To most people’s dismay, it has been revealed that Civ7 will be using the much hated Denuvo DRM solution. For more information please check this thread.
Civ7 now includes Denuvo
The sound of Civ7 – what we know
While mechanics and graphics are important, also the sound of a Civ game are not unimportant either, which we know at least since Christopher Tin won a grammy for the Civ4 theme song. And everyone loved Leonard Nimoy for the tech quotes too.
For Civ7, we get Gwendoline Christie from Game Of Thrones, which has been welcome by the community so far (see thread).
For the Civ7 theme song we get again a composition from Christopher Tin, although we don’t know anything else (see thread).
It also seems that for a big part of the Civ7 soundtrack Geoff Knorr will be again responsible, who made some excellent pieces for Civ5 and Civ6. He is the lead composer and producer, as he confirmed to our member Guandao (see thread).
Civilization VII – Firaxis Developer Panel (PAX West – 8/31 @ 11AM PT)
A part of the Civ dev team (Ed Beach, Dennis Shirk, Jason Johnson as well as regular forum resident Andrew Johnson) will be part of the Civ7 developer panel during this year’s PAX West, on Saturday at 11 AM Pacific time (2 PM Eastern time, 8 PM CET).
The dev panel will be streamed on the PAX Twitch channel, and you can surely also follow the discussion here.
PolyCast 438: Something to Believe In [Part 1]
The four-hundred-and-thirty-eighth episode of PolyCast, “Something to Believe In [Part 1]“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:
News
– 00h01m43s | The Death of the 2K Launcher
– 00h04m24s | August Challenge of the Month: Rotating Redux
– 00h09m52s | Civilization VII Gameplay Reveal
– 00h11m22s | Ages
– 00h20m47s | Crisis
– 00h30m21s | Leaders
– 00h44m00s | Civics, Technologies, and Governments
– 00h52m27s | Diplomacy
NOTE: This Episode was recorded on August 24, 2024.
PolyCast is a bi-weekly audio production recording live every other Saturday at 12 Noon US Eastern Time throughout the year, in an ongoing effort to give the Civilization community an interactive voice.
Come join us to discuss this episode with us here.
Civilization 7 – the wonders
Our member Henrique3d has made an overview over all the Civ7 wonders! There are quite many, and the look great too! For a high-resolution version of the image, and the discussion, please check here.
Current sales: Civ4, Civ5, Civ6 and Millennia
There are currently various Steam sales going on, most likely due to the recent Civ7 info.
Civ4 is currently discounted by 85%.
Civ5 is currently discounted by 75%.
Civ6 is currently discounted by 90%.
Millennia is currently discounted by 50% (see also thread here).
Tropico 4 – currently free on GOG (until August 29 … or so)
In case you want to play as a small-scale dictator before Civ7 gets around, you now have the option with Tropico 4!
The island dictatorship simulator is currently for free, for another 1 days and 15h from the time of this post.
Get it here, and discuss it with us here.
Civ6: Short online downtime August 27
The Firaxis community manager Gilgamesch has noted today in the forum that tomorrow (August 27), the Civ6 online services (presumably multiplayer and potentially mod workshop) will be shortly offline (2h).
For more info please see this thread.
EDIT: The downtime is over.