The Unbidden Destroyed all my fun, is like a bug

[FabioManoel1977]

sorry bad english

I am now with 94 hours of gameplay, I was having a LOT of fun, I have now 28 planets, 415 population, with 80% of the planets I am micro managing, each construction, each pop.

Stellaris was until now the most fun game of my life.

however, suddenly in the year 2419 showed some guys named Unbidden with 4 fleet with 300K of power each one, while I have just one fleet with 65K

All others AI are ignoring the Unbidden and the Unbidden are attacking ONLY me.

just in 20 minutes they already consumed 50% of my empire, while the otehrs AI empires are doing nothing and the Unbidden keep focus only in me.

This is normal ?

Those Unbidden are the "Crisis" ?

I just not want to begin everything again from the start , this make me really sad, all my empire, my peaceful empire, my adorable pops, all dead in 20 minutes after 94 hours of gameplay...

[Edetha4]

Mu first question is, how often did you save? Theoretically, you could reload far back enough so that you have time to build up a fleet. Hell, the spawn location is randomized at a certain time. Go back 5 years or a decade, and there is a good chance they will spawn somewhere else.

[Apeironic_Entelechy]

Originally posted by dictionary:

cri·sis
noun
a time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger.

If you're finding it horribly difficult then it lives up to its name, next time lower the crisis strength in the galaxy creation screen.

[FabioManoel1977]

I am playing Ironman to get achievements, I guess I cannot reload. Or I can ?

[drcox321]

the crisis is supposed to add some late game difficulty. at a fleet strength of only 65K you will have almost no chance against them. I recemend you go with it. fight as long as you can and have some fun in losing. If you absolutly dont lose you could resort to cheating through console as long as ironman isnt enabled. If you dont want this to happen again next time you start a game you can toggle end game crisesis off at the begining game options.

[drcox321]

with ironman on you are pretty much stuck. the only way to "reload" at that point is if you made some backup copies of your save.

[cooltv27]

the AI has a horrible tendancy of targeting the player over other AI empires, which is only made worse by end game crises being so powerful. The unbidden are unique though, as other factions will also spawn which are all hostile to each other as well as everything else.

but the important part is to not give up because things are going wrong. fight through them. the unbidden have a very specific weakness in their ship designs (which I will spoil if you ask).

the fun part isnt when things go right, its when you win even though everything went wrong.

[northernwater]

Do some reading on how to beat the unbidden. Ship build makeup is important. Also, if you can get enough fleet to stop their spread you can hold them at bay until you have enough to destroy there main portal.

[FabioManoel1977]

All this thing was totally unexpected to me. I have a Overlord since the beginning of the game, the most powerful empire in my game, however, he is just ignoring the Unbidden...

[cooltv27]

Originally posted by FabioManoel1977:

All this thing was totally unexpected to me. I have a Overlord since the beginning of the game, the most powerful empire in my game, however, he is just ignoring the Unbidden...

the AI ends to ignore any threats that arnt the player.

[Captain Keen]

If you switch off Crisis, then the late game becomes a slog. Just ... boring, uninspired, nothing happens, then you finally win.

So the best solution is to pratice getting strong enough to beat them. My personal method involves knocking over FE's to get their production capacity - without that, I invariably lose.

[sudokek]

Don't play ironman if you can't handle the crisis, or know what to expect. There is always a crisis, unless you turn them off. But that's lame.