Lead producer on making friends and war in Rising Tide expansion for Civilization: Beyond Earth

If you want go deeper into Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth, Andrew Frederiksen has just the thing for you. The lead game producer at Firaxis Games showed us a preview of the Rising Tide expansion of 2K’s Beyond Earth computer game at a recent preview event at its studio in Novato, Calif. The new content is coming this fall, and it is aimed at keeping players addicted to the sci-fi planet colonization game for many hours.

We talked to Frederiksen about the deeper diplomacy system, where you can get a better sense of your relationships with other faction leaders by knowing what they like and what they fear. And we also talked about the effort the team put behind making floating cities on the seas — the biggest feature addition in the expansion. The Rising Tide expansion is coming to Windows PCs this fall for $30. But here’s the latest details on how the game downloadable content (DLC) plays and its latest features.