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Gameplay, Graphics, Spaceships
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2 Oct, 2019 @ 6:08am
5 May @ 12:57pm
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Amazing Space Battles

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Description
Compatible with Stellaris V4 and V3.14




This Giant mod combines my previous graphical mods + far more, in order to completely improve the graphics of Stellaris space battles.

It improves the graphics of almost EVERY weapon in the game- adding lots of new custom effects (while staying true to vannilla intentions), improved ship spacing and behavior in battles, adds new EPIC custom explosions, adds missing hit and muzzle effects paradox did not make, Creates custom effects for shield and hull hits + Space Battles are NOT over in seconds.

But above all, this mod makes space battles super fun to watch!




The new custom Titan explosion effect
  • New EPIC explosions for every ship type.
  • New Effects for all Lasers.
  • New Effects for all Kinetic Weapons.
  • New Effects for all Particle Launchers.
  • New Effects for all Missiles.
  • New Effects for all Disruptors.
  • New Effects for all autocannons.
  • New Effects for XL Weapons.
  • New Effects for Titan Weapon.
  • New Effects for anti-fighter - Flakk.
  • New Effects for all weapons when they hit shield or hull.
  • Effects get larger as gun size increases.
  • Improved Fighter behaviour and movement.
  • Slower ship movement during battles.
  • More intelligent ship spacing and behaviour during battles (no more face hugging fleets).
  • Better ship targeting i.e no more entire fleets targeting one ship at a time.
  • Graphical fixes for weapons without hit or muzzle effects.
  • Longer lasting battles


Tip: Press Ctrl+F9 for a cinematic view.

The new weapon effects:



Gamma Laser Firing

New and improved travel-laser effect, for better graphics but also making it easier to distinguish who is shooting who. Added new muzzle and hit effects.



Missile Firing

New missiles graphics with new smoke, exhaust and backblast effects. Added fire explosion and shards on impact.



Titan Laser Firing

New effects for all XL weapons Including adaptive Lightning for arc emitters, Giga cannons Rail gun effect, Particle Lance beams and also this Epic Titan Perdition beam effect.



Neutron Launcher Firing

New and improved effects for particle launchers. Projectile improved to have a spinning-pulsating disk that is larger and far more visible. Added a new muzzle and hit effect to create a feeling of "Impact" and "power" for this high damage late-game weaponry.




Top: Two fleets engaging using kinetic weaponry - Bottom: A Battleship firing autocannons

Kinetic weapon graphics overhauled for more visibilty and color difference. Added different custom hit and muzzle effects for all varients of kinetic weapons. Also added new autocannon graphics for a more "Gatling Gun" look.



Lvl 3 Disruptors Firing

Disruptor graphics overhauled to better embody its description instead of a laser-like "blur".

Vannilla description = "Disruptors fire energy bolts that damage and destroy the molecular bonds holding the target's constituent atoms together. They completely ignore shields and armor and deal base damage directly to the hull."



A fleet defending itself using flak

Added a new FLAK effect for all flak PD weapons (vannilla used the autocannon effect).



Strike-Craft leaving ship carrier-hangars using the new animations

More realistic Strike-craft animations and behaviour. Strike-craft dont perform pirouettes around ships anymore and have better spacing. Improved weapon graphics as well.



A battleship going down

Overhauled improved explosion graphics for every ship type. More and custom pre-explosions before final explosion effect. Improved fire trails and a new lingering debree/sparks effect for the bigger ships.




Please check-out the Amazing Space Battles Collection for all of the Addon mods.

For Medium to High-end PC's
I recommend: More Visible Particles

For Low to Medium-end PC's
I recommend: More Visible Particles (Lite)




Steam Workshop link for the Ironman Version
  • Ironman Compatible: No. (A "trimmed-down" Ironman version is available)
  • Savegame Compatible: Yes.

  • Compatible with mods adding custom ships.
  • Compatible with mods adding custom weapons and other items - altough they may need a patch for adding my gfx onto their weapons, otherwise their items use the vannilla effects.

  • Compatible with Real Space (put ASB higher on the modlist)
  • Compatible with Downscaled ships
  • Compatible with NSC

You dont like the longer battles?
For these specific group of people I recommend: ASB Addon: Shorter Battles

What you need to do if the mod descriptor file is missing or not automatically updating:

1. unsubscribe from mod
2. delete "mods_registry.json" -> User\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris
3. delete "ugc_1878473679.mod"-> User\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris\mod
4. subscribe to mod

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I am a engineering student who does this in my free time because I love playing Stellaris, modding and sci-fi. Any and all support is greatly appreciated, Thank you very much!

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15 May @ 5:02am
PINNED: Content Update 3.14 Patch notes
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Chickenhunt  [author] 11 hours ago 
I am back and motivated to start modding again, made some progress in some small bugs today (thnx for reporting!)
Chickenhunt  [author] 11 hours ago 
@Noble @Tia Yes

@Marcel Soares No but there is an ironman version in the collection

@Prax ty, behavior will be fixd

@Big Boy Boris @joe @[F.I.S.T] diva.Y.J rl @Reichtag realspace-shps in scaling combined with asb causes fleet strength bug, maybe i can fix idk yet.

@Large_Gremlin Yes

@Sleuth Kog'Maw Its meant to be empty because the effects come from muzzle, its a trick.

@John Helldiver Thats not asb I think

@Deep♂Dark yu can try the modding den discord for help

@General_Qwert64 Yes. All effects only generate when in system view

@J Rockit thnx

@PythonicArgent its not perfect yet, I am looking for a way to make it shoot more 3d
Noble 12 hours ago 
I don't mean to bother but when will the autocannon GFX thing and the engineer bug be fixed?
Marcel Soares 20 Jul @ 4:45pm 
Is the mod achievement compatible?
Code 20 Jul @ 2:46pm 
Thank you for keeping it compatible with 3.14. I'll remember that.
Tia 19 Jul @ 12:57am 
Also seeing the duplicate (but less effective) engineer trait, traced it down to this mod. I guess it's to go with making slower battles, but for some reason it's not actually replacing the vanilla trait. Very strange. Fixable by remming (put a # in front of every line) out all the lines in !_ASB_admiral_traits.txt and then making it read-only, at least until a fix is found.
Prax 18 Jul @ 6:38pm 
Hey man! This is one of my favorite mods for Stellaris!

Any word on the fix for Maulers? They just float in place getting shot :<
Big Boy Boris 16 Jul @ 12:48pm 
@Blazingdevil
With this mod it slows the battles down by reducing the Ship Fire Rate by a set amount and in doing so reduces hostile fleets like Mining Drones below 0% SFR which causes their fleet power to drop to 1-3.
Large_Gremlin 15 Jul @ 7:54pm 
Does this mod have backwards-compatibility with 3.14?
Sleuth Kog'Maw 10 Jul @ 10:30pm 
With regard to the autocannon gfx bug I'm pretty sure it's just missing an input after "texture = ". In the file under gfx/projectiles/ap_ballistics it's just blank