I BROKE the new Stellaris Origin because I can (Fruitful Partnership Edition)

[@A_Spec]

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[@prosyndication21]

The first 20 minutes of this video is a trip down karma lane. Starts off great, then the game just takes your toys from you.

[@jagothegamer5750]

When you sent in Shard by himself, that is the same reason I always keep an escort around my Juggernaut, because this game tends to like hordes more than one big ship (also I think they nerf the leviathans when you resurrect them)

[@A_Spec]

It's just utter pain

[@cringelord7776]

They do not, the reanimated leviathans get plus 50 percent damage, it’s because the jump drive decreases fire rate that shard was completely overwhelmed

[@glenmcgillivray4707]

The game clearly uses targeting priorities. Which is to say when you enter combat it seems to love sniping your Titans out from under your fleet despite you possessing Battleships and cruiser carriers it could kill far easier. Instead your titan dies first. So I stopped. I just use non-combat Titans and expect them to all die. Or stack all my Titans in one fleet and watch their Titan Lances to Blap at space stations and just keep them away from hostile fleets, usually escorting my invasion fleet keeping chaff away

[@goldenhate6649]

Historically the issue with titans is that they liked to get in closer than bb’s. I just set them to carrier and sit in back.

[@TheotherTempestfox]

Leviathan fleet power is mostly from its health not its firepower. So yeah, they are a giant brick you can use in your fleet but really not great on their own.

[@briwanderz]

unless they've changed it, those seed pods on the other planets can be activated even if it is NOT in your empire, you don't need to build an outpost, so, instead of building an outpost AND a colony ship, you just activate the seed pod.. so, 3000 credits versus 100 metal and influence for the outpost plus whatever the cost of the colony ship, and not using up your shipyard for the long time it takes to build a colony ship. also they deposit seeds on ALL planets, inhabited by pre-ftl or other empires... so you have soldiers for an attack already there too. nothing revolutionary but, it's interesting. i would let some of them go out and drop seeds, and cordyceps some others... unfortunately the game is crashing on my laptop so can't try it right now to make sure it didn't change since beta.

[@briwanderz]

ok, tested it, you can in fact colonize planets far far away from your regular space.. the tiyanki can take the seed pods, carry them through worm holes right from the start and deposit them on the other side of the galaxy, even if you can't get there you can colonize the planet and get a free outpost... i even got one of the somewhat special planets that way, the planet with the locust swarm over it, which is a tiny gaia planet, colonized it from random seed pod drop by tiyanki. oddly the first planet they seeded i did have to get a science ship somewhat close to get partial coverage before i could open the seed pod.. but the other planets i did not..

[@Sukharno2121]

I played it out of curiosity last week. 3000 energy instead of 75 influence, 300 alloys, 400 of other stuff and the fact you don't need to survey the system or send a construction ship is a F-ing steal. If you focus a little more effort early you can get a ton of systems for just energy and at fraction of the normal time. The onus for this is that you can't really control where it's going to pop.

[@TehKang]

With how long you've played this game I couldn't believe you sent in Shard by herself considering how hard you stomped her with your own fleet which was about equivalent to the Chosen fleet you jumped on lol But thank you for this vid. You just gave me a great idea for a Fungoid hive mind with necrophage, cordyceps and fruitful partnership

[@AurumStella]

Unfortunately Necrophage and Fruitful Partnership are both origins, so you can't do them both.

[@TehKang]

@@AurumStella Ah forgot. Thank yah much for the reminder. Though I'm sure there's a mod that could make that madness reality lol

[@briannaherrington949]

Life Seeded Origin Grunur Precursor Azaryn the Gaia Seeder joins you Best ultra Gaia World combo

[@syrusalder7795]

maxed out gaia seeders do give pops a cool trait every few years that make them even better at working on gaias so its not too bad to get grunur

[@PerfectAlibi1]

Also getting the deceptive giant event close to your homeworld for a juicy massive planet ^^

[@briannaherrington949]

I forgot about that size 30 deceptive giant anomaly

[@PerfectAlibi1]

@@briannaherrington949 Actually, it can be MUCH bigger than that, I've seen upward to size 40-50! ^^

[@iluvpandas2755]

Get the gaia terraforming tradition

[@Nomadic_Gaming]

that beautiful moment when you’re like oh man, the crisis has no shields, but then you realize that you have no shields and their weapons do massive damage against armor and hull Also, why are you not using bypass weapons versus them? That’s traditionally been there weakness or is that no longer the case with more recent updates?

