Stellaris | x25 CRISIS STRENGTH - FULL Playthrough!! Scion Origin Run!

[@Lathland]

Over 50 hours of footage and many hours of editing, but here It finally Is! Hope you all enjoy, and remember to like the video If you did indeed like It as It helps out so so much with this type of content that can really cause issues for the channel's analytics! Also.. I think my mind broke a few times during the recording/editing of this..

[@HotDog14500]

You’re reaching blockbuster movie length stellaris runs. Keep it up, also, that from the depths series is a new fave of mine

[@maskedperson6545]

You Beautiful bastard you did it you actually did it

[@endeyfire]

50? i would watch all of that.

[@kefkaismobile]

Saw you upload. Ok another part is up... Why IS IT OVER 2 HOURS!!! I'M GOING TO LOSE MY MIND!!!

[@AylaTheQueenIdk]

Honestly insane that the max crisis difficulty is now 25x

[@mynameisblankmynameisblank1988]

"we could end this in the next few years!" - checks timestamp - 40 mins left - evil laugh -

[@alphariusfuze8089]

Did u just said 40mins? 40!? *40k ahhhhhhh*

[@tripledeluxeguy]

40 minutes? >4 years.

[@CallofDutyBlackOps28]

@@alphariusfuze8089 SPACE MARINES!

[@houdinied8619]

@@CallofDutyBlackOps28 WWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@barrettfilms2]

@@houdinied8619 SPACE MARINE WAAARRRRRRRHHHH

[@sillysaili]

"It's the perfect scientist! +10% research speed, +5, +10! That adds up to a number! And I wager it's more than 6!"

[@HairXX]

Mathrix!

[@BlueReaper6561]

"Greetings sirs and sirettes and welcome back to Stellaris with me, Mathrix" 😂😂. If only Lathrix could see this :(

[@elaw13]

1:16:14

[@definitelyaperson6334]

Me sees thumbnail: 8 mil? Pathetic I played gigs structural engineering

[@teathesilkwing7616]

@@definitelyaperson6334 laughs in 10k at end game Wait...

[@Jeffry_Ab]

-"They liked our world so much they wanted to stay" -"Let's eat em"

[@ddoc8573]

Lathrix is asking for support at the start of the video and apologizing for it at the same time. Meanwhile he pours hours upon hours into creating great content for all of us. Thank you very, very much! So if a comment helps, I will definitely write a comment. I hope this convinces the KZbin algorithm that Lathrix deserves the best!

[@CreeperDude-cm1wv]

While most big KZbinrs just make click bait and ask for likes repeatedly.

[@DeathBuzz]

Massive respect for editing and sharing this. You're a blessing to the community.

[@LincDN]

When I saw Paradox implement the 25x crisis this was my thought process *sees news* "Surely this is an April Fools prank" *it isn't* "Clearly this is to help modded players actually feel challenged" *Lath wins in vanilla* "I'm really bad at this game"

[@senilevideoenjoyer]

Same ahaha

[@MeneltirFalmaro]

50 years early too

[@rwpickels9183]

"One of the hardest endgame crises"

[@TheNeilBlack]

I am really bad at this game. I don't think I've ever had about 2k science, Lath's over here with tens of thousands of science coming in.

[@senilevideoenjoyer]

@@TheNeilBlack dude try the ring world start pick bots build 1 trade 1 electric and 1 science district

[@PseudoRaven]

As a new player: Explain this to me. Slowly. With lots of diagrams

[@dirtystuff1452]

as a new player, watching his resources and then looking at mine makes me feel "pathetic" hes the fallen empire of my fallen empire

[@danielburdett7868]

Liam McPaul basically, he rushed technology really early on by building lots of the research labs and going for the +20% research options in the tech tree, so that he quickly got the tech from late game, like battleships and the like. This allowed him to start researching the repeatable bonuses early on, and so he ended up getting really OP weaponry, and the economy basically builds itself when you get to that point, as you have all of the economic research done, and megastructures as well, which are just brilliant.

[@bananaface5135]

@@danielburdett7868 As a novice but not new player, how do you expand so quickly early game? I always get out competed by the AI for space and end up having to build tall, and whenever I try to expand rapidly my worlds end up shitty and underdeveloped. How do I fix this?

