IGN is playing Rising Tide with devs today at 1pm PT

[SupremacyKing2]

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/08/19/introducing-ign-plays-live

IGN will be doing a let's play of Rising Tide with the devs today at 1PM PT.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Ha. You beat me to it.

 

[SupremacyKing2]

here is the live feed:

Link to video.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Apparently they are going to have an interview with the devs in a minute.

 

[FXS_MisterKevin]

The guys are live right now!

 

[Leo Tang]

Is that a new soundtrack?

 

[SupremacyKing2]

tooltip the IGN live stream going on right now:

Drone Cage (unlocked at Autonomous Systems)
Cost 265
Move 2
Strength 22
Required 1 firaxite
Requires level 3 supremacy AND level 3 purity
Supremacy-Purity Hybrid unit
An elite soldier-medic assisted by multipurpose servant drones that autonomously heal adjacent wounded units each turn. Versatile support unit

 

[Ryika]

So many peasants in the chat. "Who plays Strategy Games these days?!", "Turn Based Games are boring." Pfah.

 

[ZTZaorish]

They read my question boys, my name was butchered lol.

But hybrid units will not be early game, at least not in this expasion. :/

 

[Black Whole]

Since I don't have a twitter account, could someone ask if the old affinity units will get special abilities like the new hybrid ones?

 

[Makenshi]

He just said that auto-workers [and thus the AI controlled faction, I hope] were fixed and won't spam terrascapes anymore.

 

[Ryika]

He just said that the Virtues have been kept the same to maintain the original games balance. Hehe. Hehehe.

 

[Gorbles]

He just said that auto-workers [and thus the AI controlled faction, I hope] were fixed and won't spam terrascapes anymore.

Dayum. It really is the little things that count.

 

[Black Whole]

I think, that the UI for the potential agreements with other civs looks really messy... Imagine playing with 11 civs, so you can browse through 55 agreements. Now try choosing one... Urgh.

 

[The Naug]

tooltip the IGN live stream going on right now:

Drone Cage (unlocked at Autonomous Systems)
Cost 265
Move 2
Strength 22
Required 1 firaxite
Requires level 3 supremacy AND level 3 purity
Supremacy-Purity Hybrid unit
An elite soldier-medic assisted by multipurpose servant drones that autonomously heal adjacent wounded units each turn. Versatile support unit

Wow, 3 and 3? That's a lot earlier than I thought it would be! Cool

 

[GenEngineer]

Wow, 3 and 3? That's a lot earlier than I thought it would be! Cool

Likewise, the Autosled is a Purity/Supremacy unit at 4 and 4, so the units may actually come early than expected.

 

[Lord Tirian]

He just said that the Virtues have been kept the same to maintain the original games balance. Hehe. Hehehe.

Got no words for that, but then, Civ5 also still has the tradition tree. As with any Civ patch or expansion, it's one of these two-steps-forward-one-step-back things.

Not happy about it, but I feel like this is one of the "fixable" things through mods. Far from ideal, but it's easier to mod some virtue trees than to provide new units, new systems and so on.

 

[Galgus]

He just said that the Virtues have been kept the same to maintain the original games balance. Hehe. Hehehe.

Welp, at least there are mods.

The Virtue trees have far too many next to useless filler virtues, which skews available options.

I don't really understand their balance philosophy with them.

Unfortunately I'm having a strange bug trying to use Machiavelli's perks grant buildings tool in a virtue mod where, somehow, everything but that component seems to work in the same XML file.

 

[GenEngineer]

Also, recent showing of upgrade screen verified that Tier 4 hybrid comes at a balance, with same cost as tier 3 (IE Harmony 6 gets brawler, then Harmony 6 Supremacy 6 gets Fury). So if you keep to balanced level up, you'll hit tier 3 and 4 at the same time. Again, hybrid may come quicker than expected.

 

[Black Whole]

So PAC doesn't get a free wonder per city but a discount (ie. 50%) in all cities... Interesting