Stellaris News

Sci-fi grand strategy Stellaris will take a step back from the stars and concentrate on pre-FTL civilisations with its upcoming First Contact story pack DLC. Paradox announced the DLC today after details, screenshots and a trailer leaked ahead of the reveal through SteamDB. YouTuber Aspec also uploaded a video detailing the leak and revealing the DLC’s trailer, which has since been made private. You can watch the official trailer below.

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[h2]Warmest greetings from Minamar Specialized Industries! ​[/h2]

We delight in meeting new peoples and welcoming them into the greater galactic community. With over 143 successful uplifts to date, we’re the acknowledged leaders in the field of social and technological ascendancy. We’re thrilled to finally make your acquaintance, and hope to add your world to our success story.

We understand that this is all very sudden. Receiving a transmission ‘from the stars’ has likely come as a surprise to you, but we’ve been watching your world for some time and your civilization scores very highly on several relevant metrics. With an evaluation score of ?ERROR_UNDEFINED, the people of ?ERROR_HOMEWORLDNAMENOTFOUND have been flagged as particularly worthy of cooperative enlightenment. Congratulations!

We have assigned some of our best specialists to your case, and our representatives will be arriving on world shortly. We can’t wait to meet in person to discuss the benefits of ascendency as well as the terms of this beautiful arrangement.

Enlightenment may not be free. But at MSI, it’s always worth the cost.

[h2]Your friends at Minamar Specialized Industries[/h2]
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Hello Stellaris Community!

This is the moment you've all been waiting for! #MODJAM2022 is now available!

We had over 70 modders sign up, over 30 design documents submitted, and in the end, ended up with 13 unique modded mid-game crises for you to enjoy! Three weeks ago, we told our modders what they would be making, anything submitted for the Mod Jam had to be created for the Mod Jam, meaning they were not allowed to use previously released content in their submissions.

Now it's time to do your part! The modders spent the last three weeks making the crises, now your mission (should you choose to accept it), is to play the new Crises and vote for your favorite crisis! Thanks to our sponsors at Republic of Gamers, the winning contribution (by community vote) will get a TUF H3 Wireless Headset from our sponsors at ROG, while 2nd and 3rd place will each get a ROG Keris Wireless Gaming Mouse!

[h2]So how do you get the Mod Jam mod?[/h2]

1. Subscribe to all the mods in the #MODJAM2022 collection.
2. Download the MODJAM2022.json Playlist from the forums and import into your launcher. Or arrange the Mod Jam crises with the #MODJAM2022 mod last in the load order.
   
3. Launch Stellaris, and remember to vote for your favorite crisis!

After starting the game you will be presented with a list of options to turn on/off all the modded and canon mid-game crises, as well as the ability to control their spawning:

• Single - spawns a random single modded crisis from those allowed
  
• Consecutive - spawns a random modded crisis from those allowed. After that crisis is resolved, will spawn another modded crisis in 5 to 10 years
  
• All Crisis - spawns a random modded crisis every 15 years, regardless of whether there is a crisis ongoing
  

On behalf of everyone on Stellaris, as well as the Modders involved with #MODJAM2022, we thank you for taking the time, playing and voting in #MODJAM2022!

Hello Stellaris Community!

We’re back with another update on #MODJAM2022! Next week, our weekly dev diaries will start up again on Thursday. But for this week, we’ll be going over the rest of the teasers that haven’t been seen (yes, there’s more!), but first I’d like to add a word of warning:

The teasers seen previously may or may not make it into the final version of the Mod Jam mod. Such is the nature of these things that some people were unable to complete their projects in time for release day, some people have had to drop out due to taking unexpected time over the holidays with family, etc.

From where we stand, regarding releasing on January 10th, I did try to ensure that all the teasers in this update will actually be releasing -- that is not to say they all will -- just that the modders when I approached them, expressed some level of confidence that they would be able to make the deadline.

Also, if you are interested in helping test the Mod Jam submissions, you can join us on discord! Once you agree to the rules, you’ll see a #MODJAM2022 Public section, go to #modjam-role-selector, and get the Mod Jam Tester role, at which point you should be able to find a link to subscribe to the complete Mod Jam collection. This is obviously provided for testing and feedback purposes, and will still be rough around the edges.

Without further ado, onto this week’s teasers!

















That's it for this week! See you on January 10th, when you can play the modder-created crises, and vote for your favorite!