Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth

[DGuller]

Just got this game.  Man, is it fucking dark or what?  I feel I need to wear night vision goggles just to be able to tell land from ocean.  And I can't even find any place to change my gamma setting.  It's disappointing how such an obvious thing could be missed so badly.

[crazy canuck]

I think that is your rig.  Or you got a bizarre random map of some sort.

[DGuller]

I think that is your rig.  Or you got a bizarre random map of some sort.

I don't, everything in the interface seems to be a lighter shade of black contrasted with a darker shade of black.  It's impossible to see many things that should be visible.  I've tried adjusting monitor settings, but it only helps very little.  I'm really not digging the color scheme, I hope they fix it in one of the patches.

[crazy canuck]

I dont know DG, my eyes are not that great anymore and I have no difficult seeing the impossible.

[Barrister]

I don't think it's as bad as DG says, but I find that miasma is really hard to visually pick up.  For something that important I'd like it to be a bit more obvious.

[sbr]

I think that is your rig.  Or you got a bizarre random map of some sort.

I don't, everything in the interface seems to be a lighter shade of black contrasted with a darker shade of black.  It's impossible to see many things that should be visible.  I've tried adjusting monitor settings, but it only helps very little.  I'm really not digging the color scheme, I hope they fix it in one of the patches.

Screenshot?  I am honestly curious.  I am debating buying this game, even though I rarely pay full price for games, and haven't heard anyone else mention anything like this at all.

[DGuller]

   Hmm, I just took a 4 hour nap, and when I woke up, things were just marginally tell-apartable.  Either my state of tiredness really did a number on my vision, or the sunlight out the window was making things appear darker than they are on my monitor.  Still, it would be nice to be able to tell things apart 24 hours a day in this game, especially given that it is a Civ game.

[crazy canuck]

  Hmm, I just took a 4 hour nap, and when I woke up, things were just marginally tell-apartable.  Either my state of tiredness really did a number on my vision, or the sunlight out the window was making things appear darker than they are on my monitor.  Still, it would be nice to be able to tell things apart 24 hours a day in this game, especially given that it is a Civ game.

If you ask me its coding genius to have the game appear differently depending on the condition of the player.   

[Martinus]

I gotta say I found the display not too dark in the slightest. It is kept in darker tones, much like SMAC, but never even thought it is difficult to tell apart. I am playing the game on Bootcamp Windows on my iMac, so it is not like I have some awesome rig either.

[DGuller]

Ok, I have to say it's pretty addicting once your eyes adjust to it.

[Syt]

On some tiles I find miasma a bit hard to make out.

[Martinus]

True. I sometimes have to hover over the tile to see if it is there. Especially the biomass is often difficult to tell from miasma. But then I always try to grab at least level 3 (or 6) of Harmony to become Miasma-immune.

[Josquius]

What determines AI civ founding dates?
One game I tried they arrived in a very slow trickle some time after me.
Another game they arrived in the turns immediately after.

I quite like the unreliability of the aliens. The barbarians are a rather predictable "Will head straight for your units", with the aliens....its a gamble of do you chance trying to walk past them or not. They sometimes do leave you alone.

[Razgovory]

Ok, I have to say it's pretty addicting once your eyes adjust to it.

Napping?  Yeah, I do that everyday.  The trick is to close your eyes.  That way you don't need wait till your eyes adjust.

[crazy canuck]

What determines AI civ founding dates?

It seems random to me.   There is an advanced setting which lands them all at the same time as you.