I quit this stupid game - Civilization: Beyond Earth

[@thespiffingbrit]

Video intro: "I am having a nice chill time" Video Title: "I fucking hate this game" Seens about right

[@broeretop1]

@@thespiffingbrit not balanced enough with 0 exploits

[@rainbowcrash6990]

British spotted! Hide your potatoes and similar valuables

[@Chick3nluvver]

beyond earth perfectly balanced?

[@lollylegsgruff]

The duality of man

[@Solus749]

agreed, too much war I guess in part from him spying on everyone and pissing them off

[@russelljacob7955]

Creates a spy network to piss off everybody. Gets pissed off that everybody is mad at them.

[@Adj4ni]

^ This.

[@polskabob359]

I said that last video

[@Rymdpandan]

@@polskabob359 And I call dibs on next video, even if he's playing something else.

[@JunYuki]

Yeah, Terra Invicta all over again.

[@AllenorLP]

He just didn't use that advantage right

[@Vyctor__]

So what did you learn? 1. Greed is bad actually. The AI declares war constantly on Apollo, you can’t afford to simcity the whole game with minimal military and no base defenses. The speed at which cities are captured took you by surprise. It won’t next time. (Also, aquatic cities are extremely vulnerable and nearly impossible to defend unless you have some kind of choke point you can hold the enemy off at, I do not recommend them for your early expands.) 2. Affinity is key. Enemy tech advances can sneak up on you and before you know it you’re fighting units twice as strong as yours. Your tech focus should therefore be decided by affinity moreso than whatever nifty building or unit is unlocked. Sometimes those are worth it, but not at the cost of losing wars. Also prioritize expeditions on progenitor ruins because they can grant free affinity level ups, and give artifacts that can’t be acquired outside of expeditions. 3. Industry and might are much, much more powerful than prosperity, and knowledge is almost always a luxury you can’t afford on Apollo. You need to improve your city’s productivity and your units’ efficacy. The might virtue that gives 20% more affinity xp might be the best in the game. The industry virtue that improves domestic trade by 25% might be the second best. 4. Health is not happiness. You can sit at low or negative health without issue (though the AI will be more aggressive to you if you’re negative), and you should view health more as a cap to your expansionism and to how many health-consuming tile improvements you can build (manufactories!!!). Units on the field are more important, as they let you win wars and take money, cities and tech(!!!) from your enemies. The unit cap is determined by city count and population. Also, more cities means more trade routes. 5. Victory. You’re looking to achieve actual victory in the game, not just spin the wheels of your empire. This more than anything should determine every action you take, but most importantly it should determine your tech path. There’s all sorts of neat units and buildings and bonuses and wonders in the tech web but never forget that a web is a trap. Keep your focus and win the game instead of flexing with your eco while the AI sneaks in the win.

[@Grizabeebles]

Also, energy is not money. Low health kneecaps your empire, and it can lead to an energy crisis that can actually *destroy* you. Taking cities means taking away energy production needed to support roads, buildings and military units. Military units are automatically disbanded first...

[@Ayeshteni]

5 exceedingly good and succinct points.

[@joem5037]

This. Also *really* wide expansion is important. Cities should be built around high yield resource clusters (or river valleys, or what have you), as eg. titanium is like 12-13 prod *per tile* by mid to late game. And 5-6+ (IIRC?) early game. Build a city around 3-4 titanium and congrats, you'll have very high base prod yields to build up from. What's pretty suboptimal - by comparison - is what potato was doing here, ie playing BE like mainline civ, with the meta (pretty much consistent throughout civ I - VI, with the sole outlier V + BE) to carpet the map in evenly spaced cities with max coverage. And minimizing distance to make them defensible. The caveat to this is that super-wide, greedy expansion - while still very very viable on apollo - makes you very vulnerable. Which means you need a military. And more than that you need logistics / the ability to reposition things quickly. ie either a strong fast navy OR roads + maglevs. Roads require a ton of workers to build across large distances. Which means you need to find + make friends with an AI that hopefully took the cheap / free worker cost perk (1 turn to build... or 0 turns by just buying them out for 1 energy), or invest a significant amount of production into them. Overall BE is a great, it's a super underrated civ offshoot. It is most definitely NOT a good / great spiritual successor to alpha centauri, but it *is* a refined spinoff of V, and arguably has the most in depth combat + unit variety out of any game in the franchise. And it arguably nails the complete, comprehensive spectrum of 4x elements (explore / expand / exploit / exterminate) better than really any other game in the franchise, thus far.

