Stardock Announces Galactic Civilizations III v2.0 Update and Special Steam Weekend Sale

Adds Starbase Administrators, Improved Diplomacy, Enhanced UI, and more

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Plymouth, MI. – January 26, 2017 - Today, Stardock released version 2.0 for its popular space-based strategy game, Galactic Civilizations III. The version includes a new resource called Starbase Administrators, improved diplomacy, tweaks to the game’s UI, balancing, and more.

"Version 2.0 is the culmination of many months of working closely with our community on the kinds of features players like but often don't get a lot of attention,” Stardock CEO Brad Wardell said. “For example, the diplomatic AI is more sophisticated and plays a lot like a human would both in terms of trading and how they deal with the complex web of foreign relations. We also added a new concept called administration that is designed to let players have smaller empires that are competitive."

The latest v2.0 update for Galactic Civilizations III releases during a special Steam weekend sale where players can save up to 75% off of the complete Galactic Civilizations III: Gold Bundle from January 26 - 30. Existing players can complete their collection while players who are newer to the franchise can pick up the base game and all of its existing DLC for one low price.

Among the other improvements to v2.0 is an AI "redlining" system. The computer AI will internally evaluate diplomatic trades and "redline" for feedback to the player in order to better evaluate its own trades.This process allows for a much more interesting and engaging relationship with the AI players.

Several changes to the UI offer up even more improvements available in v2.0. These include folding categories for auto-generated military ships, adding player-designed ships to their favorites, and showing important resources and turn information to both the planet and shipyard windows.

To see a complete list of what’s new in v2.0, you can view the full changelog here.

The Galactic Civilizations III: Gold Bundle is currently available for up to 75% off on Steam. The base game can be found on Steam, at Stardock, or on GOG. For more information about Galactic Civilizations III, please visit www.galciv3.com.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Thank you for the DLC rebate. I was sad there was none at xmas (for the newest ones)

Now I got them all.

 

I hope you plan lots of proper races (with videos and ships design)

for the big expansion. even if just variants

(like the drenghin / korath)

properly animated races (rather than portraits) is important for immersion.

and with Paradox games and lattest total war series,

large number of opponents and large variety is the norm.

 

Maybe you can think in term of racial families like paradox did in stellaris.

drengin and arceans and all the other could use a dozen cousins each.

the similarity could make development easier, as you could partially reuse assets.

for sure humans and their long lost technomages and cyborg brothers

would have slightly similar ships and racial looks.

 

I was a bit disappointed, because early on you almost said race dlc would be common

but only the snathi appeared. you even missed the opportunity to bring back korx and drath fully.

(I was surprised the old races were not all included from day one)