Tired of waiting for Civ 7? | Try Sid Meier's Civilization Beyond Earth: Rising Tide!

[@TheRandomMaori]

One of the biggest problems with Civ-Beyond Earth is that everyone was expecting this title to be the successor of Civ-Alpha Centauri instead of allowing it to exist, live and grow into its own self. Beyond Earth had a very different game play and dynamic which people lost sight of. I honestly thought it had gotten a bad wrap for all these years and I'm glad people have decided to give it another look again. Thanks for this Jumbo. Just reminded me how much I still love this gave. Gonna have a game right now....

[@megaloth1955]

Oh, come on, it was a Civ 5 Mod. A bland one, too, with an ugly color palette and not much else, sold for a full price at release. And the sycophantic reviewers gushing over it for no reason didn't help things, either. And no, arranging the tech tree in the form of a web instead of a flowchart isn't refreshing or groundbreaking. Rising Tide, though? It shook things up quite a bit and was a very good step in the right direction. Too bad they dropped the title right when they started to do good things with it, probably because the reception was (rightfully) bad. If only they did Rising Tide's content BEFORE releasing the original game as it was we would actually have something unique by now.

[@akshaydabhadkar851]

Same thing with Age of Empires 3

[@bobruppert2326]

I agree with you. I recently tried to play Alpha Centauri again and the rose colored glasses came off. The game felt empty, not much diversity (worms, worms, big or small, meh) in experience. While it had a decent story for all the factions, that just wasn't enough. What CIV: BE:RT gives is much more immersive, each search comes across new things, the quests add goals, the artifacts make for interesting decisions. While I don't like the 'health' system or struggle with affinity, this beats old AC by a mile.

[@danielkowalski7527]

@@megaloth1955 TO bad they released add-on be4 main game? wtf? Colours are gr8

[@NewfieCatgirl]

@@megaloth1955 Isnt that how the Civ games are tho. Bad as the game, good with the dlcs?

[@davidunderwood9728]

I liked Beyond Earth, it had many cool ideas. I feel like if they make a second one, they could fix some the problems it had. Some of the ideas of this game did get put into Civ 6

[@CausticSpace]

Imo the problem is it was a soulless and had less content than base game SMAC

[@Botar48]

@@CausticSpace Less content and less flavor but I think it has soul. It is a good game. It's just not SMAC and people never forgive it for that.

[@Groaznic]

They just needed a 2nd expansion before a 2nd game. A lot can be added with an expansion, people forget that nowadays with just worthless microtransactions.

[@Jollyroger84103]

Honestly, I hope we do get a sequel to Beyond Earth. Or, at the very least, another attempt at an Alpha Centauri successor. I want to see another shot at a futuristic/sci-fi game done using the Civilization formula, even if they don't necessarily slap the Civilization branding on it.

[@CausticSpace]

Alpha Centauri 2 would be better

[@girthvader1551]

​​I played BE over 100 hours at launch but never played rising tide. I loved civ 5. I have almost 900 hours on it. I recently went back to revisit BE rising tide as well as some mods and I gotta say, it's almsot as good as civ 5. It makes some really nice changes that shouldn't be overlooked.

[@stepanserdyuk4589]

Vth is epic, but Beyond is _magical._ It only needed one big update to organize and balance out the content that is already in the game.

[@ThoriberoCaroli]

I think it's a great game, and I play it still. (With many mods though.) It just captures the planet colonization feeling very well. In the beginning, you are scared of every little alien unit, all who could destroy your every soldier, trade unit and settler. Never mind if you happen upon a Siege worm or a Kraken! But in the end game, you have tamed/become one with the planet and just roll over it with your huge ultimate units. And the lore! The civiliopedia in the regular games is stuffed, but here it is not something they just could have taken off Wikipedia. These stories, the quotes (my favourite being about the alien life form not being able to speak French), the tech, the buildings, the history, everything makes you feel emersed in a huge world where important things really are at stake, but where you also at the same time can shape it and play a part in it. The intro cinematics give me goosebumps each time... Sure, it has its flaws, as every game. But overall, now I just want to sit down again and land my colony shuttle, start building that ultrasonic fence and send out the explores to hopefully not get killed by miasma. :)

[@AshtonSnapp]

It has mods?????????