[@ThatCoffeeKnightfromEurope-y3f]

Soooo, the reason he decided to quit this match in particular is because one of the A.I. opponents is 22 turns away from winning the game, and she cannot be stopped on time. But Potato said that "He has learned a lot!!"... Let's see, if he uses that knowledge!

[@bunnyben5607]

This is one of the dumbest parts of the game. The AI can get extremely lucky occasionally and get a 200 turn win if one of their explorers happens to get the decode signal. I've stopped it before, but you essentially have to have the a strong standing military or it just becomes outright impossible to win.

[@SashkoBljad]

@@bunnyben5607 Or a weak army plus phasal transporter

[@Grizabeebles]

Potato made a mistake spending so much early research on top-level techs rather than researching "leaf" techs which carry affinity bonuses. I almost always go deep into Supremacy and go for an Emancipation victory. 1000 combat strength is practically nothing.

[@Nifalh]

Potato 2 week ago: its good I promise. Potato now: I quit this stupid game.

[@Rymdpandan]

I reinstalled the game after I saw the beginning of this series and at first I thought it was great, but as it went along I remembered why I quit back then. The endgame, especially the victory conditions, are simply not fun.

[@winterthemuteson]

Then at the end of the game: "I'm gonna do another game"

[@happytoaster1]

I felt despair set in when Potato seemed to forget what the victory conditions are. The game does expect you to aim your research at one. But, even if you don't know what the enemy's victory condition building does, you can try to blow it up! 22 turns is a decent hunk of time.

[@Adj4ni]

"I keep robbing the other civs blind and i don't know why they are declaring war on me" 🤣

[@feeniks100]

The problem wasn't that you didn't have enough cities, the problem was that your cities were basically undefended, and the AI decided that those weren't going to be your cities anymore. You can't go full simcity in beyond earth, you NEED to have some military and you NEED to have good combat strength on your cities, or else the AI will forever deathwar you, especially on harder difficulties. Your problem was also that a LOT of your cities were coastal, and that is the easiest way to loose your cities by not having a strong navy to act as a deterrent for an AI to just walz on in and snag a couple of cities.

[@captainmurphy4948]

I remember the AI always going to war against me in this game. Even when I had squadrons of tacjets ready to just pound them into submission. One game on hardest or second-hardest difficulty I killed every enemy except for one slavic city, and it was hilarious to watch how much the game cheats. One turn and it'd spawn an entire army to defend the city, only to have the army bombed back into the void.

[@MrAM-ny1nk]

I actually just beat the game for the first time on Apollo difficulty cause your videos got me interested again. The strat I found was unlock ecology first for the sonic fences and eventual protection for trade routes. Then go into pioneering for the settlers. Get a few basic techs for resource production like petroleum and titanium then b-line a few techs that will get you level 5 or 6 into harmony. Focus harmony and the three needed techs in the harmony victory then just turtle as best you can. It is the most consistent and least work heavy victory by a long shot.

[@LAZERAK47V2]

Some suggestions if you plan on doing another run: Affinity focusing is unfortunately the first thing you want to prioritize, as your affinity levels dictate how powerful your army is. You can't feasibly get points into every affinity until the late game. Pick up a second Affinity if you wish, but make sure they are equivalent. In this case, hard focusing is actually detrimental, as any levels you gain in the second Affinity are better put in the first. Look at available strategics right off the bat and focus that Affinity. You'll level up your units faster, which makes the AI less willing to declare war on you. Health isn't that big an issue if it's negative, as long as it's not too crazy. You're perfectly fine dropping at least until -10. Wipe out the Aliens near your territory, but don't push them into the red. Their constant movement makes working specific tiles annoying. When you get the Ultrasonic Fence, always pick the Trader buff. Excavate with Explorers ALL THE TIME. Return to base if they need more modules. The benefits to excavating are significantly better than resource pods, which can also be collected by any unit. You can even get Affinity levels, which are HUGE. Pay attention to other leaders agendas. Try to at least satisfy 2 of them. Provided they like you enough, they aren't likely to declare war unless you're chasing a Victory condition.

