how essential ist rising tide?

[NoobOrFeed]

i loved civ 5, but stopped playing the serie cause of disappointment with civ 6....
now i am thinking of getting civ beyond earth, just to try it out, but how essential is the rising tide dlc? is it like the civ 5 addons, which made the game feel perfect and finished, or can i just go for the base game?

[Bubs]

supposedly teh game compoletely sucks without it. i can't say the differences because i came afterwards.

[Cryten]

I would not play the game without rising tide. Before it the game was very basic. Rising tide gave the game life, but it was too late for the game. The game devs abandoned the game 1 or 2 patches after Rising Tide released.

[o2baguru]

Add it to your wish list and grab it when it goes on sale. Online I saw it mostly around the $19-$30, but Steam had both for $15. As with any game, you get out what you put in. I set out to get all the badges completed and still working on some. The higher difficulties make for longer games.
I'm a solo player, so for myself, having my society built as I want it is more important than the synergies or building to conquer. I found in Multiplayer games you have to rush getting your troops out there destroying early at the cost to building for long range goals. So it's really what you want to aim for - and the game is varied enough to give you multiple ways of getting there.
Yes, it could be better, the AI could be improved. But as it stands, I've spent a few months playing and I can come back and still try something new.
Complicated. A little. Like most turn based games, you have to keep up with your chores. Un-automated units will ask for directions, and instead of having different advisors this SIM just defaults to asking you what you want done next. And that can be where it gets complicated. You have the ability to tweek what kind of leader you are, what kind of society, how you want to achieve victory, which type of science you want to master in, whether you favor war, peace, intellect, or production. So many paths that hardly any two games you play will be the same.
And that can also be a setback. Some people like games where the board stays the same and can come up with a cookie-cutter approach to winning. But here the planets change, the environments change, the winning conditions change, almost everything can be adjusted. So it's really more of a creation game: You setup the conditions for the game, then try to win it as the game generates the board each time.

All in all, it's a worthy game to the CIV series. They could have spent more time on some of the artwork, it looks like they just took the artist concepts and left them as is. This was probably the efforts of a splinter group at the main complex, understaffed and underbudgetted and told to do what they can. But, in my opinion, it does better than some of the others which seem to be cookie cutter.
Good luck!
-Rich

[󠀡󠀡]

I will put it as simple as i can:
Its an great spin off for a civ game
It is a civ game, a good one
Retains that civ game feeling
Good sci fi addition to civ series
If you want to compare it to civ vi , civ be IS better than civ vi, simple as that.
I bought civ be when it launched years ago i loved it, still do , i bought rising tide aswell, its ok for an dlc.
If you never played civ: be before, I would buy it WITH rising tide.

[Zityrchasla]

Vanilla Beyond Earth was decent. I enjoyed it. But having got the expansion, I now consider Rising Tides to be an essential part of it. It adds so much to the game in terms of tech, variety, depth, options, and interest. Not to mention made the oceans so much more beautiful.

I am fully of the opinion that if Beyond Earth had launched with all the content in Rising Tides included (and the subsequent patches), it probably would have been a very successful launch that earned tons of aclaim and probably ended up getting a couple more DLC as well. And if those DLC had been on the same scale as RT, it would easily become one of the best games in the Civ series.

But alas, things didn't play out that way. So Alpha Centauri continues to hold the spot of top Civ game for me.

[Gloomseeker]

Just FYI it's currently 75% off at Fanatical (check isthereanydeal.com for a full list of official resellers).

Considering how much time you can spend in the game I'd say it's definitely worth picking (especially at that price).

[Redrusty66]

VERY...makes the game pretty much the last good Civ game.

[NyMpHoBoNsAi]

My only gripe is the graphic bug that carried over from civ 5 with attack animations and effects not working after a while and requiring reloads to fix for a few more turns...

[Wastefield]

Yeah and now that it's in Daily Sale, I checked to see if the DLC's up for grabs...
CIV:BE 10e ... CIV:BE+DLC pack 15e ... only DLC: Rising Tide Expansion 30e
GG.

[Redrusty66]

Originally posted by Wastefield:

Yeah and now that it's in Daily Sale, I checked to see if the DLC's up for grabs...
CIV:BE 10e ... CIV:BE+DLC pack 15e ... only DLC: Rising Tide Expansion 30e
GG.

yeah I paid like 12.99 for the complete pack a couple eyars ago from Greenman sale, seen the complete pack around places for 13-15 alot. Convinced a friend who found the game boring vanilla to get RT and he found it smewhere for less tan 10$ a cvouple days ago, he's been loving the game since. just shop around fror RT until you find it on sale.