Hi,
Sorry if this is a rant…hopefully not too much of one! Maybe somebody can help…hope so!
I have been deciding to buy Gal Civ 2 for a while now, after playing the demo, I decided to go ahead and buy it, never played a turn based game before, so looking forward to it. I noticed that the Ultimate edition was due out in a few days, so I waited and bought that – yay
I installed the game, no problems and then decided to grab the new 2.0 update as it adds lots to the game etc….the community seems very excited about it.
I want the best experience I can with my nice new shiny ultimate edition. I logged onto impulse and tried to update the game, I have Sins of Solar Empire and have updated it easily. The game was not listed under My Games, so figured I needed to register it first under impulse. So I typed my serial key in and selected game category, then clicked to choose game…..the list was blank?
After hours of re-installing impulse, the game, restarting computer etc etc…I have finally found out that the Ultimate edition can not be patched! It is not listed under supported games under the impulse game list.
I know people rant about impulse, but I don’t mind it and support from the community and the people who make Gal Civ and Sins is fantastic. Until now!
So that’s it then…nothing I can do, will have to stick with an out of date, unsupported version of a game and will have to spend money on Gal Civ 2 normal edition and buy all the expansions separately.
To be honest I doubt I will rush out and do this after they took my money for an unsupported game…it SHOULD be listed on the box! I wont play with an out to date version….anyhow 2.0 adds a lot!
I will find something else to take up my spare time. This may be a one of case….but I feel seriously let down!!!!!
Excellent! Downloading now. Looking forward to trying it out.
Thanks for all your hard work, particulary in light of all the confusion.
Well done!
A question, what I have been reading in the various posts about this topic is that the issues were directly attributable to the localizations. As you may know I am doing a localization by means of modding, and I find GC2 much better localizable than many games I have seen before. The only technical problem I have encountered so far is that in DA, some fields are not in the checksum ignore lists and cause a cheat flag.
As localization does not seem to be that much of a big deal for the engine, I'm wondering about the nature of problems that were involved.
Woop Woop! Downloading now...
Just wanna say thanks to the Stardock people for making this happen. With all the fuss if it had been me I probably would have just sacked it off So Kudos to you all
Thanks, I'll just finish the game I have going and then update. I don't even have to register since the nice folk at Stardock did that for me last month so that I would be up and running once the patch was sorted.
Is this the 2.x update for the retail box Kalypso Ultimate Edition (you have 'UL' in your post) which has been on sale in the UK since late November?
Also what size is the update?
Yes it is, I think UL is a typo. I just downloaded and they say it's ~18MB.
It's hard to tell because Impulse doesn't have a download meter.
Good, I was starting to think UE stood for Usless Edition!
GC2UL is our internal designation for it.
kryo said in a previous post a few month ago that UL is their internal "code" for kalypso gc2 ULtimate edition
otherwise you might confuse between gc2 UE and gc2 EU (Ultimate Edition and Endless Universe)
Yeah ! !
And it comes with a nice Ultimate Edition manual too. Good!
Great news! Thanks to all those involved.
Finally, great thing that it was released. Bought the game before xmas and so far I have only read the manual and watched the tutorials
Time to try it.
BTW, http://www.kalypsomedia.com/en/games/index.shtml Click on Ultimate Edition and you get 404 page. I sent them an email about it, but I guess they ignored it. That pretty much sums up what Kalypso cares about the game (or customers).
I noticed that and on another post there was a reply that the German page works http://www.kalypsomedia.com/de/games/ultimate-edition/index.shtml
Strange thing is if you replace the 'de' with 'en' or press the British Flag at the top of the page you get it in english which is a different URL form the page that gives the 404 message.
Is anyone else having problems with scenarios crashing when loading since the update? I quite liked to play 'Battle of the Gods' but none of them seem to work anymore.
Hmm...
Yipeeeeee! At Last, Thank you Stardock. I had visions of this thing going on for months, so I'm really pleased that it's been resolved fairly quickly. Just one question though. If I have saved games and I apply this new patch, will I still be able to play those saved games?
Many thx to all.
EDIT: I Have just successfully registered and installed v2.2. Just tried to play a saved game, It came up with a message box saying "Galactic Civilizations II has stopped working". So I guess that answers my own question. Oh well, guess I'll just have to start a new game.
Yeah, 2.x produced significant enough changes that it necessarily broke all savegames.
Is nobody else having this issue? Makes it slightly unnerving...worked fine before. Does anyone know if there is some sort of option somewhere I have to tick?
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