Civilization: Beyond Earth

Yeti Beast

Couldn't find the original thread, so I'm assuming either the thread title is incorrect, or it's still over in Games general. Either way, this belongs here.

PC Gamer hands-on.

degrassinoel

yep, this is on my wishlist. Seems like anything Firaxis touch lately is pure gold for me

Pushtrak

I started the previous one as soon as I saw info on it. It isn't in my threads started so it was obviously killed with the transitions going on with the forum.

Overheal

civilization, good game even though late game becomes a "3 minute render" of AI turns and movements

now take that and apply it to sci fi? why hell yes.

ZeitgeistGlee

Very much looking forward to this one, have sort of hit a rut with CiV enjoyment-wise.

adamrains456

What a great game dude its really blows up my mind thinking is very important.

Taylor365

If you haven't, check out Alpha Centauri.

Great game back in the day and still now.

Lingua Franca

Overheal wrote: »

civilization, good game even though late game becomes a "3 minute render" of AI turns and movements

Click "strategic view" before ending each turn, saves loads of time.

Manach

I played Alpha-Centauri back in the day - found the game play not of the same interest or coherence of the main Civ games. So I'm adopting a wait and see approach to Beyond Earth.

Klair88

Never played Alpha-Centauri but i'm so pumped for this. Unluckily, I'll have my Rig built for when its out so i can fully experience it. No More Strategic view in a large end game!

Krusader

Looking forward to this!
Never played Alpha Centauri so it would be good to see what they do with the Tech trees

Yeti Beast

The launch details have been officially announced - the release date is the 27th of October and pre-orders will receive the following in an Exoplanets Map Pack;

• Kepler 186f: This lush forest planet is one of the oldest known Earth-like planets
• Rigil Khantoris Bb: Orbiting the closest star to our solar system, the historical records of this arid continental planet's settlement are well-preserved
• Tau Ceti d: This planet of seas and archipelagos features a booming biodiversity and a wealth of resources
• Mu Arae f: Tidally locked in orbit around a weak star, the southern hemisphere of this planet is a blistering desert where the sun never sets, while the northern hemisphere is perpetually in frozen darkness
• 82 Eridani e: An alien world of scarce water and wracked by tectonic forces
• Eta Vulpeculae b: A mysterious new discovery with unknown terrain

The E3 walkthrough video has also been released!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHwnBB1e-R4

Sephiroth_dude

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/07/03/civilization-beyond-earth-blasts-off-in-october.aspx


http://www.gameinformer.com/games/civilization_beyond_earth/b/pc/archive/2014/07/03/watch-as-a-distant-planet-is-colonized-in-civilization-beyond-earth.aspx



Out October 24th

Yeti Beast

Nice, three days less to wait than PC Gamer were reporting. :pac:

Sephiroth_dude

Yeti Beast wrote: »

Nice, three days less to wait than PC Gamer were reporting. :pac:

Probably a Tuesday release for the states and Friday for Europe maybe?

degrassinoel

2K generally do worldwide releases, it might be at an odd hour though, like 1 or 2am

Kiith

degrassinoel wrote: »

2K generally do worldwide releases, it might be at an odd hour though, like 1 or 2am

2am is early by Civ standards so no problem there

cherryghost

I need this.

McSasquatch II

For my sins, I've never actually played a Civ game before. But I'll be playing this!

degrassinoel

Oak76 wrote: »

For my sins, I've never actually played a Civ game before. But I'll be playing this!

You probably should pick up one of them for cheap on steam or wherever, it's easy to pick up, difficult to master

Gbear

degrassinoel wrote: »

You probably should pick up one of them for cheap on steam or wherever, it's easy to pick up, difficult to master

Maybe even start with 3. It looks a little dated but it's a great game none the less.

4 and 5 got progressively more complicated.

If you have a basic knowledge of research, the tech tree, how the interface works and all that, it'll make learning about trade routes, diplomacy and combat smoother.

McSasquatch II

Have always wanted to get into them, but I'm wary of games I could lose a lot of time to - I've put hundreds upon hundreds of hours into a couple of games from the TW series for example. But I reckon the sci-fi theme of this will be too much to resist.

Having said that, I'm hoping to be going back to college as a mature student next year, so I could catch up with the earlier games then. :pac:

McSasquatch II

RPS have a hands-on;

rockpapershotgun.com/2014/07/21/hands-on-civilization-beyond-earth/

Jayd0g

Oak76 wrote: »

RPS have a hands-on;

rockpapershotgun.com/2014/07/21/hands-on-civilization-beyond-earth/

A good read, increases anticipation even further! Will check back to read the other articles on civilization series as a whole.

Generic Dreadhead

I'm sooooo looking forward to this.... poor health, lack of sleep, deteriorating relationships, the whole Civ experience :pac:

TheChrisD

Steam pre-orders have started.

Aaaaaand it's €50. Which is complete garbage considering it's only $50/£30.

Gonna nope right the fūck away from that.

Jayd0g

TheChrisD wrote: »

Steam pre-orders have started.

Aaaaaand it's €50. Which is complete garbage considering it's only $50/£30.

Gonna nope right the fūck away from that.

Seems to be the European online price. GMG sent me an email with a 25% off voucher the other day suggesting I pre order.

