The crew here at Stardock cares a lot about our community and the games that we produce for you.
That's why we're pleased to announce that version 2.20 for Galactic Civilizations IIis available for you today!
Even when a title is "finished" and put out to market, there are always little things we find that could use a tweak or a change here and there. We also know what it's like to enjoy an old game so much that you keep going back to it, even when there are newer and "better" versions of it out there.
With help of some awesome community members, the Dev Team has taken all of the suggestions and implemented them into this update. You can find he entire change log (spoiler alert: it's long!) at the bottom of this post.
A few words from our CEO and President, Brad Wardell:
"It was awesome being able to work with the fans to integrate years of their own mods and tweaks into the base game. They also gave me a long list of areas where they thought I could improve the AI, which I used to dig into the now 10 year old AI source code base to implement."
We hope you enjoy the update. We have an awesome community here at Stardock and are so very happy that you're a part of it. Have a great holiday season!
Special Thanks
To Antonio "Mabus" Invernizzi, Gaunathor, SilasOfBorg, Kamil "OShee" Bober, DARCA1213, Sam "MarvinKosh" Edwards. Steffem "Maiden666" Jenter, MarvinKosh, Leiavoia, Frogboy and everyone else who helped out!
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If you do not have the Ultimate Edition, then you need to contact Support.
I do have it though. The UE doesn't have a d/l button, but both expansions and what appears to be the1.53 patch for the base game have d/l buttons.
It sounds like you have the base game and expansions, so you'll need to contact support.
-HM
Check your downloads in your computer.
is some where, u need to find hehe
Was there an update that removed the automatic basic ships updates. For example when i originally had the dreadlords game only. the basic ships that you did not have to build updated the weapons automatically. now all races only seem to favor lazors and have like 4 or five different types of ships. unless your facing them in battle then they seem to be more customized to that race
maybe u downloaded the wrong up date...
what version are u playing??? twigh light of the arnor??
u need to get the update on google,, is the 2.20
then it will automaticly make the update,, on stardock home page,, i think, u click there u may have to reaisntall the game, i dont know.,, any way...
Nope. It works as it always did.
I'm not clear what the problem is. Can you explain in detail?
maybe u clicked some where,, have u tried reinstall it??
Did any of you play the original dreadlords before ultimate edition came out? that would be my first question. Because certain races had certain weapons they seemed to favor in dread lords. Now all races seem to favor beam weapons. There also seemed to be allot more default ships. now there seems to be only a few. like the paladin. Or the avatar. does any of this sound familiar?
I don't have a good (or any) explanation, but I agree that with UE/TA 2.04 all the aliens went for Beams. With 2.2n that is no longer the case. (Thank the ghods of GC.)
As for your other, poorly described, issue, I don't see any difference.
Do you know what default ships are?
default being colony ships and the defender. Or the constructor ship?
Also I have the update the problem does not seemed to be fixed. All races still seem to favor the beam class of weapon.
Thanks, But I'm pretty sure I still have the update. It says version 2.20 down in the bottom left corner of the main menu.
in TotA many of the default ships got deleted because the AI can now design his own ships completely based on his current techlevel - these are better than the stockships named in GC2ships.xml
however, if you want to enable them go to
C:\Program Files\Kalypso\GalCiv2Ultimate\Twilight\Data\English
and open file
GC2ships.xml
and simply delete all these lines:
<Tech_Requirement>ImpossibleTech</Tech_Requirement>
all of them, except for the Starbase!
yes, i played dread lords, dark avatar and the last twilight of the arnor,
I am aware that the beam wepons is automaticly selected,, so if u research otehr tech, u then have to up grade your ship...
do you know how to upgrade ships??? on the botton right of the control screen,, shipwards... is called shipward...
u make your ship there,,,
some times if u research shields or armor, it will automaticly select it i nthe ship maker,,, but is always good to up date..
is on google, then u go to stardock page,, i spent some tiem to figure out, i think is this web page..
I was pleased to find an update. However it is little more than announcement to go re-buy the game if you wish to receive future support.
I just downloaded and it says 2.04
For some reason I haven't communicated the problem to you. I don't know what other words to use to describe the problem.Sorry I wasted your time.
thank you for the help i will try your suggestions.
Reply 169 just because you downloaded it that doesn't install it. You have to find the executable in your downloads to install it. Once installed it doesn't create a shortcut or icon. It just keeps the old. Now you have to go to the folder there will be two what you want is galciv2. Make a shortcut, and icon from there, unless you want both versions delete the other folder.
I don't see it listed but I hear there is a High Res mod floating around. Is it included in this update or a separate download. Thanks in advance!
Someone did some diplomacy movies and research avatars to better fit a 16:10/9 aspect ratio. Not a complete set. I think this was discussed in the Community Update thread.
The only place I really notice the aspect ratio is the opening screen, so maybe they did get incorporated.
https://forums.galciv2.com/142714/page/1/#1257753
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