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Civilization: Beyond Earth announced, Fall 2014, PC [Trailer, Details]
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Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
I am so in.
I am so in.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Whoa
witchedwiz
Member
this would be glorious!
UnluckyKate
Member
Oh yeeeees
it's so much better though!
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
Eh, it's not Alpha Centauri.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
It's as close as anything will ever get
Objectively Bad Opinion
Member
Super interested.
Is it coming to the PS4?
Is it coming to the PS4?
I'm kidding
â Narayan
Member
Yeah, as excited as I am for a sci-fi Sid Meier title, this doesn't exactly look like it'll be what I'm looking for in a AC successor.
I'll take what I can get, though.
Maybe a mod should edit the thread title?
It's not the final rating. Below it it says "provisoire"which means provisional.
It's not the final rating. Below it it says "provisoire"which means provisional.
Felsparrow
Neo Member
Another big question is: Did they change the combat and unit stacking?
I know that even Sid, or at least the Civ director, thought that the removal of some kind of stacking was a bad idea in the long run from an interview. Overall he liked what it did, but it also added that weirdness as you shuffled units around.
I know that even Sid, or at least the Civ director, thought that the removal of some kind of stacking was a bad idea in the long run from an interview. Overall he liked what it did, but it also added that weirdness as you shuffled units around.
I hope it is, though. Imagine they could do with those secret project cutscenes.
Like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lva8L-J8x04 but even more depraved, and gory where applicable. Yes please.
Toddimus Prime
Neo Member
But I've only just come back clean from Civilization Anonymous!
...I'll never be clean.
...I'll never be clean.
dapperbandit
Banned
Big Civ fan.
I like the sound of the concept but I hope the game looks better than that, the environment and units look like models from 2006.
I like the sound of the concept but I hope the game looks better than that, the environment and units look like models from 2006.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
EA owns the name I believe.
Unsure if this game will use it, but the technology is going to be part of Mantle.
GalCiv3 has really zippy turns, just like other Stardock titles, if that's a big consideration in what you want. It takes using multiple cores well to do it right, which is really difficult programming-wise.
Maintenance
Member
I just got back into Civ, and a Sci-Fi one would be awesome. Hope it is a full fledged one, pc only.
Beelzebubs
Member
styl3s
Member
You hope it doesn't reach an even wider audience? Makes sense /shrug
Looks like i am spending my day off finally learning how to play CIV.
decoyplatypus
Member
I should start looking ahead to see which 150 hours of my life I am going to lose to this game.
Maintenance
Member
I hope for a experience without needing to worry about creating ways to adapt the commands. But I guess that if it worked with the Steam Controller then it would have some chance of not being bad on gamepads.
The thing is, consoles now with the 4-5 Gigs of RAM, they could at least handle a slightly scaled down next-gen TBS game , or any current-gen one.
Age of Wonders 3 would work on a console, as would Civ 5 or LH.
styl3s
Member
This is why i would personally like to see them bring it out on the PS4 or even X1. If my laptop can run Civ5, a PS4 could run it with no problems. And it's not a game with a overly complicated control scheme.
This PC elitism on GAF fucking kills me sometimes. It's worse then the everything must be 30k resolution 9000fps arguments.
Majukun
Member
all i want is a better AI.
i played civ V an auful lot of hours,but still can't get over how much better it would be with a proper AI who doesn't act like a schizophrenic,or one that doesn't hate you for 2 millenniums because you attacked a city state state once,during the pre-historia era..it makes the war path too penalizing,even though in the real world we had thousands of wars and nobody hates each other for this.
One other thing i didn't like about civ V ,was that you HAD to commit to one type of win and that's it,for all the game..there were no space to change strategy mid-game if the situation didn't fit what you wanted to do (like if you want to conquest but you find yourself with no iron whatsoever in your empire and the entire world that hates you for being a warmornger)
anywya,no too excited for this game because sci-fi is not my kind of setting,but f it turns out to be a good game who expands over CIV V,I'm in.
i played civ V an auful lot of hours,but still can't get over how much better it would be with a proper AI who doesn't act like a schizophrenic,or one that doesn't hate you for 2 millenniums because you attacked a city state state once,during the pre-historia era..it makes the war path too penalizing,even though in the real world we had thousands of wars and nobody hates each other for this.
One other thing i didn't like about civ V ,was that you HAD to commit to one type of win and that's it,for all the game..there were no space to change strategy mid-game if the situation didn't fit what you wanted to do (like if you want to conquest but you find yourself with no iron whatsoever in your empire and the entire world that hates you for being a warmornger)
anywya,no too excited for this game because sci-fi is not my kind of setting,but f it turns out to be a good game who expands over CIV V,I'm in.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
It's about the interface. CIV games are very complex and therefore it would be hard to navigate the UI on consoles. Look at Civ Rev which is a good game for what it is but it lacks depth compared to Civ V. I don't want Civ VI to be on consoles because bringing the game on consoles would necessitate changes that I'm not sure would be best for the franchise.
It's not that they want it PC only, it's that they don't want it dumbed down the way Civ Rev was dumbed down.
Those who are looking for a game that is very much meant to be a successor to Alpha Centauri should check out the recent game Pandora: First Contact:
http://www.matrixgames.com/products/435/details/Pandora:.First.Contact
I haven't tried it myself (not available on Steam), but I've heard it is a flawed, but good modern version of Alpha Centauri.
As far as this new Civ game goes, I can't wait, I've loved Civ 5 for years and eagerly wait more Firaxis 4x games.
http://www.matrixgames.com/products/435/details/Pandora:.First.Contact
I haven't tried it myself (not available on Steam), but I've heard it is a flawed, but good modern version of Alpha Centauri.
As far as this new Civ game goes, I can't wait, I've loved Civ 5 for years and eagerly wait more Firaxis 4x games.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
If this is real count me in!
fluffydelusions
Member
Do want!