Don't know why, but without unicron having appeared I can suddenly research the techs he drops when defeated.

Shame that this unicron doesn't have a phase two and transform like that movie I saw a long time ago.

very cool when paired with the travler mod one good sphere of technology and one bad sphere of technology pushing light and dark

in my play through I dont see the option to be his Herald

@Calamitist paste "event unicron_event.1" with out the quotes and it should work

i have a run where unicron refused to spawn, i was running Giga mod (both work together) i played as a cohensive civilization (i start in a cluster similar to the L-cluster) and only made contact with the rest of the galazy at around year 2320, didn't get unicron event, and event when using unicron_event.1 it says unknown command

@Minuda: Unicron spawns in a random system on the outer edges of the galaxy when it activates. You can use unicron_event.1 to force spawn him in but if you still don't see him, then make a post in the bug reports thread so I can help you there.

@force728 did what was asked, uninstalled and reinstalled, launched a new campaign, reached 2350 again, same issue. Have the flag for his discovery, but Unicron isn't there.

@Minuda: Ok, I made a few changes which should help make it spawn as intended. Also as a precaution, make sure to unsub and resub so it can properly update for you.

@Minuda: Let me check. It might be the spawn trigger acting up again.

I think the mod may be broken, the description reads that he's meant to be a midgame crisis, but I reached 2350 and he hadn't spawned in. Tried triggering it using the console but it said I had the flag for his discovery. Didn't have any other mods except the WfC base mod and the Soundwave Advisor. Did I not wait long enough or is his spawning trigger bugged?

Haven't gotten to UniCron yet. Waiting for him to trigger.

But i did face off against the "Scrapper Bot" recently.....

The thought occurred to me that with a little rewrite of story...the "Scrapper Bot" could be Unicron...From a different reality via the rifts.

He was defeated in that reality and escaped into the current one via the rifts but was damaged beyond conscience repair.

He couldn't repair himself and had to survive on cosmic materials and ships. No Dark Energon for fuel and such. So while he didn't "Power down" he also could not think clearly and has been trying to put him self back together.

If you play as "Fanatic Purifiers, Devouring Swarm, Determined Exterminators, or Crisis Empire"
and come across him, you could choose to repair him and bring him Energon.

Think the Infinity Machine quest line mixed with the L-Gate insights and needing to be able to refine Dark Energon.

That would a VERY fun quest chain.

@Lyra Goldtongue: I'm working on fixing some of Unicron's pathfinding issues, so I haven't updated this mod yet. However, this version still works.

Wanted to ask, this mod still up to date/working like the other transformers mods?

dark_energon_weapon_particles.gfx

Missing bracket at the end. I'm not sure if it's needed, but irony is complaining.

ok cheers

@KubelKampferin: I'll look into it, but I don't think this issue is a mod conflict. Unicron has been reported to get stuck over certain objects. Usually this doesn't happen, but it can on occasion depending on the spawn location. Also, Unicron should only go after habitable planets, asteroids and non-colonizable worlds shouldn't get his attention.

@ColdSpaCe7: No, but you can ally with it if you're a homicidal/crisis empire.

Is there any known mod incompatibilities by chance? Me and some friends noticed Unicron would appear in a system, attack a entity (an asteroid in this case, interestingly), and kept spinning in circles doing nothing. He did attack ships that appeared in system but nothing else. We run a lot of mods so I felt like it may be a conflict is all.

so i can't control unicron?

@Ioslime: That helped, thanks!

@horror-TV: for me unsubscribing and resubscribing fixed the issue in my save file

It doesn't seem to help with the saved game... Probably need to start a new game ?

@Twighlight Sparkle: Found the problem with the Unicron Herald opinion modifier applying to everyone. It should be fixed now.

I am also getting -500 as a servant of Unicron and I haven't even found Unicron yet.

Same... -500 in the opinions of all empires.

Hello! Love the mod!

