What changed in Stellaris in 2020

Made the crisis worry less about ship health and more about taking over the galaxy.

Redid sector automation scripts and code to close gaps in sectors' knowledge and improve reliability.

Fixed the Death Cult sacrifice effects so that the counting of Mortal Initiates proceeds as intended.

Fixed an issue where loading would get stuck when trying to load a lot of mods.

Fixed a layering issue with Necroid Portrait 11.

Death Priest job upkeep raised to 3 Consumer Goods in addition to the baseline level for specialist workers.

Fixed leader clearing by right-clicking.

Setting a sector to Production focus now correctly updates the icon in the UI.

The Unbidden will no longer wait patiently to be allowed out of their initial system.

Experimental DX11 mode now supports Chinese, Polish and Russian.

Fix Ships not reaching their assigned slots when there are too many ships.

Fixed impossibility of swapping scientists between research areas.

Added a define OVERCROWDING_ABSOLUTE_THRESHOLD_FOR_NO_GROWTH that sets the minimum number that overcrowding must be for a planet's population to stop growing, set it to 5.

Fix issue with military AI ping-ponging fleets.

Added missing undead army translations for Chinese.

Fixed a bug with a Necroid Battleship weapon slot.

The economic AI will now take better account of the resources a district would provide when choosing whether to build one.

Crisis countries will now use Armageddon Bombardment.

Update trade routes every 7 days instead of every day.

Made it so the positions of hostile forces are remembered while you're at war.

Massively sped up all types of purging, with the crisis factions now purging 2 pops per month.

Evasive fleet now cancel order if the path to their targets contain hostiles.

Added debug tooltips to the fleet view header and rename button.

The AI will not try to build a megastructure if it's already building or upgrading one.

Increased Necroid Corvette size and optimized some other textures.

Moved the calculations for attack radius to threaded code instead of serial.

The Necrophage AI will no longer build Houses of Apotheosis to avoid running out of necrophytes.

Added 'ignores_sapience' flag to job types to say a job works for both sapients and presapients.

Necrophages with Glandular Acclimatisation will now make pops that suit the local planet, even if they have Necrophage pops that don't on the planet already.

Made the contingency constructor choose better systems to build in, and fixed their getting stuck after a while.

Augmented the distance at which AI looks for targets on larger maps.

Corrected name for necroid titan engine effect so the effect spawns in the correct position.

AI considers 'Take Point' fleet as objective when appropriate.

Fixed purging and assimilation not working on presapients.

Various improvements to crisis military AI.

The AI is now drastically more likely to know to build shipyards and titan/colossus factories.

The AI will now check whether it would have any pops on the planet willing and able to take a job before building a building providing that job.

Fixed AI not changing fleet bombardment stances.

Fixed a black face-tentacle on a Necroid Portrait to have color.

The AI will no longer sell the last pop of a planet.

Fixed a case of the AI wanting to attack disabled starbases and getting stuck in a loop.

Fixed the Pasharti Absorbers' default purge type being Displacement rather than Necropurging.

Fixed an OOS related to fleets.

The option to play as the Machine Uprising when that happens is now back.

Fixed a nasty slow down when owning many planets and opening the planet view.

New tiers of Orbital Habitats will be introduced, accessible to players with the Utopia expansion or using the Void Dwellers origin.

Upgrading to an Advanced Habitat provides 2 additional district slots and allows basic housing buildings for normal empires.

The first tier of Orbital Habitats will come earlier in the tech tree and require fewer alloys to build, starting with 4 district slots.

New technology allows upgrading an Orbital Habitat to an Advanced Habitat using a planetary decision that costs time and alloys.

A third technology allows upgrading a fully developed Advanced Habitat into a Habitat World with 8 districts.

Players must manually opt in to access the beta patch via Steam properties.

Save file compatibility between versions is not guaranteed; avoid loading 2.6.2 saves in 2.6.3.

Opt-in beta patch available on Steam with crossplay rollback option.

Cross platform Multiplayer won't work until the official release of patch 2.6.3.

Xenophile empires will not approve of hunting tiyanki.

The tiyanki now have a home system, Tiyana Vek, which can spawn more space whales throughout the game.

The tiyanki species has been updated to include hatchlings alongside Bulls, Cows, and Calves.

Roaming tiyanki fleets now have more randomized compositions.

Hunting the tiyanki will yield energy credits and exotic gas.

Introduced new triggers to check species-level conditions instead of iterating through every pop.

Added triggers at the fleet level for events that previously checked every ship.

Jobs distribution is now only done on demand instead of daily, reducing unnecessary calculations.

Reworked the approach to checking if pops can change ethics, restoring its functionality.

Achieved a 15% to 30% improvement in late game performance, especially with large populations.

Identified and utilized more opportunities for multi-threading to improve performance.

Announcement of Q&A sessions related to the Federation Rework and other topics.

A new slavery type called Indentured Assets has been added, allowing for more dystopian and evolved empires.

Focus on enhancing the economic AI and creating unique behaviors for the end game crisis AI.