Recent content by Abriael

True, but when you're a gaming journo, you're supposed to be a gamer, and while you can't know every series and mechanic to a T, you should make at least an effort to be competent, as your duty is to give your readers relevant information based on that competency. I honestly don't see that...

I researched both, and the output of Kasbahs didn't change. Edit: just checked the tooltips as well. They make no mention of Kasbah. Of course the build isn't final, so you never know, they may add it come release.

I honestly don't have the slightest idea :D playing the preview code doesn't give you much insight on why some choices have been made. Maybe the global happyness bonus was considered overpowered?

Not all of them. I played (and won with some challenge, especially at the beginning before the snowball started to roll) on Prince. The level of difficulty was the only option not locked in the preview code.

Doesn't happen as far as I've seen while writing my preview, and i researched up to future techs.

Well, this is just my very personal opinion (And all opinions are somewhere biased), and keep in mind I have a lot of respect for a vast majority of people that write on a wide variety of sites. I had a lot of respect for Brian Crecente for instance, but now he's gone from Kotaku, and since then...

I guess some also consider Civilization Revolution good :rolleyes:

I honestly have no idea, I never failed that hard...

I honestly have no idea on when 2K intends to announce them (and even if I did, I couldn't tell, for obvious reasons, but I really don't).

Lol... I admit I had some initial problems with Prince, but settler? You're half right. 2K indeed did provide a set of screenshots and journalists were indeed told to use those, but either they didn't tell Kotaku, or they decided to ignore it. The screenshot used are not part of the standard...

Oh yeah, I can definitely see the reasons why they'd embargo screenshots. In a perfect world it'd be enough to just tell people "don't show the following elements", but we ain't in a perfect world and quite a lot of journos aren't exactly too careful on the details. @TheKingOfBigOz: mah lipz...

It's actually a lot more fun than I expected. It doesn't rely as much on building and researching, so it's much harder to get a big lead over the enemy, which means it relies a lot more on not wasting your limited resources and outmaneuvering the enemy. I found it a really nice diversion...

Confederates have "Rebel yell". All units have a +10% automatic combat strength promotion. Pretty banal.

I don't think there's any exception to that rule.

Yes and no. They work basically the same but have a 5 tiles influence range instead of 2. They also get "wounded" and displaced to a nearby city instead of killed.