As I promised, the second part of the Gigastructural Engineering Showcase is here! This one covers the four crises from the mod, the Katzenartig Imperium, The Aeternum, The Blokkat Harvesters, and the Compound. I hope you guys enjoy it, and also let me know if you found any innacuracies, i'll correct them in this comment! 12:09 Aeternite Intel can also be acquired by talking with the kaiser about the Aeternum 12:30 Made an oopsie here, when I was writing the script, the military power was different. However, when I recorded that piece of footage months later it showed different results. Idk maybe the way military power is calculated has changed, either way their systems are well defended so make sure to prepare your fleets! 13:17 Idk why but I couldn't tell the amount of zeroes in the footage lmao 19:14 While the Blokkonstruct does not appear in the game, it's mentioned in the lore only so this is not a significant error. The actual size of this structure is 1 light year. It's volume however is way larger, since the Blokkats incorporate higher-dimensional enigneering, therefore it's way larger on the inside. 30:04 Uhhh I forgot to extend the frame duration of required resources sorry for that 30:51 Actually, there's an event that happens after the Final Harvest, however since Stellaris doesn't like modyfing the galaxy on such grand scale it crashes for some people. 32:19 As the caption says, this amount varies based on difficulty. The lowest difficulty requires 200 ships, while the highest one needs 5K ships 33:00 For some reasone I referred to the ship as "Eradicator" multiple times in the video. The Eradicator is the ship you get at the end of the Reality Code Event Chain, while the Annihilator is the one mentioned in the video.

"Lust for power, desire for conquest, or obsession with technology. These goals are as fleeting as the species pursuing them. We have learned to disregard such baseless objectives and instead focus on the simplest and most universal requirement of all lifeforms: The accumulation of energy." -The Blokkouncil

@Elowiny

4 ай бұрын

@@MrCaster3200 Within Gigastructures Lore neither the Shroud nor Zero-Point Energy are infinite, they're just really, really large. The Blokkats harvest both of them in their entirety whenever they harvest a galaxy. Also, ACOT lore is *utterly* incompatible with Gigastructures lore due to vastly different cosmologies and overall setting rules, namely the fact that there is *no* truly infinite energy source whatsoever in Gigaslore whereas ACOT has plenty of that.

@ultraflopp2802

4 ай бұрын

@@Elowinywelp, the shroud is basically a realm of souls, isn’t it? So whilst there are souls there is shroud and there is energy! Therefore keeping shroud an infinite source of energy requires life forms, therefore to stop heat death of the universe you just need to effectively built a psi-conduit around every star and make *EVERY* specie psyonik P.s: oh, and most importantly, other astral planes, like, there are other universes, why don’t we gather them?

@Elowiny

4 ай бұрын

​ @ultraflopp2802 ​Well, in my own interpretation (what is found in GIgaslore and the logic on which Blokkat lore relies), actually doing more than just probing and exploring the astral planes is usually prohibitively expensive and hazardous, to the point that it's *far* simply to just harvest the regular universe than to try messing with often unstable and fluctuation astral planes/rifts. Sure, you might get some energy out of them, but usually the rift either ends up closing eventually, collapsing because you drew too much energy, or causing a catastrophic outburst of uncontrolled energy that destroys the civilization trying to harvest it. Regarding the Shroud stuff, I recommend you check out the Cosmology page on the Gigaslore wiki (look up "Gigastructural Engineering Lore Database"), it contains essentially everything there is to know about Gigastructures' interpretation of Stellaris cosmology​

@theonesithtorulethemall

3 ай бұрын

​@@Elowinyeh the stellarborn have extra lines with the blockkats so its not that the are complratly incompatible, its jsut that the blockkats are to weak and underdeveloped to use the infinit power of the omegans

@Elowiny

3 ай бұрын

@@theonesithtorulethemall The extra lines are meant as fun references and compatibility, they are not meant to be taken at face value. And no, the Blokkats aren't "too weak" or "too underdeveloped" to use the "infinite power of the omegans", it's that their setting literally doesn't have such things as "the infinite powers of the omegans" (or *any* "infinite power" whatsoever), the worldbuildings are *fundamentally* incompatible. They can't ever rise to such a power level because it's quite literally not possible for them, or anyone else, to do so. And even IF we DO take the interactions that you mention at face value, the Stellarborne quite literally say that they want to "test" the Blokkats to see if they're actually worthy of using said power. So like... yeah, your argument just doesn't really make sense at all, no matter which way you look at it.

