April 2021 Developer Livestream Discussion

[fy00sh]

Kongo, somewhat a nerf:
No longer get addidtional Great Writer points, but they get +1 faith on Artefacts, Sculptures, and Relics.

 

[Kmart_Elvis]

Makes me worried about Wilhelmina.

She has the worst ability in the game, it would be a shame if they let this opportunity go to waste.

 

[Luxerne]

Jadwiga's abilities function regardless of whether she founded a religion or not.

Winged Hussars are now Cuirassier replacements.

 

[fy00sh]

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

 

[tedhebert]

Not watchin the stream, but reading about it here leaves me strongly underwhelmed... am I just having a bad day, or was expecting too much from this ?

 

[fy00sh]

Ethiopia:
Oromo Cavalry stronger because the Courser got stronger too
that's it

 

[slavaskii]

VERY disappointed with the Poland change. What the actual heck? They acknowledged that Khmer had problems with relics so they fixed it with them. Poland is still weak and now even weaker because who honestly even cares about culture bombs? They threw that in as an aside for the Netherlands, it's not an important ability.

This makes me very, very upset. Nobody was complaining about this at all.

 

[Hellenism Salesman]

Not watchin the stream, but reading about it here leaves me strongly underwhelmed... am I just having a bad day, or was expecting too much from this ?

Well, they likely chose to show off the flashiest and most drastic changes in the standalone update video, so the biggest changes are already beyond us. These are just the milder balance changes.

 

[fy00sh]

Man-at-Arms at Apprenticeship.
was that already known?

 

[Equilin]

Man-At-Arms at Apprenticeship (Gaul yay). Requires iron.
Trebuchet at Military Engineering (same as Domrey before it)
Line Infantry at Military Science. Requires niter.

 

[James_Champagne]

What kind of map are they playing on? Showing off either of the two new true start maps, or...?

 

[slavaskii]

Last batch of civ changes coming up, is Scotland among them?

Nope LOL

 

[canadamufc]

Civs in the last game:

Aztec, Korea, Australia, India, Zulu.

Rest are already known changed.

 

[João III]

What kind of map are they playing on? Showing off either of the two new true start maps, or...?

Just opened the new huge Earth TSL

 

[tedhebert]

So is Atlantis in there or not ?

 

[Equilin]

On TSL, civs and CSes can spawn "on top of each other" e.g. Spain and Portugal, Rome and Vatican

 

[Hellenism Salesman]

I think the Kongo changes are an overall buff, but that really is a rather small sliver of Faith. I kind of wish it was +2, especially considering it only comes into play rather late.

 

[Kmart_Elvis]

Last batch of civ changes coming up, is Scotland among them?

Nope LOL

No Netherlands either? The two civs in the most dire need of leader ability changes IMO.

 

[Jewelrunna]

Somewhat disappointed that the Men-at-Arms comes at Apprenticeship and the Line Infantry comes at Military Science, and not Military Tactics and Rifling respectively.

Would've been a good way to increase the value of those techs, especially in the case of Rifling. I guess it makes more sense to have those units come earlier in the era though, so we avoid the situation of the Civ V Longswordsmen. Still, could've added something to make Rifling less of a dog-doo tech.

 

[Andrew Johnson [FXS]]

So is Atlantis in there or not ?

It is not...