so.. VS galactic Civ III...

[Petrothian]

are the features from the DLC from 3 in this one or? *thinking of buying, but if its not...

[Worlord]

It's a *totally* different game. I didn't like it at first, but I forced myself to play it because I suspected that the reason why I didn't like it was because it was unfamiliar to me. And I was right.

[Frogboy]

In general, it's a superset of the features / content from GalCiv III. i.e. you start with the civs that were in III + DLC in some form or other.

But like Worlord says, it's quite different.

I think the only feature that isn't in IV are the United Planets and there's a lore reason for that (the failure of the UP in GC2 / GC3 to stop the Drengin from doing what they did so screw the UP).

[Astasia]

If you remember the Crusades patch from GC3, this is sort of like that again. It's basically GC3 with most of the features and some refreshes, but with the gameplay rather heavily overhauled again. The only other GC3 DLC thing I can think of that's not at least in a similar form here, are the governments from Intrigue, but those have been broken up into more customizeable benefits. Instead of having one government with a static set of bonuses, you have a bunch of slots where you can pick and choose from various bonuses to create your own focus. All the other DLC content still exists mostly as you expect it to, some of it heavily expanded like the Mercenary system which now presents every faction with their own unique set of ships to hire with faction specific bonuses. So ya, it's GC3 with all DLC, but better.

[Petrothian]

thanks!

(getting it, hopefully performance on large maps better than 3)

[Frogboy]

Performance in GC4 is much, much MUCH better on big maps.

[Frogboy]

BTW, am I the only one who gets really irritated when a new game version comes out and they remove all the DLC you previously paid for?

So the short answer is: We've tried to integrate every DLC from GC3 into the BASE game here.

[mastarfin]

Originally posted by Frogboy:

BTW, am I the only one who gets really irritated when a new game version comes out and they remove all the DLC you previously paid for?

So the short answer is: We've tried to integrate every DLC from GC3 into the BASE game here.

OMG YES! and TY TY TY for doing this. :)

[Frogboy]

No need to thank me. It just really annoys me. I already PAID for that stuff?

To give you an extreme example, even the Star Control DLC from GC3 is in there as custom faction stuff.

The whole point, IMO, is to take the series FORWARD.

[Petrothian]

Originally posted by Frogboy:

BTW, am I the only one who gets really irritated when a new game version comes out and they remove all the DLC you previously paid for?

So the short answer is: We've tried to integrate every DLC from GC3 into the BASE game here.

yep, hence why I brought it just now.

[dean8bit]

Originally posted by Frogboy:

BTW, am I the only one who gets really irritated when a new game version comes out and they remove all the DLC you previously paid for?

So the short answer is: We've tried to integrate every DLC from GC3 into the BASE game here.

The Sims would like to have a word with you.

[Templer]

Originally posted by Frogboy:

... We've tried to integrate every DLC from GC3 into the BASE game here.

OK - sounds good.

[HurtfulPlayer97]

Yeah, the biggest thing that annoyed me about 3 was how stuff that was in the Base Game in 2 you had to get DLC for in 3...

[Frogboy]

Originally posted by HurtfulPlayer97:

Yeah, the biggest thing that annoyed me about 3 was how stuff that was in the Base Game in 2 you had to get DLC for in 3...

That was a bit of a different situation. GC3 was a 100% rewrite. Brand new 64-bit engine so everything had to be rebuilt over years.

But GC4 doesn't have that excuse. It's using the new engine so it gets to benefit from the work that was done on GC3.

[CBR JGWRR]

Originally posted by Petrothian:

are the features from the DLC from 3 in this one or? *thinking of buying, but if its not...

Now the Korath (and workshop functionality for that matter) are back with this patch, yes.

Presumably you are coming from 3, right? You can also copy and paste your ships, and ship design components, in straight from GalCiv3's Designs folder into the GalCiv4 Designs folder in your Documents/My Games/ folder.

They won't necessarily look the same as GC4 handles materials slightly differently though.

[Slightly Dubious Owl]

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