3.11.2 "Eridanus" Patch Released

by PDX-Loke

Hello,

Our latest patch is now live and ready for download, fixing most but not yet all of the issues reported from the 'Eridanus' release last week.

Please find the patch notes below.

STELLARIS 3.11.2 PATCH NOTES

Balance

• 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.

Bugfixes

• 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.

UI

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

AI

• 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.

Stability

• 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

Modding

• 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.