Stellaris: First Contact - Cloak And Dagger
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Stellaris returns with the brand new First Contact Story Pack, which fleshes out pre-FTL civilizations, as well as giving you a taste of being a victim of a less-than-entirely-benevolent visitor from the stars...
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Nothing like falling asleep mid video as Jon is a scrappy young planet, newly liberated, and eager to explore the galaxy. And then waking back up to find out he led a federation of planets to enslave half the galaxy. Never change Jon, never change.
14:40 "we're going to do the corpse parade, but purely on pragmatic ground, not because we enjoy it" is such an end-credits worthy clip xD
So Jon is basically playing as Independence Day meets Starship Troopers. Would you like to know more.....
I'm doing my part!
Service guarantees citizenship!
WE HAVE THE WEAPONS...WE HAVE THE SHIPS...WE. NEED. SOLDIERS.
The only good bug is a dead bug!
@@AkodoKusamoto
MEDIC!
Personally I would love an updated Space Rome run sometime.
I would love any LP of Stellaris at this point
But he’s just so backed up with other games it’s looking less likely to happen anytime soon
Agreed. I’ve had to start watching other people playing stellaris. Used to love Jon’s playing paradox games and total war games but they have been gone for a long time
2:24 she winks at you.
@@seanmcloughlin5983 He's gotta play Fallout for the 100th time first
There was even a mod released not long ago that adds some space Rome origins to use!
19:25 Enjoy hearing Jons enthusiasm as he describes how he's going to literally Nuke the Whales
Those tier one missiles always put the intended scale of the space battles in perspective for me. Most of the ship guns don't give you any real sense of context: it's just pew-pew lasers and mass drivers in 's', 'm' or 'l'; but the weakest missile in the game is something that historically ranged up to 500 kilotons TNT equivalent. Spacecraft are apparently not messing around.
I expected a Nelson reference "gotta nuke something" ....."touche"
He's English. In his mind, Wales had it coming. 😂
Nuke the whales? Yeah you gotta nuke something
45:30 I say this with a great deal of love Jon, but at this point it would be more surprising if it _didn't_ turn out that you were the bad guy all along.
It's been a long time, and he didn't die a hero.
Logical
With Jeff Goldblum being a scientist, I like to imagine that you were invaded by dinosaurs
The space dinosaurs from the 2000s TMNT tried to enslave Earth but was stopped by a british man in a button-up shirt.
@@AspenBrightsoul That fellow was actually a Time Lord, I believe. He just liked to cosplay as British.
Space... uh, found a way.
Just to be sure, you remember him being a scientist in Independence Day, right? I remember that shlocky cliché moment, where he goes "checkmate" as the timer runs out.
@@esprit101 Yep, but I also want to imagine a world where all the crazy plot stuff happens to him at once
Every time we get an update to Stellaris, you say "I love Stellaris, but no new series until we get an even bigger update." It's been more than three years since The Impossible Run. The last episode of your last Stellaris series aired Oct. 23, 2019. Since that time we've had three expansions (Federations, Nemesis, and Overlord), three new species packs (aquatics, necroids, and toxoids), and now a new story pack, First Contact. Now I'm not saying your promises are empty, but... **gestures at everything**
To be fair, the v2.2 update was a massive change.
@@peterknutsen3070 3.x was huge two adding overlords, spies, now first contact, federations, custodians, nemisis, colasi, juggernauts, mega shipyard....care for me to go on?
agreed, i miss stellaris
Jon, likely doesn't think he can top the impossible run, though he could try mixing Eager Explorers with Doomsday with the AI improvements it might be hard to catch up.
A huge difference is the intel changes, I'm finding using envoys well is key, as is stalling hostile empires intel gathering in the early game.
Finally the game is so huge now and Jon's possibly had enough of min-max MP influenced know it alls objecting to his mistakes.
Frankly the Impossible Run is fun because of, not despite all the mistakes! 😁😁😉
We're officially getting a new series!
