Civilization 6 Announced

[MizzouRah]

Back to Civ 6 playing on apocalypse mode and it's brutal.

[Thomkal]

The two expansions are now on sale at Epic. Not sure the first one, Rise and Fall qualifies for the Epic sale coupon for $10 off (it's 14.99 when the coupon is for $15 or more), but Gathering Storm does qualify, which makes it $10.

[henry296]

If have base Civ on Steam and the expansions on Epic is that a problem?

[Thomkal]

Originally Posted by henry296

If have base Civ on Steam and the expansions on Epic is that a problem?

Yes (I think). They are competitors, so you won't get a key from Epic which you could use on Steam.

[Thomkal]

Originally Posted by Thomkal

The two expansions are now on sale at Epic. Not sure the first one, Rise and Fall qualifies for the Epic sale coupon for $10 off (it's 14.99 when the coupon is for $15 or more), but Gathering Storm does qualify, which makes it $10.

I can confirm now I got the second coupon for $10 off for using the original during the sale, which I then used to get Rise and Fall as well for a total of $15 for both. And I got another $10 coupon which I can use anytime until Nov 1 I think on anything $15 or more. A really good deal if you didn't already have a lot of time committed to Civ 6 on Steam.

There was an iniital problem with buying them, but I contacted Support, and that appears to be fixed now.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by MizzouRah

Back to Civ 6 playing on apocalypse mode and it's brutal.

I watched a little bit of a playthrough with it (Quill18 maybe? somebody at any rate), yeah, it pretty much bordered on comical at Deity difficulty.

[spleen1015]

Starting a game as Seondeok. First goal is to play long enough to get to the Classical Era.

[NobodyHere]

Civilization 6 gets Byzantium and Gaul in its Frontier Pass next week | PCGamesN

I might actually get this one.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by MrBug708

I play as the Kongo for this reason.

I played them once in a random start, and having come from two straight long games that ended up being religion focused, it was a hella change.

If anyone hasn't played as them yet but has been frustrated by the missionary hordes, definitely give it a try. It was very ... palate cleansing in my experience with it.

[Edward64]

Yeah, the religious missionaries are too distracting. I will give it a shot next time.

I will say that Civ is lower on my play list nowadays.

[albionmoonlight]

I never got into Civ VI. I tried it a few times, but I just didn't . . . get it. I love Civ V. But I couldn't make the conversion.

Listening to a bunch of my friends talk about it, I think that I just missed something, and if I could get into it, I'd enjoy it. And, with the holiday break coming up, there's no time like now to try again.

Are there some good YouTube videos/tutorials for someone who's into Civ but had trouble getting into Civ VI? I need something to jump start me.

[Edward64]

FWIW, I'm not that great but have won about 4-5 complete playthroughs with Greece.

Been playing China and here's my early game strategy.

Find a good spot by a river or lake. Has to have a flat land adjacent by Stone within 3 hexes. I aim to build Stonehenge and get a head start on creating my religion.

So find a good spot. I normally build a Scout first while I send my Warrior exploring. After Scout is built I send it exploring. I then build a Builder which, as China, allows me to speed up my Wonder. Sometime I get lucky with my exploration and get a Builder when I find a Village. After the Builder, I go for a Settler. I then send out the Settler to start my second City while my first City starts with Stonehenge.

So to recap - Scout, Builder, Settler, Stonehenge. Sometimes I go with Builder, Settler, Stonehenge.

25-33% of time, another Civ beats me to it but I generally get Stonehenge built around 3300 or 3400 BC, which then allows me to create my Religion. By that time, I have 2 Cities. I then work on another Settler and Warrior in my 2 cities.

Skill tree wise, I go for - Astrology, Mining, Bronze. Bronze reveals Iron and I try to place my 3rd City by the Iron. If there is no Iron close by, I restart.

Hope this helps some.

[Brian Swartz]

I'd recommend Potato McWhiskey, a top-class Civ player. It's not recent, but as Civ 6 is a mature game that probably won't matter; this is a new-player Scythia tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78UT...TGqfD932qUo8vX. He also did an intermediate China one and has a bunch of tips videos or high-level/challenge material.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Brian Swartz

I'd recommend Potato McWhiskey, a top-class Civ player. It's not recent, but as Civ 6 is a mature game that probably won't matter; this is a new-player Scythia tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78UT...TGqfD932qUo8vX. He also did an intermediate China one and has a bunch of tips videos or high-level/challenge material.

Not a bad idea for beginners/intermediates but definitely pick & choose which vids to watch. He's really high on the knowledge curve & could lose people in a regular play due to his speed, repetition. Those lower level & tips vids are the way to go, not just any ol' lets play vid.

[NobodyHere]

So when I start the game from Steam, I don't get the expansions I purchased.

Anyone else having the same problem?

ETA: From reading steam forums I'm not the only one having this problem

[Edward64]

I play Civ 6 on Steam. No issues with expansions.

Maybe do a complete re-install?