[@danielburdett7868]

BananaFace I normally build lots of science and construction ships and just go slow and steady because of influence, and then trade for the resources I really need by floating my economy on a couple of resources that I sell. Most of the time it's minerals in the early game, since they are everywhere. As for the planets, it is good to go for mainly resource buildings at the start, with city and generator districts in between building slots becoming available to keep the pops happy. A lot of the time, you can let amenities get low and improve them later with the upgraded capital buildings you can research. On one of my games my planets mostly had negative amenities at the start, but the rapid research quickly got me better capital buildings. A good thing as well to do for planets is to get the tech to build robots as soon as you can, since they grow alongside the organic pops at a good speed, giving you more pops as well. If you have problems with territory because of other empires cutting you off, the best thing to do is hide your time and build up your military, and then when you are at equal or better fleet size compared to them try to make them a vassal of you, and then if the refuse use the cases believe it gives you on the, and go to war. When you win, or if they accept, you can integrate them in the future, getting all their territory. I hope this helps you out!

[@bananaface5135]

@@danielburdett7868 that's really good advice, thanks man!

[@smw00003]

This is perhaps the least I've ever been annoyed for a request at likes/comment etc. Videos like this must be a crazy amount of work and 20 seconds of giving my 2 cents seems like a more than fair trade. Keep it up, keep healthy, stay frosty. :)

[@afh3318]

Ditto :) keep up the good work.

[@kaan1361]

I couldn't imagine myself sitting and editing 50 hrs footage so you got a new sub and big respect from me for both the content quality and the commitment sir. I wish the best for all of us who are reading this btw.

[@DiverWithTheBends]

"Crisis preppers" Lathrix, idk if you noticed but you were the end game crisis during the war in the heavens

[@epion660]

Super Civilization creates species to stop a threat to the whole galaxy- Said species becomes the *intergalactic **_apex predator_*

[@5peciesunkn0wn]

Well yes. They prepped to *become* the crisis. :P

[@kiko.j5]

uno reverse card

[@edim108]

@@epion660 And that's why Tyrranids are a thing in 40k

[@rottenraz]

@@edim108 Don't forget the ork boyz too!

[@ferencgazdag1406]

Prepper: We have the best choke points! Contingency: Hippity hoppity, your barren world is my property!

[@davidthorp01]

Leave nothing un-terraformed!

[@ferencgazdag1406]

@@davidthorp01 Shouldn't you like, construct a ringworld? Even a planetcracker doesn't work.

[@Warhamer116]

Me: Hippity Hoppity, my barren world is my gigastructural behemoth world-ship

[@spacexfan1281]

@@Warhamer116 just put a raptor on it

[@theusual8701]

Two and a half hours of refined Stellaris? Man, that's a whole movie.

[@glenmcgillivray4707]

It's actually a 3 movie epic condensed into a single trimmed refined episode.

[@r3dp9]

Now playing: Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, The Invisible Man, DoLittle, The Hunt, Trolls... I think I'd rather spend the next 2.5 hours watching Lathrix.

[@vincentvalashu]

@@r3dp9 I am still waiting for the Rumored 'good guys' spinoff directed by Lathrix... no one really believes it exists, but we know it could be...

[@bengardner9104]

Watching this whilst tidying the house before Xmas! Keep up the good work, love these videos.

[@amargasaurus5337]

Lath: makes a whole playthrough about having lithoids as livestock for minerals Also Lath: I just realized Lithoids as livestock produce minerals

[@holyordersoftheemperorsinq246]

found this video through a recommendation, watched the entirety of it, left a like & subbed instantly. amazing strategic skill & mad grit and perseverance is required to stay in a single save for 50 hrs straight while microing the hell out of a game and ultimately winning it. magnificent.

[@MegaGullas]

"We won't have much influence." Lathrix says, when he has the most diplomatic weight out of all the galactic community founders.

[@tomisabum]

The fact they're isolationist just makes that all the more hilarious.

[@energeticcreeper7969]

to be fair, he said that before he conquered half the galaxy.

