Civ6 June Update Video

[Tony Sing]

Will the update patch launch today, I am waiting for it

 

[Daigotsu Max]

Will the update patch launch today, I am waiting for it

It should be later today yes, but I would say it will take a few more hours!

 

[Tony Sing]

It should be later today yes, but I would say it will take a few more hours!

Oh, look like I have to wait one more day then, since it will be release in mid-night in my area

 

[sonicmyst]

3 more hours (but it will launch at midnight my timezone too)

 

[WillowBrook]

3 more hours (but it will launch at midnight my timezone too)

I think you're off by an hour. It's 9:49 Eastern at the time of this post. (But I'm having trouble keeping track of time lately, so don't take my word for it.)

 

[Kwami]

I think you're off by an hour. It's 9:49 Eastern at the time of this post. (But I'm having trouble keeping track of time lately, so don't take my word for it.)

Right! The release time (1 PM EDT) is 3 hours and 5 minutes from now.

 

[sonicmyst]

Oh my God, you are right! Shocks it will be 1am my time and I wouldn't be able to play it then. So sad!

 

[UWHabs]

So, anyone know what will happen with saves? My current game I had the old work ethic pantheon - when I load up my game tonight, I guess I'll have to see if I have the new Work Ethic or not. Might need to find some new holy site spots...

 

[WillowBrook]

So, anyone know what will happen with saves? My current game I had the old work ethic pantheon - when I load up my game tonight, I guess I'll have to see if I have the new Work Ethic or not. Might need to find some new holy site spots...

The game is unlikely to break, but you might get weird behaviour around things that have changed.

 

[leandrombraz]

I would love if they released the patch notes a bit earlier, so we can discuss the changes.

 

[Kupe Navigator]

So when is it?

 

[Datgingah]

So when is it?

Stream is at 2, so maybe notes at 1 or then?

 

[xxhe]

So when is it?

in 30min

 

[WillowBrook]

So when is it?

The patch drops in 15 minutes, livestream in an hour and 15.

I will miss both as a spontaneous family bike ride will be taking my time and attention, so please take good notes, fellow fanatics!

 

[DWilson]

[NEW FEATURES]

[PC ONLY]

Red Death - Season 2

• New Playable Factions

o Aliens – They’ve always been here… watching from the shadows - The Alien faction specializes in camouflage technology allowing them to turn invisible and ambush their enemies or escape dangerous situations. They also have health regeneration upping their survivability in any given skirmish.

o Zombies – Civilization’s undead rise for humanity’s final moments - The Zombie faction replaces all combat units with Zombie Hordes. These units can’t heal normally and take damage over time. Zombie Hordes instead will heal and gain additional Zombie units when an enemy unit is defeated or by exploring City Ruins, Raider Camps, and Supply Drops.

• Faction Unique Abilities - Every faction, both old and new, has been outfitted with a unique ability.

o Aliens – Xenological Camouflage: All units can use Xenological Camouflage to become invisible to most units. Adjacent enemy units can see Camouflaged units. Initiating an attack deactivates Camouflage.

o Cultists – The Undying Eye: Cultists start the game with a crippled GDR. The GDR starts damaged and does not heal or gain experience normally. The GDR instead earns promotions when units sacrifice themselves to it. These promotions can then be used to return the GDR to full operation status.

o Borderlords – Grieving Gift: Deploy a fake supply drop to a given location on the next turn. If another player pops the supply drop, it triggers an explosion at that location.

o Jocks – Hail Mary: Small tactical nuke that can be launched from any combat unit. Has a smaller blast radius of 1 hex.

o Mutants – Radiant Personalities: Mutants that start their turn in the Red Death absorb 8 Radiation Charges per turn. They spread Red Death to non-Red Death hexes automatically for 1 Radiation Charge per hex. Mutant units do not take fallout damage from mutant spread Red Death.

