Civilization: Beyond Earth

[Umbral Reaver]

So, who is playing?

[feytharn]

I am in my first game right now - and I am enjoying it. The game plays a lot like Civ V, but the mini-quest system and the feeling that there are some discoveries about the alien planet to come make for a pretty cool atmosphere.

[thejeff]

<Fires up an old copy of Alpha Centauri>

[Catprog]

I have already won two different ways.

I find the tech web slightly more confusing then the old tech tree.

[KSF]

thejeff wrote:

<Fires up an old copy of Alpha Centauri>

<Wishes Firaxis would just release an updated version of Alpha Centauri>

[thejeff]

KSF wrote:

thejeff wrote:

<Fires up an old copy of Alpha Centauri>

<Wishes Firaxis would just release an updated version of Alpha Centauri>

<Wishes I could actually get my hands on one that will run on a current version of Linux.>

[archmagi1]

«Wishes his internet hookup wasn't next Friday so he could be playing this already»

[Drejk]

Uh, new civilization? I am so much behind...

[Xabulba]

Finished my first game this morning, overall I really liked it. It has just enough throwouts to Alpha Centauri to satisfy the fans and more than enough changes to make it it's own game not just a re-skin of Civ5.

The controls are almost the same as Civ5 but the mechanics are completely different, if you play this like you play Civ5 you will lose every time.

My only complaint is health of cities, it's similar to happiness in Civ5, you start with a really small amount but it is nearly impossible to produce enough health to offset the the negative health gained by city growth and the founding of new cities. I also don't think the game is adding the correct amount of health from buildings. For example in the game I played I founded a new city which took my health to -2, I bought two building for the city that should give me +3 health but only added +1 health.
[Edit] Paying closer attention in my next game the buildings do give the full health but only up to the population of the city. So if the building in a city give more health than the cities population you only receive the benefits of the health equal to the cities population.
So in beyond earth you're almost forced to keep your cities populations small and prevents you from founding a lot of cities.

[Hama]

Played for 10 minutes, got infinitely bored. Nothing different from Civ V.

[Brutal Ben]

KSF wrote:

thejeff wrote:

<Fires up an old copy of Alpha Centauri>

<Wishes Firaxis would just release an updated version of Alpha Centauri>

I'm sure Firaxis wanted to also, unfortunately EA owns the rights to the game and I'm sure I don't need to explain EA.

Civilization: Beyond Earth Announced – Here's Everything You Want To Know

[Xabulba]

Hama wrote:

Played for 10 minutes, got infinitely bored. Nothing different from Civ V.

So you played maybe like 10 turns then? Good way to get the full feel of a game.

[Hama]

I played Civ V for days. It's the same, just in space with a gimmick or two thrown in.

[Xabulba]

I've played Beyond Earth for days and it's not the same. It does have the standard 4x feel but that's about it.

[Alex Martin]

Having just started, to early for me to make a call. Has the Civ 5 feel I like in a good way, but is proving to have more variations than I expected in my playthrough.

[Aranna]

Just started as well... no verdict yet.

[Hama]

Oh, and I didn't play for 10 minutes. More like 6 hours. I guess civilization-like games aren't my cup of tea.

Too bad. I'd like them to be.

[Avatar-1]

I agree it doesn't feel much like Civ 5. I thought it would, especially after reading first-look reviews, but it felt like it had quite a few differences.

To begin with, I thought the "aliens" were just reskinned "barbarians", and kept building military units to try and deal with them. I kept getting constantly attacked by these suddenly high-powered fast-spawning "barbarians" :(

The way the affinities upgrade your base units are unique in themselves. Looking at how you can upgrade a Soldier to a Marine and so forth with upgrades in the tech tree - that's seriously cool.

Having said all that, I can see myself still playing more Civ 5, simply because BE is very science fiction-y, and I like the good old start from the ancient era.

[KSF]

Brutal Ben wrote:

KSF wrote:

thejeff wrote:

<Fires up an old copy of Alpha Centauri>

<Wishes Firaxis would just release an updated version of Alpha Centauri>

I'm sure Firaxis wanted to also, unfortunately EA owns the rights to the game and I'm sure I don't need to explain EA.

Civilization: Beyond Earth Announced – Here's Everything You Want To Know

Thanks.

[archmagi1]

My 2000 hours Bt civ2-5 is of no real use. I've been wandering around for near six hours and haven't really made much more progress than staying healthy and maxing out the red path. Fun but much different than 5.