[@codyjacobs6899]

I went into beyond earth having played many civ and 4x games and thought it was fine and good. Obviously regular civ games have the help of having more personable characters and what not. But your civ can get so unique by the end of beyond earth which is super cool.

[@evanragland4930]

I really don’t know why Civ BE was ignored so much. I loved it. Thought it was a cool blend between Civilization and StarCraft

[@aoki6332]

They spend way to much in marketing and it made a huge flop when it came out the Expansion was to little to late to save the game so instead of trying to inject even more money into a project that had already made a huge lost they removed the plug

[@TheTrueAdept]

@@aoki6332 no, the SMAC fanboys came out in force and ruined everything.

[@Ethereal311]

Base game is fine, but I've been enjoying the Codex mod a lot. Basically it gives you options to specialize in Tall and Wide playstyles. Still figuring them out myself (Titanium is SO hard to get)

[@hanSolowQ]

The most important question you should ask yourself before buying any games from 2k is, is the game stable and playable? Civ6 is currently unplayable for a lot of players and before throwing away any money to this studio check the forums if the game is stable or not!

[@Smenkhaare]

I love Civ 5 and Beyond Earth...I have played many games of each. I loathe Civ 6 even with DLCS'S and have never completed a game of Civ 6. Far too cartoony and gamey Civ 6 is to me.

[@therexbellator]

@@Smenkhaare Nobody cares. Your opinion is irrelevant to the discussion which is about BE. That said your opinion is representative of a tiny (tiiiny 🤏) minority. Fact is Civ has *always* been cartoony and whimsical. Civ 5 was the only game in the franchise that changed its art style making it the outlier. Go back and look at Civs 1-4, before VI, IV was the most cartoony Civ and prior to that III was pretty goofy looking as well. Civs 1 and 2 lacked graphical detail but they made up for it with silly Elvises, citizens on parade, classical era newspaper headlines, and Civ II's hilarious council videos (including the aforementioned Elvis). Civ has never taken itself seriously and its art style has always reflected that. Civ V's artistic style was more of an accident than an attempt to make Civ "current" with realistic graphics. It's always possible that Firaxis may return to that style but they don't have to either because at the end of the day we play Civ for the gameplay not for graphics and that's why VI is 1000x superior to the Jon Shafer abortion that took Ed Beach two expansions to make playable.

[@joaosaran4440]

I loved CIV:BE so much, its a shame that it was abandoned in favour of CIV VI, it had so much potential being open for crazier techs, afinities, factions, etc...

[@pipebomber04]

The greatest problem is people keep comparing it to alpha centauri and looking for gandhi in the game. Its underdeveloped but still fun.

[@Jon0387]

I really enjoyed Beyond Earth when it released. I used to Marathon Civ 5 then go into Beyond Earth. The one thing I didn’t like was the small number of sci-fi factions, if I played as Rome in Civ 5 there was no obvious faction I could imagine going into Beyond Earth as. Strangely enough when I first played Humankind I thought some of the ideas from BE could work well if the Humankind franchise ever does a spin-off like this. The affinity system from BE seems like something Humankind could build on it’s empire customize. Humankind’s changing avatars could also be interesting, rather than changing clothing based on culture it could become more pronounced cybernetic if you go down the supremacy route.

[@axelignite9916]

I remember being hyped for beyond earth when it came out and bored with it after a couple playthroughs. To me it just felt like a civ 5 mod. I had no idea they'd made dlc for it. Ty for posting this, i might have to pick up that dlc now.

