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

I've found turns no longer than Civ5. Played a massive map and only a few seconds at the start and 15-20s by the end. Q6600 @3.0
 
Yeah not noticed anything different turn wise. Going to take me a lot longer than I thought to get into this. First game and I cannot move for the amount of aliens on my map.
 
I don't think the turn times are any worse compared to Civ5, though by that I mean Civ5 with the expansions, which I found slower than vanilla Civ5

Its taken me a long time to get into this but really starting to enjoy it now.
 
Just got it for £24 from green man using the 20% code, I have noticed that dx11 seems slower loading and doing turns than mantle.
 
Turn Animations off, for some reason the game runs them for just about all actions including the AI units.

I've played to end game and well...

I'm still playing but I think its the same old issue which was the same with Civ V, its a bit bare and needs expansions and more Steamwork mods.

I think I might not bother with this after the weekend, its lackluster like Total Biscuit says. :(
 
Yes with regards to the time between turns, I find switching on quick movement makes a massive difference, even if I don't have anything moving around (I found the same with Civ 5).

I've just tested this and on turns where I had nothing else going on and nothing moving around on my screen, with quick movement turned on the time between turns was just under 3 seconds, but with it turned off that increased to 17 seconds! (I'm playing on whatever the default map size was, small?)
 
Well I just won my first game that I ever played, seemed way too easy considering I had no idea what I was doing. I got a Transcendence victory playing on the level about normal (vostok?)
I had random things on so I only had one AI player to compete against but I feel it was far too easy.
 
I found a good analogy for my experience with beyond earth.

Since I've moved to Sweden this year it fits me perfectly.

Beyond earth is like playing civ 5 in Swedish, the more you learn the more you find it exactly to be like English , which is dissapointing to me, it is like a very proffesionaly made mod, that justifys the price tag, but does not bring me joy like civ v did.
 
I built crap loads of Biowells. Then I didn't need them anymore because there are virtues and affinity levels that give you lots of health.
 
neil3k said:
I'm finding it hard to keep my health up.

any advice?
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Look at the research web there are some that give you health it is best to research them earliest possible I think.

A few things I have noticed after starting a few games I seem to find that the computer always lands close to the player about 15 to 30 tiles away as if its trying to box us in :/ its very annoying seeing as I normally play on large maps

Also if you want a true alien planet go in to setup and pick on terrain type fungal it looks great :)
 
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Look at the research web there are some that give you health best to research them earliest possible
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Yep go down the green tree first I think is the way to do it. Bottom of the tree on the right is the best one as it reduces negative health by 25% which can be like 25 free health most of the time by the time you get it.

Do that, plus beeline it through the genetics research to get clinic, pharmalabs, biowells and the other health buildings I can't remember. Building those in every city means you can offset the extra negative health and spam cities pretty much.
 
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