Hello Stellaris Community!

We have another open beta update for you this week! This update is chocked full of bugfixes and other improvements that we hope will make your beta experience much more enjoyable.

We’d also like to thank you for the literal hundreds of feedback responses over the past few months. We’ve gotten some great stuff from these feedback forms, and we’d like to keep the back and forth going. To that end, we have a new version of the feedback form, please offer your feedback on the latest version of the open beta here: https://pdxint.at/4rN5fU1

Without further ado, on with the patch notes:

Balance​

• Aristocratic Elite now also grants +10% Elite Job Efficiency and +10% Leader Upkeep.

• Police State now also grants +10% Enforcer Job Efficiency.

  • The Chief of Secret Police council position changed from 5% Governing Ethics Attraction per level to 2% Governing Ethics Attraction and 1% Enforcer Job Efficiency per level.

• Lithoid Empires start with one more Mining district

• Martial Law (setting a Commander as the Governor of a planet or sector) now also directly increases Stability on any planet they're controlling - not just if it's their home planet.

Bugfix​

• Adjustments made to ship behaviors to make them less likely to behave in terrible ways.

  • Ships that base their desired range on weapon range (most of them) will now try to get to 90% of their max range instead of sitting precisely at their max range and hoping nothing goes wrong. (Exposed as COMBAT_DESIRED_RANGE_MULT define.)

  • Artillery combat computers now once again try to stay at max range instead of median.

  • Ships that are getting blasted from out of their range will now charge their attacker if they're within 200% of their desired max range instead of 110%. (This is now exposed in defines as COMBAT_CHARGE_DISTANCE_COEFFICIENT.)

• Fleets of a single ship that exceed your Command Limit will no longer try to split themselves into two new fleets every single day.

• Fixed a bug with command_limit_mult in which the modifier was applied to itself before being applied to the command limit.

• Pops that are either not enslaved or are mindless robots will no longer demand to be Battle Thralls to be allowed Limited military service. (Tankbound Necrophages should now be able to set their policies to permit their mindless robots to be robot armies.)

• Exotic Gas Capture district specialization no longer costs twice as much as other specializations.

• Spiritualist and Materialist empires will now attempt to place their starting Temple or Research Lab in the Archives district specialization.

• The FE building received notification now displays which building has been unlocked.

• The tooltip for the Clustered Capacity tradition has been adjusted to reflect the new values.

• The Opportunist 3 leader trait now functions as intended.

• Fixed an issue where reforming government and invalidating genesis guides would not remove genesis preserves from colonies.

• Adjusted the Polish names for the Imperial Fiefdom AI vassals.

• Fixed a missing title in the demands of the supremacist faction for Hard Reset.

• The Materialist FE warning when going cosmogenesis is now only issued if there is actually a materialist FE in the galaxy.

• Fixed an issue where cosmic storms would spam the error log with nonsensical messages.

• Leaders assigned to a "Doom of the Eater" fleet no longer die if a new fleet is spawned.

• The Subterranean origin tooltip now mentions the existence of the Subterranean Urbanization zone.

• The tooltip for Existential Iteroparity has been adjusted to match the in game value.

• Wilderness species should no longer be able to receive forbidden traits from FE interactions.

• The Deluge colossus now properly terraforms its targets, creating appropriate deposits.

• Angler's bonus food output has now actually been removed as announced in previous patch notes (they now produce as much as regular farmers, but retain their trade production)

• Tutorial settings can be adjusted again.

• Fixes an issue where civics that affect the base level of leaders don’t work

Performance​

• More string optimizations

For the full Open Beta patch notes, please visit the Paradox forums.[forum.paradoxplaza.com]

Thank you all for your feedback and support during the Open Beta, and thank you for playing Stellaris!

Hello Stellaris Community!

Work on the open beta is still chugging along, and the Devs have put together another batch of balance changes, bug fixes and performance improvements that we're ready for you to try out.

