Evolution 🦾

it's totally logical, and there could not be anything else that could’ve happened.

"All these squares make a circle..."

It still goes to the square hole, though

*distant screaming*

oh dear; the real enemy has revealed themselves!

Did you mean prefix?

another fun thing is every next bitcoin takes more energy to mine than the last and considering blokkats have evidently been at it for a long time they probably mine like 2 coins from devouring a whole galaxy to add to billions of coins they probably already have

Depends on if you believe the blokkats are lying when they claim to be trying to stop the heat death of the universe.

That would be the story of the Prethoryn Scourge. The path of constructing a gigantic ark ship to escape the Blokkats is being worked on, so it will be an option at some point.

Be cool too if your civilization did escape, you get to start fresh in a new galaxy and play that.

@@mikesmicroworlds4566 with your hard earned tech of course

@@braydenlanglois8417 haha yeah. Maybe a few things disappear but I agree

@@Noctazar YEAAAAA

Fleet power: immeasurable

Why did you have to remind me of that? Now its going to be in my head for the next few days!

Din din! I want chicken, I want liver, meow mix, meow mix, please deliver!

Sadly, Nyan Cat was not so reasonable as the Blokkats. There would be no escape from its haunting song.

@@columbien10 economic power: pathetic Technological power: equivalent Fleet power: Overwhelming

They're actually VERY heavily implied to be exactly that. Researching one of the Blokkat-related techs has associated text about how they wiped out an "intergalactic organic hive mind" that is still fleeing from them to this day, and if the Scourge is active in the Galaxy when the Blokkats arrive the Scourge crisis just ends, as they hurry to escape the galaxy.

@@foreskinfairy8975 Really that is a very cool added feature of the mod from a narrative perspective. When the Blokkats arrive they just high tail it out of there like "screw this I'm outta here".

​@thorshammer7883 yea basically All their hive worlds turn i to fleets and they just rush to a specific system in a panic Anny fleets that reach the system just leave

@@foreskinfairy8975 they are outright stated to be the hunters in the GSE reddit post UNTILL the stellaris team actually states otherwise

Why all of this kind of contetnt has to be so cringy AF with some ridiculous block cats reffering to Necrons from 40K by their colours and technological supremacy? Isn't there any other fantasies fit for Stellaris except some furry woke shit? FFS

I’m sorry but even if we defeat Blokkats what are we going to do with the heat death of the universe? Them being destroyed is not a long term solution, I think that on the future after them being fought off for like more than 1000 times they would negotiate with other civilisations, I think that the sole reason for them to harvest is because they do not know about the shroud and therefore couldn’t pump energy out of it

The Kaiser has defeated the Blokkats

still a shame that the portrait for the Katzen changed. It’s a literal fursona now lmaoo

So they're Emperor Palpatine and the Blokkats is like the Yuuzhan Vong lol

@@VexingWeeb I had the exact same thought

It slows my computer - and it's a top of the line gaming computer.

I will have to try it on my new computer.

You gotta build a matroskha brain as a pc to handle it a class O star one

Noobs never constructed plantetcrafts or systemcraft and thought they stand any chance against kitties 😂

I'd recommend giving a mod called production revolution a look. It greatly helps reduce mid- and endgame lag by reducing pops without effecting productivity or gameplay too much. It also has a patch for gigastructural engineering.

I’m familiar with ACOT, but what are the other two acronyms?

@@TheNinthGenerarion ACOT secrets beyond the gate and acquisition of technologies, which are extra mods for acot

I'm not gonna lie, as an xbox pleb, you just spoke chinese to me.

@@1.-ulysses334 as a console player my first thought after reading that was “hey I understood some of those words!”

Freaking thank you. I have been so confused as to what difficulty to select.

It's too over the top for my personal taste.

One of my favorite things to do in it is to start as a Rogue Servitor that humanity built, and then convert the entire sol system into gaia worlds... all while kidnapping every other pop in the game to put them on these worlds - including Pre-FTL civilizations.

darkspace is a pretty strong contender, we also mods like warship girl r.

it would be impossible to change your mind, because i agree aswell.

