Major free update for players of the Dark Avatar and Twilight expansion packs
Published on November 5, 2008 By Island Dog In GalCiv II News

Stardock has released a major free update to its award-winning PC strategy game, Galactic Civilizations II. The update adds a host of new features to its latest expansion pack Twilight of the Arnor as well as expands on features found in the Dark Avatar expansion pack.

Galactic Civilizations II was originally released in 2006 and won numerous PC game awards including “Turn-based Strategy Game of the Year from GameSpy”. In 2007 the first expansion pack, Dark Avatar was released and became the highest-rated expansion pack of all time according to Metacritic. This year, the second expansion pack, Twilight of the Arnor was released and surpassed Dark Avatar in ratings and sales.

Version 2.0 has been developed as a major free update, primarily for Twilight of the Arnor, to help integrate the expansion packs together with the original into a single consolidated experience.

New features include but are not limited to:

  • Players can now design new starships from the main game menu
  • All game campaigns have been updated to be playable within Twilight of the Arnor
  • New user manual
  • Numerous new game setup options
  • Updated diplomatic options
  • New planetary governors for automating the building of planets
  • Revamped espionage system
  • Auto-building for starbases
  • Balance updating
  • Improved graphics

Since its release, Galactic Civilizations II has sold over 300,000 copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling PC turn-based strategy games of all time and has built a significant player base amongst strategy gamers, modders and sci-fi fans.

Players can download the update via Impulse (www.impulsedriven.com), Stardock’s digital distribution platform that enables users to purchase, download and update hundreds of different PC games and applications.

Players can get the entire Galactic Civilizations II saga at their local retail outlet or direct from Stardock at www.galciv2.com.

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on Nov 06, 2008

woot

on Nov 06, 2008

So it appears that the 'Uninstall TA' is the way it is intended and not a bug with Impulse?

on Nov 06, 2008

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on Nov 06, 2008

Will this be made available for Galactic Civilizations II:Dread Lords?

on Nov 06, 2008

So it appears that the 'Uninstall TA' is the way it is intended and not a bug with Impulse?

Installing over a beta version can have unpredictable results.  It's always best to either uninstall completely then re-install the latest version that way, or restore the previous finished version and update that.

 

on Nov 06, 2008

Before I left yesterday, we thought that we had the update available for EU users.  Is anyone still having trouble getitng it?

 

on Nov 06, 2008

I uninstalled everything on both my desktop and laptop took 3 minutes and my saved game from beta was there had no problems whatsoever.

 

Runs great.

 

Good work Stardock!

on Nov 06, 2008

CariElf
Before I left yesterday, we thought that we had the update available for EU users.  Is anyone still having trouble getitng it?

 

 

I'm a EU user, but Impulse cannot detect the v2.0 patch for Galactic Civilizations II:Dread Lords if it's actually available - Dark Avatar was updated to v2.0 but not Dread Lords. The Dread Lords version which I have is v1.53.

 

V2.0 for Dark Avatar ony added the following:

 

Version 2.00
----------------
+ Contains compatibility fix for Vista 64
+ Bug fix for list box entries

 

No major updates only fixes.

on Nov 06, 2008

Dark Warlock
I'm a EU user, but Impulse cannot detect the v2.0 patch for Galactic Civilizations II:Dread Lords if it's actually available - Dark Avatar was updated to v2.0 but not Dread Lords. The Dread Lords version which I have is v1.53.

1.53 is the most recent I'm seeing.  I'm unaware how recent of an update this is or what it actually adds, but it has been previously stated numerous times that DL would not see anything for 2.0, so there will be no 2.0 DL.

on Nov 06, 2008

...Dread Lords version which I have is v1.53.

This IS the most recent version -- upgraded to any newest features!

Make that a file numbered: 1.53.136!

on Nov 06, 2008

Sole Soul

Quoting Sole Soul, Reply #24


1.53 is the most recent I'm seeing.  I'm unaware how recent of an update this is or what it actually adds, but it has been previously stated numerous times that DL would not see anything for 2.0, so there will be no 2.0 DL.

 

V1.53 for Dread Lords only adds the following:

 

Version 1.5.3
-----------------
+ Adds Vista and Vista 64 compatibility fixes.

 

You can find the information by clicking on the galactic civilizations 2 in "My Games" and then "History".

on Nov 06, 2008

CariElf:

I have EU and still cannot register it on Impluse so cannot see whether the update is available.

on Nov 06, 2008

i have the EU and cant register the game too

on Nov 06, 2008



Arnorian Ship Style
With the final build of 2.0 you'll have full access to the ship style of the Arnorians.

I found this from here https://forums.galciv2.com/325737

Where is it? Because i see nothing.

on Nov 06, 2008

Dark Warlock
Will this be made available for Galactic Civilizations II:Dread Lords?

I second this question. 

 

More pertinently, is there any reason to get the 2.0 update if I only have DL?  Or do all the new changes/fixes apply to DA/TA only? 

 

 

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