i have all the L-Gates in my empire. The Gray Tempest home system contains 4 regular nanite fleets in addition to the factory. Its year 73 and everyone is weak AF- my own fleet is 1400 (i use Bastion for defence against my single enemy). glad it wasn't only me. I…Gray Tempest. But the gray tempest is making no effort to destroy them at all. L-Cluster & Grey Tempest Spawn Questions. Its passive effect gives +3 influence and +100% diplomatic weight. This in turn makes the Gray rather underwhelming as a threat, since no sensible player would open the L-Gates prior to being prepared to handle them. And you can also create another "plug" in the system right before the Replicator, and contain the Tempest there until you build up your fleet power. get the Empire by replacing that line with "gray_goo_empire_set=62808000 3. I kinda afraid that galaxy is doomed now lol- 34000 fleets fly around and murder everyone. The Grey Tempest is based on concept of a Grey Goo scenario and true to the Grey Goo scenario If it gets released from an L-Gate it will start to expand and consume any other playable entity/Civilization around it. Nov 29, 2021. [stellaris. r/Stellaris. If it's L-Drakes or empty, you don't get free planets; the nanite worlds are there but cannot be terraformed. #2. Can you deal with the Gray Tempest early game? A materialist AI decided to open a L Cluster and now I'm being invaded by the Gray Tempest. my L-Cluster System divide by 3 faction. But I don't know how, do I need a tech ? or I'm overseeing a button ? ( patch 2. So, maybe I'm just unlucky, maybe some. Copy it to the Stellaris save folder (Users*Username*DocumentsParadox InteractiveStellaris. #2. Then I'm assuming when the Galactic Contender perk says it gives bonus damage against the Gatebuilders, it means the Grey Tempest or Dessanu Consonance even though they aren't specifically labeled as "Gatebuilders". L-Gate outcome is determined at galaxy creation. It didn't hold. Also, I've noticed that the AI simply ignores "focus" Council resolutions, so maybe that needs a pass, too. Edit: For clarity, I think this is a mistake and the Grey Tempest Crisis Declaration needs it's logic updated to not share the same AI voting weights as the Endgame Crises. The second-funnest Stellaris game I ever had was one where I rushed the L-gates and then got wiped out by an early Grey Tempest. 4 (I repeat 4 x 35k stacks appear) and proceed to wipe everything they see. If you’re the one to open the L-Gates, you tend to get the most benefit — depending on the outcome, you’ll get dibs on the L-Cluster and finding Gray, the Dessanu Consonance will give you free strategic resources, the AI tends not to go for the L-Drakes right away, or you’ll mostly lock the Tempest out of the L-Gate you opened (so they’ll attack other people first). In the Contacts Menu you can choose which form Gray shoul use. However, I found no Nanite Factory and after a couple of years, three new Gray Shoal fleets spawned within a system that I controlled within the L-Cluster. Check out this mod and modify your Stellaris experience. Gray tempest has lots of strike craft which demolish stronger ships & defend against incoming missiles. The L-Cluster is a cluster of stars located north-east of the galaxy and entirely inaccessible through the regular hyperlane network, experimental subspace navigation, or jump drives. The Gray Tempest is why you activate the L-Gate only when you have a fleet power of 100k or more. A (more or less small) stand-alone mod which increases the chance of an invasion by the Gray Tempest through the L-Gates to 66% (and for the Dessanu the rest). The Grey Tempest is worthy of being called a crisis, but it isn't mid-game or end-game because it can happen at any time - but only when the gate is first opened. ago. The strike craft were never updated for point defense. Subscribe. Bursting down their titan with bypass weapons isn't a great. 7% compared to the others’ 21. