4.3.2 Open Beta is now on stellaris_test [checksum 171a]

Hello everyone! A small number of changes have just been pushed to the [c]stellaris_test[/c] beta branch on Steam.

4.3.2 Open Beta Release Notes

Improvement ​

• Fleets are now willing to fight further from the center of the system. Especially noticeable if fighting stationary targets at the edge of the system

Balance ​

• Halved the Empire Size penalty from colonies for Wilderness

• Reduced the Empire Size penalty from colonies for Sovereign Guardianship civics by 25%

Bugfix ​

• The Aberrant Dimensional Portal glows with an orange light

• The Vehement Dimensional Portal glows with a green light

• Renamed the Infernal species to Thermophile while in game

• Fixes bug when AI generates space fauna designs that doesn't have weapon components

• Reordered the music tracks in the original soundtrack and corrected the steam playlist

Stability and Performance ​

• Fixed wrong stride used in particle system leading to overwrite of data that sometimes also crashes the game.

• Fixed CTD in diplomatic relation distance to border calculation not accounting for invalid relations in a safe way.

Modding ​

• Spinner UI element do now have a null object to avoid crashing if not found

• OverlappingElementsBox UI element do now have a null object to avoid crashing if not found

• ListBox UI element do now have a null object to avoid crashing if not found

• Fixed issue with SmoothListBox UI element not using null object properly and thus may crash

Many of these were already in the works when 4.3 released, and I expect to release 4.3.2 to the live servers sometime early next week. Issues that have been reported since release are targeting 4.3.3 - we hope to have an Open Beta of that sometime later on in the week. Have fun over the weekend!