Stellaris:Apocalypse 3000 Years Timelapse [4k 60Fps]

Timelapse 2200AD to 5200AD

Version: 2.0.2 Beta

Song: Stellaris: Faster Than Light

Here's how I created this timelapse:
1. Start a game with the desired settings
2. Open the console, enter "observe"
3. Use Open Broadcaster Studio to record the galaxy with the desired FPS value - I've been using something between 1/2 and 1/5 fraction FPS values (so 1 picture every 3 seconds for instance)
4. Import the resulting files to GoPro Studio, play those 0.33 FPS with 60 FPS - thus speeding it up significantly
5. Adjust some speed settings to scale up over time since the game will slow down as the game progresses

Voilá!

Used Mods:
At first I only had following mods activated:
- Hyperlane Transpararency Lite
- Thinner Borders
- Enigmatic Fortress Fix 2.0

Later I forgot to turn off following mods from my singleplayer games, resulting in slightly buggy - but pretty entertaining crisis!
- Dynamic Political Events
- Immersive Empire Names
- Multiple Crisis
- War Name Variety

There were occasional crashes of either OBS or Stellaris, thus here and there we are missing a few years.

All initial races were designed so that it's AI personalities match their name. Playing on large (800 Star) map, ring-shaped.

Overall, 90h of footage has been used.

At the end there were almost 1500 pops of Xenophobic Isolationists inhabiting the galaxy.

Here are some savegames of this timelapse:

[PaddysPubPatron]

>AI takes crisis factions down to like 1% of their full power
>Too stupid to finish them off
>Crisis faction regains strength
Yep, that's Stellaris alright.

[BATTERIESc]

I had a game where contingency were wiping the floor with everyone including two fallen empires. They defeated the fallen empires easily and were advancing on my borders from all directions with roving fleets of 84k. My entire combined fleet strength was 150k I could defeat a roving contingency fleet but take unacceptable losses each time, not to mention that because I had to combine fleet many borders were undefended and falling quickly causing ruined economy. They had a machine world in the centre of my empire and it was obvious I could not hold back the tide so I prepared my entire combined fleet of 160k for a suicide mission at the machine world (41k Ai core, 210k fleet). Changed to no retreat doctrine and was totally dejected my 60 hour ironman game would end in defeat. Literally as I was about to click my fleet into that system I get a transmission, the cybrex are here I had never played stellaris so had no idea what was happening, 10 cybrex fleets start storming contingency space! It was still a gigantic struggle and I only defeated the machine world in my system when cybrex threw a 140k in before me. Held on by fingernails and won. Most epic moment I have had in gaming, its on the level of seeing gandalf and rohan arrive at the top of the hill when you are utterly fucked.

[Andy_den]

"Finally we defeated the two endgame crises!"
Contingency: Allow us to introduce ourselves.

[f.powell]

The Scourge had some Great dance moves.

[Sivolc]

Say what you will about Xenophobic Isolationists, but in a hostile galaxy, they endure.

[trygveplaustrum]

I love how the Prethoryn Scourge pops up, looks at the galaxy, and goes, "Welp, I'm outta here."

[Masterchan]

Poor HiveMind at top had both crisis spawn inside their territory.

[AuricomSystems]

Lol at the Contingency coming back for a second go

[gatedude]

This is sort of a sad ending. The galaxy started with a whole range of civs, and many of them would be beneficial; Federation Builders, Explorers, Fanatical Befrienders, Rogue Servitors, etc. At the end the galaxy was dominated by slavers, Imperialists, xenophobes, a hive mind and some sort of machine intelligence. Several of those used to be much more friendly civilizations.

I guess having three crises hit their psyches HARD.

Another poignant point is that the Servitors ALMOST made it. They held their own against rival Empires, the Unbidden, and Determined Exterminators only to fall at t he very end to the Contingency when it managed to jump across the galaxy.

[PhilipTrouble]

Democratic Crusaders has to be the best faction ever.

WILL WE TAKE JERUSALEM? oYes oNo

[battlesheep]

Sad to see the Contingency wipe out the Driven Assimilators. I was rooting for the whole galaxy getting borged.

[soldier]

1:05 i love how the prethoryn just show up and imedietly get tossed around like a pinball by the 2 neighboring civs. that was funny considering how strong the scourge is. it kept coming back for more and the neighbor aliens where like: "_HOW MANY TIMES WE GOTA TEACH YOU THIS LESSON OLD MAN?!_"

but man the contigency was on a whole new level

[bsmandothers]

Unbidden: Planet please
Game: Planet 🅱roke
Unbidden: Understanda🅿le have a great day

[spiroreal]

That "Contingency" tho... we need a *contingency* plan to stop them

[MrTroves]

Got to love that the Machine Intelligence and the Rogue Servitors were friends for so long. They both started from the beginning, yet only one of them made it too the end... And both of them came so close to making it too.

[OmegaGregar]

after everything that happened in this timelapse, the one thing that scares me? the contingency wasnt defeated. they disappeared. they just straight up VANISHED. what the hell...?

[williampoole]

"Fanatical Purifiers"
Huh. Seem like nice enough people...

[AllMightyPower]

The Ai really does a great job with end game crises now rather then the old BS of just letting them eat everything and doing nothing to stop them.

[endlessthunder]

We were at war but when the contigency came ... we united and form the galactic alliance to defend each other... after 300yrs of war... earth was next to fall... i only had 12k ships i met them at the moon and fought a bloody war to save earth... i was losing but then my allies send their armadas and we defeated the contigency fleet..

[fajarazka]

Bottom Faction : chill with faster than light song
Top : *DOOM OST PLAYED*