Greetings! Welcome to the sausage factory!
Beta 3 of Galactic Civilizations III has arrived with lots of new changes and improvements. We still have a long way to go but progress is swift.
A few highlights
Beta 3 brings the Yor into the game. We’re still playing around with how they “breed”. The current plan is to have the player actually manufacture more Yor on the planet.
The Yor are a synthetic, pre-singularity lifeform. Long ago, the Yor were the servants of a race called the Iconians. Naturally, they eventually rose up and took over the planet. The Yor home planet is Iconia which never amuses the Iconians and their lawyers.
The Yor get their own ship parts to ensure that their ships are visually and functionally distinct from the other races.
The govern button on the bottom right is still newish and has a long way to go still before release. Eventually, players will want to automate this via governors to keep their massive empires from spiraling into a micromanagement abyss. Our hope is to have the governors rely less on AI and more on letting players set priorities and have it automate itself.
The shipyards have gotten a lot nicer as players can now more easily control which planets are feeding which shipyards. We have a lot of balancing and pacing to do. Even today, we’re working our way through the default ships and capital planets to boost the early game pacing significantly.
The cinematics team has begun to deliver some amazing stuff to help bring you into the GalCiv universe. This is the first past of better visuals, music and sound since the original beta release.
Tooltips continue to improve in order to provide better information. Much still to do but little by little, the UI is coming together.
A big part of what we hope will make GalCiv III much more appealing to a wider audience is the time we’re spending trying to really visually deliver the new worlds players are colonizing. Tell us what you think in the comments!
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Pics looks good. Can't wait. Man I not only have GAL3 to beta test, I also have to beta test the new Age of Wonders III 2nd DLC and Play Endless Legion. A lot on my plate these next two weeks :
When will we be able to view combat? In a later patch this month or has that been pushed back? I do love what you have added, but was hoping combat would be in this patch...I mean the full scale stuff...the watchable combat...you know where you can watch as your ships crushes your enemy before you and hear the lamentations of their...umm...females.
What is the current version number? I see no reference anywhere and I would like to check to see if my version got updated. Steam seems to be very quirky in this regards lately. My main menu screen says Ver. 0.61
I love the visuals! I'm a huge TBS geek, but I can't get behind the genre favorites that have lo-fi visuals. So far, so good. Bring on the rest!
I agree with you. Mine shows the same number, and when I go to use it, it shows the new race, with new music and sound effects, (nice) and various items that have been worked on visually; these look great also. I believe that .61 is proper. I also believe that Steam can be a major pia.
Basically, we have to wait until the combat system looks nice enough to show to the public. People are really unforgiving about visuals these days.
Even Conan approves.
People are really unforgiving about visuals these days. Even Conan approves.
post pix here plz..
On a more serious note - the visuals look quite stunning. One of these days I'll have to be ambitious enough to fire it up and watch the new cut scenes.
You are right Frogboy and I can appreciate that you guys want to make it look good...I mean if it wasnt...Conan might get mad then!
Frogboy, when shall we get our hands on the politics layer of the game? I.e. different governments, elections, parties, uprisings...?
As much as I agree with not releasing the combat viewer until it's great, can we not get some kind of screen shots to see what it will be like? Maybe put them in the founders vault?
0.61 is the current version.
Is there a difference between 0.6 and 0.61?
A minor fix I hope to see later is the date system on saves. It uses the american standard month/day/year which is very confusing. Best if the game has user's system format on saves.
A bug when I click on a tech eg. Invasion Optimization through tech tree game crashes. I guess this tech like several others are not available yet but visible in tech tree.
Another bug Yor keep asking me for peach on every turn! It brakes my nerves because I have no intention to make peace with them, I'm gonna kill them all.. heheh
As I understand the planet maps won't change in future updates... is that true? Because they look very weird!
On everything else game looks so much better, great upgrade.
Merry Xmas
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