Hi all,
After a reasonable span in beta testing I'm happy to say that 2.0.4 is now the official version, in time for the long weekend.
It should be updating now/soon for everyone on Steam. If it doesn't trigger right away, verify file integrity or a restart of your Steam client should do it. For those who were in the 2.0.4 beta, just opt out of all beta programs and you'll revert back to retail version.
ALSO, WE ARE MAKING A NEW 2.0.5 BETA AVAILABLE
The only change from 2.0.4 official is a fix we found late in the week for out of sync on hotjoin issues in multiplayer. The reason I'm not rolling it in to the live version yet is we've not had a full test cycle to verify it, but I wanted to put the option out there for those who'd like to give it a try over the weekend. If you're planning an MP I'd appreciate your feedback on how it goes with this version. Checksum is 6d3e.
Please note this is an opt-in patch. You have to choose to activate it.
Steam library -> Right click on Stellaris -> Properties -> Betas tab -> choose "2.0.5_beta"
You can also roll back to an older version by the same method if you want to finish an ongoing game.
Hope everyone has a fun weekend. If 2.0.5 works in the wild we'll look to make it the official version soon.
After a reasonable span in beta testing I'm happy to say that 2.0.4 is now the official version, in time for the long weekend.
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######################### VERSION 2.0.4 ###########################
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# Feature
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* Added confirmation popup to the "clear user directory" function in the launcher, to avoid unintentionally deleting files
* Added new events to notify you when the construction of Gateways has concluded
* Added Will to Power unity ambition that gives +5 influence/month
* Fleet view now consolidates ships into their ship size (with breakdown of ship classes available in tooltip) rather than showing each design individually, making fleet view less of a visual mess and not misleading players with numbers like 20/0 corvettes
* No longer possible to decrease ship design count in fleet manager when a ship is waiting for upgrades
* Scaled difficulty is now a separate setting from difficulty, so a game with Scaling and Grand Admiral will have AI empires start at no bonuses and scale up to full Grand Admiral bonuses at the end-game start date
* Colossus now shows progress for charging weapon in the outliner
* World Cracker can now be test fired on uncolonized habitats, ringworlds & tomb worlds
* Ion Cannons no longer auto-upgrade (as they are designable)
* Winning a force ideology war will now pull the target out of any federation they are a member of
* Ideology war goal text now informs you of Ruler resigning and being forced out of Federation
* Max hyperlanes is now 2.0x, as there was functionally no difference between 2.0x and higher
* The Erudite trait now helps multiple leader types in different ways, similar to Psionic or Cyborg
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# Balance
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* Increased ship upkeep reduction for Fallen/Awakened Empires
* Increased primitive Sol spawn chance
* Ion Cannon no longer has a power cost for its weapon component
* Reduced firing speed on Colossus from 90 to 30 days. Reduced weapon charge time on Colossus from 270 to 90 days
* Raised hard cap on command limit from 200 to 500
* Trickster admiral trait now gives shorter emergency FTL cooldown instead of sublight speed bonus
* Piracy risk is now rounded down to the nearest whole percent
* It is no longer possible to use a Total War wargoal as your defensive wargoal against an attacker that isn't also using a Total War wargoal
* Disabled Starbases no longer inhibit FTL of hostiles
* Awakened Empires now get more resources but also more effect from decadence
* Assimilators can no longer have rivals, and get tradition swaps for traditions relating to claims or rivals
* Ground combat collateral damage now has a higher chance of adding blockers
* Reduced damage output and raised cost of Xenomorph armies
* Festival of Worlds now costs 5000 energy rather than energy, minerals & influence
* Psionic Shields are now stronger than Dark Matter Deflectors, rather than the other way around
* Added some food when Fallen Empires awaken, to prevent early starvation
# Traditions
* Master Builders now only gives +50% megastructure build speed (down from +100%) but increases the size of any Habitats owned by that empire from 12 to 15 (retroactively applied on any habitats of size <15 built before taking the perk or later conquered by the empire with Master Builders)
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# UI
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* Fixed certain multi-effect Strategic Resources (e.g. Living Metal) causing text overflow in the Strategic Resource list
* Fixed ironman UI being broken in setup screen
* The war summary now shows how many ships and armies were destroyed, as well as the number of systems and planets occupied
