How I Destroyed the Grox Empire in Spore on Hard

[@perrytran9504]

Stellaris players: "God late game wars are so tedious." You: "AMATEURS."

[@Raymuk]

Stellaris players: "What was that, punk?!"

[@cabbage426]

I can't believe I'd never thought of this, but the overlap between the Spore and Stellaris fanbase must be massive. A lot of Stellaris players probably grew up on Spore as kids.

[@perrytran9504]

@@cabbage426 That's the whole reason I got into Stellaris as an adult, it looked like everything space stage should've been and it is. I also made a bunch of custom empires based on Maxis creations and the space stage archetypes.

[@SwitchyWitch_]

@@cabbage426 Yep! Grew up on Star Control II and Spore (mostly Spore since SCII is, quite hard, but VERY memorable) and eventually moved to Stellaris Though after playing Stellaris for quite a few times (613 hours as of currently, not that long but longer than most my games played) I've sadly gotten quite tired of it lol

[@ESALTEREGO]

​@@SwitchyWitch_ yeah, stellaris is probably (certainly) the most shallow paradox game

[@Archer690Channel]

if you ally the grox every empire hates you, but if you destroy them no one says thanks? smh the hypocricy congrats on completing this run.

[@perrytran9504]

There is a Soviet Union/Nazi Germany joke here somewhere just waiting to be told.

[@Furufoo]

To be fair, I think I'd be pretty wary of an empire that committed the mother of all genocides. Even if it was against the Grox

[@bingusbongus9807]

@@Furufoo yeah, id want to be on their good side so id send a thanks

[@caliperstorm8343]

Imagine being the Grox, ruling at the center of the galaxy and terrorizing other species for millions of years, only to be completely destroyed in a relative instant by a determined speedrunner lol

[@Tirocoa]

This is basically what happened to the Achaemenid Empire.

[@bengoodwin2141]

It has to be at least 4 billion, because there's a Grox probe in the intro cutscene

[@Wikarian99PL]

I learned so many new thing about Spore from this, Archetypes, Personality, Grox have different type of city, there is a map to see whole galaxy

[@TheIzzlzzy]

Agreed! :0

[@Donyas5]

i was there during the finale, watched the whole stream

[@lollovec]

Ye

[@TheIzzlzzy]

🫡

[@clawfoot3786]

I like how the Grox take you severing the alliance very personally. Good work on the run!

[@glass7923]

I don't know why, but hearing that Spore got a mod in 2024 makes me a bit happy. Also based.

[@lambybunny7173]

Spore modding community is fairly active!

[@biffney]

@@lambybunny7173 yup. there's an active server dedicated to modding with mods updating and releasing every week or so

[@bdura2021]

​@@lambybunny7173It's pretty sleepy right now, if I'll be honest. I've been checking a lot, haven't been seeing anything new crop up. But with a nigh-completely fixed flora editor now, we are so balling

[@Steffchouu]

Let's go! Crashes... The Grox super weapon 😂

[@Steffchouu]

17:41 Hey nice cameo 😂

[@sabrasabranise3335]

hehe congrats

[@sigismvnd]

I was so happy to see 18:15 as well :^)

[@Steffchouu]

​@@sigismvndIndeed!

[@Strix2031]

Lmao the Grox breakup message

[@FlyingFairyS2]

And even a save for a grox free galaxy! Now I can grow my pacifist little monsters so free and peacefully, I think, and free of evil, probably. Thank you, my cute prince.

[@gigaszef8985]

u can make any empire grow to lvl 4/5 from lvl1 in 20min. U just have to make an allience with em, then pay em to attack someone and fly there to make sure they ll win :) this way u can easily force any empire to expand.

[@TaioTube]

Vanillacold's a real one ngl

[@SonicBoone56]

I remember when they said this would take 100 years to accomplish lol.

[@mizzikitti4952]

good work man, thats a lot of dedication

[@RichPhillibob]

I’ve always wanted to do this and now I know what it’s like. Great video!

[@BaronSterling]

The only thing I could think of that could be even harder than this would be the complete inverse of this challenge. Ally the Grox, and then wipe out every other empire that ISN'T the Grox.

[@lilben9441]

Glad I could see this happen live ! Congrats again for the VICTORY !

[@joshuahwieland8676]

The streams were awesome

[@MrRyanroberson1]

when i had beat the grox, i remember doing a very incremental strategy- start by carving out a section with the staff of life, each one destroys a grox system immediately. then just gradually eat away at their border, establishing colonies and farming among yourself to get more colonies and so on to distract from your now tier-3 inhabitable systems as made by the staff of life. i did this with allied ships in my party

[@sylnz97]

really love how active the spore community is

[@jurjen909]

I just realised the Badge for destroying the Grox is literally just mounting their head on a medal.

[@cc1drt]

Although I didnt interact much in chat, I watched about half of this speedrun live. you're the goat bro. Do you think theres any merit to optimizing the consequence traits in the earlier stages then converting to shaman in space stage to get return ticket?

[@rorystockley5969]

What a ridiculous badge. Maxis was on something when they decided all the badge criteria for this game

[@WasabiKitCat]

To be fair you don't really need to unlock the really difficult badges, they're more like challenges you could try to complete but aren't required to. I'd be a little disappointed if there _wasn't_ a badge or really any kind of reward for defeating the grox, it's a pretty natural train of thought to make doing so a goal so it makes sense that Maxis would add a badge to acknowledge the efforts of especially determined players.

