![]() Each affinity synergy upgrade (for applicable units the Submarine, added in this expansion, doesn’t have synergy options) is available at the same level as the first focused affinity upgrade depending on the affinities that have been leveled. It’s still just hard to read.Įven if the affinities are hard to read on the tech screen, the affinity synergies fit into the game like the last jigsaw puzzle piece. Even if that’s changed, I still prefer the tech tree from nearly every other strategy game I’ve played to this. Adding the right combination of H, S, or P would have improved this change immensely. If you’re looking to improve Harmony, though, you’ll still need to hover over each tech because to my somewhat-color-blind eyes, with Harmony being almost indistinguishable from the normal color used in the circle until said tech has already been researched. The much-maligned Tech Web doesn’t seem to have changed too much, with the affinities relevant to a given tech being the only change. It’s a lot like building things on land but uses lots of naval combat, which is inevitably less varied and exciting. It’s the expansion it needed to do first, both in terms of building on the game if you are in the mood for more, and showing that the series has the right course in mind.You can explore the ocean. It does however move it closer to what it should have been, with its understanding of some of the big problems helping to at least soften the blow of their lingering disappointment first time around. ![]() Rising Tide doesn’t turn Beyond Earth into a whole new game. It’s also now much easier to read them, and see when you’re clashing with someone or they’re likely to bail on a deal. Combined, all this opens up a much more interesting diplomatic metagame of mutual favours and reasons to side with specific leaders, without ruling out making deals with assorted devils if the need arises. You can have up to four in play, and swap them out, as well as spend DC to purchase units and buildings outright. Everyone also now has Traits that offer direct upgrades, and advantages that others can buy into using the new Diplomatic Capital resource-a stipend each turn in exchange for a boost. Each faction now has a Fear and Respect bar, the first based on your strength and the latter based on how your actions mesh with their philosophies, such as worrying about your peoples’ health. They’re still one of the least important fundamental changes Rising Tide makes. They’re fun to play with, both in their new mechanic of acquiring territory by moving around the ocean, and a rare example of something feeling like future tech instead of just modern military equipment with a chrome finish. It’s a more appropriate name than it might sound, and not really referring to its new aquatic cities. This is essentially Rising Tide’s approach across the board: big changes, important changes, but not necessarily dramatic changes that completely overhaul what came before. Why wouldn’t you combine technology and aliens? It’s just slightly morbid common sense. This opens up new options, but more than that, it feels endlessly more appropriate. Rising Tide allows for Hybrid Affinities, mixing and matching them. ![]() I personally loathed this system, not for the core mechanical idea, but because it philosophically felt less like charting a future for humanity than signing it up to one of three dogmatic space cults, complete with silly space robes. In the original Beyond Earth, these had your society developing down one of three paths-Purity, Supremacy or Harmony. For me, one of the changes I most appreciate is the reworking of Affinities.
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