Galactic Civilizations III Preview - Spacetime Sink | |
Galactic Civilizations III Preview - Spacetime Sink Only about half the systems have been implemented for the Galactic Civilizations III alpha build, but the "one more turn" mechanic is in full effect. | |
WHAT!?! THEY MADE ANOTHER!?! Well, there goes several years of productivity... | |
While I'm very happy that they're making this, the impression I've got so far is "GalCiv 2 with hexes." Hopefully it won't go the route of Civ V and fail to meet expectations upon launch... | |
while stardocks has lost a lot of good will with some of their recent stuff, im still as giddy a school girl for this | |
I love the game and the concept but even after all the updates to GalCiv 2UE, I still see that the AI cheats badly. Hopefully the newer version will be an improvement. : ) | |
Glad to hear a new one is coming. Really excited. Custom race for the win. | |
It looks eerily similar to GalCiv2 from those sceenshots. The pod-being event was in that game as well. | |
WAIT WHAT THIS IS A THING WHAT? Well I'm excited now. Thanks for that. | |
Yea, it's very early in beta. Presumably lots of things are going to change. Can't say I like this, but eh, if it brings in money go for it. | |
One of the things Gal Civ II did not excel at was warfare. Combat, more specifically. The ground battles looked like an arcade game and the space battles... well you have to see them to believe them... Has this been altered at all? Will there be more tactical control of your forces this time around or anything? Or is it still just watching video play out while waiting for the results to tally? I think MOO2's combat system is more robust then Gal Civ II's was, so it would be nice to see some improvement there. | |
GalCiv 2 with hexes... and multiplayer. That's probably plenty enough for me to pour hundreds of hours into the game, since I have a few friends who are into grand strategies and the like as much as I am. So long as they don't simplify the game for multiplayer, or release a completely broken mess like the original Elemental, they probably can't go too wrong. | |
Oh crap. Now I get to piss away a few more years of my life playing an incredibly addictive game, that ACTUALLY GETS the scope and scale of galactic warfare. I am reminded of Emperor of the Fading Suns in terms of scope (though that universe just felt so much richer to me for some reason.) Of note, having the Deathstars actually do something awesome would be worthwhile. | |
The core game is GalCiv, but visually, there's still lots of things to be added. It's the first day of the alpha, and the final release is still a year off at least. :) | |
I don't recall how I got it (Part 2), but it is in my Steam Library. Given your apparent enthusiasm, I'm installing it now. | |
Say goodbye to your family for the next few weeks. | |
You want feedback? Here's my feedback: You have two types of 4X players. Those that want to control tactical combat between their strategic planning and those who don't. Galciv II combat happens in a single picosecond and then gives you the option to watch a low-fidelity butt-ugly representation of how the battle played out. There's no reason to watch it, everybody I know skips forward. This means we, the players, never get to admire the awesome lego craft we spent hours building. We want actual spaceship combat! Master of Orion did it! Sins of a Solar did it! Space Empires did it. Come on! How should spaceship combat look like? This: Things to note: Take extra note of the dynamics of both the ships and the projectiles. You can feel how heavy the ships are and how massive the firepower that's being thrown around really is. The relative velocities of both work very well for the scale H2 chose. Try to follow the dynamics, but adjust it for your distances and max projectile count. | |