Recent reviews by nate

purchased
installed
started game
The "Connection Timeout" button is very responsive
trolled the forum
requested refund

10/10 for having my butt f ucked again but EA cra p when will I learn......
Recommend cause someone has to feed the troll developers

vomit, wee & poop on anything 10/10

Mehh

I'm writing this at 4:17am because I stayed up that late playing. My wife will come kill me soon, I'm sure.

This game is brilliant. The 4X portion of the game would be serviceable on its own, with interesting gathering/crafting mechanics for feeding your populace and equipping your fighters. The writing does an excellent job of giving you an otherworldly feel; it makes me want to read the mythology its based on.

The combat card game is amazing. I'd play the card game even without the 4X game. The mechanics involved in that one I think would be deep enough to support even a living/expandable card game implementation. The fact that it's tied to a whole plethora of hero stats for 6-7 different types of challenges (social, physical, combat, tactics, hex, etc.) that all play out in "combat" is what really makes the game shine. The connection between your units leveling and equipment, the writing and events that get you wrapped up in various sorts of contests, and this "combat" system that provides the test of skill for resolving all of the conflicts is why the sum of the two decent games (the 4X game and the card game) becomes something amazing.

The designers behind this are geniuses. I'm so impressed with this that I already want to buy their next game.
Its worth the your time and money.

I bought this game 2 years ago, there have been virtually NO real updates to the content of the game at all in that time. I bought the 4 pack of the game and really, I've been ripped off royally.

Not only has the development died, the studio has also flat out lied in it's early marketing promising new additions that have never come. If you are expecting to be a Space Marine, breaching and clearing ships or stations, don't expect that at all. You will be fighting underground in a training facility against a dead player base or robots.

Do not spend your money on this scam, if not a scam then a massive mismanagement of time and resources that have lead to literally no real content updates in 2 years.

0/10

BTW SOMEBODY ELSE WROTE THIS REVIEW CAUSE I'M A L.A.Z.Y.C.U.N.T. LIKE THE DEV'S TOO

This is the worst game to bears Sid Meier's name.

"Surely it's not that bad" You say.

I'm afraid it is.

In the build up to the release of the game there was little doubt that it was going to be a less involved game to play then the typical Sid Meier fare, more Ace Patrol then Civilization 5. When developers were discussing the game, that was pretty clear and I have no qualms with that.

In fact I was quite happy with the idea of a strategy game designed so I could play over an evening after work.

Initial impressions are poor. The game launching in a tiny window and into a bare, personality-less main menu that could have been ripped from any sci-fi title (it reminded me of the Sword of the Stars 2 menu). I sought out the settings menu and within that I found volume controls and "Windowed Full Screen mode".

I'm sorry what?

I know the game was being made for tablet as well, but this is Firaxis. I asked another friend playing it "Am I missing a settings menu somewhere?" bemusedly. "Nope" He replied "It really is that sparse"

Oh well. Not a great first impression, but not necessarily the end of the world. I setup a game.

Setup lets you pick a faction and a leader. Each faction gets the same leaders, with slightly rejigged artwork. Which comes across as a bit lazy. The factions have a unique bonus with the leaders adding an additional bonus of their own. I was a little bemused at what the various bonuses meant as I only knew about one aspect of the game (crew morale) from previews nothing else made a lot of sense and there was nothing to explain the benefits of a choice, no tooltips, nothing.

The lack of tooltips persists throughout, with a general lack of accessible information.

I setup my game, stabbing blindly in the dark at things that sounded useful

The galactic playing field looks alright and I wait for the useful tutorial to kick in and explain things to me over my first few turns. I get nothing. I understand there's an info button to click but I don't understand why there's a lack of tutorial and I fumble around the first few turns getting to grips with the games systems.

As the game is all about moving a fleet around space bringing disparate planets into a federation you'd expect load out/designing of the ships to be one of the most involved aspects of the game. Instead, you're presented with a list of things to click away at to upgrade or downgrade (removing components nets you some resources back to spend elsewhere) different aspects of each ship.

My fleet consisted of three ships throughout the course of the game, starting as corvette's, ending as battleships through upgrades and the games automatic ship classification. All 3 focused on speed, one was paticularly tough and loaded with close range weaponry. One was less tough, also had close range weaponry and could cloak. One had longer range weapons. The limitation to what you can actually do with ships meant all of them had max speed, and were stupidly tough by about mid way through. But this simple setup felt game breaking. I could defeat any mission or enemy fleet, outside of the missions where you have to defend an outpost that can only survive two hits with fast enemies that just head straight for it.

The empire building aspect of the game is no more involved. "Click this to make numbers go up, because numbers" about sums up this aspect of the game. There's no interesting trade off between balancing metal, food or energy. Get lots of whatever you can, click stuff to have more stuff.

I actually beat my game accidentally. I was working my way from planet to planet, building one ludcriously over powered wonder after another because why not, then a conquered a planet which also had a wonder and triggered the wonder victory.

Well victory nets you a much more rewarding end then it does in Beyond Earth at least. You get 10 seconds of video which is better then a text box. But does it really matter when the rest of the game is so unengaging?

Overall, it's an ok game to have on a tablet, nothing stand out, even where there isn't much competition. But on the PC there's tons. Weird Worlds in Infinite space did something similar but better years ago and it's Early Access sequel likely will to. There is no reason to buy this game for the PC, and very little for a tablet.

BTW - SOMEBODY ELSE WROTE THIS REVIEW, BUT IT SUMS UP THE GAME FOR ME

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I just wish I had more time to play this game... the mods are the best part tho

But the M107 with AP rounds its the duck's nutts

its just a plain cash grab, But i did get a refund(to my steam wallet only)
the game look nothing like the screen shots or videos, even set graphics to ultra was still getting 40+FPS, this did enhance view distance but ♥♥♥♥ if ya want to spend time playing with children get this piece of ♥♥♥♥'s game.

to recap
this game is ♥♥♥♥ alpha or not

ps. i'm off to play some breaking point

pps. eat a ♥♥♥♥

♥♥♥♥ COMPLETELY ♥♥♥♥ I WANT MY MONEY BACK
Its as fun as masturbating with sandpaper.