will try to upload more this year Song List(in used order): 1. Dashing and Bashing - Ori and the Will of the Wisps 2. Meeting Kwolok - Ori and the Will of the Wisps 3. Trouble Within - Ori and the Will of the Wisps 4. Turn, Turn, Turn Again - Ori and the Will of the Wisps 5. Escaping a Foul Presence - Ori and the Will of the Wisps 6. Ash and Bone - Ori and the Will of the Wisps 7. Fading of the Light - Ori and the Will of the Wisps 8. Kwolok's Malaise - Ori and the Will of the Wisps 9. In Wonderment of Winter - Ori and the Will of the Wisps 10. Baur's Reach - Ori and the Will of the Wisps 11. Howl - Ori and the Will of the Wisps 12. Shriek and Ori - Ori and the Will of the Wisps 13. New Worlds, New Adventures - Minecraft Legends - Remix: Hendric Buenck. Original: Crispin Hands

The way that the ship design system working out which weapon is 'median' revolts me. I am utterly revolted.

learning how stellaris been gaslighting about ship computers this whole time was truly eldritch horror

I've received unbelievable amounts of psychic damage from the ship computer segment

What form of hell have you brought upon our wretched land by exposing the ship design bug?

I was NOT prepared to learn how ship computers actually work. I will now never use vanilla computers again.

average stellaris experience: WE WON A WAR ... which one?

My entire understanding of stellaris shipbuilding has been shattered.

i guess another reason why swarmer missiles spam is op, you basically only build that weapon on your ship so there won't be any issues regarding the median.

So the real secret to getting your ships to behave in combat how you wanted was effectively pray to the Omnissiah. 'Cause no way was anybody going to guess that's how you had to do it based on what the combat computer said!

I was there, Strat...when the first meta evolved. When the laser'vettes ruled the skies and only the bravest of endgame crises had the gall to spawn before being unceremoniously cut down. Seriously, did you know that the tileset came with bonuses? You built the buildings seperately and if you built the right ones next to eachother on the tile map, you'd get adjacency bonuses.

Back when Paragons released, you could get -100% Sprawl reduction as Feudal Empire at the cost of -1000% XP gain. By mixing Feudal Civic and aptitude tradition, whereby each governor hired would give flat -2% empire Sprawl. This meant that once you hit the magical number of 50 governors, you would loose all your Empire Sprawl. Sure, it took few years to get going in game, but once it did, it was glorious. and for a short amount of time, meant that Space Feudalism completely removed Empire Sprawl.

Its me, Im the one traumatized by the Missing Model Cube. I've created custom shipset work both on my own and for Gigastructures and whatnot before and believe me you'll be seeing it a lot if you tread that horrendous path Fun fact! If a model has no textures, it just steals them from whatever's nearby in memory! This usually results in an asteroid texture, but it can also just cause a straight up crash

30:57 So true. As a mod dev myself updating my mod so much after all these game-changing updates so many times just gets you burned out. Especially if you have a large mod that needs a hundred hours work to update and addapt for a single patch, only for it to be broken again the next patch. Its the unfortunate effect of paradox shifting the game back and forth so much.

Hehehehehehhehe, time to apply the black magicks and learning of how ship computers work against my friends since they NEVER watch this sort of content.

To me, two of the funniest things in the early version of Stellaris: 1. AI empires can somehow have 4 ethics 2. After capturing Prethoryn Scourge Queen, she can be elected as the leader of your empire I still have the screenshots from the old games and they are amazing.

I'm surprised the pre-Heinlein meta of Tachyon Destroyers wasn't mentioned. The one that existed before people figured out that Naked Corvette Spam was feasible. Because yes, Tachyon Lances used to be L-Slot weapons and the energy equivalent of Kinetic Artillery. Bit expensive to run on such a small ship, but it wasn't like you needed any other weapon on your DDs anyway once you got them. ... This makes me feel old.

I can explain why information for the minefields was hard to find. The minefield would vanish as soon as the station was destroyed, and they'd typically vaporize durring the alpha strike. The old defense platforms became very useless very quickly.