[@Solus749]

didn't help that he spied on basicly everyone and got discovered. Other than that pretty solid, going for 2 different affinities is fine just don't leap into the third unless you have good reasons for it. Stealing specific tech options can get you into all three for example but I wouldn't go all three normally. Oohh and if you do spread affinites do pay attention to what the enemies/ai do because they will trigger victory conditions....this is where not skimping on military helps.

[@electricheisenberg5723]

Consider: 6 6 units take less total affinity points than 12, no?

[@LAZERAK47V2]

@@electricheisenberg5723 Well no, that still adds up to 12, but it's easier to achieve because diversifying your Affinity requires less tech. The vast majority of your Affinity levels will come from Tech, so many cheap techs are faster to research than the more expensive ones.

[@LAZERAK47V2]

@@Solus749 You're pretty much safe from AI win cons unless they've built their Planetary Wonder (as the only win con that doesn't require it is Conquest). Unlike with Science victories in Civ 6, you just need to pillage (in the case of Promised Land) or destroy/capture the city with the Wonder, as they will be forced to rebuild it. The game also announces when players make progress to win cons, so realistically, you should take action before it gets to that point. The issue with the Contact win con is that it's the easiest out of every win condition. It's extremely low investment compared to the others and can even be speedrun if you find the proper outcome from a Precursor Ruin. The only thing that the Beacon does once powered is that it totally prevents you from earning Energy while it's active.

[@Solus749]

@@LAZERAK47V2 you can destroy the beacon, hence military units. Civ BE isn't civ 5 or civ 6 the mechanics deviate so you need to adopt

[@Chick3nluvver]

such a shame, I love this game. I hope Potato tries again

[@venisontron]

I was promised a ragequit, and I was betrayed

[@lagmeister3215]

While Potato was spending 200+ turns on Sim City and Health, the AI was actually was winning the game

[@bunnyben5607]

One big reason to keep the map as small as you possibly can is that larger maps have more expeditions available, which gives the AI more chances to get the decode signal expedition, which can give them an absurdly early contact win.

[@csabaszasz4466]

just disable all winning conditions besides domination, easy

[@bunnyben5607]

@@csabaszasz4466 Lol I forgot you could do that

[@csabaszasz4466]

No problem. I have 300 hours in the game, not much but I know a few handy tricks here and there

[@EnneaIsInterested]

Arms keep peace, Potato, gotta have a strong naval pack going by mid-game, to hunt alien nests and annex naval cities, git that naval pack going, and also have a strong early-mid hover presence with Throne + Autosled to take inland cities and alien nests.

[@cm8139]

Genuinely loved this series, I really hope you do more like you were saying. This game didn't get enough love!

[@vlplbl85]

You are not losing this game. You just have to pillage the victory condition building and the counter will reset. Another important think: this game is all about affinities. If you focus on one of them, it's very easy to win. The upgraded units are so much stronger and you can crush everyone with 5 units of higher rank.

[@davidbodor1762]

The technology web is the greatest part of this game and I am surprised no other game really used it. Science is not a linear progress, countries don't focus on one thing at a time either, so it'd be super cool if rather than research one tech, you had a giant web and gained progress in a bunch of them at a time, with certain actions, like gaining buildings, units, spycraft, conquering enemy cities with technologies already researched, etc... would give you points in a lot of your technologies.

[@LuJia84]

The beacon is right there and 22 turns is more than enough time to sail over and blow it up. Which is what you’re supposed to do here (at least on harder difficulties it’s very unlikely you can win without actively destroying some other faction’s victory attempt) I once won by taking out two mind flowers and an exodus gate all in about 30 turns. You haven’t lost this one and should keep trying for the win. But for goodness sake look at the quest victories tab to keep track of what other civs are doing!

[@rafaellambiase4009]

I stole a brasilia city… oh wait…let me reroll… This proves that potato is mortal just like the rest of us ❤

[@ianking7511]

I think if you want to win a game of BE, you need to pick a win condition and actually try to achieve it. Spent a lot of time spreading your advancement to Purity / Supremacy. Could have been building the mind flower 50 turns ago. Alternatively, you might be able to switch off win conditions at setup?

