Twilight of the Arnor is coming

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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. [more]

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...


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Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top
I can hardly wait until release!
Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Is there going to be any kind of demo version?
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
it's about time. Very excited to see the new tech trees and such. Can't wait to bend the universe to my will, again...
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Would have liked to see an expansion bundle that offers the cd's instead of having to purchase the separately. I want my boxes. :(
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Question: Since I last installed beta version 0.98c[b].001, my whole data base on Arnor, is corrupted.
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 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I want my boxes.


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 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Question: Since I last installed beta version 0.98c[b].001, my whole data base on Arnor, is corrupted.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?


If something got damaged in the install, a clean reinstall is usually the simplest solution.
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
What kind of a box does the trifecta edition come in?
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The triple bundle is only available as a download. As I said, there is no box specifically for that.
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
What kind of a box does the trifecta edition come in?


Just be apreciative that the budget is spent for quality and not for a piece of printed cardboard.
Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
No retail sale for the bundle pack? How disappointing. Would have liked to get them.
Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top
No retail sale for the bundle pack? How disappointing. Would have liked to get them.


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 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Aye, I was hoping for that as well... don't have GC2 yet and well... dialup is a bit limiting for digital downloads.


You can order to have discs delivered--you'd just need to get GC2 Gold (full retail box) and TA (disc) separately.
Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top
Hey kryo, can you ask your Stardock mates to put up a pdf of Twilight "box art" that we can use on an Amaray DVD case? They did this for Dark Avatar, which was awesome. Thanks!

-HM
Reply #16 from Sins Forums Top
I was just asking cause I was hoping for a Sins style thick DVD box with the cover that opens into some inner picture thingy... Ah well, GC2, DA and TotA still fits snuggly onto a single DVD :P
Reply #17 from Stardock Forums Top

April 30th?  Awesome; does this mean there won't be an April 23rd Beta?