First Contact and Galactic Paragons now available for Stellaris: Console Edition!

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Galactic Paragons and the First Contact Story Pack are now available for Stellaris: Console Edition!

With the First Contact Story Pack the galaxy is full of alien empires you’re going to encounter, whether you’re ready or not. First Contact offers a set of new origins and mechanics that allow players to tell stories about their civilizations’ early encounters with visitors from the stars — ones that may not have come in peace!

First Contact Features:

• New Origins
  • Payback - Your civilization was invaded by – and repelled – an advanced invader from the stars. With access to their technology, your empire is now ready to enter the galactic stage and find out just what else is out there.
  • Broken Shackles - Band together as the survivors of a crashed slaver ship and build a diverse empire with multiple species from across the galaxy. Embark on a quest to find your various homeworlds, as long as you escape the prying eyes of your former captors.
  • Fear of the Dark - A portion of your population has embraced isolationism and xenophobia, ever since a planet in your solar system suffered an “incident”. Will you ignore their concerns and explore the stars, making “friends” along the way? Or will you appease their isolationism in order to grow your civilization even more powerful?
• New Pre-FTL interactions
• Enhanced mechanics for observation and diplomacy
• New Espionage Operations for infiltrating and uplifting pre-FTL targets
• New stories and events
• Unique Pre-FTL civilization: Renewable Society
• Added Pre-FTL Hiveminds (requires Utopia + First Contact)
• Pre-FTL civilizations can have a small chance to spawn with one of the following origins:
  • Shattered Ring (Requires Federations)
  • Mechanists (Requires Utopia)
  • Life-Seeded (Requires Apocalypse)
  • Ocean Paradise (Requires Aquatics Species Pack)
  • Subterranean (Requires Overlord)
• 12 new Insight Technologies added - A new category of techs gained from observed Pre-FTLs
• New Civics allowing early jump drive based exploration at the cost of starting without Hyperdrives:
  • Eager Explorers
  • Private Exploration
  • Stargazers
  • Exploration Protocol
• Added Cloaking and Cloaking Detection
  • Up to 10 levels of Cloaking/Cloaking Detection, with smaller hulls being easier to cloak than larger hulls
  • Military Ships cannot be detected by normal sensors, may ignore closed borders as long as they remain undetected, and can decloak to ambush hostile ships
  • Science Ships may cloak to explore beyond closed borders, gather intel from other empires’ planets, and boost cloaking detection of a starbase

Find out more about the First Contact Story Pack:
Stellaris: Console Edition Development Diary #70 - We have made contact

With Galactic Paragons, you will experience a new level of character and story as great leaders rise to positions of power and follow your lead to the stars. With exclusive additions to the all-new Council mechanic, leaders you can shape to amplify the vision for your empire, new civics, and much more, Galactic Paragons will shape the future in ways the galaxy has never seen before.

Galactic Paragons Features:

• New Council Mechanics
  • Assign leaders to vital positions and set agendas to steer your empire as you see fit. In Galactic Paragons, find dozens of unique council roles based on your civics and government types, and unlock additional positions as your empire evolves!
• New Dynamic Leaders
  • Recruit, improve, and follow the leaders of your empire through the ages! You may shape them by picking their traits, selecting their veteran class, and guide them towards their destiny, up until they retire - or perish!
• Meet Galactic Heroes
  • Attract paragons of renown to your council: unique leaders with their own art, events, and stories may join your empire and bring their own benefits to your government. Or, discover four Legendary Paragons with intricate event chains and unique mechanics!
• Two New Tradition Trees
  • Statecraft
  • Aptitude
• New Civics
  • Vaults of Knowledge/Knowledge Mentorship/Neural Vaults/Experience Cache
  • Crusader Spirit
  • Pharma State
  • Letters of Marque
  • Heroic Past
  • Oppressive Autocracy
• A new “Under One Rule” Origin that tells the tale of the leader who founded your empire
• 12 new Veteran Classes
• Hundreds of new Leader Traits
• New ships, art, and story content

Find out more about Galactic Paragons:
Stellaris: Console Edition Development Diary #71 - Making leaders matter
Stellaris: Console Edition Development Diary #72 - Civics and Origins in Galactic Paragons

Free 3.9 “Caelum” Update

The 3.9 “Caelum” update is one of our largest updates for Stellaris: Console Edition yet. Compiling four patches into one update, the team at Tantalus has gone above and beyond to deliver enhanced gameplay features, new mechanics, bug fixes, and performance and stability improvements for Stellaris: Console Edition.

