Sid Meier's Civilization Beyond Earth - Alpha Centauri sequel announced!

malted · 24 Oct 2014 at 00:20

Same here still encrypted

Flying_Hellfish · 24 Oct 2014 at 00:21

Locked, damn! Have to wait then

Egon · 24 Oct 2014 at 00:22

Well that sucks, wanted a quick 15mins on it. Got work in the morning and can't wait for Steam to get their act together, could be here all night.

Spudley · 24 Oct 2014 at 00:27

bloody daylight saving hours, why do we need them in the 21st century?

Tombstone · 24 Oct 2014 at 00:38

Trouble is...that the image http://i.imgur.com/hLhoeWm.jpg

Quite clearly states at the bottom 11pm UTC for our zone, so it should still be open already anyway regardless of daylight savings.

pdhenin · 24 Oct 2014 at 00:40

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We're aware of #BeyondEarth unlock issues in the UK. We're talking with Steam about it right now - sit tight!

They put this out on twitter about 15 mins ago.

Spudley · 24 Oct 2014 at 00:47

It does, but it also shows staggered times for london/paris/berlin/moscow. sounds like somthings borked up anyhow

Tombstone · 24 Oct 2014 at 00:52

Spudley said:
It does, but it also shows staggered times for london/paris/berlin/moscow. sounds like somthings borked up anyhow

They're all the same time, just with the timezone differences taken into account.

(11pm UTC is 12am GMT, Paris and Berlin are at GMT+1 , which is UTC+2, so would be 1am and Moscow is GMT+3, which is UTC+4, so would be 3am, so london, paris, berlin and moscow arent staggered they're all showing the same time)

*change GMT for BST in those

Spudley · 24 Oct 2014 at 00:55

ahhh, timezones always confuse the hell out of me. Now feeling like a numpty.
:rolleyes:

Tombstone · 24 Oct 2014 at 00:58

Things would be a hell of a lot more simple if we got rid of unnecessary outdated concepts like putting the clocks forward and back and just stuck to being on GMT all year round instead !

Tombstone · 24 Oct 2014 at 01:01

I would wager that there isnt a technical problem, its probably just that the super boffins at Steam didnt realise that the UK was on BST not GMT currently and have thus got us set to unlock at 1am instead of midnight, will probably coincedently suddenly start working at any minute

pdhenin · 24 Oct 2014 at 01:02

Well there goes the 1am unlock idea....

xaldub · 24 Oct 2014 at 01:03

Civilization : Beyond Ability to unlock in UK

Tombstone · 24 Oct 2014 at 01:06

Bit of a shame really, I had planned to allow myself to play for an hour til 1am before having to hit the sack, looks like I will have to wait til tomorrow evening to start now

Tombstone · 24 Oct 2014 at 01:07

Ah , mine has just unlocked

xaldub · 24 Oct 2014 at 01:09

Likewise, going to give it a few more minutes ....

xaldub · 24 Oct 2014 at 01:10

Ah, so has mine

malted · 24 Oct 2014 at 01:10

It's working

Spudley · 24 Oct 2014 at 01:14

& its unlocked

Efour · 24 Oct 2014 at 07:12

Good Morning

Bug making 144hz and other high refresh monitors unusable at higher res....

what a kick in the balls.

I wont play it until fixed

Sloppy

Looks good though all confusing and new at first glance.