Easter Egg

[King_Course]

I was scimming this page about ingame Easter Eggs and suddenly Civ 5 shows up:

Firaxis producer Dennis Shirk answers, "We are adding a really, really awesome unit with an 'interesting' title to it. And you have to play a certain way to unlock it. It just isn't going to happen by accident; it's a combination of things you'll have to do. I know I'm being vague about it, but it's probably the most awesome unit in the game. You're not going to find it in the Civpedia or the unit list, you're just going to find out that you can build it during one session."

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3180092&cmpid=le_mgid_1up

Does anyone know what he is talking about?

 

[xxhe]

That's the GDR.

 

[esemjay]

You're not going to find it in the Civpedia or the unit list

http://civilopedia5.com/units/mech.html

Personally, I hate the GDR.

 

[Zyxpsilon]

Sooooo old news -- this might have referred to the initial GDR concept which ended up in the final game as the only real Future Unit anyway.
But, i'm willing to gamble there *ARE* yet some other Easter-Egg tricks to be found; one i ran across by accident while fiddling with the Debug Panel is the Free-Camera... allowing total 360o panoramic moving on the UI.

 

[Horizons]

The producers were as well-informed about the 'super secret' unit as they were about 'super secretive' diplomacy

 

[War_Pig]

I'm glad they made it so it wasn't a secret unit because once it was found out how to get it it would become a "must do" list from then on for all war games.

 

[Truthy]

Hey, the GDR is more realistic than the "roll of the dice diplomacy".

 

[EndoConvert]

But, i'm willing to gamble there *ARE* yet some other Easter-Egg tricks to be found; one i ran across by accident while fiddling with the Debug Panel is the Free-Camera... allowing total 360o panoramic moving on the UI.

I already know about editing Minimum Zoom Level in config.ini to allow full camera zoom-in, but I didn't know there's a free camera option... Please, please share how to do this?

Edit: I started a thread about free camera mode at http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=409046.

 

[Poke]

There is a free camera mode? That's great news - would make proper use of the game's graphics engine

 

[Gatsby]

http://civilopedia5.com/units/mech.html

Ugh, is all of the civ5 civilopedia content that asinine?

 

[Yzman]

Ugh, is all of the civ5 civilopedia content that asinine?

No that one is supposed to be kinda fun.