Galactic Civilizations II 2.0 Released!

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.

Comments (Page 7)

Sole Soul

on Nov 25, 2008

theycallmecheese

reply 15

GAH! I installed the update for all three (DL, DA and TotA) and now my TotA saved game won't load! Anyone else?

Updates break savegames 99.9% of the time.

This is not new.

The devs even went out of their way to specify that this update in particular definitively would not be compatible with earlier savegames.

brycej

on Feb 10, 2009

The Colony button for unowned planets should show what type it: toxic, radioactive, etc. Without have to punch on it.

A symbol would do. I base my research on the number of each planet type that is 10 or better.

It also would be nice if one could hold off on a tech universe wide that one receives when one conquers a planet.

Sometimes I get improvements that wreck the economy because of their cost. One can do it planet by planet. That can be a lot of work.

Sole Soul

on Feb 10, 2009

Sometimes I get improvements that wreck the economy because of their cost. One can do it planet by planet. That can be a lot of work.

Turn off auto-upgrade when you colonize/conquer/flip a planet?

I agree that it would be very nice to have a civ-wide setting for this, though.

YiddoBobbins

on Apr 17, 2009

Red Frog

reply 25

Quoting YiddoBobbins,
reply 7

Show some appreciation and grow up, some of you.

Perhaps try some of your own advice. Of course I guess everything is peachy since you can get the update, and I guess the universe does revolve around you. Why should anyone care about people who can't get Impulse? These are legitimate complaints coming from people who spent the same amount of money you did for the same game, and since they may be using Linux or a pre-XP machine are unable to get the update. I fail to see how their choice of operating system makes them or their money somehow inferior to you or your money to the point of upsetting your overly baked sense of decency.

Do everyone a favor, STFU and go play the game. You're doing everyone that doesn't have the update a disservice because we simply want what you already have. I'm sure we'd rather be playing the update than asking Stardock to help us play the update.

I STFU and went and played the game (because I was delighting in being able to). You stopped moaning yet? Or did you wake up and ask Stardock to help you fix your problem like you should've in the first place?

BTW, nice completely failing to understand anything I said. Not mentioning myself at any point makes it tough to understand how you assumed everything in my world was completely peachy. It was pretty simple what i was saying - it's free, stop complaining.

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