I'm bamboozled by the ship component thing, like WTF did not knew it xDDD Thanks for putting evolved there at the end

I was barely getting a grip on how the current meta for maintaining engagement range worked, but now you're telling me that it's all just... wrong? I hate you. I would have preferred to be blissfully unaware.

I was there all along, bro. You can treat this game as an exercise in mental flexibility. One of the more "fun" periods of strict admin cap was when it penalized mostly systems, and didn't care about population, so you would roll big trinary system, spam science ships and rush the Worm to get ~15 tomb world system with a bunch of species shenanigans and play "tall".

in the good old days, Fallen Empires would awaken the moment an empire got around 90k fleetpower and instantly vassalize both the empire which grew in power with several 100k fleets, as well as all other nearby AI empires. ah, good times...

28:00 how is that still in the game? I was suspicious about weird behavior but this is insane, this can cost entire wars! You forgot the catalytic robots exploit which could print free alloys forever, just because the appearing deficit modifier only affected organic pops :P

The reason why they got rid of individualism vs collectivism is because of debates over capitalism vs communism. Back then (and still today) people wanted to roleplay as the Soviet Union and wanted to pick the most accurate ethics and civics. This led to a lot of heated debates about whether or not the Soviet Union was a true democracy or just an autocratic dictatorship. There is actually an event you can get on a planet where you can find out that there was a civilization on it that wiped themselves out over the debate of individualism vs collectivism.

I haven't thought about a lot of the old mechanics in ages! There used to be victory conditions that ended the game early too like owning 40% of the galaxy or being allied to people and collectively owning 60% or something like that.

The weapon order exploit just blew my mind. Also yeah, modders get freaking burnt out from this game and many just stopped at some point, not because they disliked modding or the game, but they want to keep their sanity.

26:41 - onwards: ...what? WHAT? WHAAAT? *Existential dread intensifies*

another gem, stellaris community rests on your shoulders

A game of broken paradoxes of stellar proportions.

Early stellaris was a nightmare. The planet slots still appear in dreams during stormy nights.

I own the game since launch day. The most fun exploit I remember was from 1.* versions. You could take over Fallen empire planets without fighting for it. Back then planets and space outposts (not space stations, those were different then) exerted a zone of influence, but outpost far greater than planets. In other words you could push back FE zone of influence with your outposts and double that with tech that enlarge it too and you could effectively take over any FE system that has no outpost in the system. This gave you the very juicy FE planets and the defending FE’s stations. Only the Xenophobe FE would actually get mad and declare war at you if you tried it. The 1.* versions were a wild ride.

The second bro started talking about the start of stellaris I went "Ah yes, the red laser meta, planet tiles. I remember" and the immediately getting fucking roasted for having crippling game addiction... Yes, I buy every DLC on launch.

I have to know if the DEVs actually KNOW if this is how the ship building system works, or have they forgotten how it works?! Do they even remember making it this way?! Was it MEANT to work this way or was this just some, old place holder code?! Was this code forgotten as the updates came around? Did they understand that this was how it worked or did they forget?! It sounds so crazy and everything makes sense now, why the combat computers never seemed to work half the time.... WHAT'S REAL ANYMORE, WHAT IS REALITY?! WHY DID I HAVE TO WATCH THIS VIDEO, I WANT TO GO BACK TO MY IGNORANCE AND BLISS, I WANT MY BLUE PILL! I DON'T WANT TO SEE THE TRUTH OF IT! IT'S LIKE I WAS FORCABLY GIVEN THE RED PILL AND I SEE THE WORLD FOR WHAT IT IS AND I DON'T LIKE IT NOR UNDERSTAND IT WHAT IF I REMOVE A SHIP SECTION?! DOES IT RESET THE MODULE ORDER OR SWITCH IT OR DOES IT CONFUSE THE WHOLE THING?!

I think the hyperdrives were better than wormhole, because with wormhole, the time it takes for a fleet to enter the wormhole was dependant on the size on the fleet. Sometimes it took months for your fleet to make a wormhole big enough. Hyperdrives advantages was... not having that, not being able to have their stations destroyed, but one you forgot: They were really fast within your own territory, which helped with quick responses to attacks and allowed you to defend more areas with less fleets. But yeah I just used warp.