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. x or 3. So i'm comparing two ascension perks and a question came up regarding the Galactic Contender perk and the Defender of the Galaxy perk. Senkoau Jul 2, 2021 @ 8:43pm. "The answer is a gun. paradoxwikis. Last night, because another race was getting closed to opening the L-Gates, I decided I should just open my gate first in case it was the Grey Tempest. You have access to a new trait, ships, technologies, planets, buildings, structures, crisis path & jobs. Awesomefluffyns • 2 yr. Rhapsody May 16, 2022 @ 5:43am. I decided, that after last three games with Gray Tempest spawning, it would be interesting to play a game where L-Cluster can be safely opened early. Strike craft are good in combination but IMO a fleet of destroyers and a couple fleets of mostly torpedo corvettes is the way to go. Sometimes the L-cluster is empty or other events trigger. Edit 3: They have arrived, sofar all my newly made defenses are obliterated in moments, the end is looking bleak and dark. Grey Tempest is a 50/140 chance. paradoxwikis. After a few tries, you should be able to get the factory even without the perk. I usually mix the two types so the corvette stack is useful for other things as well. The Grey Tempest is a mid game crisis and the defender of the galaxy does increase damage done to them. •. Originally posted by Addex78: The grey tempest are easy to deal with, they have powerful fleets but actually few ships which means you can fight them easily with Corvette and destroyer fleets of lesser power. You're all just way, way, way behind the curve of where most empires would be at this point in time, and the fact someone opened it a bit earlier than usual doesn't help. Oct 28, 2019 @ 9:43am disabling L-gates Is there a way to prevent L-gates from spawning or disabling the whole concept completely from the game without:. The letters are the systems. I kinda afraid that galaxy is doomed now lol- 34000 fleets fly around and murder everyone. Aug 5, 2016. The Grey Tempest is like a Marauder Hoard or Awakened Empire, they are a mid-game crisis and quite dangerous but not an end-game crisis, that title goes to the Prethoryn, Contingency, and the Unbidden with its following rivals. You should be able to erase a few fleets at first, and then rebuild when you withdraw. Have sufficient PD and strike craft of your own. Strongest fleet is 1k, total fleet power is somewhere around 5k. Abandon all hope, I doomed us all. But if you want to fight it i suggest using small ships (torpedo Corvettes) and destroyers with flak defence. The Gray Tempest | Let's Play Stellaris: Distant Stars Campaign #9: As the Imperium finally opens the L-gates, they discover a very good reason as to why the. The Cluster is determined at game start, reload (if you open the L-Gates) wont work. Like everything else in the game you just need to learn how to defeat them. 0. It’s what makes Stellaris interesting and honestly I wish I could go back to those days on “What the hell?!?” The first time I went to the L Cluster, it was empty and free to explore. Gray tempest has lots of strike craft which demolish stronger ships & defend against incoming missiles. Worst-case scenario, build up more fleets and seize the remaining systems anyway, and see if the Tempest Shoals seem to only target systems near a particular system. In other words the tempest is dangerous and it will inflict damage, but it will you plenty of time to mount a defence and get stronger. i wasnt sure that was going to be enough but it turned out to be. All reinforcement spawns after that spawn in the L-Cluster and travel through Terminal Egress to get to the L-Gates and out into. gate builder) empire, one of the other L-Gate outcomes. You can only do it if you got the Dessanu Consonance or the Gray Tempest, i. I probably have 10 years before they reach my capital because they are far away. I couldn't find a way to get the dragon outcome if you rolled the Gray Tempest / empty outcomes. 7) at GameJunkie. Is the Grey Tempest supposed to always spawn when opening the L-Gates or is it just a chance to spawn? In my first non-ironman game (post Niven) I encountered my. Since Nemesis dropped I have since nearly matched the old record and managed to open the L-Cluster (just Drakes this time) by 2236 - but I was not explicitly angling for it to happen. When you notice the game is running much better and then you finally send some science ships to the other side of the galaxy. New Arrivals in [FromFrom. I only. Frustrating at times perhaps, but they do give warnings (if you read. b:0 "Access Fragment II" graygoo. ago. Which of the Perks will work on them? Galactic Contenedr works against "gate builders". 