o Preppers – Improvised Traps: Units can build the Improvised Trap that causes damage and the loss of a movement point to any unit that moves onto it. Preppers get 5 Improvised Traps per visit to an unexplored City Ruins, Raider Camp, and Supply Crate. Improvised Traps are invisible to non-Prepper factions.

o Pirates – Buried Treasure: Pirates start the game with a Treasure Map to a buried treasure location indicated on their minimap. When a pirate unit of that player reaches the treasure location, the pirate is granted a unit and a new treasure map.

o Mad Scientists – Defensive Inertial Shielding: All units can deploy shielding that provides a +10 combat strength while defending. While shielded, the unit has immunity to WMD Blast, Red Death, and Water Poisoning Damage

o Wanderers – Road Vision: Grants active visibility on all previously revealed terrain.

o Zombies - Barely Weaponized Zombies (Passive): Killing a non-zombie enemy unit creates more Zombie Hordes. Zombie Hordes do not suffer combat penalties when damaged. City Ruins, Raider Camps, and Supply Drops grant additional Zombie Hordes instead of traditional units.

• Observer Mode – Upon defeat, players can now activate Observer Mode to watch the remainder of the match. Chat from players using Observer Mode will be hidden to remaining players.
• You hear that? That’s the wasteland wind. Civilization VI’s narrator joins the Red Death as game commentator!
• Additional quality of life and AI improvements implemented.

Kick Voting

• Players now have the option to boot uncivilized players from their multiplayer games. A vote can be initiated through the in-game chat panel.

[BALANCE/POLISH]

Items in the list below apply to the Gathering Storm ruleset only.

Natural Wonders

• Eye of Sahara: +2 Production and +1 Science base yield while still providing +3 Science and +1 Production once the game reaches the Atomic Era.
• Yosemite: Additional +1 Food while still providing +1 Gold, +1 Science, and +2 Appeal to adjacent tiles.
• Cliffs of Dover: +4 Appeal to adjacent tiles and still provides +3 Culture and +2 Gold for land tiles. (Before just+2 Appeal.)

Religion/Beliefs

• (NEW) Sacred Places – Founder: +2 Science, Culture, Gold and Faith for each city following this Religion that has a World Wonder.
• (NEW) Holy Waters – Enhancer: Increases Healing of your religious units by +10 in Holy Site districts belonging to cities with your majority religion, or any adjacent tiles.
• Lady of the Reed and Marshes – Pantheon: +2 Production from Marsh, Oasis, and Desert Floodplains. (Before just +1 Production from Marsh, Oasis, and Desert Floodplains.)
• Dar-e Mehr – Worship: This building is no longer pillaged by Environmental Effects. Still provides +3 Faith and +1 additional Faith for each Era since constructed or last repaired.
• Gurdwara – Worship: Grants +1 Housing, +3 Faith, and +2 Food. (Before just +3 Faith and +2 Food.)
• Pagoda – Worship: +3 Faith and +1 Favor (Before +3 Faith and +1 Housing)
• Feed the World – Follower: Shrines and Temple provide +3 Food and +2 Housing each. (Before Shrines and Temples provided Food equal to their Faith output.)
• Religious Community – Follower: International Trade Routes provide +1 Gold for every Temple and Shrine in the origin city. (Before Shrines and Temples each provided +1 Housing.)
• Warrior Monks – Follower: Spending Faith to train Warrior Monks. Also, Culture Bomb adjacent tiles when completing a Holy Site. (Before only allowed spending to train Warrior Monks.)
• Work Ethic – Follower: Holy Site district’s Faith adjacency bonus provides production as well. (Before just +1% Production for each follower up to 15%)
• Church Property – Founder: Removed
• Cross-Cultural Dialogue - Founder: +1 Science for every 4 followers. (Before +1 Science for every 5 followers of this Religion in other civilizations.)
• Pilgrimage – Founder: +2 Faith for each city following this Religion. (Before +2 Faith for every city following this religion in other civilizations and City-States.)
• Tithe – Founder: +3 Gold for each city following the Religion. (Before +1 Gold for every 4 followers of this Religion.)
• World Church – Founder: +1 Culture for every 4 followers of this Religion. (Before +1 Culture for every 5 followers of this Religion in other civilizations.)
• Burial Grounds – Enhancer: Removed

[MISC]

• Play-By-Cloud functionality restored for all players.
• Various crash and performance improvements implemented.
• Additional general bug fixes and polish.

