Paradox have received a lot of criticism for their strategy of endlessly juicing games with paid DLC, and never more so than in the past year.

Earlier this month, EA Maxis refreshed the 2015 Spa Day pack for The Sims 4, adding new wellness-focused aspirations for your Sims, facial masks, and nail polish. Stellaris isn't the only game to refresh an old DLC recently. If you've never got into Stellaris before and want to try it with its new balance changes, it's free to play for the next five days via Steam and 75% off. Paradox stress that the game will not suddenly 'be fixed' as a result of this team's work, but still, it's nice to see DLCs released years ago suddenly have new stuff in them. Effectively, Stellaris has grown so large (and some would say, unbalanced) that it's no longer practical to maintain it solely via the same team that's also working on new DLCs. The initiative was announced by Paradox back in June.

The changes to the species packs meanwhile include a new Clone Army Origin for the Humanoids Species Pack, which lets you play 'the remains of an ancient Clone Army' who reproduce solely via ancient vats.Īs an update, Lem is much larger than future work by The Custodians team is expected to be, but the nature of it is the same. They included traditions no longer being hardlocked, so you can choose which tradition trees you want to pursue during a playthrough, and new tradition trees being added to previous Nemesis and Apocalypse DLCs. It's absolutely vast, though a few highlights are pulled out at the top. 3.1's complete list of changes is expandable over in this forum thread.

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