DLC 05 anticipation thread

[drmuser]

how does one check steam database

Here you are sir: https://steamdb.info/app/289070/depots/

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Let the conspiracy theories begin.

Food for thought:
If the DLC has only one civ, then the first achievement is for "win as the leader" and the second is a circumstantial achievement. The third and fourth are for the scenario.

For Persia/Macedon, the first two achievements were "win as leader" and the third and fourth were the circumstantial achievements.

So, what is more likely for them to oops on, two in a scenario or two circumstantial achievements? Or maybe I'm just reading too much into it.

@DeutschDachs I recall one instance where the whole batch was scrapped and given new identifiers. I think that was Poland and Vikings.

@drmuser That seems unlikely. The big hold-up is probably because they relocated internal resources to XCOM and working out the cross-platform multiplayer issues.

 

[drmuser]

That seems unlikely. The big hold-up is probably because they relocated internal resources to XCOM and working out the cross-platform multiplayer issues.

That does make sense, gotta dream though! I'm mostly looking forward to the patch itself, as I love reading patch notes.

 

[Katakanja]

Food for thought:
If the DLC has only one civ, then the first achievement is for "win as the leader" and the second is a circumstantial achievement. The third and fourth are for the scenario.

For Persia/Macedon, the first two achievements were "win as leader" and the third and fourth were the circumstantial achievements.

So, what is more likely for them to oops on, two in a scenario or two circumstantial achievements? Or maybe I'm just reading too much into it.

Or in a moment of madness they've decided to completely change the leader they are releasing at the last minute and just swapped the "win as leader" and "do a random thing" achievements for different ones.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Or in a moment of madness they've decided to completely change the leader they are releasing at the last minute and just swapped the "win as leader" and "do a random thing" achievements for different ones.

Then it would be 1 & 2 or 1 & 3 or 2 & 4 that changed.

 

[DJ_Tanner]

Food for thought:
If the DLC has only one civ, then the first achievement is for "win as the leader" and the second is a circumstantial achievement. The third and fourth are for the scenario.

For Persia/Macedon, the first two achievements were "win as leader" and the third and fourth were the circumstantial achievements.

So, what is more likely for them to oops on, two in a scenario or two circumstantial achievements? Or maybe I'm just reading too much into it.

For two mistakes it would have to be more likely that it is the same word, AND that word would not be in 1 & 2. Which means that it would be more likely that it is related to the scenario.

 

[Katakanja]

Then it would be 1 & 2 or 1 & 3 or 2 & 4 that changed.

I like that you humour my patently insane theory by refuting it with logic, rather than just pointing out how far fetched it was

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

For two mistakes it would have to be more likely that it is the same word, AND that word would not be in 1 & 2. Which means that it would be more likely that it is related to the scenario.

Quite true.

 

[Abraxis]

@drmuser That seems unlikely. The big hold-up is probably because they relocated internal resources to XCOM and working out the cross-platform multiplayer issues.

Is there any reason to suspect they're suffering complications preparing War of the Chosen?

 

[drmuser]

Is there any reason to suspect they're suffering complications preparing War of the Chosen?

I don't think it was necessarily due to complications with War of the Chosen, moreso that is was a pretty big expansion that required to more resources to get it ready for release.

 

[DeutschDachs]

Maybe they just thought of better puns to incorporate?

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Is there any reason to suspect they're suffering complications preparing War of the Chosen?

I don't know. I haven't been following it closely. But if they work anything like Bioware, they only have a core group of team leaders who stay on a project full time. The underlings get shuffled from back and forth from Mass Effect to Dragon Age to SWTOR to whatever their new IP is, as priorities demand.

As an example from Firaxis, I noticed that the character designer who has done the models for the Civ VI leaders is doing art support work on War for the Chosen. He was bragging on Twitter that he made the faces on the new Chosen bosses.

 

[Katakanja]

I don't know. I haven't been following it closely. But if they work anything like Bioware, they only have a core group of team leaders who stay on a project full time. The underlings get shuffled from back and forth from Mass Effect to Dragon Age to SWTOR to whatever their new IP is, as priorities demand.

As an example from Firaxis, I noticed that the character designer who has done the models for the Civ VI leaders is doing art support work on War for the Chosen. He was bragging on Twitter that he made the faces on the new Chosen bosses.

Seems likely that they use a similar setup. We know they have enough staff to have more than one "design" team working simultaneously (Ed and co working on Civ whilst Jake Solomon and co work on XCOM, for example) but they only have enough development manpower to do one major release a year (Civ VI last year, War of the Chosen this year, etc.)

 

[bbbt]

Additionally they seem to lean on shared 2k resources for a number of things (like QA), which makes it even more complicated. I.e. 2k QA team could be jumping from War of the Chosen to Red Dead Redemption 2 to Civ 6 regression test.

 

[bbbt]

I'd also note that Firaxis has had a posting for a senior software engineer up for a number of months, so they may be a little short staffed in general.

 

[Katakanja]

I'd also note that Firaxis has had a posting for a senior software engineer up for a number of months, so they may be a little short staffed in general.

Aren't they still looking for a UI designer? Or was that just a running joke about the unmodded state of the game, and they never were?

 

[drmuser]

Aren't they still looking for a UI designer? Or was that just a running joke about the unmodded state of the game, and they never were?

I had no idea that was even a thing.....

 

[Zaarin]

Whats wrong with the variety of earth maps included in YnAMP? I think they are all great...

Nothing, I'm sure, if you use mods...which I don't. Considering both the Earth map and the Random Earth map by Firaxis in Civ5 were just fine, I don't see why a decent quality Earth map is too much to ask from Firaxis in Civ6. The current one is Standard-only and is so badly and inaccurately drawn that I'm reasonably certain a child could draw a better one.

 

[The Kingmaker]

Nothing, I'm sure, if you use mods...which I don't. Considering both the Earth map and the Random Earth map by Firaxis in Civ5 were just fine, I don't see why a decent quality Earth map is too much to ask from Firaxis in Civ6. The current one is Standard-only and is so badly and inaccurately drawn that I'm reasonably certain a child could draw a better one.

I don't see any reason why they can't release a Large sized TSL Earth.

Would also like to see an Ice Age Earth and a Post-Apocalyptic Earth.

 

[Katakanja]

I had no idea that was even a thing.....

I remember reading posts about it months ago, but like I said, it might have just been a joke that I took seriously