 

[RealHuhn]

Some of those religious beliefs sound incredibly good. I love it.

 

[UWHabs]

So pretty mild changes. Religion changes seem to mostly be getting rid of the your cities vs foreign cities distinctions, and then combining food+housing together. Should make for some new and interesting choices, especially the bonus for cities with a wonder could be huge for civs like China who can space out wonders.

Natural wonder changes are meh. Yosemite is nice, but Sahara is still a desert tile so pretty junk unless if you have Nazca/Petra. Dover I guess can make some nice appeal nearby, but still a boring tile itself.

 

[Smity2k1]

Oh. Gosh.... That's... It???

 

[Revanchist]

[NEW FEATURES]

[PC ONLY]

Red Death - Season 2

• New Playable Factions

o Aliens – They’ve always been here… watching from the shadows - The Alien faction specializes in camouflage technology allowing them to turn invisible and ambush their enemies or escape dangerous situations. They also have health regeneration upping their survivability in any given skirmish.

o Zombies – Civilization’s undead rise for humanity’s final moments - The Zombie faction replaces all combat units with Zombie Hordes. These units can’t heal normally and take damage over time. Zombie Hordes instead will heal and gain additional Zombie units when an enemy unit is defeated or by exploring City Ruins, Raider Camps, and Supply Drops.

• Faction Unique Abilities - Every faction, both old and new, has been outfitted with a unique ability.

o Aliens – Xenological Camouflage: All units can use Xenological Camouflage to become invisible to most units. Adjacent enemy units can see Camouflaged units. Initiating an attack deactivates Camouflage.

o Cultists – The Undying Eye: Cultists start the game with a crippled GDR. The GDR starts damaged and does not heal or gain experience normally. The GDR instead earns promotions when units sacrifice themselves to it. These promotions can then be used to return the GDR to full operation status.

o Borderlords – Grieving Gift: Deploy a fake supply drop to a given location on the next turn. If another player pops the supply drop, it triggers an explosion at that location.

o Jocks – Hail Mary: Small tactical nuke that can be launched from any combat unit. Has a smaller blast radius of 1 hex.

o Mutants – Radiant Personalities: Mutants that start their turn in the Red Death absorb 8 Radiation Charges per turn. They spread Red Death to non-Red Death hexes automatically for 1 Radiation Charge per hex. Mutant units do not take fallout damage from mutant spread Red Death.

o Preppers – Improvised Traps: Units can build the Improvised Trap that causes damage and the loss of a movement point to any unit that moves onto it. Preppers get 5 Improvised Traps per visit to an unexplored City Ruins, Raider Camp, and Supply Crate. Improvised Traps are invisible to non-Prepper factions.

o Pirates – Buried Treasure: Pirates start the game with a Treasure Map to a buried treasure location indicated on their minimap. When a pirate unit of that player reaches the treasure location, the pirate is granted a unit and a new treasure map.

o Mad Scientists – Defensive Inertial Shielding: All units can deploy shielding that provides a +10 combat strength while defending. While shielded, the unit has immunity to WMD Blast, Red Death, and Water Poisoning Damage

o Wanderers – Road Vision: Grants active visibility on all previously revealed terrain.

o Zombies - Barely Weaponized Zombies (Passive): Killing a non-zombie enemy unit creates more Zombie Hordes. Zombie Hordes do not suffer combat penalties when damaged. City Ruins, Raider Camps, and Supply Drops grant additional Zombie Hordes instead of traditional units.

