Paradox Development Studio has released a new patch for the famous space strategy Stellaris. Patch 4.3.6 “Cetus”expands the base game content bringing new structures to the game, story and species packs. Moreover, the update brings some bug fixes and improves performance. As Stellaris marks its 10th anniversary, the development team has reiterated their thanks for the community’s continued support.
Stellaris – Patch 4.3.6 Overview
Features
- Utopia: Megastructures, Habitats, Ascension Perks, Indoctrination, Advanced Slavery, Hive Mind empires, Fanatic Purifiers, and more
- Synthetic Dawn: Machine Intelligence empires, Machine Rebellions, Machine Fallen Empire, 7 machine portraits, and more
- Humanoids: 10 humanoid portraits, Master Artificers, Pleasure Seekers, Pompous Purists civics, Clone Army origin, humanoid ship set, and more
- Behemothkin Portrait: Added to Reptilians for players logged into a Paradox Account
- Portrait Substitution System: Arachnophobia mode replaces spider-like portraits with alternative artwork (client-side). Arachnophilia mode replaces non-spiders with spider-like portraits
Bugfix
- Leaders can no longer become too old to die
- Corrected Vipra the Vapor’s greeting audio
Performance
- Players with high-end systems can override the default 90 FPS render cap by adding refreshCap=144 (or other values) to settings.txt. The refresh rate floors at 30 and caps at the monitor’s refresh rate. Increasing the value may negatively affect simulation performance.
Stability
- Fixed CS_SPECIES_COUNT and CS_SPECIES_INDEX out-of-sync issues when playing with nascent species
- Fixed CS_COUNTRY_RESOURCES out-of-sync issue
Modding Changes
- Simplified “very old age” handling. Death probability now applies to characters above 120% of species lifespan (changed from 100% to 1.2). Mods using the previous value require updating.
- Portrait Substitutions spinner loads all files from game\gfx\portraits\portraits\substitutions folder. See provided Arachnophobia/Arachnophilia options for creating custom substitutions.
For more details check out official Patch Notes.
