Yes, I did accidentally put the outro in at the 37 minute mark. This is because I recorded this over 3 days and edited each days worth of recording at the end of the day.. and apparently that day I just autopiloted and added the outro to that section.. yup. Keeping it in there, for fun now! Inwards perfection, with the rule of ignoring all other empires & the end game crisis! Time to build up some serious fleetpower! More regular uploads should be back very soon! Been an insane few weeks with all sorts of stuff going on in the background, with these videos being easier to record between everything! More Terratech, Minecaft and such soon! :D Enjoy the video! :)

“We hate Xeno’s to such a degree that interacting with them, even in a hostile capacity at long range, is utterly unthinkable.”

Unbbiden: We are the eater of worlds, destroyer of galaxies. Zelvan: Yeah whatever. I Dont care.

The "Not my problem" run, I love it.

after this historians of your species will have an amazing story to tell: "And there we were, letting the galaxy fall, as it did not deserve our help, when our glorious immortal ruler received a vision from a random spirit who called himself Lathrax. He told our leader 'Screw that, make a few hundred of your smallest ship, load it with amazing technology, and slam it into the Unbidden'. And so we did, and it worked for some reason."

"I'm going to play them as cherishing their pristine homeworld." ((invites the Worm to make their home a tomb world)) So much for that idea! :D

-Plays peaceful race -Kills its last ancestor despite it being harmless

Everyone talking about different endgame ideas, no one mentions the Crisis Manager mod series and how you can have ALL THE CRISES SIMULTANEOUSLY. AND you can get AI End of The Cycle for even MORE fun.

Sir, the Unbidden are invading! LALALA CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALA

Crisis shows up, This channel: I WILL INFLICT UPON THE ENEMY THE GREATEST INSULT THAT EXISTS! to be ignored

“Oh you’re good farmers, huh? Can you start farming yourselves, please?”

I like to imagine that the Nu Boal produce fruit on themselves. So you're not really eating them, you're just eating their delicious fruit. They are plant people so it's not unbelievable.

Hey Lathrix, you should do the fanatic purifier challenge: max AI difficulty, every empire including yours is a fanatical purifier. It would be an action packed playthrough with lots of wars.

I just want to say I really love these Stellaris videos, but they're very clearly the hardest ones for you to make. They condense a looong Stellaris campaign into a single long video, which is super nice. I find them to be the best way of watching Stellaris on KZfaq. Thanks for all the effort you put in, Lath.

Have you ever considered coming back to this game and role-playing as an awakened empire? I'm kinda curious on how it would play out to suddenly jump into the galactic stage after ignoring it for the entire game.

When an inter-dimensional being threatens to destroy your existence say: No

During creation: "we are all about preserving the beauty of our planets" 17 minutes later: "all of our planets are now tomb worlds"

"Maybe if I just don't acknowledge my problems.. theyll just go away."

54:27 PREEWPEWRPEWRPWPEPEWPWPERPEREWRPREWPPREW!!! "That is all" -Lath

“I will issue our enemy the greatest of insults...to be ignored.”

That "patrolling" of the crisis ships reminds me a lot of me experience with automatic exploration. Often my science ships will just decide to randomly go away from the 10+ surveyable systems they're at, just to spend 2 years going through my entire empire to survey 1 random system, and then they'll go all the way back, repeat ad infinitum...

So we're not going to imagine how brokenly powerful this empire could have been with Gigastructural Engineering.

The immature dragons from that specific L-Gate outcome can be tamed. Not that important in the grand scheme of things, but it's free firepower so, why not? :) PS: they grow up too.

This is beyond turtling. This is taking the turtle, locking it in a vault and laying a minefield in front of it with signs everywhere that say "F**c Off!". I love it. Also, once you research the Psi Jump Drives and no AI empire has finished their machine ascension, the probability of the crisis being the Unbidden skyrockets. In fact, I maybe had a couple of games where the crisis wasn't the Unbidden once Psi Jump Drives were researched. So if you're going psionics as a player more often than not you're going to face the Unbidden.

