Civilization VI

Defiant306 · 9 Oct 2016 at 21:32

Panos said:
And which patch that might be? Because I was playing the game and DLCs from release all way to today, and never had an issue.
it even supported 3d Nvision making it standing out, while I had the old XL2410T.

TBF I couldn't even tell you now as its been so long, all I remember is losing large amounts of time because they patched the game numerous times and it stopped working. Their forums were littered with people complaining for years about them ****in about with the game and breaking it for some people each time.

Seriously it got to the point were I tried everything, OS reinstall, game reinstall, registry edits and so on and so on. I've never had a brutal edge PC spec but I had a fairly run of the mill middle spec set of hardware so it wasn't like I even ran custom hardware that they didn't support.

BE had some issues, admittedly not as much as Civ 5 thankfully. It was though lacklustre in its design and feature. I have modded the crap out of the game to give it a bit more interest. Mind you Civ 5 did become better as well with mods.

I like... no love Civ games, but I wont buy at the start any longer. 6-12 months before I do this time to see how this one pans out.

Played time:
Civ 5: 1875 Hours
Civ BE: 196 Hours

Efour · 9 Oct 2016 at 22:21

By pure luck i took the 21st off for a long weekend....
Now all plans have been cancelled and me and the GF are playing CIV 6 lol life is sad!

Tombstone · 9 Oct 2016 at 22:53

Efour said:
By pure luck i took the 21st off for a long weekend....
Now all plans have been cancelled and me and the GF are playing CIV 6 lol life is sad!

Lol, yup, both the missus and I are excited to start our multiplayer CIV 6 on the 21st too. Sadly, work is sending me off for a few weeks the day after, so we will hit it hard on the 21st and then hard again when I return from abroad.

Defiant306 · 10 Oct 2016 at 08:31

Very rare to find couples who love Civilization games, I'm very jealous!

Vimes · 10 Oct 2016 at 09:03

^^^^^^ i would need to play Township if I wanted to share a game with my wife, no thanks

Teaf · 11 Oct 2016 at 08:03

Some Low vs. Ultra graphics comparisons from Reddit below. Other than the lack of shadows and some blur on the texture it's not a huge difference, at least from these shots. The strategic overview looks fantastic though:

Strategic Overview

Low vs. Ultra

Sargatanas2511 · 11 Oct 2016 at 08:34

Looks good but with the price tag and the season pass involved I'm still not sold. I will wait and see how this pans out for a week or 2 after launch I think.

Vimes · 11 Oct 2016 at 08:53

Strategic view looks much better than it did in Civ V - might find this one both useful and good to look at.....!

I suppose it depends on the performance hit for shadows, although I can imagine that CPU power will decide end turn times more than graphics. especially during the late game.

Tombstone · 11 Oct 2016 at 10:36

Love the look of the strategic view, looks very crisp and clean.

NeoWave · 11 Oct 2016 at 11:06

Vimes said:
Strategic view looks much better than it did in Civ V - might find this one both useful and good to look at.....!.

You still can beat being able to draw arrows and drop sign posts.

Teaf · 11 Oct 2016 at 17:49

Saw on reddit earlier that the brightness of the textures (or just the game in general) will get more bright or dark depending on the time of day it is on the built in day/night cycle so it's not always as luminous as we see in most of the screenshots.

https://youtu.be/exVngw7BhGM?t=12m42s

NeoWave · 12 Oct 2016 at 15:27

First look at Greece's second Leader, Gorgo - boom! Did not see that coming! Great news! I'm officially on the hype train now

(though still won't buy it until the sales & after the reviews are in

).

Lizzy for England! Augustus for Rome!

Teaf · 12 Oct 2016 at 16:10

Yeah, I think it was either going to be Sparta and Greece separately or two leaders for Greece. It's great though, the community will hopefully be able to release leader mods rather than full Civ mods, and Firaxis will be able to release more leaders for Civilizations already in the game... although hopefully not stupidly priced.

Mak3R · 12 Oct 2016 at 16:26

The urge to book some days off work for a Civ 6 spree are growing!

Tombstone · 12 Oct 2016 at 16:26

Curious ! Wonder why Greece gets 2 leaders.

Mr Jack · 12 Oct 2016 at 16:36

Farious said:
First look at Greece's second Leader, Gorgo - boom!

So, er, what actually is her leader ability? The video seems to be silent in the bit it should be telling us?

scritchyrat · 12 Oct 2016 at 17:53

Basically she's Montezuma from Civ V. Every kill generates culture. Still gets the usual Greek stuff, same as Pericles. Capitol is changed to Sparta though and the colours are different.

Strong rumours that Isabella will be the second Spanish leader and will be available in future DLC.

Radec · 12 Oct 2016 at 18:02

Where is everyone buying this from? Cheapest place around launch?
Think I'll end up buying this for a friend.

Panos · 13 Oct 2016 at 13:10

Is damn shame 5 games/dlcs coming out all next week.
Fallout 4 dlc (possibly)
Skyrim remastered
Stellaris big change patch and dlc
TW Warhammer Goblin & Dwarves DLC (with campaign)
Civ 6

Not enough time to play all

Tombstone · 13 Oct 2016 at 13:16

Panos said:
Is damn shame 5 games/dlcs coming out all next week.
Fallout 4 dlc (possibly)
Skyrim remastered
Stellaris big change patch and dlc
TW Warhammer Goblin & Dwarves DLC (with campaign)
Civ 6

Not enough time to play all

6 if you include Battlefield 1