100" - Dessanu Consonance (best outcome imo) "graygoo. It aint here. 2. I understand that L-Gate should represent an element of risk, but it needs balancing. I lost moons to that mf. Open 'gamestate' file with notepad or notepad++ if you have it; Search for flags: gray_goo_crisis_set for Gray Tempest; dragon_season for L-Drakes; gray_goo_empire_set for Dessanu; It's empty if you can't find any of those; You also can replace the flag to get desired outcome, but read save-editing guide first if you want to. 1. 16 votes, 17 comments. A single Grey Tempest fleet is 61k. all nanite weapons and ships have really high nanite upkeep, which makes it hard to use them in any real force. The Gray Tempest has been improved, not only do they now make use of the more higher end-ship technologies, but also once every two months their fleets will spawn a ship to replace the numbers that the fleet has lost in combat. That's why I said you want to distance yourself from any L-gate. When I click on the l-gate icon, it doesnt zoom to terminal egress, nothing happens at all. Last edited on 5 February 2022, at 00:26. so, I've got all possible outcomes from l-gates (Dessanu, L-drakes and Gray tempest) so wanted something new. The game was developed by Paradox Development. Once the Cluster is unlocked, use event greygoo. At least the Scourge always attack from the edge of the galaxy. I looked it up on the internet but I could not find anything mentioning this 'Gray' so I waited a. Jump to latest Follow Reply. doogie1111 • 5 mo. . ago. Thread starter Northernwwater; Start date Oct 20, 2021; Jump to latest Follow Reply Menu. 2, when L-Gates don't open too soon, Gray Tempest wreaks havoc in the galaxy, as intended indeed, but AI advanced empires manage to fight back. The Gray Tempest might be the most likely outcome, but it's still only a 1/3 chance. spudwalt • Voidborne • 2 yr. Stellaris. The Gray Tempest spawns reinforcements every 10 years. Apart from my first game, which was tempest. it can be empty, have some resources which would be good to open early, but it can have the tempest and kill everyone. The race who made the nanites. A searchable list of all event codes from Stellaris. If you're not a good player, there's always time to learn. hypersot. Hey, so if you guys could not have an AI that's more retarded than I am, and or not allow them to unlock the Grey Tempest? This is the second time this DLC that the Grey Tempest has ruined a game for me. All right. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. The year is 2286 and a few months later my Leader died, presumably suicide to escape annihilation. Edit 4: Ooh the Grey Tempest are attacking Fallen Empires. The bad news is that my fleets aren't really optimized to be fighting the Grey Tempest. Change the extension from . Katsurandom • 5 yr. So how do you do it again? I tried switching the . System H at the bottom is Terminal Egress. Hive Worlds have uncapped basic resource districts, while Machine Worlds have uncapped energy and mining districts. I've made sure at the start of the game that I don't have the dragons, dessanu, and gray tempest flag using debugtooltip so that I'll 100% get the empty cluster. Your best bet against them is to spam battleships with giga cannons & neutron launchers. (Spawning chance is now 100%, from vanilla around 21%) Some mechanical space guardians are neutral too. after finishing up beating up the stupid great khan I send my 70k fleet power war fleet into the grey tempest cluster which I activated earlier before the khan showed up. Hopefully you have crystal plates developped, cause armor is useless vs grey tempest. . That said it's also pretty brilliant when there's a Grey Tempest, the Unbidden and yourself all trying to mangle the galaxy in different ways simultaneously and it'd be a shame to lose that. The Gray Tempest. This mod also adds a city appearance with matching style. This is a minor crisis situation, named such because it is a mini version of the end-game crisis. pete3great Oct 9, 2022 @ 6:19am. One of the best additions to Stellaris was changing the galaxy's political, territorial and economic landscape is the introduction of the L-Cluster. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the 4X grand strategy game Stellaris by Paradox Development Studio. The Gray Tempest is a sentient horde of Nanomachines and one of the antagonists from Stellaris. Gray Tempest, what to do? Hi, I've opened the L-Gates and whoops, out comes a terrible ancient threat, etc etc. A (more or less small) stand-alone mod which increases the chance of an invasion by the Gray Tempest through the L-Gates to 66% (and for the Dessanu the rest). I’m pretty new to Stellaris, only been playing for around 3 weeks, and have had the DLC for 1. 