Beyond Earth Features

[SamBC]

What does "lacking in cultures religion" even mean?

 

[Seek]

I read it as "lacking in culture and religion"

 

[SamBC]

From gamecrate's (newegg's) preview (http://gamecrate.newegg.com/civilization-beyond-earth-hands-details-galore/):

City-states are also gone in Beyond Earth, but much of the role they played in Civ 5 is now the domain of “stations.” Stations are independent businesses that take up a single tile (no more city-states hogging the best territory, hooray!) that establish themselves throughout the map over the early stages of the game. Stations offer opportunities for trade (via vulnerable trader units that will travel back and forth from your cities to the station) of particular kinds of resources and bonuses. For those stations closest to your first cities, you’ll often have a chance to choose which type of station they will be, so you’ll be able to tailor them to your interests and play-style, somewhat. Your active trade routes aren’t unlimited however, and stations will only trade with one civilization at a time — and they may become less friendly towards you if you neglect them for too long. In this way stations function as something “halfway between city-states and shared tile improvements,” according to Pete.

So, no CS, but there are these "stations". Sounds quite mysterious still.

 

[Karl0413]

What does "lacking in cultures religion" even mean?

Hey, I just copied and pasted it. I am going with Seek's interpretation.

Anyway, some new features from NewEgg:

http://gamecrate.newegg.com/civilization-beyond-earth-exciting-details/

 

[mabalogna]

Unique units and buildings are one feature from past Civ games that won’t be showing up in Beyond Earth....There are no Great People in Civilization: Beyond Earth, so you won’t be seeing some futuristic version of Elvis Presley culture-bombing your borders...

http://gamecrate.newegg.com/civilization-beyond-earth-hands-details-galore/


No Unique units and buildings for any nations, Great People confirmed out as well

(Purity-focused leaders begin wearing clothing evocative of classical Roman history, while Harmony leads to the appearance of strange markings on leaders’ faces and other signs of their advancing relationship with the planet).

Leader screens change depending on affinity along with units and cities if I'm reading this right

the alien world sports three special materials that can only be fully exploited by those dedicated to particular Affinity paths. Floatstone enables a Purity player to build some of the game’s most advanced military units, the glowing mineral Firaxite is of special interest to those dedicated to Supremacy, and the planet’s biological Xenomass can be used by a Harmony player

3 Resources unique to affinities

 

[Karl0413]

Oh, by the way, Steam support is confirmed:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/65980/

 

[Lord Shadow]

No Unique units and buildings for any nations, Great People confirmed out as well

You skipped a critical part of that paragraph. While Great People per se are out, their in-game function will be considerably present in satellites on the orbital layer.

There are no Great People in Civilization: Beyond Earth, so you won’t be seeing some futuristic version of Elvis Presley culture-bombing your borders. Much of the in-game functionality of the Great People system has instead been shifted into the sky with the new Orbital Layer, where, for example, military satellites provide the area bonuses previously found on Great Generals. Satellites come with a whole slew of interesting strategic options, since they can’t be moved once placed and their lives are temporary, meaning their orbits will eventually decay and they’ll crash down to the surface, depositing wreckage that can be excavated by Explorers for tech or resource bonuses.

 

[awesome]

I'm pretty sure it was confirmed that the planet will be called "Planet" at about 3:15 in the video here

 

[Camikaze]

This Norwegian article notes that, in addition to the civs already listed in the first post here, the African Union and Polystralia are factions. Thanks to Nikolai for the translation.

 

[bite]

ok after reading all the articles, I have updated the first post, If I have missed anything please let me know

 

[Lord Shadow]

The achievement strings reveal some additional information:

• The difficulty levels are Sputnik, Vostok, Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Soyuz. Possibly in that order, but I can't be certain. They're all spaceflight programmes. Vostok and Mercury competed with each other, and the former won the race. Apollo came after Soyuz, but the latter has had many more launches and is still used to this day. The order in the achievements list is Sputnik, Gemini, Mercury, Vostok, Apollo, Soyuz, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.
• The last names of a few so-far unmentioned leaders are revealed: Bolivar (presumed Brazilia), Elodie (presumed Franco-Iberia) and Hutama (presumed Polystralia).
• All the victory condition names: Domination, Contact, Promised Land (Purity), Emancipation (Supremacy) and Transcendence (Harmony).

 

[bad_nickname]

From the same achievement strings, the last names of the leader of the Slavic Federation seems to be Kozlov.

 

[Lord Shadow]

From the same achievement strings, the last names of the leader of the Slavic Federation seems to be Kozlov.

General Kozlov (first name unknown), as revealed by a Russian article earlier.

 

[KrikkitTwo]

4 maptypes
Atlantean
Terran
Protean
Vulcan

achievement strings
http://api.steampowered.com/ISteamU...ievementPercentagesForApp/v0002/?gameid=65980

Moderator Action: Please provide links to the information or the post will be deleted.

 

[leif erikson]

Moderator Action: Discussion posts deleted. This thread is for information on new features found about the game and you must provide links to that source. Please cease discussing features in this thread.
Please read the forum rules: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422889

 

[SuperXr]

Thorium reactor unlocked via engineering, Genetics is available and used by all affinities, Artificial Evolution confirmed late game tech, Faith is tied in with affinities not religion, Religion not included, Leader Daoming Sochua has a PhD in nanoelectronics, nuclear physics, bubble physics, and electrical engineering
Source:
http://thejenome.com/science/biolog...eyond-earth-interview-with-co-lead-designers/

 

[bite]

ok big update to Techs and resources, with E3 coming up I look forward to some more info next week, of course if I missed anything please let me know

 

[3of5]

Diplomacy:

judging from the first gameplay video with the diplo greeting (Reclamation Corp.) popping up when the Pod (faction Kavithian) lands, one gains the factions comlinks the moment the respective faction makes planetfall (since factions don't all land at the same turn). in a later part of the session (Turn 35) all factions are shown as landed on the minimap, so the position of the capital seems to get marked. In turn 10 only one other capital is shown on the minimap.

 

[Sporally]

Do you have a link for that video 3of5?

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[3of5]

Do you have a link for that video 3of5?

as referenced in another thread:
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/...n--beyond-earth-first-look-gameplay-interview

from other info read i must correct myprior statement though. The pod landing at the begin of the video happens at Turn 11 and shows the arriving of Marjorane Fielding (the first other faction on planet). It does mark it on the map and instantly establishes contact though.