The Unbidden

[Z56B29A2😶]

Gathered a 80k fleet (with 20x Battleship 40x Cruisers 80x Destroyers 160x Corvettes) to invade others.

Smashed by 100000000x Unbidden 11k fleets

Is my empire still rescuable?

[Loues.S.Cat]

Yeah... Unbidden behavior is.... odd right now...
I just ran a game as an observer and they reached a fairly decent size almost immediatly after arival then... stopped.
They just stoped trying and sat there.
So there is a good chance you can recover if they aren't covering the entirity of your space.
I tyipcly lose my entire fleet in the first encounter of every war. You'll bounce back.

[Z56B29A2😶]

Originally posted by Loues.S.Cat:

Yeah... Unbidden behavior is.... odd right now...
I just ran a game as an observer and they reached a fairly decent size almost immediatly after arival then... stopped.
They just stoped trying and sat there.
So there is a good chance you can recover if they aren't covering the entirity of your space.
I tyipcly lose my entire fleet in the first encounter of every war. You'll bounce back.

if they just sit there then I could leave it as a final boss or something I suppose...
They speard so fast I didn't even noticed how they expanded

[Loues.S.Cat]

Every station they build advances their influence.
In the unpatched version of the game every station in a system their influence touched also started to expand their influence. thankfully that doesnt seem to be the case any more as far as I can see at the moment.

[TheKittenSlayer]

I dunno man i hate that there isn't a way to offically band the galaxy together to go fight them, i had to war the last two major factions that were being eaten by the unbidden just so i could lead my fleet of ships and my federation to the unbidden's portal to have a great last battle for my save game, it was a one sided victory on my part tho

[Loues.S.Cat]

Yeah.. The AIs reaction to them is... Stupid. really. really Stupid.

[zacharyb]

Originally posted by TheKittenSlayer:

I dunno man i hate that there isn't a way to offically band the galaxy together to go fight them, i had to war the last two major factions that were being eaten by the unbidden just so i could lead my fleet of ships and my federation to the unbidden's portal to have a great last battle for my save game, it was a one sided victory on my part tho

Weird, in my game everyone got a huge relationship bonus to eachother and everyone was forming alliances with eachother, I could pretty much ally anyone except for my rivals. Though I did all the work in my game, I got access from the AI that the Unbidden spawned in and sent my whole fleet.

[Dandy]

I just destroyed their fleets (over 100k total strength) without taking a single hit. I uploaded a sreenshot to prove it, they are not a threat if you have a big fleet with tahyon lanes (range of 60). That weapon just pewpew everything before it gets in range.
http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/494645911100040515/32D2FDE1D16334FD980B59436B34E62913FF2B89/

[Zarco]

Originally posted by TheKittenSlayer:

I dunno man i hate that there isn't a way to offically band the galaxy together to go fight them, i had to war the last two major factions that were being eaten by the unbidden just so i could lead my fleet of ships and my federation to the unbidden's portal to have a great last battle for my save game, it was a one sided victory on my part tho

How do you get your Federation ally ships to follow you?

[Brakiros]

In my first game the race the Unbidden were devouring organized a 6 race federation. Within 2 years the Federation had disintegrated and the founding member was a shattered species clinging to life in 3 border planets. And then the Unbidden AI broke they stopped moving.

[Flamin Jesus]

Originally posted by Zarco:

Originally posted by TheKittenSlayer:

I dunno man i hate that there isn't a way to offically band the galaxy together to go fight them, i had to war the last two major factions that were being eaten by the unbidden just so i could lead my fleet of ships and my federation to the unbidden's portal to have a great last battle for my save game, it was a one sided victory on my part tho

How do you get your Federation ally ships to follow you?

HA! How do you get your Federation ally ships to NOT follow you? My federation has insisted on meeting up in every single war I've been in, even if they had to cross half the galaxy and completely abandon their defense to do it, even if they could have won the war completely without my intervention I've had to trot my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fleet to every little tiff they had because they wouldn't fight on their own.

[Farsha]

Ubidden are broken atm. AI empires won't fight them, they don't see them even, and just get swallowed with no resistance. Even if you are in federation they will not help you.
It's a bug, Paradox knows it and Wiz is working on fix.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellaris/comments/4it1fl/ai_not_attacking_the_unbidden_is_game_breaking/

[Warlance]

I believe that unbidden use powerful shields as opposed to armor, try using kinetics as well as missiles/torpedos against them (disruptors too)

[Tempest]

If your fed pres,declare war on some little nothing somewhere,this will give you a ton of the feds navy to follow you around,use it to smash the unbidden again and again.

Thye will rebuild as fast as you crush them,but the research points you'll get ,and the techs you'll get from the battles is priceless,and you might be able to hold their influence back for a long time.

[jeremythejedi]

So ummm yeah. Jumped on he Unbidden as soon as they popped on the map. fleet power 161k with another 39k brought in during the initial battle. They returned fire with a fleet of 57k. While fighting, two more joined from their portal. Needless to say my 161k started to fade fast. Then that was that. Not sure what they're going for with this "crisis", but 1 empire in the whole of the galaxy can't take on something that spawns that fast. Going to try the Knetic piece up above. Perhaps that's the trick.

[Bond]

I have had two out of two games started ruined (for me) by the Unbidden appearance. Too powerful and spawn too quickly, especially when you can't even get to them because they are in another empire with closed borders. And no way diplomatically to band empires together to fight them. They spawn way faster than my empire can build.

I think I'll just wait until Heinlein where (I understand) the crisis events can be turned off. Frustrating to have hours and hours of gameplay ruined by the Unbidden event which just feels broken.