Galactic Civilizations III Beta 3 Now Available

http://store.steampowered.com/app/226860/
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Weak fleshlings beware, the Yor Singularity has arrived!

Beta 3 adds everyone’s favorite synthetic sociopaths, who laugh at the idea of feeding their colonists or worrying about growth rates. Need more population? Just build some new units to augment the Singularity’s physical capabilities. Simple.

Also included in Beta 3 are big-moment cinematics done by our in-house team to mark occasions like your first capital ship launched or first colony founded, and our first pass at combat animations including visible damage states for starships.

We’ve also dropped in unique art for many events, made the UI reflect your empire’s color (GalCiv III is approximately 62% less blue, on balance), added a ton of (perfectly realistic) sound effects to many objects in space, completely overhauled balance, and much more.

Read the full patch notes here: https://forums.galciv3.com/459763

                                         

Thanks for helping us beta test Galactic Civilizations III! Please drop us your feedback and bug reports on the Steam forums or official boards, and swing by our weekly livestream (Fridays at 3pm Eastern) to get a sneak peek of the latest build and ask lead designer Paul Boyer your questions.

Happy conquering!

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Downloading now! I can't wait! 

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Awesome, I will down load it today after work!

 

Thanks Devs, you all are tops!

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Yes. :D

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Nice gents! Looking forward to finishing up my very long day with some galactic conquering tonight!! Thanks.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Encountered a bug with music, it just stopped playing, sound effects are fine, but no background music.

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

If there is an issue, please post in the support forum so we can make note of it and follow-up if necessary.

https://forums.galciv3.com/forum/1067

 

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

So i leave for work just after 12:00 im closing tonight and opening tommorrow so cant play till at least tomorrow evening. 

Its like you guys know my schedule and put out the patches just to tease me

Reply #9 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Seven years ago, my computer at the time blew out half its RAM and began succumbing to the capacitor plague while I was playtesting the new Yor tech tree in Twilight of the Arnor.

Yesterday, Stardock releases the Yor for GalCiv 3 and my computer breaks, forcing me to do a full reformat and Windows reinstall.

Coincidence? Yeah, probably.

Also, the computer is working fine now.

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Reply #10 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Phaedyme, reply 9

Seven years ago, my computer at the time blew out half its RAM and began succumbing to the capacitor plague while I was playtesting the new Yor tech tree in Twilight of the Arnor.

Yesterday, Stardock releases the Yor for GalCiv 3 and my computer breaks, forcing me to do a full reformat and Windows reinstall.

Coincidence? Yeah, probably.

Also, the computer is working fine now.

What a horrible fate.

Reply #11 from Elemental Forums Top

It's the worst.

It was also sorely needed, so I can't complain too much. I was able to save important files. :)

Reply #12 from GalCiv3 Forums Top


(perfectly realistic) sound effects to many objects in space,

LOL

Reply #13 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

A few takeaways from my first time playing Beta 3:

 

  • Sound effects! I really like the different sound effects that have been added into the game. 
  • Cut scenes! I am blown away by the quality of the cut scenes! I only wish they were a bit longer or repeating or something. 
  • Artwork! Tremendous job on the event artwork! It is beautiful! I hope we get different artwork for anomalies, too. 

 

The game is really starting to come together now. I can't wait to see the finished product and am already dreaming about what the expansions will be like!

 

Reply #14 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Never realised how important sound effects are until after I updated...! Inversely some of them are a bit ridiculous. Like the Build command in the Shipyard. Sound effect is too long and if you build several ships it sounds like there is an echo!