by Eladrin Hello everybody! The 3.12.1 "Andromeda" release with The Machine Age has gone well, but we have some more bugfixes and stability improvements that didn't quite make it into the release version. Since this is a holiday-shortened week in Sweden, we won't be releasing these to the live build until next Thursday. In the interim I've asked the team to put up a Steam Open Beta using the stellaris_test branch with the following changes:

3.12.2 "ANDROMEDA" OPEN BETA RELEASE NOTES

• Added additional checks to prevent fully virtual pops from being created on the lathe
• Fix for Hive Mind background unaligned
• Fixed Sectors released by Individualist Machines having the wrong ethics
• Fixed virtual pops sometimes being created while planets are being colonised
• Fixed weapon and strike craft range calculations in ship behavior.
• If an active relic gets removed the relic cooldown is now reset.
• The paradox titan will now appear correctly in the ship view
• Updated Resort Workers, Clerks and Cyberdome Spectators to have trade preference for auto-modding
• Uplifted species will now always have their required traits

• Civic tooltip CTD fix
• Fix CTD when resync has occured with a player in system view using certain graphical assets
• Fixed CTD after resync
• Fixed CTD in planetview timed modifier tooltip.

• Fixes building type AI weight calculations

• Added range_components to ship behaviors, which specifies which components to use for range calculations.

The 3.12.2 Open Beta is an optional beta patch. You have to manually opt in to access it. Go to your Steam library, right click on Stellaris -> Properties -> betas tab -> select "stellaris_test - 3.12.2 Open Beta" branch.