Highlights of what's new in Twilight of the Arnor

from JoeUser Forums

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New opening cut-scene of course...

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Tournaments:

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The Campaign:

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New Start-up Options: Immense sized galaxies, Tech stealing option, Ascension Victory Condition:

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New Logos:

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Lots of different Technology trees to choose from:

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Much better planet graphics:

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MUCH better ship graphics - a total overhaul and a reduced memory foot print!

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Starbases tell you how many modules are still available:

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Ascension starbases add a new diplomatic twist:

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Finance Manager:

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Much improved computer AI all-around:

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New ambassador from Earth:

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Each race has their own set of planetary improvements:

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Lots and lots of unique technologies per civilization:

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New random events:

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Historical Events:

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Updated Trade Screen with interactive help:

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Technology Details dialog:

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More sophisticated AI for trading:

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Unique technologies that fit the civilization using it:

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Familiar planets look so much better:

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Even the humans get a bunch of new, meaningful technologies with rich descriptions:

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The technology tree now has icons that tell you what you get with mouse-overs:

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Even the improvement descriptions can be lengthy and useful now:

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The enhanced graphics really do make quite a difference:

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Immense sized galaxies are offensively large. Ridiculously large. You people are insane.

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Because every civilization has its own technology tree, the technologies can be used to provide backstory:

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New Options:

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New Ship Design screen with the ability to animate any part:

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Lots of new...ahem...dialog:

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By default, the computer will design ships for you:

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Improved UI graphics:

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AI going for ascension victory:

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Improved battle effects (thanks to I-Mod):

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New ship components such as the Integrity field can add extra hitpoints to your ships - at a cost:

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Other new components can give bonuses to weapons in fleet battles.

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And of course, Terror Stars!

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Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Those screenshots are awesome. I'm looking forward to TotA more right now than I am to my graduation in a month. :D
Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Excellent. It's a completely new Galactic civilization 2. I understand why you need so much time to polish the game. the number of new features and improvement is impressive. :D

Just a question : what's the computer design AI ? The few games I played with the beta(I prefer to play the final release of a game), I didn't notice the feature.
Is the AI completely design the ship with random eye-candies parts(the look of the ship will change drastically each game you play) ? Or are there premade designs where the "statistic" parts are tweaked ?
Sorry if it was answered in an older topic but I can't find it.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Wow.. I knew it was good, but when you look at all the new features together, I don't think any expansion comes close. Outstanding work. Thank you very much! :)
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Nice, I almost wish you would take an extra month to polish this further! But that's what patches are for I guess..
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
HE HE the new ship Graphics mess up several of my ship :)
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I just wish there was a way to buy the expansion without a credit card!!
It would make life easier if they accepted the Switch/Solo cards. (:(
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
dragoon, if you use Paypal you can get around that problem. They accept payments with solo through there and into Stardock.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I do hope this expansion pack will winn the Expansion pack of the year victory.
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Looks great. One question with the feature list. What ever happened to the "right of passage" treaty? Is that going to be implemented or considered abandoned after no one could come up with a satisfactory way that it would work?
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
Very impressive Brad! I look forward to purchasing it.

I guess the only feature he has yet to really show here is the new music tracks. :D
Reply #13 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You people are insane.


A pot-kettle moment if ever I saw one ;-)

Looking very much forward to a full game on an Immense map
Reply #14 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Very nice and lol It shows me in the tournament screen :D . Also don't forget you can favorite you ship parts and it puts in a favorite category now. Thank you so much love that feature and everything else. Cravings are coming on I NEED THIS NOW! *(goes insane and speaks in strange language.)
Reply #15 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Barnsalot, yo man, me too, five weeks till i graduate and half way through my finals, trying to abstain from Twilight for as long as possible (had a small relapse yesterday :D). No reason to stay away from the website though :D...
Reply #16 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Looks great. One question with the feature list. What ever happened to the "right of passage" treaty? Is that going to be implemented or considered abandoned after no one could come up with a satisfactory way that it would work?

We're not going to do the right of passage treaty. 

Reply #19 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Plenty of features without it anyway. It seemed to be pretty hard to implement well, particularly when two races can inhabit the same solar system.
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting Nickziller, reply 18


Looks good, but I hope you'll fix some of those typos and mistakes before release.

Nah, we're trying to put all of this work into the game so that we can release it with a bunch of grammatical errors and simplistic typos. It improves our morale and makes us look good at the same time.

Reply #21 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
This is going to be AWSOME!!!


It ALREADY is, i guess.
My eye-lids are flapping up like crazy and my brain (what's left of it anyway) feels like mushy glob from staring at the whole bunch of snapshots... Teasing is fun, actually playing the real genuine beta copy (98c, installed!) is even more satisfying.
;)
In fact, Addiction has to be a better word.
Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top

Are there many music and sound changes? I loved the main menu music to Dread Lords. I'd actually take my time setting up a game just to listen to the music longer.

Reply #23 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
dragoon, if you use Paypal you can get around that problem. They accept payments with solo through there and into Stardock.


I've read a lot of bad things about Paypal... Things like Pp losing card details etc.
I'm really quite suspicious of things like that.
Has anyone else had issues with Paypal? Or is it easy to sign up once, and then cancel the account once i've done what I needed to with it?

Sins of A solar empire is getting a boxed release in the UK in June I believe, so it's only really TotA I need.
Reply #24 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You got rid of the old human ambassador? Thank you thank you thank you! I always hated that guy!
Reply #25 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Has anyone else had issues with Paypal? Or is it easy to sign up once, and then cancel the account once i've done what I needed to with it?


I have had a PayPal account for some time. Once you have your account set up, it is easy to use, and quite secure. You can cancel at any time, if you choose, but it is easiest to leave your account open, since it is likely that you will want to use it again.