Galactic Civilizations 3 Beta gameplay release date: The beta version of Galactic Civilization 3 is now available. According to Ecumenical News the game that was developed by Stardock Entertainment is targeted to be released on April 2013 at $49.99, the testing will run for six months and those who will avail beta version can have it for $44.99.
"We've officially launched the beta! Bells are ringing, birds are singing, and it's a beautiful day to dig up the archives of a forgotten race's reality TV shows and use them to placate a restive populace that for some reason doesn't see the value in mandatory six-month stints working the factories of the nearest forgeworld," stated in the official beta release announcement.
"To all of our Founders, thank you so much for your early support. Elite Founders, your feedback and bug reporting has been invaluable in getting Galactic Civilizations III ready for a wider audience. Fire up your Steam client, and it should patch your install to the beta automatically," the announcement added.
Reportedly, its predecessor was launched some ten years ago and is one of the highest ranked strategy franchises in history.
According to its website, the Galactic Civilizations III beta includes:
- Race-specific tech trees - Each race discovers the secrets of creation in its own way. Look out for Drengin invasions a whole age before anyone else can pull one off.
- Ideology rework - Get an entire invasion fleet for free, take control of all planets inside your sphere of influence, and more!
- Huge hulls - For when you absolutely, positively, have to kill every last filthy alien in the quadrant.
- New colonization events - Thirty more events will challenge your ideology whenever you bring the light of civilization to a new world.
- Terraforming - Maximize your adjacency bonuses by filling in gaps on your colonies with SCIENCE!
- Map features - Durantium, Elerium, and Antimatter are now on the map, waiting to be harvested by your starbases. Watch out for black holes!
- So much more - reworked planet traits, shipyard queues, automatic improvement upgrading, tons of new art, vastly improved rendering (ships are so shiny now!), the list goes on.