I noticed today you updated the mod. I already defeated Unicron in my save, but when I loaded my save today, everyone thinks everyone else is a servant of unicron including me who beat him. While amusing watching my entire galaxy fall into a -500 opinion of everyone else, thought I would let you know it is happening. The mods I have are ship model mods, and the Crises Engine Mod, Disabling them does not seem to have an effect on the -500 opinion caused by being a servant of unicron.

Thanks!

Hmm, would it be possible for non-genocidal empires with the proper ethics (for example, militarist/xenophobe) to become Unicron's Heralds of Chaos as well? A Crisis Empire doesn't have to be initially genocidal, either, so it would be plausible for any empire with the right mindset to accept an insane, eternal machine god's offer.

@MacArthur52: Don't see why not. Is it not working for you?

So the mod works?

@force728 wow, thx!! nicee

Cool idea

@Amou: I found the problem. It should be fixed now.

whenever i enter a system where unicron is, the screen started flickering

@ force728 He has a second form? I started and then completed the final crisis stage before he showed up.

Guess he was too intimidated for round 2! XD

@I Darkstar X: Did you kill him in his second form yet?

Yo he's a pushover XD

Iced his spherical rump on a whim. Didn't even have my main fleet!

i always wanted to feed my enemies' planets to Orson Welles

I had the rest of the modjam pack installed but several of the other mods in there are badly broken and might have caused issues.

Yes, it was weird. I have quite a few mods installed so that could be an issue, but I have not installed anything that would be a likely candidate. In general the behaviour of stellaris regarding reclaiming of destroyed systems seems very different compared to my previous games, they seem to be automatically reclaimed without need for a constructor to rebuild the starbase.

@Bralbaard: I'm still aware, but the issue is finding out what factors can trigger it since this bug can happen randomly or not at all. Also, the habitats kept respawning in your game? So Unicron would destroy them and they would respawn again? I've never seen that happen before.

Great mod, but I can confirm the unicron gets stuck. The first got stuck after raiding several systems. It was apparently stuck destroying several habitats in a system over and over again for several decades and they kept respawning. It had like 400000 kills when I finally ended it. The second unicron never left its starting systemand appeared to be stuck , but I never gave it much time to move.

@force728: It was a pretty normal system, unclaimed. closest empire was a dormant fallen empire that was about six or seven star systems away. They were xenophobic so no-one could pass through to claim the systems leaving him alone in his pocket less someone poked him with a fleet. he'd destroy it and then just return to where he started in that system like a leviathan.

If the other weapons are coming soon then that is perfectly acceptable! All I seek is a fully unique faction so I will just eagerly await that update!

@Modern Spartan: Unicron's first iteration is getting a nerf in the next update so that he won't be so hard to kill (his regen was way too high). However, I'm not planning to allow every homicidal empire to research Unicron tech even as a sub mod. It should only be a reward for player empires that either ally or kill him.

If you want those utilities (and soon weapons) without the needing Unicron, just use the transformers mod with this one and pick the Dark Energon trait for your species. The tech will come up after researching the dark energon bombardment research.

Could you possibly make a submod that makes these techs available for those Homicidal Empires without needing Unicron to spawn? Perhaps as late game tech or a Civic?

I love this mod, but in multiplayer Unicron keeps spawning in my friend's systems and wiping them out before I can ever see him. I'm just trying to have unique transformers tech as the decepticons, but its too much of a danger to the others even as modded op factions of their own (Nothing is OP when just starting)

@Dark Horizon: Yes, Unicron is intended to move towards habitable worlds and destroy them when he spawns. This bug has been reported a couple of times by other players, but I haven't been able to recreate it on my end to fix it since he always moved on. Do you know what type of system or planet he spawned in? Did it have any system effects? It could help me narrow down the cause before I update the mod.

Does he travel around harvesting worlds and destroying fleets? Cause when he spawned in he just stayed in that system and never left.

Or billions

or millions

@Mute: 10k is nowhere near enough for even Vanilla crises, aim for a hundreds of thousands

How do you defeat unicorn he wipes out all 10 of my fleets that had 10k power