Stellaris 3.99.5 ‘Phoenix’ Open Beta update

by Eladrin

Today's update adds the Betharian Zone, a Mandarin voice advisor, and new stargazer color variants, with broad fixes throughout.

Stellaris 3.99.5 ‘Phoenix’ Open Beta update
Beta Features

• Added the Betharian Zone.
  
• “Venerable Scientist" (Mandarin Language) Voice Advisor
  
• Added new color variants for stargazer portrait

Fixes and Improvements

• Unbroke all colonies.
  
• Fixed issues with Catalytic Processing civics.
  
• Fixed the zone planet modifiers not being applied if districts have multiples of the same zone type.
  
• Fixed the Chosen's habitats.
  
• Pirates are a little less gung-ho to form.
  
• Planetary deficits now cost trade instead of providing it.
  
• Increased the base rate of Auto-Migration.
  
• Pops will now automatically migrate to planets with 20% habitability or higher instead of 40% or higher.
  
• When the maximum number of auto-modded pops changes, the current number is now updated correctly.
  
• City Districts now change their name and descriptions based on their zone specializations.
  
• Compressed unity and added job swaps.
  
• City set graphics scale adjusted.
  
• Updated Empire Progression Rewards to always display which technology is unlocked.
  
• Allowed rural zones on ringworlds.
  
• Removed bonus production on tier 1 buildings, removed tier 1 buildings planet limit.
  
• Pop count, Housing, and Amenities on the planet view now use short notation (such as 13.4k rather than 13405).
  
• Replaced Upgrade buttons for districts with icons.
  
• Background graphics added for all districts.
  
• Added progress bars to the zones that are being built or replaced.
  
• District/Zone/Building Construction tooltips added.
  
• Changed how selected District is being highlighted.
  
• Highlight the selected zone slot when building new zones.
  
• Display old zone name, icon and building slots if the zone is being replaced.
  
• Display the icon and name of the zone being constructed.
  
• Rural district zones can now also be built by clicking anywhere within the empty zone slot.
  
• Further Timeline UI adjustments, fixing background masking.
  
• Added designation description in the colonization UI.
  
• Adjusted district numbers in the colonization UI to show the max amount of possible districts.
  
• Added functionality to deselect a selected colony designation.
  
• Rearranged and tweaked colony modifier displaying in the colonization UI.
  
• Added new databank icons.
  
• Added starting notification for selecting Empire Focus.
  
• Added planetary deficits to the Planetary view

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 - 3.99.4 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, {LINK REMOVED}please see this forum post for troubleshooting.

For more information on the Open Beta, as well as the intentions and goals of releasing such an early, unpolished version, please see {LINK REMOVED}this dev diary.

We also have a new feedback survey this week, which looks at first impressions of Precursor selection, Databank, Species Modification, and Game Pacing Adjustments.

{LINK REMOVED}This week's Open Beta feedback survey is available here!