14 DAY TRIAL // The development team at Firaxis and publisher 2K Games are ready to reveal yet another of the leaders that gamers will be able to use in the upcoming Civilization: Beyond Earth, named Kavitha Thakur.
The team is using an in-game combination of both new reports and columns posted on the official site to talk about the vision the character has for the world by using a fictional journalist named Diogenes Hitchens to report on the way the character sees the future.
Kavitha Thakur lives in New Delhi and it seems that she is more than 200 years old. This means she's a witness of the great catastrophe that has befallen Earth and is very determined to create a better future for our race among the stars.
Firaxis states, "Nobody can tell me whether the Protectorate’s space program is government-sponsored or private. Nobody knows, or possibly nobody cares. Rockets go up, are tracked, the construction is going apace in orbit, and nobody seems to be in charge of it. A child of eight can tell you how many days it is before the next Heavy Lift, and when the next Colonial Lottery is being held."
The in-game report suggests that the Protectorate and its leader are focused on the mystical aspects of colonizing a new world, and this creates a fervor among its subjects, which leads to more opportunities to launch rockets and search for new worlds that can support life.
The game developers add, "When I dream at night, I see Kavitha Thakur beckoning to me, I hear the sound of lathes spinning aluminium billets, I hear children chanting Newtonian orbital formulations interspersed with Thakurite prayers."
Civilization: Beyond Earth is a turn-based strategy title that will allow gamers to take control of a faction in order to try and colonize an alien world and re-shape humanity according to their own ideas.
The game is designed to introduce a wide variety of customization options, with the leader and the loadout of the spaceship playing an important role during the first years after planetfall.
Civilization: Beyond Earth is designed to be a spiritual successor to the classic Alpha Centauri, but Firaxis says that the core mechanics of the title have been both updated and expanded in new ways.
Gamers will have to deal with strong alien enemy flora and fauna, and they will also need to adapt their research strategy to the new tech web.
Civilization: Beyond Earth will be launched on October 24 of this year and will be available only on the PC.