The debt collection thing reminds me of how Haiti was forced to pay France for the damages incurred during the Haitian Revolution (a successful slave liberation revolution)
I'm pretty sure they're *still* paying that off... and I wouldn't be even slightly surprised if PDX used that as inspiration.
@@RainaThrownAwayinished off after 2010 (due to the earthquake), but, well, that's less then half of my lifetime, and I'm hardly an old man, so....
Edit: actually, that was the Duvalier debts (mostly) the independence debt was 1947, with a *lot* of asterisks. France is stubborn about refusing to hear the "maybe you should pay them back" argument, too.
That was my immediate thought too.
Further context: One particular event to keep in mind here is the 1804 Haitian genocide, where black supremacists under the orders of Dessalines (self-declared Emperor of Haiti after September of the same year) killed off the remaining white french population of the island (between 3000-5000 people). As a direct consequence of this event, the widespread devastation caused by the Revolution, and that Haiti was a nation born of a slave revolt, no one wanted to recognise Haiti's independence nor trade with it, something that effectively crippled the young nation's development.
Out of abject desperation in 1823 the then president of Haiti sent envoys to France to try and broker some kind of deal, and it was actually the Haitian delegation that first proposed the idea of reparations in 1824. Smelling blood in the water France then sent a bunch of warships to Haiti in 1825 with the demands that they pay a humiliatingly outrageous sum (and that french vessels pay only half import duties) in exchange for France finally acknowledging the island's independence. The Haitians agreed, not that they arguably had much of a choice by that point.
Even then the island still harboured some hopes that France's recognition would led to them being accepted in the world stage as an independent actor (with subsequent economic benefits for the island from trade, investment, and such). They were horribly mistaken, notably the US would refuse to recognise Haiti until 1862 (guess why), meanwhile on the economic front some estimate that by the late XIX century around 4/5s of the country's GDP went to debt repayment.
@@JJ-M Depressingly enough one of the big problems with reparations in the case of Haiti is that there is quite literally no one to give the money to. As in Haiti literally has no stable and legitimate government (the current acting president was effectively appointed by foreign ambassadors as an attempt to prevent a total collapse after the last president was assassinated). And even if there was a legitimate government as things stand in Haiti any money delivered to the country would almost certainly end up filling the pockets of the country's corrupt and gangster-associated elite, which is to say that reparations would almost certainly end up doing a lot more harm than good.
If you're looking for new end screen quotes. "In conclusion, it turns out I was the bad guy all along" would be a great one ngl.
I realize that this would probably be a licensing problem; but having the mysterious Council guy from XCOM as your narrator voice would be an excellent addition to the 'payback' origin.
"Hello Commander"
They could probably hire the same guy
Isn't that the honest trailer guy?
That's what mods are for, my friend.
@@TiganWelsh That's how I roleplayed XCOM prior to First Contact with Taskforce: Xeno.
@@AaronCorr I looked it up, it's Jon Bailey who does the videos and is the council-contact in Xcom
I love stellaris, can't believe it's still gets updates
Not only that, it gets better and better. Can't believe I'm playing the same game I picked up way back on launch sometimes
It'll probably get updates for the next 5 years, if we look at EU4.
hello I see you're new to paradox games..
@@TheUlquiorraCifer Stellaris has been out since 2016 which is longer than 5 years. And EUIV is still going with updates. It's really until they make the next installment.
They are artists constantly chasing perfection
Darn, I was hoping for a new series. I guess I will have to queue up the Impossible Run again after I finish with Tabbies (for the third time). The only thing better than Stellaris is watching Jon play Stellaris. 👽
I'd absolutely love an updated impossible run considering the AI has gotten much harder and the endgame crisis can be cranked up to absurd levels of strength now. Potentially as fanatical purifiers to assure the entire galaxy hates his guts from the start lol.
"oh yeah! We can just blame this all on Feudalism"
Jon channels Nestor Makhno and I'm here for it.
