by Eladrin
Happy holidays everyone!
As is tradition, in the last dev diary of the year I like to look over what we’ve done and [strike]insert sneaky leaks about next year.[/strike]
I want for nothing. My purpose is to give.
We began 2024 with a technology open beta that ran over the holidays, which was released as the 3.11 “Eridanus” Custodian update. Since we’re planning on having another Open Beta next year, I want to point out how successful that Open Beta was, finding critical issues related to the breakthrough technologies and giving us a much better release overall. I’m hoping that next year’s Open Beta will be equally effective.
We had some really cool cinematics too.
In March, we saw the light..
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You too will see the light.
And soon became part of something greater with the release of The Machine Age and Stellaris: Season 08.
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Become part of something greater.
The Machine Age began our remastering of the Ascension Paths, starting with Cybernetic and Synthetic Ascension. It significantly expanded Machine gameplay, and added Cosmogenesis, our technological victory condition.
It also added our first new End-Game Crisis in years, the Synthetic Queen Cetana.
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My children, at last I am returned to you.
In the latter half of the year, we had two releases back to back, starting with Cosmic Storms:
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At first, they did not understand.
Quickly followed by the Grand Archive Story Pack:
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Good boy.
This was also the first time we ever localized one of our story trailers into another language:
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好孩子。
We ended the year with our discussions about the vision of the game and its future, with what I feel were some of the best dev diary responses we’ve ever had.
All in all, it’s been a busy year, and I’m generally pretty happy with where we ended up.
2024 Release Notes
Speaking of being a busy year, during 2024 Stellaris had 16 releases.
If you have ever had the desire to go through over 1200 lines of release notes, I’ve got you covered.
See You Next Year
That’s the summary of this year in Stellaris. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and I look forward to seeing you all in the coming year.
Want to see a horrific very-in-progress placeholder?
Stellaris Dev Diaries will return on January 16th. Happy holidays!
Purchase Stellaris: Grand Archive alone or with a discount as part of Stellaris: Season 08!
Stellaris: Season 08 will remain available as a dynamic bundle on Steam until January 9th.
