Distant Worlds: Shadows release nears....

[Bison]

There has always been a discount on DW if you purchase them at the same time.  Not sure how it will compare to the actual promoted sale however.

[PanzersEast]

Distant Worlds: Legends has been updated

Matrix Games is proud to announce the release of a new update for Distant Worlds: Legends, the second expansion for the critically acclaimed 4X space strategy game series Distant Worlds, in preparation for the imminent release of the third expansion, Distant Worlds: Shadows.

The v1.7.0.20a update optimizes list screen performance in very large galaxies, fixes some issues with large games on multi-threaded computers, corrects some bugs, improves AI weapon selection in ship design and adds .Net Framework 4.0, which Distant Worlds: Legends now requires.

Below is the full changelog:

v1.7.0.20a – May 22nd, 2013

o   Several in-game screens open much faster now. Optimized screens include: Construction Yards, Ships and Bases, Colonies, Troops, Expansion Planner.
o   Fixed threading-related issues that happen while playing a very big game on a very fast machine.
o   Fixed crash that was found in German DW ROTS.
o   Fixed problems with saving and loading Empire Policy files on PCs with some non-English regional settings. To test this fix: change the regional settings to a language that uses different decimal format (e.g. French) and test saving altered Empire Policy files from the Empire Policy screen. Check that altered policy files correctly reload the changed values.
o   Some missing Empire Policy settings are now properly saved: Allow sabotage mission: Destroy base, Allow sabotage mission: Assassinate character, Never recruit troops until colony population reaches X threshold.
o   Added comprehensive fallback options for weapons selection in AI ship designs (as per DW Shadows). This will ensure that AI military ships always have weapons, even when preferred weapon type has not yet been researched.
o   Added .Net Framework 4.0, which DW: Legends now requires, to the update installer.

[steve58]

Final Preview/teaser video released

Quick link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW-SZh3akew&feature=youtu.be

[Nefaro]

Thanks to that smexy man Panzerde, looks like I'll be getting my DW collection up-to-date tomorrow (when the newest releases).  ;D

[mikeck]

For those who are not buying shadows, they also released a patch for Legends that adds the new engine optimizations coming with Shadows.

[Kushan]

And its OUT!

Quote from Erik:

Please wait until I post here, especially if you want the promotional bundle pricing. It's about to all go live and I don't want anyone caught in the middle as setting it live tends to be spread out over 15 minutes with pieces going live here and there.

Shadows is live though on its own and $19.99 is the correct promotional pricing for that, so if all you want is Shadows you should be fine now.

Regards,

- Erik

[son_of_montfort]

So far, from my  hour or so in, I think this one is going to be a winner!

[Bison]

Can you scale the ui?

[son_of_montfort]

Can you scale the ui?

Not the entire thing, but you can definitely scale the lower left box with all the planetary and ship information. That helps tremendously. Also, and I could be completely crazy, but it looks like the font is bigger and clearer than before.

[Bison]

This alone tempts me more than the new content honestly.

[Martok]

Can't wait til payday tomorrow! 

[Kushan]

Started as a pre warp empire. I've explored my entire home system. I've got 2 construction ships, slowly, building mining stations around the system. Just sent my 2 exploration ships to the nearest star system using only normal drive systems.

Did they add binary star system in Shadows? The star on the right is a lot closer then I've ever seen before.