April 2021 Developer Livestream Discussion

[Equilin]

Pantanal, Eye of the Sahara, Sahara el Beyda, Matterhorn on TSL huge Earth

 

[Minou]

Most of these sound like good changes.

Any changes for Babylon? I was wondering if they might be able to benefit from the Pikeman by building Spears and upgrading quickly to Pikemen instead of Pike and Shot - I always have trouble saving up the gold for the later. They could then become Pikeman a bit later to keep steamrolling.

 

[Bechhold]

Would have thought with a Huge TSL Earth map that the Mediterranean Sea would be a bit bigger...

 

[Andrew Johnson [FXS]]

Would have thought with a Huge TSL Earth map that the Mediterranean Sea would be a bit bigger...

There's a whole TSL Mediterranean map that you can play!

 

[Equilin]

Spain get Geothermal Fissure start bias instead of Coast.

 

[TrailblazingScot]

They have time to buff Sumeria, but nothing for Scotland? Bah!

 

[slavaskii]

I hope that the 1/3 of civs that have yet to be previewed (and will instead be mentioned in the patch notes) don't have 'weaker' adjustments than those here. I'm sorry, but the only really significant changes were the ones we've already seen, Maya, and Russia. I'm assuming Australia will have an interesting change that might shed light on what'll happen with Scotland, but I honestly don't know at this point. I'm just really underwhelmed after Poland.

 

[pokiehl]

Spain get Geothermal Fissure start bias instead of Coast.

That is also a de facto mountain range and volcano start bias. Interesting implications for Spain.

 

[fy00sh]

You can save leader pools now

 

[Zyxpsilon]

YEAH!!! Leader Pools -- save principle!

PLUS -- everything else related to custom Lists.

 

[DWilson]

Hungary has denounced Spain.

 

[Equilin]

loading configuration now removes the map seed!
FINALLY!

 

[fy00sh]

Save configuration auto-wipes out the map seed!!!!!!

 

[bbbt]

Poland:
Doesn't need to be the founder of the religion for the abilities to work
Winged Hussar replaces Cuirassier

Is this a buff for Poland? It actually seems more negative. Now you can't culture bomb without spreading someone else's religion, giving them the founder bonuses and potentially moving them closer to a religious victory.

 

[kryat]

Spain get Geothermal Fissure start bias instead of Coast.

The fact that they used this to spawn them near a continental divide was very clever

 

[slavaskii]

Is this a buff for Poland? It actually seems more negative. Now you can't culture bomb without spreading someone else's religion, giving them the founder bonuses and potentially moving them closer to a religious victory.

They said the only goal of it was to make it more 'consistent', which is definitely true. But it doesn't help Poland along any win condition, and encampments as Poland don't necessarily make much sense, especially when considering their other ability takes away a military card for a wildcard one and encourages a non-military play style.

 

[fy00sh]

Gentle eruption from a volcano didn't show an eruption animation despite zooming in...

 

[slavaskii]

Did I hear this right? Did they buff Korea?

 

[Equilin]

Korea gets BUFFED, mines&farms bonus now stacks for each Seowon

 

[Xandinho]

Meh, Poland is still pretty weak.