Galactic Civilizations III Beta 1 Patch Notes

abiessener

Join Date 01/2006

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Galactic Civilizations III Beta 1 Patch Notes

Galactic Civilizations III Beta 1 Patch Notes

For more on Beta 1, click here.

New Features

Updated ideology system adds lots of new ideologies with unique benefits
New Terran tech tree, for balanced gameplay
New Altarian tech tree, for better access to mysticism, defense and influence
New Drengin tech tree, for when you just want to kill something
New Iridium tech tree, for earlier access to economic and production abilities
Added shipyard construction queue
Added black holes. Black holes are impassable but the only source of antimatter
Added the approval system. Now your people judge how you are doing, which affects their productivity and growth
Added terraforming, to optimize your worlds and open up new areas to build improvements and give adjacency bonuses
Added improvement upgrading
Planet generation finalized: Planet traits finalized, planet features finalized, planet light map is now working with population
Ships can now be upgraded
Added huge ships to give players more weapons in the late game
Added 30 more colonization events
Added the antimatter resource. This is needed for some of the advanced missile and point defense augments
Elerium resource can now be harvested. Elerium is used for advanced beam weapons and shield augments
Durantium resource can now be harvested. Durantium is used for advanced kinetic weapons and armor

Balance

Complete rebalance
Map generation pass: Better randomization, more clumping, and players start further from each other

Tons of new art (starbases, icons, lighting and ships all look much better)
Rendering system finalized
Lighting finalized
Added a new starbase screen
Added the ship and fleet detail screens
Updated planet screen
Added lots of tooltips (even more will be coming)
Added the faction power list so you can see how well you are doing compared to other players
Added a "Research Unlocked" popup screen that displays the results of the tech you gained, and what it does

The AI knows how to upgrade ships
Added difficulty levels (Beginner, Normal, Heroic, Genius, and Godlike)

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parrottmath

Join Date 03/2008

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This is not the place for this. I do believe all feedback is valid and needs to be looked at (even those of yet to be added features). We should keep things clean and debate the benefits drawbacks of the beta, not each other.

It looks like the next beta patch address some crash to desktop. Have you opted in the newest patch?

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Quoting parrottmath,

reply 51

It looks like the next beta patch address some crash to desktop. Have you opted in the newest patch?

I have to admit that I am somewhat Steam-Illiterate. The instructions say:

To get the opt-in patch, do the following:
Right-click Galactic Civilizations III in your Steam library
Open the Betas tab
In the drop-down menu, select “opt-in”
Steam should automatically update your game

Yet I get only as far as Right Clicking on GalCivIII. No "Betas" tab shows up. I've tried it both in "Desktop" as well as "Big Picture" mode. I am still in 0.41, at least that is what the initial splash screen states. No biggie, I can wait until the next required update comes along.

Speaking of illiterate I can't get the text/background colors correct.

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parrottmath

Join Date 03/2008

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The instructions need to be more clarified...

Right click on Gal Civ 3 and select properties from the context menu.

Then choose the Beta Tab

Then select opt-in to a beta. (if no selection available you may have to restart steam to see it)

Then steam should update the game (in not you might have to restart steam)

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Done and done. Thank you.

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Dear Support,

I'm using the Beta version of GalCiv III and i see that there is a patch ready, but somehow i did not get it downloaded?
I've read that i should rightclick GalCiv III in Steam and the use the dropdown menu, but somehow this does not work here.

Who can help me with this problem?

Kind Regards,
Numan

Hint: perhaps its easy to use for example: beta v1.01 ; in the beginscreen so we can directly see if we are up to date.

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Ryat

Join Date 06/2006

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Quoting Lord Numan,

reply 55

Dear Support,

I'm using the Beta version of GalCiv III and i see that there is a patch ready, but somehow i did not get it downloaded?
I've read that i should rightclick GalCiv III in Steam and the use the dropdown menu, but somehow this does not work here.

Who can help me with this problem?

Kind Regards,
Numan

Hint: perhaps its easy to use for example: beta v1.01 ; in the beginscreen so we can directly see if we are up to date.

There is no patch currently in the opt-in program. In the main menu in the lower right hand corner it should tell you what you need to know. Its should be at 0.42.

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parrottmath

Join Date 03/2008

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The updating of the patch is something that steam usually does for you, if you have it set to update your programs automatically. As Ryat said, the opt-in beta patch is no longer available.

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Shaefespeare, I'm unable to create an economic star base. I've gone quite a bit down the economic tech tree (interstellar banking) so I should be able to build multiple orbital economic structures, yet I'm unable to do so. I can do mining, military, and cultural, though. Any help would be appreciated.

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