by Eladrin
Today's update adds the Betharian Zone, a Mandarin voice advisor, and new stargazer color variants, with broad fixes throughout.
Stellaris 3.99.5 ‘Phoenix’ Open Beta update
Beta Features- Added the Betharian Zone.
- “Venerable Scientist" (Mandarin Language) Voice Advisor
- Added new color variants for stargazer portrait
- Unbroke all colonies.
- Fixed issues with Catalytic Processing civics.
- Fixed the zone planet modifiers not being applied if districts have multiples of the same zone type.
- Fixed the Chosen's habitats.
- Pirates are a little less gung-ho to form.
- Planetary deficits now cost trade instead of providing it.
- Increased the base rate of Auto-Migration.
- Pops will now automatically migrate to planets with 20% habitability or higher instead of 40% or higher.
- When the maximum number of auto-modded pops changes, the current number is now updated correctly.
- City Districts now change their name and descriptions based on their zone specializations.
- Compressed unity and added job swaps.
- City set graphics scale adjusted.
- Updated Empire Progression Rewards to always display which technology is unlocked.
- Allowed rural zones on ringworlds.
- Removed bonus production on tier 1 buildings, removed tier 1 buildings planet limit.
- Pop count, Housing, and Amenities on the planet view now use short notation (such as 13.4k rather than 13405).
- Replaced Upgrade buttons for districts with icons.
- Background graphics added for all districts.
- Added progress bars to the zones that are being built or replaced.
- District/Zone/Building Construction tooltips added.
- Changed how selected District is being highlighted.
- Highlight the selected zone slot when building new zones.
- Display old zone name, icon and building slots if the zone is being replaced.
- Display the icon and name of the zone being constructed.
- Rural district zones can now also be built by clicking anywhere within the empty zone slot.
- Further Timeline UI adjustments, fixing background masking.
- Added designation description in the colonization UI.
- Adjusted district numbers in the colonization UI to show the max amount of possible districts.
- Added functionality to deselect a selected colony designation.
- Rearranged and tweaked colony modifier displaying in the colonization UI.
- Added new databank icons.
- Added starting notification for selecting Empire Focus.
- Added planetary deficits to the Planetary view
