written by Alfray_Stryke

Good Afternoon, I’m taking over Dev Diary duties this week as Eladrin is away!

We’ve been continuing to work on the 3.6 ‘Orion’ patch, and hope to have another update for the Open Beta out next week. The feedback we’ve received has been immensely useful and I cannot thank those that have been providing it enough!

Here is a preview of some of the new UI art our artists have been working on for the new features and additions coming in 3.6 ‘Orion’ and a small selection of some of the changes we’re planning to get into the Open Beta for the next update following the feedback both on the forums and our discord.

Work in Progress UI Art for new Resolutions, Traits, and Ship Components.

Work in Progress UI Art for the Holy Covenant Federation

“Preview for planned changes to the Stellaris 3.6.0 ‘Orion’ open beta”
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Modular Cybernetics no longer gives hive-minds +10% pop assembly, instead their Spawning Pools now gain Augmentation Drone jobs, which turn alloys into Cyborg Pop Assembly.
The Integrated Preservation tradition for Machine Intelligences now affects Evaluators (and Chronicle Drones) not Coordinators.
The Whisperers in the Void stability penalty has been reduced, but now imposes a small reduction in Unity production.
Larger Unbidden ships and structures now have an Arc Defense Field to vaporize attacking strike craft and missiles.
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Please note that the 3.6 “Orion” 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” branch.