[@DonSeldum]

@@energeticcreeper7969 I agree. I actually think it's quite funny how that turned out. There is something strange with an isolation civ conquering half the galaxy :D

[@Sword-jo2lu]

@@DonSeldum He's isolating his empire as efficiently as possible! Being the only empire besides your overlord is the ultimate isolation strat.

[@DonSeldum]

@@Isometrix116 haha good point.

[@102728]

The stored research I think comes from the 'leftover' research points after finishing a tech. Basically, if you need 5000 research to finish a tech, but you gain 10000 a month, 5000 goes into the tech and the other 5000 into stored research to be used on the next tech. Otherwise you'd bleed research points with every tech you research, even up to 99% of a month of research. If you have 3-4 month techs, you'd lose 2-3 months a year.

[@jacklshanks]

==Lathrixian Discord Server!== Since lathrix doesn't have a discord server we have decided to make one so his community has a place to come together, share art and express opinions about current series. It is a new server however it already has quite a large following; the more people the more of a chance lathrix will see it. Note: This is NOT an official server, Lathrix has acknowledged our existence and will hopefully join once he has less going on. discord.gg/dg3qFJX

[@randomstuff9005]

Stop spamming?

[@jacklshanks]

@@randomstuff9005 what do you mean?

[@tacodragon3368]

yay

[@randomstuff9005]

@@jacklshanks you do this on every video.

[@jacklshanks]

@@randomstuff9005 this is the second vid I have done it on. And yes it is to raise awareness for the discord server.

[@lazarus9734]

I would love to see what lath could do if he starts in the l-cluster in a system with three stars, one is a black hole and has the matter decompressor the other two have the Dyson sphere and the ring world also there are still planets (two gas giants with habitats and one Gaia world for each of them also enough unhabital planets so he can build every type of habitats in that system. (problem he is blocked of the real galaxy until the l gate is activated) and then he is the crisis and devours the galaxy(maybe a devouring swarm?) ohh and every other megastructure (also the megashypyard) are in that system.

[@White_Wolf-JS]

I think that would be so cool I would watch that

[@joricklania8627]

If you have a matter decompressor, dyson sphere AND ringworld from day 1 you're gonna be stupidly overpowered by the time the cluster is opened xD

[@loosinit_mc]

He IS the end game crisis

[@Tracker947]

That's massive overkill, it would get pretty boring pretty fast

[@lazarus9734]

@@Tracker947 I wrote that shit 5 months ago

[@d0esnotcompute231]

Lathrix: I just realized Lithods as livestock produce minerals Me: Did you already forget the livestock only run?

[@jankodes197]

I love that aliens stayed for festival of joy and were turned into livestock...

[@PerfectAlibi1]

Stored research is from research overflow, as you produce more then a piece of tech needs, the overflow gets added onto stored research ^^

[@DonSeldum]

True - except, when you have 4 months left on a given research and you can see the overflow next month (3 month left etc.)as well, it sorta don't make sense. I was thinking the exact same. But wouldn't this only happen if you have excess tech when finishing a tech or if you don't have any tech selected and you bank the month tech? I think it's either because of anomalies being researched, or tech produced by the planets he conquered in the same month. So if you grab a plant in the middle of a month - you will get 15 days of tech "stored". That would make sense. But anyway - I guess 200 tech don't matter much when you get 60.000 each month :)

[@alexnonya5905]

@@DonSeldum Didn't I just see you on one of reformist's videos? Or am I just going crazy

[@jiivai500]

If you have no research selected, you also gain stored research

[@DonSeldum]

@@alexnonya5905 I would expect the latter. I don't know that youtube channel until now.

[@CallofDutyBlackOps28]

i really like what they did with that. really got alot of my Big reasearches up nice a bit when i wanted to actually work on them.

[@Draconis1242]

I think it's pretty awesome at how supportive this community is. I usally read the comments on his videos and they are mainly really supportive. You dont find this type of community everywhere. I thinks its amazing that so many people support this awesome man. It's truly heart warming to see.

[@theatheistpaladin]

Hollywood: How do we make sci-fi space epics? Lathland: I will light the way.

