Jamor posted:

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# Features
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* Updated the game for GDPR compliance (basically, a once-only popup on first launch of 2.1.3 with some legal text to read and accept, as now required by EU law)
* Added buttons to view privacy policy from ingame
* Added new clothes and hairstyles for humans, humanoids, and mammalians
* Added inscrutable mystery to Distant Stars
* Added follow-ups for the Atomic Clock anomaly
* Added event for when an AI empire is close to unlocking the L-Cluster
* Added some unique diplomacy text for Ketlings
* Impossible Organism anomaly chain is now also available for Assimilators and Rogue Servitors
* Impossible Organism anomaly chain tooltips and Special Projects are now more clear on what they actually do
* We now display Steam rich presence data to your Steam friends, showing not just that you're in game, but also your empire name, their ethics, and game date


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# Balance
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* The AI Uprising now has drastically increased naval capacity for a few years after forming, preventing immediate bankruptcy due to over-capacity upkeep costs
* Switched combat disengage chance so that Destroyers and Cruisers now have the highest survivability, followed by Titans and Battleships, with Corvettes coming last. 'Tis better to be the screen-ee than the screen-or
* Ships with weapons that have very low tracking will now avoid firing on highly evasive target if another, less evasive target is likely to become available soon (ie: Titans should no longer fire their main gun on corvettes if there's cruisers or battleships just outside range)
* Reduced spawn_chance weights for the Vechtar Zavonia/Mardak Vol Anomaly
* Lowered chance of Brainslugged leaders, increased Unrest modifier after Brainslugging pops

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# Modding
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* Move url strings from NDefines::NInterface to code
* Errors are now logged only once by default, except those logs used in OOS hunting. You can use the "-logall" to log errors every time they appear instead of only once

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# Bugfixes
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* AI will no longer accidentally try to research already researched technologies
* Mardak purgers fleets no longer use bouquets of flowers as the warheads of their missiles, and their bombardment can now actually cause damage
* Fixed the Unbidden Portal being vulnerable while the Extradimensional Invaders still have active Anchors
* Fixed literally unplayable typos
* Fixed a case of COUNTRY_UNITY out of sync
* Fixed an out of sync with COUNTRY_ENERGY
* Fixed Contingency starbases being so confident in their imposing demeanor that they didn't bother to use their weapon slots
* Fixed broken text string for the upkeep of gene warrior armies
* Fixed pacifist description for the ancient mining drones event wrongly referencing your home system instead of the one where the drones were
* Added game rule exception to allow you to take hostile action against factions that have conquered your planets, meaning situations like the mutant horrors event can now be properly resolved
* Enigmatic Cache traits can no longer be applied through gene modification, so you can't spam them on all your planets outside the intended scope of the event
* Fixed Impossible Organism event to allow Nivlacs to be spawned on any planet with free housing, not just the capital
* Fixed advanced start AI empires not getting all the extra colonies they should start with
* Added missing loc for when you deny an Awakened Empire's offer of status quo peace
* Disabling primitive civilizations in game setup will now actually remove most of them, except for certain ones required for events
* Fixed a non-completable special project that could appear if you have tutorial activated and your first alien contact is a Leviathan
* Fixed the Scavenger Bot not counting as a leviathan for the purpose of satisfying military faction demands
* Fixed missing notification event on first entering the "quiet" version of the L-Cluster
* Fixed a crash related to armies landing
* Fixed some unneeded spamming of error logs
* Fixed fire control ship component not working properly
* Ketlings will now no longer cheekily spawn on shattered worlds
* Several Distant Stars anomalies that were unnecessarily blocked for hive minds are now available to them
* Fixed small psionic shields having the wrong stats
* Fixed incorrect empire names showing up in diplomatic dialogue when a Peace Offer is accepted
* Fixed OOS when you host a game on a Mac

Dallan Invictus posted:

I mean, what really needs to happen is that the three precursors that have generic rewards get boosted to match the Cybrex and First League somehow. I just don't know quite what would do it while sticking to the flavour that makes the Precursor chains so cool (but Ecumenpoleis are a bit OP regardless).

I imagine they're kind of doing this, Cybrex used to be the undisputed best until 2.2 so they just need to get the others on that level.

(as a side note, it vaguely annoys me that the precursor chains are player-only but I know I'm an insane simulationist and am probably alone in that view.)

AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

I mean...I'm glad I had it before Christmas because I had two weeks off and i had a bunch of fun with it, buuuut there are enough bugs and balance issues that I'm now taking a break till more work is done. I definitely think that they should have let it bake in the oven another two months but there was obviously a ton of demand for it because there was so much hype.

FuzzySlippers posted:

It's 2315 and I'm +5 influence. It sucks because I keep getting dragged into wars with a neighbor but I'll never have enough influence to make many claims on their systems. It also seems kinda weird that I'm gaining the same 'influence' now as the largest sprawling empire in the galaxy as when I was a backwater with a handful of systems.

Solemn Sloth posted:

Fleet manager always seems to just orphan large parts of my reinforcements at the station they were built at and I have no idea why. Maybe the parent fleet did something like bombarded a planet or went into combat that meant it turns off the pathfinding

GunnerJ posted:

It would be cool if you could combine those super special planet designations more so you could make an ecu into a resort world and do this. (It looks like you can make an ecu a penal colony though?)

