Stellaris 3.99.7 'Phoenix' Open Beta Release Notes

by Eladrin

Today's update includes some fixes to Civilians, and armies can now invade planets. Oh, and Cosmic Storms no longer deal devastation.

Fixes and Improvements​

• AI now uses the focus system
  
• Adjusted colony designation tooltips in the colonization UI.
  
• Increased habitat district jobs
  
• Zones conversions (such as when a hive takes over a standard planet) should now function and retain buildings that fit in both zone types.
  
• Civilians no longer count as unemployed (they will still automigrate).
  
• Civilians now appear in the jobs list correctly when it is collapsed.
  
• The ANGRY RED BRIEFCASE of unemployment will now only appear if there are 100 or more unemployed pops on a planet. The orange briefcase of migration will still appear if there is any outward migration going on.
  
• Clerk icon fix.
  
• Timeline forward and back buttons can now be clicked if you have a very lengthy timeline
  
• Armies can invade planets again! There still aren’t defenders, so ground combat is very easy.
  
• More pop growth modifiers work.
  
• Fix building and district job outputs being inflated
  
• You now have to own a planet to modify job sliders
  
• Improvements to Colonization UI
  
• Planetary Ascension text is in
  
• Concepts that referred to Industrial Districts have been updated
  
• Leaders are now affected by species modification correctly
  
• More tooltips and fields show real pop numbers
  
• All planets should now have the correct number of zones (2) in their primary district
  
• Rare Resource buildings now require the appropriate deposits or technologies
  
• Enforcers and Entertainers should no longer bounce around
  
• Cosmic storms no longer cause devastation.

How Do I Opt Into the Beta?​

1. Turn off your mods. They will almost certainly cause you to crash.
   
2. Go to your Steam library, right click on Stellaris -> Properties -> Betas -> select "stellaris_test - 3.99.7 Open Beta" branch in the Beta Participation dropdown.

All previous 3.99.* Open Beta branches will also remain available. If you are having issues accessing the latest version of the 3.99.* Open Beta, please see this forum post for troubleshooting[forum.paradoxplaza.com].

For more information on the Open Beta, as well as the intentions and goals of releasing such an early, unpolished version, please see this dev diary[forum.paradoxplaza.com].

This is the final update to the 3.99 Open Beta.

I want to sincerely thank you for all of your feedback and assistance through the 3.99 beta test process. You've helped us a tremendous amount in helping the 4.0 release in May.