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Galactic Civilizations III Beta Opt-In Patch 0.42 Now Available

Posted on Thursday, September 4, 2014

A minor patch for the Galactic Civilizations beta is available now on Steam on an opt-in basis.

Huge hulls, faster load times, and bugfixes are ready for testing. This patch should go live to everyone soon if no major issues are discovered.

To get the opt-in patch, do the following:

  • Right-click Galactic Civilizations III in your Steam library
  • Open the Betas tab
  • In the drop-down menu, select “opt-in”
  • Steam should automatically update your game
 
Galactic Civilizations III 0.42 Opt-in Patch notes:

Features

  • Enabled Huge Hulls
  • Game loads faster

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where ships designed in MP games didn't save properly, causing parts to appear at odd rotations and sizes
  • Fixed an issue causing starbases to ignore logistics points
  • Fixed a crash when attacking from a planet to an adjacent enemy ship
  • Fixed an issue where colony ships would double population after being upgraded
  • Fixed a crash during battles
  • Fixed an issue that could cause valid attack and defense on ships to appear greyed out
  • Fixed an issue keeping restrictions on some improvements from being enforced
  • Fixed a crash using symmetry in the ship designer
  • Fixed a crash when attempting to add a sponsor to a shipyard
  • Fixed an issue where ships could disappear (the player was able to select the terrain which hid everything else in the tile)