
Options to stay healthy in the mid-game also make sure you retain that +10% Science bonus into the mid-game. For Knowledge players, this means increased consistency and increased science in the early game. With Rising Tide, expeditions are going to be more numerous. If any of you play Knowledge extensively, you'll know it's early game almost entirely relies on abusing Field Research and getting those first 5 virtues to get extra % culture and decreased culture costs on all future virtues. Liberation Army is also just that much better because capturing enemy outposts in the ocean means you can reposition them once they're cities.Ģ) Knowledge early. Given how fast it grows and how it doesn't fight back or aggravate aliens upon death, this is a great buff to Might. Secondly, if you land coastally or in the ocean, killing Hydra Coral with submarines / gunboats / melee ships is going to give you lots of free science.

First of all, mid-game health seems far more accessible what with the diplomatic traits and agreements you can sign that will increase your global health. This is my list of strategies that may be viable in RT.ġ) Picking Might as your first Virtue Tree. There's one with Civ III Complete, Civ IV, Civ V, and Beyond Earth for $25 one with Beyond Earth and Sid Meier's Starships for $21 and another with Beyond Earth, a map pack, and Rising Tide for $50.In vanilla Beyond Earth, there's a few strategies the game sorta rewards you for - that with Rising Tide seem to be rewarding play a lot more. Any progress you make during the free weekend will transfer over.Īlternatively, you can pick up one of several discounted bundles that include Beyond Earth.

Should you want to play after this weekend, you can pick it up from now until August 17 at 10 AM PDT for $20, a 50 percent discount.

This is the full version of the game, which-being a Civilization game-offers dozens, if not hundreds of hours of gameplay. The weekend event is now live if you don't already own it, you can head to Steam, download Beyond Earth, and play as much as you want for free until Sunday, August 16. Alongside that, it's kicked off a free Steam weekend event, allowing anyone to play Beyond Earth for free and then pick up the full version (and Rising Tide) at a discount. 2K today announced that preorders for the first Civilization: Beyond Earth expansion, Rising Tide, are live.
