r/StellarisOnConsole

Hello Console Edition Community!

We’re pleased to announce that the second half of Stellaris: Console Edition Season 08, the Cosmic Storms Mechanical Expansion and the Grand Archive Story Pack will be coming to Xbox Series X|S and PS5 on May 25th alongside the free 3.14 “Circinus” update!

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Cosmic Storms Mechanical Expansion contains:

• 8 New Space Storms
• Storm Chasers Origin
• 3 New Civics: Planetscapers, Astrometeorology, Storm Devotion
• Galactic Weather Control Ascension Perk
• Weather Forecasting Map Mode
• Two new Precursor narratives, with two new Relics
• Events, Anomalies, and Archaeology Sites
• Storm-related technologies, Edicts, and Galactic Community resolutions

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The Grand Archive Story Pack includes:

• Space Fauna capture, breeding, and modification systems
• 151 Specimens to collect and display across events from Grand Archive and the base game
• Over 240 Specimens total including those distributed across other Stellaris content
• 15 new Relics
• New Megastructure — The Grand Archive
• Two new Tradition trees: Archivism and Domestication
• Two new Origins: Primal Calling and Treasure Hunters
• Two new Civics: Beastmasters and Galactic Curators
• Two new forms of spaceborne life: Cutholoids and Voidworms
• A new possible mid-game crisis — the Voidworm Plague
• Three new music tracks
• Events, Anomalies, Archaeology Sites, Technologies, Galactic community resolutions, and more!

We’ll be going over these DLCs in detail over the next few weeks, so be sure to check out the Forums, Discord and Reddit every Friday to see what’s coming up in the latest release on May 25th!

Thank you for playing Stellaris: Console Edition!

I feel like the crisis needs an update. With defenders of the galaxy being upgraded, the crisis should also get upgrades. I think the older ones have stayed the same since they were implemented.

My main inspiration is Crisis Manager - End-Game Edition (3.12.¢). You could already have multiple crisis spawn, but 4.3 brought that to vanilla. Pretty much every crisis should be given more ships and armies. Every crisis with an army should have them as aggressive stance.

For specifics, I have nothing for Cetana. For the contingency, they should behave like the gray tempest. Basically four motherboards or sterilization hubs churning out fleets and armies. I feel like the contingency should also have access to battle frame armies and mega warforms, but i’m not sure about that one since they did take synths with the ghost signal and use them for their armies. I also want to give the contingency a neutron sweep colossus and have their battleships carry seeker drone hangars. I am more open for discussion with the contingency because they are my favorite crisis and it hurts ignoring them for 30 years just to see if the cybrex would spawn and they never do.

For the Prethoryn Scourge, they should spawn with all of their 2000 ships for the second wave. I feel like they should also behave like a criminal syndicate almost to mimic gene stealer cults. Speaking of tyranids, there should be two types of waves. A doomstack wave that moves in unison between 1-3 systems, and a more split up wave that scatters and hits multiple systems at once. The first kind is like hive fleet behemoth and the second one is like hive fleet kraken. It can either be a 50% chance for each type, or the cooler version would be both of them spawn in a 10 year gap maybe but on different sides of the galaxy.

The unbidden should just have the other invaders spawn after 5 years or so, regardless of how much they ate.

I know about the crisis slider, but that’s just alpha strikes and getting one shotted and that’s no fun. The crisis is fighting the entire galaxy and so they should have the ships and armies to do so. The crisis should change the geopolitical landscape of the galaxy and irreparably damaging multiple empires. I know that it might cause some lag, but 4.3 already helped with lag to the point where the game should be able to handle these changes. They’re destroying ships and populations anyways. Thoughts?

My main leader just died (imperial playthrough) and now all my planets are 20% stability and everyone is extremely angry??? My economy has taken a record low because every planet has less than 30% happiness. There’s more then enough amenities and no crime yet everyone is still very sad please help

The May 25th update looks like a lot of quality updates! I was curious what some people thought though.

- For Cosmic Storms, are people enabling the DLC, lowering storm frequency, etc.? I’ve heard mixed reviews and opinions and was curious what people thought though
- Habitat Cap 🙏🏻
- Are there any fun new builds people are thinking about? I’m thinking Slaver Guilds builds back with Penal Colony for a Harkonnen type build.

Feel free to tell me I’m inept but isn’t there supposed to be DLC added to the base game? I looked today and there wasn’t an update and I checked the store and nothing has changed there either.

Basically just had to complain as I just downloaded the machine age dlc finally and forced cetana to spawn as the end game to try it out.

I was majorly enjoying the new content and preparing myself for a very early game 2x crisis, never even saw it.

Without warning, my homeworld, home system, my main shipyard and half my fleets just disappear. No fight, no event, just deleted. Reloaded to try and save it and see if it was a random event but it is garunteed lost to a currently uninteractable nanite swarm, as nanite ascended robots which makes sense. I thn proceed to loose 2 more core very important systems with no event to try and stop or even explain it, and lost over half my economy. NPCs instantly start war with me, and I just completely lost interest in the game within 30 minutes of play time.

Quick google told me it was cetana and apparently she can just wipeout fallen empires by spawning in, I just got really unlucky. Any end game mechanic that can just delete a massive portion of player power with no way to fight back or avoid it tho is really bad mechanics imo. I didnt even see the actual end game, just got deleted into subserviance of my neighbor through game code, now they are fighting. Good times.

Quick edit since Ive read some comments: can definitely say the only FE had all its systems on the other side of the small galaxy I was on. Sounds like it may have just been a glitch which means I can try again without fear of this happening, but yah super weird.

Second Edit: I had the Origin that gave me a relic world for start, could that have been the cause?

So I've had this empire spawn from the pre-ftls when the AI finds their system. But this run I found them first, took Sol X and now they just sit there as Pre-Ftls. Any way to get them to become a regular empire without invading them? They won't spawn their fleet or go no contact if they already are space faring. And I've got like 3k fleet cap. I don't want to wait till I have jump drives. Any advice?

The ones specifically free to claim because of the anniversary. Is there a time limit to claiming them? If I just log in do I get them for free?

Thetes so many dlc on ps5, what is the best way to buy them all

Playing as a machine empire, and I've created a variety of machine templates for each job. Will the machine pops construction build the best pops for the available jobs on a planet, or do I need to do it manually?

Playing on console

Hi guys I've started playing this game on ps5 for around five months and these past months I’ve been waiting for a sale I currently have machine age and federations and synthetic Dawn which I decided to get full price and I want to get the others but a sale almost never comes and I’ve been waiting for a while I could probably buy a couple right now but I want a good sale to come so I can get them all so I’m just wondering what sales dlcs get

I only started playing on and off about 6 months ago. I don't know how you guys do the anniversaries over here, but I did heat 35$ worth of dlc will be free on pc. do these usually make their way to console? first impression is that they don't show as much love to console players but I hope that's not the case

It's possible to add a button to make the fleets retreat, because having to scroll all the way down to access the button isn't very user-friendly.