66 votes, 23 comments. The crisis can be ended by making way into the L-cluster and finding a factory station that manufactures the nanite ships and destroying it. Then I'm assuming when the Galactic Contender perk says it gives bonus damage against the Gatebuilders, it means the Grey Tempest or Dessanu Consonance even though they aren't specifically labeled as "Gatebuilders". steven1mac Oct 9, 2022 @ 3:34pm. I opened the L-Gate in 2275, when everyone had 3-5K power fleets. So it's around 2320, and I've opened the L-Gates and every few months over 100k in fleets in pouring into my empire, as best I can tell noone else is being attacked right now. If they do, swoop in quick and claim fast before an ai does. A good player will prepare and be able to handle the Grey Tempest (which is likely, but not guaranteed). Instead, they attacked me, and only me for the most part. 3. So the fact that the game hints they exist isn't in and of itself an indication of what you're going to roll. Gray Tempest always happen now? Me and a friend been playing several MP games lately and the Gray Tempest always trigger. Each world how ever starts to develop it's own conciousness and eventually each of them turn into an L-drake. The L-Gate Opens, what hides inside it? And Hope?Come join. Correction on the timeline there. #9. Enjoy the game!. The others are consolation prizes at best and aren't really worth the effort of opening up the L-Gates. 🚩 SUSCRÍBETE y Activa la 🔔: habéis. - The Khan/Grey Tempest activates and harvest the galaxy. Gray Tempest This is a playable Gray Tempest empire that is based on nanites. The Space Amoeba Protection Act: galactic_features. I recently learned the hard way that they don't. ago. Awesomefluffyns • 2 yr. Execute the following command in the console before you open L-Gates: effect remove_global_flag = gray_goo_crisis_set. 9. Ruffio Feb 2, 2022 @ 12:28am. Now im hiding out in 2 systems, hoping they won't come looking!I was under the impression the home systems is always in the L-Cluster. Stellaris is a huge space exploration playground, but cheats and codes activated from the game’s debug console commands can add a whole new dimension on PC. In the Contacts Menu you can choose which form Gray shoul use. I, and the highest tier thrusters with an X sized weapon is a good ideaYesterday, for the first time in countless games, I found Gray. I have had three great games going now that have been ruined when some AI empire opened the L-Gates and set loose the Grey Tempest on the galaxy. Sometimes they can be very successful at that, other times they barely spawn before. Apr 20, 2021. They got…i was just enjoying a peaceful run in my game, a lot of AI was xeno friendly and spread out so i decided to just go hyper expansion and be a nice boy. If you're worried about a conflict, you can grab one of the midgame crisis manager mods (&/ one of the mods that improves the Tempest) - they'll give you control over what spawns. Stellaris is a Science Fiction Space Opera real-time 4X Grand Strategy game by Paradox Interactive. Best. I’m currently researching the L-Gates, but I’m sure it’s too. Archived post. 1. Even shields are iffy since grey tempest ignores 66% of it. com] Included vanilla fix: Gray Tempest Resolution [forum. Add a Comment. This makes corvette and destroyer fleets more the thing against them. After conquering the L cluster you can research nanite transmuters, which turn 1 nanites into 2 each of motes, crystals and gas. Aug 12, 2013 8. So I'm playing a death cult and we rushed down the L-gate in hopes of devastating the galaxy, either by harnessing the resources of the L-cluster or. Stellaris. Are a little stronger and friendly to the Tempest as they have in vanilla only about 1/30 strength of an adult Ether Drake. Ctrl + F - then type Gray and go untill you find the "gray_goo_crisis_set" You can either: 1. ago. Stellaris. It's also possible that their neighbor had the only L-Gate in the galaxy, in which case it'll take a while for the Grey Tempest to show up. till ~2400 and then the latest beta till now ~ 2440 ). All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. Some empire triggered the Gray Tempest crisis 50 years into the game. forbiddenlake Driven Assimilator • 5 mo. . Just leave enough to defeat one or two emerging fleets in the last-but-one system, set the remaining fleets to have that system as their home base, and press in. His fleet was tiny, so I was thinking to my self; "he's gonna get destroyed by the tempest!". All right. #1. So i just bought distant stars and had my first game with it. I lost because of the gray tempest. Description. Its year 73 and everyone is weak AF- my own fleet is 1400 (i use Bastion for defence against my single enemy). And one game, at 31 years in i got an alert that an advanced start ai foe. Cryten Jun 21, 2022 @ 2:28am. 6. I get, RNG and stuff. This mod also adds a city appearance with matching style. