Canard PC preview

[Jo the spearman]

Canard PC is a small french magazine that lives exclusively from it's sales and not from advertising. Their editors are known for not pulling any punches when they write about games.

Anyway, they recently published a preview of G&K and there's some new info there.

The editor doesn't talk a lot about the IA but finds it's better than before and it concerns the barbarians too. However, he was pleasantly surprised by the new diplomacy: "Although the dialog system was not yet finalized in this preview build, everything seems more clear and rational. There's more feedback from the IA, like the notification when a civ leader is happy you didn't build any more cities close to his borders. Plus, the city states now constitute an indirect diplomatic pressure tool."

He wasn't specially impressed by the new combat system but he says he hadn't enough time to manage big armies in his first game.

About the new city states quests, you can now find this kind of missions: denounce a leader, convert to a religion or protect the city state.

Since the preview demo ends in the year 1220, the editor couldn't properly test the espionnage system so instead, he had to read the Civilopedia to learn more. And it looks like when your spy is discovered by an other civ, there's a chance it might gain access to some intel regarding your nation. Or declare war on you.

To conclude, he has big hopes that Gods and Kings might be Civilization V's BtS.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Those new CS quests are interesting. Do you have to dennounce a specific leader? We've already seen a quest where they want you to send them a missionary. So there is also one where you have to switch religions.

This definitely indicates that you actively choose a state religion.

 

[SammyKhalifa]

Those new CS quests are interesting. Do you have to dennounce a specific leader? We've already seen a quest where they want you to send them a missionary. So there is also one where you have to switch religions.

This definitely indicates that you actively choose a state religion.

I have big hopes for the new CS interaction. Back when news about CivV was prerelease and news started leaking out, it was the feature that excited me the most. It was pretty disappointing the first go-around but has always had potential for interesting gameplay.

 

[Nefliqus]

"he has big hopes that Gods and Kings might be Civilization V's BtS."

this sentence is added to almost all previews, it is pure marketing

 

[Glassmage]

Cool! I already denounce people just for fun. Now I actually get something out of it. :]

 

[Jo the spearman]

Those new CS quests are interesting. Do you have to dennounce a specific leader?

I guess it may be a leader who's been behaving badly towards others city states.

"he has big hopes that Gods and Kings might be Civilization V's BtS."

this sentence is added to almost all previews, it is pure marketing

It's not marketing: that's what a lot of civ fans think, me included. Some editors are also big civ fanatics.

 

[CleverFool]

Good information to know. I have a real appreciation for magazines that objectively (and critically) look at games. I know a lot of websites in general take a pretty rosy glow in general.

This isn't the first time I've heard mention that reviewers are impressed with the diplomacy, so here's hoping that is indeed improved (it's probably the only part of CiV that I found somewhat disappointing).