Galactic Civilizations IV: Supernova Edition, currently in early access, gets a major beta update.

Version 1.8 adds hundreds of new changes, improvements, fixes and new content including:

• New Major Civilizations: The Cosmic Contaminate and The Seeing.
  
• Multiplayer (competitive and cooperative).
  
• Major combat system update: Ships automatically use weapons on the main map from a distance.
  
• Major starbase update: Military starbases protect areas with deadly weapon fire at nearby enemies.
  
• Major AI revamp making it far better both at its planetary management and war fighting capabilities.
  
• Major UI improvements such as being able to minimize events (click off the event window) to check on other things.
  
• Balance update on influence: Players (and AI) can send military ships in orbit to slow down cultural takeovers.
  
• Major memory improvements, especially on larger maps.
  
• Bigger maps.
  
• Tons of new story-driven events.
  
• Legacy Crisis events: Events that spawn classic GalCiv civs (like the Thalan, Slyne, Xendar, Snathi and others).
  
• Tons of new ship components for the AI and players to design into their ships.
  
• Revamp of planetary citizens: Population matters a lot more.
  
• Major performance improvements (like 25X faster) turn times.
  
• Lots of quality of life improvements (sensor buoys, put ships on standby.
  
• Visual polish pass across the entire game.
  
• Tons of minor bug fixes.
  
• Lots of crash fixes.
  
• Much much more!