Why do i feel like spongebob is explaining this to me?

Crucify me having xeno compatability ENABLED.

At least carrier combat computers seem to work as advertised. I'll gladly take slightly lower stats over worrying about ordering ship sections or other arcane BS like that.

There is one thing the old hyperdrives had before they became the standard method of FTL travel: Ships didn't have to travel through the system in order to enter the hyperlanes. They could just stay at the edge of the system and keep jumping. Also the old warpdrives made ships stay on cooldown temporarily that made them safe to avoid for a little while, after warping. Interesting times back then where my friend would just keep hyperlaning back and forth with my warpdrive ships constantly trying to catch him.

One thing that I remember from the 1.0 version was a bug where you could build robots on uncolonized planets, although if I remember right, it got patched pretty quickly.

I actually liked the tech change they did originally, including the "breakthrough" technology. Felt like in the late game you still had things to learn, like how you needed to wait until year 2500 to get Megastructures.

ive been playing since 2017 and, my god, the nostalgia this video brought. i always remembered tiles and the weird outposts, but the CHILLS i got at the food helping pop growth fact, like damn, I had completely forgot..

So that's why my battleships with carrier computer suicided against crisis...

Forbidden Knowledge is a scar that can be wielded as a sword, now that I know what I know about ship computers my strength will be all the greater, but oh does it hurt my soul.

IMO a fun thing you missed about the old, more complex wargoals is that "vassalize" was mega overpowered, at least against AI. Firstly, assuming your enemy was a decently sized empire, it was the only way to completely subdue them within a single war - otherwise, the 100 wargoal points you get simply wouldn't be enough to take all their planets, regardless of how successful your war is. Better yet, until the Utopia update or so, AI was completely incapable of revolting against an overlord - you could lose your entire fleet next month (remember, disengagement doesn't exist yet!) and they wouldn't use that window to try and free themselves. And secondly, it did not take things like size and economy into account - you could vassalize an empire twenty times your size, provided you manage to gain 60 warscore. While vassals weren't actually great back then (no resource tax cheese or naval cap contribution), you could always integrate them, which in the end was much faster than the "intended" way of having them cede planets across multiple wars.

It was all fun and games until we reached the insanity that is ship sections.

Ive been playing Stellaris since release and have 1000+ hours, i forgot how clunky and rough the game was on release. Its been a crazy journey and this video is an insane throwback❤

Fucking amazing video strat. Well worth the wait. You should do more fleet composition videos this year. There’s so few recent ones out there. Happy Easter buddy! ❤

If the worm isn't in here, I'm going to break into paradoxes office and buff disruptors.

Back when the habitable worlds event gave influence my friend with moon internet would spam it to get morbillion influence in the early game to spam starbases.

How the hell does the navy work? I'm 300 hours in i have no idea what to do

The ship computer part broke me. My artillery battleships were fighting in PD range this whole time...

Should’ve named it “the BIGGEST stellaris iceberg explanation”

This video have changed the way I build my ships. Holy cow, I'm in this rabbit hole since Apocalypse DLC and this is first time I hear about this module order bullshit. Thanks, Strat

Amazing video as always!!!!!!

Uncommon Console W 🥳

This is definitely the most stellaris video since jan 2200

Actually, the last thingy with ordering how you slot weapons into the ship kinda makes sense. If you inspect enemy ships, the weapons are showed (as it seemed to me before watching this) randomly, but apparently, what seems to be happening under the hood is that weapons are added in a 2 dimensional vector, that is iterated from the first subsector (the section) and its elements, so a function that finds median literally searches the middle-most weapon. Wow

The weapon median thing is actually insane

This is fantastic. Love it. That ship layout changing the behavior is insane. Stuff on the defense stations was a lot of fun, but the real fun was making massive flower blossoms across the system with tons of stations and just having minefields/auras everywhere. Most of the time, it was impossible to see the planets/ships in system. Kind of funny seeing "never implemented" and seeing Muutagen Crystals and Pitharan Dust. Makes my Stellaris journey feel ancient lol.

