Twilight of the Arnor is coming
Monday, April 21, 2008 by Frogboy | Discussion: PC Gaming
Stardock is pleased to announce that Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor has gone into final gamma testing. The expansion pack to the critically acclaimed space strategy game, Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, completes the Dread Lord saga with the return of the powerful Precursor civilization, the Arnor.
Arguably the most comprehensive expansion pack in strategy game history, Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor has more new features and content than Galactic Civilizations II had over the original.
A labor of love, Twilight of the Arnor is nearly complete. This week, we are putting it through final gamma testing as lots of content and goodies that were held back during the public beta are integrated in, tested, polished, etc.
Amongst the new features includes unique technology trees for each of the 12 major civilizations. This also means unique weapons, ships, planetary improvements, and much more for each civilization. This has allowed us to greatly expand the story of each civilization. Moreover, a new victory condition has been added called Ascension in which players can take control of the Ascension crystals (introduced in the campaign) for victory. The graphics of Twilight of the Arnor have been completely revamped to bring the game's visuals to 2008 standards. Check out the screenshot below to get an idea.
We have set the launch date to be April 30th (late afternoon Eastern Standard Time) for the digital release. Twilight of the Arnor does require the first expansion pack (Dark Avatar) to run. A bundle of the entire saga is available at a discount. The final expansion pack to the most highly rated space-strategy game of all time is nearly here...
The Graphics Difference:
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Reply #4 Wednesday, April 23, 2008 3:16 AM
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Reply #6 Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:28 AM
I am not able to see any of the new cililizations beyond Gal civ 2, and most features do not work.
Should I totally uninstall this game and re-load? or with the "Final" version, write over cleanly, to make this game playable, again?
Please advise
Reply #7 Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:40 AM
There's not actually any retail box for TA or DA (as a single unit) anyway; if you ordered them you'd just get the disc. The only retail boxes are standard GC2 and GC2 Gold.
Reply #8 Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:41 AM
If something got damaged in the install, a clean reinstall is usually the simplest solution.
Reply #9 Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:44 AM
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Reply #11 Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:16 AM
Just be apreciative that the budget is spent for quality and not for a piece of printed cardboard.
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Reply #13 Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:20 PM
Aye, I was hoping for that as well... don't have GC2 yet and well... dialup is a bit limiting for digital downloads.
Reply #14 Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:24 PM
You can order to have discs delivered--you'd just need to get GC2 Gold (full retail box) and TA (disc) separately.
Reply #15 Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:29 PM
-HM
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Reply #17 Friday, April 25, 2008 6:00 AM
April 30th? Awesome; does this mean there won't be an April 23rd Beta?
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Reply #1 Monday, April 21, 2008 2:49 PM
Looks awesome.