You missed a couple crisis that Gigas adds that are more 'hidden.'. 1. If the Kaiser isn't set to spawn, a Ketzan fallen empire can spawn instead. They act like a normal fallen empire but are a wee bit stronger. This eventually leads to a War in Heaven. 2. If the kaiser isn't set to spawn and Bogged Down Researchers are enabled, the Ketzan FE will spawn, and be lead by Pouchkinn , who will start a crisis sometime during mid or early lategame where he is going to "find the secrets of the universe", and the FE becomes a crisis empire you have to wipe out before they destroy the galaxy. These aren't as involved, but they are additional crisis gigas has. They act like any empire making the Entrophic Engine, but they make their own version which is much, much more powerful and builds faster. Additionally Blokkats spawn 100 years after endgame OR 20 years after an endgame crisis/aeternum has been defeated and endgame era has started. That latter part can through you for a loop since if your on higher blokkat difficulties, you'll often curvestomp the crisis and the blokkats will then curvestomp you if you aren't aware of it.

@michael_stellaris

4 ай бұрын

The Blokkats have various spawn dates you can configure, I mentioned the earliest, and latest one for convenience I briefly mentioned the custom FE's in the previous video. I haven't mentioned the Katzen one tho, so i'll edit the pinned comment under the first video.

@archmagemc3561

4 ай бұрын

@@michael_stellaris Oh yeah, just letting ya know for completion sake.

@fatcat9279

4 ай бұрын

I'm not sure if it's still the same case, but beforehand when I allowed the crisis FE to achieve their goals it simply just rearranged all the hyperlanes and trashed production across my worlds for a few years. It was underwhelming. I'm not sure if its the same case.

@potato88872

4 ай бұрын

The second part of your post forgot that if you let me finish the thing, they will mess up the entire galaxy hyperlane, leaving system in some part, complety cut off ( the fallen empire katze will revert to a normal fallen with huge debuff for a time )

@XenoByte

3 ай бұрын

Also, Flusion can also not start with the attack moon, and they need to prepare it in a "Flusionian Lunar Project", and won't have an attack moon.

I love Giga's crisis's so much!!! Such great lore even when they wipe the floor with me despite having ACOT as well.

@victorcaldera249

4 ай бұрын

i think i see your problem your using ACOT

@irend1163

4 ай бұрын

Big man in the suit of ACOT, take that off and what are you? ~Tony Blokkats Stark

@thecoldknight7980

4 ай бұрын

The issue with gigastructures and ACOT is that by 2350 you are already at like 100k alloys a month with well over 10k naval capacity worth of fleets (given you have the mode to increase max from 9999). By the time you get to the block cats you either destroy them or end up measuring gameplay in minutes per month.

@wolfmilkJr

3 ай бұрын

Whats ACOT again?

@michael_stellaris

3 ай бұрын

Ancient Cache of Technologies

Just for anyone wanting to know what happens if you play a game with all of these crises enabled alongside base game crises is this: Your computer bursts into flames.

@michael_stellaris

4 ай бұрын

Yikes

@MrMatklug

4 ай бұрын

i use a nuclear reactor colling system to run the base game crises, giga crises and COT crises in one game

@funnibeanboi1363

3 ай бұрын

My PC's already becoming suitable cookware and it's only around the time you get kilostructures 😂

When i was playing GIGA and won against the Aerternun after defeating the katzen , there's a special event when you explore the birch wolrd in wich you find douglas mawcarthur

@potato88872

3 ай бұрын

Got that one yesterday, was surprise that this guy wasn't part of the time loop but, instead, a proper pop of the galaxy.