Hey, half way though and I appreciate all the editing and memes. Well done. Going to watch the rest.

amazing Video Strat

The build with 0 expansion of empire was the best bug

A few things that contradict my memories The old planetary cap system didn't favour tall as much as you said it does. Yes, you recieved massive penalties for going over it, but they went away as soon as you gave those extra planets to a sector, which worked as the current planet automation system but on a sector level and you couldn't build anything yourself. Sure, the automation AI was dogshit but it was still preferable than not having a planet and the one planet challange was always more of a meme than a serious meta strategy Hyperlanes did not "have no benefits" and warp wasn't even the best from what I remember. You sort of implied that warp worked like a jump drive and could snipe systems from far away but no, it could only go to the neigbouring systems. The difference between the two is that warp drives did not care for hyperlanes but were extremely slow. Yes, hyper drives could get unlucky and have a very long detour but that wasn't that common. From what I recall, the general consensus was that warp drives was the easiest for new players but less efficient option and it was wormholes that was the best optioned for experienced players Also expansion happened primarily through colonising a planet. not building stations. You could only have a few stations as they costed 1 influence a month to upkeep each! And influence was both harder to get and used in way more things back then That being said, I could be wrong as I was nowhere near a meta player and had no clue what I was doing and this was a highly entertaining video! Probably one of the best stellaris videos I have ever seen

Hearing that more having more than 100ping is bad is quite shocking since if I get 300 ping I consider that to be fast

6 minutes and 72 views bro is popping off

I haven't played since last year, and techs are now painfully slow in my wide empire...

After the revelation of the ship design system by Strat: Lisan al-Gaib! Lisan al-Gaib! Show us the way!

that is one unusual voice. as a Stellaris boomer, this is such a good video

Here's the most important question, what do you call a person who recognized every single thing you said before you even finished explaining?

watching this video was like peering into the abyss. there's no going back now

i think my personal favourite exploit was the thingy where you were a hivemind on the old ringworld, and you would just ignore your mineral costs, only spam research districts, and since mineral deficit at that time only affected like alloy output, you could just ignore it and get like 3k research in the year 2230. then you quickly rush through all the tech and then start building your empire proper with battleships at the year 2240 or smth

Me: Hmm what are all these comments talking about Medians in the video? Surely it wasn't that scarring? *Me After That Part:* I will never recover from this.

Hey I love your content, for the mods thing, if stellaris is to ever go the route of being a good modbase, it needs to go the route that minecraft of all things did. Minecraft's modding community basically went, aight, new MC version is too intense gonna just sit here until it cools down & it took years for them to finally move on from their preferred version. This is only doable because of the highly flushed out 3rd party mod solutions that steam just cant compare to in the slightest. If stellaris is going to have the modding scene grow it needs to pick a version and stick to it, chasing the current version is nice but too intense for the community's size. Im on 3.10.4 with it and will likely not make another pack for a year given the current updates have crushed the current mods it will need time for the community to recover.

I played a lot Stellaris back when the "tall vs wide" debate was ongoing and I always thought that there is actually a somewhat realistic solution to this problem, that being a systen I like to call "Centralization". Basically, it brings more penalties the more pops live further away from your capital. So basically, pops that live on your capital would give no penalties at all no matter how high it goes, because they live at the very hearth of the Empire. Pops that live on other planets within your home system would each give a 0.1(fill in the blank) penalty each, pops living on other planets just one system away from your home system would have a 0.2(fill in the blank)penalty each, pops living two systems away would have a 0.3 penalty and so on. This would mean that having a 20 pop world 2 systems away would give as many penalties as a 60 pop planet in your home system(that's not your homeworld(as previously stated)). In such a system, Empires would naturally form a core region where most of the pops live, with larger more sparsely regions inbetween them. Over time, you could use various technologies and techniques to mitigate this penalty in the early game, such as specialising districts and releasing vassals, while in the late game you could reduce them far more drastically(if not remove it alltogether) by building Hyper Relays and later Gateways. In theory, this would result in players going wide in the early game, tall in the mid game, and wide again in the late-game. But alas, it never came to pass, so we'll never know.