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the 4X grand strategy game Stellaris by Paradox Development Studio. . . The Gray Tempest goes rogue and starts fighting the Dessanu. Showing 1 - 15 of 23. 3 out of 4 times it has been grey tempest (those odds are fine) so they run riot over the galaxy but i've never had them open this early consistently. I use a Crisis Mod to get her. . I imagine there is an event for the other l cluster results but that’s the only one I’ve used. Thread starter Frankenberry; Start date Jun 2, 2018; Jump to latest Follow Reply Menu We have updated our. Gray tempest has a 2/3 chance to spawn I think, so it spawns often You can specifically create ships that counter their ships. Building fortress worlds/habitats with lots of armies and planetary bombardment shielding on choke points will give you a lot of extra time. when I send my science ship it was empty without Dessanu Consonance and none of the nanite worlds have terraform modifier either. Suddenly, one of the neighbouring states opens an L-gate. It is very cool! I've opened the L-gates numerous times and found it eerily silent, but never before was Gray around. Every other system in the L-Cluster contains one defensive fleet for each nanite world it has, and there are a further. To compensate they only use like 5 ships per fleet. The most common result of opening the L-Cluster is. Watch. (Great Khan) and Grey Tempest (L-Gate). ☠] . neither the grey tempest nor the drake emerges from L-Cluster. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. Now it wouldnt be a big deal but I was very rusty with this specific game due to playing as a Moral Democracy (The Galactic Republic). Runs the specified file with list of commands. the endgame crisis can appear any time after 2400. Go to Stellaris r/Stellaris. Destroying planets etc. To be honest, I postponed mid-game date to 2400 (tech costs are normal), so perhaps this allows for having a healthier. #3. Everyone is having the same L-Cluster outcome every time since 3. 107 Badges. Is there a way to stop them from sending fleets or do I need to endure while building up fleet power? < 1 2 3 > Showing 1 - 15 of 37 comments A Deadlier Tempest. Opened at 20k fleet, cause last time a guy named Grey joined me and he was 40k fleet by himself. This is a re-upload to fix a frame related issue. 4 –. Stellaris games are really RNG-dependent. assuming you have l-gates in your game (and assuming they haven't already been opened), if you want to guarantee the tempest, do the following: first, if this is a brand new game, let it advance a day or two then, open your console, type or copy-paste the following three lines setflag global gray_goo_crisis_set setflag global active_gray_gooAt that point. 12. Let the tempest burn a couple worlds. It really helps when you have Grey's mothership as the head of your fleet. So of course I send my torpvette swarm that beat the Tiyanki Matriarch into the L-Cluster. . Boy have I got a story to tell. 1. Lol UNE was between the successor khanate, three Fallen Empires and a couple dozen star systems away from an LGate. 35. A (more or less small) stand-alone mod which increases the chance of an invasion by the Gray Tempest through the L-Gates to 66% (and for the Dessanu the rest). I barely managed to beat back the Tempest--it was the hardest military challenge I've personally faced in Stellaris--and it felt very very rewarding. So I think my iron man game is wrecked. each grey tempest fleet features a large ship with a cannon that can instant kill captial ships. Hive Worlds/Machine Worlds. They Grey Tempest do not use missiles, they use strike craft. Gray Tempest This is a playable Gray Tempest empire that is based on. The Grey Tempest's seeming lack of threat comes from three things, two of them mostly inherent in the L-Cluster design: There's only one exit from the L-Cluster. Most of the encounters don't do very much. I've played way too much Stellaris, and gotten the dessanau consonance twice, grey tempest about 4 times, and l-drakes literally a dozen times in a row. 4%. sav to . 