Sins of a Solar Empire Version 1.1 Now Available

Pre-order Sins of a Solar Empire Expansion “Entrenchment” and Get in the Beta”

By Island Dog Posted November 19, 2008 13:08:10

Stardock announced a huge free update for Sins of a Solar Empire today, the award-winning title from developer Ironclad Games. Additionally, fans that pre-order the expansion will be included in the upcoming beta for “Entrenchment”. Fans can pre-order the expansion at www.impulsedriven.com.

Highlights from the 1.1 change log include:

Alloy Networking Technology – allows for seamless multiplayer without needing to deal with port forwarding or other router settings
Major upgrade to the graphics engine for better performance on all systems
Updated/improved graphics (textures, new models, explosions and more)
Mini-Underground Window – allows you to buy/sell resources and make pirate bids on the main gameplay screen
Improved game balance
Improved AI
Bug fixes and much more

The entire change log can be viewed here: http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/329902.

Please note that this update is ENGLISH ONLY. The French and German versions are still undergoing testing and will be made available at a later date.

For more information about Stardock or the pre-order, please visit www.impulsedriven.com or www.stardock.com.

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3.44mb and it downloaded fast and without issue.

I'm guessing they got the problems resolved.

Doh, double post!

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went smooth for me, i guess i'll have a lil match now

We're now at warp speed!

All systems go!

ah, wonderful, thank you. I think that needs to be said again, for a free patch of this magnitude. it was about time.

now I only need another preview for entrenchment, some new info, any info to bridge the beta release and I am a very happy gamer.

I wonder how far ahead the other mini exp. are, but probably not far, considering entrenchment had to be postponed.

Impulse doesn't show me the update at all. It isn't under the Update tab, nor on the Sins area in My Games. Any idea what's going on?

Lifeat30fps, Try going into the game then hitting the Update Game button in-game. It will redirect you to Impulse. Mine is taking forever to Verfiy Download... It's been like that for about 20 minutes now... Hope it works...

lol old advent factory pic xD

Does the Patch recognize the localisation?

Just updated the game, but ran into problems with "String not Found" messages everywhere. Renaming the Strings (english.str --> german.str) resolved it, but the game is now in english. And the old german.str doesn't function.

Or is Kalypso not ready with our localisation(s)?

IMPORTANT:

Today's update is ENGLISH ONLY. The French and German versions are still undergoing testing and will be made available at a later date.

Phalnax811, that's for the advice. It didn't work though. Maybe it will work later?

I'm still having problems. It says "Downloading Impulse Update - Verifying", and its been saying that for five minutes now. There's no download activity going on, and I'm on a fairly zippy computer (dual core Intel, Vista 64 bit, 4GB RAM). It appears to be idle as far as I can tell.

edit - Closed Impulse (since it wasn't hung), and restarted. Update started in a couple of seconds, and now Sins is downloading happily. So nevermind.

Mine still says "Verifying download". I already had the game itself, so the patch is only 218 meg. It started downloading over two hours ago, during which time I've been gone, and it still says "verifying download".

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Mine was verifying download for a good two hours so I canceled and now I'm trying it again....

Lifeat30fps, owell, I'm not having much luck either....

Well, I work up this morning (now 8.20am here), turned on my comp and downloaded the patch and left it while getting ready for work. One message saying a timeout had occured (that I saw), but it picked up again fine.

Unfortunately I haven't run the game yet to see if it works (I am assuming so, but you know what they say...) - I have to work ALL day until I get home in about 9 and a bit hours

downloaded at 2.5mb/s. So it worked well here.

Hey one problem with Impulse I discovered.

I install all my games onto G:

but it wont let me just swap out the C for a G , when I get prompted for installation folder.

Its a real bitch having to use browse and then create folders

Alright, I cancelled the download, got out of impulse, got back in, and restarted the download, and it worked! Haven't gotten in game yet, but at least its downloaded.

Mine took awhile but it updated okay, just had to wait being's I'm 5hrs ahead in the UK, but I hope all you guys have fun playing it I'm deffinatly gonna be playing tomorrow at some point

Stardock/Ironclad,

Mine has been Verifying Download for about two hours now. Is that normal? Should I give it another two hours? It's quite frustrating.

Thanks,

Phalnax

Were you updating from 1.05 or one of the beta patches?

Gee Star/Clad, let me ask this question.

Are defenses worth building now, or are you going to make us pay $10 just so we don't have to have our fleets babysit our planets? Because usually if a game dynamic is broken, its fixed in a patch, such as this. Not a $10 "micro-expansion".

just downloaded and played it. they aren't kidding when they say "major graphical improvements" [e digicons]|-)[/e]