[@user-jj7xy9we7h]

Aspec gambling while the galaxy burns... truly a high lord of terra

[@williammartin50]

AI splitting up their fleets is such a huge mistake that they make. I recently had a save where my fleets numbering ~5 mill were wiped out in a single engagement because I wasn't paying close enough attention to notice every AI bringing their fleets together, so at this point I thought all was lost but they just split up all the fleets letting me build back up and somehow win the game.

[@ace_the_race9340]

Did anyone else notice he missed a one-system empire at the end of the game? Bummer.

[@AndrewBezdenezhnykh]

that were the traders, not a regular empire

[@ThatCanadianGamer374]

First time I played with Cordyceptic Drones I spawned near an Amoeba system and snowballed into around 50k power by the first century

[@RealViktoa]

I literally had my primary empire named "The Chosen" as they are the chosen ones for greatness. Such a weird and proud feeling seeing them in an Aspec video.

[@reddeviledeggs1001]

Yeah there's a set chance now of another l-gate like system that is accessible through a wormhole. They contain a fanatic purifier called "the Chosen" who owns a couple of gaia worlds and an advanced start. They start invadin around mid game i think?

[@Midnight-wh2bs]

@@reddeviledeggs1001 They don't have a set time to start invading, it just generally happens sometime in mid-game as that's when they'll usually end up getting the wormhole tech.

[@galensturupcomeau1242]

Ah galactic force projection. At the right time that fleet power increase can be clutch

[@harozuken]

If you want to crank this into overdrive, get a scientist with the Salvager trait, and steal the enemy Empire's ships as well.

[@Zathurious]

Yeah cordeceptic reanimaters should be mutually exclusive with fruitful partnership. Oh and, you are a horrible person for doing that. Also, Fallen Empires need a huge buff.

[@agenteiegaming]

i am doing a no shipyard challenge with this stuff I knew i had to after seeing fruitful partnership

[@Darlf_Sevil]

3:10 colony ship cost, starbase cost in alloys and influence

[@Tick421]

3000 pays the influence, food, and alloys to immediately build start colonizing and immediately take control of the system as well. So you’re skipping resources build time and travel time when you math it out 3000 is actually super cheap in energy. And you can so whatever resource you are abundant in for that 3000. Whether you were an alloy pumping whore like myself, or are you just weren’t paying attention and somehow stockpiled a ton of food instead of stunting off farms or whatever the deal. It works out amazing and it’s been fun to fart around with. I need to get into the discords and play multi with it just for funzies

[@Thavernios]

I tried this build before you got your video out. Never got a fleet of tiyanki coming, hadn't any "tiyanki special system" game fucking ruined. It depends heavily on luck i think.

[@adventure_skaut]

The start is pretty much the white walkers, but in space

[@johnthecrazedsskull81]

It's a shame that this origin is kinda disappointing, they just collect your seeds and drop them off on random planets once in a blue moon and hope it's not on one of your worlds or a primitive world.

[@BAGELMENSK]

Having instant defense/assault armies and bonuses to certain productions on all your planets is pretty good.

[@Theogest]

​@@BAGELMENSK If only it was instant...

[@marcelgrabowski5939]

A_Spec do not make custom ship designs?! No wonder why you fleets do not toast unbidden in this battle even when they shields are down... And indeed weird galaxy, AI actually beating back crisis!

[@Zsteel]

I'm only 10min in watching the chaos unfold and a though strikes me, how crazy can it get if the prethoryn scourge crysis happens, they are a space life forms are they not.

[@iRcoyote1]

Shard the Dragons Very Bad, Very Painful, Very Long Day

[@lonesenpai3390]

What if you got the prethoryn scourge? They are biological ships so couldn't you take over their ships after killing them?

[@raptorofwar4415]

You can't take over Prethoryon ships, but their weapons are buffed by the origin.

[@isuckatusernames4297]

​@@raptorofwar4415*civic

[@Midnight-wh2bs]

No, for balancing reasons you cant revive prethoryn ships, otherwise you'd just be able to hard counter an entire end-game crisis with a single civic.

[@AndrewBezdenezhnykh]

that's so funny to watch how 1x crisis looks really scary and dangerous to the player xD

[@mustafautkuumac8864]

25:53 XD amazing expressions

[@dariensampson7913]

I did this exact thing day one. Glad to see it was a smart move.

[@Kasaaz]

New menu threw me off. I was like, "Oh, I can turn down UI Scaling..." NOPE!

[@Kilawpilath]

Best Laid plans and all that = If it can go wrong it will go wrong. But it looked fun in the beginning at least....?

[@kevinkottom1526]

They obviously did not play test this very well, it will be fixed soon, right?

[@A_Spec]

Who knows

[@Cat-ee-jik6715]

"TEE-YAN-KEE" w/o a J I think..

