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Stellaris Dev Diary #90: Official Sound Track

Greetings!

Welcome to a new filler dev diary for Stellaris, normal service will resume next week according to the game’s illustrious leader, @Wiz.

This week we wanted to talk to you about music for Stellaris and what our intentions are with it. Since the game came out, we’ve continuously added new music through the paid content that has been released, but to date, have not made this music available outside of the game itself. Going forward, our plan is to ensure that all music for Stellaris is available through other channels as well, as it is excellent and we’re aware that our fans enjoy listening to it even when they aren’t playing the game (not sure when that is, but apparently so).

The first part of this endeavour will be to make the music available through Steam. Rather than add multiple new music packs each time we create new music, we will be rolling all existing and new music into the Stellaris Official Sound Track (OST). In conjunction with this, the price of the OST on Steam, will increase from $4.99 to $6.99 (USD or regional equivalent), with the information displayed on the store page changed to reflect that the OST is all music ever created for Stellaris (this price change will apply to all countries). This is going to be a living OST, it will contain music from the base game, Leviathans, Utopia, Synthetic Dawn and all future paid content as well, for one fixed price.

The price change and update to add the additional music will occur on Thursday 2nd November 2017. That is two weeks from today.

Those of you interested in buying the OST, now is a great time to do it, before we change the price. Everyone who currently owns the OST, and those that own it by the 2nd November, will naturally get all the music at no extra charge.

The next step after this will be release all the music onto streaming services, such as Spotify. Currently you can find the base game music on Spotify, but we are in the process of updating our label with Spotify which should be done in the next couple of months. Once that is done, the rest of Stellaris’ music will be uploaded there as well, and we’ll announce it through the community channels when it is done.

To recap, here is the important information:

Stellaris OST on Steam
  • Price change from $4.99 to $6.99 on Thursday 2nd November (USD or regional equivalent).
  • OST will contain all music for Stellaris, existing and new, updated with each new release.
Stellaris OST on Spotify
  • All new music will be uploaded to Spotify by the end of the year (if all goes to plan).
Stellaris OST for Nova/Galaxy owners
  • You will also get all the songs we add in the future
  • Please note that you will still be able to buy the Stellaris OST in Steam as that has a different item ID than the game bundle, hence Steam doesn't know you already own the OST!
To finish this off, here is a screenshot from @Wiz of something… not sure what.

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This is looking great and I'm looking forward to seeing what's coming up.

Please please please give us the ability to somewhat abstract our ship orders. Right now I have a 50ish planet empire, and I can only effectively build off of about 20-25% of those planets. The Unbound are pouring through and the bigger fight is with the UI as I'm trying to order ships from the 40 odd starports trapped in sectors.
 
yeah, though it should be easier to actually claim land, just make the claim area smaller. and cheaper.

Yeah, claiming individual systems shouldn't be a hassle, but ballooning your borders out right now is such a massive land-grab it's nuts. It's like gold rush California or something, with a huge emphasis on staking out vast swathes of territory with planets and frontier outposts until the land's all taken and everyone grumbles at each other about it.

I feel like the current system would work a lot better if we had galaxies that were, say, 3 times as wide, but with the same number of habitable planets. Unfortunately, that's not the case, and can't be even with mods.
 
Quick follow up, this does appear to be how the Galaxy/Nova editions were created in Steam, we're looking into the solution. But the fact remains that if you own the Stellaris OST, whether from a direct purchase of it or through the Galaxy/Nova editions, you will receive all music for Stellaris that we have released and will release.
Thank you. Please keep us updated if you resolve it with Steam. :)
 
@Dnote Will the music files have the same quality as the ones you get from the game folder or at a higher sound quality? Don't feel like buying this if I could just get the same exact thing sans the DLC I don't own music from the game folders.
 
Guys, found a bug. If you look closely, that one Battleships in queue needs 0 days to finish up after the first battleship.

GG Paradox

EDIT: Irony glasses deactivated
 
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I think, and hope, that this "Sol citadel" is a new construction, leaving the space port as a mostly civilian/week-defense installation and this shipyard as the military/civilian ship producer. That would be like what Wiz said in a stream, I don't remember what of them exactly, but he said he didn't like how spaceports worked, and that he want a way to focus ship production in specific systems whit shipyard producing multiple ships at the time. Soooo, this and the other hints point out that next patch would be the so expected "war redesign" :D

Reminds me of shipyards in other science fiction. Like the Kuat Drive Yards in Star Wars.
 
