Part of any mission to hunt out new life and new civilisations is to boldy go the place somebody snuffed it lengthy earlier than then rummage of their pockets and bones. Stellaris has expanded that facet of 4X house adventures with Ancient Relics, a brand new ‘Story Pack’ add-on launched yesterday. It whacks in new lifeless civilisations for us to find and new methods to analyze them, with archaeological digs resulting in highly effective artifacts and unusual relics. What might go unsuitable? This paid DLC is, as ever, accompanied by a free patch overhauling elements of the game, fixing bugs, and tweaking steadiness.
Ancient Relics, categorised as a Story Pack fairly than a full-on enlargement, focuses extra on including color and curiosity to your empire’s adventures than enormous game-changing penalties. That’s my favorite a part of Stellaris, the eXploration in its 4X, so I’m glad to see Paradox persevering with to make the galaxy extra lived-in.
The new replace, codenamed Wolfe, most notably dropped assist for 32-bit programs. Players nonetheless on creaky previous PCs can revert to the final patch and preserve enjoying that endlessly however future Stellaris updates will solely be for 64-bit programs.
The second most essential a part of the patch is that this description of a bug repair: “AI will now properly bombard and invade primitive planets rather than suffering last minute pangs of conscience about using orbital lasers on people armed with bronze daggers.”
See the Stellaris v2.3.0 patch notes for extra particulars on each the enlargement and the replace.
Stellaris: Ancient Relics is out now on Steam for £7.19/€9.99/$9.99. The base game is on sale proper now too, with a 75% low cost bringing it right down to £8.74/€9.99/$9.99 till Friday the seventh. All however the newest DLC packs are half-price too.