This is a certified Giga classic

Cats, cats, and more cats.

@michael_stellaris

4 ай бұрын

These goddamn cats are everywhere!

@Alex_FRD

4 ай бұрын

@@michael_stellaris Only xeno scum use cats. Glory to *man's* best friend, the dog.

@Elowiny

4 ай бұрын

As the mod author, my totally valid explanation is as follows: You know how most sci-fi settings have humans everywhere for some reason? Well here it's the same but with cats instead :)

The Katzenartig-imperium also declares different empire names depending on how big the imperium is

@michael_stellaris

Ай бұрын

Oh right, I didn't mention that. I'll include this in the comment then!

You've convinced me to try a playthrough against the Compound, bravo. Great video, as always. For the algorithm.

@michael_stellaris

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Also have fun beating the Compound

@Alexander99602

3 ай бұрын

compound can be a boon or a bitch depends how close it spawns to you

I literally just subscribed to find out when this came out 5 minutes ago

Thank you for this!!!! I'm about to attempt a playthrough with all giga crisis and acot stellarborne on slightly harder difficulties than normal, so its good to know whats strong against them and what to do!!

@michael_stellaris

4 ай бұрын

You're welcome :D Also good luck with your playthrough!

@theonesithtorulethemall

3 ай бұрын

Please dont do stellarborn befor you fight the blockkats, even without the light, there cheap, isntantbuild ships compleatly nullyfy any chalange the blockkats pose..

@aerosal2505

3 ай бұрын

@@theonesithtorulethemall no worries, i always leave stellarborne to be last for this very reason

Another great video, you really helped me understand this mod

@michael_stellaris

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Glad I made Gigastructural Engineering more clear for you

Found your channel yet again when searching for Stellaris modded videos..... Turns out to be useful too. Guess I'm subscribing. xD

Omg I have waited so long for this episode thank you !

@michael_stellaris

4 ай бұрын

You're welcome, enjoy the video :D

YES, I’ve been waiting for this!!! Happy New Years btw ❤

@michael_stellaris

4 ай бұрын

Happy New Year 🎆

Great video man! Keep up the good work.

@michael_stellaris

Ай бұрын

Thank you :D

Your editing has really improved, this was a fantastically-made video. Clear and concise with visuals and explanation. Great job!

@michael_stellaris

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Yeah I really went in with these two videos, plus I switched my editing software to Davinci Resolve, so I was able to really cool things, i'm glad someone noticed :D

Awesome explanation!!! I also noticed an option for fleeing the galaxy in the options of how to deal with the blokkets, but you didn’t mention it… now I’m curious

@michael_stellaris

4 ай бұрын

Yeah this option is mentioned in the event, however it hasn't been implemented yet.

@pikpikgamer1012

4 ай бұрын

I hope they add that in its sounds interesting.

@michael_stellaris

4 ай бұрын

I would love to see it too. From what i've heard on the gigas discord it would involve building a giant ship to escape from the Blokkats.

@archmagemc3561

4 ай бұрын

That is part of a future blokkat update, but its unknown when it'll come out. That update will coincide with an entire rework of the difficulty system or be close by it. Additionally there is vague talks of there being a SECOND blokkat crisis or second wave for blokkats where they retaliate, but thats not even designed yet, just talked about.

I find funny how the Katzenartig are just Cat Tail from PvZ 1

I need to run the ultimate crisis game with the Nomads from Dark Space, mostly to see what would happen.

i played this with Dawn of ascension and ACOT and when i did the fanatic xenophobes booked it for aeternum and just WREKT them. im just like ah um okay

you can also get aetermum inteligence from talking to the kaiser about them

@michael_stellaris

4 ай бұрын

Interesting, I didn't know that. I tested each crisis separately, so I missed that. I'll add this to the pinned comment later, thanks!

@Someperson-lx5uz

4 ай бұрын

@@michael_stellaris the gigastrutural crisases have some cool interactions however thats the only one that i know for certain about within the mod it's self. I know another with the kaiser and the gate gardens in acot secrets beyond the gate

@LOVEPHOENIXDANCER

4 ай бұрын

there is 1 with the guardians of light or whoever is locked behind the gates . and they say basicly dont use the overpowered tech they gave you or you earned though that crisis on the blokats. i forget the reason why its been a year.