[@toastynotes]

These Beyond Earth episodes made me reinstall the game only to learn I can't play it on my modern Windows 11 PC

[@Solus749]

backwards combatability

[@Rymdpandan]

I was able to play it on my modern Windows 11 PC, there's a post on the Steam discussion forum called "CIV:BE - not starting" full of suggestions for things you can try to get it to run. I was able to launch it just by removing "read only" on a couple of folders.

[@toastynotes]

@@Rymdpandan I was able to start the game 90% of the time. But it would crash within a minute or two with a EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION error. I did make sure none of the folders were read only. Verified game files with Steam. Tried Windows 7 compatibility mode. Tried running as administrator. Also I see that this problem goes back many years so it's probably not fair of me to say it's a Windows 11 / modern problem.

[@joshmanisdabomb]

I had to run with windows 7 compatibility, set graphics to medium, and set resolution to 1920x1080 in windowed mode. It's still not 100% stable but I can make it to the end of a game now.

[@Solus749]

@@joshmanisdabomb redownloaded it clean on my windows 11 computer and it ran just fine. Did you verify the files because if those break or the archive that track them lose the "marker" it can't find the needed files anymore

[@wvance0316]

Game is actually easy once you embrace ranged navy with some air.

[@lolasdm6959]

@@wvance0316 real life Merica

[@captainmurphy4948]

I remember Tacjets being stupidly op once you get a level or two in them. Even then, you just have to cycle them, keeping some at base if they get really damaged. Once you have enough though, if something is in range of a tacjet bombing, it's likely not going to last long. And the AI doesn't seem to be able to keep up with providing decent air defense, even on harder difficulties.

[@jacksonmagas9698]

@@captainmurphy4948 purity tacjets with heal every turn lead to me pretty easily winning a war against everyone at the same time, as I could kill 3-4 units for free every turn

[@lezerchil4931]

What is going on? Why do you even question enemy's hostilities when you are constantly steal stuff from them?

[@acridcesium_9971]

I recently grinded out all the achievements for BE, and while not all of it was on Apollo or in 8 player games, establishing a strong and high tech military is extremely important because of how diplomacy works with the respect/fear system. If you have enough fear then its pretty easy to just force anybody to never attack you and take wars at your pace, combine this with Affinity UUs (Battlesuits early game and Aquilons late game) and you basically get to dictate the whole game pace. Aquatic cities are strong, they get an innate boost to culture and the strongest wonder in the game (Benthic Auger), they're more vulnerable and more expensive to start up as a tradeoff though. I can't stress enough how important it is to use specialists, they are really strong in BE. Every win condition other than Domination makes a civ extremely vulnerable, Harmony takes forever, Supremacy actively cripples their military, Purity needs a lot of land and is vulnerable to getting sniped, while Contact takes all of a civ's energy production. Covert ops don't actually steal anything, they just spontaneously generate resources, units, or tech for you, best practice is to try and put all spies on one civ and get coups but spam steal units and tech before then. Bionics is one of the best techs in the game, no matter what affinity you're going for, Biowell improvements give health, so you can use workers to make your health instead of city production, freeing up more of that for units, science, or whatever else Bionics also gives institutes which are one of the best science buildings and Autosleds which are basically endgame tanks for cheap.

[@gellertgulyas1874]

Damn Potato, gave up already? But you told us it is better than you remembered!

[@George-o-rat]

@@gellertgulyas1874 you should've skipped to the end before typing this, probably will feel stupid now

[@reed3]

@@George-o-rat Maybe he shouldn’t use clickbait then.

[@HoHhoch]

@@reed3 Maybe KZbin shouldn't reward clickbait then.

[@Solus749]

@@George-o-rat maybe he shouldn't have mass spied on everyone and pissed everyone off. Another thing, you NEED military in BE don't skimp on it it is one of the surefire way to scare enemies off. They calculate win chances against you based on how much you got as well as what you do diplomaticly....aka don't spy on everyone pick your targets because haveing spies getting discovered lower your reputation and makes them more likley to attack you.

[@Mineral4r7s]

engagement successfully baited

[@ColinNesbit]

Would be great to see more Beyond Earth from you Mr. Whiskey! Just next time maybe pick a victory condition to work towards instead of just "focus on health". Cheers!

