Civilization VII Update 1.3.0 - November 4, 2025

[Siptah]

What piqued your curiosity about Spain? That was the only part of the balance pass I looked at and thought, "Guess I won't be playing them again" (Everything else seems eminently reasonable to me).

Well, that and Qing's science malus getting bigger. It didn't impact before so I can see why, but it was already a civ with a poor reception. Doubling down on them presenting as backwards seems like a choice.

Egypt, Aksum and Songhai look especially nice though - Africa eating good today...

Spain went from a rather boring ability (cheaper to upgrade towns to cities) to more yields in DL, especially if cities follow your religion. That’s much more interesting.

 

[marius_kaparius]

Maya seems like a slight nerf to me, not a buff? They now get +2 flat science if the altar is on jungle, instead of +1 adjacency for tropical, which more often than not would have been more.

You could get wild yields with the adjacency bonus to Altars before so this change makes sense.

 

[Evolena]

(★) Commanders no longer consume all movement points when deploying all Units.
Commander's Coordinated attack no longer fails to work when individually unpacking with 'Initiative'..

Oh yes

 

[Leucarum]

Spain went from a rather boring ability (cheaper to upgrade towns to cities) to more yields in DL, especially if cities follow your religion. That’s much more interesting.

Fair, my thought process was that the conditions attached to getting this at full power (keeping your settlements converted) depend on using my least favourite mechanic in Civ7. I do not want to play missionary whack-a-mole across my empire for my civ ability. No matter how accurate it is for Spain...

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Spain went from a rather boring ability (cheaper to upgrade towns to cities) to more yields in DL, especially if cities follow your religion. That’s much more interesting.

I'm kind of nonplussed about it. The yields are nice, but having to maintain vigilance over the religious status of a dozen+ settlements individually is a pain in the butt. The Exploration culture legacy is the least enjoyable in the game and they made Spain lean into it without any kind of tools to make it less tedious.

 

[Leucarum]

I'm kind of nonplussed about it. The yields are nice, but having to maintain vigilance over the religious status of a dozen+ settlements individually is a pain in the butt. The Exploration culture legacy is the least enjoyable in the game and they made Spain lean into it without any kind of tools to make it less tedious.

It's definitely an upgrade, but I look at it and remember that masochism isn't a personal kink of mine.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

It's definitely an upgrade, but I look at it and remember that masochism isn't a personal kink of mine.

This is basically the reason I applied for the feature workshop. Since they are going to look at legacies, I intend to go in and bang on about making ones like this less of a drag. Either go back to the pressure mechanics so that religion isn't converted like binary switches or give us a screen where we can monitor all of our settlements' religious status at one look without a ton of other clutter.

 

[Evolena]

• Civ Strategic Balance Pass

Will the game guides ever be updated? The ones for the 2 Napoleons are out of date, and if nothing is done it will be the same for those 12 civs.

 

[Lord Lakely]

You can now play Tides of Power by wishlisting it, then adding to the library from the wishlist.

It'll properly drop in the next 30ish minutes I think.

 

[uppi]

Maya seems like a slight nerf to me, not a buff? They now get +2 flat science if the altar is on jungle, instead of +1 adjacency for tropical, which more often than not would have been more.

Yes, also reads like a nerf to me. Especially since adjacencies can be amplified by specialists. Flat bonuses cannot.

 

[SammyKhalifa]

I love doing river stuff, so Egypt looks even better for me

 

[disjointaccount]

You can now play Tides of Power by wishlisting it, then adding to the library from the wishlist.

It'll properly drop in the next 30ish minutes I think.

Nice, thanks

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

You can now play Tides of Power by wishlisting it, then adding to the library from the wishlist.

It'll properly drop in the next 30ish minutes I think.

Does it actually come up with the content in the game? I was able to start the game from my wishlist, but it still listed the pack as being on my wishlist instead of my library when I checked the DLC tab in my library.

 

[Kwami]

I was just now able to add Tides of Power to my library from the normal store page. I think it's fixed.

 

[disjointaccount]

Can confirm it's working, at least through the wishlist. I'm in a Blackbeard game now

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Mine is still acting weird. I probably need to reboot Steam. But the important thing is that the in-game menu says I have Blackbeard, even if Steam says I don't.

 

[Lord Lakely]

Does it actually come up with the content in the game? I was able to start the game from my wishlist, but it still listed the pack as being on my wishlist instead of my library when I checked the DLC tab in my library.

well....

 

[marius_kaparius]

I got mine added through the Wishlist approach too. The coastline seems to have a lot more cliffs. At least for Teach + Tonga.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

I don't really want to do Teach-Tonga, so I'm trying to decide if I want to do Teach-Assyria or Tecumseh-Tonga.

 

[queenpea]

I clicked add to library on the Steam page and it ended up just opening up Civ VII for me? I exited the game then saw that Tides of Power was already in my library / downloaded.