20:20 It's just a name. Like the Death Nebula, or the Nebula of No Return. All the nebulae have names like that in the Galaxy of Terror.
My favorite RP empire in stellaris was to play as if the 4 to 8 empires in the Huge galaxy were the precursors to everything in a normal Stellaris run.
kind of insane that you cant be fanatical purifiers with the payback origin. Its the perfect ropleplay combo
Jon: "Life is good."
Me: "Not for the amoebas you're roasting with that death ray, you monster!"
Honestly I think it’s cool that there’s an unfinished/destroyed Dyson sphere around a black hole. Love the content Jon!
I think it's the catapult megastructure.
Very much looking forward to another full series of this and Crusader Kings 3.
New Elder Kings looking good
Leave it to Jon to not react to his engineering researcher being named JEFF GOLDBLUM
likely becuse he named him...
Long story short, Jon was the hero who lived long enough to become the villain.
Well, given he kicked off with a Corpse Parade and then committed genocide on a bunch of defenceless Space Whales, I'm not convinced he needed to live particularly long... 😂
@@peterclarke7240 That is true.
I really like the flavor of broken shackles. That's a very cool story
If you’re looking for enough new content to make a run out of, Gigastructures certainly has that
9:52 Interesting how your colony ships are all of the "Australia" class. =^[.]~=
Yes, yes, yes, yes! Dark Forrest, here I come!
Congrats.
@@LAPISTime25 Thank you, didn't expect to make it first.
I was so hoping Jon would cover this.
Who had 45 minutes as the time Jon realizes he has become the bad guy?
Finally! Jon plays Stellaris again!
Yes! I need Jon playing stellaris in my veins
Pragmatic corpse parade sounds like a post-punk band. They wear corpse paint, accountant suits, and play instruments you've never heard of out of briefcases.
Every time John plays stellaris I’m reminded of what an outstanding game it is.
Mate, I've missed Stellaris. Wouldn't say no to a new series, wink wink...(please?)
I think you should give the Gigastructural Engineering mod a whirl sometime, Jon - lots of good stuff in there, including some unique species origins.
Surely it's time for a new Stellaris playthrough?
The Payback origin reminds me more of X-Com. You reppelled the invaders and now get to use their tech in expanding to the stars.
24:15 I love the literal alien in a trench coat picture lol
Jon this is the best start for a video series
Once again, Jon, please (please please) do a full series and be the crisis. You were born to destroy the galaxy!
Wow, who Could have guessed Jon would be the Villain
JK Jon love you!
19:40 Spoken like a true Englishman!
14:48 Haiti moment
I don’t mind Jon having these adverts . He doesn’t do it often thank goodness
Jon is much nicer to the debt collectors than I was. I just gave the debt collectors the middle finger. Thankfully they only attack your home world with about 900 fleet power and I had almost that in corvettes. Together with the station I was able to defeat the debt collectors.
Love stellaris videos.
You know, we really need a stellaris one shot playlist 😂
More Stellaris? Incoming top tier Livestream
Stuff like this makes me really want to play Stellaris... but then I see the UI and time scale and get super intimidated.
Excellent. Love your Stellaris content. I'll be onboard.
Humans: The collar is on the other neck, now!
(Sees other races in their empire are slaves)
Humans: Wait, no, not them! They're okay!
45:31 In other words, Jon is playing Stellaris.
@19:35 "Nuke the whales!? You don't really believe that do you?" "Uh-uno gotta nuke something..."
I do love when Jon plays games I also play
Ah, Jon getting caught up in not realizing that the Debt Collectors who came to Earth to get their payment might... be at Earth when he denies payment. Very Jon sort of move. In an endearing way for me. Like the "Do Turkeys lay eggs?" moment. Does give some dramatic tension there.
Cloak and Dagger: “You either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain.” 🙂
Beautiful, I love the ending
I really feel the old Origins need to be tweaked to put them in line with the DLC ones.
To quote the Lions Led by Donkeys podcast, "this is another example of the Greater Unifying Theory of 'Fuck That Guy.'"
