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[lordcooper]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/04/12/civilization-beyond-earth-trailer/

http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/04/12/civilization-beyond-earth-interview-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-factions-aliens-technology-and-more/

Well, it's about bloody time

[LoSboccacc]

Who's left in Firaxis of the original team?

[Neonivek]

Holy cow is PC gamer one of the most annoying websites ever!

I have boarders of diablo 3, little windows with diablo 3, ohh yeah and a huge video advertisement in the middle of what I am trying to read.

I almost want to hate this game just because of the website I had to read up on it. >_<

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Judging by what is written...

This game might just be a Civ 5 clone in disguise.

[lordcooper]

I almost want to hate this game

I'm sure you'll find a reason.

[Digital Hellhound]

A love letter to the scifi genre sounds just what I needed. Especially as Dan Simmons is a 'big influence'.

The three-path tech/playstyle tree sounds a bit limiting, though - I hope you can branch in several directions, atleast to some extent.

[Furtuka]

ptw

[Neonivek]

A love letter to the scifi genre sounds just what I needed. Especially as Dan Simmons is a 'big influence'.

The three-path tech/playstyle tree sounds a bit limiting, though - I hope you can branch in several directions, atleast to some extent.

I doubt it

The three path system seems to be in place to sort of limit player involvement in the decision making.

[Levi]

I can't wait. 

Holy cow is PC gamer one of the most annoying websites ever!

I have boarders of diablo 3, little windows with diablo 3, ohh yeah and a huge video advertisement in the middle of what I am trying to read.

I almost want to hate this game just because of the website I had to read up on it. >_<

Adblock man, adblock.  I'm surprised everybody doesn't use it.

[Neonivek]

It wasn't in disguise, it outright stated it.

[scrdest]

Yeah, was there ANYONE in SMAC that was 100% good guy?

[scrdest]

Yeah, was there ANYONE in SMAC that was 100% good guy?

Closest you got to good were Pravin Lal and Lady Diedre

Yeah, I can't think of anything about Deirdre, but I vaguely recall some quote on Lal in lategame.

[Kanil]

I kinda want to be excited for this, but I also suspect 1UPT isn't going anywhere until Civ 6 at the earliest (if that...)

[Aqizzar]

Yeah, was there ANYONE in SMAC that was 100% good guy?

Closest you got to good were Pravin Lal and Lady Diedre

Diedre becomes increasingly detached from her humanity as she communes with Planet.  There are some implications that Lal turns a bit dictatorial in some later tech quotes as he chooses stability over principle, and also that quote about keeping a sample of his wife's cells to remember her by.  Because she didn't share in his faction leader near-immortality treatment for some reason.

Of course, every faction leader becomes equally disturbed and monomaniacal in the storyline segments.

And you really don't know just how much a bad guy Lal can be until you get into a two superpower war with him, much like Gandhi in regular Civ.

[Sharp]

Meh not looking forward to this.

Brian Reynolds was the mastermind of Civ 2 and Alpha Centauri and I have been disappointed with Civ series since he departed. I will keep an eye on this though and see how it develops.

Also wasn't there some other SMAC-like in the works or released recently?

[Nirur Torir]

Deidre quite happily uses mindworms against fellow humans. Mindworms psi-terrify their prey, then burrow into their brains while they're still alive. Morgan is less morally bankrupt than Deidre.

I'd say Sister Miriam is the most moral leader. Even after hundreds of years, she cares about her people. "Uh, do these teleporters teleport souls? I'm not risking sending my people through them."


Tentatively watching this with interest, even though I didn't like Civ V.