Wait, did I blink and miss the part where you explained the iceberg? Lots of great historical info, and the stuff about combat computers is mind blowing… but where’s the iceberg?

breaking down the early game corvettes to afford another science ship was so broken

I still hate that strategic resources were scraped one day in a way that there was only "so many" ways to get them. I remember waging wars for systems with them, now for the long time you could just generate them.

a little bit after 26:30 he starts talking about the hidden """feature""" of changing ship behavior based on the order that weapon slots are filled

I do miss warp drives but the switch to hyperlanes did make the combat more strategic than random. It's honestly crazy remembering how much this game has changed over the years. I started playing a day after launch.

I'm surprised you didn't talk about how broken clone army origin was at the start

My favourite one was the eldritch horror one where you could simply not click the popup to let it out, and then move your science ship to a different system and then nuke that system by letting it out there. There was also a lag thing where you could spawn multiple rubricator systems by clicking the popup multiple times before it actually went through (was likely to do with some delay), not sure when they patched that but that was a funny one.

Minefields were glorious and i want them back too! Especially now I've witnessed WTF is going on with the ship disntance computer 🙃

There was a bug with mega shipyards where you could build ships on others mega shipyards and their bonuses would apply to the ships making it stupidly strong because they would insta go into teleportation phase to reach your territory. It was very interesting when awakened empires got mega shipyards and you could spam fleets on theirs.

I remember when one of the crisis was ur entire robot population rising up

thank for the iceberg mate

One thing you didn't mention was building outposts (basically towers in space) and how you could attach auras to them, specifically FTL snares, you could force your opponent's fleets to all appear in the middle of your system. You could also put mines on that tower and as much armor as you could to make it a pain to deal with. Then you surround it with towers with artillery and no defense since they don't need it. You get the flower of death that could shred any fleet in the game for a fraction of the cost. They nerfed this by increasing the minimum range between towers so much that you could no longer overlap artillery ranges, truly sad. Also when Utopia came out synth ascended empires couldn't counter the ghost signal from the contingency, have fun beating the end game crisis with a -70% resources from jobs penalty. Funnily enough I did because 2/4 of the contingency's systems ended up being system with the aforementioned flower defense so they kinda died instantly and the signal went to a more managable -40%.

How to do hyperspace, wormholes, and warp drives correctly? 1) Warp Drives are slower and continual use can cause space storms to exist which you don't want to use a warp drive to go through as your ship could get destroyed. You can upgrade the warp drive to make it more reliable, but you will have more likelihood of space storms happening as a result. Therefore like in Star Trek, you will have to cap off your technology at a certain point and this can lead to you being outpaced by other technologies. You can develop technology to deal with space storm occurrences but this will cause a drain on your economy and scientific progress as you will need to use your physics science growth to deal with that problem and even use policies that reduce other areas of science to make it more effective in draining the swamp (science storm activity) before you can progress with travel, effectively similar but not as permanent or problematic as being cut off while using hyperspace. Normally you would just progress from Warp Drives to Jump Drives which is why you have a higher chance of developing the technology if you are using Warp Drives. 2) Hyper Space. How about the ability to build your own lanes. You need to have two areas already under your control and you need to build something that needs to remain protected like for wormholes but this would make it so Hyper Space isn't so problematic. Plus you can also further develop hyper space technology to be continuous as you can just bypass each system so long as they are all connected by the same hyper space lanes allowing you to quickly transverse them all or at least all you need to bypass to reach your destination. However, space storms can effect you just as much here as they would with warp drives. This prevents it from being broken. Not as fast as Warm Holes or Jump Drives, but just about as effective. 3) Worm holes. I don't think there is much of a problem here so long as you can protect your wormholes effectively or have some sort of better means to utilize them. This in turn could cause its own crisis situation. Sort of like the Mass Relays seen in Mass Effect in which you build something like a Relay around a wormhole and now you can use that worm hole to open breeches around other areas. Albeit it is a one way travel. 4) Jump Drives. Besides using them can cause a certain crisis, there are sub-crisis, not as big of a problem but still an issue in which you see more monsters appear as a sort of hint that something is coming. These sub-crisis issues can be dealt with but it makes Jump Drives more problematic and less of this "Oh I have a crisis that might happen." Especially since the Unbidden isn't really much of a crisis when you compare it to the other three.

