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# Features

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* Rock-themed puns increased by approximately 17000%



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# Balance

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* The Pop Growth Reduction for Bio-Trophies now actually reduces their growth rate. Driven Assimilators now apply their organic growth penalty as a multiplier the same way as Rogue Servitors do, and is now also 50%

* Defensive Platforms placed on Outposts now provide 2 points of Piracy Suppression for their system. The Great Game tradition from the Supremacy tree now also reduces the cost to build Defensive Platforms by 33%



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# UI

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* Shift+clicking on ship count in the Fleet Manager now adds ships up to the nearest unit of ten, using ctrl fills up to the template max size (for realzies this time)

* The Shared Burdens civic will no longer appear by itself in the civics list when you select Gestalt Consciousness ethics but have not yet selected Machine Intelligence or Hive Minded authority

* Added a notification when one empire guarantees the independence of another



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# AI

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* Automated building now checks that upkeep cost is covered by income



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# Bugfixes

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* Fixed wrong save file being loaded from the resume button in the launcher, caused by a conflict between local and cloud saves

* Mod load order is now the same as the order in which the mods are displayed

* Fixed the game complaining about mods not being in UTF8-BOM3 for no good reason

* Fixed a potential crash in AI when evaluating market values

* Fixed cases where planetary events could fire multiple notifications

* Odd Factories no longer sometimes block pops from getting purged, because you monsters should be free to purge whatever you want

Please note that save file compatibility between versions is not guaranteed. If you have an important 2.4.1 game going, please roll back to that version before trying to load the save in 2.5.



Instructions on how to keep playing on older versions Instructions on how to keep playing on older versions here.

Hi everyone, Jamor here. We are back from the whirlwind that was PDXCON in Berlin, safely moved in to our new offices, and I'm pushing the button to release the 2.5.0 "Shelley" patch right now. It contains bug fixes and QOL improvements, and is accompanied by the Lithoids Species Pack. Lithoids comes with 16 new portraits, a complete ship set, an advisor voice, and for the first time ever, unique species mechanics for you to rock out with. We hope you'll dig it.You can also use this method to opt in to the stellaris_test branch on Steam, which is necessary for multiplayer cross play between Steam and the other storefronts we are available on. If you have a crossplay 2.4.1 game ongoing, you can opt in to the crossplay_rollback branch to access the crossplay-capable 2.4.1 version.We are standing by for your feedback on the version. I've allocated people and time for post-launch support and we'll be following your comments closely. If you are having any issues specifically with the new launcher, please let my colleagues in launcher team know:Thanks to all the awesome people we met in Berlin. Your devotion to and creativity within the game inspires us. For all our wonderful supporters worldwide, we hope you enjoy 2.5/Lithoids!