The Battle Viewer Arrives Today With Beta 4

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The day is upon us! Revel in the terrible might of your grand fleets, witnessing their deadly grace with the power of the brand-new battle viewer in Galactic Civilizations III Beta 4!

Beta 4 isn't just the addition of the real-time battle viewer, though, sweet as it is. Today we've also got a whole bunch of gameplay additions and tweaks for you:

Extreme worlds extend the colonization race throughout the game by unlocking valuable new worlds with advanced technology. Every colony is precious, so you'll have to make the tough decisions between racing for the techs that let you land on these rich new planets and all of the other directions you can focus your research in.

The Ideology revamp dramatically changes that whole system. Now you progress down five different branches of each ideology, going deep or wide or some combination of the two. How does finding hidden planets, or adding a free fighter escort to every fleet sound? Sounds like it's time to beeline some ideological improvements, that's what. Oh, and the ideology screen is just slightly prettier than the old version.

Gigantic and Immense map sizes are our biggest yet. There should probably be a prize for winning one of these monsters before the game comes out. Of course, there's still Insane to come...

And of course, the battle viewer is in. Pause, replay, and play with several camera modes to get the best angle on the sweet, sweet flaming death your fleets launch at the enemy. It is not interactive; Galactic Civilizations III is a game about huge space empires, not battle tactics.

      

Read the full patch notes for all the gory details.

Thanks as always for your support, and happy conquering!

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

:)

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Thanks for the update! :)

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Thanks.  I tried to search the forums, but what is the deal with ground combat?  Hopefully something better than atari graphic tanks duking it out and blinking flags with laser and machine gun fire in the background.  It would be awesome if it was like MOO2 where you might see your power armored assisted drengin firing purple death ray beams as they charge against torians in standard starship trooper esk gear with regular laser rifles...

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Thanks Adam.

Nevertheless, how about the ground combat and political parties?

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

If this isn't good enough forr you, I dunno what to tell ya.

 

(...Moon Patrol was sweet tho)

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

"decision to spread [hyperdrive tech] to [humanity's] neighbours" sounds clunky IMO. I suggest share with instead of spread to

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Had some awesome battles already, screen shots are available on the steam forum and they look great. Hey devs, one heck of a great job on this beta release.

 

PS we shipbuilders are tickled with the fixes!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply #8 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

link for the screen shots
http://steamcommunity.com/app/226860/screenshots/?p=1&browsefilter=mostrecent

Reply #9 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Are there/will there be carriers with fighters? Pretty please with sugar on top..

Reply #10 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Haha, it's good enough. Was just slaughtered by Drengin :)

 

Thumbs up!

Reply #11 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Been playing for a few hours now.  My Drengin are spreading through the Galaxy.  Good work!