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Firaxis (XCOM, Civilization) Announcing New AAA Title at PAX, Saturday, 11:30 AM EST
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Ethical Hedonism
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yes, hype!
MR BLACKMAGIK
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Please come to consoles, please come to consoles!
ItsGeeMcGee
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Yea i cried a little when it only said pc at the end of the trailer
Neuromancer
Member
I got chills.
Sorry non PC guys, I wish it was coming to next gen too so everyone could play it. Oh well, Firaxis gonna Firax.
Sorry non PC guys, I wish it was coming to next gen too so everyone could play it. Oh well, Firaxis gonna Firax.
timcsavage
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Holy crap, looks like it could be promising.
I join the hope for new SMAC, that game was also the most enjoyable Civ for me.
I join the hope for new SMAC, that game was also the most enjoyable Civ for me.
There are two kinds of scientific progress: the methodical experimentation and categorization which gradually extend the boundaries of knowledge, and the revolutionary leap of genius which redefines and transcends those boundaries. Acknowledging our debt to the former, we yearn, nonetheless, for the latter.
-Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "Address to the Faculty"
My greatest hope is that they nail the fusion of story, characters and setting as expertly as they did with SMAC.
-Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "Address to the Faculty"
My greatest hope is that they nail the fusion of story, characters and setting as expertly as they did with SMAC.
puffyshirt
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Bahhhhh, bring it to PS4!!!!
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Well, he's right in the sense that this isn't an official sequel.
And from some of the dev comments on customizing your faction, if they don't do the defined faction leader thing this really won't feel like another SMAC. Those personalities and playstyles were a big part of the game and story.
Teasing_Pink
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Literal goosebumps at the trailer. Been hoping for some kind of spiritual SMAC successor for years, just like everyone else. Too hype!
+1 there. CG is CG... but Firaxis is Firaxis.
My god the future of PC gaming just looks so damned good.
This
Galciv 3
Star Citizen
Elite: Dangerous
All releasing potentially within months of each other.
Oh yeah, and there's that little thing called VR too.........
Think this just about put the nail in the coffin of my interest in consoles this gen.
Slackbladder
Member
Has this been posted? PC Gamer Interview.
Sounds fantastic, just fantastic. Looks like I'm buying next months PC Gamer ( and the game obviously )
timetokill
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Really hoping consoles aren't even on their radar at Firaxis. Focus on making the best PC game possible.
Delta Assault
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Hopefully they redo the combat mechanics from Civ 5. I really didn't enjoy how you couldn't stack units on hexes.
TechnicPuppet
Nothing! I said nothing!
Civ 5 was is very hard on processors I think. I hope they can reduce that in this game. It may also prevent a console port.
Oh man that teaser. Saw it via twitter this morning and lost my shit.
Any details voiced at PAX? Did they confirm that this is essentially a successor to Alpha Centauri? Will it be a Civ-like strategy game on a planet? Trailer makes it feel like it might be a space-vessel game (like FTL?)
Any details voiced at PAX? Did they confirm that this is essentially a successor to Alpha Centauri? Will it be a Civ-like strategy game on a planet? Trailer makes it feel like it might be a space-vessel game (like FTL?)
yay! thanks
I like the one unit per stack rule. It forces the player to think more about their strategy and unit placement.
Maybe they could do something where each tile can have one melee + one ranged unit, or a similar compromise?
Objectively Bad Opinion
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The Cloud could solve the tablet CPU problem.
Incredibly apt user name.
Lord Panda
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Wish you could join Civ 5 with Beyond Earth - that way your civ progresses from the ancient era to the far flung frontiers beyond the solar system.
Objectively Bad Opinion
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Since you're a cloud computing expert, then please explain.
Because as far as I'm aware the biggest drawback to it is that the accrued latency limits the usefulness of computations performed remotely. However, the turn based nature of this game means that there's no issue keeping the action synchronized.
A 32 core server somewhere will crunch the AI turns much faster than the tablet CPU in current gen consoles.
Who is going to foot the bill for all those number crunching servers? And if you're goign to rely on the cloud - that means the game can only run while you're online.
HA! Try selling that a bunch of hipster gamers on their ipads. Hmm, actually hipster gamers might bite...
SmoothRunningGun
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People who complain about it are actually more annoying.
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