[@jhonatanbata8397]

The rage quit is next levels of anger i swear

[@MSTavares]

The Beauty of Beyond Earth, it's sad that we don't have more DLC and a 2nd Game, this is what pulled me and all others into the game over a decade ago Feel old yet, this game is already 10years old, (it turned 10 years on October 23rd)

[@Madmuli]

Hey Potato! Love these video's, man... Civ BE is definitely one of my favorites. Tip for your next playthrough: go for the 'fabrication' tech much, much earlier: the carriers are nice, but the building gives a quest that lets you increase the yields from Titanium mines. These will skyrocket your production :)

[@lackofsins929]

Industry Tree ain't bad, a small investment of 3 virtues yields this great Energy virtue. When you have 10 000 Energy, you can basically buy anything every couple of turns, and don't really lose out on money. Also, it helps kickstart any new city by making strateguc purchases, and an energy stock can be great to create an army out of thin air when you get attacked. I also love later Industry virtues like the one giving 0.5 Industry per pop in a city, and the one giving 0.2 health per building in a city. Sadly they require quite the investment in virtues.

[@Deathborn668]

Hope you do another run, I dunno why but BE is fun to watch after many many years of Civ6.

[@Rymdpandan]

11:02 If you're trying to find 1/4 (25%) of something just do 1/2 twice. 32 -> 16 -> 8. Quick maths.

[@jamesflynn6827]

I really think in this game internal trade is the meta. Starting with polystralia (+2/3/3 extra trade routes in the capital +1/1/2 for everyother city), picking liquid resources as domnestic personality trait (+20/30/40 % extra yield for internal trade routes), warp spire (for extra 50% extra from trade routes) and tax haven from the AI (+1/2/3 extra trade route in capital)+ Market Deregulation (lower the additional trade route pre population requirement), in addition to preventing the trade convoys getting attacked by aliens makes the internal trade in my opinion the most op strategy.

[@yuugian9237]

Energy focus is so overpowered, there is a deal you can make with the AI that also gives you a % energy. then when you are attacked, just buy your way into a huge military

[@Salawon]

Oh that escalated quickly.

[@numernabis9861]

Hey Potato! I cannot recommend you enough to try INTEGR for your next game. I was actually offended by your disregard for them in ep1. They are like Mansa Musa on steroids as they can get -75% discount on purchases done by diplomatic influence with level 3 of their main trait. Genuinely absurdly good - SpiffingBrit level of breaking the game if you know how to acquire it. Diplo influence essentialy becomes your second currency to buy buildings and units. Also the arrangements are cheaper (ex +2 health/culture from strategic resource or -15% reduce cost for virtues). Love that you came back to this game. Btw - don't forget to leash some aliens if you go harmony. Free upkeep, fastest way to get crazy amount of resource pods and improvement of your military strength (fear factor).

[@Mineral4r7s]

if the AoW4 issues are fixed id love to see more of that

[@theeutecticpoint]

"I need to play this game again" That'd be great, yes please! That's a LOT of war

[@e1123581321345589144]

The endless wars is why I stopped playing Beyond Earth. Just isn't a fun experience for me. I also find it somewhat off-putting that basically all the civ games are zero sum games.

[@csabaszasz4466]

Awww don't give up potato! I'd gladly play with you since i also love this game.

[@Vimes1982]

I have played a few hundred hours of this game back when and though it is enjoyable for a time, it is also horribly sterile. No project videos (Alpha Centauri), everything is a symbol not a picture and the leaders are manikins. It's a mod for Civ5 sold as a full release.

[@jedfromyourlocallibrary]

Back to the past, Potato Jack! See you in the next BE game!

[@Luthius-bp2nx]

As much as I love to say, "I told you so," I don't like seeing a series end like this.

[@ashtoncassim2092]

I loved this game back in the day, but the game just won't launch for me anymore. Anyone got any tips?

[@windwalker8004]

I really feel like CivBE ai is the best ai out of the civ games, they are brutal. You played a super greedy build. Also, the ai will respect your espionage by answering it with violence, thus you need a better military so that their fear level will make the ai less likely to attack. Also, play pan-asian. They are op af. Spam cities in the early game. The first wonder in a city is free. Like it insta-builds in 1 turn.

[@RagnellAvalon]

Made me pick the game up again, hope you do another one. This game's a ton of fun.

