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Affinities would even drive diplomacy if diplomacy involved any sort of meaningful gameplay. Your choice of affinity gives you global modifiers, it composes your army, it determines your visual palette, and it sets you on the path to your primary victory condition. Or, whether you choose to co-exist, tame, or ignore the planet. Beyond Earth has only three factions and they’re not even called factions. Your choice of Old Earth nationality is really just a bit of prep work. Constant, unrelenting, obsequious, nagging choices that will come together to create something massive, slow, and tedious.Īfter the jump, a series of interesting decisions.īeyond Earth is at its best during the early going, after your spaceship has landed and as you’re making your way out into the alien environment, taming it, shaping it, dipping into the first level of some of the quests, working out your borders, and deciding what faction you’re really going to play. That’s ultimately what Beyond Earth is all about. It keeps me busy making choices before I’m even playing. It gives me a multistep sense of agency in how the early stages will play out. But Beyond Earth lets me build my ark/spaceship step-by-step. In any other Civilization - in case it’s not clear from the full title of Civilization: Beyond Earth, this is absolutely a Civilization game, and more specifically a Civilization V game - I would have just chosen a faction. I find a certain comfort in knowing the exact shape of my new world. I eventually go with a continental surveyor that shows me all the coastlines on the map. As for the type of spacecraft, that’s a tough decision. Inside the spaceship with the colonists, I’ll carry the machinery that will give me a free worker for a headstart developing the landing area near my starting colony. For colonists, I naturally choose artists, who boost culture. I’ll be the Franco-Iberians, who earn free technologies every so often as their culture develops. I mean the very beginning before the beginning. The beginning of Beyond Earth is all very exciting.

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