Hello everyone!
We’re proud to announce that the newest version of Stellaris: Console Edition finished alpha testing around the end of August! The Tantalus devs will now work until the end of September to address these bugs, as well as fix some outstanding issues from previous versions. Then we will do another round of bug testing - which will probably last several weeks - with a few weeks set aside at the end to address any issues that come up from the second round of bug testing. If all goes well, we should see a releasable version submitted within the next couple of months!
Since the last development update, the team has done an investigation into the biggest causes of late-game lag, and prioritized some issues that will hopefully mitigate this for at least some players. They’ve also invested some time into investigating lingering bug reports and crashing issues from previous versions, and have addressed a number of these issues. This is on top of the on-going process of updating and polishing the UI and tooltips, as well as investigating bringing over new features like tooltip concepts (more on concepts later) and text-to-speech.
Since we’re on the subject of text-to-speech (TTS), due to limitations in the programming libraries used on consoles, it appears very likely that TTS will only be available for players in english. People sometimes ask why we usually do not talk about things that are in-development before they are finished. It is because oftentimes there are unforeseen circumstances that come up in development (such as a TTS library being English-only).
Let's move on to the obligatory UI issues screenshot:
As you can see, Tantalus have mostly completed the UI work for the next version at this point, in fact we’re down to the point where we can show you the total number of tasks left to finish:
42.. There’s nothing special about that number. I don’t know where my towel is.
Moving onto more screenshots, the Tantalus devs have completed, or submitted for review a number of UI screens, including the Empire Council, diplomatic actions, observation post UI, new empire creation, and the assign traits view.
Console Edition 3.9 - Empire Council Screen WIP
Tantalus has nearly completed the upscaling of more than 137 images introduced in version 3.9. Some of these images still need additional touch ups which will be done during the run up to beta testing.
Toast notifications - under review
Updated diplomacy screen
As we mentioned in the last update, the devs have been adding shortcuts to various screens to allow you to level up your leaders from more places than just the leader screen. Here you can see the level up shortcut (the + in the circle next to the leader) on the technology screen.
Technology Screen - WIP
Leader level up screen - WIP
We are currently on-pace to go to beta testing around the end of September, at which point we will be back with another Console Edition update.
Thanks for reading!
We’re proud to announce that the newest version of Stellaris: Console Edition finished alpha testing around the end of August! The Tantalus devs will now work until the end of September to address these bugs, as well as fix some outstanding issues from previous versions. Then we will do another round of bug testing - which will probably last several weeks - with a few weeks set aside at the end to address any issues that come up from the second round of bug testing. If all goes well, we should see a releasable version submitted within the next couple of months!
Since the last development update, the team has done an investigation into the biggest causes of late-game lag, and prioritized some issues that will hopefully mitigate this for at least some players. They’ve also invested some time into investigating lingering bug reports and crashing issues from previous versions, and have addressed a number of these issues. This is on top of the on-going process of updating and polishing the UI and tooltips, as well as investigating bringing over new features like tooltip concepts (more on concepts later) and text-to-speech.
Since we’re on the subject of text-to-speech (TTS), due to limitations in the programming libraries used on consoles, it appears very likely that TTS will only be available for players in english. People sometimes ask why we usually do not talk about things that are in-development before they are finished. It is because oftentimes there are unforeseen circumstances that come up in development (such as a TTS library being English-only).
Let's move on to the obligatory UI issues screenshot:
Outstanding UI Issues:
As you can see, Tantalus have mostly completed the UI work for the next version at this point, in fact we’re down to the point where we can show you the total number of tasks left to finish:
42.. There’s nothing special about that number. I don’t know where my towel is.
Moving onto more screenshots, the Tantalus devs have completed, or submitted for review a number of UI screens, including the Empire Council, diplomatic actions, observation post UI, new empire creation, and the assign traits view.
Console Edition 3.9 - Empire Council Screen WIP
Tantalus has nearly completed the upscaling of more than 137 images introduced in version 3.9. Some of these images still need additional touch ups which will be done during the run up to beta testing.
Toast notifications - under review
Updated diplomacy screen
As we mentioned in the last update, the devs have been adding shortcuts to various screens to allow you to level up your leaders from more places than just the leader screen. Here you can see the level up shortcut (the + in the circle next to the leader) on the technology screen.
Technology Screen - WIP
Leader level up screen - WIP
We are currently on-pace to go to beta testing around the end of September, at which point we will be back with another Console Edition update.
Thanks for reading!
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