On another note, when playing Civ 6 on my laptop, it locks up every 100 turns or so and I have to load last save. I don't have this problem on my desktop so know it has to be drivers of some sort. Enough of a frustration but still much prefer playing Civ 6 on laptop out in my living room while watching TV with missus.

[Thomkal]

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

So when I start the game from Steam, I don't get the expansions I purchased.

Anyone else having the same problem?

ETA: From reading steam forums I'm not the only one having this problem

I recently purchased the 6 pack of DLC's from Epic. When I went into the game to play with the new civs I got, only three were there, and in the manage games setting on their launcher shows that I only have three of the DLC's available, Epic says that my account shows I have all 6 DLC's installed, so now we are going back and forth with the various solutions-cache, dxdiag. etc.

I thought it was just something with my computer, but now it seems like it may be something with CIV 6 instead. I will have to check the steam forums to see if anyone is having my issue too. Thanks for letting us know about this

[NobodyHere]

The problem (for Steam users anyway) is that 2K games decided they needed to add their own launcher to the game. So when I click "play" apparently 2K Games decided I wanted see another launcher instead of, you know, going straight into the game. And the launcher is broken.

So I found a solution in the Steam forums. You have to change the launch options to:

"F:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization VI\Base\Binaries\Win64Steam\CivilizationVI_DX12.exe" %command%

Obviously substitute your own full game path. This bypasses the broken, useless 2k Games launcher.

[Thomkal]

Hmm thanks saw the new launcher and wondered if that was the culprit. Will have to see if that helps

[Thomkal]

2kGames working on a fix for the various launcher issues

[Thomkal]

So Epic basically passed the ball to 2k Games, basically saying the problem is with them and go to their support site for help

[Thomkal]

They announced an update for Civ 6 tonight that's supposed to fix many of the issues with the launcher. Haven't downloaded it yet, so let us know if it helped your issues at all.

[Butter]

The 2K launcher is completely unnecessary. I get that they probably want to sell it on their own site so they can cut out the middleman, but why not just wait until Civ 7 to do that.

[kcchief19]

I actually haven't had any issues with the launcher surprisingly. I keep having problems with disabled mods enabling themselves on their own, which prevents you from starting a game and doesn't install conflicting options. So I have to disable the mods and restart. Guess I need to uninstall the mods.

Don't know why I don't have launcher problems ... unless the Mac version works. The launcher has been in Mac for a long time.

[Thomkal]

Originally Posted by Thomkal

I recently purchased the 6 pack of DLC's from Epic. When I went into the game to play with the new civs I got, only three were there, and in the manage games setting on their launcher shows that I only have three of the DLC's available, Epic says that my account shows I have all 6 DLC's installed, so now we are going back and forth with the various solutions-cache, dxdiag. etc.

I thought it was just something with my computer, but now it seems like it may be something with CIV 6 instead. I will have to check the steam forums to see if anyone is having my issue too. Thanks for letting us know about this

So I went back to try a new game today and had the same issue. So I was fiddling around with the Epic launcher which I'm not as familiar with as Steam's. I notice when you click the three lines at the bottom right of each game in your library various options are available. One of them is Manage DLC's, so I click on it and there are all of the DLC's I just bought,,,but for some reason three are turned on and 3 are turned off. So I turned then on and looks like they are installing. No idea why the three didn't install with the others. Hope that fixes things for me when I start a game later

[Icy]

What is the current game status for playing solo? is the AI better than at launch? haven't touched it since then.

[NobodyHere]

New patch has dropped today, including 3 new units.

April 2021 Update - Patch Notes Discussion | CivFanatics Forums

[Thomkal]

Yeah looks like that might be the last update for the game from what I'm seeing. Some good news for my copy of the game on Epic-after the update installed, I uninstalled/installed Civ 6, went into the game and all my DLC's are there, and I can play the new countries I just installed. What a relief. Setting up a game was still pretty laggy though and eventually got an error

[Thomkal]

Starting to see the first Let's plays for one civ-like game I've been keeping an eye on. Humankind pop up on you-tube. Assume the usual suspects will be playing it too. Also keeping an eye out on The Old World which is in Early access over at Epic

[Ksyrup]

I saw an article a day or three ago that speculated Civ VII may be in the works based on a Firaxis ad looking for a narrative lead with knowledge and passion for world history that basically hit on all of the expected experience and duties you'd expect for someone who would lead a Civ VII production. Seems like it's about time.

Personally, I did not enjoy or get into Civ VI at all. In fact, I just recently went back to Civ V for the first time in a while. It's nearly perfect.

[Coffee Warlord]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Personally, I did not enjoy or get into Civ VI at all. In fact, I just recently went back to Civ V for the first time in a while. It's nearly perfect.

Same boat. Neither me nor my wife (who played the shit out of the last couple Civs) could get into 6. We both went back to 5.

[RendeR]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Personally, I did not enjoy or get into Civ VI at all. In fact, I just recently went back to Civ V for the first time in a while. It's nearly perfect.

Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

Same boat. Neither me nor my wife (who played the shit out of the last couple Civs) could get into 6. We both went back to 5.