[@farday]

Having several sessions going on for days in stellaris myself I fully understand the preassure these episodes can cause. Good work steaming through this and looking forward to future content.

[@clayandsand]

Bakturian Purifier: 'attacks some weird one eyed bois' Also Bakturian Purifiers: Why do I hear boss music?

[@RoboMuskVsLizardZuckerberg]

You mean "Why I hear boss music from behind me not from that weard one eye Bois"

[@imalicornbuthalal6646]

This is like that “Pointed by a gun at the church” where there us a normal dude getting pointed, this 2nd dude getting pointed also with a gun, and then lastly having the 3rd man head in a sniper's crosshair Example Fenatics

[@VonPete105]

Got this in the background while I WFH. Thanks for taking the edge off Monday, Lathrix!

[@snowdrop9810]

Lathrix: we’re kinda acting like our awakened/fallen empire In reality: mega fallen/awakened empire

[@melbournemeliodas215]

I knew it! The moment that news feed about 25x crisis came, I knew it was going to be Lathland that's going to have a playthrough on it first. Im subscribing.

[@MikeKojoteStone]

Always a pleasure to watch. Stellaris IS indeed a series that I want to see continued in the future.

[@jarlbeorn]

Hats off to you sir. I struggle to finish playthroughs at a fraction that difficulty. I learned alot from watching your crazy playthroughs

[@justcomentary7788]

All hail the algorithm, the algorithm loves you, all hail the algorithm!

[@jettdunning4942]

Your videos are great and I have massive respect for the sheer amount of time and effort that goes into making them. Please keep up the amazing content!

[@kithewhitetiger5748]

Any logical Stellaris player: Okay gotta go heavy firerate get a good fleet going. Lathland: LORE

[@anonymousapproximation8549]

He wasn't even that consistent with his lore either this time.

[@tdofducksplays]

Logical Stellaris Player: Going down a lore route would cause failure. Lathland: Wins anyways

[@tomisabum]

@@anonymousapproximation8549 Ha, Xenophobe Egalitarians are kinda weird in their way for handling slaving in a very 'Animal Farm' way. But being dragged into the War In Heaven sort of did prevent all the prepping! Still, way more interesting lore-wise than what I expected them to use to tackle this challenge strength.

[@anonymousapproximation8549]

@@tomisabum Xenophobes hate aliens, except the preppers were *uplifted* so why are they Xenophobic when their experience with aliens is entirely positive?

[@jaybee8862]

@@tomisabum Xenophobe+Egal is so fun lol... i just let my empire species chill out in unemployment getting free research+unity while slaves+droids do all the work

[@spaceben3937]

Your videos are so fun to watch! Thanks for investing so many hours into such great content. It really brings joy into these dark times!

[@vvbr2372]

Me: lathland hasn't posted in a while means a 2h+ video is coming *happy noises*

[@somedude6918]

Great play through I love how even though the crisis was prioritised by the council they basically just left you to fight it yourself

[@extraordinarilycanine]

I absolutely adore these full playthroughs you do of Stellaris. Please know that the amount of time and effort you put into these videos is not only noticed, but also immensely appreciated. Great video as always Lath!

[@vex134]

About halfway through, going good so far. Really enjoying long episodes. You worked hard on this one, and I (we) thank you for the effort you’ve but in. Keep it up!!

[@tomisabum]

Oh wow, you tackled this in a very unexpected way, no wonder it took you so long! I'd never considered that the Scion start, as powerhouse as it is, DOES mean that'll drag you into the War In Heaven even if you're trying to hunker down and isolate. I think that really hindered your ability to focus on, yaknow, prepping! Spent a lot of time suddenly sprawling out and fighting, rather than what I guessed you'd do, and focus on making your entire empire a long-war survivalistic fortress. But hey, that'd also be WAY less interesting, eh? You contained them very well even without that, too. Bravo!

[@r3dp9]

I feel like it became a massive advantage. Scion gets an early 5k fleet which dissuades aggression, allowing a massive focus on research and growth instead of defenses. By the time the war in heaven started, he was ready for war... and even though he was a pacifist, the war in heaven cassus belli let him go ham on the galaxy.