The missing texture shipset can actually be easily accessed by making a custom empire with a modded shipset and then deleting the mod

I found it very funny when I saw my friend sell his fully upgraded mercenary enclave's fleet that he hired for discount to the scavenger enclave. For cheap alloy

Was Nemesis creator clash the one where Templin was screeching like Palpatine at the plant people? That one had me pissing myself 😂

Hm, I guess I count as an old Stellaris Player since I got it just between Utopia and Synthetic Dawn. Save crossover between before and after Megacorp actually worked surprisingly well, it wasn't even impossible to restart your economy with a handful of completely barren planets with only half a dozen to a dozen pops on them as long as you had around a thousand minerals saved up. Also, the old launcher was terrible. You can still revert to an old version in the beta options to see what I mean. I still prefer the look of it, but the actual utility was terrible so mods weren't really a thing I or my friends used often. Another neat feature, if you use a mod shipset for an empire and then load without the mod, you also get the box. If you wanted to colonise a planet or make a fleet you had to manually create each ship, no colonise button or fleet designer. If you wanted to make a fleet, you had to either merge new ships with fleets or keep your fleet orbiting the star base. And for colony ships you needed to make them with a selected species and then manually send them to the planet. Those weird icons for food, minerals, and energy were for the trade tab. The alloy one is actually the "strategic resources" tab which included many of the strategic resources. They actually acted similarly to luxuries in Civ where you only had to be exploiting a deposit to get their bonuses. Like +25% terraform speed from terraforming liquids or +10% food from Pitharan dust. These modifiers were empire wide with basically no cost. (The bonuses may be wrong as I am pulling them from two saves from different versions and an old forum post) There was mineral pop upkeep for consumer goods as well as a mineral upkeep for ships. Betharian power plants are old as hell and were legendary to plenty of us, if there was a batharian deposit on a world then it was an immediate target for colonisation or war, as they could produce ludicrous amounts of energy for the time. You could also have multiple deposits spawn on a single planet, as there were no planetary features, just tiles with deposits and blockers. Alien zoos and alien pets are also ancient. The zoos you could make produced unity and society research. Your leaders also had mandates that you had to fulfill which normally gave you influence for completing them. If you had an imperial government type you could recruit a special army call the Elite Guard. Orbital bombardment was not the only way to actually take planets, as building hundreds of armies could get you the planet faster since there was no surrendering and militia armies only got raised once a battle began therefore you had to build a dozen or so armies anyway.

Dang, the old peace treaty options sound awesome. Now that I'm thinking about it the war system could use a rework

I remember way back in the day when we still had the different ftl drives, a friend and I were dealing with a massive fleet over a million strong with an awakened empire as part of it. We had less than a third their strength between us, but we stomped them because they doomstacked so hard their fleet stretched from one end of a system to another, and I jumped a fleet in on their side while they were busy with my friend's fleet. My tiny battleship fleet literally plowed through that million strong fleet bit-by-bit until the enemy fleet evac'd. All because their fleet was too big to be able to turn all their ships to deal with my one tiny fleet.

Iceberg The best resource pops you can get in vanilla involves a syncratic species origin going cybernetic than "trading" pops to an overtuned genetic ascension empire. Serviles+efficient processors+The cybernetic resource trait trait(+25% of the resource) Then tack on the normal resource trait+the overtuned resource trait+juicepower(+35%) get the omnicodex and that+60% can become 62.5%! Worth it? probably not.

Ironically the caveman corvette spam meta is right back where it began in 2016-17, but now due to a doomhammer on research instead of an OP weapon. Oh Paradox, silly you.

uhhhh anyone remember empire cohesion? It was there like a patch or something, it completly broke my playstyle and made no sense. I believe it was before the empire size thing with bureaucrats jobs

The Paragon exploits would need their own video

I'm just gonna pretend I didn't hear a damn thing about the ship design because my brain can't handle that

Brotha... It just keeps getting bigger, u cant keep explaining it forever, it never ends.

Idk how but even as a console Stellaris player I saw the corrupt boxes and I had no idea wtf they were.