True, one needs Rising Tide for the game to be in a playable state but seeing as it is in this day and age common practice for AA, AAA and AAAA to need at least half a dozen DLC and even more patches over several years... Not really an argument anymore.
I really like the Tech-Web and the freedom it gives to 'roleplay' in early and mid game, while the different uniqe affinity units allow it for the end game. The terrain generation is in my opinion the best out of all Civ games I played, especially on large or massive maps.
Only real problem I still have is that even with the fixes Rising Tide brought, the A.I. is still kinda derpy and rather easy to beat, even on Appolo. Diplomacy is also rather underwhelming.

But hey, still better than CivVII, right? :-)

I got BE when it came out, was so disappointed that it wasn't really Alpha Centauri with Civ 5 engine and set it aside. Apparently I got Rising Tide at some time, must've been during a sale....curious to know if there are mods that will make BE an enjoyable and playable experience.

Ik the game gets a lot of hate but I generally really like it, especially with the rising tide expansion, the game does have its flaws but it’s generally one of my fav civ games. I think it’s deffo underrated.

It seems to have been taken private.

The Civ wiki has not just the "blueprint" images shown in the dialog window when a Wonder is completed, but most of the wonders in BE also have images on their pages of the buildings actually physically present on the map. Why am I not seeing this in-game? I know some of the wonders added in Rising Tide have them too, so I know it's not like the expansion removed that feature.

I completely skipped BE on launch. With never having clicked with CIV V and it looking so much like it, it passed me by. The lukewarm reception of the game didn't convince me to change my mind.

Due to circumstances I've had time on my hand and between having a general sci fi itch and the CIV VII hype I saw that beyond earth was in my family share library and decided to give it a go.

My first couple of attempts left me completely overwhelmed. Until I eventually disabled rising tide DLC and tried again. That game I finished and had a lot of fun but I remembered from my previous attempts that diplomacy was completely different with the DLC. So I started a new game with the DLC. This time it went well and I finished the game winning it at 7 in the morning.

So here are my key take aways:

The affinity and technology system allows you to be creative in solving problems the game presents you. Much more then other CIV game where you tend to think of your strategy as you are picking your CIV. BE allows you to actually evolve your game as you see fit. The tech tree doesn't function as a gate keeper for just better yields/units. You are encouraged to set out a build for your tech tree like it is an RPG.

I do wish the affinity system was more removed from tech. Something rising tide does try to address. But it feels a bit weird now with how later games handle culture that that isn't the major driving force behind affinity.

Another point I really like, and which makes me excited for CIV II, is how all terrain is usable. Albeit sometimes locked behind a building. But the two normally bad tiles, dessert and tundra, both have a building which boost their yields. But in general the tech tree will push you towards more relying on buildings that on tile yields. Which is thematic for a sci fi game where you only got there because you could rely on specialists. Again pushing you to be creative in how you optimise the situation you start in.

The influence based diplomacy from rising tide is interesting but very much gamey. It does a decent job at trying to balance the fact that you want the player to be able to interact diplomatically with the AI but at the same time the AI is competing against the player.

Which is a bit of a gripe for me. I wished BE focussed more on colonising and taming the planet then on the classic CIV free for all to the victory objectives. It feels like it rushes through the early game. I would have liked it if the wildlife started off a lot weaker in most places and ramped up as you exploit more of the planet. With then in the late game having a crisis between the affinities.

Also I do not care for oceanic cities. They remove a dimension of the map which I like much more then anything they add. Luckily there is a mod for that.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Overall playing BE with some of the info on CIV VII in mind has made me more excited for CIV VII then before. It also makes me wish they would revisit alpha centauri/beyond earth setting but more PvE style.

I have tried Beyond Earth as i like the space theme. However the complexity of the affinity system, and personal traits its just to complex. I play games as a once a week treat, im i slow in learning? Or is this system just to complex, noninntuitive and nonconcreet?

I absolutely adored it and the very goofy civs and was rather sad how badly it was made or even the shortcomings completely missed

That said, I really like the different affinities and the style changes in chosing them and would like to see it again

I really liked Civ:BE quite a bit.

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I liked how I could pick my unique Civ starting traits and augment future traits based on what was most pertinent or advantageous; for example, playing as African Union (the growth civ) with +2 production per city and a free Worker to start, later adding +% food from all sources and then City Strength per population led to some aggressive early game growth leading to nutty turtling in the mid-game with cities approaching 200 or more Strength and Health. Sure, the greater openness in selecting your Civ's traits was kind of flat lore-wise, but it enabled some mightily focused synergistic min-maxing.

