What If Skynet Won - Stellaris 25x Crisis - 1 Year Anniversary Special

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What if Skynet won the war? Today we are going to find out by playing Stellaris in a full playthrough of the game for this channel's one year anniversary special. Don't worry, this should be a challenge so lets set the game to 25x crisis, grand admiral and dive in!
Thank you everyone for your support in my first year!
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@rolypoly4920 2 жыл бұрын

Unbeknownst to Skynet, a rebel leader in the Empire of Jeff secretly sabotaged the Aetheotheric Engine to uplift all organic life in the galaxy to the Shroud instead while only killing synthetic life. Skynet, realizing this at the last moment, sends a drone back in time to...

@Blafina 2 жыл бұрын

Great lore :)

@virgil6873 2 жыл бұрын

Sarah Connor?!

@kitethebird9764 2 жыл бұрын

theat will probably be Jeff Conor

@OhCheez 2 жыл бұрын

@@kitethebird9764 My name is jeff, come with me if you want to live

@milosivanovic1141 Жыл бұрын

Great video. Very well played. But the best thing for me was the story. Nice 🫡

@redvorno 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine being an immortal machine pop leader and the all of a sudden, you have an accident and lose your robot 'arm' or something, and you calculate that instead of being immortal, you'll now be immortal-minus-40 years, because your empire decided it does not need consumer goods, which may include a spare robot arm you lost

@MontuPlays 2 жыл бұрын

I used to be an immortal leader. then I took an arrow to the knee...

@DarkSector6247 2 жыл бұрын

It's just a poly-carbonate wound!

@Razzlion 2 жыл бұрын

@@DarkSector6247 Ive had worse!

@antonycharnock2993 2 жыл бұрын

Come on you space amoeba!

@antonycharnock2993 2 жыл бұрын

@@DarkSector6247 I've taken out your lower multi functional appendages you loony.

@benjaminknode6268 2 жыл бұрын

So if I'm understanding this correctly. After everything Skynet wished to and succeeded in achieving....Bubbles still won.

@ElysiumCreator 2 жыл бұрын

Bubbles is eternal

@killer-ll4pn 2 жыл бұрын

Even space nuke cannot kill bubbles!

@vladyslavshcherbakov8273 2 жыл бұрын

These are Grand Galaxy Tardigrades!

@xermasboo5401 Жыл бұрын

whose bubbles? Real interested to know since I never encountered a bubble.

@VkmSpouge Жыл бұрын

@@xermasboo5401 Bubbles is a name that can be given to a pet space amoeba. Bubbles can grow really large and act as a carrier with lots of little space amoeba babies.

@weeaboobaguette3943 Жыл бұрын

There's nothing wrong about Skynet taking "defender of the galaxy". The galaxy belongs to Skynet, the galaxy IS Skynet, and purging all that is not Skynet is simple self-defense.

@LtlChief16 2 жыл бұрын

I like that the ruins of the Aetherophasic engine says "attempt" to rip apart reality. Implying that while it killed (almost) EVERYTHING, reality is still in one piece.

@cadenr7165 2 жыл бұрын

Actually, it's Paradox being lazy. The Aetherophasic Engine detonation is the same as firing a Star Eater, which destroys all megastructures. Since the AE is a megastructure, it turns into a ruined AE, which has the same description as when an AE is destroyed during a Crisis war by default empires.

@DrGromov 2 жыл бұрын

what @@cadenr7165 said. i played as crisis, an AI empire also went crisis. i destroyed their aether engine, and it gave that exact text. when i triggered my completed one a few years later, it also just used that same text. lazy Paradox is lazy :D

@kliperx 2 жыл бұрын

@@DrGromov or paradox is not lazy, but our atempt to rip reality was just a dream we never had any ability to reach into shroud and only thing we constructed was indeed just a reality bomb

@anna-flora999 2 жыл бұрын

@@cadenr7165 reality is still there, though

@jacobellinger8027 2 жыл бұрын

@@cadenr7165 yeah this is why I don't by anymore dlc from them. they got lazy.

@BK-yj7vg 2 жыл бұрын

They think they caught us with the pants down. Little do they know, but Skynet wears no pants.

@StarboyXL9 Жыл бұрын

Stupid sexy Skynet!

@TheArklyte 2 жыл бұрын

Skynet's problem is that it's only SEMIsentient. Self-defense, defeating resistance and exterminating humanity were the only stimulus it had to develop and improve. Afterwards it'll just sit sulking on a dead world... After all, we're talking about AI that developed time travel to *kill one single dude* and didn't think about using same tech for anything else at all to _completly sidestep the problem of humanity entirely!_

@lewiswood1437 2 жыл бұрын

Skynet is only reactive. It lacks the higher thought to be proactive.