3.9 “Caelum” on Console Edition Major Features:

• Fleet Combat Rebalance, including a new ship size (the frigate)
• Ascension Paths rework, changing ascension paths into Tradition Trees (requires Utopia)
• New Galaxy shapes
• Text-to-Speech added to events
• Rework of Pre-FTL civilizations and interactions
• Empire Council and Council Agendas
• Ruler Creator during empire creation
• Sector Editor
• Rebalance of orbital bombardment, including the option to allow planets to surrender from orbital bombardment alone
• Enhanced Science ship automation
• Improved Planetary Automation
• Habitat rework (requires Utopia or Federations)
• Trade rebalance

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New Content for previously released DLCs:

• Humanoid Species Pack
  • Added the new Enmity tradition tree focused on making and maintaining rivalries
  • Added three new species traits available to all Biological and Lithoid Species
  • Positive: Existential Iteroparity
  • Negative: Psychological Infertility
  • Negative: Jinxed
  • Added two new portraits
• Lithoid Species Pack
  • Added a new Void Hive Civic for Hive Minds
  • Added the Selective Kinship Civic
  • Added a new humanoid inspired portrait
  • Added the Federated Theian Preservers prescripted empire
• Plantoids Species Pack
  • Fruitful Partnership Origin for Fungoid and Plantoid species
  • Added a new Invasive Species trait available for Fungoid and Plantoid species
  • Added a new Dryad inspired portrait
  • Added the Blooms of Gaea prescripted empire
  • Idyllic Bloom Civic has been buffed
  • Phase 4 gaia seeders will now grant 3-5 pops the Gaia World Preference and Bloomed trait every 5 years as well as increasing the effects of this trait (and the Budding trait) by +50%.
  • The Bloomed trait gives +10% resources from jobs, +10% pop growth speed, -10% amenities and -10% housing used when the pop is on a gaia world.
• Necroids Species Pack
  • Added a new Mechromancy Ascension Perk for Machine empires
  • Added the Cordyceptic Drones civic for hiveminds, allowing them to reanimate all organic space fauna
• Ancient Relics Story Pack
  • Archaeotechnologies added - A new branch of society research, with new technologies revolving around the study and use of minor artifacts to create unique ship components, starbase modules and planetary buildings
  • Added the new Archaeoengineers Ascension Perk
• Nemesis
  • Added the new Kaleidoscope Midgame Situation
• Federations
  • Added Conclave Federation Election type
• Utopia
  • Added Ascensionists Civic

Find out more about the free 3.9 “Caelum” update:
Stellaris: Console Edition Development Diary #73 - Free Patch Features

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These new DLC and the free 3.9 “Caelum” update all combine to bring what we believe to be the best version of Stellaris: Console Edition yet!

Get Galactic Paragons and First Contact today, or as part of Expansion Pass Six!

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Please note that save compatibility is not guaranteed between versions, and you will likely experience issues running old saves on the new version. If you experience issues, please first start a new save and see if the issues persist.

If the issues persist after starting a new save, you can report them here: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/stellaris-console-edition-bug-reports.1070/

Thanks for playing Stellaris: Console Edition!

Will we get some of the other updates PC had with this update has such as:

1. The AI no longer requesting to be subjugated by empires that are equivalent or weaker than them? This happened in a playthrough I had with a ton of Xenophile and Pacifist AI empires that made my game very boring. The stronger peaceful empires kept asking weaker or equal empires that were more aggressive to subjugate them.

