Key Provider Instructions

In order to activate this game, you will require a third-party 'Steam' account. For full details on how to activate please follow this link: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5414-TFBN-1352

Description

• Seed the Adventure: Establish your cultural identity by choosing one of 12 different expedition sponsors, each with its own leader and unique gameplay benefits. Assemble your spacecraft, cargo & colonists through a series of choices that directly seed the starting conditions when arriving at the new planet. 
• Colonize an Alien World: Explore the dangers and benefits of a new planet filled with dangerous terrain, valuable resources, and hostile life forms unlike those of Earth. Develop flourishing cities on land or build floating settlements at sea, and establish trade routes to create prosperity for your people.  
• Shape the Diplomatic Landscape: Leaders unlock Traits through gameplay and activate different combinations to respond to the changing world. Use Diplomatic Capital to upgrade your traits, change diplomatic relationships, and leverage the benefits of your allies’ traits.   
• Technology Web: To reflect progress forward into an uncertain future, technology advancement occurs through a series of nonlinear choices, unique units, and wonders that affect the development of mankind. 
• Quest System: Quests are injected with fiction about the planet, and help to guide you through a series of side-missions that will aid in resource collection, unit upgrades, and advancement through the game. 
• Orbital Layer: Build and deploy advanced military, economic and scientific satellites that provide strategic offensive, defensive and support capabilities from orbit.
• Unique units: Unlock unique units to reflect your play style, choose different upgrades through the tech web and the discovery of powerful relics.  
• Multiplayer: Up to 8 players can compete for dominance of a new alien world.
• Mod support: Robust mod support allows you to customize and extend your game experience.
• Hybrid Affinities: Invest in multiple Affinities, rather than specializing in just one, where players can unlock a variety of special hybrid Affinity units and upgrades.

Minimum Requirements

• Steam account required for game activation and installation
  
  Minimum:
  Operating System: 10.9.5 (Mavericks), 10.10 (Yosemite)
  CPU Processor: Intel Core i3 (Dual-Core)
  CPU Speed: 2.2 GHz
  Memory: 4 GB RAM
  Hard Disk Space: 8 GB
  Video Card (ATI): Radeon HD4850
  Video Card (NVidia): Geforce 640M
  Video Card (Intel): HD 4000
  Video Memory (VRam): 512 MB
  Peripherals: Macintosh mouse and keyboard
  
  
  Other Requirements: Initial installation requires one-time Internet connection for Steam authentication; software installations required (included with the game) include Steam Client. 
  Internet Connection and acceptance of Steam™ Subscriber Agreement required for activation. See www.steampowered.com/agreement for details 
  
  NOTICE: The following video chipsets are unsupported for Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth: 
  
  - ATI Radeon X1000 series, HD 2000 series, 3870, 4670, 6490, 6630
  - NVIDIA GeForce 7000 series, 8000 series, 9000 series, GT 100 series, 300M
  series
  - Intel GMA series, HD 3000
  NOTICE: This game is not supported on volumes formatted as Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive)
  
  
  

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