[@Zyragonn]

Give it a try. I know it's frustriting, but I tried going full explorer and doing all the exploration sites for the artifacts. Also from playing this game long time, going jets is the way to go. Also some artifact gives you more chance to find more artifacts and some can increase your jet strength. Also with supremacy you can gain coverage from firaxit. Combine it with teleporting satelite, you can have insta-war-win :)

[@Moosyfate]

yeah, definitely looking forward to another run!

[@barnabybilsbey]

I really wish we got a BE2 with civ 6's system. Flying districts and the like

[@Saturas35142]

Looking forward for a next try :D

[@Biblioholic1993]

Id say that you dont have to play on highest difficulty because I love seeing you play this, inspired me to buy it. Hoping to see you do more of this game. I dont see why you dont buy buildings, are they really expensive? Gonna investigate myself. The thing is it builds cities to productive and useful faster, IF they arent obviously gonna be ganked, and even then, just buying the defensive buildings will give you more time for that. Edit yay! And ahhh yeah you got it eventually, you just wanna sim i totally get it, but there aint a single civ game out there where you can ignore millitary like this, and I dont mean make them underestimate you then pull the production rug out from under the AIs pretty little house of cards, like I do when im actually going for domination. Have a millitary deterrent ON HAND. FOR THEIR VIEWING PLEASURE.

[@FeartheKlown]

As a punishment, you must now do another Beyond Earth game!!

[@jacobrussell8037]

Definitely missing this.

[@ethribin4188]

Id love to watch you plsy another BE round. It was very interesting to watch.

[@treed6038]

At 20 minutes he shows us the intrigue level in Central.... oh dear.

[@dfghhgfd01]

I reinstalled this game because of you! It has its charm, even when it gets bogged down, so I hope you make another attempt!

[@SashkoBljad]

Please do not forget your promise

[@stencetheboss]

as someone who genuinely enjoys civ BE and has played a pretty decent amount of it, a few things i saw this game that'd make next one go better: spying pisses people off, if the spies are discovered its best for them to leave and come back a lot of the time just like in V, once you get big enough a lot of times its worth having a counter-spy in your capital rather than spying somewhere else diplomatic agreements can help civs favor with you alot, try to pursue more of them, especially with neighbors you don't want warring you invisible units suck shit when you get invaded by them - to combat them you need better orbital units (both generally as they were very underutilized this game as well as ones that grant visibility) as well as a better standing army for them to bump into. Plus as you found out, city defenses are pretty necessary. affinity upgraded units are EXPENSIVE, its often much cheaper to maintain a strong standing army and upgrade them over time due to upgrades from affinity not costing gold/energy like in normal civ games Civ BE can v easily trap you into playing all economy with all the pretty buffs and cool ass buildings, even the UI has so many blinking lights and colors, armies still very much matter though. It seemed like you were building units mostly to address threats instead of as the deterrent they should be, especially considering how war-prone the AI is as you observed A huge detriment to Civ BE and one of the main critiques is your initial resources available to you essentially heavily determine your affinity path and victory type options, which makes games feel very samey by the end. Firaxite is supremacy, floatstone is purity, xenomass is harmony. Each of those have their own unique victory condition and all of the best buildings and units unlocked by those techs require those resources. Outside of that there is obviously time and domination victories, as well as the contact victory that anyone can go for. (you build a beacon and contact a higher alien race, its pretty cool lore wise but also feels v RNG dependant because there is a random chance to have that victory condition jump started early from a progenitor ruin expedition) Just like in other Civ games, starting with an end in mind is a big deal, as well as being able to pivot if things are not going well.

[@prototype6706]

We broke him. Next run when??? Next series? Come on Potato I NEED this

[@DrownedInExile]

I look forward to your next game!

[@jelly_2122]

You might have been able to better hold off attacks from INTEGR if you popped by alien evolution to get the xeno titan, which turns into an absolute beast when upgraded. Mega siege unit could have let you strike back

[@koonbeast]

also please try to trade with the singular neutral city stations asap before they disappear. their yields go insane after a while, on top of doubling when the orbital unit is on their station.

[@upasiensis]

Well, that was a surprise.

[@l0st_ed]

7:06 is that a tier 3 explorer? How???

