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will I get the beta?
Published on September 20, 2005 By PJ_ In Galactic Civilizations II
If I preorderd the game today (not through TGN) would I have access to beta 4 when it comes out, or will I have to wait until the final release?

(It's actually a moot question for me, since I already did preorder the game today, but I'm curious to know how long I'll have to wait.)
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on Sep 20, 2005
You should have access to the next major beta release.

(98.39% certain on this response)
on Sep 20, 2005
Link

The confirmed info says:
If you preorder now, you will not get access to Beta 3.
You will get access to Beta 4 which is due out late October.

And as beta 4 will be pretty much feature-complete it should be much more interesting than Beta 3!

(Beta 3 is looking good but is missing several key features like fleets, diplomacy, textures and most of the tech tree/hulls/modules/buildings, as well as suffering from a couple of really annoying bugs which are being fixed)
on Sep 20, 2005
You get access to beta 4.  But you will not get beta 3.