Stellaris

The rate of the Forever Cruise situation speed has been reduced across all difficulties.

Reduced the amount the situation increases based on game difficulty.

Fixed multiple crashes related to Waystation UI, including a specific fix for 800p and lower resolutions.

Fixed a crash occurring when changing the animated main menu background from the in-game settings.

Fixed a crash that could occur during AI contract evaluation.

Void Reavers no longer require First Contact, removing a prerequisite for their appearance/interaction.

Added a significant amenity bonus per colony per ruler level.

The base amount of Empire Size generated by pops has been halved.

Frigates now move at Destroyer speed instead of Cruiser speed.

Added +1 Utility and Aux slot to Frigates.

Perdition Beams now deal damage to enemy ships within a certain range of the target.

Reduced the empire size reduction provided by the Machine Intelligence Ruler.

Slower progression for Cosmogenesis crisis currency gains.

The base amount of Empire Size generated by colonies has been increased to 20.

Ion Cannons now deal less collateral damage at a shorter range compared to Titan Perdition Beams.

Fallen Empires now directly oppose experiments, leading to Total War at stage 5.

Introduced Refugee Attraction modifier based on ethics, civics, and origins to determine how likely pops are to flee to an empire.

Refactored refugee calculations; pops are now more likely to flee to empires where their species is dominant and pick planets more intelligently.

Increased volcanic world habitability by 25% for machine climate preference traits to ensure consistency with minimum habitability values.

Voidworm Troikas are no longer created without upgrades when three large voidworms combine.

Fixed incorrect Alloy upkeep calculations for Voidling, purging, and non-sapient pops.

Volcanic Districts now correctly improve technology weights as intended.

Corrected starting buildings for Materialist and Spiritualist empires using the Payback origin.

Voidworm Troika designs can now be saved correctly.

The UI now correctly shows the 25% minimum habitability on Volcanic worlds for Mechanical and Machine pops.

Replaced Food output for some specimens with a smaller Alloy output bonus, shifting resource gain from organics to minerals.

Replaced minor additional food upkeep for unity boosting buildings with extra Alloy upkeep.

Entropy Conduit ships are now significantly more durable.

Entropy Conduit ships received an armor boost.

Entropy Conduit ships received a shield boost.

Thermal Engineer now provides a bonus to research station output instead of cost reduction.

Reduced the alloy upkeep for Spawning Drones, making them cheaper to maintain.

The Entropy Harnessing edict now costs more energy from technicians.

Reduced the amount of entropy generated by technicians under the edict.

Initial reduction of alloy output for Infernal Livestock.

Further reduction of alloy output for Infernal Livestock to balance economy.

Reduced the consumer goods upkeep reduction provided by the Pyromanic Priest.

Fixed a bug where Infernal Livestock were incorrectly classified as Specialists.

Removed alloy requirement for upgrading Ember Ships, easing fleet maintenance.

The UI now clearly displays current and required systems for the Critical Mass perk.

Thermophiles are now compatible with the Ocean Paradise Origin, expanding viable build options.

Thermophiles can now select the Aquatic trait, improving their versatility.

Thermophiles can now select the Agrarian trait.

Fixed a crash caused by failures when reading from the shader cache.

Fixed an object lifetime issue in the resolution failure scope that led to undefined behavior.

Fixed a crash-to-desktop that occurred when a science ship completed the research of a special project.

Fixed a crash that occurred when strike craft were damaged by a fleet that no longer existed or was dead.

Updated localization memory allocation to prevent random crashes on certain hardware configurations.

The Data-Driven Theorem Facility now increases physicist output.

Physicists in the Data-Driven Theorem Facility now have zero upkeep.

The Opus core world for the Hard Reset origin is now size 25.

Added missing Production Overseer jobs to multiple rural districts for Tankbound empires.

The chosen trait bonus for planet governors has been drastically reduced from 750% to 30%.

The chosen trait bonus for sector governors has been drastically reduced from 500% to 15%.

Improved the process of Neural Chip conversion for cybernetic pops.

Fixed a bug where the cyberization situation incorrectly claimed an augmentation center was missing.

Restored the missing upkeep modifier for Tankbound on habitat rural districts.

Prethoryn now correctly turn worlds into Infested worlds after finishing pop purging.

The Contingency can now purge pops again and properly gain control of them upon completion.

Cybernetic and Cyber Commando traits now allow species to inhabit machine worlds regardless of empire type.

Hard Reset origin and Tankbound civic are now mutually exclusive.

AI will now correctly build and upgrade Orbital Rings and stop attempting to build impossible Hatcheries/Beastports.