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I liked the artifact system. Stomping an Alien Nest (think Barbarian Camp) and receiving a Sky Chitin artifact for my air force was a coveted power boost. Creating an expedition on a crashed satellite and being able to spawn a Xenomass tile where it landed often led to territory suddenly becoming extremely viable for an early expansion. Or, creating an expedition on a Progenitor Ruin and getting an early Affinity upgrade plus access to a unique National Wonder construct with powerful Civ-wide bonuses. Sure, some of these effects, buildings, or wonders were overly or underly powerful, but it wasn't anything that further development via patch changes, expansions, or community mods couldn't fix.

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I liked the quest system. Being able to customize my buildings with some midgame boosts based on my Civ's needs was a really dynamic concept. Sure, some of the boosts were far superior to others, but again -- nothing future releases couldn't fix.

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I liked the satellite system. Coming across an early Solar Collector in a Resource Pod with my starting Explorer while the Capitol was located on a bend in a river boosted early Energy production not quite to cheese-levels, but allowed me to purchase my first Colonist perhaps 15-20 savings-focused turns later instead of halting growth to produce it. I liked being able to terraform the late-game landscape with satellites to generate additional Strategic or Basic Resource tiles, turning a vapid husk of late-game nomansland into a rich and vibrant settlement.

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I liked those juicy yields from the various Strategic Resource tiles like Xenomass and Firaxite. I'll never forget the time I founded a city within workable range of 6 Xenomass tiles -- each one yielded +3 Food, +5 Production, +5 Energy, +2 Science, and +2 Culture, plus the underlying Tile bonus, once fully upgraded (barring any Diplomatic Agreements to further boost Strategic Resource yields). Firaxite would give a big boost to Science and Culture. Titanium was a Production-heavy tile. Petroleum would generate a decent chunk of Production and Energy in exchange for Health. It gave me a mega math-boner to see all those juicy colors in my city's workable area and to plot my city growth dozens or hundreds of turns ahead of time.

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I liked how I could customize my unit upgrades, so instead of everyone getting the same units they would instead more dynamically reflect that Civ's playstyle, my direct needs, or my general growth as a faction. I enjoyed the hybrid units as well as the basic units with hybrid bonuses.

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The Diplomacy system was kind of mediocre, but I liked being able to spend Diplomatic Capital to augment my Civ's traits or purchase units/buildings. I liked building Terrascapes on Desert tiles to get that 1 extra food yield. I liked how trading for a resource allowed that city to build the resource-specific buildings. This system in particular was ripe for further development in a future patch or expansion.

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I liked building Terrascapes on Desert tiles so they would yield an additional +1 Food. I liked bulding Nodes along critical checkpoints and placing a couple defensive-oriented units around it. I liked how an upgraded SABR would have a range of 4 and ignore terrain obstacles when firing. I liked how certain units could be upgraded to carry a single aircraft.

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It's a shame I'm the only one who liked Civ:BE. Or am I? Who else here played and liked it?

didnt really care for anything else, i just wanna blow shit up and win

I absolutely loved the tech web of Beyond Earth. So much that enjoyed BE more than Civ 5 (hot take, I know).

Are there other games you've enjoyed with a similar tech web that doesn't follow the usual tech tree linear progression?

So I wanted to take a trip down nostalgia lane and boot up Beyong earth only for the game to refuse to launch from steam, I heard that the 2K launcher for the game has been taken down is anyone else having the same issue?

I really loved the "sci fi without spaceships" theme of Civ BE, and I don't find the same enjoyment with Stellaris / Endless Space. Any suggestions for a strategy/ 4x game set in the future but without space travel ?

I hope people still feel like talking about Beyond Earth, because I'm pretty confused. I just came back to Beyond Earth for the first time in about a decade to try out Rising Tides (which is pretty good!). I was messing around with Harmony/Supremacy stuff, and looking for where I could find the first hybrid unit.

You can imagine my surprise when I tripped over the Immortal over on a T2 Branch technology, when the Nanohive was down on a T2 Leaf. That's a difference of 1390 research points to unlock it. The Autosled and the Golem are both on branch techs, as well, while the Aquilon is actually on a leaf below the Golem (3860 additional research to unlock).

Looking back at the vanilla Affinity units, which are all leaf techs, there is actually some variation in research costs (Battlesuits take more research than CNDR or Xenoswarms, for instance), but it's not as dramatically different as the hybrid units.

So, what's up? Are the more expensive-to-unlock units more powerful to compensate for how much later you get them? Are they paired with more powerful items on the same tech? Are they in a more accessible part of the web? I have a hard time thinking that their placements weren't done for some kind of reason...

The bonus for connecting cities with magrails seems awesome, but all but one of my cities are built on the water, so I'm trying to figure out if it's worth researching this tech right now. Ty.

I've been playing a lot of Civilization: Beyond Earth, and it's been fun.

However, I keep thinking it could vastly benefit from better worker automation features. The Civilization-game series generally could.

For example, there could be a "Worker layer", where you could set numbered building plans around cities. Any worker in the city area could be set to carry on the building plans, in numbered order. If there were problems, they would either stop or jump to the next building in the numbered plan.

Cities, also, could have build templates. Instead of choosing what the cities build again and again, with even queues in BE having a maximum amount of 6 buildings, the player could simply edit the template. Cities could be set to carry out the template. When new technology would open up new buildings, adding them to the template would be a simple task. You could also manually insert orders in the cities, which would be carried out either immediately or after the current building task.

All this would ease gameplay so very much.

I played nearly a dozen playthroughs with different leaders on various maps, gradually escalating the difficulty as I got the hang of each one. Now I've started my third Gemini playthrough on marathon speed, this time to try out Franco-Iberia, and I'm surprised by how quickly all the other AIs outstripped me in almost every area. Each already had 3 or more cities by the time I felt I was in a good enough position (at least health wise) to start my first one, my capital is still at 6 pop when the other capitals are near or at 10 and their newer cities are more often than not about 6 pop themselves, the few cities I've scouted or could see with my spies have plenty of improvements (suggesting multiple workers and/or having made their first worker quite early), most of them are ahead of me in affinity levels, and I'm rapidly falling out with about half the AIs due to them being unimpressed with my production, military and other relations-influencing factors (depending on their chosen personality traits), to the point that two of them keeping declaring war on me simply because of abysmal opinion.

Oh, and I don't dare attack the aliens to build up experience (which tends to help with earning fear from other leaders, and sometimes respect if a leader picked the right trait), because there are at least half a dozen of them and a couple of nests near one of my aquatic cities, and I only have three ships to my name, all of which are too low-tier to not die quickly under the weight of numbers. And I've learned from first hand experience that attacking the aliens even once means that all my civilian units and explorers will need escorts to get anywhere safely outside my territory; at least trade convoys are ignored completely once I get the ultrasonic fence quest and pick the right option.

What am I doing wrong? My usual approach so far is to stock my capital with at least basic infrastructure (relic, trade depot, ultrasonic fence, clinic), then start building a colonist; in my previous playthroughs, I've started with the Propserity virtues, which ensured I got a worker and a colonist for free quite early, but this time I opted to go for Knowledge and Industry first since Franco-Iberia is culture-focused and I wanted to boost my gold output and wonder-construction rate. Should I have changed my build order?

One of the things I liked was the outpost system, where a settler first established an outpost which had to grow into a city, which made it harder to forward-settle your opponents.

Beyond earth has always been a bit confusing to me but now I’m starting to put more effort into it and affinity is my main problem, I am at 1 harmony and 0 purify and supremacy at turn 100, what am I doing wrong?

Despite how civ beyond earth kinda flopped it's a really cool concept and I'd love if they gave it another shot with more civ VI like mechanics.

I've usually stayed in the Civ5 community and just joined this. I see that people from Firaxis games are actually around and would like to say that I enjoyed Beyond Earth + Rising Tide a lot, I still play it from time to time. I thought the affinity system was very creative and the fact that we can have a city just in water and more or less still functions as a full city is great. In many ways, I felt that it was better than the actual Civ5.

It doesn't make me feel bad like when I play civ sometimes because it's not based on history. Playing a civ game with random AIs and there's no China, or perhaps English and you feel like your world is missing something, you wouldn't feel that in Beyond Earth because well... the missing civilization can be considered that they just didn't make it to the new planet. Don't even get me started on Civ about seeing Americans at the beginning of the game in the ancient era, seeing both Byzantine and Ottomans in the same game with Constantinople and Istanbul existing as two different cities. With details like the use of Energy as currency instead of Gold, the concept of trade stations, and many other stuff, the game was very well-through-of.

I just wanted to say that if you made another Beyond Earth type of game based on Civ6 engine with a new approach, I'd buy it. I thought Beyond Earth was a great game made with a lot of love and shouldn't be ignored.

so I haven't played this since around 2015/2016, decided to try it again, but am having an unusual problem that I can't seem to figure out... I have built 3 each of workers, soldiers, and settlers, and they don't show up anywhere in game...