A new Stellaris update 3.9.3 is now available on PC. According to the official Stellaris 3.9.3 patch notes, the latest update brings with it a balance pass on subjugation and diplomatic acceptance in-general, as well as other balance changes, bug fixes, UI, AI and modding improvements.
Recently, a major Stellaris Cepheus update 3.6 added a fleet combat rebalance and ascension path rework plus a new ascension path (requires Utopia). Unfortunately, players are still experiencing several issues while playing the game. Today’s Stellaris patch 3.9.3 will address a few of these issues.
Read more details below.
Stellaris Patch 3.9.3 Notes – October 17, 2023
Balance
- AI Empires are more likely to seek a federation if their rivals have federated.
- Federations (except for Hegemonies) now default to not permitting subject members.
- Having less than 50 Trust with an empire imposes a -100 Acceptance to them becoming your subject or overlord.
- Hydroponics Designation on habitats now swaps all jobs on the housing districts for farmers.
- Increased the importance of being more powerful than your vassal for loyalty purposes.
- Insulting someone decreases their Trust of you by 5.
- Rebalanced requirements for diplomatic treaties to require trust.
- Reduced how excited subjects get about things like shared sensors.
- Reduced the effect differing war philosophies has on federation acceptance.
- Removed the ability to trade favors.
- Replaced all +10% Districts on Habitats from technologies and traditions with +1 District on Habitats
- Replaced the upgrade habitat decisions with checks for habitat capital level instead.
- The Intimidation menace perk now allows you to ignore diplomatic requirements for proposing subjugation.
- The Pharma State civic now provides +1 Medical Worker job to capital buildings.
- The Unity from Rivals from the Animosity Diplomatic Stance has been reduced to 10 per rival.
- Trade Designation on habitats now has the housing district swap a clerk for a trader.
Improvement
- Research, Energy and Mining District capacity on habitat complexes now have their own planetary features to clearly show the number of districts, current number of orbitals and maximum number of orbitals.
- The Crisis event chain will now use their bespoke event chain icon.
Bugfix
- Added is_scope_valid checks for anchorages.
- Fix to hiring events not being dismissed for other players in coop
- Fixed concept tooltips for starbase components.
- Fixed issue with nested tooltips and mouse tendency being incorrect when using UI scaling
- Fixed issue with some portraits being blurry on lower graphics settings due to mip levels being skipped. Disabled the functionality for portraits and related textures.
- Fixed the Node Culling gateway leading to an unlocalized string.
- Fixed Tiyanki occasionally not spawning correctly at the start of a Fruitful Partnership playthrough
- Massive Crater got its 25% pop growth back
- Restoring the Payback habitat when your homeworld is a moon now grants a minor orbital instead of a major orbital.
- Rewrote math for calculate tendency between mouse and nested tooltip window. This should fix issue with tooltips below and above mouse cursor behaving somewhat differently.
- Stopped interactions allowing multiple gaia-seeder buildings on a planet.
- The bonus provided by Eclipse from Enmity now correctly grants a 2% modifier instead of a 20% modifier.
- Updated the Eclipse tradition tooltip
- Updated the massive crater concept tooltip to accurately display the actual deposit.
AI
- Certain AI personalities (Federation Builders, Spiritual Seekers, Migrating Flocks, and Peaceful Traders) are now 25x more likely to select Diplomacy traditions.
- The AI will no longer request to be subjugated by empires that are equivalent or weaker than them.
- The AI will no longer request to become the subject or overlord of another empire unless they have 50 Trust with the other party.
UI
- The ship viewer’s zoom speed is now scaled to the ship’s size.
- Tooltips to select agendas now show the estimated time to launch the agenda, based off of your current agenda progress rate
- Trust between nations is now visible in the main diplomatic screen.
- When switching ships in the ship viewer, the zoom distance will now be preserved relative to the ship’s size.
Modding
- Added documentation for concepts.
- Added support for more object types in concept tooltips.
- Fixed gridbox left and top padding not working.
- Some objects’ auto-generated tooltips can now be shown as concept tooltips.
- Support building concept tooltips without valid scope.
- Calling non existing events should no longer crash the game.
Download free Stellaris update 3.9.3 on PC.
