Greetings everyone,
We have another patch ready for you, bringing a number of bug fixes, balance adjustments, performance optimizations, and stability improvements.
Our work continues for all of the above and more.
Please find the patch notes below:
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Stellaris 4.0.4 Patch
Balance
The default Eternal Vigilance policy will now only spawn defensive platforms in orbit of upgraded starbases
Amenities Updates:
Logistics drones now produce additional amenities if Instinctive Synchronization is taken
Luxury Housing, Drone Storage, and Hive Warrens grant 1500 housing and 2500 amenities.
Paradise Domes, Upgraded Drone Storage, and Expanded Warrens grant 3000 housing and 5000 amenities.
Communal Housing grants 2000 housing and 3000 amenities.
Utopian Communal Housing grants 4000 housing and 6000 amenities.
100 Entertainers now give 1250 Amenities instead of 1000.
The Entertainment Forum is again an upgrade to the Holo-Theaters, and grants 400 Entertainer jobs.
Reverted many of the leader changes:
Leaders once again gain traits at every level.
The number of trait picks per level has been set back to 2 by default.
Low level traits that were merged and buffed remain so.
It automates:
Automation buildings upkeep now only scales their upkeep with districts they automate: 8/10 for rural districts, 10/12 for city districts - buildings no longer factor into its upkeep.
Automation tooltip now mentions the scaling upkeep
Automation buildings are now associated with Assembly Patterns and Construction Templates technologies
It automates...even for hives.
Gestalt Machine Empires can now turn off Migration Controls.
Maintenance Drones now auto-migrate like the Denizens that they are.
Bugfix
Fixed space fauna cost values
Fixed various checks for Offspring Drones that were broken
Fixed the Permanent Employment civic
Fixed the planetary supercomputer not having the same modifiers as the research institute
Fixed the Logistics Hub going missing from the game
Fixed a broken modifier on the Hive Confluence building
Fixed telepaths not gaining correct modifiers
The Clone Army starting event no longer fires twice
Commercial specialisations now accept all urban buildings
Fixed BioGenesis not unlocking the crisis tab if you do not own either The Machine Age or Nemesis
Neglected bio-trophies should now show on the planet UI and have a happiness penalty
Fixed planetary deposit researcher interactions with gestalt empires
Maintenance drones now count as better than slaves for assorted checks
Starting the game as a Nascent Stage Life Seeded empire will no longer leave you with only presapients and immediately game over.
The opinion penalty for purging pops have been reduced by 100
The amount of Menace gained from purging pops has been reduced by a factor of 100
Fixed the Splinter Hive Holding being 100 times more effective than it should have been
The Coral Portrait now has access to rooted instead of the platypus.
AI Megacorps will no longer be dirty cheaters that ignore the branch office building limit
Debris is no longer incorrectly displayed as coming from our own empire.
Scripted species can now inherit their parent species rights instead of getting default rights
The Logistics Ceiling setting has been reset to default for everyone since it changed in 4.0
You may no longer use Fallen empire technology to mine for minerals in the mantle of ringworlds
UI
The Build District icon is now more clearly labelled.
Made some adjustments to the Planet UI to hopefully make it clearer when you can build District Specializations.
The Build Queue will now automatically start opened in the Surface or Management tabs of the Planet View if there is something in the Queue.
Clearing a blocker will open the Build Queue if it is closed.
Fixed the diplomatic window showing the city elements based on the ship set instead of the selected city set.
Fixed some modifiers from jobs being unlocalized in tooltips.
Fixed being able to disable event messages if their default settings haven't changed.
The pop totals in the job strata tooltip are now consistent with the strata UI.
Fixed missing information in tooltips for why you can't upgrade buildings.
Stability
Added more safeguards around ship graphical culture to avoid a crash
Fix CTD happening when hovering over some leader traits in the selection UI
Fix CTD related to districts getting deleted while a specialization was in the build queue
Fixed crash on startup when generating modifiers (Thanks for helping us find this, More Events Mod!)
Fixed issue with script killing pops assigned to a job may CTD
Fixed CTD in colonization view due to invalid deposit entry
Fixes CTD in planets and sector view due to species
Performance
Multiple AI performance optimizations
Reduced memory footprint in growth calculations
Threaded and cached procreate calculation on pop groups to improve performance
Reduce calculations done for planet economy
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We hope that your experience is improving with each of these iterations, there are more to come.
Talk to you again soon.