Much as we lamented how little Beyond Earth originally broke with Civilization V tradition, switching things up so that the player had no control over one of the most important aspects of their campaign was, frankly, mad. The other seemed more fundamental - that the game would make its own decisions about what each side offered come peace negotiations, creating bizarre situations such as demanding that your struggling enemy gave up half his cities to you purely to broker peace, even if you didn't want or need them.

One of those - that AI allies would not come to your aid in the event of war, but would automatically drag you into any of their conflicts - has been mostly fixed by a patch which arrived around a week after launch. There were, for me, two main issues with Rising Tide's revamped diplomacy system. I hear there's a big new patch intended to address one of your biggest problems what flowers are you bringing to my door this time? You became more alien, less like your dad trying to wear a spacesuit, but gosh, you made a pig's ear of Diplomacy, didn't you? Bugs and bonkers design decisions queered the pitch.īut maybe it's not too late. The Rising Tide expansion, that was a good try.

well, maybe you're fundamentally unlovable. You work so very hard to make me love you but. Oh, Civilization: Beyond Earth, how sad you make me.

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