Awesome

Talk about the super mega difficulties too!!!!

@michael_stellaris

4 ай бұрын

They're also included in the video

@archmagemc3561

4 ай бұрын

@@michael_stellaris Only one you didn't talk about in detail is Lux Aeternum and its like 12mil army strength on Aiondia and the void birch they're on. xD. Unless he means Pouchkinn's crisis.

I wish there was a blokkat start origin lol

just a advice on katzens. depending on your situations, don't let them build up naval forces near your border. Not only it will give you a hard time but also break the game (game will freeze)

@michael_stellaris

4 ай бұрын

Huh I had no idea this could happen

@jerbear3915

4 ай бұрын

@@michael_stellaris yeah had to restart my pc several times and go back a few months in-game to figure it out. In addition they only build up naval strength where your fleets are located in the border

The Compound is the only one I haven’t really seen, as it’s been broken since I started playing giga lol

I love the katzen crisis but I HATE that I can’t be friends with him coz when he suicides his moon he just stops being diplomatic

Destroying every other AI empire for me so I don't have to do it myself is why I love the Katzenartig Imperium.

Great work and video! Does anyone know what happens to the crises if you turn off attack moons and planet/system-crafts? I don’t really like the super ships, but I like most of the rest of the mod. Do the crises still get the planet ships? Or are they also blocked? (Might test it myself too, I’ll try to remember to comment here if I do)

@_apsis

4 ай бұрын

you basically can’t do anything against the stronger crises, but the mod’s developers don’t like the balance of the celestial ships anyways and want to limit them to just attack moons in the future

There is also a more interesting way to defeat the compund, without waiting the event chain for the catastrophic system. Simply defeat the auturnum planetcraft and rebuild it, their arsenal are anti-compund, including the planet beam Or Have A.C.O.T installed and hope the compund micro wormhole spawn inside one of the ancient fallen empire, their weapon are also anti-compund

@michael_stellaris

4 ай бұрын

Yeah maybe, but still in order to properly end the crisis you need to destroy the Preservation Sphere with the Stellar Eradicator, and for that you have to do the event chain.

@potato88872

4 ай бұрын

@@michael_stellaris that's true but it make the compund a joke if i can send one big planet to dominate

the katzen, almost like the kilrathi from wing commander

Bro. This is good. But can you please give video about blokkat conversation speech? Like "Arent you afraid we will rebel?" Or "Why some system off limit" or the intergalactic community? Please 🙏

@michael_stellaris

4 ай бұрын

I don't really get what you mean, could you elaborate?

@nomad640

4 ай бұрын

@michael_stellaris when you ascent. The blokkat have conversations option explaining like in 30:47 . Which explains blokkat intergalactic community, its origin, why they wont fear rebellion, etc

@michael_stellaris

4 ай бұрын

Okay I get it now. I don't really focus on lore in my videos, many diplo screens have several talking options, but they don't really do anything important really. But if you're really interested in Blokkat lore, you can check out their page on the Gigastructural Engineering lore wiki. Red king also made a video about Blokkat lore, so you can check it out as well.

In my 36 playthroughs of Gigastructural Engineering, I have never once triggered the compound. They tend to become irrelevant pretty quickly if you run with ACOT.

@coled555

3 ай бұрын

I think the Compound is typically disabled by default, I've never seen them. I know they are supposed to be very broken, and the devs are planning to eventually fix them and make them an actual crisis

@michael_stellaris

3 ай бұрын

Yeah they are, let's hope the rework happens soon

@coled555

3 ай бұрын

@michael_stellaris yeah, before this video I had no idea what they were supposed to be. I'm glad they're connected to the EHOF/Cohesive cluster/sentient metal/neg mass stuff, because the archeology sites and lore for all that was cool but for me ends up getting ignored in favor of ACOT techs later in the game. To have an enemy directly connected to that stuff with another unique way to defeat them would be super cool

Do you have the link of the Giga Structures? The one you have sends me to a picture of dwarves...

