I asked this in one of the existing beta threads, and I'm fairly sure its coming out today on Impulse (I'm under the impression that stardock usually puts out updates at ~6 pm EDT, but you never know) and some point later on SDC.

So hopefully today then?

The 6PM thing is as in "not before 6PM usually" I've seen releases come out later on average. The SD guys are workaholics and seem to work some long hours at times .

hum now that I know that the beta won't be on SDC

does that mean that given time SDC will be dropped ? and that impulse is now your delivering platform of choice ?

I'm just running SDC because that's the software I was used to, and since I don't know what exactly are the plus and cons of impulse ...

You can access the beta right now, but you have to uninstall the game first if you used SDC to get it, and then re-install through Impulse.

Just don't do it all at once

 You can access the beta right now, but you have to uninstall the game first if you used SDC to get it, and then re-install through Impulse.

  Can anyone provide confirmation here. The beta is available as of today but only if you installed the game using Impulse? And if so can someone provide more details about some features in the beta that we haven't heard about yet.

Impulse detects everything automatically on my PC.

SDC, also.

 How do you download the beta from impulse, is it automatic? I'm asking cause when I open up impulse it lists TA in the games / update section but I don't see any options on downloading the beta.

EDIT: Nvm I got it eventually by following the steps in the "let's take 2.0 for a spin" post (had to uninstall/reinstall)

It seems to be a hit and miss thing . I blue orbed, reset data, showed pr-releases and nothing. (all of this on an original Impulse install), then I used the Impulse uninstall feature, and re-installed it and now I have the beta. Who knows, maybe its an issue with mods or files altered by the editors (my bet), or maybe  its glitchcraft. Who cares I got it now, and maybe someday I'll get past the shipyard editor and actually make it into the game.

Just for curiosity's sake, how long did you wait for the update to show up? I ask this because Impulse is slow- mind numbingly, frustratingly, screaming at the monitor slow. It took several minutes for it to finally show up for me, and most of the time it was hard to tell if Impulse was doing anything at all.

When the update finally showed up, and I began the download process, it took more than 10 minutes for it to be completed. Over 10 minutes for a 10 meg file! I do archive, but still... At least during this part of the process there is some activity that shows that the program is actually doing something, albeit at a snail's pace.

Ah, I see. If you waited a bit longer, then it *probably* would have shown up for you, but since the un/re install went so quickly, it's a non-issue.

BTW, how did you uninstall Impulse? I can't find the option anywhere.