Paradox Development Studio has released a Stellaris update #288 today. The February 23, 2023 update focuses on giving players a perfect gameplay. You know how the story goes: space invaders attack, and the people of the world unite, casting aside their differences to stand together against a shared threat. Together, they defeat the more advanced enemy, who foolishly underestimated the plucky underdogs.
But what happens after the story ends? The former invaders are still out there, and they won’t be fooled again. An awkward reunion is unavoidable. Here are the full patch notes for the Stellaris update #288.
Stellaris February 23, 2023 update patch notes
Payback
- Payback is the “sibling” of Broken Shackles, two origins united by a common threat:
- Minamar Specialized Industries, a megacorp that provides pre-FTL enlightenment – for a price.
- While Broken Shackles focuses more on reconnecting with your past, Payback empires only see one thing in their future: revenge.
- The means of achieving that revenge are up to you.
- Annihilate your enemy?
- Turn your slavers into your slaves?
- Or battle them on the floor of the Galactic senate, outlawing their very business model?
- Even Pacifist empires will have the means to obtain their vendetta without betraying their ideals.
- Don’t be too hasty in your quest for revenge, though.
- Rest.
- Take your time to rebuild.
- The war against MSI left you with a devastated planet…
- And the remnant of a battleship to be repurposed for your own needs.
- Remember to make new allies (Broken Shackles empires might be particularly inclined to help you).
- Don’t wait too long because Minamar Specialized Industries surely won’t let you alone.
- The galaxy of Stellaris is already full of extra-dimensional invaders, space dragons, and all kinds of unimaginable horrors.
- With Payback and Broken Shackles, the dev team wanted to pit players against an enemy not so different from themselves.
- Minamar Specialized industry starts as a developed empire with extra colonies and resources but behaves like a normal empire with a well-defined personality.
- They will make their own alliances, join their Galactic Community, wage their wars… and might even fall before you can get your due.
Insights
- The player gains insight Technologies when studying pre-FTLs without making them aware.
- They are unique paths their society take which you have dismissed as dead ends.
- Once completed, this is all tracked through a situation that will make a future observation event grant you a new Insight.
- If the player haven’t completed the situation when they get an observation event instead they gain even faster progress to the next Insight
- The insight technologies grant you partial Envoys as well as a unique benefit. Therefore, the more you spy and study the pre-FTLs, the more you can do it!
Stellaris is available now on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Cloud Gaming, PC, and Xbox Series X|S. More information on this patch is available on the Steam page.