Stellaris 3.0 ‘Dick’ patch notes – planets rework, intel and many, many bug fixes - bodenhamerwitheored

We're a week out from the relinquish of Stellaris' Star Wars expansion, Nemesis, and the development team up has just released the patch notes for both the DLC pack and the free update that will launch aboard IT – 3.0 'Dick'.

Information technology's Charles Frederick Worth version the patch notes in full, especially as it sets out intelligibly what you'll need to invite in the expansion, versus what you get for free. As has been the tradition with Paradox princely strategy games of late, there's actually rather a lot that's free.

With the upcoming 'Dick' piece, newspaper headline features include a brand parvenue system for first contact, as well equally the concept of building spy networks in foreign empires. You have to send diplomatic envoys straightaway to initiate first contact with other polities, and these envoys can work up EU4-elan spy networks. There's nothing other you can suffice with these networks otherwise gain intelligence on the fair game empire, but a insurance premium Nemesis feature article will involve the operations we've scripted just about before. These operations can graze from stealing technologies to arming insurgents, and bequeath compel you to 'occupy' your descry web to initiate.

The exempt patch will also come with other overhaul to planetary economies and populations. There feature been few changes to how edifice slots mould on with industrial districts, and there's plenty of changes to population growth as well, so much atomic number 3 new colonies no longer incurring an explicit pop growth penalty.

There are also some new result chains, some spick-and-span quality of life features, and plenty of balance tweaks and bug fixes. This is the biggest patch the team has released to date, and there's honestly too much to try and summarise in full, although some of the fixes will elicit a chuckle, such as: "Elate button right away works instead of just giving you the sad button noise."

We've covered the majority of Nemesis' premium features in the onetime, just just to recap: On top of the new espionage trading operations, the remainder gage has as wel been reworked so that you can get over the crises. You tooshie also go the galactic 'Custodian' and defend the galax, before creating a Assemblage Empire. Other features let in a spic-and-span transport peel prepare and some medicine tracks.

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Stellaris: Nemesis will release next week on PC via Steam and the Paradox Computer storage on April 15. There's still time to pre-parliamentary law, if you'atomic number 75 so inclined.