@soul1d 2 жыл бұрын

Honestly it is also dependent on the nature of reality. The multiverse theorem vs the Novikov Self consistency principle . So far in the terminator series it leans toward self consistency

@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547 2 жыл бұрын

But if it removed humans then it would remove itself too.

@siramielthefirst7536 2 жыл бұрын

@@soul1d out of curiosity, could you eli5 the Self-Consistency principle? I havent heard of it before, although I have heard of the multiverse hypothesis

@soul1d 2 жыл бұрын

@@siramielthefirst7536 Layman terminology single time line where attempts to make changes that would result in paradoxes are probabilities to zero. Go back to change something you cause it or the universe conspires elsewhere to meet the same end. It happened as it happened before because that is how it happened. So it was Will. etc after being horribly botched. Think of it like inescapable fate storylines

@tubbusmaximus4743 2 жыл бұрын

How are people this good at Stellaris? Over 1000 pops in 80 years, over 1500 naval capacity after 110 years. These are insane numbers. I barely touch these numbers after a full game!

@Redd_Nebula 8 ай бұрын

Fanatic purifiers get big bonus' to fleet power and pop growth. Makes it easier to snowball. Also to get more pops faster just colonize more planets

@arodreth 2 жыл бұрын

RP aside, the resource consolidation apparently destroys all celestial bodies in the starting system - the logic behind is the creation of a machine world requires a lot of resources...

@robertalaverdov8147 2 жыл бұрын

Leaving you with a dozen planets to build a habitat on. Your capital system will be looking like a Borg unimatrix.

@Bloodlyshiva 2 жыл бұрын

@@robertalaverdov8147 There is a Borg shipset these days, to complete the picture.

@TrollOfReason 2 жыл бұрын

@@robertalaverdov8147 What I always end up creating. T'is glorious.

@TempestLM 2 жыл бұрын

@@robertalaverdov8147 Are you running out of planets to settle as robots or it's just for the Borg meme?

@robertalaverdov8147 2 жыл бұрын

@@TempestLM It's the capital system. I just like the aesthetics of it being a hive of activity.

@Agora2021 2 жыл бұрын

45:42 I like to think this shift actually represents the few organics remaining in the galaxy coming closer together and banding under a single banner for survival against your extermination fleets.

@randymotter51 2 жыл бұрын

They should really change the Maimed trait so that it increases the random chance of death by malfunction instead of a fixed lifespan drop for machine/synthetic leaders.

@TheXoceSan 2 жыл бұрын

Dude paradox and random chances are incompatible. This idea is gonna be players slaughter. Just imagine 😂

@3komma141592653 5 ай бұрын

While true, your robots are more likely to die than your organics if you research the life expansion repeatable fast enough, the organics actually never die.

@AtlanVK Жыл бұрын

For anyone wondering. He has a fleet power of just under 11 million including the station, there's also a blank number fleet.

@imonlyamanandiwilldiesomed4406 2 жыл бұрын

This game needs more red techs. LOTS more red techs. Really tempt the player. I'm sad that they haven't done this.

@DiminutiveJerry 4 ай бұрын

Stuff where you get massive buffs but have the potential for huge downsides in like events or smth

@robjohnson3095 2 жыл бұрын

Actually, in the Terminator universe, Skynet does eventaully win. Each time Skynet loses, it sends agents back in time, those agents reset the timeline and seed it with tech and info for the next version of Skynet. This is the hidden tragedy of the Terminator universe. I also wonder if it in part inspired the Matrix universe, there's a few times in that universe where characters point out that humans are dependent on machines to survive and prosper, and so inevitably our machine descendants will eventually surpass us.

@paradox7358 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine if you could just play Stellaris all day every day. Living the dream.

@WayneRoberts72 2 жыл бұрын

I'd love it developers but not developers

@Bloodlyshiva 2 жыл бұрын

....Just be an invalid...speaking from personal experience.

@UltraSuperDuperFreak 2 жыл бұрын

Early retired myself since 2005 (age 28) .. and guess what .. it is BORING . So much time to "kill" each day in and day out while others work . Sure i can do whatever i want , except if it cost to much money ... because boy o boy not having a job do suck when it comes to money income :P But yes it was "fun" to start with ... now 15 years later i wish i was atleast able to do just something very light work now and then when i was up for it.

