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Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion BETA 1 Begins!

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Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion BETA 1 Begins!

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Stardock Entertainment and Ironclad Games are very pleased to announce the release of Beta 1 for all Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion pre-order customers!

This first beta will allow you to play as the TEC Loyalists or Rebels in either single-player or multiplayer via Ironclad Online or LAN. Also included in this first beta release:

  • Updated graphics engine with self-shadowing ships, up to 16X anisotropic filtering and more.
  • Updated weapon effects.
  • All the new technologies and balance of the TEC factions.
  • Construct the mighty TEC Loyalist Ankylon and TEC Rebel Ragnarov titans.
  • The new TEC Corsev battlecruiser capital ship and Stilat/Shriken corvettes.
  • Steam support for achievements, friends, game invites, automatic updates and more.
  • New ship movement system and performance optimizations.
  • and lots more!

If you've pre-ordered, watch your e-mail for your order receipt with your Steam CD-Key and download information. If you'd like to get in on the beta, head over to the Purchase page. For existing registered Trinity/Diplomacy customers the price is $29.95 for a limited time; for new customers it's $39.95.

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Reply #28 from Sins Forums Top

Im yet to encounter an error, about halfway through a 1v1 game.  I have my titan and I am beginning to make my attack..  I'll save that for the train ride home :D

Reply #29 from Sins Forums Top

OH BOY!!!!!!!!!! I GOT MY EMAIL 7 hours ago, and only 2 more hours of work!!!!!  REBELLION HERE I COME!!!!!

Reply #31 from Sins Forums Top

ok couple problems here. your amount of notice on this was crap. couples with not getting charged back when i originally preordered back in the summer resulted in the failed charging to out of date credit card information fortunately you have a good sales staff that got me sorted out and getting it back the price i preorered at which is a few dollars lower than others :). so please next time you allow preordering give a better heads up onwhen you will charging for them or charge them when you actually preorder.

Reply #32 from Sins Forums Top

Woooaaaaw !!!! Drooling already while downloading ! That was totally unexpected great surprised for me ! Sad it's only TEC, but I'll manage !

Reply #33 from Sins Forums Top

Is there an NDA?  If not, I'll be streaming for anyone that can't afford to pre-order.

Reply #34 from Sins Forums Top

so..... sorry to be impatient but I am super eager to play so... emails still coming out or did they cease for the night? 3 hours and waiting, not to complain, after all its super awesome beta is up.

Reply #35 from Sins Forums Top

i wanne buy Beta budt some howe ur site not working why candt i pre order on steam i mean if i have to activate it on steam i candt buy ?????    same like u go to a car shop and u ask if ty sell a boat :|

Reply #37 from Sins Forums Top

Huzzah! Just played a game and titans are sweet :D

 

Reply #38 from Sins Forums Top

Can anyone please help me figure out how to create a Titan ship? I have purchased the Titan upgrade in the civilian section and I have a Capital Ship factory but the button still is grey. And when I click on it, it says I need to have a Capital ship factory?

 

Reply #39 from Sins Forums Top

Wow, where did these guys come from?

Reply #41 from Sins Forums Top

Actually still need help figuring my glitch with building Titans? Have bought the tactical upgrade and Have a Capital ship factory but still the option to create is grey and says that i need to build a capital ship factory. Anyone else have this problem?

 

Reply #43 from Sins Forums Top

Hey guys can you help me with the install really quickly? I got my email for Rebellion, was linked to the My Downloads page...but when I click to download rebellion it just sends me to the website to install steam. I already have steam thought...what do I do?

Reply #44 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Xashahar, reply 43
Hey guys can you help me with the install really quickly? I got my email for Rebellion, was linked to the My Downloads page...but when I click to download rebellion it just sends me to the website to install steam. I already have steam thought...what do I do?

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Reply #46 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting ErikRErickson, reply 27
How do you create a titan ship. The button does not seem to work

 
Quoting ErikRErickson, reply 30
Can you tell me how to create a Titan ship?

 

Requirements for a titan:

  1. 4 researches (and thus 4 military research stations)
  2. 2 capital ship crews
  3. 150 free fleet supply
  4. A titan factory (found under tactical buildings)
  5. Money and resources

 

Is there an NDA?  If not, I'll be streaming for anyone that can't afford to pre-order.

 

I do not believe so, otherwise we would've signed one (even if it was a little check box). And considering this is a public beta I don't think so. AAAAnd in the past Stardock never did anything when people posted screenshots and videos from the public betas.

 

So I'm 99% sure there was no NDA that I forgot about for the public betas, but it couldn't hurt for a response from Stardock on this one

Reply #47 from Sins Forums Top

Anyone willing to provide a download size? (By which I mean the size of the file downloaded, not installed on disk.) Want to get in on this, but going to be skirting my bandwidth cap this month.

 

 

Reply #48 from Sins Forums Top

Long time lurker to this game and forum I just had to write a post I am loving REBELLION so far ok there are a few bugs but that is to be expected it is a Beta after all,,, maybe some warning for those that had been waiting for as long as we have would have been nice as well but was a great surprise cheered me up no end especially as i just had my hotmail account hacked by some no good scum bag but did me a favour as may not have seen this as quick as i did other wise lmao,,    Seeing this in my email cheered me up no end ;0) anyhow i digress having played a couple of games so far the Titans are awesome but only being able to build  one seems like a tease to me but maybe im just greedy lol,,,,  would have liked to see more new ships but hopefully as it says more content will be added on final release. My self i was pleased that Tec was the first side playable as i always play that side either against Ai or lan games against friends not everyones cup of tea i agree but thats just me,, having been playing the sacrifice of angels mod alot lately was disappointed that there was no dynamic movement during combat but am hopeful that will be added upon release of final product other wise it will be a massive fail in my eyes maybe thats just me.  We have been spoilt by all the amazing work by the modders out there but i feel that is key to add that extra edge of realism into the game. The graphics updates are a great improvement to the game as well,, also all the new victory options that have been added could make for some intresting tactical games as well having only played so far with all these turned off so dont no exactly how good they are but will be trying each one shortly :grin: ,,,,  also usually I play with pirates off but am thinking they may be useful now that the rebels will employ there help with research lol
all in all i think it is definetly a step in the right direction hopefully more ships and dynamic movement and a few more things i havent mentioned for fear of rambling  will  be in the final game so heres hoping we all get what we want from the final release cheers for now

p.s be nice it is my first post after all

p.p.s i was slightly drunk while writing this lol

Reply #49 from Sins Forums Top

fk, i could have been playing for 4 hours, but ive just seen the beta e-mail

 

downloading...

Reply #50 from Sins Forums Top

beta is so good! :smitten: