Stellaris News

• Individualistic Non-Gestalt Machine Empires
  
• Gestalt Machine Intelligence Empires (also unlocked by the Synthetic Dawn Story Pack)
  
• Three new Origins
  
  • Cybernetic Creed
    
  • Synthetic Fertility
    
  • Arc Welders
    
• Civics
  
  • Guided Sapience
    
  • Natural Design
    
  • Obsessional Directive
    
  • Protocol Droids
    
  • Tactical Cogitators
    
  • Augmentation Bazaars (Requires Megacorp)
    
• Two Mid-Game Structures
  
  • Arc Furnace
    
  • Dyson Swarms
    
• New Ascension Paths for Machine Empires
  
• Cybernetic and Synthetic Ascension (also unlocked by Utopia)
  
• Exploration of the effects of the cyberization or synthesization of society, with Advanced Government Forms for those who complete it.
  
• New Species Traits for Cyborgs, Machines and Robots
  
• Cybernetic portraits that change based on advancement through cyberization
  
• Synthetic portraits with both organic and synthetic variants that changed based on synthesization, usable by either organics or machines
  
• Two new Shipsets, Diplomatic Rooms, and City Sets
  
• 7 new music tracks synthetic and cybernetic inspired music tracks
  
• A new Player Crisis Path
  
• …And a new End-Game Crisis.

Stellaris The Machine Age is a brand new expansion for the incredible 4X space game, as Paradox Interactive announces the next DLC will tackle an age of technological glory beset by ethical and social dilemmas. It comes with a new endgame crisis, individualistic machines, new situations, and three new origins to choose from as well.

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Stellaris Pyxis update reworks leaders for a smoother experience

• The Opener for Domination now gives +5% Worker Output and +5% Slave Output instead of +10% Slave Output so Egalitarians and Xenophiles aren’t sad.
  
• Versatility Operational Proxies now gives +1 Unity production to Maintenance Drones so that Rogue Servitors aren't left out.
  
• Decreased the cost to study (-25%) and pacify (-40%) space fauna.
  

• Ensure dead leaders are properly removed from their location so that new leaders can replace them.
  
• Fixed Federation Emissaries and GalCom Delegates not assigning correctly and not being replaceable when dead.
  
• Acquiring the Colonization Drones from the Chemical Wasteland Astral Rift will no longer lead to discovering Noxious Swamps (or other natural blockers) on Habitats (or other planets that shouldn't support these blockers)
  
• Corrected Adaptability Enhanced Recycling tooltip listing a 10% reduction instead of the 15% reduction.
  
• Corrected the finisher effect for Domination giving -15% Empire Size from Pops in some cases
  
• The finisher for Diplomacy now correctly says it gives +10% Diplomatic Weight instead of +10 Diplomatic Weight
  
• Fixed an issue where the "On the Origins of Nanites" special project didn't spawn.
  
• The Chosen will now declare a war of Cleansing on whoever breaches their wormhole
  
• Fixed habitat capital buildings given the wrong number of defensive armies
  
• Mining districts on machine worlds should no longer claim to give scrap miner drone jobs
  
• Fixed anomaly.7200 having repeated flags in their switch.
  
• Cartographer II and Cartographer III are now correctly recognised as councilor traits
  
• Fixed modifiers to mining and research station upkeep incorrectly attempting to reduce the upkeep of the planet they were orbiting
  
• Science ship auto explore feature with astral rifts sometimes skipped unexplored ones
  
• Fixed the icon for the Great Researcher trait
  
• Fixed Holy Covenants not giving High Priest jobs in some cases
  
• The Shallash system will now spawn properly again.
  
• You will no longer be able to engage in pre-FTL diplomacy with pre-FTLs not within your borders
  
• Homicidal empires will now properly annex pre-FTLs that are foolish enough to become space faring.
  
• Bio-trophies are no longer affected by Noxious Twice.
  
• Fix lack of evasion on sapient torpedo comp.
  

• Fixes the background selector for rulers being set incorrectly in the leader category of the background selectors
  

• Fixed AI leaving federations only if the federation has 2 members or the AI empire's type is unplayable.
  
• Fixed AI never asking to leave Hegemony federations.
  

• Fixed potential CTD in quantum catapult rendering
  
• Fixed crash upon startup that could be caused by write-protected user directory.
  
• Fixed CTD that sometimes happens when finishing species modification.
  
• Fixed CTD when using console command dump_event_data and the output file is not writable
  
• Fixed CTD in leader names after loading a savegame
  
• Fixed CTD that may occur when updating diplomacy for countries without diplomacy
  

• Added FEDERATION_DISBAND_THRESHOLD and FEDERATION_DISBAND_PLAYER_THRESHOLD defines, which define the AI's threshold for leaving a federation if it would be disbanded.
  

