Stellaris Dev Diary 294 - 3.8 Gemini Coop Open Beta Release Notes

by EladrinHello again!

Last week we went over the basic design of the Cooperative multiplayer system we’re currently working on, and we’re ready to announce that the Coop Open Beta is looking like it will be starting sometime next week.

Though at this time I can’t give a precise date, I thought I’d provide a list of preliminary patch notes.

I expect that we’ll leave the branch up until the release of 3. 8, and feedback will be collected in threads until April 30th. Stay tuned for more details once we can share them.

Release Notes​Here’s a changelog of what will be present in the Coop Open Beta.

This is only a small subset of what’s going to be coming in 3. 8 - we wanted to keep the Coop changes relatively isolated in order to get better testing of the feature.

STELLARIS 3. 8 ‘GEMINI’ COOP OPEN BETA PRELIMINARY RELEASE NOTESShow MoreAgain - this isn’t everything that we’re planning for 3. 8.

Things to Keep in Mind​Coop touches a lot of systems in Stellaris, and it is very likely that you will run into synchronization issues, or other weirdness.

(The dreaded “Out of Syncs” that are the bane of multiplayer Stellaris. )

This system is still in active development, but we wanted to let people play with it now, while there’s still time to react to feedback and bugs that are found.

Certain events, such as diplomacy with enclaves or other special entities, may also behave oddly during the beta, with responses going to the first player in the empire rather than the one that initiated contact.

Did you miss last week's Dev Diary Introducing Coop? Community Manager Mordred Viking is back on Stellaris Official to save you the trouble of reading it!

StellARTis Competition Winners​The StellARTis competition has completed, and winners have been announced! Check out some of their brilliant works.

Next Week​Next week we’ll start going through some of the many changes coming in 3. 8 that aren’t in the Coop Open Beta release.