[@ShrineOfLife]

for me, it was in some way feeling like civ revolution on the ps3 and xbox360 - i really did enjoy it from the get go, but I really was in a minority. today... I picked up playing recently, and boy, I really do enjoy it.... dont know what it is, but it hits a spot in me

[@logannabozny3031]

When I first played Beyond Earth it was so alien and strange to my 4x experience, having only played Civ Rev and Civ 5. Since that time I have played the Endless games, Civ 6, Humankind, Old World, and now watching this video I can't help but feel like it's actually very close to the Endless games. I definitely have to go back and try a game and see how enjoyable it is.

[@ghostdreamer7272]

Glad this holds up, I downloaded Rising Tides when it went on sale but I had kind of moved on when I finally got it and never played a full game with it. Will be interesting to go back. I wonder if they might make a “Civ BE 2” as we wait for Civ7. I also wonder if there’s an overview of the factions? They weren’t as natural to remember as the faction ideologies and leader personalities as Alpha Centauri, but they still put an effort there.

[@black.phoenix.]

2014/2015 was the year of two of my most favourite games Civ BE and Anno 2205. Both of them sit in the premise of a futuristic outlook with space exploration in a sci fi tech background. Both of them also didn't got a lot of attention back in the day, being considered average games. But I really love that setting and today I still play both.

[@gaffgarion7049]

I think one of the biggest problems was that the affinities relation to technology was the opposite of how it should have worked. They civs have no distinct personalities because the affinities we're supposed to shape their personality. But none of the factions become distinct in any path until late game. You can use buildings and techs that are meant for one affinity,(why do Purity/Harmony get benefits from a cyborg factory?) Later Techs should have been locked behind affinity levels and affinity developed purely through decisions and actions. This would make the differences more distinct early on. Which in turn would railroad the ai on a certain path earlier, giving them more coherent personalities.

[@madensmith7014]

They are trying to make hybrid affinities possible, as seen with the upgrades for faction specific units. Other than that, the buildings play all the same whatever route you choose as long as you have the tech.

[@Mucologist]

I enjoyed Beyond Earth/ Rising Tide a bunch and regarded it at least as good as Civ 5 and after abandoning Civ6 still remember it fondly. I did not play Alpha Centauri so, I can't compare. But BE/ RT checked ALL of the boxes for me and, strangely, I might consider it the apotheosis of the Civ franchise. Also, I think some of the sentiment about AC may be sour grapes driven by the departure of Brian Reynolds from Firaxis such that he never made a remake of the game. Glad you came back to it; I may too. Enjoy!

[@davidunderwood9728]

Also if you like Beyond Earth you might like Age of Wonder Planetfall.

[@sebaaullador1292]

Planetfall is really a cool Game, the units look really cool, but their animations and the sound of some their guns is really bad

[@shadowreaver1851]

I personally love Beyond Earth. Civilization games based on the historical past are certainly fun but I've always wanted a civilization type game where you explore other planets and sadly there aren't very many. Alpha Centauri was one of the first and I loved it but I always wished they would make another one with better graphics and they did and that was Beyond Earth. I only wish they had followed up with more expansions or a sequel but let's face it the big money is in civilization games based on Earth's History anything beyond that is less profitable but I wouldn't certainly pay top dollar for it.

[@wallridez514]

I like the base game and rising tides both! They're very different! I mean, it's a touch on the easy side, sure, but there's a lot of neat ideas in the game. It definitely feels less like a board game and more like a sim, which personally, I kinda like...

[@bizi-e3v]

Yes but have you tried sid meier’s railways?

[@andyabdullah3324]

The base game with Rising Tide is good. But with Codex Mod, it become great. Try it.

[@snowdawn]

I still enjoy Civ BE esp with Rising Tide expansion. Still one of my favorite 4x aside from Civ 5. Great video man.

[@whisperer195]

I do oddly love this game, it seems like no one else has it tho so I never had anyone to play it with! Seems the few people who do have it love it though. I hate that you need everyone to have the dlc because the base game is cheap yet rising tide is needed for the game to be good.