• The Opener for Domination now gives +5% Worker Output and +5% Slave Output instead of +10% Slave Output so Egalitarians and Xenophiles aren’t sad.
  
• Versatility Operational Proxies now gives +1 Unity production to Maintenance Drones so that Rogue Servitors aren't left out.
  
• Decreased the cost to study (-25%) and pacify (-40%) space fauna.
  

• Fixed Federation Emissaries and GalCom Delegates not assigning correctly.
  
• Acquiring the Colonization Drones from the Chemical Wasteland Astral Rift will no longer lead to discovering Noxious Swamps (or other natural blockers) on Habitats (or other planets that shouldn't support these blockers)
  
• Corrected Adaptability Enhanced Recycling tooltip listing a 10% reduction instead of the 15% reduction.
  
• Corrected the finisher effect for Domination giving -15% Empire Size from Pops in some cases
  
• The finisher for Diplomacy now correctly says it gives +10% Diplomatic Weight instead of +10 Diplomatic Weight
  
• Fixed an issue where the "On the Origins of Nanites" special project didn't spawn.
  
• The Chosen will now declare a war of Cleansing on whoever breaches their wormhole
  
• Fixed habitat capital buildings given the wrong number of defensive armies
  
• Mining districts on machine worlds should no longer claim to give scrap miner drone jobs
  
• Fixed anomaly.7200 having repeated flags in their switch.
  
• Cartographer II and Cartographer III are now correctly recognised as councilor traits
  
• Fixed modifiers to mining and research station upkeep incorrectly attempting to reduce the upkeep of the planet they were orbiting
  
• Science ship auto explore feature with astral rifts sometimes skipped unexplored ones
  
• Fixed the icon for the Great Researcher trait
  
• Fixed Holy Covenants not giving High Priest jobs in some cases
  
• The Shallash system will now spawn properly again.
  
• You will no longer be able to engage in pre-FTL diplomacy with pre-FTLs not within your borders
  
• Homicidal empires will now properly annex pre-FTLs that are foolish enough to become space faring.
  
• Bio-trophies are no longer affected by Noxious Twice.
  
• Fix lack of evasion on sapient torpedo comp.
  
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• Fixes the background selector for rulers being set incorrectly in the leader category of the background selectors
  

• Fixed crash upon startup that could be caused by write-protected user directory.
  
• Fixed CTD that sometimes happens when finishing species modification.
  
• Fixed CTD when using console command dump_event_data and the output file is not writable
  
• Fixed CTD in leader names after loading a savegame
  
• Fixed CTD that may occur when updating diplomacy for countries without diplomacy
  

1. Will I lose access to my existing content purchases?
   No. All existing purchases will remain, and you will not have to sign up to the subscription service to maintain your access to your previously purchased content.
   
2. Will future content be subscription-only?
   No! Our main model will remain focused around expansions and other content, as we have done so far. We have introduced a subscription service to lower the barrier to entry for new players.
   
3. Who asked for this?
   We are experimenting with this additional option to provide players access to the full Stellaris experience. We are simply offering another choice, as we understand that many players would be interested in trying Stellaris with all the content without having to commit to purchasing all the existing content.
   
4. Why did you not just create content bundles?
   We already have bundles available that we have designed with the help of our community. We are happy with the currently available offerings, but may look into this again in the future.
   
5. If I play multiplayer with the subscription, does everyone else in my lobby still get to use my content for that game?
   Yes! Subscription ownership of the content comes with all the features that a regular purchase does. You can share the content from the subscription in multiplayer with your friends that only have the base-game.
   
6. Are there any plans to expand the subscription service to other stores/platforms?
   No current plans at this time, but something on our radar long-term.
   
7. Does the subscription model signal the end of development on Stellaris?
   We currently have several years of Stellaris development planned.
   
8. Will individual content still be available for sale?
   Yes! Stellaris content will continue to be available to purchased individually, as it always has been.
   
9. Why isn’t there a discounted price for the subscription for players who already own some/all of the content?
   The Stellaris subscription is geared towards allowing new players more avenues into the full Stellaris experience. As such, we attempted to keep the initial public offering as simple as possible. We may look at expanding our offerings in the future, however.
   
10. Why can't I buy Stellaris content while my subscription is active?
    When you have an ongoing subscription, you are technically considered to have the content in your library. As such, stores will stop you from purchasing a DLC for the same account twice (since the DLC is already in your library). Once the subscription expires, you can again go back to purchasing content normally.
    

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