[@ChalkyWhiteChalkyWhite]

Killed it! Great video.

[@Tuxfanturnip]

(spoilers) *sees Unbidden fleet* "That does *not* say 8.4 *million.*" I was waiting 2 hours to see this reaction and I was not disappointed.

[@robertreid1845]

This was amazing. Thank you for all the hard work.

[@rocketAI.S6]

50 hours is nuts, you're a machine Lathrix.

[@f4uxp4s]

Thank you so much for the entertainment and hard work. I hope you can continue, stay healthy, and grow!

[@clsph10]

Never clicked so fast fr though, love the content, thank you!

[@facade11663]

51:00 -zapp brannigan XD President's Aide: Your Neutralness, it's a beige alert. Neutral President: If I don't survive, tell my wife, "Hello." tool tip: this is a place holder and should not appear in game lathrix: I have never seen that before lathrix: I don't think that is meant to happen honestly me: these are both statements commonly associated with "this should not be here"

[@rylan4450]

"all I drink is coffee normally" Average FTD episode "so I had some (insert alcoholic drink)" 2:19:25 if your wondering

[@brycerademaker6609]

Too true

[@TheOsterhase0]

Nice! I'm appreciating these full playthrough a lot, thanks

[@PerfectAlibi1]

15:24 Did Lathrix seriously just declined a +10% to all ship speeds?! o_0

[@Vuljone]

This was thoroughly amazing, I enjoyed every bit of it, thanks for your hard work. Good job and kudos. on becoming the most glorious end-game crisis ending power house I've seen in a long time.

[@polytopiaislife1255]

Me: waiting for the next Stellaris video in the series and getting impatient after waiting days. Lathland: posts 2 hours of new original content full playthrough of stellaris. "A surprise to he sure but a welcome one."

[@dagronborm2055]

I just wanted to say thank you very much for spending the time to edit down so much footage into a two and a half hour video. 50 hours is a lot of time to commit, so your full play through vids are very helpful. Keep up the amazing work!

[@lowresquail5528]

I'm here to comment, because you deserve that sweet sweet ad revenue.

[@connormcclendon5091]

ditto

[@Jarold_Smith]

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[@garakisalyingdogfacedponys3993]

Jejdje

[@Ghost_Hybrid]

Thank you for the content. Currently stranded in COVID quarantine, and your video helped make it less frustrating.

[@nacl4988]

25 times.... That sounds... Questionable

[@tomisabum]

Such a despicably neutral comment! ;)

[@carbonbeaker409]

Are ya salty about that?

[@coolcolt5769]

Questionable? More like balanced

[@Iamthelolrus]

Just found your channel and I love it. Thanks for the fun and positive attitude during the gameplay.

[@daniele8278]

This playthrough more than anything else is a perfect example of how current Fallen Empires are the most likely responsible for the Endgame Crisis that plagues future civs.

[@FBergman85]

I could bing these playthroughs all day long! Keep up the nice work.

[@randomstuff9005]

Isolationists But...They have the galactic market on one of their planets...NOTHING IS WRONG HERE CHAPS.

[@epion660]

Every time you go to the market to trade you're violently searched by space TSA.

[@liammacconn2744]

I've been playing Stellaris for years and never got the Omnicultural achievement. I've often played Xenophile. Last week I started playing a Xenophobe for the first time, and yesterday the xenophobes elected a Xeno (the Warform admiral) as leader. Stellaris is weird about Xenos.

[@KazPup]

Absolutely love your content! I've gotten kind of obsessed with your Stellaris and Terratech LPs. Keep up the amazing stuff :)

[@Aexephyl]

yay lathrix posted finally !! :D Always gotta like before the video 50 hours of footage . . .

[@nickmiller9599]

Always love your full playthroughs. Keep up the great work.

[@nahrikkon]

Phenomenal video, you deserve so much support for your amazing channel. There’s no one out there like you

[@mikaelberg4304]

Love your content. Always brightens my day when you upload the full playthroughs

[@dennywang918]

You are one of my favorite you tubers you are amazing

[@Aexephyl]

hello! We now know why lathirx disappeared for three days

[@pulsar3903]

A comment to support the channel, keep up the good work Lathland!

