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by Eladrin

Hello everyone!

Astral Planes and the Stellaris 3.10.0 "Pyxis" update are releasing this Thursday, November 16th. Today we've got the preliminary changelogs for your enjoyment.

The Astral Planes Narrative Expansion is available for pre-purchase now, with a 10% discount until November 27th.

Astral Planes Narrative Expansion Features​ Our largest story based rel... Read more

by Eladrin

Hello everyone!

The Stellaris 3.10.0 “Pyxis” update will be released alongside the Astral Planes Narrative Expansion on Thursday, November 16th. The expansion has a 10% discount until November 27th.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/2534090/Stellaris_Astral_Planes

Today we’ll have an extra dev diary reviewing some of th... Read more

Hello again,

Gary from Abrakam Entertainment here to talk some more about the upcoming expansion, Astral Planes. If you haven't yet, you might want to read the first two posts: Rifts and Scars[forum.paradoxplaza.com], and ... Read more

by Atmaz

Hello!

Gary from Abrakam Entertainment here.

Last week[forum.paradoxplaza.com] we talked about what Astral Rifts were, how they were formed, and what you could find in them. We also briefly mentioned something nebulous about a new resource called Astral Threads and what you can do with them. We call these, simply enough, Astral Actions.

Let's dig a little deeper.

Astral Threads​
Conceptually, an Astral Thread is the material that binds the boundaries between dimensions. In areas where these boundaries are weakest, these filaments of existence unravel to the point at... Read more

by Atmaz

Hello!

I'm Gary Morris (or Atmaz) - Lead Game Designer on the Astral Planes DLC, from Abrakam Entertainment.

I've been playing video games my whole life. Some of my earliest memories are staying up way past my bedtime and grinding out hours and hours on strategy games on the Super Nintendo my older brother got for Christmas. I have specific memories of a particular game where I was cleaning up nuclear waste with my workers, tile by tile, and having a great time doing it. I didn't know it at the time, but I was enthralled by a type of game that would later become known as a "4X."

When I finally did get a computer, it was a Tandy 1000 HX. I still don't know what the HX stands for, or what the fascination is with adding X's onto things. On that machine, I quickly acquired a similar 4X game that was much older, but it capti... Read more

Hello all,

We're proud to release the 3.9.3 "Caelum" Patch promised for mid-October. This patch brings with it a balance pass on subjugation and diplomatic acceptance in-general, as well as other balance changes, bug fixes, UI, AI and modding improvements.

Please find the patch notes below.

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Balance

• AI Empires are more likely to seek a federation if their rivals have federated.
  
• Federations (except for Hegemonies) now default to not permitting subject members.
  
• Having less than 50 Trust with an empire imposes a -100 Acceptance to them becoming your subject or overlord.
  
• ...

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by PDX-Ruk

Stardate 23779.5 - Temba, his arms wide
In this week's dev diary, I am taking the reins from Eladrin.
I am a producer on Stellaris and usually help Eladrin as best I can, but today I want to talk about my other project and let Stellaris have a week off before they talk about their next thing.

And that Project is: Star Trek: Infinite




Watch the video version of this Dev Diary

Who are you? And why are you Putting Star Trek in my Stellaris Dev Diary?!
I joined Paradox back in the start of 2021, and was given the task to br... Read more

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Get Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game!
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by Eladrin

Hello everybody!

Today we’re going to look at a likely 3.10 feature, some changes that we’ve called the Leader Consolidation.

With leaders becoming more important to your empire following the 3.8 ‘Gemini’ release alongside Galactic Paragons, there were some rough edges leftover and experiences that could be better. Some of the changes we’re implementing during this leader consolidation were things we talked about during the development of Galactic Paragons but decided against for various reasons, or were out of scope at the time, while others are based on data gathered since then and community feedback.
So What’s Changing?​ Some of these names are still being argued over, so are subject to change. Hate one in particular? Let us know. One of us probably hates it too.

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by Eladrin

Hi everyone!

3.9.2 has been released with a handful of bugfixes.

STELLARIS 3.9.2 PATCH NOTES

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Balance

• Pre-FTL empires now have reduced technological development before the mid-game year.
  
• Catalytic empires can now build bio-reactors.

Bugfix

• Anomalies that reward Scientist Expertise traits now apply those traits to the Cognitive Node for gestalt empires.
  
• Blocked empires without the Scientific Method technology from constructing research districts.
  
• Federations End s...

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Hello all,
The latest minor patch for Stellaris is ready and released, fixing a number of issues and further balancing the new mechanics.

We're also planning a follow-up 3.9.3 patch for mid to late October, which will include some of the issues brought up during the Open Beta that require new text, more fixes that did not meet the 3.9.2 deadline, and a handful of other improvements.

Please find the patch notes below.

STELLARIS 3.9.2 PATCH NOTES
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#################### VERSION 3.9.2 ######################​
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Balance

• Pre-FTL empires now have reduced technological development before the mid-game year.
  
• Catalytic empires can n...

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by Eladrin

Hi everyone!

It’s been exactly 100 dev diaries since we introduced the Custodian initiative[forum.paradoxplaza.com] alongside the Lem update. With that milestone met, and 314 being funny math number, I thought it would be a good time to review what the Custodians have accomplished, some of the process they use, and where we could go from here.

To review, the original idea behind the Custodians Initiative was to do some of the following:

• Tweaking game balance
  
• Adding new content to old DLC
  
• Polishi...

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by Eladrin

Hi all!

The Stellaris 3.9.1 ‘Caelum’ update has been released, with full release notes listed here[forum.paradoxplaza.com].

Stellaris 3.9 "Caelum" Release Trailer​

Unless critical issues arise over the weekend, our current plan is to have a general bugfixing 3.9.2 patch roughly two weeks from now. We’re also planning a followup localized 3.9.3 release in mid to late October, which will include some of the issues brought up during the Open Beta that require new... Read more