• Observer Mode – Upon defeat, players can now activate Observer Mode to watch the remainder of the match. Chat from players using Observer Mode will be hidden to remaining players.
• You hear that? That’s the wasteland wind. Civilization VI’s narrator joins the Red Death as game commentator!
• Additional quality of life and AI improvements implemented.

Kick Voting

• Players now have the option to boot uncivilized players from their multiplayer games. A vote can be initiated through the in-game chat panel.

[BALANCE/POLISH]

Items in the list below apply to the Gathering Storm ruleset only.

Natural Wonders

• Eye of Sahara: +2 Production and +1 Science base yield while still providing +3 Science and +1 Production once the game reaches the Atomic Era.
• Yosemite: Additional +1 Food while still providing +1 Gold, +1 Science, and +2 Appeal to adjacent tiles.
• Cliffs of Dover: +4 Appeal to adjacent tiles and still provides +3 Culture and +2 Gold for land tiles. (Before just+2 Appeal.)

Religion/Beliefs

• (NEW) Sacred Places – Founder: +2 Science, Culture, Gold and Faith for each city following this Religion that has a World Wonder.
• (NEW) Holy Waters – Enhancer: Increases Healing of your religious units by +10 in Holy Site districts belonging to cities with your majority religion, or any adjacent tiles.
• Lady of the Reed and Marshes – Pantheon: +2 Production from Marsh, Oasis, and Desert Floodplains. (Before just +1 Production from Marsh, Oasis, and Desert Floodplains.)
• Dar-e Mehr – Worship: This building is no longer pillaged by Environmental Effects. Still provides +3 Faith and +1 additional Faith for each Era since constructed or last repaired.
• Gurdwara – Worship: Grants +1 Housing, +3 Faith, and +2 Food. (Before just +3 Faith and +2 Food.)
• Pagoda – Worship: +3 Faith and +1 Favor (Before +3 Faith and +1 Housing)
• Feed the World – Follower: Shrines and Temple provide +3 Food and +2 Housing each. (Before Shrines and Temples provided Food equal to their Faith output.)
• Religious Community – Follower: International Trade Routes provide +1 Gold for every Temple and Shrine in the origin city. (Before Shrines and Temples each provided +1 Housing.)
• Warrior Monks – Follower: Spending Faith to train Warrior Monks. Also, Culture Bomb adjacent tiles when completing a Holy Site. (Before only allowed spending to train Warrior Monks.)
• Work Ethic – Follower: Holy Site district’s Faith adjacency bonus provides production as well. (Before just +1% Production for each follower up to 15%)
• Church Property – Founder: Removed
• Cross-Cultural Dialogue - Founder: +1 Science for every 4 followers. (Before +1 Science for every 5 followers of this Religion in other civilizations.)
• Pilgrimage – Founder: +2 Faith for each city following this Religion. (Before +2 Faith for every city following this religion in other civilizations and City-States.)
• Tithe – Founder: +3 Gold for each city following the Religion. (Before +1 Gold for every 4 followers of this Religion.)
• World Church – Founder: +1 Culture for every 4 followers of this Religion. (Before +1 Culture for every 5 followers of this Religion in other civilizations.)
• Burial Grounds – Enhancer: Removed

[MISC]

• Play-By-Cloud functionality restored for all players.
• Various crash and performance improvements implemented.
• Additional general bug fixes and polish.

...What?

It took them so many months to release... this?

Sorry if I sound slightly underwhelmed, but there aren't even any balance changes to civilizations

 

[Kwami]

...What?

It took them so many months to release... this?

Sorry if I sound slightly underwhelmed, but there aren't even any balance changes to civilizations

I guess by "so many months" you mean "one month"? We got a patch just a month ago. We'll get another one next month.

That said, I was also expecting more. I thought that these patches would be similar to the pre-NFP patches. Oh, well.