No shit. As soon as you get a lead all the AIs vote against you and you lose 3 points.
As for Gathering Storm, the rising seas mechanic is rendered moot by the ridiculously cheap Flood Barriers. Enjoy your +6 Appeal Seaside Resort… looking at a giant steel wall that would make Trump envious.
I agree. It would make building in low lying areas a more interesting decision gaining the immediate benefits with the relisatioin that climate change will flood it.
With the 2K publisher sale on Steam right now, and the Civ VI Platinum edition bundle included, I finally latched onto it to get the last two DLC at the best discount yet (the power of bundles!). It was like buying Gathering Storm on sale and getting Rise and Fall for free! Yay for me!
Now I finally get to play as Canada and my Civ VI experience will be complete.
Enjoy playing the face of the Canadian $5 bill. The Mounties were an obvious choice for the Canadian unique unit, but I didn’t find any use for it other than for just having it around (and getting era points for making one).
I’m still having fun with Gathering Storm. My current game is playing on King with Eleanor of Aquitaine leading France. Her leader ability is just ridiculous. I just wiped out the entire Aztec empire with some oil paintings.
So here’s a dumb question:
Anyone else play Civ VI with advisor option still on just because the advisor’s voice is incredibly alluring and (dare I say) kind of sexy?
I mean, I have no idea what accent that is, other than it’s vaguely British (but I’m not sure what region) but yeah. Her voice is AMAZING.
Okay. So I am not the only one.
The voice actor for the advisor is an actress named Natasha Loring who was born in South Africa but spent a lot of time in London as well and also America. So it’s a mix of all those. An intoxicating mix of all those… :)
JD
3824
Now with Battle^^^^^^ Frontier Pass.
KevinC
3825
40 bucks? Yeesh, that seems steep.
They really keep going back to the well on this 4-year old game! Not that it’s the worst Civ game ever or anything. But it’s not the best one either…
Diego
Changing their business model of two major expansions before moving on to the next iteration of the series.
Yeah I never really warmed to it the way I did with previous games.
That’s gonna be a nope from me.
I have the same feeling. More leaders!!! I don’t think I need anymore.
paradox has been doing this shit for years…its their bloody business model
thats wlhy I don’t buy paradox anymore and why I won’t be buying this crap either
I finally gave in and bought it when it was on sale for $40 for “everything”. Now everything isn’t everything, and I played it for about an hour before I got bored and went back to Civ 4. Not the best $40 I’ve ever spent, I certainly won’t be buying a pass.
Nor will I buy Civ 7 unless folks seem a lot more positive on it. I held out like I said I would until it was super cheap and it won’t even be hard to not buy next time. Oh well, Civ 4 is still so good that I can’t be mad about it. Just sad.
rho21
3833
Yeah, can’t say as there’s much value to me in a civ game without an AI that can at least compete. Except when playing multiplayer, where Civ VI is pretty enjoyable. I haven’t bothered with the expansions.
Old World is on the way now though, which looks as though it might finally surpass Civ IV. I’m certainly hearing good things about the AI.
This Civ is too boardgamey - and I like boardgames. The hooks just aren’t that deep, and my experience with the district system just wasn’t very pleasant. As a life-long Civ player, I greatly preferred Civ5 and Civ4 before it
Forget compete, I’m not even sure if it’s possible for the AI to win (outside a first 40 turn rush).
Once you get walls, I swear you could go inactive and just keep pounding the End Turn button and the AI would never win. It just doesn’t know how to trigger the victory conditions. Religious victory gets clogged up in traffic jam. Cultural is too convoluted for it to pull off. Diplomatic is a joke with negative effects. Even the straight forward scientific seems beyond it for some reason (it just sits there never completing the last 2 stages no matter how much of a lead it has).
KevinC
3836
The bad news for me with this announcement is that Firaxis (as far as I’m aware) has still held off on releasing all the modding tools. With Civ5, they similarly held off until they were done with DLC. I think that’s a terribly shortsighted way to look at mods, but at least they eventually released them. And modders addressed many of the issues I had with the Civ5 AI. Vox Populi was the first time I was actually able to really enjoy that game.
With the announcement of the season pass, the full mod tools are probably a year further out. That is assuming they ever arrive this time. It’s just too bad, because Civ4 had some fantastic mods like Fall From Heaven and Dune and others. Civ5 eventually got some good mods going but I always wonder what the modding scene would have been like if the community had full access from the start.
It’s a shame. I think Civ6 had some interesting concepts but Firaxis never put in the work to really make them work and everyone is probably sick of hearing about the AI woes. It’s frustrating enough for Firaxis refuse to address these things on their own, but if they opened up access for mods like they have in previous games then there’s at least a chance the modding community could do the work for them.
Civ6 was a reach for me, in terms of picking it up. Civ5 was a pretty big disappointment, but this series has a ton of inertia behind it for me. It’s one of those classic series that made me fall in love with strategy games when I was younger. I feel similarly to @Outlandish, I don’t see me picking up Civ7 unless I feel confident that they’ve turned this ship around.