Or make a resort world/penal colony combo and do Deadman Wonderland...

ded posted:

Lithoids have the coolest trap, colonizing with an asteroid and permanently loving the planet you settle on.

And Tyler Too! posted:

Lol they just made Oligarchies the best government type by a huge margin. Extra influence gain is a big deal.

Yami Fenrir posted:

I personally like strike craft a lot as well.

I wish the Carrier segments on Battleships didn't FORCE you to to take non-carrier modules though. My OCD...

Libluini posted:

Now I'm confused, battleships can take on two out of three of their sections as carrier sections loaded with strike craft hangars and PD. There's indeed just one gun section left if you load up on carrier crap. Together with the dedicated carrier AI, you have a carrier more dedicated to carrying fighters than most carriers in other space 4x.

AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

I've been following the thread again after a friend told me about the big patch coming up. If they have espionage things that are that powerful actually cost that much... I might actually like it, because it means it will be hard for the AI to do it to me.

Yami Fenrir posted:

I just realized that this, right there, is what might just bother me the most about Stellaris events.

The inability to know if it's just bad luck or if you just picked the wrong option. Especially since it's basically impossible to know if there is a dice roll attached to them since not all of them do.

I feel like Stellaris events would be a lot more interesting/better if they were less "right choice, wrong choice" and more "safe low risk, low reward" vs "high risk, high reward" choices.

Because like, despite moaning how how bad some events are, long-time players know exactly what's going to happen for like, every event in existence. Somewhat unavoidable, obviously, but it really isn't helped by the sheer amount of events that don't have variable outcomes.

I'm probably not even alone in pretty much never even reading the event text anymore - I just see the options and know which one's the good one.


(Just going to ignore Captain Monkey because he pretty much seems to not be arguing in good faith)

Captain Oblivious posted:

Did they get rid of the Ammonia World outcome on that event

PittTheElder posted:

Yeah the Custodian team mandate sounds like what exactly what the long term player base has been asking for. Excited to see what you all come up with.

pmchem posted:

The new Custodian team is exactly what Stellaris needs and I'm happy the dev team / mgmt is supporting that initiative.

It's unclear from the dev diary "how much" of the Stellaris team's resources / time is being devoted to it. I hope it's more than 25% (heck, I hope it's more than 50%, but, wishful thinking). I look forward to their first big set of results.

Jazerus posted:

yeah except eliminating admin cap is more of a reversion to the old system than anything, and a welcome one. it's really weird to be paying base cost for techs even when i rule half the galaxy, and makes it way too easy to overtake the AI.

i think unity coming from bureaucrats is thematically strange and i would rather they be redirected to contribute to some new system instead...unity as culture makes more sense than unity as bureaucracy for most of the uses that unity currently has.

The Cheshire Cat posted:

Honestly I think they should just ditch armies and make them into a module you can stick on ships. The only thing that ever matters for them is having more number than the opponent.

Splicer posted:

Traditions

Fewer new trees than I expected. Biggest disappointment for me is the extra clerks are still dirtying up the prosperity tree.

Yami Fenrir posted:

I really liked taking Domination for Gestalts, actually - that +1 influence was really helpful early on.

But hey, look on the bright side: This will probably make modding in new tradition trees a lot simpler.

houstonguy posted:

Maybe the new DLC and the update tied to it are going to change star bases and defensive platforms? Otherwise yeah that’s a lot of not particularly helpful new traditions.

AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

Where did you learn this?

Yami Fenrir posted:

The bigger issue for me is the "nothing but basic jobs" bit.

It gets annoying with basic robots fairly quick and unlike those you (probably) can't upgrade zombies.

Still, nice and flavorful.

Horace Kinch posted:

Sell the zombies on the slave market

Noir89 posted:

My Devouring Swarm civ have the starfish portrait. Sometimes I force them into newer games and 90% of the time the galaxy dies in an unending swarm of cute starfish going "Doodidoo " when you contact them begging for mercy. They truly are the best.

AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

Ah right, thank you both! I will have to try that out as Lithoids because that sounds like my kind of jam.

Duodecimal posted:

Noir89 posted:

Lol started with the genetic engineering origin that gives the overcharged traits, invaded some atomic age primitives, picked genetic engineering ascencion path and dumped a bunch of horrible traits on them.

Dudes life expectancy is like 30 years lol, stellariscrimes.txt

Splicer posted:

Think of it less as losing a tradition slot and more as gaining a perk slot, since you won't need two per ascension any more.

Jabarto posted:

gently caress YES

CapnAndy posted:

That sounds rad as gently caress, but it's going to be an insanely rough start -- even in their example images, they've got dudes with Arctic, Desert, Tundra, and Ocean preference all crowded in on a Continental world. Habitability is gonna be in the toilet.

Splicer posted:

I'm wondering if your guaranteed planets will be the opposite of usual, like you will get one per your random guys rather than the usual same as your homeworld. Then you can use unemployment to force a mass exodus of the low hans to their new high hab planets.