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Dear Stellaris Fans,

The team has produced a bugfix and balance patch following our 3.13 + Cosmic Storms release September 10th.

3.13.1 is now available for download. Please find the patch notes below, identical to what was posted earlier by Eladrin.

3.13.1 Patch Notes

Balance
  • Added free pop to first blocker for planetscapers
  • Decreased Storm Creation costs and buffed Astrometeorology job
  • Stormriders and Subterranean get less devastation from storms
  • Scientist governors now also reduce devastation from storms
  • The Nexus Storm of 2211 will no longer happen. (Nexus Storms have been removed from the Early Game storm pool.)

Bugfix
  • A Fallen Empire cannot ask for a scientist that is exploring an Astral Rift
  • Added traits to hired marauder leaders
  • Added victory score to the two new precursor relics
  • All starting council positions are also filled without Galactic Paragons
  • Fixed a spelling error in the event Stormbound Sighted
  • Fixed empire designs with different randomized names sometimes preventing each other from spawning in galaxy generation.
  • Fixed machine name lists using ruler names for all non-envoy leaders.
  • Fixed randomly generated rulers not using regnal names when they should.
  • Fixed the concept tooltip for Storm Riders in the Storm Chasers origin tooltip
  • Fixed the handling of scientist heirs in the Stormfall event Cosmic Shapes
  • Fixes to Unique planets from Cosmic Storms:
    • Unique planets from Cosmic Storms can no longer spawn in the starting cluster of an empire
    • Reduced the size of the unique planets from Cosmic Storms
  • Fixing Rick the Cube tooltip in the additional content being misleading
  • Payload Padding technology now properly apply its effects
  • Removed Double Jobs for Gestalts on Ecumenopolis
  • Solar storm orbital resource modifiers now applying correctly
  • The Crimson Crawlers: Cooked Consumption planet modifier now has a yellow border
  • The Storm Touched trait is made available for individual machines
  • The Strip Mine Planet decision is only allowed once per planet
  • adAkkaria chain actually ends now when its over
  • Added a job weight to Storm Dancers so that pops actually want to work the job
  • Allow proper switching between corporate and non corporate planetscapers civic
  • Fixed descriptions for the special projects Stabilize the Collision and Harmonize the Collision
  • Fixed the secrets of the new precursors
  • Fixing resetlement cost modifiers not being capped by minimum economic modifier mult define
  • Made militarist empires with imperialist factions less likely to become vassals
  • Made the Irradiated Wasteland planet modifier produce +10% physics research
  • Planetscapers on Ocean Paradise will now get their blockers as promised
  • Removed the mention of sector automation from the planet designation tooltip
  • Saturated Filters can now be removed by the one who conquered the planet
  • Tempest Invocator storm placement will now be canceled if you lose the selected Scientist.
  • The Tempest Invocator's range is now centered on the selected Scientist's location.
  • Voidforged may not access Geo-Engineering Inc anymore
  • Fix to Initiate Storm replacing Sustain Storm if you have the Galactic Weather Control Ascension Perk
  • Several Tempest Invocator fixes

Stability
  • Changed cosmic storm spawn cooldown scale to prevent CTD
  • Fixed CTD in fleet manager when reinforcing fleets with ships without fleet size
  • Fixed CTD when in-game music player has no permission to write to playlist file

Modding
  • Added regnal_second_names_female and regnal_second_names_male to namelists.
  • Added use_regnal_name to effects that create leaders.
  • Fixed randomly generated empires in static galaxies having missing data if the player empire is randomly generated.
  • Removed ruler_names from namelists and added regnal_full_names. When generating regnal names, non-regnal full names will no longer be used if a regnal name is available, but if no regnal name is available, normal names will be used.

There is always a next patch in the works, so please keep the bug reports and feedback coming.

Until then!