[@CodyKricketune]

Game is actually very fun. I got it as a gift and I ended up buying the DLC for it because I enjoyed it so much.

[@rikertricochet4457]

Nice. It is my favourite game on steam (530 hours). I've been enjoying it to the core. Literally. I'm a big fan of futurolgy(long dead sphere of the science, where people discuss and analyze possible predictions). I've printed entire tech tree with decription on many pages ,i've sat and readed it. I've a notebook where made points how to improve the game. Each branch of the tech tree is very interesting and combined almost every part of human civ. Tech tree is much complex than classic liner in civ 5 bnw. Really sad that sid meir company droped it. One thing i wanna tell you about beyond earth, which makes it wonderful game is - battle system. Really thanks to civ 5 bnw. The replayability potential is high because of this system. it is a real joy to wage in civ beyond earth. It is not dead.

[@williamgreenough8350]

i have played this game for over 1400hr............ yes, it is a sid meier's game. so what do you expect, it was next generation from alpha centori, (that took a long time for me to appreciate), but beyond earth got me to think of strategy in a different ways, you not only had other colonies settling around you, from earth, but you also had to deal with bugs that had a habit of getting in your way. that cant be done until 3/4 of the way through the game, when you can either train them or put them into special parks. at which point you get uglier and uglier bugs to defend you, and that's when you have found the sweet spot of the game, and then go in for the kill, that's when the game shows its true colours........

[@CausticSpace]

Beyond Earth is a downgrade to SMAC in everywhere except graphics :/

[@TheSwiftFalcon]

Beyond Earth improved so much with Rising Tide, and even though it could use some more content, it's one I keep returning to from time to time. I wonder how good this could have been if it had gotten a second expansion.

[@therexbellator]

Great overview and I couldn't have said it better myself JumboPixel. I'm really hoping that the next Firaxis 4X strategy game is Beyond Earth 2 not Civ VII (I'm still plodding away at VI and am in no hurry for a successor). Beyond Earth's biggest (but not sole) weakness is its lack of character from the leaders and its tech quotes. It tries to ape Alpha Centauri's portentousness with tech quotes remarking on philosophical or scientific concepts but the writing was weak, which is not to say I was one expecting it to be SMAC2 (I wasn't) but even on its own this aspect of the game's presentation was lacking. Also the leaders lacked personality which was probably a consequence of the affinity system and how any of them could adapt any affinity rather than pursuing one. Civilization, as a game, has history on its side to tell its narrative but a 4x game like BE can't fall back on a history that doesn't exist, therefore the characters and lore need to shine, something BE lacked. Hopefully Firaxis devs are taking note and will address this in a future game.

[@horatiocarrillo2176]

I really liked this game, and wish they hadn't given up on it.

[@TheTrueAdept]

I literally come back to this game every so often. It's just pretty good, the problem was that the SMAC fanboys basically ruined it.

[@morriswong2848]

I have played this game and love it so much

[@MSTavares]

I played at least 200 hours of CIV BE with my cousin and only stopped playing the game with him, because we moved to CIV V and The Forest around 2016/2017. though we played for about 2 years this game

[@cameronbaines9691]

I heard someone once describe the legendary heroes of might and magic iii as a game where you have to beat another players op bs strategy with your own op bs strategy and that way it is balanced. I think civ be could have done that too. Make each affinity strong and weak against another, have purity cover the land (not sea) in terraforming (perhaps adjacent terraforming reduce upkeep, adjacent miasma increase it), harmony gets attack buffs and mire resources from (customisable?) miasma and unimproved resources, and supremacy covers the world in nodes and tries to max out energy production (rather than production production) and fights using shear numbers. I feel if you look for it these themes were here' but they weren't perfectly executed or done to the extreme i think they should have. I love the setting, they needed to lean into it more.

