A minor patch for the Galactic Civilizations beta is available now on Steam on an opt-in basis. Huge hulls, faster load times, and bugfixes are ready for testing. This patch should go live to everyone soon if no major issues are discovered.
To get the opt-in patch, do the following:
Right-click Galactic Civilizations III in your Steam library
Open the Betas tab
In the drop-down menu, select “opt-in”
Steam should automatically update your game
Patch notes:
Features
Enabled Huge Hulls
Game loads faster
Fixes
Fixed an issue where ships designed in MP games didn't save properly, causing parts to appear at odd rotations and sizes
Fixed an issue causing starbases to ignore logistics points
Fixed a crash when attacking from a planet to an adjacent enemy ship
Fixed an issue where colony ships would double population after being upgraded
Fixed a crash during battles
Fixed an issue that could cause valid attack and defense on ships to appear greyed out
Fixed an issue keeping restrictions on some improvements from being enforced
Fixed a crash using symmetry in the ship designer
Fixed a crash when attempting to add a sponsor to a shipyard
Fixed an issue where ships could disappear (the player was able to select the terrain which hid everything else in the tile)