Sid Meyer's Beyond Earth...is no-one playing?

[Jarhead0331]

Whether it turns out to be a classic game remains to be seen, but so far, it definitely has that typical Sid Meier "just one more turn" addictive quality.  The thing I like about it is you really feel like you are guiding explorers in a completely foreign and alien world. You see resources and alien life and have no idea how they may be taken advantage of or how they may harm you. This must be sort of what the original explorers who found the New World felt like upon arriving on the shores. A very cool feeling.

[BanzaiCat]

That one reviewer saying how 'alien' the world felt and being unable to, at a glance, discern what is what, was a pretty cool revelation. Not in the way the reviewer stated it, because I think the dummy missed the point. It's a brand new world to figure out and will take time to sink in.

The gameplay vids are growing on me but I still gotta wait for a sale.

[JudgeDredd]

Why wait for a sale man?  :P

[BanzaiCat]

Very, very cash poor right now. I'm waiting on a check from this current acting gig of mine so I can cash it and have enough money to have meals while out of town next week. Lots of crap all happening at once right now.  :-\

[vyshka]

Aliens are harmless if you don't disturb their nests (at least the early ones are).  You can start pushing back miasma almost immediately.  One of the tech tree branches available from the first turn (Ecology, I think) allows you to build things like sonic fences and satellites that eliminate it.

I'm more concerned about the fact that I had 3 CTD's in my first 2 hours of play :(

Bummer. Steam says I put in 10 hours last night and no CTD issues for me.

[Gusington]

10 hours in one night??

[vyshka]

10 hours in one night??

My system took a trip to Spain around 7pm last night (vpn), and it ended up being a rather late night. :)

[Steelgrave]

Whether it turns out to be a classic game remains to be seen, but so far, it definitely has that typical Sid Meier "just one more turn" addictive quality.  The thing I like about it is you really feel like you are guiding explorers in a completely foreign and alien world. You see resources and alien life and have no idea how they may be taken advantage of or how they may harm you. This must be sort of what the original explorers who found the New World felt like upon arriving on the shores. A very cool feeling.

Jarhead said it best. BE feels like an alien world, far more so than Pandora achieved. I really feel like I'm exploring the unknown, not sure of what will bite or what won't. For example, in my first few turns I sent a soldier unit to a herd of...something...that was near my starting city. Turns out soldiers weren't needed as I was able to throw up a pen and domesticate them. "Goodie huts" require you to send in a team of explorers and dig for a few turns. I've only played up to around a hundred turns so far, but no issues, no problems....just fun.   O0

[Barthheart]

Argh! Stuck at work, can't play until done.  >:(

Jarhead said it best. BE feels like an alien world, far more so than Pandora achieved. I really feel like I'm exploring the unknown, not sure of what will bite or what won't.

This sounds great for the first few games you play..... but will it still have that "exploring and alien world" feeling once you know what all the new fauna can do? Or do the make the fauna different every game....that would be cool!

[Gusington]

Are worlds randomized?

[Nefaro]

You see resources and alien life and have no idea how they may be taken advantage of or how they may harm you.

That sounds really cool.

Are the resource properties randomized in each playthrough so that you're not sure what stuff does at first, in order to get this gameplay?

[Barthheart]

Is there an echo in here...?  ;)

[endfire79]

Is this Alpha Centauri 2.0?

[Steelgrave]

Are worlds randomized?

You can "rescan" and get new world choices. Could be randomized or could be a lot of different preset worlds, I'm not sure yet. Each choice falls into the familiar category of earth-like, pangea or island. There are also several preset worlds described as being more challenging, such as Kepler, a world with heavy geothermic activity and so on.

Nefaro, I haven't played enough to answer your question.

And Endfire, it certainly doesn't feel like Alpha Centauri to me, and I put in many, many hours there. Doesn't feel like Civ V either, which is what I was afraid of. Still too early for my own impressions to be much more than superficial, however,  I'm definitely not disappointed so far.

[steve58]

Demo (2.5GB) is available:  http://store.steampowered.com/app/65980/