I’ve not been shy in admitting that Star Trek has always been my safe and happy place, it’s a universe that has brought me so much joy and comfort over most of my 40 years on this planet (which I can confirm is my only planet!). I love the franchise and have actively introduced it […]
I keep trying to write this and the first sentence keeps coming out wrong. So I’ll just start. Ten years ago today, on May 20, 2016, the first version of Star Trek: New Horizons went up on the Steam Workshop. Stellaris had been out for five days. Shaggo and I had been talking about it
About nine months before the tenth anniversary of STNH rolled around, I started talking with the team about what we should actually do for the milestone. We kicked a lot of ideas around. An STNH convention. A big livestream. Gifts for the community. In the end, a documentary was what felt right for this project.
It feels like yesterday and like half an eternity at the same time. On May 20, 2026, the release of Star Trek: New Horizons turns ten years old. A decade in which an idea grew into a massive mod project that has brought generations, quadrants, and captains to life inside Stellaris. A long journey –
A Starfleet Science Officer’s Report on Stellaris, ST: New Horizons, and GPU VRAM Utilization Author: Lt. Cmdr. [Redacted], Science Division, USS [Redacted] 1. Mission Overview Stardate: Irrelevant to Starfleet Command, highly relevant to modders. The objective of this analysis is to determine why the simulation environment known as Stellaris – particularly when augmented with the
Listening to the feedback from our players is really important to us, and one of the key items we’ve understood from the recent surveys is how important performance is to them, which makes complete sense. The planned performance improvements from PDX as part of 4.0, have been a bit hit and miss, with some of
New in ST:NH: The Interactive Tech Tree The ST:NH tech tree is back. This time as an interactive website: easy to explore, always up to date, and useful while you play. Open it, zoom, click, understand. Why it matters Star Trek: New Horizons now has 1,955 technologies—more than twice Stellaris. The structure is no longer
Greetings Captains, The STNH team is planning our next major development cycle, and we want to put our efforts where it matters most to you, our players. To do that, we need your direct input. We have created a User Priority Survey to help us understand which potential features, bug fixes, and content additions you
As the song goes this last patch has been a long roadGetting from there (3.9) to here (4.0)! But we are on the verge of releasing our latest patch and perhaps the biggest overhaul of STNH (well, since the last time PDX changed everything!) Introducing ST:New Horizons: The Final Frontier This patch changed so much
Happy New Year! I think I can just about get away with wishing you all a HNY on the 8th January, but we are definately in that post-Christmas and New Year / Early Jan blur, but with that it’s a good time to reflect on all the hard work and exciting changes that have come