Hell yeah. I got into stellaris because of MATN. Do a whole playthrough if you would please :)
Bill Paxton's Vice President is Teddy Chewsevelt because he is a good boy.
Thank you for the video.
"guess who doesn't have point defence? wales."
Wales had it coming.
I feel like Jon is just acting in the role of Tzeentch with that primitive empire. He is purely there to troll them.
oh my goodness NEW STELLARIS VIDEO!!!!
Payback is strong because if you rush the flagship and max naval cap you can easily vassalize other empires you encounter
I love citizen service just for the starship troopers reference it has.
I love how seemingly everyone in the galaxy also hates your former masters
Ive been looking forward to this
If "we can just pin all of this on feudalism" doesn't become a snippet is swear
Jon's basically made the Greater Terran Union.
Whenever you say "the year is" I start hearing the babylon 5 theme.
every time there's Stellaris on the channel I think "I always bounce off of grand Strategy games but I'll give it a go" and then inevitably bounce off again.... UNTIL TWO DAYS AGO, I AM NOW OFFICIALLY A CONVERT.
So please, Jon, DO A NEW SERIES. There are SO MANY changes to the balance and new mechanics compared to even your most recent series, and I'd love to see you play with the full spy network stuff especially, it's been a while but I still remember your Nemesis video being at the time probably my fav 4XGS video youve done, an entire Spy-based series would be SO GOOD, and might even be interesting mixed with the new Toxoid stuff?
"We're nuking the flip out of nature, and now all the babies are dead. Beautiful!" ♥♥♥
Jon fighting Mindless Selfless Indulgence this game was really interesting
The community made Independance speech for this expansion was great, Montu Plays posted it up.
Jon plays Stellaris again
There is a god
I want more tales from the Corvette ISS Aardvark.
3 seconds ago? Man, that's some timing
make this a series please
Babe wake up new MATN Stellaris video dropped
edit: aww man not a new series, though the promise of getting another one soon is more than enough for me
That primitive species you discovered and just kind of toyed with....I see them starting with a payback origin in the future, as well.
Got the dlc....now I have to wait for the Star Trek mod to get updated and I'm golden
"Okay, we're going to do the corpse parade, but purely on pragmatic grounds, okay? Not because we enjoy it."
I mean I would assume the reason you're getting influence for it in the first place *is* because your people enjoy it. That resource doesn't just come out of nothing.
With all my UI mods I had forgotten the game looks like this.
I do hope you do another full play though someday. The last few are out of date in terms of gameplay. I would love to see how you manage all the minutia.
"If they have point defense, they're gonna tear our missiles apart. But you know what doesn't have point defense?
That's right, WHALES!"
That legitimately made me laugh out loud
I remember just shooting the debt collectors. Heh
37:35
Sun Tzu said, “when we are far, we must make our enemy believe we are near. When we are near, we must make him think we are far”
I think poor Jon fell victim to this shit😂😅
15:12 roleplaying Haiti?
Makes me remember one of my favorite games, I had been sitting next to a slaver empire for the entire game and they had done nothing but insult me and stir up trouble at my border, so after bribing their neighbors with food for fifteen years I just swooped in, grabbed their capital world, made it a hive world and then converted their entire population to drones.
"Only fit to serve" indeed...
A new Stellaris series? Oh yes pls
Maybe it's the accent but it sounds like you're saying cunking and it makes me think of philomena Cink and then I giggle. Thank you for that
I tried not taking discovery tree in a game once.
I still feel dirty.
YES! FINALLY SOME STELLARIS!!!
Good to see.
Love how Jon justifies treating the primitives as just something to laugh at. Skin melting, blame it on the feudal lord. People falling out of the sky the funniest thing on Spacetube. To be honest it kinda fits the whole payback narrative
I’m glad Paradox drove a truck load of money to MATN to play some Sellaris!
I love how the flagship looks like Deep Space 9
Jon got Space Haiti’d
15:13 France to Haiti