Hello Console Edition Community!
We’re back with another exciting update on content coming in the Toxoids Species Pack for Stellaris: Console Edition! Today we’ll be talking about the three new Civics and the new Ascension Perk coming alongside the Toxoids Species Pack, but first, we should take some time to address the elephant in the room: issues with crashing on Console Edition.
Console Edition Stability
For a bit of context on this issue, we’ve heard loud and clear the reports of Console Edition crashes since the release of Overlord. We thought we had addressed the most egregious of the crashes with the last Console Edition hotfix, and the reports we have received about crashing issues since the last hotfix we have been unable to reproduce internally.
That is, until recently. We recently received news from Behaviour Rotterdam (the new developer working on Console Edition), that having a lot of older saves will cause Console Edition to crash in the current release version of the game, and we have anecdotal evidence that clearing the game's data will resolve crashing issues for at least a certain number of players (shoutout to some of the people on the Stellaris Official Discord for helping test this!). For those of you who have experienced crashing issues, we recommend clearing your Xbox or PlayStation game data, to see if this resolves your issues with crashing.
Please note that this will clear your empire data and save games.
Instructions to clear Game Data on Xbox
Instructions to clear Game Data on PlayStation 4/PlayStation 5
We also have word from Behaviour Rotterdam that there are several other crashing issues that have been addressed in the upcoming release, including an issue where zooming out too quickly on the galaxy map could cause the game to run out of video memory on some systems.
Let us know in the replies if clearing your Game Data works for you, and if you still experience crashing issues after the update on November 21st, please report your issues on the Console Edition Bug Report forums!
Detox Ascension Perk
What would the Toxoids Species Pack be without the ability to live on some of those delightful Toxic worlds currently floating around the galaxy? In the Toxoids Species Pack, you will find a new type of Terraforming Candidate, the Toxic Terraforming Candidate.
These are worlds that are currently too toxic for your species to live on, but contain the right conditions to be terraformed into just the right kind of toxic environment for your species. Only a certain number of Toxic Terraforming Candidates will be available in each galaxy, and the terraforming process itself will have lasting effects on the planets that you terraform.
Note to Self: Playing as a Machine Intelligence for the purposes of getting Terraforming screenshots was a mistake.
Choosing the Detox Ascension Perk requires the Climate Restoration technology.
Scavengers Civic
(Available to Corporate and Regular Authorities)
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Expanding on the new Debris Policy introduced in the Toxoids Patch, the Scavengers civic allows your empire to both research enemy ship debris, as well as harvest destroyed enemy ships for resources.
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Mutagenic Spas Civic
(Available to Gestalt Consciousness, Corporate and Regular Authorities)
Your species engages in ritualistic mutagenic bathing with a special Mutagenic Spas building. Processional attendants oversee the use of highly dangerous substances, boosting your population’s growth rate, but reducing overall planetary happiness and habitability.
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These effects will be increased based on how many industrial districts you have built on the planet.
Relentless Industrialists
(Available to Corporate and Regular Authorities)
Your species believes in squeezing the maximum amount of profit from every ounce of matter available for exploitation. This Civic grants access to the Coordinated Fulfillment Center building, which provides extra Alloys and Consumer Goods in exchange for reduced pop growth.
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Extreme exploitation of planets is not without its drawbacks, however. Planets that are exploited by Coordinated Fulfillment Centers over a long period of time will start to environmentally degrade.
The Environmental Deterioration situation has three approaches:
That’s it for this week folks, next week we’ll be talking more about Toxoids and what you can expect on November 21st! See you then!
We’re back with another exciting update on content coming in the Toxoids Species Pack for Stellaris: Console Edition! Today we’ll be talking about the three new Civics and the new Ascension Perk coming alongside the Toxoids Species Pack, but first, we should take some time to address the elephant in the room: issues with crashing on Console Edition.
Console Edition Stability
For a bit of context on this issue, we’ve heard loud and clear the reports of Console Edition crashes since the release of Overlord. We thought we had addressed the most egregious of the crashes with the last Console Edition hotfix, and the reports we have received about crashing issues since the last hotfix we have been unable to reproduce internally.
That is, until recently. We recently received news from Behaviour Rotterdam (the new developer working on Console Edition), that having a lot of older saves will cause Console Edition to crash in the current release version of the game, and we have anecdotal evidence that clearing the game's data will resolve crashing issues for at least a certain number of players (shoutout to some of the people on the Stellaris Official Discord for helping test this!). For those of you who have experienced crashing issues, we recommend clearing your Xbox or PlayStation game data, to see if this resolves your issues with crashing.
Please note that this will clear your empire data and save games.
Instructions to clear Game Data on Xbox
Instructions to clear Game Data on PlayStation 4/PlayStation 5
We also have word from Behaviour Rotterdam that there are several other crashing issues that have been addressed in the upcoming release, including an issue where zooming out too quickly on the galaxy map could cause the game to run out of video memory on some systems.
Let us know in the replies if clearing your Game Data works for you, and if you still experience crashing issues after the update on November 21st, please report your issues on the Console Edition Bug Report forums!
Detox Ascension Perk
What would the Toxoids Species Pack be without the ability to live on some of those delightful Toxic worlds currently floating around the galaxy? In the Toxoids Species Pack, you will find a new type of Terraforming Candidate, the Toxic Terraforming Candidate.
These are worlds that are currently too toxic for your species to live on, but contain the right conditions to be terraformed into just the right kind of toxic environment for your species. Only a certain number of Toxic Terraforming Candidates will be available in each galaxy, and the terraforming process itself will have lasting effects on the planets that you terraform.
Note to Self: Playing as a Machine Intelligence for the purposes of getting Terraforming screenshots was a mistake.
Scavengers Civic
(Available to Corporate and Regular Authorities)
Expanding on the new Debris Policy introduced in the Toxoids Patch, the Scavengers civic allows your empire to both research enemy ship debris, as well as harvest destroyed enemy ships for resources.
Mutagenic Spas Civic
(Available to Gestalt Consciousness, Corporate and Regular Authorities)
Your species engages in ritualistic mutagenic bathing with a special Mutagenic Spas building. Processional attendants oversee the use of highly dangerous substances, boosting your population’s growth rate, but reducing overall planetary happiness and habitability.
These effects will be increased based on how many industrial districts you have built on the planet.
Relentless Industrialists
(Available to Corporate and Regular Authorities)
Your species believes in squeezing the maximum amount of profit from every ounce of matter available for exploitation. This Civic grants access to the Coordinated Fulfillment Center building, which provides extra Alloys and Consumer Goods in exchange for reduced pop growth.
Extreme exploitation of planets is not without its drawbacks, however. Planets that are exploited by Coordinated Fulfillment Centers over a long period of time will start to environmentally degrade.
The Environmental Deterioration situation has three approaches:
- Take No Action
- -10 Stability
- End of Situation: Planet will turns into a Tomb World
- Launch Cleanup Efforts
- Coordinated Fulfillment Center gains significant Unity upkeep
- +100% Pop Upkeep
- +100% Building Upkeep
- End of Situation: Planet will not become a Tomb World
- Embrace Change
- Reduced Pop Growth Penalty from Coordinated Fulfillment Center
- +10 all Sciences Upkeep
- End of Situation: Gain the ability to Terraform Tomb Worlds
That’s it for this week folks, next week we’ll be talking more about Toxoids and what you can expect on November 21st! See you then!
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