Stellaris Dev Diary #39 - Back in Action

[Wizzington]

Hello Stellaris fans! I hope you're all having a lovely summer. The holy month of July is now over, and Paradox developers are slowly trickling back into the office, tanned and rested. Having just returned to work today myself, I just thought I would write a short dev diary to tell you briefly what is coming.

With the 1.1 "Clarke" and 1.2 "Asimov" patches released, we are now going to start working on 1.3, dubbed "Heinlein". We previously mentioned Heinlein in dev diary 33, but we've since changed the scope for it somewhat. Ever since we released the game, we've received some fantastic feedback from our players, far more than we felt that we were able to address in 1.1 and 1.2. As such, Heinlein will be a patch focusing on addressing community feedback and implementing community suggestions.

Mind you, the change in focus doesn't mean none of the things mentioned in the previous dev diary will show up, as we know several of them to be highly desired features. It just means we are going to adjust our plans to get some of the things we know that you want to you sooner than was previously planned. There will also be a small patch this week on Thursday, August 4th along with the release of the Plantoids Species Pack.

Next week's dev diary will have more details about Heinlein. Until then, enjoy the August sun (or just sit inside and play Stellaris, I won't judge).

 

[Wizzington]

Well, that's ominous.

Just to be clear, this does not mean we don't have plans beyond Heinlein - we absolutely do. Besides more patches (1.4 will be called 'Banks'), we also have plans for lots of content to expand and build on the game. I just can't talk about it yet.

 

[cKnoor]

Welcome back!

Whens the next Stream?

We're back on Thursday, 15:00 CEST

 

[Wizzington]

At least the Skybox diary had some pretty screenshots...

I sincerely expected more for the dev diary that was supposed to be about future Stellaris development. A entire month wait for "Hi, we have some plan, ok thx bye cu next week!"...

There wasn't supposed to be a dev diary today because well, everyone here has just returned and there's a lot to do today.

I decided to do one anyway just to let you guys know that things are happening again.

 

[Wizzington]

is the optimization of the late game going to be addressed? I cant seem to get any sort of answer from any of the devs.... Listen i bloody love this game it brings me so much joy but the end just drags to a grinding halt and is no longer playable

We are continually looking into reported performance issues. If you have a particular save where performance is bad, please go to our tech support forum and make a post with that save, it will help us.