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Time for the Tournament final!

It's been a long and challenging tournament: after weeks since it began, we're at a point where only two players are left.

It's up to Robot Penguin and SGT Zdog now.



Either one of them will emerge as champion and win the first prize: the Battlestar Galactica Starship Battles boardgame by Ares Games!

Stay tuned for the official announcement on when the final will take place. It will be streamed live on the Slitherine Twitch channel.

EDIT:

We finally have the finals schedule!

17th December 2 pm GMT: Round 1
18th December 2 pm GMT: Round 2
19th December 1 pm GMT: Round 3

Battlestar Galactica Deadlock - Dev Diary #22 'Flesh and Bone'

“In news closer to home, and if you’ve followed this show, you’ll know is close to my heart; another of our hallowed Alpha Pyramid franchises has been forced to shut its doors. You know, if I’m thankful for one thing this Hallow Morn, it’s the fact that the Cylons have done what even Daniel Graystone couldn’t manage - and forced the C-Bucs to finally take the loss and close shop.

“Although I heard Caprica City police had to drag Rod Jenkins from what’s left of the arena court the other week. C’mon buddy, it’s over. We’d all given up on you years ago. It—- it was getting real embarrassing for everyone. Even the Cylons wear a Delphi Legion cap when they march down Atlas Promenade now, and I’m not sure they even know what pyramid is. Probably the only way they can get through the neighborhood without Jenkins flagging them down for a pick-up game.”

Baxter Sarno, Backtalk (episode 379)



It’s hard to believe it’s already been two months since the release of Resurrection! We hope you are enjoying all of the changes in Season Two.

As always, the team have been hard at work on a raft of improvements and new features for Battlestar Galactica Deadlock. When Resurrection was released, you might have seen the roadmap that outlined some of what we are working on. In this post, we’ll get you up to speed with where everything is at.

A number of players over the 2 years since release have commented that the officer portraits displayed when recruiting fleet group commanders haven’t met their expectations. As we’ve largely been focussing on adding more ships and missions to the game, we never got around to giving the officer portraits the care and attention they deserve. Until now.

We’ve completely redone the art for the officers, giving them more natural skin tones and better facial structures and hair. We’ve also improved the lighting when the portraits are rendered. Below you can see the results:



We’ve also completed work on a new cinematic browser. This feature will allow you to go back and view any opening or closing cinematic from any campaign you have completed.

About to play through the Resurrection campaign? Why not go back and review the end sequence of Sin & Sacrifice before you start.

We’ve also got a lot of quality of life improvements in the pipeline. In the Command Update, we added multi-select, and in keeping with the theme of making fleet controls faster and easier, we are adding more shortcuts and enhancements. For example, double-clicking on a ship will select all other ships of the same type. Selecting your entire doomstack of Adamants will soon be just a double-click away.

That’s just some of the work we’ve been doing lately. We’ll outline more in the next dev diary.

Oh, and in case you missed the news, the first multiplayer tournament of season two is on now - head over to the Battlestar Galactica Deadlock Discord for the latest news. So say we all!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/544610/Battlestar_Galactica_Deadlock/

The Battlestar Galactica Deadlock Season 2 Debut Tournament has started

Round 1 has begun!

All the 32 participants will have exactly one week in order to play their match. You can find the pairings by looking at the tables below.



Please refer to the rules we posted last week. We will keep you updated each week on tournament progression, so stay tuned.

What else is there to say? Good luck, commanders! So say we all!

Battlestar Galactica Deadlock - Join the Season 2 Debut Tournament

Many of you have been waiting for this: we are announcing the new tournament of Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, the first since the start of Season 2. You can find terms and conditions down below and we hope many of you will sign-up and have fun. So say we all!

Tournament rules:
  • 1 Week per round. Not showing up or organising a match within the 1 week timeframe will result in the participant(s) being disqualified
  • All participants are to join the BSG:D Discord to be able to take part. You need to write in the Tournament Applications channel and give us through Discord the following info: Discord nickname, Steam username and time zone
  • 32 players single elimination, using the two brackets as per the last tournament. The tournament could be expanded to 64 players depending on the number of signups
  • Semi-finals and finals are best of 3 matches
  • Caught instances of directly and maliciously breaking the rules (including cheating) will result in an immediate disqualification
  • Participants are welcome (and encouraged) to stream their matches, but do so at their own discretion. This is not mandatory
  • Participants are to agree upon a time and date of their match publicly during the week of their round. EG: Participant 1 & 2 agree to play at 18:00 GMT on Thursday 31/10/19. Once the match is set up at the agreed upon time, the creator of the room is to wait 10 minutes. If the opponent has not arrived by that point, the opponent will be disqualified unless both participants agree to reorganise the match within the 1 week time frame. A match may be reorganised only once
  • BOTH participants must take a pre and post-game screenshot of their match, regardless of streaming. The pre-game screenshot is to show both players in the room with the tournament settings (8k, 180s, Refinery) whilst the post-game match shows the victory (or defeat screen). An unedited version of this screenshot is to be sent directly to Sir Wagglepuss III on Discord
  • If one of the participants quits during a match due to elements outside of their control, an immediate rematch can be done only at the consent of both participants, otherwise the match is given to the participant who remains
  • Any disputes are to be brought to Sir Wagglepuss III, or the moderation team. The moderation team's word is final on any disputes


Game rules:
  • 8k fleet points
  • 180 seconds turn timer
  • The Map of choice is Refinery
  • No more than 2 of the same capital ships per fleet
  • Participants are free to change their fleets between matches so long as they are in accordance with the above rule
  • Participants do not need to announce their fleet beforehand, so long as the fleet they field is in accordance with the above rules


Scheduling:
  • Signups starting on Tuesday 29th October 2019
  • The tournament begins on Monday 4th November 2019, with 1 week for each round of the tournament
  • The tournament should last for 4-6 weeks depending on the number of participants 


Prizes:

The tournament champion will receive a brand-new copy of Ares Games’ amazing tabletop boardgame, Battlestar Galactica Starship Battles. The runner-up will win a set of ship miniatures from the board game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/544610/Battlestar_Galactica_Deadlock/

Battlestar Galactica Deadlock Update v1.3.86

We are releasing a small patch to address a few known bugs. As per usual, you can find the changelog below.

If you find any more bugs or have any feedback, you're more than welcome to let us know, either on the forum or in our Discord channel!

v1.3.86 Changelog:

• Prevent Taipans from launching from Viper launch tubes
• Modified launch point intervals on Atlas, Adamant and battlestars to look better
• Fixed hacking sound effect ignores volume settings
• Fix rare issues preventing completing Resurrection campaign mission 4 and Deadlock campaign mission 12
• Fix issue where icarus planet cannot be loaded depending on Windows region settings