New player who is struggling with a few things

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Hi all,

 

I just got the CG2 DA Gold boxed set and have been playing.  I am on the third mission of the campaign and I am enjoying the game for the most part, but I have a couple of questions/issues.

 

1) After installing and registering and installing and setting up impulse I ran the update thing from the splash screen that says play, update, manual as options.  I foudn and updat from the installed version 1.5.XX.XX to 1.5.XX.DD, where DD was the only difference in the update numbers - so I ran that.

Then I went to run the game and the executable that launches the game is gone from the install directory.  I can no longer run the executable that give the play/update/manual options because it has apparently been removed from my system by the update process.  I can still run the game because I can create a direct link to the game executable.

Am I going to have to uninstall and re-install to recover from this?  Is there a way to initiate the update process without this program on my computer?

2) What is the most recent patch?  I was surprised when Impulse said 1.5.xx.dd, because I was reading things in the forums about 1.6, 1.8, etc.

3) I am on the third mission of the campaign, and while I am enjoying making ships, etc. I am finding the actual gameplay to be a bit boring.  I started the campaign on the normal difficulty and the OPFOR seems to be mostly content with sitting and waiting for me to come along and wipe them out.  Oh, there are the occasional half-hearted forays into my space, but no or little comes of it.  I cant' even get them to come out and fight when I keep blowing up their starbases.

 

Am I missing something?

 

Thanks,

 

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I cannot answer 1 or 2 because I am impulse-phobic and still use Stardock Central, but as to 3: This is the normal behavior of the AI at normal, plus the fact that the campeighns start out easy and get more difficult as they go on.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Latest DL is 1.50.135, DA is 1.80g.103, and TA is 1.96.027, while the latest TA beta is 1.99[rc].016.

Are you not seeing DA?  The Gold code should work for both DL & DA.

I believe that's an issue with Impulse overlooking a file, and if memory serves if you rename your GalCiv2.exe to GC2Launch.exe, that problem should be resolved.  I'm not sure why this should work, but I haven't had an opportunity to try it myself to see why it would, either.

I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to when you ask if there's a way to run the update process without a specific program on your computer, but my assumption is that you're talking about the "missing" GC2 launch exe.  if you run Impulse, you can get your updates.  If your complaint is about Impulse (which I'm not reading it as), then I'm sorry you feel that way, but Impulse has essentially replaced SDC and is necessary for updates.

As far as the AI goes, at least as far as the campaign is concerned, you'll be begging for mercy soon enough.  The Dread Lords are aptly named.  :)

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Indeed. I WTFed when I first saw a Battleship with 277 attack engaging my 4 attack 3 defence Defender.