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A short but effective update to fix a few issues and keep the galactic empire running strong!

Matrix Games, Slitherine and Code Force are pleased to release a quick update for their award-winning space strategy game, Distant Worlds. This comprehensive 1.7.0.1 update for the German and English retail versions fixes an issue that causes a crash with some story line events.

Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time, 4X space strategy game. You can run the game as slow or as fast as you like, with intelligent advisors and many different settings for warnings and auto-pause triggers to help you manage your empire at your own pace. Experience the full depth and detail of large turn-based strategy games, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.

Vast galaxies are made to order: up to 1400 star systems, with up to 50,000 planets, moons and asteroids. Galaxies are so deep, fun and immersive that you won’t want to finish the game... Build, expand and improve your empire endlessly. The galaxy is packed with life and activity. Encounter other empires, independent alien colonies, traders, pirates and space monsters. Explore star systems, asteroid fields, gas clouds, supernovae, galactic storms and black holes. Discover evidence of civilizations long since past, uncovering secrets about the galaxy's troubled history...

Best of all, you can play the game your way: enjoy a quick, intense game in a crowded galaxy or take your time in an epic game spread across a vast galaxy!
Get the update here. The update is comprehensive and will bring all previous versions of Distant Worlds to 1.0.7.0.Get more information on Distant Worlds from its official product page.

Getting a 550 error. Can't download

For me it worked ok using the game updater

The link has the wrong address: ftp://ftp.matrixgames.com/MatrixGames/p ... -v1071.zip.
I think it should be ftp://ftp.matrixgames.com/pub/DistantWo ... -v1071.zip

this update is for the non expansion?

Still "no go" for downloading !!!

Yes, this is for the vanilla DW not for ROTS

Auto Updater crash for me but manuel it works good. Thanks to Matrix Games  Slitherine and Code Force that the Update is in German too!

So if you have RoTS installed on top of DW you would need to uninstall RoTS to update the Main DW.

Is this to catch DW only players games up to RoTS 1.508 level?

Is there any updates coming for RoTS?

JosEPh

Joseph, I think you are correct. These updates for DW have been to get it up to standard with RotS.

I think once that happens, the question is, will work on the expansion take precedence over any updates?

I'd personally just like to get on with the expansion, but I can understand if there are those who still feel like some issues need ironed out first.