Endless Universe? Ultimate Edition?

Short: Whut?

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Ok, guilty as charged, played DL at my friends. Fell in love. Decided to buy. That normal yabba yabba.

But... Endless Universe? Ultimate Edition? What's the difference? Whole different thingymajingy (Different campaigns and stuff)? Just different name (for whatever reason)? Uhh... :S

Which one should I buy? (I live in Finland) I want to spend my 2 weeks of a holiday ASAP on GC2 :pout:

 

Edit: Ahh no option/possibility to remove posts... (by the one who posted it) I didn't use my eyes it seems. Sorry for troubling #:( *thinking to himself: What a great first impression >.>*

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

well

Endless Universe is a standalone of the two expansion packs that is : Dark Avatar & Twilight of the Arnor, it also gets the original Dread Lords campaign and is just missing the Dread lords engine if you ever wanted to play in the original dread lords rules & feature set

 

Ultimate Edition has it all except, currently it is not possible to update it to 2.x because it seems the original deal between distributor and stardock was that the distributor would handle support ... Stardock is trying to sort that out though

 

OR you could also buy the 3 games directly on impulse for download

Either way impulse is required for updates

overall I would personnaly refrain from Ultimate Edition and choose between the other two

 

EDIT: ho and there's nothing wrong with playing the game at a friend's house ...

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I guess not, but I *accidental-ish* destroyed his empire ^_^'  

So Ultimate Edition?

But EU doesn't have a Physical Formation? Is there any limits to the digital version of it?

And 3 games seperately... I would love to do that but costs moar then I have.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

EU should be on CD

Digital version (purchasable directly from stardock with impulse )  of galciv2 has no limitations at all you can even use an archive function to put the thing on CD (although it will require impulse to reinstall it)

when I said the 3 games on impulse I was talking about this : https://www.galciv2.com/Purchase.aspx

the "ultimate bundle" (NOT the same as galciv2 Ultimate Edition)

wasn't really talking about buying the 3 separately, though I don't know how this compares for the price...

 

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Ooh shiny err I mean cheap.

 

imadaman, now rolling on floor out of joy :rofl:  

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

It's a shame that you waited until now to ask because Play.com (UK) deliver to Finland for free and only want £4.99 for EU.  It would probably be the New Year before you got delivery though.

As for the Utimate Edition, it is only a single DVD so it is convenient to install and once the registration issue is sorted it will be a good option.  I'm still enjoying it while I wait.