Wish I'd taken the offer up now, it expired on the 18th

VinLieger

TheChrisD wrote: »

Steam pre-orders have started.

Aaaaaand it's €50. Which is complete garbage considering it's only $50/£30.

Gonna nope right the fūck away from that.

This is a well known issue with Steam, Valve do not give a single **** about exchange rates and have been screwing Euro Zone countries for years by converting dollar prices to euros directly meaning 1$ = 1€ to them

McSasquatch II

And it's region locked, so you can't even buy it from a Russian trader. Might have to buy a physical copy from Amazon at this rate.

TheChrisD

VinLieger wrote: »

This is a well known issue with Steam, Valve do not give a single **** about exchange rates and have been screwing Euro Zone countries for years by converting dollar prices to euros directly meaning 1$ = 1€ to them

It's not Steam setting the price, it's 2K (and the other publishers for other games). It's €50 everywhere in Europe, even on the French and German Amazons. UK Amazon on the other hand, has it for £27, which is only €35!

Sephiroth_dude

Just pre ordered on amazon.

VinLieger

TheChrisD wrote: »

It's not Steam setting the price, it's 2K (and the other publishers for other games). It's €50 everywhere in Europe, even on the French and German Amazons. UK Amazon on the other hand, has it for £27, which is only €35!

That may be but steam do turn $1 into 1€

nesf

Jayd0g wrote: »

Seems to be the European online price. GMG sent me an email with a 25% off voucher the other day suggesting I pre order.

Wish I'd taken the offer up now, it expired on the 18th

They sent me that offer too but it expires on the 25th.

Jayd0g

nesf wrote: »

They sent me that offer too but it expires on the 25th.

Is the code limited to your use only,or can anybody use?

37.50 doesn't seem too bad compared to the full price.

nesf

Jayd0g wrote: »

Is the code limited to your use only,or can anybody use?

37.50 doesn't seem too bad compared to the full price.

See PMs.

Generic Dreadhead

This is tempting me big time:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sid-Meiers-Civilization-Official-Strategy/dp/0744015731/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1408713022&sr=8-2&keywords=civilization+beyond+earth

Jayd0g

nesf wrote: »

See PMs.

Thanks!

TheChrisD

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Just pre ordered on amazon.

Wow, overnight it's dropped to £25 :eek:

Alright, **** it, I'm buying. And with Amazon's price guarantee thingie, who knows how much cheaper it will get.

Jayd0g

Firaxis uploaded 2 hours of livestream here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMWFITPW3C8&feature=youtu.be&list=PL-lTq9LJCHpRAALDvFyd60wvSfEQp4bJ0

ZeitgeistGlee

€33 on Nuuvem at the moment, no mention of region locks and it includes the Exoplanets preorder bonus. Personally I'd pay the extra euro (and it may drop in price in the next while) for DDL over waiting for Amazon to ship.

JohnK

I could have this wrong but don't Amazon usually ship a few days early for preorders so they arrive on the release date? Could have sworn that's what they did for GTA anyway.

ZeitgeistGlee

I've found that a bit hit and miss before, probably most so because of An Post. It's why I prefer DDLs because then your physical location is irrelevant.

Sephiroth_dude

JohnK wrote: »

I could have this wrong but don't Amazon usually ship a few days early for preorders so they arrive on the release date? Could have sworn that's what they did for GTA anyway.

If the game releases on a tuesday you use first class and parcel motel,amazon will send it Monday and you will have it by tuesday ,if its released on Friday you could have it by Friday or saturday if you use first class shipping and pm.

matrim

Any rumours of a Linux release? Really want this but don't want to have to install windows

VinLieger

matrim wrote: »

Any rumours of a Linux release? Really want this but don't want to have to install windows

Civ 5 has a Linux version on steam so id say its very possible

matrim

VinLieger wrote: »

Civ 5 has a Linux version on steam so id say its very possible

Civ 5 was the only reason I had windows installed and I removed it when the Linux port came a few months ago.

Looking at the web there are articals saying that there will be Linux port of Beyond Earth but no dates

nesf

matrim wrote: »

Any rumours of a Linux release? Really want this but don't want to have to install windows

Edit:

It's going to be the same as with Mac. A third party will port the game over to Linux (the same company that has been porting it over to Mac all these years). So keep an eye on what Aspyr Media are saying.

_Kaiser_

Jayd0g wrote: »

Firaxis uploaded 2 hours of livestream here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMWFITPW3C8&feature=youtu.be&list=PL-lTq9LJCHpRAALDvFyd60wvSfEQp4bJ0

Hmmm.. I dunno. Hate to say it but I'm less impressed than I thought I'd be.

I know it's still in active development but it just feels like a mod for Civ 5 rather than a new game

Generic Dreadhead

TheChrisD wrote: »

Wow, overnight it's dropped to £25 :eek:

Alright, **** it, I'm buying. And with Amazon's price guarantee thingie, who knows how much cheaper it will get.

I did the same after reading this

Dermighty

I bought it on G2Play for €34.99.

Link

ZeitgeistGlee

ZeitgeistGlee wrote: »

€33 on Nuuvem at the moment, no mention of region locks and it includes the Exoplanets preorder bonus. Personally I'd pay the extra euro (and it may drop in price in the next while) for DDL over waiting for Amazon to ship.

A little over €29 now, still no region lock and comes with exoplanets.