Updated Visuals
Maybe a small thing but we have adjusted lighting and added point light effects to things to get them to “pop”. The prettiness is more of a side effect of the desire to make teh galaxy more readable.
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Expanded Technology Tree
We have greatly expanded the tech tree for both Warlords users who get new technologies like Cloaking Devices and Biological Targeting as well as 2.5 users looking for new ship components instead of merely a stat bump.
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Improved Battle Viewer
You can now click on any ship and see how it’s performing in the battle. The log now clearly shows how different weapons and defenses work.
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Resource Clumping
We have improved the map generation so that resources will tend to “clump” a bit together. This should result in some areas of space being particularly more valuable than others (relative to previous versions).
In this example, 3 Durantium nodes are found within a single alien system.
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Specialized Defense Systems
GalCiv IV gets rid of the rock-paper-scissors way of weapons vs. defenses.
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We plan to do a lot more with this in the future. We also suspect modders will do a lot more in the future.
Invasion Tactics
New to the Warlords expansion are various invasion tactics.
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