What about ancient cache of tech

You want total annihilation now or later?

My first playthrough of with these guys left me panicking, lost half of the galaxy, but man the tech you can gain were insane!

Is that lore confirmed recently? Going by the Gigastructure wiki there exists a pan galactic alliance that is fighting against the Blokkats with comparable technological level, with more worlds joining said alliance. In timelines where the Kaiser wins against the Blokkats he even leads this galaxy to join the alliance and fight the Blokkats main fleet. So it wouldn't make sense for the Blokkats to blow up every galaxy that successfully defeat their harvesters.

They only tend to blow galaxies up as an absolute last resort much akin to an exterminatus... they would rather not do this

​@@zekeiyf2003what tech they give after you defeat them?

Same here!

Same here xD

Gigstructures is such an iconic mod pack that it's a main stay of a majority of collections

The what?

The what?

im sorry. what mod?

I dunno, on hardest you need a fleet of more than 1 billion fleet power to beat the eternal empire, with this you can beat blokkats (although it is feasible to lose fleets if your careless).

Twinks mod?

Fun fact! In lore, your fighting the equivalent of a mining fleet with some "just in case" escorts, and now that you've proved to be an actual threat the blokkats will send a proper attack fleet to snuff you out. If you manage to handle THAT, they break out the heavy artillery and vaporize your entire galaxy from intergalactic space. They don't do this to begin with bc its inefficient, but the galaxy has to go somehow bc large clumps of matter can damage the harvest field

@@samuelcrow4701 Jeah, I guess I could Take on the warfleet with some time to prepare, but the heavy artillery would be a death sentence

@@samuelcrow4701 true But *they will be ready*

@@samuelcrow4701 Man. The blokkats are so incredibly pathetic. Its like that one kid that always just went "Nuh uh, You can't defeat me, I have an anti everything shield!" but turned into a mod. Hell, the devs straight up threw a tantrum once people easily beat them, and made them even harder out of spite. Its the least interesting form of challenge, a challenge of just "who has the highest number"

@@jurajsintaj6644 I bet you're fun at parties

setting the blokkats to their highest difficulty is practically a deathwish no matter what mods you put on

​@@_apsis*laughs in quasarcraft*

@@factualhat3018 laughs in comands

@@juannfd5976*Laughs in anime*

@@juannfd5976 cries in no additional mods

its implied the numbers are so insane thats not even that scale like on MAX diffulty mode where its ddescribes them sending the best of the best fleet they have at you is still not even 1 1000th of there actual fleet numbers. the blokkats can only be stopped if enough species stall them at the same time making them starve with there very energy hungry tech.

The fleet doesn't even have proper combat ship, it IS a civilian industrial fleet. Most of their "weapon" from the beam that disintegrate all matter, 4d black hole cannon, absolute hot cannon and dimensional emitter is technically repurposed mining equipment.

I guess in that sense they kinda like the Aliens in Independence Day, but with a somewhat more valid reason and way more competent?

​@@blacksnow7106Or the Tyranids. Just combining all energy, not just all biological matter. And with a bit better motive beyond HUNGIE!

Wish those fleets luck fighting of “Empire of Midgard”

Thanks Apex :) More to come in the future! Appreicate the superthanks!!

Not true. Just get enough fleets to successfully Galactic Nemesis. Galaxy can't lag if you blow it up and win the game.

Ummmm..... Can you explain?

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Show her 1 Peter 3. Just read it

Hope you enjoy it!

Thanks very much!! I'm open to most topics, but some will always be more popular than others and I also would quite like to enjoy what i'm doing :) That said, I know nothing about Strugatsky!!

You can get it very cheap on cd keys!

