Stellaris Dev Diary #189 - Necroids 2.8 Patch Notes & Update

[sillyrobot]

Only a few notes among all these relate to the community raised issues - the pathfinding fixes, and they sound quite secondary and non-ambitious... let's see whether they would restore the Crisis to its pre-"rework" level, at least.

So this was the reason why awakened FE's never declared war (except occasionally on genocidals)?
No significant balance fixes, it seems.
Automation issues remain, although I'm one of the people who doesn't mind micro that much.

War declarations are borked because of a bug that used you opinion of them as opposed of their opinion of you. I didn't see a fix specific to this, but there are more than a few and I may have missed it in my scan.

 

[MrFreake_PDX]

War declarations are borked because of a bug that used you opinion of them as opposed of their opinion of you. I didn't see a fix specific to this, but there are more than a few and I may have missed it in my scan.

* The AI attitude of country A to B now depends on A's opinion of B rather than B's of A. This fixes Fallen Empires never declaring war.

You did

 

[sillyrobot]

These look fantastic.

My only complaint is there is no mention of fixes for consistant graphical bugs that have been persistant since 2.2, I'm not sure if they're flying under the radar or not truely gamebreaking and therefore not worth a programmer's time.

Not Literally Unplayable but it's pretty jarring looking at a lithoid cruiser with a big chunk of its bow floating up and away, or a plantoid defense station with mismatched textures.

Since we still get combat, planets, and stars occasionally showing up on the galaxy map (a bug that's lasted since... 1.1?), I have no confidence any graphical glitches get fixed.

 

[sillyrobot]

* The AI attitude of country A to B now depends on A's opinion of B rather than B's of A. This fixes Fallen Empires never declaring war.

You did

Good.

 

[MrFreake_PDX]

Good.

 

[James Fire]

It's a start; frankly not nearly enough to pull me back to the game nor what I'd expect after ~6months of work from the dev team, but it's something. We'll have to see what the "bigger" things you've been working on are.

Did you forget their 3 months of vacation?

 

[Methone]

You can now only resettle your primary species away from planets with culture shock.

Just turn it back into a pop modifier. I don't know why you guys ever changed it away from that into a magical 'culture shock aura' in the planet's air or whatever.

Crisis AI will now be more likely to seek honorable alternatives to doomstacks (i.e. it will split its fleet up a bit more).

And will it actually expand? Because if not, then what's the point?

The AI attitude of country A to B now depends on A's opinion of B rather than B's of A. This fixes Fallen Empires never declaring war.

Cool. But what about Awakened Empires?

* Made sure clearing the blocker creates the correct species.

You know, I always did think it was funny that when my Rogue Servitors moved in to enlighten the last enclaves of their non-pampered organic creators, the result was more Servitors.

It is now possible for your ruler to be randomly given the trait Charismatic during their rule.

As neat as this is, this counts as a bugfix?

Overall, it's neat, and a good start, but only that.

 

[hart30]

Collossus works for the ai again.
One case of fleet loops is stopped.
Fleet manager is finally fixed.
Even the end game crisis recrived a small improvement.

Thats more than i hoped for.
Now all annoying left is:
- greater than ourselves active causes popmigration to "free" jobs on crisis planets during purge process.
- mid game khan and grey storm not scaling with difficulty/crisis strength slider
- sector ai and planetary automation
- (of course military and crisis ai)

All in all i cannot wait for 2.8 to see the implemented fixes in action

 

[Andy_Dandy]

How come when I hit the respectfully disagree button, it doesn’t show up under the opening post?

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Dunno. I very seldom disagree with the developers. They are usually sane people.

 

[ベルンカステル]

How come when I hit the respectfully disagree button, it doesn’t show up under the opening post?

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LMAOOOOOOOOOOO. They know.

 

[Methone]

How come when I hit the respectfully disagree button, it doesn’t show up under the opening post?

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LMAOOOOOOOOOOO. They know.

Take off the tinfoil hat, it's because there seems to be a limit of '3 response types shown'.

 

[charliex3]

Fleet manager is finally fixed.

Huh where do you see this fixed? Am I blind?

 

[Tzunki]

And again no branch browser. It's a shame that no developer likes to play MegaCorps.

 

[Fampat]

It's a really great start...

We had enought "starts", its time for results, these are not the results one was expecting... the real issues hasnd been fixed... again... again... again...

 

[sillyrobot]

Huh where do you see this fixed? Am I blind?

* Fixed completed construction items for reinforcements not being removed properly from the fleet manager.

 

[sillyrobot]

We had enought "starts", its time for results, these are not the results one was expecting... the real issues hasnd been fixed... again... again... again...

It's about or slightly more than I expected. Grekulf said nothing 'risky' or large was included before others started hyping the fixes.

 

[FrancescoT]

Just turn it back into a pop modifier. I don't know why you guys ever changed it away from that into a magical 'culture shock aura' in the planet's air or whatever.

If I recall correctly, POP's modifiers are a performance killer.

 

[UltimateTobi]

Cool. But what about Awakened Empires?

It should since this applies to AI's diplomacy in general.

 

[MrFreake_PDX]

It's about or slightly more than I expected. Grekulf said nothing 'risky' or large was included before others started hyping the fixes.

I believe he said "add", as we were too close to Necroids release to do major changes.

However, the beta branch (when it becomes available) may have additional things that address some additional Community concerns. And yes, that's about as much of a non-answer as I can supply.

 

[Ridixo]

Necroids will be released together with the 2.8 ‘Butler’ Update.

What Leonidas has to do with sci-fi?

* Added new Gestalt Governor Leader Traits: Amplifier and Mindfulness - both increase Administrative Capacity in relevant Pop Jobs.

Good, very good

* Systems spawned during the game (e.g. precursor ones) will now usually have two hyperlanes instead of one.

Good, i suppose :/

* Greatly improved startup and load times. (Check dev diary 181 for more information)

Great

* Tick time optimization (more efficient parallelisation (game go vroom vroom)).

Great too

* Event Primordial Soup no longer wrongly assumes that Terminator machines think organic life worthy of interest.

Why can't a machine hellbent on exterminate all organic life don't appreciate it?
#Soullessemotionlessmachineshavefeeltooawarenessday

What i don't see is a solution to Shattered Ring Origin only spawning yellow stars, as reported here.
It's an easy fix, as said here. It would only require a dev caring for a few lines of code. Sad, what would be my favorite Origin is literally unplayable

I will cry of despair on some forgotten corner until the end comes and i be reborn as a Necroid