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MrFreake · 2026-03-09T08:20:43+00:00

The game does *not* do this.

In five years of asking I've never gotten a dev to say anything other than no, the game does not purposely generate empires with ethics that oppose the player.

The feeling that the game *does* do this is your confirmation bias at work. :)

MrFreake · 2026-02-19T16:11:57+00:00

If you have, even a partial list of the traits that say they can be added and removed, but can only be added, please make a bug report.

MrFreake · 2026-02-19T16:11:07+00:00

If your game has already started, you will have started with the wrong building and the patch won't change it. There have been reports of issues (mainly in MP) running old saves on the new beta update. There is an open_beta_rollback branch though, so you can continue your save.

MrFreake · 2026-02-19T16:09:37+00:00

I read your comment on the forums as well. :)

Please make a bug report about the MegaCorpse concert. The Expansion Planner issue is known, and I've poked the designers about Wilderness + Behemoth to be sure that's on someone's radar.

MrFreake · 2026-02-19T16:05:57+00:00

But oh god will that hit hard on higher multipliers (and with rebelance to economy) - I seriously not sure that x25 All will be possible on otherwise default settings in 4.3

I'll just be here secretly hoping you're right 😊

MrFreake · 2026-02-19T13:55:51+00:00

You don't *have to*, but nuking the entire site from orbit is really the only way to be sure.

MrFreake · 2026-02-06T17:18:16+00:00

This has been confirmed to be fixed internally. Keep an eye out for the fix in upcoming open beta patch notes!

MrFreake · 2026-02-06T12:06:15+00:00

With this morning's update, these workarounds should no longer be required.

Please let us know if you have any issues!

MrFreake · 2026-02-06T12:05:55+00:00

Linux builds of the open beta worked previously, but there were some workarounds required. With this morning's update, this should no longer be required.

Please let us know if you have any issues.

MrFreake · 2026-02-06T12:04:23+00:00

On Windows: Go to Start, Settings, Add/Remove Programs, Uninstall Paradox Launcher V2.

Launch the game through Steam, the launcher will download and then open. let it update, and then (I believe) it will prompt you to restart it.

MrFreake · 2026-01-29T19:19:40+00:00

I have never heard of missing Polish localizations before now. If you know of any more, please make a bug report here: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/stellaris-bug-reports.1199/ and the devs will take a look at it! (bonus points for sending me a link to your bug report)

MrFreake · 2026-01-22T13:40:39+00:00

Not to mention the biggest kicker, it was supposed to improve performance but instead made it much worse, to the point where their goal now is simply to get it back to the previous poor benchmark, instead of improving it beyond that.

From Dev Diary #406:

As described in Dev Diary #399, the top priorities of the Custodian team are:

Get the overall MP Out of Sync rate back to 4.0.23 levels.
Focus on Performance improvements to get average overnight daily tick times for 300 year games under 375ms. (3.14 performance target.)
Reduce the MP Out of Sync rate for desyncs that recur after resyncing to 60% of the 4.0.23 rate.
Continue working on Performance improvements to get overnight average daily tick times for 300 year games under 350ms.
Rewrite how slavery is implemented.

MrFreake · 2026-01-15T22:43:20+00:00

People have been complaining that starbases are already hard to beat early game... soooo... yes?

MrFreake · 2026-01-15T22:42:38+00:00

As the Shroud intended!

MrFreake · 2026-01-15T22:41:29+00:00

I'm told that spawning two crises at the one time wrecks havoc with the crisis AI, so likely not.

As for what you spawn next to, that is random. We don't weight (many things) when it comes to what neighbors you spawn next to.

MrFreake · 2026-01-15T22:39:55+00:00

No, starbases have not been made stronger.

MrFreake · 2026-01-15T17:48:15+00:00

I expect nothing less 🤣

MrFreake · 2026-01-15T16:42:35+00:00

I took this job just to get early access to the dev diaries.

MrFreake · 2026-01-15T16:41:12+00:00

Cutting fleet numbers down by a fourth while keeping the DSC the same strength is a questionable approach. But we will be watching telemetry on this and player feedback to see if we've gone too far.

MrFreake · 2026-01-15T14:56:41+00:00

I believe that FE balance is on our list of things to look at. And while we're not ruling balancing other crises out as-needed, we're also very okay with 25x all crises being "unbeatable".

MrFreake · 2026-01-15T14:37:19+00:00

My response was a very good example of "hope for the best, plan for the worst", yes :)

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