* Clicking on a ship design to add it to a fleet template that already has it now increases the counter for that template
* Fleet view now only shows template counts for your own fleets
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# AI
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* Subjects will now follow their overlord with all fleets
* Fixed AI using jump drive in some cases where it shouldn't do so due to enemy superiority
###################
# Modding
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* Added a free_pop modifier to species rights that can be used for citizenship, living standards and military service to apply a modifier only to non-enslaved pops
* Defaulted the operator of on_tech_increased trigger to >=, so that the trigger works at all
* Added on_system_first_visited on action, which triggers when you first get intel on a system through any means
###################
# Bugfix
###################
* General fixes and improvements to the Fleet Manager
* You will now be properly able to use gateways you've built even if you didn't encounter one before
* Added missing localization for new features added in 2.0.2
* Fixed a bug where empires could appear without visible borders
* Overlords can no longer get CBs against their vassals
* Fixed issue where Gateways could not be used despite having the necessary technology
* Fixed corrupted Looped Syzygy display model in Ship Details view
* Fixed federation fleets created by an ally empire not being added to your fleet manager when you become federation president
* Fixed a case where ships trying to find the nearest starbase to perform upgrades would ignore the one in the system they are in
* Fixed the Unbidden always treating their home system as conquered, even when there were colonies blocking them from leaving it
* 'Does not Compute' event will now also trigger when the final machine world is destroyed by a Colossus
* No longer crashes when 'intel' or 'sensor' commands are used as an observer
* Fixed some other crashes
* Fixed an endlessly spamming threats from Fallen Empires about encroachment, if you have a wormhole that exits inside their territory
* Planet having sapient pops during colonization no longer messes up interface and other things
* Ships can now properly upgrade at the stations of allies
* Added some missing tooltips
* Synth Leaders in a non-synth ascended empire can now also suffer malfunctions
* Which empire takes control of a disabled starbase in a war is now consistent between Starbases that were already disabled and ones that had to be disabled through force
* Fixed the 'Captive Star' achievement triggering from building a Dyson Sphere construction site
* Fixed a case where clicking on an obsolete ship in the fleet manager would not show the updgrade options
* Event-spawned ships can now be removed from fleet templates when they have been destroyed
* Claims on systems that become unowned (due to owner disbanding the outpost) are now deleted
* Fixed Marauders demanding nothing in tribute when empire income was >250 minerals, because even lunch money counts
* Fixed accidentally disabled mega engineering tech unlock
* Fixed a bug where you couldn't build multiple gateways at the same time
* Ships will now use captured enemy shipyards to upgrade during war rather than pathing all the way back to friendly territory
* Fixed pre-sapients not getting pre-sapient traits
* Planetary edict expired messages now will properly open planet view instead of country edicts view
* Fixed Awakened Empires not being able to use the demand subjugation action
* Fixed successful battles against starbases where your attacking fleet takes losses showing as a defeat in the war summary screen
* Fixed a bug where establishing contact with an enclave would silently give you comms with all other empires known to the enclave
* 'Stay on Target' achievement will now also trigger if the colossus is in the process of charging its weapon
* Fixed issue where anomalies could overwrite modifiers in Precursor systems
* Event triggers were reworked to prevent some events spawning massively far away from the player, because the game thought they were close due to a wormhole or gateway
* Fixed issue where the Extradimensionals would sometimes end up owning a planet
* Fixed Unbidden sometimes spawning without diplomatic contacts
* Fixed leaders being able to get both Chosen One and Psychic if they were elected to or out of office
* Fixed incorrect tooltip for Devouring Swarm
* Pop happiness modifier will no longer increase cost of colony ships
* Proper total war CB is now given when you have a colossus, but you can still make claims (was wrongly locked out before)
* Disabled custom ship design when auto-generate design is on, to prevent a bunch of bad bugs with upgrading
* Fixed sectors wrongly ignoring their resource storage limit via monthly income
* When an empire changes their ethics, the 'go to' button on the notification event will now work properly
* Fixed some species getting the wrong living standards set when citizenship was changed
* Fixed AI not building Starbase buildings/modules
* Fixed broken/missing graphics, sound, and starship components
* Fixed occupation armies spawning mid-invasion/bombardment
* Fixed enlighten primitives action giving you low-level intel of the entire galaxy, despite their weird primitive all-seeing animist wisdom
######################### VERSION 2.0.4 ###########################
#################################################################
###################
# Feature
###################
* Added confirmation popup to the "clear user directory" function in the launcher, to avoid unintentionally deleting files
* Added new events to notify you when the construction of Gateways has concluded
* Added Will to Power unity ambition that gives +5 influence/month
* Fleet view now consolidates ships into their ship size (with breakdown of ship classes available in tooltip) rather than showing each design individually, making fleet view less of a visual mess and not misleading players with numbers like 20/0 corvettes
* No longer possible to decrease ship design count in fleet manager when a ship is waiting for upgrades
* Scaled difficulty is now a separate setting from difficulty, so a game with Scaling and Grand Admiral will have AI empires start at no bonuses and scale up to full Grand Admiral bonuses at the end-game start date
* Colossus now shows progress for charging weapon in the outliner
* World Cracker can now be test fired on uncolonized habitats, ringworlds & tomb worlds
* Ion Cannons no longer auto-upgrade (as they are designable)
* Winning a force ideology war will now pull the target out of any federation they are a member of
* Ideology war goal text now informs you of Ruler resigning and being forced out of Federation
* Max hyperlanes is now 2.0x, as there was functionally no difference between 2.0x and higher
* The Erudite trait now helps multiple leader types in different ways, similar to Psionic or Cyborg
###################
# Balance
###################
* Increased ship upkeep reduction for Fallen/Awakened Empires
* Increased primitive Sol spawn chance
* Ion Cannon no longer has a power cost for its weapon component
* Reduced firing speed on Colossus from 90 to 30 days. Reduced weapon charge time on Colossus from 270 to 90 days
* Raised hard cap on command limit from 200 to 500
* Trickster admiral trait now gives shorter emergency FTL cooldown instead of sublight speed bonus
* Piracy risk is now rounded down to the nearest whole percent
* It is no longer possible to use a Total War wargoal as your defensive wargoal against an attacker that isn't also using a Total War wargoal
* Disabled Starbases no longer inhibit FTL of hostiles
* Awakened Empires now get more resources but also more effect from decadence
* Assimilators can no longer have rivals, and get tradition swaps for traditions relating to claims or rivals
* Ground combat collateral damage now has a higher chance of adding blockers
* Reduced damage output and raised cost of Xenomorph armies
* Festival of Worlds now costs 5000 energy rather than energy, minerals & influence
* Psionic Shields are now stronger than Dark Matter Deflectors, rather than the other way around
* Added some food when Fallen Empires awaken, to prevent early starvation
# Traditions
* Master Builders now only gives +50% megastructure build speed (down from +100%) but increases the size of any Habitats owned by that empire from 12 to 15 (retroactively applied on any habitats of size <15 built before taking the perk or later conquered by the empire with Master Builders)
###################
# UI
###################
* Fixed certain multi-effect Strategic Resources (e.g. Living Metal) causing text overflow in the Strategic Resource list
* Fixed ironman UI being broken in setup screen
* The war summary now shows how many ships and armies were destroyed, as well as the number of systems and planets occupied
* Clicking on a ship design to add it to a fleet template that already has it now increases the counter for that template
* Fleet view now only shows template counts for your own fleets
###################
# AI
###################
* Subjects will now follow their overlord with all fleets
* Fixed AI using jump drive in some cases where it shouldn't do so due to enemy superiority
###################
# Modding
###################
* Added a free_pop modifier to species rights that can be used for citizenship, living standards and military service to apply a modifier only to non-enslaved pops
* Defaulted the operator of on_tech_increased trigger to >=, so that the trigger works at all
* Added on_system_first_visited on action, which triggers when you first get intel on a system through any means
###################
# Bugfix
###################
* General fixes and improvements to the Fleet Manager
* You will now be properly able to use gateways you've built even if you didn't encounter one before
* Added missing localization for new features added in 2.0.2
* Fixed a bug where empires could appear without visible borders
* Overlords can no longer get CBs against their vassals
* Fixed issue where Gateways could not be used despite having the necessary technology
