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

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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!

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