7 new screenshots and more information emerges from GDC (8th March 2012)

apocalypse105 · Mar 8, 2012

Camikaze said:
Actually, it's probably aimed at guys who want a bit of eye candy (and apparently think Civ5 is the place to get that...?). Feminists wouldn't be too happy about a potentially objectifying piece of art.

Yeah especially how catherine acts in the game :rolleyes:

guczy · Mar 8, 2012

Camikaze said:
Actually, it's probably aimed at guys who want a bit of eye candy (and apparently think Civ5 is the place to get that...?). Feminists wouldn't be too happy about a potentially objectifying piece of art.

I know, but i rather blame the feminists

cuc · Mar 8, 2012

Also from the Desktop Review article:

the Ancestor Worship pantheon, which granted +1 culture for every shrine in your civilization.

This means Shrine is a new early game building, and Ancestor Worship is another pantheon.

Also, I haven't seen anyone point it out, but the Great Prophet screenshot indicates that pantheons have religion icons too - the icon in the screenshot is a thunderbolt, which probably is for a sky father / rain and weather god.

Camikaze · Mar 8, 2012

Could it be a great person tile improvement, seeing as we know the Great Prophet is in?

anandus · Mar 8, 2012

cuc said:
Also, I haven't seen anyone point it out, but the Great Prophet screenshot indicates that pantheons have religion icons too - the icon in the screenshot is a thunderbolt, which probably is for a sky father / rain and weather god.

I believe the thunderbolt is a generic pantheon icon (though I'm not sure, but it has appeared on more screenshots).

Montov · Mar 8, 2012

Tulip fields for the Dutch explaines the gold bonus for that tile. But it would likely be an unique replacer of farms (+1 gold besides current benefits of farms), and not something special only for Marshes as suggested earlier.

Nyanko · Mar 8, 2012

anandus said:
So the Byzantines get Theodora.

Boudecia, Dido, Theodora.
Lot's of ladies. Today must be International Women's Day

Dido looks good in the screenshots. That one was really left from field; when you see Carthage you think Hannibal; not its semi mythical founder.

anandus said:
I'm quite confident the pyramid at Attilla's Court is the terracotta army \

More accurately Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum.

filli_noctus · Mar 8, 2012

anandus said:
I believe the thunderbolt is a generic pantheon icon (though I'm not sure, but it has appeared on more screenshots).

As far as I'm aware it's only been seen on Celtic cities, so it's conceivable that it's done by civ. I think generic or by pantheon belief is more likely though.

cuc · Mar 8, 2012

Camikaze said:
Could it be a great person tile improvement, seeing as we know the Great Prophet is in?

Seems impossible. Great persons are too rare, and the +1 culture bonus too small.

Pantheons are also mainly designed for the early game (Turn 5 - 50). I think it's pretty clear Shrine is the first common faith-generating building (unlike Cathedral, which is a special building).

The culture building line would be:
Monument -> (new building replacing Temple)

While the faith line would be:
Shrine -> Temple -> ...

Nefliqus · Mar 8, 2012

I think that Attila's Court and Hippo Regius are not a city name but buildings built in this cities. You can see it's icons on those screens.

Rob (R8XFT) · Mar 8, 2012

Nefliqus said:
I think that Attila's Court and Hippo Regius are not a city name but buildings built in this cities. You can see it's icons on those screens.

Hippo Regius has been used as a Carthaginian city name in past incarnations of Civ.

filli_noctus · Mar 8, 2012

Is it just me or does the tile south of Dublin look a bit strange?

Nyanko · Mar 8, 2012

filli_noctus said:
Is it just me or does the tile south of Dublin look a bit strange?

Looks like a stone quarry to me

mitsho · Mar 8, 2012

Attila's Court could also be a city from the Fall of Rome scenario, just somehow imported over when they created this screenshot. At least I hope so. The Huns, Firaxis? Really?

I guess each civ needs to have its strange, illogical civ as Civ4 had the Holy Roman Empire with a leader before its time and generic Native Americans...

janboruta · Mar 8, 2012

Looks like a normal quarry for me, only it's shape is adjusted to the coastline.

filli_noctus · Mar 8, 2012

janboruta said:
Looks like a normal quarry for me, only it's shape is adjusted to the coastline.

That would explain it. That and my failing vision.

blackcatatonic · Mar 8, 2012

I don't know if anyone else has spotted this, but in the Great Prophet screen, we can also clearly see Zanzibar as a new City-State (bottom right, underneath the Advisor window)

I'm loving the female leaders!

Camikaze · Mar 8, 2012

filli_noctus said:
Is it just me or does the tile south of Dublin look a bit strange?

What about 1 SE of Attila's Court?

blackcatatonic · Mar 8, 2012

Brichals said:
British get an additional spy? British? New civ or typo?

This worried me, too. I assume it's a typo or an error as if Edinburgh and Cardiff are going to be Celtic cities, the possibility of having a united British Civ is pretty much out of the window.

Also agreed with your comment about the 'World War I Bomber'. Surely it must have a better name than that?

Piruparka · Mar 8, 2012

Maybe England is going to be renamed to Britian in order to clearly distinguish it from the Celts (=Wales/Scotland)? :hide:

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