[@tomacinavetearnia8781]

When I saw the new update added in a x25 Crisis Strength option, I knew it was only a matter of time until Lathrix would pull it off gloriously.

[@petribalanceisnice]

I can't believe, you are spending so much time for us! I love your work very much, i hope i can see more of this. Health is always first, so don't work too hard, but i would like to see more fun series, although mb you can focus not on Endgame crisis but on hard early-mid game by increasing advanced ai start and fallen empires. Good luck!

[@umaster7502]

Last time I was this early we still had fluid borders

[@PWNCANNON]

Great video man, I love these cut down longplays

[@victorcaldera249]

2 hours 30 minutes of lathrix Im i in heaven

[@WMCJR]

That was an awesome watch, thanks for taking the time to edit down this feature length film!

[@LittleGoblinBoi]

No one: Absolutely No one: Lathrix in the first 30 minutes of the video: "I do as the Brain Slug guides"

[@darkithnamgedrf9495]

Nah everybody get this brain slugs. There’s no point not too. If you want normal pop growth the just let your base pop grow will have a portion brain slugs. Usually i send brain slug people to colonize then my base pop will grow on the world

[@TrippaMazing87]

@@darkithnamgedrf9495 guess u need one if u can't take a joke lol

[@javik1929]

"best start i ever had" I can one up that where in a tall playthrough I immediately found the surveyor in the 3rd system I explored, had the irassians as precursors, the ratling relic world and 4 more decent worlds almost all in my core sector, L-Gate, and all that with ringworld start. needless to say the outteching was quick with those two relic worlds Edit: forgot to mention, only 2 choke points as well

[@davidthorp01]

Oh wow. Yea this kicks my Irassians start by a long shot, I had Approximately 2 at first but expanded to 4 by the time I found everything I wanted. Almost got the Great Wound and Elder monster too, but the Fanatic Purifiers to my north bulrushes the system near where I wanted to set up shop, so I had to pull back and call it. Meternex to the North West, Micralx to the south West, and Juvians to my direct West. The Meternex proceed to take my good start, and raise it by crushing the Purifiers. Problem is, I’m still learning templates, how to build a Navy, and was fortifying my choke points. I had thought, “Hey now I can relax, humanity is safe, Im half way to terraforming tec, and I’ve got two Generator worlds and a mining world. Tech world is growing; this will be great!” Aaaaand then they declare war. My puny little 8K fleet chokes in awe at the size of this man; I shit you not they had Arc Emitters on their battleships before I was anywhere close to researching it. It’s a 50 year slug fest. They never go for the kill shot, and i’m too busy slowly pulling together a resistance. I finally get them into a tough spot, ‘one’ of their fleets at this point, just around 30K, winds up cutting my trade lane’s asunder. But it’s traveling alone, and my 2 fleets, 16.6 and 18.3 race to catch it. By now I’ve had the chance to actually steal several engagements worth of Tech, Jump drives, better armor and shields, better guns; I have a chance. I jump one of my fleets ahead, whilst the other tails and stalls them for time. I win my first major engagement through a Pyrrhic Victory. I lost Half my forces and crippled one fleet. But I restored my trade lanes, and had effectively forced them out of my system. They’d only get to take two systems, and only one was a choke point. I’m now roughly...50 years from then, it’s the second war, and they were winning again. They had a bloody 56K fleet Mine are 30 and 18 respectively because i’m STILL recovering. And their economy is bullshit. So I cut them in half, pandamonium ensues as I hit and run them into a disorganized mess. (They have 2 other fleets, a 30 and 29K fleet, both I can kill but I need time). I’m almost equal technologically, and it all starts to pay off. I’m currently down to having to only fight Two 30K fleets and I have most all of my claimed systems. I just need time to kick them down and I’ll have won a hell of a comeback through status quo. It is, however, exhausting. I don’t know how, but i’ve kept the Galactic market since it’s inception, and am now the 3rd strongest power in the galaxy. (The Meternex and like 1 or 2 others have me beat). And I have Megastructures on the way...ooooh they shall know fear and pain once I’m through. I’ve got a world cracker and Titan in the works (Need more Alloys and Money!)...oooh they shall fear me.

