{"id":3194,"date":"2015-01-30T16:57:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T16:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2015-01-30T16:57:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T16:57:52","slug":"preparing-for-gratuitous-space-battles-2-beta-and-pre-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2015\/01\/30\/preparing-for-gratuitous-space-battles-2-beta-and-pre-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for Gratuitous Space Battles 2 beta (and pre-orders…)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gratuitous Space Battles 2<\/a> is approaching pre-orders + beta. You know the sort of thing by now. The game isn’t finished but you can pre-order now and get immediate access to the beta. Steam early access made it popular. So why not put the game into Early Access? basically this isn’t an early-access kind of beta. It’s a proper ‘we think it’s more or less done’ beta, like betas used to be back in the old days. It’s pretty much content complete (a few more extra graphics & voiceover await). It’s definitely feature complete. It’s definitely playable. it has been optimized a lot, and bug tested a lot. It’s essentially what my idea of a beta is, which is a finished game, with some rough edges, and maybe some compatibility issues. There are a few big things not done, namely translations and ports. The beta will be PC only, and English only. I plan on a Windows\/Mac\/Linux\u00a0 and English\/French\/German\/Spanish (maybe more) release when the game actually gets released on steam, Humble Store, GoG.<\/p>\n

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So the beta will be direct-sales only, and will get you a download link & online challenge game serial (no DRM, don’t worry<\/strong><\/span>), and a steam key that will be useless until release.<\/p>\n

So thats all the warnings and caveats. What will you get? You will get a VERY<\/strong> explodey, lasery, space-battley smorgasbord of laser-death and gratuitous zappyness that makes the battle at the start of the last star wars film look like an episode of Blakes Seven. I’ve kind of gone a bit overboard of the graphical shininess this time. I might have overdone the lens flares a bit, and the particles, and the everything else. And yup, the multi monitor stuff works fine in the beta.<\/p>\n

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Gameplay wise, it’s Gratuitous Space Battles<\/a>, but with more ship classes (hello dreadnoughts, destroyers and gunships) and better formation orders, better targeting AI, and *drumroll*… You get to design the ships yourself from components, so they look exactly how you want them. This is I suspect…a bit of a killer feature. It is VERY cool, to design a whole fleet of spaceships then watch them blow up your friends fleet.<\/p>\n

So yup, it should be a lot of fun. It’s tons better than GSB1. I can’t believe how GSB1 looks and feels and plays now, this new version is basically laughing at it, like kirk laughed at khans superior intelligence.<\/p>\n

Anyway…stay tuned. beta SOON.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gratuitous Space Battles 2 is approaching pre-orders + beta. You know the sort of thing by now. The game isn’t finished but you can pre-order now and get immediate access to the beta. Steam early access made it popular. So why not put the game into Early Access? basically this isn’t an early-access kind of<\/p>\n

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