Firaxis has released the official leader cards for Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln. The former you can see above, whereas the latter you can find in out thread here.
Civilization VI Leader Pass: Official Leader Cards
Firaxis releases Marvel’s Midnight Suns
Today Firaxis released its major new game of the year: Marvel’s Midnight Suns. Midnight Suns is a tactical turn based game, similar to the XCOM franchise, but set in the Marvel universe, featuring various Marvel heroes like Blade or Doctor Strange. The game has so far received extremely good critiques, with 83 points on MetaCritic, so good that even Forbes is reporting about it. Websites rating the game well include IGN, GameInformer and GamesRadar.
Feel free to drop by in our forum and discuss Midnight Suns with us here.
Another news story has also come up: 2K and Firaxis have made it possible to fulfill the wish of a dying fan, to play Midnight Suns before its release. You can read the full story here and discuss with us here.
Ara – History Untold: Dev diaries public, new technical alpha in January
The developers of Ara – History Untold (another hot Civilization contender) have made today two announcements:
- The developer diaries, which have so far only been available for the participants of the insider program, are now freely available
- A new technical alpha-phase will start in January, and they are looking for more participants.
You can read the whole blog post here, which also contains the links to the developer diaries.
And come over to this thread to discuss this game with your fellow civ-fanatics!
Parody (not real): Joe Biden’s leader portrait for Civ7
A fake image, generated by one of the recent AI image generators, is currently highly popular on Twitter (50.000+ likes): A scene displaying Joe Biden in the style of a Civilization leader portrait. This is NOT an image from Civilization VII, which has not been announced, and will certainly not feature Joe Biden.
If you want to discuss this image with us, then check out this thread.
The CivGive2022 charity stream: Civ selection this Saturday
On December 11 we will have the most important Civ6 stream of the year: The CivGive2022, where 12 streamers battle for Civ6 hegemony in a giant online stream, to raise money for GamesOutreachOrg. To already raise money before the event, there are many other events and occassions to donate. One of them is this Saturday, at 3 PM Eastern time (noon Western time, or 21h CET): The Civ draft. You want to know who decides to play with which civ? If they streamers will go for the new Leader Pass leaders? Who might not get his favourite civ? Tune in on Saturday at 3PM on the channel of TheCivShow.
Civilization 6 Leader Pass: Technical issues continue, Great Commanders sneak peak, interview with Ed Beach, and live streams
The current rollout of the Civ6 Leader Pass is still not working perfectly. According to Firaxis the DLC is currently being distributed to all players, but not everyone has received it yet. Please be patient, and report back here.
Within the latest game files we also already found some info for pack #2, the Great Commanders. Want to know about this unreleased information? Check here.
The website wccftech has released an interview with Ed Beach about the Leader Pass. If you’re curious about it’s development, you can read the interview here, and discuss it with us here.
And in case you want to see people playing the DLC while waiting for its rollout, we have a list of streamers here.
Civilization 6 Leader Pass: Great Negotiators pack released
The “Great Negotiators” pack has been released, you can find all the changes here. Right now there are various issues though, including many users reporting that their game has been re-set, and that no DLC is available, or that only the free Julius Caesar is available. Firaxis has already released a new patch, which will hopefulyl fix these issues. You might need to restart Steam and/or your computer, and in case this does not work, then wait for a while, and be patient. Please note that the Leader Pass is for free if you own all the other DLC. It may show up still for buying right now, but this is a bug, please do not buy it, wait for this to be resolved by Firaxis. For progress on the technical issues please check here.
In case you have issues with unlocking Caesar, please have a look at this video.
In case you want to watch some streams until all the issues are fixed, then please have a look here.
Civ6 Leader Pass – Leader Trailer: Nzinga Mbande
Firaxis has now released the last leader trailer for the first pack of the Leader Pass, for the Kongo’s new leader Nzinga Mbande. Want to discuss the implications for the Kongo civilization with us? Come here and join the discussion!
History In Bits has also just released a video about the historical accuracy of the Kongo civ, please see below: