[Dev Team] 2.1.1 Beta Patch Available [checksum 9b49]

[Jamor]

Hi all, Jamor here.

We've spent the week since PDXCon and the 2.1 Niven release listening to your feedback and addressing bugs, balance, and stability issues. I'm happy to report the new 2.1.1 opt-in patch is available.

Spoiler: Full Patch Contents

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# Free Features
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* Hyperlane density can now be changed to "full", which guarantees every possible hyperlane will exist
* You can now choose to start in a trinary or binary star system when creating your empire
* Experimental ETA feature put in for starship movement orders, telling you the approximate date of arrival
* Now possible to achieve partial victory in subjugation and liberation wars with occupied systems splitting off as a new subject or ally in the event of a status quo peace

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# Balance
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* Increased power usage of torpedoes
* Reduced frequency of gaining L-Gate Insights from unrelated anomalies by 70%
* A technology must now be researched after gathering all L-Gate insights before you can start the project to open the gates
* Reduced HP of missiles across the board, making point defense more potent
* The Prosperity faction will now be happier if you have war policy set to Defensive Wars Only
* The Imperialist faction is now also OK with ideological wars, and will only be angry if policy is set to Defensive Wars Only

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# UI
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* New icon for the L-cluster

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# Performance
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* Cached tile resource production for faster performance
* More border calculations optimization
* Borders are now only updated if they need to be, reducing unnecessary operations

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# Modding
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* Moved scripted variables for buildings into the scripted variables file
* Saved Event Targets should now always persist through Special Projects
* Added is_event_design setting for event ship designs that should be blocked by fleet manager
* Improved performance of Global SavedEventTargets

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# Bugfixes
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* Fixed a bug where guaranteed nearby colonizable worlds sometimes did not appear
* Fixed pop_modifier out of sync in MP
* Fixed several other OOS causes with convoluted causes
* Fixed several crashes with similarly arcane origin stories
* Added Distant Stars ownership icon for MP setup
* Fixed an OOS related to ship armor stats
* Fixed missing ambient sounds for certain star classes
* Fixed missing brain slug traits for scientists and admirals
* Fixed getting brain slugs and other non-robotic traits for event-spawned robotic leaders
* Fixed "Asteroid Collision" anomaly awarding the wrong deposit type
* Fixed "...and Hope?" achievement for opening the L-Cluster not being awarded
* Fixed missing text description for the L-Gate insight technology
* Missing word added in Phase Disruptor tech description
* Fixed other typos rendering the game literally unplayable
* Fixed some Horizon Signal-related building tooltips
* Improved janky Tiyanki death animations, giving rise to a desire for a new 1930's dance craze
* Fixed cases where you would sometimes not identify Leviathans after meeting them, this should also fix Curators not having anything to say about them
* Fixed The Gray Tempest event having 2 choices with identical outcomes, because it was painfully close to much of real life
* Gestalt consciousness can no longer pick liberation wars policy as it did nothing for them anyway
* Phaseshifting planet now has edge case handling if a nation completes the project before researching the anomaly
* Pacification of Space Amoebas or Crystals now turns them neutral instead of friendly because come on guy, you don't know me like that
* Fixed Fanatic Purifier, Devouring Swarm, and Determined Exterminator Empires suddenly becoming socially presentable when talking to the Curators about L-Gates
* Fixed instances where Empires created after initial L-Gate activation would be unable to use the L-Gates
* Fixed a text overflow issue in the Anomaly tracker
* Fixed "Bunker-Bot" anomaly not generating an L-Gate Insight
* Fixed a crash when the gateway type doesn't exist (affected certain mods)
* Fixed an OOS due to Experimental Subspace Navigation
* Added missing modifier string for all languages
* Marauder neighbor events can no longer trigger for empires that have no communications with them
* Properly calculate cached values when ships are created, meaning fleet power is now displayed correctly
* Fixed a bug where freshly created ships would not benefit immediately from bonus hull point effects
* Addressed a couple of edge cases that might cause improper Strategic Resource tech weights
* Added Go To buttons to a couple of Anomalies
* Fixed a cause of ship stats OOS. Some code was executed in unsafe order somehow when recalculating for hot join
* Scriptable localization error logging fix
* Asteroids can now glow

Give us a try and let us know how it goes. We'll continue to update the beta in the coming days as we get more fixes and improvements to send your way.

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 "2.1.1_beta"

 

[TheTam]

Now possible to achieve partial victory in subjugation and liberation wars with occupied systems splitting off as a new subject or ally in the event of a status quo peace

I love you!

 

[Mrakvampire]

I hope that achievements work with beta patches, cause I do plan to start playing after not-so-good 2.0 after all

 

[Mcwynne]

Was not expecting the partial victories to be added already, this is amazing!

