![]() ![]() Also, if you do make an alpha release, make a firm promise to actually finish the job before moving on to the "post release" phase, or you'll make it far too easy to push those parts off until never, especially when under pressure from those who don't care about the missing parts. "Early Access"), but don't adopt the awful deceitful recent practice of making a "full release" that actually doesn't contain half of the contents. IF you feel a need to get something out there for feedback and whatnot, make an alpha release (a.k.a. Whatever you do, DON'T do a "full release" with half of the game missing (Classic, Adventure Mode, Arena. I may be going to change my review into not recommending the game the more I think of what civ BE has to offer compared to other games out there.Feedback on the Official Announcement of yesterday: If they're a seasoned civ player, go for Pandora. I clearly told people that if they want a really awesome story and can stand old graphics, they should go play SMAC. In my steam review of civ BE i only recommended it because its a mostly bugfree release. ![]() Not to mention that right now civ BE has /less/ content than Pandora and costs quite some more money, I find it hard to recommend civ BE unless you're someone who has never played a civ-like game before. ![]() Civ BE does a far worse job at providing a clean UI and proper feedback on why things happen and how to fix them. ![]() But besides the lack of character and the game feeling too easy to play, I got another major complaint of civ BE when comparing it to Pandora. That just doesn't make sense at all imo from a gameplay perspective unless you want to make it suitable for newbies.Ĭiv BE is solid in its mechanics though, and seems to have taken over many of the bugfixes and performance optimizations which civ5 has gotten. In Civ BE, you just throw down a certain defense building and right from that point on native life can't touch your cities and a 3 tile radius around them. On Pandora, you got of course the Messari who can be a real pain in the butt. In SMAC, trying to survive amidst plagues of mindworms was harsh (if played on appropriate difficulty levels). And I thought Pandora was pretty bad in that respect.įor me, being a seasoned SMAC and civ player (spent shitloads of hours in SMAC, civ2 and civ4 and i despised civ5), I find civ BE not challenging enough in survival on the planet amongst other things. It even has LESS personality than Pandora. Lacks any of the personality that SMAC had. It felt for me like civ 5 rehashed into a scifi theme. ![]()
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