Stardock has released the third major beta update for Galactic Civilizations 3, adding in a new race of synthetic bad guys to play as, and “big-moment cinematics” to mark milestones in your campaign.
Reserach and build a colossal capital ship, for example, and you’ll get a cutscene celebrating your achievement. The development team has also added their first pass at combat animations, including visible damage and ship wear.
New race the Yor are a bunch of “synthetic sociopaths” who don’t need to worry about feeding their citizens or worrying about populations growth, what with them being insane robots and all.
“Instead the Yor have a planetary project that allows them to create new Yor,” explains Stardock, “which they have to do in place of building planetary improvements. So rather than relying on natural growth the player has to decide between making that research lab or increasing her population.”
There’s a whole bunch of other changes, all of which you can view in the patch notes here.