Incorrect. The Xeelee consider the bisection of galaxies with their cosmic strings as mere.....bullets. “We are truly in the middle of a war zone,” Uvarov said coldly. “This galaxy, with the bullet of cosmic string aimed so accurately at its heart, is merely one incident among ten million in a huge battlefield. To our fleeting perceptions the field is frozen in time-we buzz like flies around the bullet as it hurtles into the chest of its target-and yet the battle rages all around us.” -Ring, Ch. 27 Not to mention in Canon Gigastructural lore time travel is nigh impossible. In the Xeelee sequence? Now the antiXeelee turned to its last task. Seed pods, spinning cubes as large as worlds, were scattered everywhere in an orderly array, millions of them dispersed over the unraveling curve of space. The antiXeelee ran metaphorical fingers over each of the pods and over what lay within: beings with closed eyes, ships with folded wings, refined reflections of the antiXeelee itself. The work was good. And now it was ready. ...There was a discontinuity. All over the Universe the pods vanished like soap bubbles. The seed pods' long journey back through time had begun. They would emerge a mere hundred thousand years after the singularity itself, at the moment when the temperature of the cosmos had cooled sufficiently for matter and radiation to become decoupled - so that the infant Universe became suddenly transparent, as if with a clash of cymbals. Then the creatures within would unfold their limbs, and the long Project of the Xeelee would begin. -Vacuum Diagrams, "Secret History" Next time actually know what you are talking about before you speak gibberish.

@@infantrytactics1233 damn bro xeelee got hands

Compared to the amount of lore and work put into the Katzens I'm frankly not surprised the Blokkats were done first. Much easier to parse as a lot of this is reading the event notes you get in game.

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Can confirm. On top of that they revive as well.

To put it mildly, the Blokkats come in on normal difficulties with a fleet comprising of a single Bagger 288, and the rest being basic Jeaps holding a single mining rig. None of them are equipped with any form of military hardware.

To give an example: the blokkat corvette is the terminator and has a base 1 billion hull points (this goes up with difficulty to 5 billion) It has an absolutely absurd amount of eviktor rays (strongest blokkat weapon in the mod rn) and can easily deal with a dozen systemcraft without breaking a sweat Oh and thats the corvette for them by the way just to make that clear

​@@pokemonfanmario7694 *pulls out stellarite-enchanced ACOT systemcraft* kitty kitty kitty!

If you're speaking clear lore, no, because acot is purposefully made "way out there" in terms of power scaling In terms of gameplay, the blokkats would win

ACOT is batshit insane and bullshittingly OP because the creator is a shitposter who barely knows how to write coherent lore. Gigas at the very least, tries to make coherent lore, though elects to ignore the player's existence and tries a more "realistic" take on how everything works. Also it has recently incorporated the concept of the multiverse being other Stellaris Mods, and thus "collisions" happen during the gigas universal cycle that can make even ACOT merge with the gigas universe for a few cycles at a time.

Sad face XD

@@pokemonfanmario7694 I can't disagree, I'd like ACOT much more if it actually took itself a bit more seriously.

Lore wise, yeah, the Stellarborne shit all over the blokkats. Gameplay wise..... I dunno, has anyone ever actually compared Deathwish Stellarborne against Obliterator Blokkats? (Those are the hardest difficulty choices for each, IIRC) You'd have to compare just ship/fleet capabilities though, since the Blokkat vester cant be touched without the Destabilizer....

The best part about giga crisises is that they have an accual unique mechanics tied to them instead of being just blobs of ships.

Maybe, but why not just fight the blokkats?

@@TheRedKing Same reason the Prethoryn Scourge doesn't fight it. Hiding seems more realistic than fighting.

@@anotherperson2627 the blokkats don't care about *you*, or your empire. they're not after intergalactic genocide specifically. they just want to harvest the energy in your galaxy, some of which is tied up in people.

I believe that was the intention of the Blokkats creator :)

@@TheRedKing The great and mighty Red King has replied to my comment, now this is a good day indeed. By the way, keep up you good work, love your videos.

Aha! Happy to deliver then, I plan to cover more Giga and other modded stuff in the future :) Hopefully I'll do it justice!!

@@TheRedKing I look forward to your eventual video on the Aeternum and their birch world then!

​@@TheRedKingHope you cover the Katzen's and ACOT. And United Fleet too they might be more busted then the Blokkats

Me too!