42:25 my favorite moment "haha i'm possessed :)"

Can you do a playthrough with the feudal ethic for the imperial government? I really like the idea of an empire conquering others and then saying "We're in charge so you do what we ask... but other then that you can do whatever you want"

Keep posting stellaris runs, I absolutely enjoy stellaris my good sir !

Finally! Been waiting for another full playthrough for a long time. There's only so many times I can rewatch your previous episodes. 7 or 8 is probably the limit.

That was surprisingly fun to watch! Thank you very much for this video:)

I'm not sure how much of a challenge it would be, but a theme I've been thinking about is: Everyone knows the best part of mass effect was wrex and the krogans, so why dont we bring them here. Turtle alien portrait, post apocalyptic civic, militarist in some way(probably fanatic) and most importantly: no shields, no energy weapons, because a Krogan ship is nothing but metal covered in metal, shooting more metal.

Lathrix, I’ve watched you for so many years now across multiple accounts. And your humbleness has has always socked me. Every game I see you come across, I see the determination to play to your best ability and improve. You my good sir never give yourself enough credit. Your deserve praise and a self compliment more than once in awhile. Keep being amazing lath. And I’ll always be here to support you

Yay! I love playing as Space-Switzerland!

Woot first. wanna say I love these videos they always make my day plz never stop making them

Stellaris and RimWorld, will make sleep impossible, I learnt that the hard way (in year 11 playing games at 4 o clock pm, stoping the next day at 5 am)

Spawn the end game crisis at the beginning of the game Advanced empires allowed Fallen empires allowed

I love the Stellaris videos and your kind of humor

First time watching ur content and when u said “I’m possessed!” Auto clicked like and sub

Here is a challenge I just came up with after reading some other comments, feel free to refine it: Tick-Tock Robot Fanatic Purifier Synth The rules alter depending on whether it's an even year or odd year. Even Year: - No fighting, period. All ships on passive, no starting wars, etc. If combat is active when the year rolls over, retreat. - Every shipyard that can be building something must be building. Same for planets. Odd Year: - No building, period. All active projects ended, no new ones started. - If you can be at war, you are at war. Prefer attacking above all else.

Lathland can you please play from the depths it has had many updates and i would love for you to go over it

37:47 Is it a mistake or a way to signify you feel asleep?

Ancient Cache of Technologies: a really exciting mod to spice up the endgame. Instead of constant repeatables, you dive into the amazing world of "dark matter technologies" that can rival (or even surpass) fallen empire tech. It includes buildings on planets, new resources to manage, and exciting upgrades to both ground troops and naval superiority. There are also unique tech options depending on your empire civics. There are events to go with the mod, and it really does change the end-game. I would highly recommend it!

Amazing video, loved it! How do you micro manage so many planets? (in a sense that your economy doesn't die completely? Also do you use your habitats purely for refineries of rare resources and having no single refineries on your planets?

amazing as usually

@54:27 I was not ready. I don't know why but it made me snort coffee all over.

A really synergised inward perfection build would be Spiritualist, Pacifist, Xenophobe, Efficient Bureaucracy, Rapid Breeders and Traditional (and whichever negative traits). Gets you 60 starting admin cap, +40% growth speed and +40% unity generation.

I wanna see Lathrix play a game with the endgame at 2250 and see if he survives xD

well, if you are looking at mods, this collection is the first to look at imho: Cinematic Space Battles Mod+Submods adding races, planettypes, etc. is nice and all, but this collection makes the most important impact for me. (longer and massively better looking battles that you dont have to slow down time to actually watch, in fact, in the early-mid game balanced battles can last long enough for reinforcements to arrive and for you to actually speed up time.) battles raging in the same timeframe as the rest of the game realy smoothes out the flow of the game, i freakin love it! ;)

54:27 “that is all” my favorite part of this entire video

Where the heck is this man from. Why does youtube recommend me this? I've never seen stellaris in my life. What the heck is this game :D

i dont know why but your videos help me sleep i like them very much but sometimes when you make a full playthroug i kind of find your voice calming and in the end i sometimes fall asleep in my chair watching your videos like this one after 30 min i was gone for 3 hours it could be my constant lack of sleep but i find it very hard to fall asleep in a chair (sorry for bad grammer if there is English is not my native laguage)

Enjoyed that! Thanks!