[@mvahonk]

Was the same for me, didn't like the game _at all_ when it came out, and just went back to ol' reliable Civ V for the next 3 years or so. Finally decided to give BE another chance because I got the DLC super cheap on sale, and to my own surprise absolutely loved it. It really was an unpolished gem and the DLC fixed almost all of its issues.

[@Cronirios]

I've started getting a lot of beyond earth again. It happens every now and then. It had good ideas, but it did feel empty at moments. I hope I find a turn based like this, but better, in the future.

[@treyperkins2667]

I LOVED this game. With more attention from the mod community it could have been the best one

[@ReviveHF]

Basically the affinity of this game is like this: 1. Harmony : Navi from Avatar series ( We have abandoned the Earth and become one with the Aliens) 2. Harmony + Supremacy : Brotherhood of Nod from Command and Conquer series(For the technology of peace, peace through power!) 3. Harmony + Purity : Wizards from the Harry Potter franchise(You like fantasy stuffs but still wanted to stay in human form) 4. Supremacy : Humans from Cyberpunk 2077(High tech low life, replace most of the organic parts with machinery, even the nature of the Earth must be replaced with technologies) 5. Supremacy + Purity : Settlement Defense Front from Call of Duty Infinite Warfare(We must reconquer the Earth with technologies and ultranationalist ideology or we rescue the humans on Earth by inviting them conquering the Alien Planet ) 6. Purity : Settlement Defense Front from Call of Duty Infinite Warfare(We stay truthful to the old Earth Civilisations, and spread it to the Alien Planet.) I actually like Call of Duty Infinite Warfare, so if I play Civilization Beyond Earth, I always choose Supremacy Purity hybrid because I want to role play as the Settlement Defense Front to conquer the Alien Planet.

[@dw-rh6fb]

I have the same feeling about it. It's definitely fun.

[@alexmorpheus6762]

Civilization Beyond Earth is underrated. Ppl thought it should be Alpha Centauri 2 but it's better being a stand alone game.

[@RedStar441]

They need to take the environment elements, the aquatic city aspects, and the unit progression system only and make a whole new game. Those are the elements I respect and love the most, which are solid concepts in game.

[@daes9401]

When it first came out, I was very disappointed in Beyond Earth. Yet, compared to what they did with Civ 6 -- the cartoonish style, the catch-all district mechanic, not to mention the AI and the whole imbalance in the game -- Beyond Earth does some fundamentals right. Nevertheless, it could have been a better game if they tried to make the civilizations/factions more distinctive and improved the technology tree -- and of course how it connected with the alien strategic resources. I never warmed up to that mechanic. I always felt that it did not give the player any meaningful choice. You picked whatever was available in your region. Considering how important these strategic resources were for your science/technology choices, not to mention the narrative of the whole campaign, this limited the gameplay and made for a bland game. At the end of the day, I feel they were influenced more by Pandora: First Contact (a not very well known game with limiting gameplay mechanics) than Alpha Centauri, although they paid tribute to the latter for marketing purposes. As many others, I would have loved a new Alpha Centauri game with updated mechanics and new graphics. I guess we will have to wait for that.

[@a.m.hofmeister725]

Hmm. I think I like Civ 6 better than 4 or 5. Especially the art style. It's odd to me that people don't like it, but I totally respect the opinion and know everyone has their favorite.

[@CausticSpace]

Mechanics are perfect, maybe add some districts but otherwise it’s better than most 4X mechanically, just better UI and Graphics are needed

[@ReviveHF]

The cartoonish art style works with Civ franchise, if you want realistic visuals, you can try Total War series.

[@blackbutterfly74]

BTW if you are looking for BE players for MP game, get in touch. I know a few 😉

[@universecreep]

Good video. I never thought about it that way before. I still prefer Civ V and VI but like you said, it something to play until Civ VII comes out. Right now I'm playing Gal Civ 4 but I may reinstall BE and give it a whirl later on.

