at the other side of the galaxy, it will chew through all of the AI without any effort and snowball to the point where it is impossible to stop untill you own more then half of the galaxy. Or at least I expect it to happen that way.

I absolutely think you should use a mod to improve the AI for future playthroughs. It would be a lot more fun to watch if the ai actually posed some threat

So, I guess you could say first contact with other empires was a bit of a "Rocky" start... :D

You might or might not see this Lathrix. But an easier way to see the resources in every system is to hit the alt key instead of manually hovering over an individual system.

You can have friends as a purifier, as long as they belong to the same species. If someone takes a few of your planets in a containment war and those planets breaak off from his Empire with your species being their dominant one, you can pick up normal relations to them

Loved the play through. It’s the first time I’ve seen a crisis event. Thanks for all the editing!

Great vids mate always fun to watch

"Sometimes a pretty thing should be shot at" -Lathland Brilliant and totally quoteable.

Love this series

I love the idea of the apathetic exterminators. "We'll destroy you all, maybe, later, if we feel like it"

does anybody else find it weird that the fallen empire admiral is the only organic in the entire empire

Love your series lathrix, keep it going

Glad you're still doing these, and you're not afraid to experiment! Your electric firing bug zappers were a cool and satisfying idea to see; but seconding a call for mods, maybe more so when you feel like you're tapped on new Le Guin vanilla runs! Aspec's channel has some good suggestions for cosmetics and basic improvements.

I'm playing purifiers that start on a tomb world with a raiding perk, so I steal all the pops for the unity and resources, then bombard the planet so I can live on it and most other empires can't. It was actually fun, you should try it.

Yo Lathrix,been here since From The Depths Season 2 and been loving your stuff since then.It'd be amazing watching you play around with the Gigastructured mod and I can assure you that playing with it you'll have a blast making everything and using it to carve through the Galaxy for the Dark Gods

Very thematic for you to fight the Scourge and have all your ships set up as bug zappers.

Is your fiance cutting a tree or using the blender? Seriously, I can't tell! (And knowing you, it could be both)

Love these styles of vids. Nice necron build too haha

Love your work ❤️

I dont know why but I love the term Hemorrhaging .

Great work. As always.

as far as im aware your entire navy could be stopped by... Idk a thin wall of rubber?

Thanks Buddy. Learned a lot about DE!

1:02:30 I don't know if you're aware, but if you left-click on a wormhole icon on the galaxy map, it takes you to its paired wormhole. I realise I'm three months late, but I'm still enjoying this playthrough. Edit: And two minutes later you do it. Never mind me!

Yay More Lath! >O

I like that one guys idea of having all the empires you've made and pit them against each other, and you play your favorite one or something along those lines

Yaay! been waiting for this one for a while

What a great way to start the week end.

The machine worlds look great, but I have to say that the mod devs of gigastructural engineering have created beautiful worlds and structures. I’ve been messing around with the creative mode for the last few days, and I’ve been loving the aesthetics of the mod.

I seriously thought when you were talking about taking the L-Gate systems that you were gonna say "It's like free real estate." As an aside one of my favorite tactics with the L-Gate system is to use it as a sort of "last bastion" for my species by making Ring Worlds in all systems that don't have nanite resources, a sort of backup in case I get jumped by an End Game crisis inside my own territory.

That's it, you've inspired me to give Stellar a go. Cheers, Lathrix

Just watching the start is making me want to watch it even more

This is a bit late, but I did the math for which is better against the scourge, the torpedoes or the cloud weapons, and the result is that as long as the (unshielded) enemy ship's armor is less than 5 times bigger than its hull, torpedoes are better (not accounting for range, evasion or flak shooting down the torpedoes). With the scourge ships' armor being about twice their hull the torpedoes are about twice as effective in terms of raw damage, and given that the range of torpedoes is better and the scourge has no point defences I'd say the torpedoes would've been bettter pick

looking forwards to falling asleep on the couch watching this tonight. Had to click it now to like it though.

@Lathland, If a scientist has a specialization, he will research that specialization faster AND make it more likely that the research type will come up. You had a logistics bot researching and waited half the game for and Industrial Tech. Next time get an Industrial Bot for your engineering research.

This "worker" or whatever voice sounds like HK-47 from star wars Knights of the old Republic fused with the battle cruiser capitain from starcraft 2

"I just wanna shoot at it you know, sometimes at pretty things should be shot at" -Lathrix 22/02/2019

For my Exterminators, i'm using introspective, the Engineering space station and the replicators from each conquered world quickly add up.

Cloud lightning battleships are some of my favorite ships. A great hard counter

1:16:55 I think the fire control only increases accuracy, and since it's already at 100% it has no effect. Edit: Yeah you should absolutely get the Glavius AI mod. Better AI also improves sectors so you can maybe turn over some of the micromanaging to your governors in the late game. I always go Tall so I've never done that but with how many planets you had I'm shocked you did it all manually.

I like this, I would not argue if you did more.

"Sometimes a pretty thing should be shot at" -Lathrix 2019

Thanks Lathrix! I'm not intelligent enough to play Stellaris but I can at least enjoy this wonderful game by watching you playing it!

By the end you were so ridiculously strong, you could've declared war on the entire galaxy, and dedicated but a single fleet to each empire and still win.

That +100% Shield and Armor Penetration really makes short work of the fallen empires! Also, unleashing the nanites from the L-Gates while playing as killer robots.. seems fitting somehow. :-)

If you bild the stratigic coordinations center normaly it will show you wich bonuses it will give you. in your case it seems like it's bugged, probably because it was a repaird one and not manuly build.Enertaining vidoe, allways a joy to watch :)

I feel like the Extermined Determinator playthroughs result in ridiculously powerful empires but are also still really interesting, expecially with Lath's Lathness

The Way you went to the awakened Empire reminded me of the Geißel from Warcraft 3^^

Hey, Lathrix, have you considered playing with the gigastructures mod? I’ve played it a lot and it is super fun!

