Summer is over, and we already got your the first autumn GOTM for Civ5: This time you are playing as Ahmad Al-Mansur of Morocco on a standard size Skirmish map on King difficulty. Your main challenge is to beat the game as fast as possible with a science victory, and to not let any over civ win another victory first. You got until October 20 to tackle this challenge. For more information and the savegame please check our thread here.
Sara has given us today again new information for the next patch and the Right To Rule DLC!
For the DLC, we got more informaton about Silla: They are an economic and diplomatic civ, who get more culture from resources. Their unique infrastructure is also geared towards resources and culture. For the exact details please watch the video or check our thread here.
For the base game patch, the devs explain how they tackle the map generation by completely changing the underlying algorithm. The animations indeed show that this could be interesting. If you want to discuss the new map generation with us, then join us here.
Today we got a first look for another leader from the upcoming second part of the Right To Rule DLC: Lakshmibai, an Indian resistance leader. She is a militaristic and diplomatic ruler, and prefers civs with low influence onto her. She gets additional influence while incorporating city states and all their units when it is incorporated. She gets also influence for defeated units.
And as a side note: It seems the Ottomans are hinted at in the trailer.
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Sara came gain by today, to tell us that the next update, 1.2.5, will be coming soon! It seems we will be getting 2 new map scripts, Napoleon will get rebalanced and new city states will be included. Part 2 of the Right to Rule DLC will also be released, with Lakshmibai, Silla, and Qajar.
For the discussion please check here.
Jennier Walden from “A Sound Effect” has interviewed the Firaxis sound team (incl. Geoff Knorr and Roland Rizzo) about their work for Civ7, in the article called “Designing Sound for the Centuries in ‘Civilization VII’ – with the Firaxis Sound Team”.
They talk about the sound effects which were necessary for the user interface, that extra sound variations are necessary for often repeating actions such like moving units, balancing how big vs small military units sound, and more.
An excerpt:
Scouts involved some fun sound designing. I started work on the Scout Dog a while back and shared it with the wider team, and a member from the Unit’s team, Erika Ward, asked if we could record her dog. Her dog Kaiya Bear Gilchrist was trained to bark on command, so we got her in our foley room and proceeded with a pretty fun recording session. In the game credits, we made sure to include Kaiya’s excellent voice acting work!
You can read the full article here, and discuss it with us here.
If you got Amazon Prime, then you can currently get the Civ4: Complete Edition for free. This offer is valid until December 3. The version which you get on Prime is a key for GOG.com, meaning you do not have to use Prime to play Civ4, and Civ4 will be available for you also after December 3.
If you want to discuss this offer with us, then join us here.
Blake has found another game, which surely will be of interest for the CivFanatics: “1492 – Colonization of the New World”.
As you can expect from the title, the setting and what you know about a title called “Colonization”, this is a turn-based 4X game, where you need to settle the new world. The graphics are a neat 2D style, which certainly gives us some Civ/Col feelings. You can play with 8 civs though, and it seems that independence from the homeland is not the only victory condition.
The release is expected later this year.
If you want to discuss “1492 – Colonization of the New World”, then check our thread here.
It seems that today various personnel at Firaxis got layed off, mostly junior staff members. This got also confirmed by 2K, and is the 3rd round of layoffs this year already. This comes despite that the 2K CEO recently claimed that Civ7 is still on track for its expected revenue. For more information please read this news article, and discuss with us here.