2. Is trust now more important in subject/overlord relationships?

3. Are certain AI personalities (Federation Builders, Spiritual Seekers, Migrating Flocks, and Peaceful Traders) are now 25x more likely to select Diplomacy traditions.

4. Does having a hydroponic designation on a habitat change the jobs on housing districts to farmers?

5. Does the habitat rework have an impact on the AI to decrease habitat spam?

 

[Critical_Damage]

Well I haven't noticed any serious bugs yet, but some text windows won't output or parties/factions don't get a leader, well you still have some work to do. But all in all I am satisfied with the release, good work dear console development team.

Edit: I have to slowly revise my statement, if you take a look at the bug reports. To be honest, I think it's a bit stupid that after paying 30€ for the expansion pass (even though I already had the Toxoids) I'm now allowed to be your beta tester.

 

[MrFreake_PDX]

Well I haven't noticed any serious bugs yet, but some text windows won't output or parties/factions don't get a leader, well you still have some work to do. But all in all I am satisfied with the release, good work dear console development team.

Please report any issues you find on the Console Edition bug report forums!

 

[MrFreake_PDX]

Will we get some of the other updates PC had with this update has such as:

1. The AI no longer requesting to be subjugated by empires that are equivalent or weaker than them? This happened in a playthrough I had with a ton of Xenophile and Pacifist AI empires that made my game very boring. The stronger peaceful empires kept asking weaker or equal empires that were more aggressive to subjugate them.

2. Is trust now more important in subject/overlord relationships?

3. Are certain AI personalities (Federation Builders, Spiritual Seekers, Migrating Flocks, and Peaceful Traders) are now 25x more likely to select Diplomacy traditions.

4. Does having a hydroponic designation on a habitat change the jobs on housing districts to farmers?

5. Does the habitat rework have an impact on the AI to decrease habitat spam?

Most changes/bug fixes/improvements from the PC versions should have made it to console, but there are some that were not possible (eg. coop) due to technical limitations. If you find something that demonstratably does not work on Console but works on PC, that is very likely a bug and deserves a bug report.

You can submit bug reports here: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/stellaris-console-edition-bug-reports.1070/

 

[Deemonth]

Hi, till now i'm still not seeing the expansion pass six in the PlayStation store, do you have any idea why? Btw i'm playing from PS5 in region 3,

Thanks!


Update:
Hey just want to update, the expansion pass is already available in the store, works awesome so far still not encountering any bugs, thanks for the fix!

 

[Ziegzion_HK]

Me too...,can't found expansion pass six in PlayStation HK store
also any idea to add Chinese localization?

 

[steelpraetor]

Honestly the best xmas present i could have asked for, been absolutely dying for this as someone whose pc is too slow to run it properly. Sincerely, thank you, took your time but it was worth it in the end. Few questions.

Is there anychance of ever getting large galaxies on ps5, medium is just a tad too small imho. Its playable but ten empires just isnt enough when youve got tgis much customization.

Has anyone raised the idea of adding some form of space traffic as a visual addition to trade routes and if so what was the verdict. I think this would hugely affect the aesthetic in a positive way (you could do the same for piracy) and would be worth a dlc all to itself money wise.

How profitable is console vs pc

That being said, great work, brought it the moment i seen it and i swear i nearly cried iv been hankering for this update that much. Having played these dlc on pc for a bit going back to being without them on console was just unplayable. Thay should tell you how good these dlc are.

 

[EmperorCitrus]

Is there a way to edit the name of the councillors position?

 

[steelpraetor]

Hi guys, noticed a vug on console. A lot of the texts arent showing up right for traits and mosifiers. Its showing things like [solarpunk_anarchist] or things to that nature

 

[cloakmazter]

thanks for the update, many good features, but I've encountered game breaking bug on Xbox in the middle of the play(new game after update). When I reloaded save, I don't see any notifications. This is game breaking because I can't reply to empires diplomacy, even though I get sound notifications, etc.
I tried deleting cache, uninstalled game, but still same.