[@StarboyXL9]

This is hands down your most enjoyable playthrough to watch Lath. I'm not even kidding. I watched the entire thing without losing interest. That's a first for me. The slugs can be brutal on pop growth, but in my experience they pay off in the long run because you can negate the growth penalty with either robots, immigration, pop growth tech (genetic ascension path anyone?) or a combination of all three. I mean seriously, 20% research from Intellectual governers and 10% bonus unity? If your prepping for the crisis there literally couldn't be a better event you could have gotten. I had a think about using Lithoids as livestock for minerals. Imagine for a moment that humanity was enslaved by aliens who used us like cattle. Except instead of eating us they would slaughter us like animals and use our bodies as organic matter to create bio-ships. That's what lithoids feel like when you use them as minerals to feed your forges which make your ships...slightly horrifying. Arcology Project + Ring World = Eucumenopolis Ring World. So yes, Arcology project is the better choice. Nothing beats having 4 ring sections of 100's of Metallurgists. While ignoring shields is great, you could also have used the Null Void beams as they just eat shields alive for breakfast. Not ideal perhaps, but I know I'm going to test them out on the Unbidden next playthrough and compare results. One reason to go Null Void + Plasma artillery is so that you can spam the Energy weapon damage repeatables. If you get the Unbidden, Null Void + Artillery will do just as well as missiles and Arc weapons, whereas if you get the Scourge, energy just eats them alive so your repeatables aren't useless regardless. If you get the Contingency you have the best of both worlds now, because you have anti-shield energy weapons and really powerful anti-armor energy weapons. Its the ultimate strategy for hedging your bets imo, thought maybe it doesn't matter much when the crisis is in 25X difficulty... I like how you went from being Xenophobic Isolationists to full-blown Imperium of Man conquering the galaxy. True quality content.

[@CreeperDude-cm1wv]

*cough cough* the flood *cough cough*

[@Tonatsi]

Imperium of insect*

[@DarkangelJSB]

Joel Gawne can you really turn ring world sections into ecumenpolis?

[@glenmcgillivray4707]

I want a thrall world ringworld filled with pop and plenty of livestock. It's the ultimate mineral production world!

[@MaybyAGhost]

@@DarkangelJSB I'm fairly sure you can only do it as a part of the Gigastructural Engineering mod. But that mod is a permanent addition to many people's games (for good reason) so it's easy to think its vanilla.

[@wallyz603]

i usually don't comment. But these are my favorite types of videos. And I would never have found your channel if it wasn't for these types of videos. So even if they don't make direct economical sense, as long as you enjoy making them and showing new viewers the high amount of work you put into them, I hope you will consider them worthwhile for more years to come.

[@劉佳銘-t2e]

what a mad lad! he actually went insane! or he never did change :\

[@rustlinmyjimmies]

Wow, now this is dedication. Great vid, can’t even imagine going through and editing 50hrs of gameplay haha.

[@davidtruby7060]

Whelp, I know my evening movie now

[@angryspaghetti7422]

Thank you for these, you are IMO the best and most entertaining Stellaris player!

[@minimoto5971]

1:52:00 Endgame Crisis inbound No freaking way, this is insane.

[@jacovo974]

holy crap lathrix, 50 HOURS!?! you deserve so many more subs lol, you spoil us!! here's a thumbs up your way, (I'll even log in to my alt account to like the vid lol)

[@barabg]

Im helping out, immensely :) This is glorious, loving the content, keep it up!

[@MateusLima-zr4qy]

I can't belive that i watched it all in one go lol

[@georgibogdanov4005]

Thank you for the effort you put into these videos

[@Zebo12345678]

I knew this was coming, and I knew it was gonna take _ages_ to come out, but here it is. This... This is going to be quite the journey. I saw that they can get as strong as in the millions of fleet power, and I'm curious how you intend to beat them. This is gonna be fun.