[@joshuabarker5703]

Ive had this game hiding in a cupboard for so long.. and now playing it for 1st time in 2024.. what im struggling with is the trade convoy system.. my trade panel isnt showing me any trade route options, which is bizarre because the trade review shows i do have potentials

[@Groaznic]

Which is the more infuriating that after proving that with expansions they can carve an awesome original path forward for this game, they went ahead and never delivered the traditional Firaxis 2nd expansion, just imagine how much could have been added like actual terrain height (a la Alpha centauri). This particular point with the community expecting a 2nd expansion, and Firaxis never having any communication with the community, never asking what people would like to see or if they'd like to see something, and going for mobile-looking colourfest Civ 6 is when the company died for me.

[@Dirt1061]

I really like the game. I agree the replay ability is low, but i had a ton of fun with it. I believe reviewers were to harsh on the game. I feel age of wonder planetfall is the most modern competitor.

[@JumboPixel]

Yeah that is a really good example for a similar competitor - good call!

[@sebaaullador1292]

I played planetfall...It was good at the start, but the more i play the more i realize that was really shallow in diplomacy, combat and city management

[@shyguy778]

Bro, you can get the base game and expansion for about £11 on Humble Bundle, WELL worth it if you ask me. I was really sad that they didn't polish this game and then re-release it on the Switch, a little marketing and they could literally revive this game, it would be a KNOCKOUT hit

[@dnaseb9214]

If you want a sci fi 4x game. Just try Age of Wonders 3 the scifi version, or W40K Gladius (my favorite). Why is Ghandi so popular ? I do tend to ally with him and Bismark quite a bit. But I dont have any special affinity for him.

[@Screamus]

Peace loving ghandi is a meme because his hidden agenda is always to build nukes.

[@Smenkhaare]

There was glitch early in the AI that they kept. Ghandi loved nukes and nuking opponents. This was great. We tried to keep that in the Total Realism mod for Civ 4. This is Ankenaton. Thanks.

[@LAZERAK47V2]

I was so upset when I heard they were abandoning this game. It had so much potential.

[@StaryBrudnyLis187]

Me and my wife loved it, it's a shame they abandoned it like this

[@addisondrake2587]

I just want Civiliaztion 2 Test of Time to run on windows again. Being able to play on earth and alpha centari at the same time, or up to 4 different maps in the other scenarios all with there own limits on how to get to them. We need a beyond one single planet civ game again.

[@Patrick462]

That photo of JumboPixel in the thumbnail is on point!

[@ChrissieBear]

YES, IT'S GOOD AND I LOVE IT!

[@ryorai5804]

My only issue is its stability. It makes it hard to play a lot!

[@zerog1734]

first civ i played i love how everything was so aggressive domination was fun gameplay i trayed civ6 i found it very complicated and at mid game i got bored its very very slow

[@DrownedInExile]

Interesting! I completely lost interest in C:BE back in the day, found it underwhelming. But I never actually tried the DLC. Maybe I will.

[@CausticSpace]

Cheaper to get SMAC on GOG and have a guaranteed good experience.

[@DrownedInExile]

@@CausticSpace Already have SMAC, good times :)

[@uncouthboy8028]

Every person commenting that hasn't played Alpha Centauri needs to go play it.

[@algual888]

A mi este juego siempre me pareció minusvaloradísimo, es un juego en el que la exploración sí que importa, las facciones son creíbles y están bien caricaturizadas, el sistema de la expansión para modelar tú espónsor es muy bueno, lo de volverte pro humano, sintetizarte con las máquinas o mezclarte con el ADN del planeta me parece un acierto y una mecánica genial, es de esos juegos que nunca entenderé por qué no tienen el reconocimiento que de verdad merecen. Saludos.

[@TowZatya]

i buy it yesterday. And i play for 15 hours without any break. It is so sad that it have only 1 (in fact 2) DLCs. I love idea of Civilization but in alien world. It is not great, so many bugs, but i played 800 hrs in Civ 5 and i see mostly the same bugs XD but the war system is just stupid. I quit my game because I have war (i was Africa) with America, and they offered me peace and i cannot reject it because i cannot make new turn without it.

