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Space 4X game Stellaris has its ninth birthday this week, and to celebrate developer Paradox has launched one of its most transformative updates in a long time alongside a fresh expansion, Biogenesis. It hasn't all been smooth sailing, however; while the strategy game's new DLC is being widely praised, the Stellaris 4.0 update brought a tidal wave of issues including lag, crashes, and other bugs into play. Speaking exclusively to PCGamesN, game director Stephen 'Eladrin' Muray says the team bit off more than it could chew and apologizes for disappointing players, but maintains that it was the right move for the patch to launch when it did.

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When it comes to the top grand strategy games on PC, Paradox Interactive is a name you can trust. The developer and publisher has brought us many of the most rich, involved, and expansive tactical experiences around for a long time coming. Next on its list is the recently announced Europa Universalis 5 - but before we get there, you can catch up on its best works, including a few that branch out into other genres such as city builders and 4X games, at a big discount along with savings on much of their corresponding DLC.

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Roguelike deck builder Across the Obelisk update adds "major changes"

• Localization updated for most languages. (Russian unfortunately did not arrive in time for this build.)
  
• Effective Councilor Skill and Effective Ruler Skill finally add to agenda progress speed
  
• Species modification cost is no longer divided by 100 twice
  
• Machine Nexus Designation no longer mentions Amenities,
  
• Tech-World Designation description is more specific.
  
• Behemoth death animation particles are now spawned correctly
  
• Fixed an edge case that would fail to remove the tier 3 behemoth after completing the Mind Meld special project
  
• The Fallen Shipyard Deposit will no longer be creating unworkable jobs for Gestalt Empires.
  
• The Nanite Research Complex now grants improved modifiers compared to the base version, giving a reason to build it.
  
• Biological Titans now count for your titan cap. I hope you had your fun with titan only fleets.
  
• Random ethics changing should now work properly and not complain about invalid pop group
  
• The shipyard should always display ship design names for military ships again.
  

• Refitting a DSC no longer costs unity
  

• fix common OOS by recalculating the profit instead of using the cached data (COUNTRY_RESOURCE)
  
• Fixed CTD when dlc is not readable for unknown reasons
  

• Fixed recommended DLC staying visible after exiting the empire selection view.
  

• local_pop_amount is now provided to on_pop_group_resettled on action with the amount of pops resettled