[@M.O.M.I]

I will repeat my comment on your first video, Pan Asia is legit the number 1 civ in this game, there isn't even a debate. 1 turn wonders is OP and some of the wonders in this game are game breaking strong. Also don't forget you spend diplo cap like it's money on units and buildings.

[@christealeaf6052]

Hear me out. Imagine a technology that the player could research that would be something like “advanced AI” that would give the player better recommendations on what to do or just do some things that require micro-management which takes a lot of time on later stages of the game

[@deocharismostrales4142]

i can't remember everything about Beyond Earth but i think you still had a chance: you didn't have to wipe out Elodie, you can just wreck her Beacon, which i think was reachable. i can't be bothered to find the timestamp but i saw a glimpse of it.

[@TaranAlvein]

This game really is pretty great. One of its biggest demerits is that it's built on the Civ 5 engine, so diplomacy with the AI is still basically meaningless. They'll be your best friend one turn, then declare war the next.

[@Ifrit_desu]

I know this was a one off playthrough but could you do some guide for Beyond Earth?

[@beauthestdane]

I only ever played the base game of Beyond Earth, I did enjoy it at the time though.

[@montezuma1251]

When you go about playing BE, 20+ health is useless. You should always be settling cities. The 2 civic paths you use are the military and cultral paths. There is a policy where you get health from units. It's completely bonkers if you have +40 cities pumping out military units

[@rhystaylor851]

Hurray more Beyond Earth

[@nomadorion]

Please do some videos about We The People! I would kill to see you or you AND the yogs play some multiplayer SO BAD! ps; Civ:BE is a fun game but, man, its rough sometimes.

[@thebladeofchaos]

I'd say if you start again, maybe consider NOT being so aggressive with your spies, though also consider a different alignment much as you know how Harmony works (more then before) I think seeing what Purity and Supremacy do, and perhaps a hybrid of the alignments can do.

[@fernandokonig6532]

Guys, how did you manage to launch this game, because it doesn't even open every single time I try it! I went to some Steam forums and every solution that I tryed simply does not work! Some help? Thanks!

[@lawrencecelestino3444]

BERT's amazing but I think Potato needs to loosen the difficulty a little bit. Apollo is really tough and requires a laser focus on what you need to win. You can't just be traipsing around the tech web getting what you like, and just indulging in espionage without a strong army. His lack of concern about his Affinity also seems to suggest that he doesn't know how units are upraded in the game.

[@SashkoBljad]

Potato please read victory conditions for the next run)1 And also read what ai players like and try to fit in if easy

[@aaronhedgesmusic]

I tried to get it running but the game kept crashing for me. I read that other people had similar problems

[@pardzival6660]

weird... i booted it up after seeing Potato's first video and these issues never occured for me. it worked fine

[@kyledickey6579]

I had the same issue. What fixed it was deleting the contents of the folder in steam and then verifying the game files.

[@paulkrauth5158]

Potato, you are a brilliant Civ-player and a great KZbin creator. That being said, if I found your hand on my wallet, I'd declare war on you too. 🤠😈😇

[@bigbenhgy]

Not sure what I'm doing wrong. When I see the AI just going by it's other enemies with it's navy, leaving itself defenseless, just to attack me across the globe, that's when I usually ragequit. On planets without much water I can hold out longer before I get an entire coalition marching against me, again across the globe and often through or at least by enemy territory. Too bad I really like the scifi vibe of this game.

[@numernabis9861]

The AI attacked you because it most likely sees you as an easy target. Distance can be almost irrelevant in such a case. It's behaviour is mostly influenced by fear (military strength) and respect factor (what they value most is affected by their traits). If you keep those two at high enough level, the chance of being attack is actually quite low and you can easily keep friendly relations with AI-civs (what allows you to get agreements with them like -15% cost of virtues or +2 health from strategic resources - op with INTEGR).

[@numernabis9861]

I believe those few steps should allow you to play smoothly even on Apollo: 1. Definitely pick free worker at the start and re-roll if you have a weak starting location (prioritize food and production yields; also - rivers are great) 2. Spam explorers (not less than 4-5) and get every resource pod you can and even more. Ignore excavating at the very beginning. 3. Don't attack aliens at the early phase of the game if you don't have to. 4. Prioritze harmony at the beginning and research "alien lifeforms". Leash every alien you can - that's your early army that besides boosting your military strength and improving the fear factor allows you to get more pods (that's the moment you start excavating). Also: free upkeep and no production wasted for them. 5. Research robotics and get some needlejets. Other essential early techs are engineeing (titanium=production) and genetic mapping (for the best early wonder - gene vault). That's of course only one of the possible early strategies, but in my opinion it's the most effective and RNG-protected. Have fun!

