Civilization VI

Teaf · 26 Apr 2017 at 22:59

Still playing here, I do enjoy it and although it's not as good as 5 at the moment in terms of content and gameplay I'm still playing it more than 5 for all those lovely quality of life enhancements. It's worth picking up for £20, but I'm hoping another expansion "fixes" it and I really hope they do something with loading times as they are crazy long past turn 150. I was at a LAN recently and played it there and turn 150 - 180 took as long as 1 - 150 mostly due to loading between turns.

It's an 8/10 game right now.

Wouldn't bother with any DLC unless they are at least 60% off as they are overpriced and don't offer anywhere near enough. Australia are a really nice powerful civilization though and I've been enjoying playing as them.

Andr3w · 27 Apr 2017 at 12:21

Goodie said:
Currently 20 quid on cdkeys... tempted

Very tempted by this - can cdkeys be trusted?

eekfek · 27 Apr 2017 at 14:38

Andr3w said:
Very tempted by this - can cdkeys be trusted?

I've bought tons of games from them, never had an issue with any key received and the delivery is usually instant.

On Holiday · 27 Apr 2017 at 14:59

eekfek said:
I've bought tons of games from them, never had an issue with any key received and the delivery is usually instant.

+1

Buying this now, £20. Can't say no!

Btone · 28 Apr 2017 at 16:42

i find my self playing this less lately, for some reason when i'm playing single player. The AI builds right on my boarder and i mean the city is right on my boarder after passing a number of what would be better spots for a city, which peevs me off as i still have to build 3 titles away. Then i'll end up going to war as it will keep complaining then declare war on me,

Andr3w · 28 Apr 2017 at 19:59

I've bought it for £19.99!

Efour · 28 Apr 2017 at 21:39

Edit for my dumbness

eekfek · 30 Apr 2017 at 21:15

Well 5 hrs played so far and it's pretty good.

My main city is under siege from those damned Barbarians who seem to be able to churn out mounted units at a super fast rate. I just about manage to repel them, heal up my army and it all goes off again which means I'm unable to send my force to destroy their base.

mark43 · 30 Apr 2017 at 21:28

Yeah the barbarians are definitely more of a challenge, generally I like that though, but it can be annoying depending on what else is going on. You can get a couple of nice boosts out of it though, one for killing a few of them and one for getting a kill with a slinger. The scout is what you want to be looking out for, once he discovers your city he'll head back to camp, and at that point they spawn a few units to come get you.

Efour · 30 Apr 2017 at 22:23

Pighardia · 8 Jul 2017 at 10:35

I've just bought this and started a game. A few things -

What the hell have they done to edge scrolling?!... It's bloody annoying now.
My first unit built was a scout. Sent it out when suddenly after a few moves, two barbarian horsemen came out of nowhere and killed it!.. How come barbarians are so much more advanced than you? How did they get horses and spearmen so quickly?!

Jayman · 10 Jul 2017 at 16:30

So whats the verdict on this now, worth getting yet?

shamus21 · 11 Jul 2017 at 07:39

NO a complete rip off.

Sargatanas2511 · 11 Jul 2017 at 09:18

It's nowhere near as good as Civ 5 in my eyes, the AI are just annoying and declare war for no reason consistently.

Mr Jack · 11 Jul 2017 at 09:39

eekfek said:
My main city is under siege from those damned Barbarians who seem to be able to churn out mounted units at a super fast rate. I just about manage to repel them, heal up my army and it all goes off again which means I'm unable to send my force to destroy their base.

Walls are your friend. Once you've built walls simply keep a 1-left builder around for repairs, and simply let the tides of barbarian's dash themselves against your cities.

Also, barbarians only spawn when their scouts find your cities and return to base camp. You can keep them off by preventing the scouts getting close.

MooMoo444 · 11 Jul 2017 at 09:47

Efour said:

I don't know if it's the colours or what but I really can't tell what's going on here. I really don't like the new style.

Pighardia · 15 Jul 2017 at 21:37

Have to say, that whilst I really think the ui is generally atrocious, after getting in to a game I think it is excellent. A few AI missteps, but other than that I like most of the changes, and some of them are a big step forward.

As someone who usually favours a culture victory, I really like the changes to culture. Only things I would change is adding theming bonuses for wonders and making it a bit more transparent. I found it difficult to get great people too. Not in love with the change to that.

Also, really disappointed that they have ruined one-city challenges!

Panos · 17 Jul 2017 at 10:23

Jayman said:
So whats the verdict on this now, worth getting yet?

Nope. Worst CIV game ever. I regret buying it, let alone pre-ordering it

Buying a good tier 8 premium tank for WOT is much better value for money.

CIV 5 with the latest expansion, or BERT if you like future, are far better games.

Also CIV VI doesn't allow any meaningful mods except nations, or cosmetics. Nothing to do with the abysmal AI, which feels a copy from Civ Rev (PS3)

Defiant306 · 30 Jul 2017 at 22:35

So I'm majorly disappointed that after 3/4 of a year the game isn't stable.

I'm running a i7 4770k, 16GB of Ram, GTX 1070 and the game sits on a M.2 drive at a 3.2GBs read/1.5Gbs write drive. It takes an age to load a custom game of the largest map (If it doesn't crash) and I get at most 2-3 turns in before crashes every time. Jesus why of why cant they build ******* stable grrrrr"!£!"%$!%!$%"!£"!$£!"$%!"$!"$%!"%!"£$!"£!"£$!"%^T£$%^^^!%!"£

Done all the usual, no defender, reinstall, rebuild of OS components and integrity check, driver updates and nothing.

They cant build a game for crap

Mr Jack · 31 Jul 2017 at 21:04

Defiant306 said:
They cant build a game for crap

Weird. I've never had a single crash. The load times aren't too bad either; way, way, better than Civ V.