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Galactic Civilizations III Beta 6.1 Opt-in Available

May 1, 2015 5:33:00 PM from Galactic Civilizations III ForumsGalactic Civilizations III Forums

Polish, polish, polish! We’ve released an update to Galactic Civilizations III Beta 6 that tweaks the UI (new hotkeys!), adjusts the AI and general balance, and fixes a pile of bugs.

Read the full patch notes here: https://forums.galciv3.com/464200/

To opt into the patch, do the following:

  1. Open your Steam client

  2. Right-click Galactic Civilizations III, select Properties

  3. Select the Betas tab

  4. In the drop-down menu, choose “Opt-in”

  5. Close the properties window

  6. Your game should patch automatically

Beta 6 is the final approach before Galactic Civilizations III launches for real, and we’re working as hard as we can to make release day a joyous event.

Make sure to check out the Faction Design Contest voting that opened today as well – our community produced some awesomely creative work, and you can download the finalists and honorable mentions into your own game: https://www.galciv3.com/factiondesigncontest.

Thanks for your support, and happy conquering!

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Reply #1 May 1, 2015 7:14:52 PM
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Nope.  Trying to start 2P game CTD on START.  Tried many setup combinations.

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Reply #2 May 1, 2015 8:02:49 PM
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Ehm....

 

First starbase setup on 6.1, where's my construction screen???

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Reply #3 May 2, 2015 7:18:41 AM
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I keep 'crashing' when attacking a pirate shipyard, I get the battle prompt, then nothing. I can cycle through ships/planets, but cannot continue to the next turn...

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Reply #4 May 2, 2015 8:35:22 AM
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Yeah...I got this, too.  Can't upgrade my first starbase because there is no screen (have background only, but no cool buttons to press).

 

UPDATE: I tried verifying my Steam cache and it did download a "missing file" but that didn't work either.  The screen IS there (I hear sounds when I click on where the buttons are supposed to be, but there is no display).  Will keep hammering away...

 

UPDATE 2: I received some sort of update in between games...everything works fine now.  New loading screens, too!

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Reply #5 May 2, 2015 4:03:25 PM
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I've been able to play for a few hours without any crash or obvious bug, so the game is definitely stable on my hardware. on the other hand, after leaving the game, I still had a GalCiv process using 1.7 GB and quite a bit of CPU, so it seems you forgot something in the threads cleaning-up.

A point in the game mechanics: when you colonize a new planet, could it be possible to place manually the colony capital? Most of the times, it seems it is set randomly on an isolated tile, which is a pity considering its bonuses to adjacent tiles.

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Reply #6 May 2, 2015 4:15:21 PM
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Great step, I have no problems like you talk about.

I think it was a great job. Sure some polish needs the game already but feels much better than 6.0.

(Current in turn 265, Terran) 

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Reply #7 May 2, 2015 9:27:43 PM
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6.1 Seems more stable but I found a graphical / lighting issue.

[I found the reason for the odd relic color, I had a bad colordefs.xml.]

 

1. There's an odd highlight on the delete button in the ship builder.

Ship Builder

It get's highlighted on a mouseover

Ship Builder Selected

 

2. Also, the Terran hulls still show the pirate designs and are displaying the underscores in the hull name.

Ship Builder Text

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Reply #8 May 2, 2015 9:39:45 PM
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Just want to say that the new load screen looks awesome.

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Reply #9 May 3, 2015 10:27:40 AM
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THANK YOU!

For changing the loading screen.

I really didn't like that big ugly Drengin staring at me while the game loaded and I always minimized it until I got that annoying video driver popup.

When I loaded up the game today, I was pleasantly surprised to see a new loading screen that I like SO MUCH BETTER!

The new Alterian vs. Drengin loading screen looks awesome and I really appreciate that you replaced the old one.

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Reply #10 May 3, 2015 11:28:12 AM
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New load screen: Elves vs Orcs.

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Reply #11 May 3, 2015 11:47:58 AM
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i like the new load screen but the game crashes right after the intro video

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Reply #12 May 3, 2015 5:05:00 PM
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I've been getting more CTD since 6.1 was reloaded last night/this morning.  Got one when upgrading a star base, and one when just turning but the turn came after a pirate encounter.

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Reply #13 May 4, 2015 1:11:16 PM
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As my games get to over 300 turns, I am getting severe lag issues. I don't know what the NPCs are doing but they seem to have hundreds of ships and starbases. I don't even have many ships moving around, but I end up waiting for several minutes between turns. I just lost a game because my PC keeps thinking the program is not responding and it closed the game.

My PC isn't even that bad. I have a Core I5-3570K overclocked to 4.2 gigs (liquid cooled), a 2GB Radeon HD 7870 video card and 16GB of DDR2 1333 RAM.

I really don't think I should be lagging as bad as I am right now. I really hope you can "optimize" the game so the turns don't take so long.

Galaxy size is on immense with 5 NPC races and no minors all on medium settings.

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Reply #14 May 4, 2015 4:39:19 PM
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It's the constant use of pagefile that bogs the game down on large maps. Have 16GB ram as well, the game barely uses 3GB or so now (down from 4GB+ in the previous betas). But it keeps grinding and grinding my HDD. Guess I will have to give up and move it to the SSD at some point

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Reply #15 May 6, 2015 9:33:40 PM
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I think I found the problem. The NPCs on medium difficulty build hundreds of really ineffective ships and they also build starbases everywhere. 

 

I would prefer that the NPCs do a little more research first and build fewer ships that are more of a challenge. 

 

In my most recent game, the Terran NPC who spawned next to me built a whole bunch of starbases inside my territory. He claimed half of my resources before I had a chance to. I ended up having to buy them from him, because I wasn't ready to go to war yet. When I would open the diplomacy window to trade with him, I had to scroll through a huge list of starbases. He had built way more starbases than he needed and I think the other NPCs are also doing this. 

 

If the NPCs built fewer ships and less starbases, that would really reduce the long wait times that occur in longer games. 

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