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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

written by Eladrin

Hi everyone, I hope you’ve had a wonderful summer.

Today we’ll start going into some of the things planned for the upcoming Stellaris 3.5 “Fornax” update.

New Difficulty Settings
With the improvements that have been made to the AI over the past few updates, we’ve noticed that new players are finding things a bit more challenging and there have been some requests for an easier difficulty setting. As such, we’re adding a Civilian difficulty setting, and making Cadet the default difficulty.

Civilian difficulty further increases the bonuses players receive in Cadet difficulty, with an additional bonus towards completing First Contact.


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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

PDXCON2022 returns to Stockholm this September! Join us on the road to PDXCON2022 with another Grand Campaign!

Watch our developers as they play through a customized game of Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, and Stellaris and follow laws passed by our Community-led Senate. Following the great tradition laid down last year for PDXCON, there may be familiar faces, returning arch-rivals, and maybe some new friends!



What is a Grand Campaign?
The story of a Grand Campaign is written in the senate, where Community-formed and led parties propose and vote on laws, that our developers have to follow on stream. This Grand Campaign spans the timeframe of four of our games, spanning several thousand years of alt-human history. Starting in the Crusader Kings era, all the way to Stellaris. In between games, we wil... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

written by Alfray_Stryke

Hey folks, and I hope everyone is having a fantastic summer/winter break (depending on your hemisphere). I’ve found some time between my other summer experiments and the work we’re doing for 3.5 “Fornax” to dive into the feedback/suggestions lists. Since Eladrin is still away, you’re getting another sneak preview of what I’ve been working on.

One of the frequent requests from the Unity rework that was part of the 3.3 “Libra” patch earlier this year was for us to return Culture Workers to the game. Currently, they exist only as jobs provided by some event buildings, but many in the Community felt we removed some flavor/roleplay aspect when we removed them.

Over summer, I’ve been experimenting with potentially adding them back in. For context, in the current version of the game Culture Wo... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello Stellaris Community!

We've got a special treat for you today! MaxTheCatfish is here with our Top 10 Beginner and Intermediate Tips and Tricks for galactic domination! Whether its your first game, or if you've played hundreds of hours, you never know what you might learn!

Top 10 Beginner Tips:


Top 10 Intermediate Tips:


What would you consider your #1 "Expert" Tip? Let us know in the comments!

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

written by Iggy

Hello everyone, Iggy here with a surprise dev diary! I am a Content Designer who has worked as a Custodian for the past year or so, bringing you content like Permanent Employment and the Leviathan Parades.

I know Eladrin said no more diaries until after summer… But he is not around to stop me!

I couldn’t wait to present the initial relic balance changes and to give all of you lovely folks a chance to voice your feedback. Summer is historically a time of experimentation when it comes to Paradox, and why not experiment with how we gather feedback?

So let’s get started with some of my biggest bugbears regarding how the relics currently work, what I have done to address the issues, and why.

Crisis Relics
The relics you get from defeating the various crises in the game are pretty... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hi all,

Another hotfix has arrived, containing a select few fixes primarily for improving multiplayer stability.

Please find the patch notes below.

STELLARIS 3.4.5 "CEPHEUS" PATCH NOTES
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Megacorps should no longer create rival Megacorps after winning an Impose Ideology war.
Fixed War Names sometimes being empty on the war pin tooltip.
Fixed Out of Sync upon hotjoining as an Overlord.
Fixed Out of Sync after triggering a revolt.
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Please note that save file compatibility between versions is not guaranteed.

If you have an important 3.4.4 game going, please back up the save file before trying to load the save in 3.4.5. You can roll back to a prior version by right-clicking on ... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

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Already picked up the game, and wondering where to begin? Well, MaxTheCatfish has you covered, with the Top 10 Tips to get started in Stellaris:

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hi all!

We're happy to announce the release of the 3.4.4 patch. Please find the final patch notes below.

It's another herculean effort from the team that we hope you will enjoy!

"STELLARIS 3.4.4 "CEPHEUS" PATCH NOTES
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Improvements

• Automated Exploration and Automated Research are now available from the start of the game rather than being tech-locked.
  
• Construction ships now have an Automated Construction mode, which will automatically build Research and Mining Stations over appropriate deposits. (It will not automatically build Observation Stations, Hyper Relays, or other constructions.)
  
• Imperial Fiefdom changes
  
• The Imperial Fiefdom overlord is now...

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

written by Eladrin

Hi! Let’s get straight to it!

The 3.4.4 ‘Cepheus’ patch is planned to be released sometime next week if everything goes well. Here’s a preliminary list of things that will be included.

"Stellaris 3.4.4 ‘Cepheus’ Preliminary Patch Notes"
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Improvements

• Automated Exploration and Automated Research are now available from the start of the game rather than being tech-locked.
  
• Construction ships now have an Automated Construction mode, which will automatically build Research and Mining Stations over appropriate d...

Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

written by Eladrin

Hello!

The team is working on the 3.4.4 patch as I write this - we should have a list of patch notes as next week’s DD. Today we’ll be discussing some less concrete things.

We often find ourselves with a bit of free time during the summer to experiment with different systems that strike our fancy. Previous such experiments yielded the Lithoid traits (which changed the way we make Species Packs forever) and the first trials of Industrial Districts. Often they don’t work out, or need a lot of iteration before turning into something usable, but that’s okay - these are intentionally framed as experiments with lower pressure.

Rather than doing a review of what did and didn’t work after the summer, I want to give a preview of some of the systems we’re looking to experiment with, but with the c... Read more