by Eladrin Hi everyone! Weve entered our second week of the Stellaris 3.99 Phoenix Open Beta, and if all goes according to plan are planning another update tomorrow morning with some major changes to the starting situation of your planets. (Goodbye, primitive factory debuffs. I'd say we'll miss you, but... we won't.)

What Have We Learned So Far?

While we recognize that the early state of the Open Beta makes it difficult to provide balancing feedback, its proven itself invaluable already. The Open Beta has found several issues with growth and decline - from robots causing the inevitable decline of your empire to Fallen Empires and Pre-FTL societies being doomed due to not using standard growth models. Youve found economic death spirals and identified needs that will help our designers produce a better balanced and fun experience in the final release. These were precisely some of the types of things I was looking for when we decided to push the Open Beta despite the early state that it was in, and Im thankful that we did. Thank you for all of your help so far, and I hope youll continue to give us your feedback as we continue to update. We will continue the twice-weekly update cadence until the end of the month, with dev livestreams every Thursday.

Mandarin Venerable Scientist Advisor Voice

Back when we released The Grand Archive, we created a version of the trailer in Mandarin, and it was really, really good. [previewyoutube=GU1fQ2ITrik;full][/previewyoutube] After such a positive reception from the Chinese Stellaris community, we decided to call the same voice actor back in to record a full Advisor set. The recordings are now complete, in time to be included as part of the Stellaris 4.0 update. It should show up in one of the next few Open Beta updates. [previewyoutube=Pk8Sd7plxCM;full][/previewyoutube]

Whats Next?

Well have two dev diaries next week that will be a bit meatier than this one, to flesh out some of the other things coming in the next Quarter. See you then!

[ 2025-03-20 12:00:44 CET ] [ Original post ]