@michael_stellaris

Ай бұрын

Wtf how did that happen, I'm genuinely confused

@michael_stellaris

Ай бұрын

Turns out I skipped a number while copying the link, and because of that it redirected to somebody's screenshot from 2012 💀 Thanks for pointing this out, if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have noticed. Also sorry for the confusion lol

@minecraftbacon9620

Ай бұрын

@@michael_stellaris No problem :)

In dealing with the Blokkats event, there's an option of "Fighting is futile. Let us move to more fertile lands instead!" What does it do?

@michael_stellaris

4 ай бұрын

It's a third outcome that has not been implemented yet. It involves you figuring out a way to abandon the galaxy, and escape the Blokkats

Is it sad i always turn of all crisis from the mod since i lost one time and rage quit?

@michael_stellaris

2 ай бұрын

Nah it's alright I remember one time I enabled the Aeternum by mistake, and when they awoken I was completely unprepared. My empire lasted for a couple minutes lmao That was the last time I played with Aeternum enabled (not counting the preparations for mod showcases)

It is kind of a shame the Compound aren't as interesting as the Kaiser, Aeternum, and Blokkats are. They seemed like they had alot more potential. How would the Gigastructural Engineering crisis factions fair against nations as powerful as the Forerunners, the Culture, and the Interim Coalition of Governance? The Forerunners would be perhaps the most interesting due to how relative and adaptive they are with knowledge and warfare. Especially with things like the Domain. Even though they haven't built anything exactly like a Birch world before with the exception of one shield world.

I dont remember the Katzan looking like that... regardless. While I like their mechanics a ton, and the fact they are crisis worthy, what I dont like is how they seemingly just mold every single empire into themselves without even really trying or sometimes without doing anything. So in a year or two they already own half the galaxy... thats a bit much for a midgame crisis. I'd enjoy them more if they weren't so absolutely busted and broken in the galactic scale of things. The fact they have an attack moon already makes them scary to fight against... I dont need them surrounding me because every AI empire just agrees to be absorbed.

@michael_stellaris

3 ай бұрын

Out of curiosity, which difficulty are you using?

@coled555

3 ай бұрын

I never seem to have much issue with the Katzen. I have ACOT along with Gigastructures, and if I am doing okay for the beginning of the game I tend to have stronger fleets than the Imperium by the time they declare war on me. I don't seem to struggle defeating them, which is a bit of a shame because there are so many mechanics implemented to deal with them that I never need to explore.

... I still want to change the Kizer as an empire that defeated him..... just the RP would be great....

Any intention to cover the Warship Girls R mod or Voyage to Eternity? Or the Azur Lane mod?

@michael_stellaris

4 ай бұрын

I added them to my list. As of when i'm gonna cover them, tbh I have no idea, rn i'm way too tired after the gigastructure showcase.

@noneofyourbusiness4133

4 ай бұрын

@@michael_stellarisno worries, that mod is MASSIVE.

I don’t understand how a mod can make better crisises than the actual game lol

Heheh…hahahah…HAHAHAHAHAH!!!! FINALLY WORTHY CHALLENGERS!!!!

@thiccythins785

4 ай бұрын

Blud thought he was a fanatical warrior imperial leader

Is this mod intended to be played with other overpowered shit bc I see no way to deal with something that has fleet power in the literal millions in normal gameplay

@michael_stellaris

3 ай бұрын

There are various difficulties which have an impact on the overall strength of the crises. Some are more challenging, and are meant for playthroughs with overpowered mods, while some of them are meant to be played with gigas only. Second, the mod gives you tools to fight them, such as Attack Moons, Planetcrafts and Systemcrafts plus various megastructures to boost your empire. If you want information about them, check the first part of the gigastructural engineering showcase.

:> D

That first faction is just pure cringe.

@Elowiny

4 ай бұрын

Once again confirming my theory that people either love or hate the Katzenartig Imperium with literally no in between lol