> Mid game start date 50 years in > Marauders in the middle of your territory oh, this wont end well.

I actually did something similar once (Inward Perfectionist Materialists), but I also used the Infinity Stones mod and had all six of them by the time the crises (I enabled all three) rolled around. Eventually I was the only non-crisis empire left.

Good fun that. Did the same playthrough once, even got the same crisis. I grew much bigger than you though, because in the beginning I managed to goad a couple of empires to attack me by having a really small fleet and angering them. Once they did, I built up the fleet and crushed them. I didn't bother finishing the game because it all got so slow in the late game.

This is perhaps the strongest empire i even seen in stellaris :)..i mean it's like 10 times more stronger than awakened empire...it's amazing

The mega structures mod is fun. Tons of new fun things to build. Some fun examples off the top of my head. Planet battle craft, put engines and tons of weapons on a planet and go ham. A disco ball moon. A blackhole bomb. Or a black hole ringworld. Four ring world's in the same star system for when you like putting rings on rings. Or how about a system that uses the solar capacity of a star to fire a laser through a wormhole and at a planet of your choice. Those are the ones I can remember.

i'm loving these video's i loved playing stelaris but with less time on my hands watching a video while cooking is about as much as i can spare. i miss the blissfulll days of the past

I like your "Shower of death" fleet config.

You should do a Full Posadist Utopian Abundance wide research playthrought. Basically an empire centred around colonizing as fast as possible to gain as much research as possible from idle pops. The specie traits will need to be adaptive and rapid breeders + anything else, the ethics fanatic materialistic and the civic Post Apocalyptic.

zenophages + thrall world + mod that allows for you to raise the space amoeba = fun times.

Reminds me of a game I had in the early days of Stellaris (1.3 or there about) where a monster of a defensive coalition had me boxed in, couldn't go either way around the ring galaxy with my swarm without the other side jumping past my defensive stations to ravage my empire. Then the Prethoryn turned up and started wrecking shit, conquering empires and infesting planets. They soon turned up on my southern border, but their construction ships could not break through a border designed to hold my neighbors armadas. Better still their infestations was so large that I could afford to slaughter each defending fleet as it came in allowing me to slowly chip away at them and reclaim the planets for the glory of the swarm. This resulted in my empire following the scourge round the galaxy chewing up their empire like the worlds worst parasite, fun times!

Good job bub I've been playing this on console.

I love these videos.

This brings me back to the megacorp dev clash when the Church of Chains player denied that there was an endgame crisis.

"No other way for them to jump into our territory" Uh... Nice job missing that L-Gate Lath.

i had the unbidden spawn in a system that had 2 maxed out foundry arcology worlds, wiped out almost all my production in 10 mins XD love that rng

Really good video

Maybe this video is already out there, but I'd love to see you try this kind of run again now that we have an entire Tradition Tree dedicated to defense, better AI, and a bunch of other really cool stuff that could make this interesting

25:30 Emperor Palpatine liked that.

Gigastructures! I love that mod!

**the tomb will give us a small fleet from the fallen empire** me: HAPPY ZARCLAN DAY ALL GLORY TO ZARCLAN

I was hoping for more after that last outro.

When you do another run, I'd like to make a request! WIth your next empire, use Ringworlds not as research or production- but war machines. Fortresses that the enemy die on. You could say... Ringfortresses.

Defender of the galaxy is more of a "our star systems are the galaxy and that is all we need to defend"

your luck is insane with the maps

It’s nice to see someone shredding the unbidden after they showed up 50 years early yesterday and trashed my beloved Zenak Assimilators...