Basically, what if the Chariot Line from Horizon: Zero Dawn discovered space travel.

"Hopefully 2 hours or less..." bro it's great to see and hear all the nuances, and these take days to do. Insane to condense 3 days or game time to under 2 hours

Funny thing is, I might yoink this build for my version of the Tekunin

If you hover over the mega-structure in the construction ship menu it will tell you what it produces at each stage

Well, "Sometimes a pretty thing should be shot at."

I think you should definitely use the improved AI mod to help with the challenge. Plus any other mods you think would make it more fun. I really enjoy your play throughs of this game.

To demolish, you can push Delete and enter to speed up the process Also as a machine empire, use Habitats to replace your mining stations, with a Martial Law habitat with the mining job thing, and the unity building, you can get upwards of 200 minerals per habitat... and about 100+ fleet capacity

Live watching your games, has helped me so much. I don’t feel like I’m good at the game, because I only play on Normal/Ensign, no bonus to them. But what I find hardest is the difference to Sectors. Unless I manually put resources in, that I can’t ever get out again, they won’t self develop. But they will, even without a Governor. I just don’t see any point to giving them Energy, they don’t clear blockers.

amazing, never seen a leviathan hatching before

I love his reaction to the orbital bombardment @38:13 just glorious cause I'd react the same way 😂

In one of my playthroughs, I had +280 armor bonus! With everything else to match of course. I just enter a system and it's mine because there was a titan pre fleet total of 14 fleets each 100k and with the offensive aura to give -230% fire rate to all enemies!!!

Me: playing at home as a hive mind Lathrix: hey! Watch this to not be bored 😁 Me: sure, but if I’m still bored it’s your head Video: drivin exterminators Me: YES FUN!

You can use the delete key, to demolish buildings. Just click the building, and hit delete, then enter to confirm, or left click confirm.

I just startet the same civ. The same civic picks, the same species traits, Only diferent names and galaxies. XD

Determined Exterminators VS Devouring Swarm VS Fanatic Purifiers

I like how when most people get bored, they watch a movie or occupy themself in some way. However, when Lathland gets bored, he conquers a universe in two days.

Fanatic purifier can have allies. It's just not gonna happen without force spawning customs cause it has to register as same race. Meaning species name and portrait.

I am playing through with DE right now too on GA. I think my settings could be challenging for you. 600 stars, 18 AI, 18 advanced starts, GA, crisis strength 10x, midgame 2275 and endgame 2350. I use glavius AI too, so early to midgame, AI is playing very well actually.

Determined Exterminators defending the whole galaxy alone so they can do the job themselves.

Nice work. ME after 2.2.5 patch are OP, before 2.2.4 they was weak like meat. Got insane boost compare to old patch.

DAAR-1, the name of the planet, sounds like Darwin, as in Charles Darwin.

The strategic coordination center usually shows what it does but it's a bug when you've played too long fix is to just reload and it will show

I tried this origin after a while not playing Stellaris, and it was most fun I`ve ever had in this game. Even endgame crisis did not stand a chance against supreme intelligence.

i once kept terrorising a primitive planet that were early/late space age. i kept attacking with 1 or 2 droids that they kept destroying. and all the primitives garrisons eventually became Veterans (didnt even know veteran level existed till i saw them at that level)

Tempest made me shiver. They made my last playthrough so friggin hard. To summarize, everyone was late to the L-Gate thing. They were kinda far from the borders of everyone (can happen with these bigger galaxy mods I was on a 5000 stars map). Anyways. The Scourge invaded the galaxy and everyone was already in a big scuffle with someone else me included. So of course this idiotic democratic crusader empire goes and beat me to the insights and opens the gate. And it's the tempest. So I am fighting a war on two fronts already. To the south the scourge is aggressively trying to eat me. To the north this awakened empire is giving me trouble. And now there are nano fleets pouring out of the gates to my east and west. After all this, very few empires were still somewhat standing once the scourge, tempest and big ole awakened empires were dealt with. It sent the galaxy back 200 years in terms of territories...Previously owned clusters of hundreds of stars were now barren and full of debris (thank you battle debris mod). It was glorious in it's special way.

definetly go with the mod option!

Next playthrough you should install some mods. You definitely need the Glavius AI mod, more events mod and get all the crazy custom species that people made in your game. :D

"Ya know sometimes a pretty thing should be shot at"

just picked this game up a couple days ago, i have a week off work and just learning it. Should i get all the dlc? Your playthru has been fun to watch definitely :) My first two playthrus i've lost pretty quick so definitely still learning lol

5:32 How the hell did my dog become a robotic leader?!?!?!? 🤣

I would love to see you restart some from the depth videos

“Lovely”

I just looked up what the strategic coordination centre is and it looks like it improves naval capacity, sublight speed, starbase capacity, and defence platform capacity.

Can you do a run like this in the future with very minimal editing? Even if its like 3 hours long, I think it'd be pretty cool to watch, like a marathon type of thing. O:

I was researching the repeatable techs to the point where a SINGLE CORVETTE was a 1k force ship... Clearly having 200 habitats focussed on research helps a lot. Yeah, 200. AND I WAS PLAYING TALL!!

Can you do some tutorial on extermintor, or full gameplay, I think they 'd have much more exciting early game compared to tall empire

Oh god, it's the evolution of the lathrix battleship spam

Could you give tips on how you produce so many pops? You're growth speed seems ridiculously good.

I'd say you do modded AI, rather then waiting a couple patches, These videos are always entertaining to watch. :D

These are perfect to watch while generating 15k star galaxies.