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by EladrinHello, Stellaris community! We've updated Steam and GoG with a hotfix to address a few important issues. MS will follow as soon as it is possible. 4.5.1 ‘Cygnus’ Hotfix Release Notes​Balance​A Synaptic Lathe built by nomads in another empire's system no longer changes ownership to the owner of the Starbase.Note: This is a quality of life balance change. In a future patch we are likely to give the owner of a system with a Synaptic Lathe some means to deal with it.Bugfix​Fleet automation now follows the actions and options you select, instead of choosing for itself.Removed the Harvesting Agreements Automation sub-menu setting, since the Trade Action has been removedDisabled the auto-disengagement from battle when a ship didn't take part in combat for 15 days (ships disappearing from battle).Note: This will return in a future release once we make it less overenthusiastic.Stability​Fixed a very common Out of Sync that would occur after the first day of Multiplayer Games where custom AI empires were spawning.We have taken the opportunity to bring in a number of other stability fixes that would otherwise have been in what’s now going to be 4.5.2: Fixed a rare cra

Hello Stellaris Community, We’re pleased to announce that the 4.5 “Cygnus” update is now available! Before we dive into what’s included in this update, we want to talk about who put it there. Of the 525 lines of changes in this patch, 46.7% of them (by our internal count, so we may be off by one or a few) come directly from something flagged by our player community through bug reports, forum threads, Reddit posts, and Discord discussions. Many of those arrived this summer during the Open Beta that opened the first week of July and went through nine updates before today's release, each one shaped by your playstyles and your feedback. Others have been sitting in threads and dev notes for longer than that, but nearly half of Cygnus started as somebody typing it out and hitting “post”. The result is the largest bugfix patch in Stellaris history: more than 350 bug fixes, plus stability improvements, desync fixes, AI improvements, player requests, and more - all clocking in at about 3.857 Pierres. (If you haven’t met Pierre, the notes for the first Custodian update were long enough that we photographed them next to Experienced Content Designer Pierre for scale, and the community pro

by EladrinThe Stellaris 4.5 ‘Cygnus’ Open Beta is drawing to a close, and we’re currently building a release candidate.We’ve temporarily pulled Exclusive Harvesting Rights from 4.5 - your feedback from the Open Beta made it clear that it needed more balancing time, but expect it to return in a future release.4.5.0 ‘Cygnus’ has the most bugfix entries of any Stellaris patch, with more bugfixes than our two previous bugfix record holders - 2.0.2 and 3.0.1 - combined. Keep reporting them and the Custodians will keep fixing them.Here are the complete preliminary release notes for the patch:Stellaris 4.5 ‘Cygnus’ Custodian Update Preliminary Release NotesFeature​Pop groups are no longer divided by Ethics or Factions, instead each pop group will have a given percentage that belongs to each faction or ethic as appropriate. This means that:THIS IS A BREAKING CHANGE AND WILL NOT PRESERVE SAVE GAME COMPATIBILITY.Ethics and factions are now shown on the pop group entries in the planetary management UI, with tooltips showing the attraction to ethics and factions. Verbose tooltips are enabled by holding Alt, to show a breakdown of all modifiers for these attractions.Pops shift ethics and factio

Bricks and Puzzle pieces have entered the galaxy! Together with YouTooz, we're thrilled to release our first-ever Brickset and Puzzle inspired by Stellaris. Give your shipyards a rest, and construct your next Science Ship one brick at a time with the Mammalian Science Ship brickset. Boasting 2,271 pieces, this brickset is the only Science Ship guaranteed not to be devoured during its first Cutholoid encounter. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/9703436/b4f4c5f4e457d2f1b70fa8de6c70042343c5c085.png The Bubbles’ Cantina 1000-piece puzzle features Community-favorite characters unwinding at the Space Bar after a long day of arguing over who shot first. Cantina music not included. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/9703436/1e3d5acd21ec053ef4c2babe49a8dd04b20f1839.png Beat the Holiday Crisis early this year! Get them here!