They are a people’s choice award for games, and Civ7 obviously must be in there! You can vote for our favourite game in the categories of best trailer, and most wanted! For the trailer, Civ7 is up against interesting trailers like the one for Kingmaker, and for most wanted against GTA 6, the next Mafia, the next Fable, the next Assassins Creed and some more tough competitors. So… your vote counts! You can vote on the GamesRadar website here, and join us for the discussion here.
“Priscilla looked at my Steam account the other day and she’s like, ‘What?! You’ve played this for more than a thousand hours.” Zuckerberg said. “In terms of strategy games, the one that I’m more likely to want to be the best in the world at is Civilization.”
“I think at some point, I should do, like, a Twitch stream of me playing with someone because I’m pretty convinced that I’m close to grandmaster status. I’d be surprised if anyone in the world could beat me at that.”
Do we want to see this? Will PotatoMcWhiskey have some good tips for him? Will he beat the Carlbarian? Possibilities over possibilities!
Today Firaxis did the live stream about Tecumseh and the Shawnee civ, which gave a lot of interesting background information. On the live stream Chief Barnes from the Shawnee was present, as well as a langauge specialist of the Shawnee nation. They talked about how Firaxis developed the Shawnee nation, and how cultural aspects got taken into account. Aspects of cultures also get translated into the game, as e.g. natural features will be given names of the discovering nation, therefore in the live stream all rivers had Shawnee names.
On the gameplay side, Firaxis introduced the advanced start, which you can utilize to directly start in the exploration and modern age. The advanced start works a bit like in previous civ games: A part of the map is revealed, and you can invest points into getting more units, cities, and other features. Details can be found at 46 minutes in the Youtube stream.
Inspired by the recent success story of Manor Lords (after the trials and tribulations of it’s sole developer) the developer behind the abandoned Civ and Ara like 4X game called BOC: Birth of Cultures (formerly Birth of Civilizations) has decided to return to the project and is working with an interested publisher on finishing the game. The game is broadly a 4X game, with a bit longer time range than the Civ games, starting after the ice age already. Your civs will also be evolving, but it is not mentioned if it is similar to Civ7 or Humankind. BOC has currently an early access version available, in case you need another 4X fix until Civ7. In case you want to discuss the game, please check here.
Civilization 7 will come with a lot of graphical diversity, which is obvious from the scenes we have seen so far. Our member JNR13 has put together an overview over which antiquity buidlings we have seen so far, including their graphical variations. For a high-res version of the graphic, please check our thread here.
The Civ3 GOTM team has come up with new challenges for you for the quarterly Civ3 GOTM!
In the GOTM for “Play The World”, you play as Tokugawa of the Japanese on a normal size continents map with a cool climate and sedentary barbarians. The difficulty level is deity. There are some custom rules in this game, as you e.g. start with an extra worker. You get until December 31 to finish this challenge. You can find the download and all other info here.
In the GOTM for the addon “Conquests” you play as the Arabs on a normal size continents map with otherwise standard settings on Regent difficulty. The custom modifications will make it not easy though. Also here the deadline is December 31. For the download and all other info please check here.
As the title says, Old World, as well as addons are currently 50% off. The main game costs 19.99, the whole bundle with addons for 47.19. This currently seems to be only the case in the Steam store, https://store.steampowered.com/app/597180/Old_World , but we are waiting for confirmation by the developers if this will also apply to GOG and the Epic store. Please check for updates in this thread.
Today we got a first look of Tecumseh! He is diplomatic and militaristic, with a starting bias for grassland and plains. He is getting food and production bonuses as well as military strength bonuses for every city state you are suzerain of. For the discussion about Tecumseh please check this thread.
Also today we got an article by APNews, called “Civilization 7 makers work with Shawnee to bring sincere representation of the tribe to the game“. In this article it is described how Firaxis approached the Shawnee about the inclusion of them in Civ7, and all the thoughts and challenges which this included. Which might have been also helped by the fact that Shawnee Chief Ben Barnes is a fan of the game Alpha Centauri. For the discussion of this article please check here.