[@adamorick2872]

I like the game. Wish it came to counsel

[@scottfraser706]

Can you get this on play station

[@markmorris7123]

Civ 5 is my favourite civ

[@chromosomerism1712]

I thought it was a great game people just disliked it because they wanted something else.

[@wargriz8213]

While I think it’s the weakest title compared to 5/6. I really like it and wish we could have gotten more Civs.

[@girthvader1551]

Use the codex mod

[@danielmoyle5503]

Affinities should have been the Virtue trees. Seperate from techs.

[@rip9898]

Epic game

[@Mornomgir]

Game is fantastic. However it doesnt work on new comps. Atleast not mine.

[@Theospeak1]

My son and I are playing Beyond Earth and the biggest thing I've noticed is that it is still a truly "beta" product. It is lacking crucial basic bug fixes and features. For example, if you research a bunch of techs that give you Harmony affinity and reach a point where your units heal on tiles with "miasma" - which normally harms units - when you set your workers on auto they still automatically clear miasma, even though it is now beneficial, and there is no way to turn off having them clear miasma unless you go 100% manual. Another pain is that from the beginning the game's equivalent of barbarians - native creatures - start out with some units being end-game level strength and if you accidentally reveal them on a tile they will close the gap with your unit between turns and destroy it like a Death Robot attacking a beginning level warrior. Which is maddening. Also, I'm almost done with my second playthrough and none of the names in the game are useful or intuitive. Every object is like an object from Civ 5 but it's as if someone used a random letter generator to come up with random names that are meaningless. Not factions, leaders, unit names, buildings, wonders nor improvements have meaningful or intuitive names.

[@jansenart0]

BE is good.... once. The premise of all the civs doing a science victory simultaneously is ludicrous and the fact the planet doesn't change removes all replayability.

[@the4xgamer765]

Beyond earth is the best civ game

[@bizi-e3v]

How? It’s just a watered down version of alpha centauri. All the leaders in this game lack personality and are pretty one sided. The aliens are just reskinned barbarians, the units are reskins too. Furthermore there aren’t even any nukes. It’s just boring and bland. If ur just trolling then, keep trolling bud.

[@CausticSpace]

Tfw you never played SMAC or even Pirates

[@danielkowalski7527]

Yea gr8 colors music voices, mechanics, overall feel. Its gr8. Only engine is too demanding/bad optimized

[@Ribarlan]

I didn't like "Rising Tide" DLC and prefer playing Vanilla CIVBE

[@Uzishan]

Shame it has no UI scale

[@Pikkabuu]

The biggest problem with Beyond Earth IMO was the fact that it is too easy. I'm possibly the worst Civ player of my circle of friends, but even I could cruise through BE as the AI simply doesn't build up their area properly and pisses off the aliens so that they wont get their base set up. Also building defences seems to be useless as an army can take over bases in just one turn in my experience.

[@hynol]

I think I'd rather play another round of Alpha Centauri.

[@kampkrieger]

The game without DLC it feels like an extreme stall. Nothing happens, no progression. You build some cities at the beginning and then try to clean up the worms. You research things all the time but no technology brings any change. You build these sattelites which are nice. but they also don't really do much. I played two games, the second one for 10h. I was unable to distinguish hour two from hour ten.

[@DuLuanVien4.0]

great game. It should be excavated.

[@Adam-vu6ho]

It’s like Elon musk simulator

[@CausticSpace]

SMAC better 😎

[@yorkgrass]

Your excitement about a boring game troubles me. Sorry.

[@JumboPixel]

No apologies needed! Thanks for giving the algorithm a feed

[@jgooo101]

My biggiest issue was that the whole game is ugly.

[@jeremyalgood7230]

I think they should have made the civ leaders famous Sci-Fi writers.

[@xneutralgodx]

Health always replaces happiness in future games lol . Look at anon2205