by Eladrin
Hello everyone!
We've updated the Open Beta to 3.99.1, with the following changes:
Stellaris 3.99.1 ‘Phoenix’ Open Beta update
Fixes and Improvements
- Fallen Empires are blocked from using the Existential Expulsion casus belli
- Negative effects added to the Magnetic Disruption planet modifier
- Assembling robots will no longer cause the slow and inevitable decline of your growing pops
- Changed auto pick leader traits setting to default to off
- Made Species Rights button different for pre-sapients
Pops and Workforce
- Fixed traders not being created from trade zones
- Adjusted amenities and housing from luxury housing
- Pops now have appropriate Diplomatic Weight
- Civilians now grant the benefits associated with culture workers
Planetary View
- Tabs in the Planet view now have correct hotkeys
- Urban Zones now show their titles
- Moved the build district level button from District Details view into the Planet Summary screen
- The Build Queue tooltip no longer says "Previous"
- Displaying the District type names in the Planet Summary screen
- Moved job production changes to buildings for better tooltips
- The Colony View tabs now have ordered ZXCVB keyboard shortcuts
Empire Focus
- Rescaled focus reward requirements to be easier to reach the final tier
- Fixed the DLC requirements for focus tasks "Observe a Pre-FTL" and "Build a Mega Shipyard"
- Fixed the requirements tooltip for the Beastmasters focus task "Have 10 Space Amoeba Mothers"
- Fixed the completion check in the Conquest focus task "Have 3 Subjects"
- Drawing leader level focus tasks now require the previous task to be completed
Cultists
- The chance to encounter the Cultist event chain now depends on your ethics
- The Cultist event chain now fires after a year instead of after a month
- Cultists are now neutral until you choose to attack them
- You can now forgive the Cultists and have them join you
Modding
- The trigger num_pops is replaced by pop_amount since there are now 100 times more pops
How Do I Opt Into the Beta?
- Turn off your mods. They will almost certainly cause you to crash.
- Go to your Steam library, right click on Stellaris -> Properties -> Betas -> select "stellaris_test - 3.99.1 Open Beta" branch in the Beta Participation dropdown.
The 3.99.0 Open Beta branch will also remain available.
For more information on the Open Beta, as well as the intentions and goals of releasing such an early, unpolished version, please see this dev diary. So far we're extremely happy with the response and your participation has already found several major issues, some of which we're addressing during this release. We expect to update the Open Beta again early-to-mid next week.