Stellaris fans have been enjoying the newly released story expansion, First Contact. Although the DLC introduced good content, it also brought some annoying bugs and issues. The developer is aware of that and has released a hotfix recently to address these issues. Some balancing changes are made as well.
Stealing from The Solarpunk Empire now stops them from staying in pre-FTL. The empire also won’t receive a new fleet every single month anymore. A TODO Opinion Modifier String has been removed, and The Accepted Plea for Protection opinion modifier now grants +150 opinion. Displacement purging for non-Xenophobe empires can be re-enabled, and upgrading the MSI flagship won’t get Admirals killed anymore.
- Every single atomic pre-FTL will no longer nuke themselves if they are not being observed.
- Fixed Contingency worlds not being properly cracked by devolving beam.
- The Solarpunk Empire will no longer stay pre-FTL if you decide to steal from them.
- Admirals should no longer be able to gain both versions of the trickster trait.
- The Solarpunk empire will no longer gain a new fleet every single month.
- Fixing custom diplomatic action sounds playing for unrelated empires.
- Missing localizations are added in English. Proper translations are expected with the following patch.
- Fallen empire buildings should no longer disappear when you conquer their planets.
- The Ministry of Culture should no longer disappear after you finish building it.
- The Artist Enclave should no longer offer to sell you a Ministry of Culture if you already bought one.
- Non-Xenophobe empires can once again enable displacement purging.
- The Accepted Plea for Protection opinion modifier is now granted to the subject towards the overlord instead of to the overlord towards the subject.
- Randomly generated machine empires now have a chance to use the toxoid machine options if you own the corresponding DLC
- Removed a TODO Opinion Modifier String.
- Fixed Broken Shackles offering Payback information about the MSI even if they got already destroyed
- Fixed a bug when cloaked ship cannot progress special project inside closed borders
- Admiral doesn't get killed anymore when you upgrade the MSI flagship
- Torpedo and Frigate technology now requires you to have researched Corvettes.
- The Separatist Planet will no longer nuke themselves if you lose your capital to space fauna.
- Broken Shackles empires with the Parliamentary System civic will instead have Unshackled Politics fire one month after game start instead of one year after game start.
- You can no longer select the Fear of the Dark version of the Sol system without the Fear of the Dark origin.
- Fixed Liberation wars not showing up for Payback empires.
- Fixed events related to the Out of Warranty event chain not firing.
- Fix being able to build an observation post over Haven using the fleet order button
- The Accepted Plea for Protection opinion modifier now grants +150 opinion.
- The Observation Insight Situation now remembers what approach you had when it last finished.
Read more about Stellaris 3.7.3 hotfix patch here.
