Stellaris Dev Tracker

Posted on behalf of Paradox Arctic.

Hello fellow Explorers of the Void.

We're excited to share with you another Dev Diary, this time focusing on the characters of our upcoming DLC, Galactic Paragons. Today, we have Arctic Art Director Frida, and Arctic Game Director Petter to talk about the new handcrafted characters you may encounter.

Watch the video Dev Diary:


Petter (Arctic Game Director): Paragon is primarily an expansion with new mechanics such as the council and the leader rework. But, in a DLC that centers around leaders it felt only natural that we would craft some exceptional characters for you to encounter out there amongst the stars.

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

Hello everyone! I’m XM, the lead designer of Galactic Paragons. From the beginning of development, we’ve followed one simple mantra - make leaders matter. What you are going to read about in the following paragraphs are the results of months of work following that direction.

Wishlist Galactic Paragons[pdxint.at]!

Reducing Leader Count
For leaders to start being significant, there needed to be a lot less of them. With this goal in mind, we removed the research scientist positions currently in the game, and combined them into a single “Head of Research” Council position (we’ll talk in more detail about the Council later). We also allowed leaders to perform Council duties while maintaining their field positions. These changes dramatically reduced the number of leaders you need to keep track of.

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by Eladrin and Petter Nallo

Over the past year we’ve been working on several things in parallel. While PDS Green in Stockholm was building the First Contact Story Pack, our colleagues at PDS Arctic in Umeå were working on a major project as well.



I’m extremely pleased to announce that Galactic Paragons, an expansion focusing on leaders and their impact on your empire, will be released alongside Stellaris’ seventh anniversary on May 9th.


Galactic Paragons is... Read more

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

by Eladrin

Hi everyone!

The 3.8 ‘Gemini’ Coop Open Beta we talked about last week is now open! See this message[forum.paradoxplaza.com] for more details. We’ll be collecting feedback [forum.paradoxplaza.com]and Out of Sync ... Read more

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

Hello Stellaris fans,

We are happy to announce the release of our 3.8 Coop Open Beta!
It is now available on a separate branch in Steam.

Instructions for opting in to the Open Beta branch:

Open the Steam client

1. Go to Library
   
2. Right click "Stellaris" in the list of games
   
3. Select "Properties..."
   
4. Go to the "Betas" tab
   
5. Select "stellaris_test - 3.8 Coop Open Beta" in the drop down

This should trigger a new update to Stellaris that lets you enjoy our new Coop mode early!
Please note that the feature is still in development and does have a few issues and instabilities.
Reporting any issues you encounter would be welcome, and you may do so in our Bug Report forums[forum.para... Read more

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

by Eladrin

Hello again!

Last week we went over the basic design of the Cooperative multiplayer system we’re currently working on, and we’re ready to announce that the Coop Open Beta is looking like it will be starting sometime next week. Though at this time I can’t give a precise date, I thought I’d provide a list of preliminary patch notes.

I expect that we’ll leave the branch up until the release of 3.8, and feedback will be collected in threads until April 30th. Stay tuned for more details once we can share them.

Release Notes​ Here’s a changelog of what will be present in the Coop Open Beta. This is only a small subset of what’s going to be coming in 3.8 - we wanted to keep the Coop changes relatively isolated in order to get better testing of the feature.

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

by Eladrin

Hello everyone!

One of the major Custodian features planned for the 3.8 ‘Gemini’ update is the addition of two cooperative gameplay modes. Up to five players will be able to control the same empire and work together to play the game as a team.

Two Modes of Play​ Surveys suggested that there are two distinctly different reasons people want to play together.

• I want to play a PvE game of Stellaris with my friends, either to teach them how to play the game or to have a more relaxed game where we can share the duties of empire management.

Stellaris is a complex game, and learning to play can be difficult without a guiding hand. While some people learn well by watching informative videos created by the community, others might do better playing alongside a frie... Read more

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

by Eladrin

Happy Thursday!

Thanks to everyone who answered our User Research survey as well as to everyone posting in our Custodian Diplomatic AI Feedback thread[forum.paradoxplaza.com].

Originally I was planning on just talking about what was going into 3.7.4, with a potential release date next week, but things went a bit better than expected and as of this morning the 3.7.4 patch has been released. Unless something major crops up, the next Stellaris update is expected to be the 3.8 ‘Gemini’ release during Q2.

This patch includes another adjustment to pre-FTL civilizations being too keen on... Read more

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

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

by PDX-Loke

Hello,

While you were busy upgrading cloaked fleets at enemy starbases and buying multiple galatrons, the team has kept on fixing and tweaking.
The 3.7.4 patch is ready and available for download now.

Please find the patch notes below.

STELLARIS 3.7.4 PATCH NOTES
BALANCE AND IMPROVEMENTS

• Pre-FTL civilizations now have a chance of having a "close call" when nuclear war threatens to break out.
  
• Payback Origin
  
  * If you defeat the Debt Collectors three times, the MSI will use the Humiliate war goal against you instead of trying to vassalize you * The Debt collectors won't bug you anymore if you're currently at war with the MSI * Fixed Payback war goals to ensure you can't vassalize or impose ideology on homicidal ...

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by Eladrin

Hi everyone!

It’s now been a bit over a week since the First Contact Story Pack released, and it’s been great hearing your stories and experiences.

While some things slipped through into the initial release, like the Great Filter becoming nigh impenetrable if nobody’s watching, overall Canis Minor was the most stable release we’ve ever had on Stellaris - to the point where red flags were being raised whether the Crash Reporter was working properly.



A couple of days ago we pushed the 3.7.3 hotfix to take care of a few of the more pressing issues.

STELLARIS ‘CANIS MINOR’ 3.7.3 PATCH NOTES
Fixes and Changes

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

Thank you all for playing and providing feedback on First Contact and 3.7!
We've been hard at work fixing and balancing, and are now ready to supply you with a quick patch aiming to resolve the most pertinent problems.

3.7.3 should now be available for download. Please find the changelog below.

The team is still focusing on finding and resolving incoming bugs, and we hope to have a second patch ready for you within a few weeks.

Enjoy!

Fixes and Changes

• Every single atomic pre-FTL will no longer nuke themselves if they are not being observed.
  
• Fixed Contingency worlds not being properly cracked by devolving beam.
  
• The Solarpunk Empire will no longer stay pre-FTL if you decide to steal from them.
  
• Admirals should no long...

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