We’ve officially launched the beta! Bells are ringing, birds are singing, and it’s a beautiful day to dig up the archives of a forgotten race’s reality TV shows and use them to placate a restive populace that for some reason doesn’t see the value in mandatory six-month stints working the factories of the nearest forgeworld.
To all of our Founders, thank you so much for your early support. Elite Founders, your feedback and bug reporting has been invaluable in getting Galactic Civilizations III ready for a wider audience. Fire up your Steam client, and it should patch your install to the beta automatically.
To anyone waiting for Galactic Civilizations III to be regular price before diving in, you’ll have to wait a little longer. Sadly, the game is $44.99 during the beta rather than its regular $49.99 price. We beg your forgiveness.
Follow the development of Galactic Civilizations III throughout the beta, ask the team your questions live, and get sneak peeks of upcoming builds every Friday on the official Stardock Twitch channel.
The Galactic Civilizations III beta includes:
Race-specific tech trees – Each race discovers the secrets of creation in its own way. Look out for Drengin invasions a whole age before anyone else can pull one off.
Ideology rework – Get an entire invasion fleet for free, take control of all planets inside your sphere of influence, and more!
Huge hulls – For when you absolutely, positively, have to kill every last filthy alien in the quadrant.
New colonization events – Thirty more events will challenge your ideology whenever you bring the light of civilization to a new world.
Terraforming – Maximize your adjacency bonuses by filling in gaps on your colonies with SCIENCE!
Map features – Durantium, Elerium, and Antimatter are now on the map, waiting to be harvested by your starbases. Watch out for black holes!
So much more – reworked planet traits, shipyard queues, automatic improvement upgrading, tons of new art, vastly improved rendering (ships are so shiny now!), the list goes on.
Read the full patch notes here.
Not a Founder? No problem! The Founders program has concluded, but you can purchase Galactic Civilizations III during the beta for $5 off the regular price right here.
Happy conquering!
Keys should be in your Stardock account. Try going to https://store.stardock.com/myaccount/products
And like a chump, I'm working from 7AM straight through to 11PM...
want...play
Failed To Start Game (Missing Executable) is all i'm getting
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Do you have an x64 system?
Much excited, so drool, WOW!
EDIT: I know it's cheesy, but I couldn't contain myself..!
Was very surprised to see this was available when I got up this morning! I've downloaded but have had precious little time with it. Nice going team!
32 bit
Tried most of Steam's Tshooting to no avail
x64 is required for GalCiv 3.
Even in beta, so many new boxes saying coming soon! I still am waiting to launch a customized race. However, have been playing since released, so far so good.
Just bought my copy on Steam.
I wanted to get the Founders edition; but with my currently low cash flow and inherent "frugality"(cheapness) I just couldn't bring myself to throw down a $100.
$45 on the other hand is easier for me to rationalize.
Downloading now. Looking forward to this as I put many hours into GC II.
Thanks Stardock
Alright I got it downloaded but I can't play it.
It starts up, the video plays and it gets to the main menu and it displays fine; but when I try to get into the submenus (option, new game, etc.) all the text just flickers in and out,.....mainly out which makes the menus impossible to use.
UPDATE: After checking the support forums, I was advised to check my graphics cards driver. I checked and found that my NVidia card's driver was way out of date, so I manually updated it and now the text displays.
So if any of you guys have this problem check your graphics cards driver.
In the video, at about 1:16....what race is that, or is that something you made explicitly for the video? O:
I think people are still forgetting this is Beta, not full release... lol But love the enthusiasm! haha Can't wait to test it out!I haven't paid much attention to this site since spring, except for most of the dev videos... Gotta get caught up.
Well, there's so much more to test now that it actually becomes fun!
There may be too many colonizing events, I seem to remember while playing GC2, seeing them on maybe every 4th or 5th colonized planet. I get them now on all...?
at least they got the keys out finally...
The beta started last week? Haha I'm so slow (also, been playing the new Rimworld alpha which coincidentally, arrived last week.
*pumps shotgun* It's time... to colonise. *grin*
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