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How's the gameplay?
If you played Civ5 then you have played this. It's a DLC sold at full retail when all they did was reskin some stuff.
I was having problems at first too, it wouldn't display a 1440p option. I think the game only gives the option of a certain number of resolutions, so if you have several custom profiles (for example, I had 100hz, 96 hz, 90 hz, and 60 hz as custom resolution profiles), it won't display them all. I had to go and delete a couple of the profiles, leaving just 60 and 96 hz (I run it at 96). After doing that, the game displayed the proper resolutions, and I could play in 1440p. I hope this made sense lol
Edit: NEVER MIND, NOT WORKING.
Used CRU 1.1.2 to delete all the lame resolutions from both of my monitors. Only kept 1920x1200 for 1st and 1920x1080 with different refreshes for the other. After reboot windows changfe resolution screens still show smaller resolutions,
BE DX11 modes still shows some low resolutions, 1920x1080 144Hz is missing.
BE Mantle shows the following:
1920x1200 60Hz
1600x1200 60Hz
1920x1080 60Hz
1920x1080 59Hz
1920x1080 50Hz
1920x1080 30Hz
1920x1080 29Hz
1920x1080 25Hz
and ~10 more lower resolutions like 1680x1050, 1360x1024 and so on.
No idea how and where BE pulls those stupid 50, 30, 29, 25Hz settings from.
120Hz, no 144Hz are missing.
When I actually try to change the resolution it moves the output from the primary monitor to the secondary, shows "Apply Selected Resolution Yes/No" dialog there, but when I try to click Yes, the output goes back to the primary display and nothing happens. After 15 seconds it reverts back windowed mode.
Shit's messed up.
Edit2: Tried to change input on the secondary monitor to HDMI from PS4. Win8 detected the switch, all windows moved to the primary monitor.
BE DX11 still shows a few dozen of resolutions, except the one I need.
Mantle shows and switches to 1920x1080 60Hz (120Hz and 144Hz are missing), able to confirm the dialog change, but as soon as I re-enable the secondary monitor the output jump there and it's downhill after that.
I also used CRU. When you open up CCC and select the refresh rate for your monitor, does it just show 2 options? I had to restart my computer for the changes to show up in CCC. When I got it down to just 2 options (60 hz and 96 hz) it worked in BE
If you mean CCC / Desktop Management / Desktop Properties screen.. It shows a huge list of resolutions and refresh rates. I did reboot at least a few times while I tried different things.
In CRU, do you have it down to just 2 options under the detailed resolutions box? I previously had 4, but had to delete 2 of them. Then those two options are what show up under refresh rate in CCC. I have had multiple monitors cause me issues before (not with BE, but in general), so I just have my primary hooked up right now to simplify things.
How many options do you have available to you under the refresh rate box to the right?
There are 50, 59, 60, 100, 120, 144hz for primary monitor and 50, 59, 60Hz for secondary.
Anyway, you're using a single display and I'm using Excended desktop over 2 monitors.
I am hooked, played 8 hours last night, dreamed i was still playing and woke up early to play more.
out of the blue, i lost? idk, game ended at 473 for me and i have no idea what happened.
I don't like how a lot of the comments the other leaders are just copy-pasted from Civ 5. Every time I see one of those I just exit the game. This game just feels like a blatant money grab.
Edit: Seems like everything is just reskinned and given a new name.
Sounds like if someone never played Civ5 (raises hand) then they won't even notice this game is a "reskin" - fair assumption?
Well, I'm gonna be the outlier in this thread.
If you ignore the superficial stuff, the way the game actually plays out (in terms of strategy and management) is completely different from Civ 5. Some aspects are better, some are worse, but overall I'm pretty satisfied, and Firaxis has a proven record of longtime support.
The fact that there are only 8 Leaders doesn't bother me. The tech web completely invalidates the need for different Leaders/Civs, and I'm guessing the only reason they're in is for single-player. It's not like Civ 5 where the Leader you chose determined what strategy you were going to take into the game (and usually you were railroaded into 1-2 optimal strategies).
The UI is kinda janky though, and the AI is way too passive, even on the hardest settings. but both those things can be fixed with patches, so time will tell.
I don't like how a lot of the comments the other leaders are just copy-pasted from Civ 5. Every time I see one of those I just exit the game. This game just feels like a blatant money grab.
Edit: Seems like everything is just reskinned and given a new name.
the 'civ type' strategy game has existed for 23 years...Sid Meir's 'genius' is not the game itself..its the fact they he can make essentially the same game for 23 years and make money off of all of us that purchases it
what I want is a BRAND NEW type of strategy game....paradox europa series is good..distant worlds is good...ageod series is good ...total war series...all good 'starts' to break away from civ type clones
the day of civ type clones has gotten to me..23 years people of the same formulaic game..23 years of civ clones and you keep buying them
btw, beyond earth is the most boring game to watch on youtube...I can watch a civ5 game for hours and enjoy it...20 minutes of beyond earth and i'm done....I will not be purchasing this game ever
Sid 'jumped the shark' with this this iteration imho
Ugh, I shouldn't have downloaded the new AMD beta drivers that are supposed to enable mantle for this game. Now it won't launch on my primary display. I have 3 monitors and it will only launch on the side monitors..... bleh.
it was doing that for me with mantle on the older drivers i had, was hoping beta would fix it, i ended up just playing it window mode with mantle to get it on my primary monitor.
its weird because it shows up on the right monitor but you select stuff on your main monitor lol.
btw, beyond earth is the most boring game to watch on youtube...I can watch a civ5 game for hours and enjoy it...20 minutes of beyond earth and i'm done....I will not be purchasing this game ever
Sid 'jumped the shark' with this this iteration imho