You crazy and i love it

The United States circa December 6th, 1941. Colorized.

As a new player, I was incredibly satisfied with my 2K science output at 2350-ish. This...puts things into perspective...

apparently I was unsubbed? Fixed that and pushed your stuff first! Glad to be back!

an idea for a challange you will probably loose fast: a no expansion challange. you are not allowed to build any thing outside your starting system. no planets, no stations, nothing. if you get stuff from events, trading, or bribing opponents, that fine. getting stuff through war, thats fine. BUT! you are not allowed upgrade them or build anything on them. you play with what you get and thats it. building ships in conquered stations is also not allowed. if you get a relic, event or ability to instant spawn something, that is allowed, just no building. the details of the race are all up to you. this is already hard enough with your usual starting settings. i would consider this challenge a success if you survive till the endgame crisis spwns. try to stay free, to not become anothers servants for protection if you can.

Could you do a hive mind that expands rapidly, assimilates any species it attacks. It then returns to its home world for a predetermined period of time, during that time it heavily upgrades. Then it again expands and crushes anything outside of the sphere it just attacked with the new tech. Repeat? Regardless, love the vids keep it up

The Galaxy is 90% mineral and Lathrix found a way to have a shortage

18:50 Hail the omniasseh

i would love to see you play the mod forgotten queens unofficial hive dlc. it gives some interesting options.

Titans are generally worth it just for the auras. Something like shield dampener against the unbidden is massive really.

One challenge I've tried in the past, but can't quite get to work right is the Robot Uprising run. You have to develop AI, treat it badly and let it revolt. Then you're given the chance to play as the uprising. For some reason, I can't get it to trigger on purpose, but I'd love to see someone else try.

Lathrix I'd love if you came back and started playing from the depths again , especially as it's getting super close to official release. I miss you playing it and community does too

Dunno if you know, but the Rubricator relic world has a decision to restore it to a fully functional Ecumonopolis, regardless of ascension perks last time I checked.

i think i´m speaking for everyone if i say you should do more of these stellaris runs anyway i hope you have a great day

two outros for the price of one video noice

Had an idea for a United Nations of Earth run -most ai empires have advance start, since humans are usually a young species in sci fi -max hyperlanes to make it almost like star trek warp travel -only liberation wars in order to make more friends -strong crisis early on -ideally as much of the galaxy in your federation as possible -force the commonwealth of man to spawn probably not interesting enough for a video i'm guessing

So tried two similar runs First (with your empire build) and to be frank didnt realize i usually use 1.25 tech difficulty but even so A: Could not match your tech output (so unless that is like the only thing your doing dont get how) B: it just feels slow (like super slow tech wise even though it shouldnt) Went with a Fanatic materialist, technocracy civic instead of inward prefection. (still xenophobic) Start felt stronger, Tech feels smoother, and even though I dont match your tech #'s (3k at 100 years or so in compared to your 4k) it still felt great and much more unity invovled. I did reduce tech difficulty from 1.25 to 1.00 and NO i do not own the Relic expansion.

WOOO HELPING OUT WITH THE ALGORITHM

@Lathland Great video, by the way i noticed you play Grand Admiral is this vanilla GA or starnet GA? the reason I ask is that it seems AI is very passive. I tried similar build on starnet Admiral & got absolutely rekt by about 2250 when x2 Ai declared on me at same time.. I tried pacifist/xenophobe/materialist with nihilistic acquisition (the goal was to get a faster start by developing as normal pacifist +also stealing pops from AI)

We need a mod allowing you to play using the unique ship types, species, and governments. (The Unbidden and Friends, the Contingency, Raider Government, Great Horde government, etc.)

Just listened to your starting declarations. I think it will be awesome... but you will lose. We shall see!!! :D

Never doubt the worm! -Ralf Waldo Picklechips Also the avian corvettes look like whales

The Unbidden during the end of the video "Oh god not the bees"

Oh my god that beautiful voice.