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Galactic Civilizations III Beta 5 Now Available

26 March, 2015 - IslandDog

Almost there! Galactic Civilizations III Beta 5 adds a ton of features, content, and polish to the game as the 1.0 release begins to peek over the horizon.

All the factions are now ready to do battle, as the mysterious Thalan Contingency and reclusive Iconian Refuge join the beta. In addition, custom factions can now be created so you can finally make that peaceful race of artistic mechanical monstrosities you’ve always wanted.

The truly ambitious can try their skills on our final two map sizes: Excessive and Insane. Be warned that they are appropriately named.

Minor factions now appear on the map, quietly toiling away on their homeworlds with nary a care in the galaxy, just waiting for someone to stop by and make friends and definitely not invade their juicy high-class homeworlds with a fleet of dropships that darkens their alien sun.

Pirates infest the inky void, causing trouble for anyone passing by.

New Game Pacing and Research Rate options let you control the speed at which a game of Galactic Civilizations III develops.

So much more awaits, from the new diplomacy screen to trade resources to modding support to new nebula art to ship combat roles. We can’t wait to hear what you think.

Read the full patch notes[forums.galciv3.com] for the full crazy-long list of changes in Beta 5.

Thanks as always for your support, and happy conquering!

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16 Comments

Le'Jend 1 Apr, 2015 @ 1:30pm

Galactic Civilizations III challenges players to ("Do the same as the last game") build an empire that dominates the galaxy through [Insert Old Victory Conditions Made to Sound New].

The only new features I can tell are the ideology mechanic, multiplayer, and graphics. Is that really it? What's the difference?

Le'Jend 1 Apr, 2015 @ 1:25pm

Maybe this is a stupid question, but what is the freakin' difference between Gal Civ 2 and Gal Civ 3 besides the graphics?

August 31 Mar, 2015 @ 9:28pm

I've been consistently crashing in the middle stages of the game since this update, with no obvious causes. Had no issues prior.

FadBamse 29 Mar, 2015 @ 5:16pm

Even more broken than Beta4, not only is the random galaxy generater still totally bugged, this point "Reduced memory usage by roughly 40%" is completely untrue. I had a bit of performance issues in Beta4, with small map, 5 opponents after around maybe 50 turns where there is allot more going on. In beta5, on a tiny map, 3 opponents, its laggy at the very first "end turn", the very first.... after 3 turns i meet a minor race, and it freezes totally in the dialog. started over and its the same. Programming is just horrible !!!