@Dnote It has been asked in this forum about a month ago, with no answer: since the OST contains more music than the original game, will it be possible to add those tracks to the game easily, or we still have to double check duplications and add them to the game manually?

(I bought Infinite Frontiers, then upgraded to Galaxy, and got the book twice, so the same would happen with the music.)

A bit unreleated, but a problem in all Paradox games: can you make it save the settings to the music player? Each time I start the game, it is set back to defaults. (For some reason, the video settings does the same.)

EDIT: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-music.1045276/ There it is.

EDIT2: There is also the Digital Artbook, which misses everything since the base game release, also there are a few things out of date.
 
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I hope that these changes are not in the vein of ignorable expansion content like machine empires and that they're a small part of bigger changes to the (essentially non-functional) warfare and diplomacy systems.
 
I've updated the first post (like a ninja!) but I'll repeat myself here:
  • If you own the Nova or Galaxy edition you will be provided with all the music we add in the future free of charge
  • You will still be able to buy the Stellaris OST from Steam as that item has a different ID than the bundle for Nova and Galaxy, hence Steam doesn't know you already own it
Just wondering, will the Galaxy/Nova editions be getting a price increase like the individual OST?
 
What are you talking about? They are constructed in parallel and each takes 474 days.
Methinks he was trying to be funny.
 
Thank you. Please keep us updated if you resolve it with Steam. :)

We're looking to combine the two OSTs into one, as they contain the same thing. But either way, if you have the OST on Steam, you will get all the music.

@Dnote Will the music files have the same quality as the ones you get from the game folder or at a higher sound quality? Don't feel like buying this if I could just get the same exact thing sans the DLC I don't own music from the game folders.

I don't know, I'll poke our resident Audio genius tomorrow.

@Dnote It has been asked in this forum about a month ago, with no answer: since the OST contains more music than the original game, will it be possible to add those tracks to the game easily, or we still have to double check duplications and add them to the game manually?

(I bought Infinite Frontiers, then upgraded to Galaxy, and got the book twice, so the same would happen with the music.)

A bit unreleated, but a problem in all Paradox games: can you make it save the settings to the music player? Each time I start the game, it is set back to defaults. (For some reason, the video settings does the same.)

EDIT: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-music.1045276/ There it is.

EDIT2: There is also the Digital Artbook, which misses everything since the base game release, also there are a few things out of date.

Nothing is changing with how you add music to the game, by default this music is bundled in with the paid content that we release, so we add to the game via those, if you are doing it manually, it's like adding any other music track.

I'll ask the team about saving settings tomorrow.

Just wondering, will the Galaxy/Nova editions be getting a price increase like the individual OST?

No price change on Nova or Galaxy editions.
 
@Dnote

how much time does Wiz take picking out pictures to send us? does he just like quickly put one together, does he carefully try to figure out what should be seen in what order, does he have a folder set up that you all can grab from before posting these things?

these questions are serious.

I does is have to know.
 
This week we wanted to talk to you about music for Stellaris and what our intentions are with it. Since the game came out, we’ve continuously added new music through the paid content that has been released, but to date, have not made this music available outside of the game itself. Going forward, our plan is to ensure that all music for Stellaris is available through other channels as well, as it is excellent and we’re aware that our fans enjoy listening to it even when they aren’t playing the game (not sure when that is, but apparently so).

The first part of this endeavour will be to make the music available through Steam. Rather than add multiple new music packs each time we create new music, we will be rolling all existing and new music into the Stellaris Official Sound Track (OST). In conjunction with this, the price of the OST on Steam, will increase from $4.99 to $6.99 (USD or regional equivalent), with the information displayed on the store page changed to reflect that the OST is all music ever created for Stellaris (this price change will apply to all countries). This is going to be a living OST, it will contain music from the base game, Leviathans, Utopia, Synthetic Dawn and all future paid content as well, for one fixed price.

Wow, thank you! I've been patiently waiting months to hear some news on this and you guys have come through in what seems to be the most fair and generous way possible short of just giving it all away for free.

If you're curious as to why I want this: I want to use some of the tracks as "mood music" for my regular tabletop RPG group, when we play a sci-fi game :) (I'm especially keen for the Utopia tracks; I like the synth stuff too, but I'd really like to hear some more orchestral work in future updates!)
 
Citadel is good, but I would like to place lots of small defense platforms above planets without need to purchase a fortress. Just lots of platforms. Above my planets. Without anything that'll cost me an extra credit.

Trying to be thrifty, you know.