9. How to Beat the Grey Tempest: A Thrilling Narrative. . Grey tempest is mid-game, and should be easily handled by anyone except beginning players if it pops. Reply. If you want specific outcome erase all flags and set up desired:A ~30k corvette stack can defeat a Tempest fleet with minimal losses. ago. So I opened the L-Gates, and got the Gray Tempest -- something that, for whatever reason(s), hasn't happened to me in a long time. They did actually deny it, lmao. So as long as you (and the rest of the galaxy) can kill them faster than that, you can survive. Wait for the tempest to send out their latest spawn, THEN take the terminal egress system and build up a station. If you're starting new galaxies every time, then it's just random chance being random chance. I usually mix the two types so the corvette stack is useful for other things as well. Starting As The GRAY TEMPEST. 505. #1. Yes, since 3. The Grey Tempest simply appeared from the reactivated L-gates, and scoured nearly a third of the Galaxy of all life. Both of these rules. 360. They are vunerable to being outnumbered. screw this gray tempest ruined my entire game. Ships not attacking : r/Stellaris. As the title suggests, I’m screwed. Events in the neighboring Empires territory tells me that they are probably being attacked by the Grey Tempest but I can't go there. Its no gamble as long as you're first. It's not only mostly random, but it also comes in time no one have any chances against it. . the tempest will be released whenever. This will stop Tempest from spawning if it was rolled when game started (it is predetermined on game start). Improve your tech. It's so bad it's basically an endgame crisis and i don't have near enough. memorable. Since I play on the two highest difficulties, Gray Tempest is a serious mid-game threat, no much more. Please either reduce the frequency of the grey tempest or make AI wait longer. A citadel with all hanger bays and potentially a few defense platforms on it can do wonders for keeping them at bay if you don't have the full fleet power to handle it. The strike craft were never updated for point defense. Are a little stronger and friendly to the Tempest as they have in vanilla only about 1/30 strength of an adult Ether Drake. In the wiki i read its around 38 percent of the time though, not something like 70 percent. you had to fight something to take the LC. The tempest is set up so it trickles in a bit at a time. Funny part that i had no L-gate in my borders, and so far AI keeps the tempest at bay. Go to Stellaris r/Stellaris. Even if you don't get the Grey Tempest you want L-gates heavily guarded anyways, as AIs will definitely abuse it. You reach the end date. Grey tempest when the Ai is too fucking stupid to wait to open this shit and comes too early is absolutely a game wrecker. So, use the command at your own risk. The Dessanu retreat to the L-Cluster. I found some outpost called the Curators, and they had a prompt to ask about L-Gates, which I assumed were the same as the gateway structures, so I just said “Sign me up”. When I opened it nothing really happened. Crisis strength only refers to end game crises. Beginners, however, may rush too. With Console Access : Make a separate save just in case, then try to use the "play #" command, with # replaced with a number, and try to find the Gray Tempest 'country' - I expect. If the galaxy is not ready, the Grey Tempest stands a good chance of bringing the galaxy to its knees. One thing you can do: Make sure your starbase at the L-GATE system is fully upgrade and the defence platforms too. Thread starter SpaceViking; Start date Mar 22, 2022; Jump to latest Follow Reply Menu We have updated our. Stellaris > General Discussions > Topic Details. Stellaris. 1. 2. In this (short) video essay I explore the mysteries of unlocking the L-Gates in Stellaris! First I look at the general experience a player has when they open. . Each grey tempest fleet is one titan and. Kill them before their strike craft get close. Anything to do with those is a "game over" unless titans & BS with full tech loadout. Reply Homer-DOH-Simpson •The Gray Tempest is one of the outcomes from opening the L-Gate in the Distant Stars Story Pack. 2K subscribers.