[@SephirothRyu]

Such clickbait.

[@maksimgolota5021]

Дякую.

[@rafaellynx5332]

Nice video bro

[@George-o-rat]

I love how no one even thought of watching the end before typing dumb comments.

[@williamknight7907]

do both, this and new

[@AsbestosMuffins]

I had to disable the mind flower win condition because the harmony tech ending is too easy for the AI and they always went that way

[@KigreTheViking]

Please play "Old World" Its so good.

[@WadeSmith1001]

Awkward title misleading of your thoughts you express at end of video of enjoying the game, but apparently not this current save game because you might lose, thus making the game look bad to new people browsing. Regarding losing, couldn’t you just turn all production to military and rush all units to the opponent? What about disabling those victory conditions next time. Can role play that even though an opponent accomplishes some grand condition others are still there to compete. I suppose victory conditions on can be role played to that a grand condition met inspire all nations populations to folllow your rule.

[@TotallyNotShiny_Stone]

I recommmend NOT picking Fungal biome again. It suck!

[@jlfilip]

Really bad gameplay! I dont get it why BE is so hard for others! I always have ez time on it! 🧐

[@batboy555]

I couldn't get through 20h of this game

[@WyoSavage1976]

I don't care how you hype beyond earth. In my opinion it absolutely sucks. I gave it a try to the tune of 200 hours plus.

[@polskabob359]

Jesus potatoe, why r they declaring war on me , ur stealing from all of them , since u could start , n u keep doing it , over n over , i said this last video , read ur comments

[@edwardrusk]

What I remember HATING about this game was that-- as a build and expand game - you were essentially punished for having more than about 3? 4? settlements. Recall management of Health a chore. One of the few games I truly regret purchasing. Have not touched it in years.

[@Fat_Paws]

It is one of the few civ games where crazy early expansion doesn't always pay off. Wide is still better than tall, but you need the ability to get a new settlement "up and running." quickly Managing health is similar to managing happiness in Civ V, in many ways. Several things went wrong here. Constant war is definitely the biggest factor. Potato's first few settlements were in relatively bad locations (should have moved in-land imo) both for yields and defense. Internal trade routes should have been up and running a lot earlier. etc. etc. Some games just don't pan out. I still feel BE has aged better than Civ V, even though it felt like a Civ V total conversion mod back in the day. Also, I haven't played it in years. Who knows how I will manage after all these years of Civ VI?

[@igncom1]

Only in the early game. By late game you have infinity health and can cover the whole map in cities.

[@czechmeoutbabe1997]

I feel like unfortunately Potato lost a bunch of cities and spent a lot of production getting them back and settling new ones instead of science buildings and more culture which could get those strong health bonuses through affinity and policy. He was too focused on boosting health at the city level with buildings instead of pushing on and unlocking macro-bonuses, which as you can see, completely flipped the situation and he ended with 50 health. Also he ended up doing so much war that he could have pivoted to military hard and just conquered the continent.

[@Solus749]

you can have negative health and be just fine it. All it does is lower ing productin and growth, what you don't do is skimping on military that is your number one way to lessen getting wars thrown at you. The second most important thing is paying attention to what opponents do and what their political goals are. If you want to avoid wars with them try to keep 2 of them in the green and DON'T spy on them ( atleast don't get discovered doing it ). Lastly don't overestimate how resistant to damage your cities are in BE compared to civ 5, civ 6 an army can roll a city in 1-2 turns. Even early game armies of just 2 soldiers and 1-2 rangers can take a city FAST.

[@czechmeoutbabe1997]

Dude I have no idea why everyone hates this game I loves it to death

[@zacharydemaio7842]

McWhiskey post! GOGOGOGOGOGO! INSTA VIEW

[@ehyuhnwehghstehn8262]

Ok, genuinely, please make a new playthrough after either loosing or winning this one, i genuinely started to find the game interesting again and i want to see more 🥲❤️