[@BartSintenie]

Excellent playthrough Latland! Thanks

[@kithewhitetiger5748]

Lathland vs Aspec please can we have this

[@overlordjames1006]

I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING

[@farexmystery]

Epic gamer moments

[@KaizerKlash111]

No! Lath Vs Aspec Vs Spiff

[@victorcaldera249]

Lathland wins No surprises

[@PerfectAlibi1]

@@KaizerKlash111 With each of them playing as a Devouring swarm, Purifier and Exterminator. The purifier also needs to go Psionic, so they each have a different ascension path. Summoning the end of cycle is allowed. XD

[@DefaultYT420]

I've never seen such an enjoyable Playthrough!! First time i've seen one of yours videos and i love it, im surely gonna wach all of the other ones, keep it up!!

[@ThrowingAxes]

Comment for support :P blessed may he be by the algorithm

[@kindlicek1018]

amazing, the amount of work you have put into this deserves praise.

[@filyaphilanthropist112]

AI: Oh i finally get 100k fleet! Crisis 8m fleet: Let me introduce my self

[@Steamed]

Rydga mig *B R U H*

[@davidthorp01]

Me: Minding my own business keeping the Fanatic Purifiers out. The Meternex: And I oooop! *Kill fanatic Purifiers* Me: Thanks my guy! Now I have room to spend on economy! (Xenophobic Militant kicks back) Meternex: I’m gonna pull what’s called a pro Gamer move. *Invades* Me: *B R U H* 150 years of war later Meternex: H-how the *F R I C K* did these humans get so strong?! Like they still aren’t as strong numbers wise b-but when did they catch up?! Me: (Finally has decent battleships, cannons, starbases and almost titan, megastructures on the way opened gateway right next to fallen empire) You should have gone for the head Xeno. *Kills several Fleets slowly reducing their number and strength at great cost, Gives zero fucks as I incapacitate their economy* The Great Khan: Allow me to introduce myself.

[@steelcommander9918]

You have my like and comment, seeing as how you are one of the few youtubers with a sense of dignity

[@Crownpanda]

Love it when lathrix says "future lathrix here" you know some wholesome postive thing is about to be said there is just something about lathrix's flow something relaxing not too hyper not too chill just good

[@autismisuncontrollable4925]

Balanced, as all things should be

[@jep1st]

I'm absolutely loving your channel and these Stellaris videos. Because of the corona thing, I'm spending so much time indoors so I've been watching roughly 60% of all your Stellaris content in just couple weeks and I gotta say it's been a long time since I've been this glad to find a new channel to subscribe. Definitely keep up the good work! I've also learned a lot of new things about Stellaris that I can use in my own games. So thank you :)

[@comradejeb2248]

The space zombies execute your leader Your economy crashes Your people suffer a famine The neighbouring hive mind invades What would you do in this scenario?

[@davidthorp01]

I’d slowly claw my way back, like I always have, like I always will. Humanity, grips the reigns of destiny and punch slowly. First we rebuild the economy, then we get the Famine under control with a new agri world or refocus on other worlds...it will take time. Hive mind is...well it’s going to be a while. Slowly clip their wings in hit and run engagements, look to do what has been done to you, to others. Cripple their trade lanes with raids, jump in and out of their systems once you achieve jump drive tech (most likely salvaged from said Hive Mind) and play extremely defensive. The Space Zombies get the last retribution. After the economy is balanced, the famine is quelled, and the Hivemind is stripped of their existence as a Galactic power...then you deal with them. They get to face the full brunt of your now rebuffed force, world cracker, Titan, Battleship fleets and the works. They shall know wrath. For Humanity Repays in Kind.

[@ShahjahanMasood]

@@davidthorp01 I read this in the Arbiter's voice I don't know why.

[@theformalbear7150]

@@davidthorp01 I'm going to use this speech in one of my D&D campaigns, if its okay with you!

[@aaronforsyth3486]

@@davidthorp01 beautiful

[@jamie8316]

This took some serious dedication! Loved the video man

[@jeffwillsea6757]

I was planning on just watching the final freak out after seeing your start....then you said you had 50 hours worth of video to cut down....to a 3 hour video..... I'm gonna stick this one out cause oh it sounds like fun. XD Correction: 2 and a half hours. As you said in the video.