08-27 article

[V. Soma]

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The music in the ancient era is very simple single string music. When you meet other civs their soundtrack is added to your soundtrack. What’s nice is when you get to different eras it's that same basic music from before but with other instruments adding in. Once you get to the modern era it’s that full orchestra that has built up throughout the game

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On Victoria:

Her ability, that we are still teaching the AI to do really effectively, is that she wants to be on all of the continents and when she does settle she gets free units. It makes her really expensive, especially on a continental map and it feels like real history

 

[anandus]

Firaxis hopes to gain some new players by “focusing on playing a session over a long lunch, to play a game in a few hours and new game speed called ‘online speed’ to compress a full game into 4-6 games

I think I haven't read the name of the new speed, 'online speed'

Apart from that I see nothing new.

 

[qadams]

It's a fairly interesting article -- but man, that reporter should learn to proofread.

 

[Haig]

Just made myself a cup of coffee and found this to read, thanks V.Soma.

 

[isau]

Reading between the lines here, I am beginning to wonder if possibly the Domination Victory in Civ 6 involves controlling Continents. Have we actually seen a screenshot of the Domination Victory conditions yet?

 

[Playsoneasy]

A Daily Express article on civ? Were there any references to 100 day-long blizzards or the RECORD-BREAKING STORMS SET TO BATTER BRITAIN?

(Anyone who lives in the UK and knows of the Daily Express' reputation for publishing hysterical weather-related headlines will know what I'm talking about)

England's ability - settling on all continents and getting free units when they settle new land - sounds potentially OP to me, especially if you play on a small-ish map with lots of continents.

 

[Haig]

England's ability - settling on all continents and getting free units when they settle new land - sounds potentially OP to me, especially if you play on a small-ish map with lots of continents.

Well doing all the colonization they are sure to make many enemies too..

 

[Dearmad]

A Daily Express article on civ? Were there any references to 100 day-long blizzards or the RECORD-BREAKING STORMS SET TO BATTER BRITAIN?

(Anyone who lives in the UK and knows of the Daily Express' reputation for publishing hysterical weather-related headlines will know what I'm talking about)

England's ability - settling on all continents and getting free units when they settle new land - sounds potentially OP to me, especially if you play on a small-ish map with lots of continents.

Hardly OP. The AI never handles navy well. And breaking up her Empire will be a snap.

 

[Mustakrakish]

It's getting awfully dry on the forums. How come they didn't reveal a second civ this week... :/

 

[Lucius_]

It's getting awfully dry on the forums. How come they didn't reveal a second civ this week... :/

For the most part, there has only been one civ a week. They will usually do other things though later in the week, like another video highlighting certain mechanics, livestream, or the release of nda's for youtuber's to release their early look videos. We didn't get anything this week but the Spain reveal and I'm guessing that's because of reasons. Hopefully next week Firaxis will have their stuff together again.

 

[BrokenBokken]

I actually think the music thing is really cool and I hadn't heard that before.

 

[Depravo]

I actually think the music thing is really cool and I hadn't heard that before.

+1. I really like it as of course you'll be facing different array of civs every game and that will affect the music.

 

[kaspergm]

Reading between the lines here, I am beginning to wonder if possibly the Domination Victory in Civ 6 involves controlling Continents. Have we actually seen a screenshot of the Domination Victory conditions yet?

Domination is still controlling all capitals. We saw that in a screenshot recently.

 

[Josephias]

England's ability - settling on all continents and getting free units when they settle new land - sounds potentially OP to me, especially if you play on a small-ish map with lots of continents.

Just for your and general information, a continent in Civ6 does not need to match a landmass. A chain of islands, even a big archipielago will be the same continents, as well as different sections of a pangea will be a different continent. Probably the number of continents will be pretty stable in different types of maps.

 

[isau]

Domination is still controlling all capitals. We saw that in a screenshot recently.

Yeah I saw that. Disappointed.

 

[ThisNameIsTooLo]

+1. I really like it as of course you'll be facing different array of civs every game and that will affect the music.

This sounds leagues better than Civ V's music streaming system, where you merely heard the same selection of tracks over the course of the entire game, with some swap-outs depending on whether you were at peace or war. (The fact that there were four potential playlists based on the civ you chose helped a bit, but not by much.)

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

I'm not really pscyhed for the music, because if it's what I think it is then that means you'll be hearing French tunes when you play as Egypt.

 

[Lord Tirian]

I'm not really pscyhed for the music, because if it's what I think it is then that means you'll be hearing French tunes when you play as Egypt.

While I like the idea in general, I feel like they missed a trick in not tying into Cultural victories and mix in the "foreign" tunes depending on their cultural standing w.r.t. yours.

 

[agonistes]

I like the ai stray for her. Sounds great. Now I won't have to spend hours helping England colonize and become a global power. I hope other Civs share this intercontinental imperialistic tendency. Spain for example.