* Fixed corrupted Looped Syzygy display model in Ship Details view
* Fixed federation fleets created by an ally empire not being added to your fleet manager when you become federation president
* Fixed a case where ships trying to find the nearest starbase to perform upgrades would ignore the one in the system they are in
* Fixed the Unbidden always treating their home system as conquered, even when there were colonies blocking them from leaving it
* 'Does not Compute' event will now also trigger when the final machine world is destroyed by a Colossus
* No longer crashes when 'intel' or 'sensor' commands are used as an observer
* Fixed some other crashes
* Fixed an endlessly spamming threats from Fallen Empires about encroachment, if you have a wormhole that exits inside their territory
* Planet having sapient pops during colonization no longer messes up interface and other things
* Ships can now properly upgrade at the stations of allies
* Added some missing tooltips
* Synth Leaders in a non-synth ascended empire can now also suffer malfunctions
* Which empire takes control of a disabled starbase in a war is now consistent between Starbases that were already disabled and ones that had to be disabled through force
* Fixed the 'Captive Star' achievement triggering from building a Dyson Sphere construction site
* Fixed a case where clicking on an obsolete ship in the fleet manager would not show the updgrade options
* Event-spawned ships can now be removed from fleet templates when they have been destroyed
* Claims on systems that become unowned (due to owner disbanding the outpost) are now deleted
* Fixed Marauders demanding nothing in tribute when empire income was >250 minerals, because even lunch money counts
* Fixed accidentally disabled mega engineering tech unlock
* Fixed a bug where you couldn't build multiple gateways at the same time
* Ships will now use captured enemy shipyards to upgrade during war rather than pathing all the way back to friendly territory
* Fixed pre-sapients not getting pre-sapient traits
* Planetary edict expired messages now will properly open planet view instead of country edicts view
* Fixed Awakened Empires not being able to use the demand subjugation action
* Fixed successful battles against starbases where your attacking fleet takes losses showing as a defeat in the war summary screen
* Fixed a bug where establishing contact with an enclave would silently give you comms with all other empires known to the enclave
* 'Stay on Target' achievement will now also trigger if the colossus is in the process of charging its weapon
* Fixed issue where anomalies could overwrite modifiers in Precursor systems
* Event triggers were reworked to prevent some events spawning massively far away from the player, because the game thought they were close due to a wormhole or gateway
* Fixed issue where the Extradimensionals would sometimes end up owning a planet
* Fixed Unbidden sometimes spawning without diplomatic contacts
* Fixed leaders being able to get both Chosen One and Psychic if they were elected to or out of office
* Fixed incorrect tooltip for Devouring Swarm
* Pop happiness modifier will no longer increase cost of colony ships
* Proper total war CB is now given when you have a colossus, but you can still make claims (was wrongly locked out before)
* Disabled custom ship design when auto-generate design is on, to prevent a bunch of bad bugs with upgrading
* Fixed sectors wrongly ignoring their resource storage limit via monthly income
* When an empire changes their ethics, the 'go to' button on the notification event will now work properly
* Fixed some species getting the wrong living standards set when citizenship was changed
* Fixed AI not building Starbase buildings/modules
* Fixed broken/missing graphics, sound, and starship components
* Fixed occupation armies spawning mid-invasion/bombardment
* Fixed enlighten primitives action giving you low-level intel of the entire galaxy, despite their weird primitive all-seeing animist wisdom
It should be updating now/soon for everyone on Steam. If it doesn't trigger right away, verify file integrity or a restart of your Steam client should do it. For those who were in the 2.0.4 beta, just opt out of all beta programs and you'll revert back to retail version.
ALSO, WE ARE MAKING A NEW 2.0.5 BETA AVAILABLE
The only change from 2.0.4 official is a fix we found late in the week for out of sync on hotjoin issues in multiplayer. The reason I'm not rolling it in to the live version yet is we've not had a full test cycle to verify it, but I wanted to put the option out there for those who'd like to give it a try over the weekend. If you're planning an MP I'd appreciate your feedback on how it goes with this version. Checksum is 6d3e.
Please note this is an opt-in patch. You have to choose to activate it.
Steam library -> Right click on Stellaris -> Properties -> Betas tab -> choose "2.0.5_beta"
You can also roll back to an older version by the same method if you want to finish an ongoing game.
Hope everyone has a fun weekend. If 2.0.5 works in the wild we'll look to make it the official version soon.