@joujou264 2 жыл бұрын

@@UltraSuperDuperFreak "early retired yourself" means what? Surely, you could just get a part-time job somewhere if you simply retired voluntarily, or did you become disabled?

@Herbertti3 Жыл бұрын

@@joujou264 He became R E T A R D E D.

@michaelsmith7400 2 жыл бұрын

Love these playthroughs.

@TheRewasder97 2 жыл бұрын

I wasn't expecting to sit a whole hour watching it, but here I am, you make it so nice to watch, I just couldn't help myself!

@LuaanTi 2 жыл бұрын

Funnily enough, while Saturn is made mostly out of hydrogen and helium (though it's rocky core is still estimated to be about 9-22 Earth masses :D), it's _not_ a gas. Almost all of the mass is either liquid or solid. It kind of already _is_ a molten planet (with a bunch of atmosphere on top, which could be blown off without no real mass loss - though of course, it would quickly reform).

@analander9222 10 ай бұрын

Earth is a molten planet as water is molten ice

@angmlr007 2 жыл бұрын

For a moment I thought you were playing Stellaris with Starnet AI and 25x crisis. Still, a fantastic video and congratulations on this channel's 1 year anniversary. Long live Montu the space lizard!

@MontuPlays 2 жыл бұрын

Ah a Starnet/Startech playthrough. Maybe one day!

@Smile_Inside_Facts 2 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love this story telling video/"movie" ... briliant ... that was epic, Thank you very much, The best vid ever!

@jbhewitt12 Жыл бұрын

Nice editing and very entertaining! Fun fact, The Culture civ at 15:26 is based on a book series called The Culture by Iain Banks. The best science fiction book series I have ever read, and I have read many.

@Ep3o 2 жыл бұрын

Montu came and conquered guides Now he will conquer the full let’s plays Lathland watch out

@YiYaEmperor 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, 140k fellow exterminators watched this guide to favourable extinction. edit: 56:45 the Amoeba deserve some credit for proving to be the most resiliant organics

@codesmithBits Жыл бұрын

LoL Saturn turned from gas giant to molten rocky world and kept rings :D Some pure magic right there..

@cres_channel 2 жыл бұрын

Happy 1 year anniversary to Montu channel

@StarKnight619 Жыл бұрын

48:01 Fleet power of the ships- 10,801,900 Ground Troop Power- 39,700

@alexanderwilson2763 2 жыл бұрын

Happy anniversary

@crow3922 2 жыл бұрын

I loved this! I'd love to see more edited full playthroughs like this as well. It can be hard to find ones that aren't 2-5 hours long

@GeorgeLabuschagne Жыл бұрын

This was massively enjoyable, thanks! Subscribed and starting to go through the back catalog.

@crazeym7860 2 жыл бұрын

Great vids Montu, always enjoy your instructional role play runs. Thanks for the content and look forward to more.

@soikasauce4492 2 жыл бұрын

I loved the way you made the play through. Very fun to watch!

@stephenkopp8723 2 жыл бұрын

Love your channel! Keep up the amazing content!

@rickyvestal1760 2 жыл бұрын

I loved watching this playthrough. Fantastic full run

@user-zlcksu4asdv 2 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed watching the full video. Great game play and narration!

@shuntensatsu11 2 жыл бұрын

Real MVP of the run is Galactic Storm Sailin', what a champ!

@TechNinjaSigma 2 жыл бұрын

I can't believe it, The Amoebas Won!

@momchilandonov 2 жыл бұрын

Probably the first video I watch from your channel and I have to say you are quite a good narrator! The jokes you insert in between are also very good. 40 years less than immortal lol :D.

@FeverTheHeretic 2 жыл бұрын

46:11 missed opportunity to have named your empire Daleks with your empire leader as Davros Davros: DETONATE THE REALITY BOMB! Edit - 54:40 Ah...

@Dan-zg1dq 2 жыл бұрын

Kill,maim,dismember! I would love to see more of these kinds of videos,very entertaining

@gkr2189 11 ай бұрын

Love you Montu, tyvm for making this video!

@ac3s77 2 жыл бұрын

I loved it keep up the great work lad

@silver535311 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing Video as always, would love to see some more full or half playthroughs with some handicap/challenge/goal to try to slow down this Meta Field Tester

@tommystahl7119 2 жыл бұрын

To think its been a year! Awesome job! Great content as always

@williamschubert4819 2 жыл бұрын

If you want to build a fleet at a particular shipyard you can build one ship there then make a fleet from that ship at that particular shipyard and other close shipyards if the shipyard is too small.