[@voguishthrone5887]

These were such fun streams!

[@medic885]

Maybe I am just tired right now and brainrotted from listening to ASMR, but you have a really pleasant and charismatic sounding voice imo.

[@yasinhenfs4540]

Time for the next Video reaching 1M+ view in some time. (maybe adjust the title to "... the entire Grow Empire"? just a thought as it makes clear how you literally obliterated every city of the almost uncountable planets)

[@sabrasabranise3335]

Congrats !! That seemed hard to do !

[@themachodolphin7565]

“We will not be cheating” “now let us duplicate all this spice” 😂

[@1980woodpixie]

That`s a glitch, not a cheat.

[@hansmoleman2666]

Semantics really, but cope and sneed.

[@PaddySacker]

So the thing is, this could be considered cheating if there were any formal rules to this challenge. But this challenge doesn't have a competitive scene because it's very hard and tedious and Spore is not super popular as it once was. I think it's permissible because infinite spice production is actually pretty easy after you get enough planets, which setting that up only takes a fraction of the time the full challenge would take. But constantly worrying about getting full containers of spice naturally would make the challenge take ages more. The end result is technically the same, just one method is faster. Not that anyone is really concerned or needs to think about it this hard.

[@thebiolibrary5572]

Just giving yourself money is a no go. Duplicating purple spice? Ain't no jokers here, you didn't touch the console so who cares?

[@TARDISES]

@@1980woodpixie Which is an important distinction because this was never stated to be a glitchless run. Nor would there ever be a glitchless category for this.

[@mostlyghostey]

It's so great to see your face!!!

[@Lunaboops]

Next Challenge: Conquering & Settling every single star system in the galaxy, true Galactic Unification I can't even begin to imagine how long it would take. 52 hours to kill the grox, without even replacing the colonies with your own.

[@Golden_wings_of_demise]

the Grox alliance messages if to fuckin funny

[@Beelze_Bubbles]

I want to see a Dalek playthrough, you have to play as the slimy blobby tentacle-y mutant creature in cell, creature and tribal stage, and make all of your vehicles look like different types of Daleks, and finally, space stage, the UFO could be just one big giant Dalek or the Dalek mothership, whichever one floats your boat or in this case, spaceship

[@ismailagasiev]

Can you please check what happens with all grox related mission in game after their empire gone?

[@AttmozGlaishur]

Soft lock on that quest specifically

[@gigaszef8985]

congratulations

[@Swolegard]

loved the streams

[@abe-danger]

would a video on the topic of how to install spore mods be something for the (near-) future?

[@tearlach47]

It has not been 5 months... there's no way!

[@Duckmallardboi]

Is it for every new save there not there to?

[@Phobic_Nova]

i still wish i joined at least one stream o this-

[@Spooksreal]

Wonder how many game crashes where caught during the streams 💀

[@Visigothicc]

Babe wake up new spore vid

[@AcesGStar]

incredible

[@Orzech66]

That was crazy man

[@stylesrj]

So does every new space empire get the "Heck Outta Here" badge by default now that the Grox are gone? Or can it only be earned once?

[@chessemchesse3676]

I remember trying to ally and destroy the grox in the same run,for whatever reason the game decided i shouldn't do that and my save got corrupted, i barley got to yellow with the grox

[@cometnight0]

We aren't going to use the games cheat console, however I am going to perform an infinite spice and invincibility glitch lol Just to be clear i dont have a problem with it, i just find it funny

[@BananaGatorProds]

I know you like to keep the run legit but now im wondering how quickly you could beat the game if you did use cheats

[@alwayschill4522]

next, can you try maxing out a galactic adventures captain?

[@matatic]

Nice try, but your total badge count says 134/139. I expect to see an apology for faking your run soon

[@balala7567]

He was installing and uninstalling mods to debug. I would guess the mods added a few extras

[@matatic]

@@balala7567 it's a joke lol, and no that's not the reason, the devs probably had an extra badge planned and left it in the total. It is in the base game, see for yourself.

[@stylesrj]

@@matatic It's probably the ones for getting your content banned that got removed because people were making creatures and stuff in the shape of certain things in order to get the badge. And I think there also was one for getting stuff banned 50 times...

[@matatic]

@@stylesrj That is an achievement, not a badge. And it's only for getting a single creation banned

[@stylesrj]

@@matatic I see. Wasn't there also one for using cheats many times? Not just the Joker Badge.

[@autismreal4]

You look like Bill Clinton and Arcade Gannon from Fallout: New Vegas combined.

[@lambybunny7173]

This is so strangely true it made me stop and pause for a good few seconds

[@perrytran9504]

YOU ACTIVATED FANATICAL FRENZY?! What the hell are you thinking?!

[@keeperoftheshrimbo1101]

Are you sick? Your voice sounds really strained

[@Gaming1Doge]

why would you do this to yourself

[@King_Chip9]

Hi

[@Brass319]

what's the joker badge?

[@peterprime2140]

A badge you get for using cheatcodes, having it prevents achievements.

[@ChilliDogDave]

use the console to cheat, it blocks you getting any other badge if used so you dont use it till you do everything else

[@arturzimplayerpro2573]

hard mode is just the fair mode

[@stinkytoby]

At 18:36 when you show off your badge collection, it only says 134/139, what's the missing 5?

[@ChilliDogDave]

i forget the specifics but they were related to the creature creator and they were heavily abused

[@shaungoldiner1767]

Amazing!

[@antimattered69]

Quiet amazing if i do say so myself