Pre-order Sins of a Solar Empire Expansion “Entrenchment” and Get in the Beta”
Published on November 19, 2008 By Island Dog In Sins News

Stardock announced a huge free update for Sins of a Solar Empire today, the award-winning title from developer Ironclad Games. Additionally, fans that pre-order the expansion will be included in the upcoming beta for “Entrenchment”. Fans can pre-order the expansion at www.impulsedriven.com.

Highlights from the 1.1 change log include:

  • Alloy Networking Technology – allows for seamless multiplayer without needing to deal with port forwarding or other router settings
  • Major upgrade to the graphics engine for better performance on all systems
  • Updated/improved graphics (textures, new models, explosions and more)
  • Mini-Underground Window – allows you to buy/sell resources and make pirate bids on the main gameplay screen
  • Improved game balance
  • Improved AI
  • Bug fixes and much more

The entire change log can be viewed here: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/329902.

Please note that this update is ENGLISH ONLY.  The French and German versions are still undergoing testing and will be made available at a later date.

For more information about Stardock or the pre-order, please visit www.impulsedriven.com or www.stardock.com.


 


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on Nov 19, 2008

ah, wonderful, thank you. I think that needs to be said again, for a free patch of this magnitude. it was about time.

now I only need another preview for entrenchment, some new info, any info to bridge the beta release and I am a very happy gamer.

I wonder how far ahead the other mini exp. are, but probably not far, considering entrenchment had to be postponed.

on Nov 19, 2008
Impulse doesn't show me the update at all. It isn't under the Update tab, nor on the Sins area in My Games. Any idea what's going on?
on Nov 19, 2008

Lifeat30fps, Try going into the game then hitting the Update Game button in-game. It will redirect you to Impulse.  Mine is taking forever to Verfiy Download...  It's been like that for about 20 minutes now...  Hope it works...

on Nov 19, 2008

lol old advent factory pic

on Nov 19, 2008

Does the Patch recognize the localisation?

 

Just updated the game, but ran into problems with "String not Found" messages everywhere. Renaming the Strings (english.str --> german.str) resolved it, but the game is now in english. And the old german.str doesn't function.

Or is Kalypso not ready with our localisation(s)?

on Nov 19, 2008

IMPORTANT:

Today's update is ENGLISH ONLY.  The French and German versions are still undergoing testing and will be made available at a later date.

on Nov 19, 2008

Phalnax811,  that's for the advice.  It didn't work though.    Maybe it will work later?

on Nov 19, 2008

I'm still having problems. It says "Downloading Impulse Update - Verifying", and its been saying that for five minutes now. There's no download activity going on, and I'm on a fairly zippy computer (dual core Intel, Vista 64 bit, 4GB RAM). It appears to be idle as far as I can tell.

edit - Closed Impulse (since it wasn't hung), and restarted. Update started in a couple of seconds, and now Sins is downloading happily. So nevermind.

on Nov 19, 2008

Mine still says "Verifying download".  I already had the game itself, so the patch is only 218 meg.  It started downloading over two hours ago, during which time I've been gone, and it still says "verifying download".

on Nov 19, 2008

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on Nov 19, 2008

Aarojw
Mine still says "Verifying download".  I already had the game itself, so the patch is only 218 meg.  It started downloading over two hours ago, during which time I've been gone, and it still says "verifying download".

 

Mine was verifying download for a good two hours so I canceled and now I'm trying it again....

 

Lifeat30fps, owell, I'm not having much luck either....

on Nov 19, 2008

Well, I work up this morning (now 8.20am here), turned on my comp and downloaded the patch and left it while getting ready for work. One message saying a timeout had occured (that I saw), but it picked up again fine.

Unfortunately I haven't run the game yet to see if it works (I am assuming so, but you know what they say...) - I have to work ALL day until I get home in about 9 and a bit hours

on Nov 19, 2008

downloaded at 2.5mb/s.  So it worked well here.

on Nov 19, 2008

Hey one problem with Impulse I discovered.

I install all my games onto G:

but it wont let me just swap out the C for a G , when I get prompted for installation folder.

Its a real bitch having to use browse and then create folders

on Nov 19, 2008

Alright, I cancelled the download, got out of impulse, got back in, and restarted the download, and it worked!  Haven't gotten in game yet, but at least its downloaded.

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