Civilization VI

Panos · 21 Oct 2016 at 22:57

Yulaw said:
Them performance figures cant be right.

For ref im using a 980ti at 1920x1080 and have to manual lock the fps at 144 in afterburner to stop the card screaming.

Indeed. 2560χ1440, everything maxed out, and doesn't drop bellow 100fps with 1080 at stock speeds.

mark43 · 21 Oct 2016 at 23:21

No1newts said:
Pretty good initial impression but the amount of barbarians at the start is pretty hefty, it makes me feel like the game is forcing me to go down military routes.

I think I quite like the extra challenge from the barbarians early on. With Civ V I rarely started wars early on so wouldn't do much combat at that stage, so this gives me a bit of that to be going on with. I also used to slack with my army at this stage and just hope I didnt get attacked, but this gives me something else I have to concentrate on.

Efour · 22 Oct 2016 at 00:45

im runnign a 1070 and dont get anywhere near 100 in the benchmark more like 80 ?

What are you measuring with ? ill try that.

No1newts · 22 Oct 2016 at 01:15

ALso finding Civs seem a lot more keen to jump you than in previous additions, or maybe I'm just wearing rose tinted specs

xaldub · 22 Oct 2016 at 01:40

My first game .... the first civ I meet is Gandhi .... and shortly after, my first war is with Gandhi. I guess some things never change in Civ

itchy · 22 Oct 2016 at 05:23

Played about 6 hours today......

Far too much war and battles, it needs toning down and the huge map is not so huge!

Also loading times are a little slow.

Mr Jack · 22 Oct 2016 at 07:29

Turn time seems to have improved but it still takes a long time to load. I guess some of that is modibility but, still, it would nice if they'd sped that up a bit.

Overall, really pleased so far. The game looks great, the new Civic/government stuff gives a lot of customization and depth. It seems hard to get enough production in cities, though; the Tribal Villages seem very random in how good they are. Getting an early game relic is huge.

My first game I got utterly stomped on King by failing to build enough armies and walls. The second game I played on Prince but after realising the value of walls I think I'd play on a higher setting next time. Cities are so much squishier compared to Civ V it's going to take some getting used to. And Barbarians are much more of a threat.

Egon · 22 Oct 2016 at 08:12

Can't believe I missed the launch of this and missed out on the early access prices. No way I'm paying £39 for any game which seems to be the cheapest I can find it.

Teaf · 22 Oct 2016 at 08:27

I've had to turn off Barbarians for now, it's like Civ 5's raging barbarians is always on and then some. This is turn 16!

speeduk · 22 Oct 2016 at 08:34

I'm managing the barbs ok so far maybe I'm lucky lol...

PlacidCasual · 22 Oct 2016 at 08:48

I would just like to share that "I hate you all".

Amazon so called Prime next day delivery has failed once again and the only Civ 6 action I'm getting is reading your posts. Gutted.

mark43 · 22 Oct 2016 at 08:51

Gutted for you.

Hope it turns up soon.

No1newts · 22 Oct 2016 at 09:07

How are people starting campaigns?

I'm finding it much slower going than in others to get my cuties up to speed (especially production wise) and with the ridiculously aggressive barbarian AI and civ AI if I'm not spending everything on troops I'm going backward.

But frustrating

PlacidCasual · 22 Oct 2016 at 09:20

mark43 said:
Gutted for you.

Hope it turns up soon.

Thx, me too.

Efour · 22 Oct 2016 at 09:38

The amount of preplanning when building a city now is so high.

To try and unlearn basically all you know about civ 5 city placement I'm finding so hard.

The prerequisites for building wonders is another boggling list that will be needed to learn in the coming months.

Combat is harsh. I've taken 1 NPC city and it was brutal compared to civ 5.

The new movement costs make the game so slow..... Good or bad? Not sure...yet

I hate the diplomatic screen

More to come....

Teaf · 22 Oct 2016 at 09:49

No1newts said:
How are people starting campaigns?

I'm finding it much slower going than in others to get my cuties up to speed (especially production wise) and with the ridiculously aggressive barbarian AI and civ AI if I'm not spending everything on troops I'm going backward.

But frustrating

Yeah you need production immediately or the city is just going to be doomed. The difference between having only a couple of production vs. starting next to two forests and something like diamonds (+3 hammers) is staggering. Like Warriors in 2-3 turns rather than 8-10.

Tombstone · 22 Oct 2016 at 10:09

I think my only complaint at this point is that even the largest map is still too small. Huge really isnt all that big at all, I want an enormous map , which I can have 20 civs on , without them all being plonked on top of each other. So far, even on huge, and even with only 8 civs you still end up all cramped together from the get go.

No1newts · 22 Oct 2016 at 10:09

Tombstone said:
I think my only complaint at this point is that even the largest map is still too small. Huge really isnt all that big at all, I want an enormous map , which I can have 20 civs on , without them all being plonked on top of each other. So far, even on huge, and even with only 8 civs you still end up all cramped together from the get go.

I noticed this.

Is huge smaller than civ 5?

Tombstone · 22 Oct 2016 at 10:34

No1newts said:
I noticed this.

Is huge smaller than civ 5?

Certainly feels like it but to be fair in Civ5 I used to play on the "yet another giant earth map"'s and those were indeed huge

Arthur Hucksake · 22 Oct 2016 at 10:50

I put a silly amount of hours into Civ 5. This is the one that might tempt me back to a PC game.