Stellaris Dev Diary #273 - A Peek into the Future

[Kabian]

"Livng reactive armor" instead of "living"
....
literally unplayable!

 

[Eswahrt]

Can we expect some changes to combat balance in new beta update?

 

[Lorenerd11]

Work in Progress UI Art for new Resolutions, Traits, and Ship Components.

Work in Progress UI Art for the Holy Covenant Federation​

These look really cool! Kinda a shame we're not getting the Holy Covenant emblem yet.

The Whisperers in the Void stability penalty has been reduced, but now imposes a small reduction in Unity production.

Have you considered the suggestion in the previous dev diary to change Eater of Worlds penalty to a stability penalty while not at war? Ship upkeep penalty actively makes it harder to build up a fleet, forcing players to reduce their fleet instead, which is the opposite of what empires serving the Eater of Worlds should do.

Also, I forgot to ask in the last thread, but an ongoing endgame crisis does count as being at war, right?

 

[Dark Meta]

Larger Unbidden ships and structures now have an Arc Defense Field to vaporize attacking strike craft and missiles.

So are missles, torpedos and strikecraft 100% useless against those ships and structures, or is it just a special form of point defense?

 

[LucasG21]

Forgive me if this is actually extremely difficult for you to deal with, but will the Totalitarian faction issues with assimilation be fixed in the upcoming update?

It's making it somewhat problematic to make use of ascensions as an Authoritarian in a way that doesn't really make sense.

 

[Eladrin]

So are missles, torpedos and strikecraft 100% useless against those ships and structures, or is it just a special form of point defense?

It's a special form of point defense with some quirks.

 

[Dark Meta]

It's a special form of point defense with some quirks.

uuuuh, could this be some kind of area of effect damage type? Like the minefield worked back in the day on defense structures?

 

[Lorenerd11]

And speaking of UI, would you consider expanding the Federation icon to include federation cohesion, as well as add an Agreements icon that shows your subject type (or overlord status) and displays your loyalty (or the loyalty of your subjects)?



It would be a real help with managing federations and subjects.

 

[currylambchop]

Have you considered the suggestion in the previous dev diary to change Eater of Worlds penalty to a stability penalty while not at war? Ship upkeep penalty actively makes it harder to build up a fleet, forcing players to reduce their fleet instead, which is the opposite of what empires serving the Eater of Worlds should do.

Would agree but then the whisperer stability penalty should be removed (edit: maybe replaced with a slightly larger unity penalty) so that it doesn't step on the eater's toes

 

[BorbiBoy]

I know, the question is off topic, but could you imagine putting something like eu4 institutions into stellaris? Could have a lot of narrative potential and would make science less of a snowball cannon.

 

[Draelian]

Is Voidling a trait for biological ascension, for void-dweller ascension, or will it be unique to the void-dweller origin?

 

[Lorenerd11]

Is Voidling a trait for biological ascension, for void-dweller ascension, or will it be unique to the void-dweller origin?

Biological ascension, specifically Transgenesis technologies. If you finish biological ascension you gain access to it by slaying the Voidspawn.

 

[aadf97799c]

how does the new nanite component work
there are so little nanite resource available for player

 

[MrGuyPerson]

Modular Cybernetics no longer gives hive-minds +10% pop assembly, instead their Spawning Pools now gain Augmentation Drone jobs, which turn alloys into Cyborg Pop Assembly.

Is the amount of pop assembly increased from the base spawning pool?

 

[Dr. B]

It would be good for balance if you had a chance to look at trading favors to the AI for obscene rewards early game.
Personally I'd vote for just removing this option, it is too exploitable.

 

[MrGuyPerson]

how does the new nanite component work
there are so little nanite resource available for player

They are a reward for defeating the scavenger bot.

 

[PyroBlade_Knight]

What does voidling do?

 

[CWJameson]

Can we get armageddon's bombardment stance for Fanatic Xenophobes and with Eater of World's Covenant?

 

[-Marauder-]

I have a great number to reduce the stability penalty to, 0. That's a good number! Especially with the random events still being a thing. And I have to agree about the Eater of Worlds thing. The bonus it gives is negligible. The penalties severe, and with the random events on top, ouch.

Any chance you guys could give us an Army Manager, similar to the fleet manager? Currently army management is atrocious. Being able to shift queue 10 at a time and have them produce at random planets and auto merge would be a god send.


Also any chance for an absolutely minor change that would make my life way better? Please, please expand the "fleet" section in the fleet manager. It's tiny, lots of scrolling. And the most important aspect of it.