Twilight of the Arnor Beta 1

Published on October 30, 2007 By CariElf In GalCiv Journals

We are very excited to finally release the Twilight of the Arnor beta! Not all of the final features are included in this beta, so that we can focus on testing specific features. To that end, please do not use mods while beta testing, as we don't want to beta test the mods at this point.

Please post bug reports in the Beta Reports section of the forums. For further instructions on submitting reports, please see this thread:

https://forums.galciv2.com/?forumid=421&aid=166398

Features included in this build:

+ Terran, Drengin, and Arcean tech-trees now specific to their race

+ All other races disabled for Beta 1

+ New Improvement graphics for existing improvements

+ New Race Specific Improvements added

+ New Race Specific Planet Textures made

+ Planet Textures no longer generated...use pre-made textures (only 5 textures for Beta 1)

+ 'Twilight' Title Screen, new Twilight theme music, and updated user-interface graphics

+ Tech-Tree Screen now shows icons for Improvements and Abilities gained from each Tech

+ Special Ship Components Added to assist Fleets and Individual Ships (Stellar Defenders, Hull Points, Fire Coordinator, Warp Bubble Projector, etc.)

+ Immense Galaxies

+ Metaverse disabled for this beta

Comments (Page 2)

DivineWrath

on Oct 30, 2007

My Beta plan:
________________

Lets see here...

1 game to get a feel.
3 games to throughly test the races (1 as each).
1 to test this "Immense" size galaxies.

Maybe a few more games after that to cover anything I missed.

tickhromeroi

on Oct 30, 2007

This is trivial and could very well be my fault, so I'm bringing it up here instead of in it's own thread. After installing TA from Stardock Central (SDC), there's no launch shortcut on my Vista desktop. I can launch it from within SDC and I'll create a shortcut from the C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv2\Twilight directory. But, just in case this is not expected behavior, I thought I'd bring it up. "Changing Chapters" from within the old DL/DA startup program doesn't include TA (probably expected behavior). The TALaunch version does include everything.

CariElf

on Oct 30, 2007

We're having some trouble with the TALaunch.exe on Vista, so that's why it's not launching the launcher from SDC.

Did it install the icons in the Games Explorer for you?

samit-

on Oct 30, 2007

I pre-ordered TA 26th september and it doesn't show up in the games registered to my account when I "looked up the serial number...". It's been a month so I guess it should be there.

Raknor

on Oct 30, 2007

I've had to do the following for DA, and now for TA:

In Stardock Central:
Tools-->Settings...--->Lookup serial number

That got me my serial, which I added to the serial field in the Games menu also in the settings (selecting TA from the list).

Thanks very much for pointing this out. Beta, here I come. Or not, past bed time here. If I would start a game now I won't get any sleep at all :/

Drengin

on Oct 30, 2007

Q> I know its only beta 1 but Mars still has the old planet texture. Is this going to change for the final release?

Just a question, not an accusation

BTW after playing the beta in the Immense size galaxy i have submitted a minor request via the GC2suggestions email addy. Hopefully one of the devs will take a second to look at it

User made mods for the Galciv II community

LogicSequence

on Oct 30, 2007

Q> I know its only beta 1 but Mars still has the old planet texture. Is this going to change for the final release?

Just a question, not an accusation

BTW after playing the beta in the Immense size galaxy i have submitted a minor request via the GC2suggestions email addy. Hopefully one of the devs will take a second to look at it

User made mods for the Galciv II community

OH RUB IT IN!

Some of us are still waiting!

JamesACG

on Oct 30, 2007

I pre-ordered TA 26th september and it doesn't show up in the games registered to my account when I "looked up the serial number...". It's been a month so I guess it should be there.

Same.

S T K

on Oct 30, 2007

I think I will have to wait for a while, cause I preordered it yesterday. Oh, I'm getting tired (it's 00:35am here in Austria).

dwilli

on Oct 30, 2007

I Guess ihave to wait too i ordered on the 27th of last month(just checked my conformatin e-mail) but haven't recieved my email yet

hope i get it soon this is my first beta and i'm really excited to try it.

dwilli

on Oct 30, 2007

oops forgot what month i was in i guess that's what programming all day does to your brain i acually order on 9/27.LOL

mrembezzler

on Oct 30, 2007

About 20 turns into new game trying to trade some techs and the game crashes to desktop. I knew I should of went out for my birthday.

tickhromeroi

on Oct 30, 2007

We're having some trouble with the TALaunch.exe on Vista, so that's why it's not launching the launcher from SDC.

Did it install the icons in the Games Explorer for you?

TA launches from SDC fine. It's just that by default, no launch icon is put on the desktop. I made my own shortcut to TALaunch.exe and it works fine. I'm embarrassed to say I never thought to look in Games Explorer. But, after you mentioned it, I checked and all that's there is a launcher for DL: no DA and no TA.

samit-

on Oct 30, 2007

I got a confirmation mail just a minute ago

Oh my that was fast. Thanks Stardock.

scintilion

on Oct 30, 2007

Immense Galaxies! COOL! I have always enjoyed epic-huge scenarios.

I've been wondering what is the grandest (most-uber?) hardware the devs have available?

I recently had a lightning strike, moving up my plans for upgrades sooner than planned. I ended up going with a QX6600 @ ~2.9GHz on an ASUS P5W-DH, MSI NX8600GT, and a Samsung 244T 24" LCD. The game plays and look great at 1920x1200! But I'd really like to see the game on a 30" LCD at 2550x1600 rez. I've been able to verify that the game seems to use all 4 CPU cores, but to what extent I'm not sure.

scintilion

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