> Pick Cosmogenesis Crisis ascension > Ignore other empires > Refuses to elaborate further > Leaves

If the bright beacon of light in a galaxy of darkness doesn't transform into the Emperor of Mankind, I will be disappointed.

Tip for pop stealing: 1) Intergrate your vassals, the most populated one to be precise. At year ~2375 decent AI empire can have ~1000 pops and MAN that gives a lot of research (also A LOT of energy upkeep). Virtual ascension is your biggest friend here since you dont need to spam influence to destroy your colonies. If you go wide - you may keep these planets to turn later into pop growth/assembly planets for your lovely Lathe. 2) Get your generals to Lv7 and give them that one specific destiny trait that steals part of all pops from conquered planets and resettles them into your colonies. Helps a lot even at unfair wars, also guarantees damage done to attacked empires and your gain. 3) Intel is your friend. You always need to know where the most amount of pops to purge are. Espionages, Sentry Array(!) and other spy related effects may help with that. 4) Before attacking someone - you better check out their planets 1st and remember planets with highest pop counts. Thats usually capitals but all empires have many other planets to check out, sometimes even more populated than their capitals as well. Previous tip is necessary with this one since you cant do it beforehand with low intel.

11:43 you technically can put virtual pop in Lathe if you're virtual and there's constantly gonna be 1 virtual pop (not worth it tho, only 60 total research with 6 science modules when you can get thousands from this bad boi) unless you put someone else

RIP UNE Next up Cyberpunk Terra?

Waiting for a brave soul in the comments to give a text version of the ranking.

the nanite worlds you make, unless i'm missing something, they kind of suck.. i subsumed a size 14 world, ended up with no bonus, can't build farms (not a big deal really.. but odd since that's one place to "farm" nanites) and it produces only 5 nanites from all those blockers. if i made it a machine world instead i'd get the 10% resources from jobs, +1 replicator job, and -10% housing usage, plus access to a different district for unity. the nanite harvesters will make way more nanites then those planets anyway. especially with a furnace, and (i think) the starbase modules that increase mining station output. the nanite cauldron should probably also increase the planets alloy output, as it is it's a bit of a waste of a building slot... although, maybe a temporary building since it doesn't require a pop to run it, you could use it on new planets early on, until you have more pops, then replace it. but even that is hardly worth the effort.

Wonder how long it'd take to cosmogenesis an entire galaxy, jumping from one civ to the next and throwing them into black holes.

Have you tried the Syncretic Evolution Origin since the update? With a mechanical primary race, you can have full organic pop growth and full robotic assembly at the start of the game. If you have Lithoid with gassious byproducts as your subrace you can go right into building +20% res from all jobs pops right at the start

beginners guide, 2 hrs. dayam.

I'm just going to say it, the fact that you can't keep playing as your own Fallen Empire is really lame.

All very cool and nice additions. I’ll be waiting patiently until they remove the AI voice crap so I can buy it. And if they don’t eh, I’ll just skip it.

AKA "The Long Play That Never Ends" ♻

i got to the point where i have the transformation event but it has been paused since getting the synthetic age ascension perk anyone have any ideas why or how to fix it?

I hope they don’t nerf this as I think it should be OP as it’s making you a fallen empire

I love the idea that an empire who was badly affected by another's Horizon Needle could be spurred to make their own in order to track down the first empire.

With Machine Age I'm getting monthly minor artifacts from stations now, I guess now I have to start looking at the archeo-stuff

It's a shame that this released at the same time as Hades 2. Seems like a lot of cool stuff that I'm looking forward to trying once I get over my "just one more run" problem.

Anyone know of a mod that removes/disables/lowers changes of rolling all traits in the F Tier of a Montu Plays Video? 🙂

Did my first Cosmogenesis crisis completion today, and I like it a lot more than the old one. Big W for Paradox & Reality shattering science in general

I played this crisis path and for a short time had over 300 thousand research with 400-600 pops.

Took me a couple of retries to be able to do that. On the ensign difficulty lol but i had lots of fun! im still having trouble to be able to make the factions happy idk how to even start with that :D. Still managed to win the game tho! this has been the most fun ive ever had with this dlc! going virtual w arc furnace is awesome! and this is coming from a player that doesnt play machine empires at all. Ive always preferred either Bio going Psionic or Hive Mind going Become The Crisis but i havent played machine empires much. Ive tried playing Machines before and i always end up suffering with resource management. Been getting better over time. That said this build worked really well. Im going to be replaying this Build that u show in the video and each time after i win ill increase the difficulty by 1. One day ill win on Grand Admiral! THIS HAS BEEN THE MOST FUN IVE EVER HAD IN STELLARIS!!! I named my empire The Church of Engineers!

Ngl I'm gonna miss catalytic reprocessing mineral hoarding to spam ships across the galaxy, crushing the universe on the brink of my empires collapse

I accidentally changed the speed of light in my experiments and one of my 4 planets (tall virtuality build) became an barren world, killed everyone on it and deleted the colony, rip.

I've scouted this video and now I know that the veteran scout trait is trash, thank you montu

5:21 or you can get unlucky like me, setting your stars into overdrive and therefore turning your Ecumenopolis into a desert world

i wonder if they managed to get into the new Reality or not... Open Endings like this are just so... open...

So I would need a mod if i wanted to start as a regular bio empire, ascend to synths and THEN get on the road to virtuality for a full RP game. Modders, you have your assignment😅

Me on stellaris console edition: 💀 (Machine age isn’t out on it yet)

How long until they nerf this into the ground?

After 17 yrs of Eve, I'm looking for something a little less taxing, but after the first 20 mins of this video, I'm thinking. I don't have time for Stellaris. Seems like A LOT to learn. Think I'll just get a refund and uninstall.

Very cool ending for this dlc, something different.

Using the new player crisis helps roleplayers finally be able to do a “arkship” of sorts escaping a doomed galaxy

If you take this path,You will notice that this crisis is more evil than the galactic nemesis 😂 Also,if you have Xenopile fallen empire in your game and then demand you to stop purging and you accept,You can't use the megastructer to produce more tech(And if you have luminary origin,You won't really want to mess with them to loes your great leader.) And of course,It is a long process and you need to be patient.Too patient. Overall,I think It is cool but not easy and fast like galactic nemesis.

Now that Individualist Machines are a thing you can start with, how do you feel about doing this again?

Scout secrets revealed

Day 7 of asking for a new megacorp civic tier list 😊(keep making these amazing vids ;p)

What are the implications on a Multiplayer game tough? Does the game end there, or can you and your colleagues resume it (with you as the new Fallen Empire)?

I wonder how the Lathe works with nueral stapling?

I just finished a game. The crisis path is immensely overpowered. Enjoy it while it lasts.