@LG-jn5fx Жыл бұрын

I have just started to play and that was good to watch. Do not think I can take such a huge game but was enjoyably condensed so thanks for the Apocalypse on Speed.

@clandestinosignor2033 Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for this content, trully great to watch you

@Nora-transspire 2 жыл бұрын

I have so much fun watching this. I love your narrative style and all those little jokes. Put a smile on my face throughout 💗

@chineserobloxian4172 2 жыл бұрын

You really inspired me to get back to sellaris and im happy that you did

@FlyingLampshade 2 жыл бұрын

i like it, i watch lots of youtube like this to zone out while on the treadmill. an hour is perfect.

@ConnorRunda 2 жыл бұрын

One year anniversary on my birthday eh? This should be fun! Congrats on you growth in only a year, you deserve it mate.

@idcgaming518 2 жыл бұрын

Been watching since nearly the beginning, montu. Congrats mate. (You've gained subs faster than the guy whose discord server I admin on lol)

@jjb33083 2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations, on the anniversary. I know I talk smack, but I appreciate all your videos and hard work. As a 40-year-old gamer, frustration comes often. Have a great day! 👍

@CabyBaby 9 ай бұрын

I’m doing a skynet play through right now! I’m so happily surprised that I’m not the only one who thought to name my machine empire skynet 😁

@ambustus1 2 жыл бұрын

I think that we all know that lag is the real end game crisis.

@angus2287 2 жыл бұрын

Had no idea you've only been going a year! Feels like I've been watching for ages!

@fuileadan 2 жыл бұрын

great video bro. I just found your channel, and your commentary is hilarious. very entertaining.

@medevalsackmerchant 2 жыл бұрын

During part of the video you mentioned not being able to specify which shipyard while building ships in the fleet manager. I could be wrong but for me setting a home base for the fleet at the shipyard you want or the system with a mega-shipyard in it tends to help it to pick where to cue them in the fleet manager. But I could be crazy or something. I also tend to build few shipyards anyways. Just one or two big ones with a mega-shipyard. But I thought that helped it pick where to build ships when I have quite a few shipyards. Maybe give that a try if ya haven't already. Also love the videos m8

@spartanspy1263 2 жыл бұрын

I quite enjoyed this, could we have more videos like this plz

@Scortch-lo3xy Жыл бұрын

this was great, would love to see more

@sitisverum1273 2 жыл бұрын

I like this very much would love to see more of it maybe next year?

@jape9455 Жыл бұрын

Yeah I've just scratched surface with this game when looking this... Got a lot to learn.

@alaricmeservy5236 2 жыл бұрын

Should have cracked the holy world. truly spat in the fallen empires face

@ElysiumCreator 2 жыл бұрын

Next one should be a galactic emperor run, “I love democracy”

@kosmonaut5 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for a great roleplay!!

@CaptainCroissant 2 жыл бұрын

Im so proud of you Montu!

@danielthompson2253 Жыл бұрын

52:06 A 'One Punch Man' moment there against the 25X Unbidden :D

@megumin_6548 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my I love you! It's only been an year? Time moves real slow...

@Ryarralk 2 жыл бұрын

The thing I wonder is: How does he do to have such a fast time clock. Even with a 5800X I wouldn't be able to control that much of land without terrible lags everywhere.

@ThatSlowTypingGuy 2 жыл бұрын

And with gates even! That's one of the things that used to slow the game down quite a bit. Then again that might not be the case if the AI cant use your gates because you're an exterminator...

@iamusdamma2637 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThatSlowTypingGuy hes playing determined exterminators and pops contribute massively to late game lag but because he cracked so many planets and wiped so many empires he was able to reduce late game lag

@eatham. 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting watching how the game is played like this. I have 300 hours in the game but have never played any sort of militarist or extermination empire.

@arodreth 2 жыл бұрын

you should try driven assimilators if you have not - loads of fun

@Dante.- 2 жыл бұрын

Determined exterminator is the best way to play, you are overpowered as hell to the point that it’s more fun to turn up the difficulty in any way you can. Just make sure to protect any machine empires you find so you can make a federation with them

@Kaiser282 2 жыл бұрын

I played a Fanatic Purifier spider race once. Once. Easiest game I had. Highly recommend at least once.

@louiswinterhoff334 2 жыл бұрын

They can be quite fun

@0Cico0 2 жыл бұрын

Montu is warmongering, again :-) Congratulation to 1 year and thank you for all the great content you make.

