DLC 5 General Discussion Thread

[Eagle Pursuit]

Because that has always been the time of release, IIRC. The only exception being the midnight release of the base game.

Correct me if I'm wrong, of course. I could be confused with other games.

You are incorrect. The base game, first patch, Vikings, and Poland came out in the evening, like 9-10pm EST/EDT. Australia was a little earlier at about 7pm EST. Persia/Macedon was at about 11am EDT.

 

[DeutschDachs]

I was just on the Civ 6 steam community hub, and holy crap, there is so much negativity for this dlc. It's probably not relevant here and I'm sorry but I just can't believe the harshness.

The "we wuz kangz" responses are so cringeworthy it's really embarrassing

 

[Katakanja]

The "we wuz kangz" responses are so cringeworthy it's really embarrassing

I feel sorry for that SamBC guy who has to moderate it all, if it was me I'd be constantly on the verge of a mental breakdown.

 

[The Kingmaker]

It will probably be 6-10 hours from now.

So we're still expecting tonight? And not, say, next Tuesday?

 

[Katakanja]

So we're still expecting tonight? And not, say, next Tuesday?

Well, if it isn't tonight, Firaxis can expect my denunciation tomorrow, followed by a formal declaration of war five turns later.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

So we're still expecting tonight? And not, say, next Tuesday?

The package updates yesterday are a classic day-before sign. I'm extremely confident that it will be today.

 

[Kodimus]

Depending on how the QA test for Mac/Linux goes, my guess is we could see it as early as 11 AM Pacific.

 

[anandus]

You are incorrect. The base game, first patch, Vikings, and Poland came out in the evening, like 9-10pm EST/EDT. Australia was a little earlier at about 7pm EST. Persia/Macedon was at about 11am EDT.

Ah, thank you, I must thought the usual 'Steam time' applied, 19:00 CET. Thank you the correction.
Although now I'm sad I need to wait until friday

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Basically, the last activity we will see will look like this:

DLC05 app gets named. Public and Legacy builds update, a few more packages will update, and then the hidden achievement names are revealed.

 

[CivLuvah]

It will probably be 6-10 hours from now.

Its still way too early

I'm probably so over-eager about this DLC that I must have confused the release time of the First Look video with the release time of the actual DLC.

 

[Duuk]

If you ever feel like the world is a good place, I suggest a short visit to the Steam forums.

At the end of that time, you will welcome the oncoming collapse of society and deaths of billions of people.

 

[God of Kings]

If you ever feel like the world is a good place, I suggest a short visit to the Steam forums.

At the end of that time, you will welcome the oncoming collapse of society and deaths of billions of people.

Reddit, Steam, Twitter: the trifecta of toxicity (and that's not including troll sites, as those three are rather mainstream).

 

[Ozymandias9891]

Reddit, Steam, Twitter: the trifecta of toxicity (and that's not including troll sites, as those three are rather mainstream).

You forgot YouTube

 

[bbbt]

Reddit, Steam, Twitter: the trifecta of toxicity (and that's not including troll sites, as those three are rather mainstream).

I'm pretty sure like 90% of people on Steam forums are under 18, which explains a lot. I think youtube is similar.

Reddit is okay if you are in a smaller sub-reddit (ala /r/civ). It gets toxic in bigger subs and once anything hits the front page. I think it's a combination of trolls and, in some cases, paid political 'agitators' to some degree. It starts hitting "your local news site" level of commenting horribleness.

I don't have any explanation for why twitter is so god awful. Maybe it's the medium itself tbh.

 

[Deliverator]

The package updates yesterday are a classic day-before sign. I'm extremely confident that it will be today.

Is it possible we will see just the Nubia DLC and no patch this week?

 

[leif erikson]

Moderator Action: One of our site rules is that we do not knock other Civilization Fan Sites. Please let us return to the topic of DLC05.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Is it possible we will see just the Nubia DLC and no patch this week?

No. Each and every DLC for both Civ V and VI have been simultaneous with a patch.

 

[Katakanja]

No. Each and every DLC for both Civ V and VI have been simultaneous with a patch.

Also the Restart button and the new desert mountains more or less confirm there will be changes that are not directly associated with the DLC

 

[Kodimus]

While it's technically possible to release a DLC without a patch, you wouldn't be able to add achievements without a client patch that has the hooks for tracking those achievements. So since you need that, you might as well include improvements, fixes and balance changes when possible.

Also the Restart button and the new desert mountains more or less confirm there will be changes that are not directly associated with the DLC

I don't think the restart button was confirmed on the stream yesterday. While they did a little Q&A, they skirted around that question / reaction from viewers. It's hard to assume it's coming since it was also in the press preview but pulled. It's entirely possible that was only available in the debug version they were playing, but I'd certainly be happy to have it.

 

[Katakanja]

For those that are interested, I believe we are 5 minutes away from the earliest time we have so far seen a patch be released.