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Sid Meier's: Civilization Beyond Earth
bloodyroarxx
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-You'll go beyond earth as the title implies, making it more like Alpha Centauri.
- Out this Autumn
- You start on an alien world
- There are three types of worlds: Lush, Airy and Fungal
- You'll still be building cities like in CIv V but to expand to other planets you'll use outposts.
- You can be the first to explore a new planet and you may find some neutral creatures/races on those worlds. You can either destroy them or leave them be.
- Relics are still in.
- You can win the game by returning to earth. To do that you'll need to put a satellite in orbit around the earth and you can either return to earth to win or you can bring the refugees of earth to your home world.
- You can use diplomacy with other players right from the start.
- Fog of War is still present
- There are now orbital units that you can command like satellites.
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I am dubious about comparisons to Alpha Centauri, though. It nailed the writing and factions so well that I doubt this will live up to it in that sense. Future tech Civ is still nice, though.
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While I'm sad we won't have interactions with PLANET, I'm still happy that they are going this way. Plus ugggghhhh, multiple planets to explore....that sounds fun.
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I just want factions that lead to endless philosophical arguments on the internet. I also want the Fungal planets to be covered in red.
Do this and I'll be happy.
Don't do this and I'll probably still buy this anyway because my love for Alpha Centauri clouds any judgement I might still have.
Almost surely means that, I am afraid. This is to Civ V what Colonization was Civ IV, I suspect.
On the Civilization front, they are developing something called Civilization Online, which doesn't look like it will be an evolution of Civ V+expansions.
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I wonder if they could tie it into Civ 5 some how, or if modders could do that. If you get a Space victory, continue your game in Beyond Earth. Though with so many Civs in Civ 5, that might be a bit too ambitious unless they found their way into the factions that the blurb above talks about.
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So, no linear tech-tree, different victory conditions, an orbital layer with different satellites, the ability to muck about with your mans' genetics so they fit the world more, the possibility of reaching singularity and hopefully a bunch of nice mechanics that replace the faith/culture/tourism/influence mechanics and metrics now that they are presumably gone (perhaps not culture).
So it's like ideologies but about more than just choosing between different perks? Balla'.
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I am sort of obsessed with Civ V so this is right up my alley. This cannot come out soon enough.
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So basically it's just Alpha Centauri 2 with the serial numbers filed off.
Good.
maybe, hopefully. I got pandora cause that's what it looked like, but without SMAC's datalogs and dark philosophical underpinnings it feels flat in comparioson.
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201 hours for me.
I'm ready for something new - on a new alien planet, destroying the space French.
I must not Civ. Civ is the time-killer. Civ is the one-more-turn that brings on lost weekends.
I actually really hope not. Part of what made AC so great was that it wasn't super concerned about being less violent or showing the warfare, socities, or technologies as being less horrendous.
I'm thinking along the lines of things like these will get an 18 rating in some countries:
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Look, as long as they add teraforming and unit customization, I'm happy.
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Also, compare the AC intro and Beyond Earth trailer:
Considering Alpha Centauri is PEGI-7, I seriously doubt it.
Regardless of all of that though, this is the announcement I've been longing for from Firaxis. Another sci fi 4X from Firaxis is enough for me. Enough to make my head explode Scanners style.
I am excite! Between this and AoW, it'll be a good year for 4X fans.
I hope it keeps the theme & stylings of Alpha Centauri. I'd love for a whole new cast of political leaders & new quotable monologues.
...I also wonder if we're going to see some of the XCOM IP creep in here (I hope not. I really didn't like the XCOM soldiers making an appearance in the last Civ expansion).
It's not really a tangled mess - it's actually pretty simple: EA has the rights to the IP and are sitting on them, waiting for someone to buy them and/or the correct market conditions to churn out some shitty mobile shovelware with the IP stamped on it.
So, Firaxis could - in theory - use the IP, if they wanted to pay whatever retarded licensing penalty for doing so.
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This. Really looking forward to it. That trailer is awesome.