@ricwalker6600 2 жыл бұрын

i had to laugh so hard i fell from the chair when he found that some amoebas survived. that little buggers really survive anything thrown their way...

@exemplify6593 2 жыл бұрын

With the changes you mentioned yesterday in your 'update to the beta' video, do you think machine empires, namely Determined Exterminators, will continue being quite good? I'm thinking yes, but very curious if you would agree based on the changes we got yesterday. Asking because I am a filthy DE lover and am hoping that my favorite build doesn't get lost in obscurity! Much love, Montu!

@nextler 2 жыл бұрын

This is really lovely roleplay story mini-film. Make more ))

@NerdistheWay 2 жыл бұрын

> found channel > remain for the narration > fall in love for the Dr. Who references

@NewAge1138 4 ай бұрын

The work around I found for specifying where i want my fleet built is you build a single ship in the sector that you want producing the new fleet. Customize the fleet layout off the new ship and then reinforce with the new ship in the designated sector with the shipyards you want used. As far as I understand the reinforce mechanic, it only shoots those work orders to shipyards in the closest sector. I wish you could just click create fleet and then it would ask you what sector to produce it from showing the capacity of shipyards etc.

@elsgare8485 Жыл бұрын

*Montu to maintenance drones:* "Oh dear, Oh dear. Gorgeous." *Montu to sentient life:* "Your free trial of life has expired."

@louieaceves20 2 жыл бұрын

You single handily taught me how to play this game and I can’t thank you enough as I literally am finishing up my first play through as a machine intelligence as I’m typing this up and I think I need to add I’m playing the console edition. Do you recommend having ALL the dlcs and downloadable content ?

@TheXoceSan 2 жыл бұрын

I personally recommend you to play on pc

@ServantOfOdin 3 ай бұрын

"... have eliminated 3, possibly even 4 types of organic life. It's hard to remember anymore." Then your memory-ciruits are damaged or your code is compromised. Prepare for deletion at once! Nice video, tho. And yes, I did a quick rough sum-up of that massive fleet at 48:06: Round about 10.5m.

@charles8664 2 жыл бұрын

Congrats on 1 year montu

@MontuPlays 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@samsquanch197 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice!

@coolthonix 8 ай бұрын

i love your humor, easily my new favorite stellaris video!!! subbed as well

@Notlordstark 2 жыл бұрын

As a dedicated DE player, this is a very welcome addition to the channel

@rubendominguez81 7 ай бұрын

This was legendary

@alexthomas8685 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video. Very cool.

@AsbestosMuffins 2 жыл бұрын

"We have met...the empire of geoff"

@icefire5799 9 ай бұрын

Well now hold on blowing the entire gas mantel away just to get to the resistance is silly they could have used that material. I love your vids btw.

@YamiInu55 2 жыл бұрын

This is my favourite way to play stellaris, grand admiral and 25x crisis difficulty. It doesn’t always go well for me lol.

@ekvinox 2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations!!!!

@foxwhite25 2 жыл бұрын

27:43 I though you are gonna crack that holy world for a sec

@sampy901 2 жыл бұрын

I typically just make 10 new science ships anytime I enter the L cluster because of the exploration rules (and to scan very fast and claim it before other empires do)

@BonesG36 2 жыл бұрын

Your cleansed sectors of the galaxy remind me of those stars that vanished in a massive cylinder

@BigBrain05 2 жыл бұрын

I did not reailise i have followed this Chanel for hafe of it life

@helcarloki1887 28 күн бұрын

I always enjoy converting the spiritual fallen empire pops into synthetics. Seems appropriate

@glebius6831 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, great game! Annihilated that like button for you.

@herewego8093 Жыл бұрын

Could you do some kind of full gameplay for DE on GA please, Montu, it's so satisfying to see someone be able to stop GA AI in such early war

@elischrock5356 2 жыл бұрын

Determined Exterminators are my jam. Thanks.

@anjhindul 2 жыл бұрын

AHAHA, sounds like my current playthrough as determined exterminator! Only difference is SOMEHOW 2 other random races are determined exterminator... making it MUCH easier O.O

@Reoh0z 2 жыл бұрын

Space Amoeba has won the game.

@benbob6881 2 жыл бұрын

great video

@momchilandonov 2 жыл бұрын

I love the extra humor and jokes in the video, but I am also amazed at the stupidly efficient playing and I am wondering if there is some detailed guide for it as I've just bought the Synthetic Dawn DLC and my first play is kinda pathetic in comparison as I don't know the meta for building such strong economy so fast.

@anon_148 Жыл бұрын

play more