 

[Jamor]

Next big thing we want to tackle now that we have some free dev resources is the lag/stuttering thing. We're aware and are working on it.

 

[TheFunMachine]

Hey Jamor, do you guys have more planned in terms of performance fixes? I really like 2.1/Distant Stars, but something that took a big step back was performance going into mid-late game.

Also, there are issues with the tempest fleets not moving about to cause havoc and with friendly claims on your systems leading to unnecessary diplomatic penalties with allies. Another spotted issue was how, upon colonising the L Cluster, border would not show up.

On balance, I feel like the Great Khan dies off a bit too early as well.

Anyhow, thank you for the update!

 

[TimeMask]

B-but what if i like my amoebas and crystals friendly? :'D The blue ui for friendly units is nice color when compared to yellow for neutral!

 

[M4_HeretiC]

Nice updates, thank you. Hope you will be able to fix the performance issues soon too.

 

[TheFunMachine]

Oh, oh... also, a great QoL upgrade would be for an a system icon to appear where there is a terraforming candidate!

 

[Kougar]

Next big thing we want to tackle now that we have some free dev resources is the lag/stuttering thing. We're aware and are working on it.

Great to hear! You know the lag is bad when the music stops entirely, and windows begins throwing "program not responding" popups asking if you want to terminate Stellaris.

 

[heliostellar]

Next big thing we want to tackle now that we have some free dev resources is the lag/stuttering thing. We're aware and are working on it.

Frankly, the game is unplayable until this gets resolved.

 

[Jean-Luc]

Tried paying for a marauder raid and haven't immediately gotten the message about them giving up so hopefully it works now.

 

[Matt516]

Now possible to achieve partial victory in subjugation and liberation wars with occupied systems splitting off as a new subject or ally in the event of a status quo peace

Woo! This fixes one of the last major issues w/ the new war system. Very exciting.

 

[ViolentBeetle]

* Saved Event Targets should now always persist through Special Projects

Yay!

So you do read bug reports after all.

 

[Mr Thursday]

* Fixed other typos rendering the game literally unplayable

But crew can still flush the toilet while a ship is docked at a station, so more work to be done...

 

[Crowarior]

Can someone please tell me whats this "lag/stuttering" issue? I haven't been able to play a lot recently because of exams and stuff. I bought distant stars and played for about 20-30 years and I haven't noticed anything and I'm playing on my shitty laptop.

 

[Jman5]

For anyone curious about the missile hitpoint changes

Missile:
1: 10 -> 6
2: 12 -> 7
3: 14 -> 8
4: 16 -> 9
5: 18 -> 10

Torpedoes:
1: 20 -> 8
2: 25 -> 11
3: 30 -> 14

Swarmer:
1: 50 -> 30
2: 60 -> 40

Scourge Missile
1: 20 -> 15

Torpedo Power Change
1: 10 -> 17
2: 17 -> 26
3: 26 -> 32

So pretty big change especially for the torpedoes.

 

[bjhendricks]

* Improved janky Tiyanki death animations, giving rise to a desire for a new 1930's dance craze

Now I want to kill one just to see this

 

[Seknana]

And still no fix for those nasty multiplayer desync problems...

... would be great if you start focusing on the core problems before developing new features - since the last DLC story pack the 2-3 occasional desync in a 2 hour timespan increased up to 10 in 1 hour.... in a 3 human player game ...

edit:

"“Fixed pop_modifier out of sync in MP
* Fixed several other OOS causes with convoluted causes”"

thats far from playable.... thats one "poping reason" of desync... it desyncs from litterally anything.... pop fleet ressources, even colonization or just hitting play on the music player.... picking a trait.... multiply that by the amount of players ingame and you have to restart every hour at least twice...

downvoting doesnt solve the problem - and throwing a bone to the dog cant calm ppl down.

 

[Chopper89]

Still find that fleet manager is very flakey and fixes have been made and new bugs/quirks cropped up. i.e.

• refreshing a fleet and ending up with <desired amount x 2>/<desired amount> of <ship type>
  • when trying to mitigate the this issue, splitting and merging has no effect
• lots of random stuck build queue orders that can't be cleared. Just sat there blank assigned to a shipyard with no info in them (doesn't seem to affect building new ones however)
• fleets not even appearing in fleet manager at all (not sure whether my 40k fleet was for free or I was being billed for it)

I noticed the performance changes in this latest patch and despite being a bit laggy could at least play, can't speak for all though. With the fleet manager however, just find its really frustrating to be spending time trying to form the desired fleet when one of the key purposes of fleet manager was to do that for you without micro management.

It's really good to see a constant and steady flow of updates and fixes for a wide variety of issues from the devs, just frustrating that the issues seem really basic and wonder how they past any basic sys test as these errors are really easy for me to find (without mods).