As the next update is coming on March 25, Firaxis has organized a life stream the day before, on March 24 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 5PM GMT / 6PM CET on the Firaxis Games Twitch Channel or the Civilization YouTube Channel. They plan to showcase some of the new features, like Quick Move, Settlement & Commander Renaming, a new Restart button, and more. The live stream will also include one of the next DLC civs, Bulgaria. For more information, please check our thread here.
Thanks to the success and popularity of the recent Fallout TV show many fallout players are returning to their favourite Fallout game. However what if you wanted to play a 4X turn based strategy game set in the Fallout universe? Well fear not, CivFanatics and the Civilization series has you covered! 🙂
While there are no Fallout mods for Civ2 per se, there are plenty of similar Apocalyptic wasteland scenarios that many of which can be found here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/scenario-hunt.657278/
However the best ones are for good old Civ3 where Thorgrimm created the truly remarkable Fallout The Rebirth of Civilization total conversion scenario based on the earlier Fallout games. Then Sudo007Â took Thorgrimm’s work and created a Fallout Liberty scenario based on Fallout 3. Both suffered some frustrating bugs however in 2024 Fallible_Fiend patched both scenarios with bug fixes and new features.
Fallout Rebirth: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/fallout-the-rebirth-of-civilization.199196/
Fallout Liberty: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/fallout-liberty.540161/
Then for Civ4 there is also the excellent Fallout Tame The Waste total conversion mod which is sadly no longer worked on but is fully playable.
Fallout Tame The Waste: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/data-disk-mod-download-links.542324/
Civ5 fans might find Sasquatch’s Fallout Civs & Components collection and Ghost Toast’s WIP Project Aftermath mod interesting..
Fallout Civs & Components: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=548525084
Project Aftermath: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/project-aftermath.677099/
While several Civ6 mods have been proposed sadly there is no complete Fallout mod we know of. Civ6 does come with a rather fun post apocalyptic Red Death mode though. Red Death assets could be used in a project such as DirtyCarie’s unfinished Fallout 4 Commonwealth mod.
Red Death Mode: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/red-death.649574/
Fallout 4 Commonwealth: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/fallout-mod.650381/
Give them a try!
Last week the latest patch for Ara: History Untold was released, bringing the game to version 1.3. This patch comes with new diplomacy features to the game. You can now bribe your opponents, demand tribute or send military aid, and you get also some better overview features for the diplomacy. Oh, and you get nukes! The patch also brings changes to the gameplay, UI, and more. You can find the patch notes either here on Steam or directly in our thread.
For the people who’s love for nukes is triggering another look at the game, you can now also get it cheaper! Right now it’s spring sale time (or it seems so), and Ara is 50% off, with the base edition costing only 29.99. All other version are on sale too, all until March 20. You can check the prices and all other info here on Steam, and you can discuss this sale with us here.
We got 2 news articles for you today.
In the first news article in Ars Technica Dennis Shirk talks about the current state of the game, that they are aware that the interface is lacking, their decision to hire sukritact, the challenges with making everything work also on the different consoles, and the necessity to keep tweaking and balancing the game further. You can read the article here, and discuss it with us here.
In the second article, from the Oklahoma Gazette, the devs talk about the challenges to get a voice actor for Tecumseh, how the voice actor Dillon Dean took this as a chance to investigate his native roots, and Chief Barnes explains that such projects are important to keep the language of the Shawnee alive. You can read the article here and discuss it with us here.
Civ7 has received today another patch, which ONLY affects the PS5 version. The only (but important) change is that it adds stability improvement and collects more metrics to help with that. If you want to discuss this patch, please check here.
The modding is continuing in Civ7. If you’re interested in the most essential mods, you can head to our modding section for released mods, or you can have a look at the list of essential mods which our user BrianKindly has compiled.
A few of the mods we have are special, and deserve some additional highlighting:
This is only a selection, and many of the other mods might also appeal to you, so please check the forum or the list of essential mods :).
The next “Game Of The Month” for Civ4 is again available. Don’t only beat the AI, beat also the highscore of all other CivFanatics by starting with the same savegame and making the best out of it!
This time you play as Ashoka of India on a standard size Tectonic map on Emperor level. No other specific conditions are enabled, you can even pick your own way to win this GOTM. The deadline is April 15. For more info please look here.
Some of our users have tracked down the old Alpha Centauri wallpapers, and we have created an image gallery here to preserve them. If you want to comment anything about the wallpapers, then please do this here.