There’s a lot like Katzen imperium

Unsure what a protogen is (even after googling) so maybe!?

It is complicated, but it also has insane depth, i'd recommend it trying it out :)

@@TheRedKing thanks also you earnt a sub ive watched a fair few of your videos and they are deffinately interesting

Love to hear it!! I hope they enjoy them!

@@TheRedKing they do, your majesty, they do.

Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed it!

yeah they are just supposed to be a challenge to people who meta game and build up the best they can with gigastructures.

Given the 40k galaxy is actual galaxy size, the blokkats are gonna need a few more vesters

@@samuelcrow4701 According to lore, it can spawn about a million dismantlers at a time. So no, it doesn't need more Vester. And it is not like anything in 40k barring actual Chaos God, Old One, and maybe WiH Necron can do anything to a lone Dismantler. Since the ultimate weapon of Speranza (black hole launcher) is merely an average torpedo for the Blokkat, and they can directly harvest the Warp too, there is nothing anyone else could do to even scratch their paint job. And depending on what Chosen One in Stellaris equalize to (that is the psychic power of your average Blokkat, mind you) they might be able to kick the Chaos God's asses in their domain.

@@samuelcrow4701i guess it depends on whether you believe that stellaris is logarithmic and / or representative, iow if you think each ship is one ship or if it represents thousands or millions, and if the systems ahown in game w are the only systems or if they are representative/capital planets of sectors.

@@tungleson7066I'm dubious about how your t getting your numbers

@@cosmictreason2242 They were told them in a dream. I really don't understand people simping for the blokkats. Its just the creation of a "You can kill my action man, he has an anti everything shield" child. Okay, thats a bit too harsh, but they are just a challenge to make the game non extremely boring due to the op nature of gigastructures. The "bigger number" solution to the "big number" problem created by the mod itself, if you will.

Glad you enjoy it!

Very cool shipset indeed, love the work :)

I'll try!

The Compound are more or less broken at the moment and due for a major rework. Compared to the Blokkats, the Kaiser crisis actually has the most lore and content of anything in GSE, by far. Since they show up pretty early it transforms the entire game in a way post-crisis factions don't.

@@dark7element The blokkats have post crisis lore as well, but it is... a little underwhelming, by comparison, in some ways.

I intend to cover them all eventually :)

That's the plan, eventually at least!! :)

Play Blokkats on Obliterator difficulty and you'll see their second smallest military ship.

Obliterator diff gives you a single obliterator (their equivalent of something inbetween a cruiser and a battleship in class) its just as absurd as its name suggests

More to come!

@@TheRedKing well, the transmission, the preparation, the age of gigastructures... That seems to be setting things up somthing that could be described as a great war, a final war. Kinda like how every war agingst the blokkats tends to be

A lengthy discussion of what the Atom Shredder is supposed to be ensued.

Haha! Very kinda of you, I hope it happens one day :)

@@TheRedKing One day, your channel will just explode. The ammount of effort & A+ scripting proves that. You'll see & if it doesn't, it's a damn Crime. Keep on keeping on, friend! :)

Glad you enjoyed it!! :)

Yes Or broke up into several As all that at once would loght my series x on fire haha

no, it's cheaper this way

⁠@@antimaster6432wise man

Thanks for listening!! :)

Thanks 😁 glad you liked it!!

Nothing, they are shielded from it there is an event around it kinda funny first time you do it

He'd need a detailed explanation of what the stellarborne are and how they work, because the overwhelming vast majority of acot lore isn't actually in the mod at all. The only reason I myself know as much about it as I do is because I spent years talking to its creator about it on discord.

@@taelim6599 also in game alot of the lore is straight up fallen empires lying to you.

@@taelim6599 and we also spent years rewriting things all the time. to my great painful existence.

The Sad Panada that exists somewhere still stirs.

I have much to learn :)

I'll take a look :)

@@TheRedKing God, i hope you are prepared for it because 50% if im being generous here are direct and indirect memes. and the other 50% are all the main lore. (funny enough its quite a hefty lore too, its just Stellaris Fallen Empires Origin but racked up by the community)