This update should also NOT require any of the previous workarounds for Linux.

How do you feel about the latest version of the open beta? Did we go too far, or have things still left to update? Let us know in the comments below and on the Open Beta Feedback form[pdxint.at].

Here are today's patch notes:

Balance​

• Changed the scaling of Imperious Architecture

• Increased the maximum damage scaling for weapons that increase damage based on target ship size.

• Reduced the effect that Councilor skill levels has on Agenda speed.

• Loyalty Circuits has been replaced by Compliance Filters as an auto-modding trait. This means that Augmentation Bazaars can pick it on game start as well.

• The augmentation center now provided 400 jobs for Driven Assimilators

• Augmentor jobs for regular empires now provide flat bonus pop growth, not a multiplier to existing pop growth.

• Synthetic Fertility now starts with Powered Exoskeletons

• Significantly changed the Eater of Worlds Covenant Powers and Auras

  • The Doom power for the Eater of Worlds no longer immediately starts a war.

  • The Aura Intensification of the Eater of Worlds no longer summons ships from nothing.

  • The Aura Intensification of the Eater of Worlds now increments your Doom Intensity.

  • The Doom power now manifests the Doom of the Eater fleet.

  • Between 3 and 6 Intensity, this fleet only has Teeth (escorts).

  • Between 6 and 12 Intensity, this fleet has Teeth (escorts) and Fangs (cruisers).

  • At 12 or higher Intensity, this fleet has Teeth (escorts), Fangs (cruisers) and Tusks (Battleships).

  • Intensity is capped at 50.

  • The number of ships depends on Doom Intensity.

  • Manifesting a new fleet will instantly dismiss any current fleet.

    • IMPORTANT WARNING: The Eater of Worlds will consume any Admiral left in charge of this fleet when it is dismissed. This wasn't intentional so we'll probably change this, even though it's very thematic.

  • The fleet will appear in orbit of any planet with a Sanctum of the Eater (or if one doesn't exist, your capital).

Bugfix​

• Refugee Attraction was not working at all, whoops.

• The cross-platform Cloud Save system now works as expected.

• Tidied up some Cybernetics related tooltips.

• Remove flickering from buildable area for Deep Space Citadel.

• Fire Oracles now only appear if the main species of an empire has habitability \\<= 50% (before it was any local species)

• Wilderness empires now pay Biomass when terraforming a Volcanic World into a normal habitable planet

• Fixed command_limit_mult acting like command_limit_add.

Stability​

• Rebuilt libPDXSDK.so for Linux to make it compatible within the steam runtime environment as well as directly run in a Ubuntu 20 compatible distribution

Performance​

• Significantly reduced the lag spike when creating the Solarpunk country

• Optimization of functions related to string

• Optimized memory allocations in Alert Manager

• Improved fleet icon logic

• Added experimental economic threading changes to the Open Beta

  • New dependency tracking should reduce the cpu wait time when updating and reducing the “monthly stutter”

  • Decreased sizes of threaded batches for objects that are many and becomes uneven in cpu need for better distribution over multiple cores

• Added experimental modifier threading changes to the Open Beta

  • Mainly for reusing memory and reduce time spent on allocations/deallocations in the update

  • Decreased sizes of threaded batches for objects that are many and becomes uneven in cpu need for better distribution over multiple cores (yeah here as well)

• Major rework of modifier calculations for Planets, PopGroups, Armies, Leaders, Ships and Fleets

  • Moving trigger dependent calculations out to suitable pulses instead (Micro, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly)

  • Number of trigger evaluations optimized

Known Issues​

• Multiplayer games will see a mass desync at game start, but resyncing should resolve it

The rest of the 4.3 "Cetus" Open Beta patch notes can be found on the Paradox forums.[forum.paradoxplaza.com]

Thanks for playing Stellaris, and we look forward to seeing your feedback on this new version of the Open Beta!