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by Eladrin
Hello everybody!
The 3.12.1 "Andromeda" release with The Machine Age has gone well, but we have some more bugfixes and stability improvements that didn't quite make it into the release version.
Since this is a holiday-shortened week in Sweden, we won't be releasing these to the live build until next Thursday. In the interim I've asked the team to put up a Steam Open Beta using the stellaris_test branch with the following changes:
3.12.2 "ANDROMEDA" OPEN BETA RELEASE NOTES Bugfixes
- Added additional checks to prevent fully virtual pops from being created on the lathe
- Fix for Hive Mind background unaligned
- Fixed Sectors released by Individualist Machines having the wrong ethics
- Fixed virtual pops sometimes being created while plan...