Ditto, I just can't make the shift. CIV 6 bores me to tears.

[Bobble]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Personally, I did not enjoy or get into Civ VI at all. In fact, I just recently went back to Civ V for the first time in a while. It's nearly perfect.

Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

Same boat. Neither me nor my wife (who played the shit out of the last couple Civs) could get into 6. We both went back to 5.

Originally Posted by RendeR

Ditto, I just can't make the shift. CIV 6 bores me to tears.

Tritto. I can't quite place my finger on it but can't dig CIV 6. Too abstract? Too simplified? I dunno. Neither of those criticisms seems to land when you look at Civ games as a whole.

[Edward64]

There are 2 things I don't like about Civ 6.

The religion aspect and not able to really turn it off. And the late game Civ seems to rushed (can't enjoy my modern military). But all the Civs suffered from the latter. But enjoying the game especially the early game.

It's scary to think I've been playing since the original Civ.

[Vince, Pt. II]

I actually really enjoy Civ 6, but I agree that Religion is tedious as hell.

[Coffee Warlord]

Know what completely weird thing just drove me nuts from day 1? The fog of war map. I utterly hated it.

[Ksyrup]

Totally agree!

[Edward64]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I saw an article a day or three ago that speculated Civ VII may be in the works based on a Firaxis ad looking for a narrative lead with knowledge and passion for world history that basically hit on all of the expected experience and duties you'd expect for someone who would lead a Civ VII production. Seems like it's about time.

Personally, I did not enjoy or get into Civ VI at all. In fact, I just recently went back to Civ V for the first time in a while. It's nearly perfect.

I saw that article. But doesn't that mean Civ 7 is about 3 years away?

[Butter]

Anybody playing HUMANKIND?

How is it?

[Vince, Pt. II]

Most reviews I've read have been fairly complimentary, most actual people I know who have commented on it were quite disappointed.

[bhlloy]

It’s definitely not anything like Civ, if you go in with a different expectation and appreciate games like Northgard and Endless Legend you might like it. But even with those concerns aside I don’t think anyone agrees it’s a polished $50 or $60 game at the moment.

[Edward64]

Been playing Civ 6 this past week with the Zombie Apocalypse on. Pretty much had the horde under control until 1400 or so. Then all of a sudden a ton (like 8 of them and then another 6 or so popped up) of them appeared out of no where and started attacking my cities.

Put up a valiant effort with my musket men, archers, cannon etc. but that city fell. I hate this crap. They must have been the WWZ kind because they overcame my Renaissance walls.

[NobodyHere]

Anyone still fire this game up? I do every once in a while.

[Edward64]

I do.

But time for some new content/mechanics vs just new leaders

[Fidatelo]

I still play, but I'm terrible at it. I usually play the first 150 turns or so until it becomes clear that I am falling behind and then restart with a new civ

[Edward64]

I generally play as Greece, China or Japan. I guess that's why I don't really like the Leaders DLCs that much.

I did play the zombie mode some. Enjoyed the early games but haven't beaten that yet. Too frustrating when multiple zombie units just pop out of nowhere right beside your city.

[Izulde]

This got me to install and fire up Civ V. Having a fun run as the Egyptians. I had more Civ V DLC than I realized. Was still missing some of them (including the Brave New World major expansion), but was able to pick up the ones I didn't have in a bundle for just $3.21, which was pretty exciting.

Didn't like the look of Civ VI - too cartoony and trying for humor, and given all the complaints on Steam and here in this thread, I'm fine sticking with V

[Ksyrup]

I still spend hours a week playing Civ IV: Colonization - at least, the user modded version We the People. Although I played the shit out of the original early 90s Colonization, I hated Civ IV: Colonization until I ran across a couple of mods at least a decade later, and I'm still playing it. It looks like an update is being worked on by a bunch of the mod team that I hope will be released in the next 6 months.

Between the original Colonization and the modded new version, that's my favorite game of all time. I'll occasionally fire up Civ V but I always go back to We the People.

[Edward64]

I admire you guys continuing to play the older versions. I've always had to make the jump. Too many pretty stuff and goodies.

I'm estimating I'll be on Civ 8 when I die.

[Carman Bulldog]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I still spend hours a week playing Civ IV: Colonization - at least, the user modded version We the People. Although I played the shit out of the original early 90s Colonization, I hated Civ IV: Colonization until I ran across a couple of mods at least a decade later, and I'm still playing it. It looks like an update is being worked on by a bunch of the mod team that I hope will be released in the next 6 months.

Between the original Colonization and the modded new version, that's my favorite game of all time. I'll occasionally fire up Civ V but I always go back to We the People.

So I loved the original 90s Colonization. Also one of my favourite games of all-time and I probably played it an equal amount compared to the original Civ. Likewise, I could take or leave the Civ IV upgrade. I had heard great things about We The People but there was almost a little too much new content when I first fired it up, such as resources, buildings, professions, etc. Maybe I gave up on it too quickly.