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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

For those who missed the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pygcgE3a_uY

Don't try to tell me Beyond Earth was a sequel, Stellaris is more of a sequel to SMAC than BE was.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

"Already" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, by the time the game comes out it will have been 9 years since Civ 6. That's 3 years longer than the gap between 5 and 6 which is the next longest gap in the series. At this point they're vastly limited in the things they can do without a complete overhaul on base mechanics we've been playing with for nearly a decade.

Would you rather they completely overhaul the current game and the original mechanics be lost to time? Of course not, the obvious next step is to make a new game.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

9 years

wtf

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I'll give you that it's been longer than I realized since the base game came out, however, Beyond Earth came out 10 years ago (2014) and Alpha Centauri was 25 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Me waiting on a sequel to Sid Meier's Pirates.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I sent an email thanking them for making Sid Meier's Pirates! and they sent an email back thanking me for my interest and that no new game was planned. Which...wasn't my email, but still very sad!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tbf alpha centari still works perfectly fine

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I want that game - exactly as it is - but with new, modern graphics. AC+AX is about as perfect as a game can possibly get. Just needs a fresh coat of paint.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A little bit better controls and stuff too, but yeah, the story, characters, unit customization, etc. was all top-notch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Also... more Mindworms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You know what I just remembered it doesn't support my wide screen so yeah why the hell not.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Often animations get stuck (until a timeout is hit after ~30 seconds).
Sometimes units can appear on a city that already has a unit and is blocked from moving away which prevents ending the turn.
Sometimes linked units don't move together properly until the next turn.
Capturing a builder or settler with a linked unit just deletes it.
Currently if you buy Gathering Storm DLC you cannot play it with anyone who doesn't also own Rise and Fall.

And those are just the issues I noticed personally this week.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Off the top of my head I have seen units being teleported because tiles are incorrectly linked.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do the drones still look up to you at this point?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

They need me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

No information about Alpha Centauri 2? I posit an AC quote then:

"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master." -Commissioner Pravin Lal, 'U.N. Declaration of Rights'

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And if you look closely, you'll see me, under your foot, waiting for a sequel to Pirates

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Sword of the Samurai and Covert Action fans have long since given up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I have 3 friends that I play Civ V with weekly, in person LAN parties maybe once or twice a year. Civ 6 never caught on and I'm the youngest in the group (at 39) so I just went with it. But going by the principle that odd number Civs are good we are excited for 2025.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There was a ridiculous, completely unbalanced version they published just after Alpha Centauri where the most powerful unit was a van-looking ecoterrorism thing that transformed everything around it into forest.

They could make a sequel to that one instead.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

You mean Civilization: Call to Power. The unit was called the Eco Ranger. And they did make a sequel to it, called Call to Power 2. In some ways it was better, some worse. That being said, CTP1 is my favorite civ of all time (not counting SMAC). They should definitely make another sequel if they can keep the stuff that made it great. Kills me that I can't get a modern working version of the original somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

they did do a sequel to alpha century and it was fucking garbage, where u trying to forget?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Probably what he meant, yes, but that's not a sequel. I would even hesitate to call it a spiritual successor. It's basically just Civ in spaaaaace.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

There’s only so many more times I can elect myself Supreme Planetary Leader as Brother Lal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What was the expansion pack where you could play as aliens called?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Crossfire? iirc

Edit: alien crossfire

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I hope the new game loses the Clash of Clans style cartoony graphics.