[@richardhussar2521]

I really enjoy the game but I always get overwhelmed by planet management, how do I automate it without it fucking up my economy?

[@U_C_G]

Do you set your planetary designations before you automate them?

[@richardhussar2521]

@@U_C_G thanks for the reply! I've now started doing exacly that and it's all good.

[@U_C_G]

@@richardhussar2521 Excellent

[@kingkhalagar2836]

25:50 is pure karma lol

[@MurseSamson]

A huge fleet (50+) space torpedo frigates will DELETE the Shard dragon. I found that out the hard way once myself 😅 💣

[@urstaxfetish1206]

The Chosen... clearly are the MC of this campsign

[@enriquegarcia7207]

Great video as always!

[@ClockworkOuroborous]

I had amoebas hauling my seeds around as well. And as others have mentioned, I had seeds dropped off all over the galaxy. Re CKIII - I was playing on Iceland for gits and shiggles, and went to raid France. Who's king was married to a Tibetan. I had to take a look, and it was far enough into the game that Tibetan had become the royal language of France, and there was a hybrid culture. I have no idea what happened, but France was full of nobles married to Tibetans. It was the damndest thing I've seen in that game.

[@LegendaryCake-]

Less eldritch horror hive mind player:

[@jljlgiros]

Thanks, cool video! Your channel helps me a lot in English practice!

[@PinataFreaks]

Was this the first time you encountered the Chosen?

[@A_Spec]

Yes

[@PinataFreaks]

@@A_Spec Ah, that explains the confusion over the lack of hyperlanes. And the foolish decision to send your dragon in undefended. Fun tip: There is a system without any kind of hyperlanes or wormholes shortly outside Chosen space. It can only be reached with a jump drive. There's a Gaia world there with primitives that could work excellently as a life boat system since the AI never uses their jump drives.

[@ryorai5804]

The Toojanky

[@FARBerserker]

when the crysis starts is when i start cheat engine. if the game cheats, i get to cheat as well.

[@transcatgirl551]

Watching you fuck up and actually start taking is seriously was very interesting.

[@duncanjala]

The ad 😂

[@colecook834]

Wont the tiyanki grave spawn more tiyankis???

[@isuckatusernames4297]

I think it used to but it's been removed. I know it worked and the starbase building for it can dtill be constructed there but iirc it's bugged fir most ppl.

[@PureDarkness13579]

Aspec, I love your content, but for the love of god it's not pronounced Tee-Janky. It's somewhere along the lines of Tee-Yankee or Tie-Yon-Key.

[@255205titel]

What an amused game haha, thanks!

[@7zness]

If you didn't have hands, why have that flag? ; )

[@lucio7331]

This isnt a mod right?

[@tomaso5472]

You can rub your feet or even something else to start a fire... you didn't think of that huh? 😅 unless you are a space snail....

[@radordekeche947]

Feel like the title is a bit of a joke as well - you broke the partnership after all.

[@A_Spec]

Cordyceps kinda implies as such

[@penguinpenguinpenguin]

your fleets are an absolute mess

[@Ugnutz]

This is Spiffing Brit levels of nonsense lol

[@amarktho]

Ahhh, die deutsche Bahn, pünktlich, wie immer!

[@nived3211]

Wait a minute... I thought paradox signs your checks, why are you shilling brilliant? Double dipping?

[@majdavlk649]

the reason trains arent on time is because they dont need to. as the government gave monopoly to a single company, there is no need to improve if the government forbids competition to open up

[@isuckatusernames4297]

glasses industry, large chunks of the video game industry and funral industry moment (companies will always eventually find a way to consolidate, the best way to deal with it is to nationalise some of them, like the trains in most countries)

[@majdavlk649]

but why outside of ideological reasons would you do that? if you consolidate it all under the state, you get full consolidation unlike if you left it to teh free market. consolidation on the free market isnt that much of an issue as they can never fully consolidate and still have potential competition which doesnt allow them to raise prices or drop quality to absurd levels @@isuckatusernames4297

[@davidgillon2762]

The UK went down the Privatisation path. Currently about half the network is back in government hands - 'Operator of last resort' because the private companies utterly failed through acts of genius like only having half the drivers their schedules needed on the assumption the other drivers would cover them through overtime and working on their days off. In the case of the East Coast Main Line, the national flagship line, three separate private companies have failed to make a go of it. The government operation now runs it quite nicely, thank you.

[@BiggsDarklighter22]

Just reminding you to turn that thing off.

[@Fishbeings]

First? Am I?

[@kawaii0858]

Boy NEXT DOOR 3:01

[@titusaurelius5661]

i hope they dont nerf this. this is awesome