Firaxis Livestream: Let's Play Germany Thursday Aug 18 2PM ET

[kaspergm]

Full screen is apparently the nuclear option.

Did take me a while to figure that out. I was trying all the options but thought that I better not press that button.

 

[JimmyBanks]

Gandhi would be proud.

 

[JimmyBanks]

I just watched it. The moment they get told to close the civilopedia is Gold!!! Absolutely Priceless!!! Loved it!! Watched it a couple of times.

 

[Wolle68]

Correct. They only meant to reveal Germany's agenda, revealing the civ list was the blunder. Apparently, it did not occur to either of them that if they looked up Germany's civilopedia entry, that the screen would also feature the names of the other leaders on the side.

They seemed to be completely oblivious until the chat started talking about things they weren't supposed know about yet.

 

[BornInTheLoo]

Also foreshadowing when Ed Beach says:
"So... yeah... You definitely can catch me on a few things"
when he is being caught out by MadDjinn for not swapping out his settler policy card.

 

[BenZL43]

Alright, I'm too tired to open up new thread every time I discover something new in this video (and I haven't even finished watching it), so I'll just leave this one here and see whether anybody noticed what new unique buildings confirmed

Spoiler :

 

[stealth_nsk]

Alright, I'm too tired to open up new thread every time I discover something new in this video (and I haven't even finished watching it), so I'll just leave this one here and see whether anybody noticed what new unique buildings confirmed

Spoiler :

Cool! Both Norse and Arabs have unique temple variations. Arabs as religious civ are expected, but for Norse that's a bit of surprise.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

Hey, stealth_nsk, would you (or have you already and I just missed) confirm what Acropolish exactly is? A District or a Building?

 

[Seek]

It would appear that the Stave Church is a Norse UB, and the Madrasa the Arab UB.

 

[stealth_nsk]

Hey, stealth_nsk, would you (or have you already and I just missed) confirm what Acropolish exactly is? A District or a Building?

I don't remember where the Acropolis info came from. Someone else mentioned it today.

 

[Sansa_Stark]

Cool! Both Norse and Arabs have unique temple variations. Arabs as religious civ are expected, but for Norse that's a bit of surprise.

Now I really wish they didn't show that civilopedia. Finding out that Norway/Vikings are probably in the game and speculating about that would be much more fun. Some smart guy would also have a chance to guess C5 correctly. Same goes for other things revealed by these screenshots. Sigh.

 

[MadDjinn]

Cool! Both Norse and Arabs have unique temple variations. Arabs as religious civ are expected, but for Norse that's a bit of surprise.

nah, the norse had a rich pantheon that lasted a long time just like the roman or greek ones and Hinduism.

Only issue there is that we still have a 'single god' religion setup in game, rather than an early multi-God pantheon that can either switch to single deity or stay as is.

 

[El Castellano]

Surely the madrassa replaces to the school and produce science and faith.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

FYI, because I haven't found a 100% confirmation. Acropolis IS a District.

 

[BenZL43]

I don't have the screenshot anymore (I think), but here's the tool tips for Drama and Poetry civic, that have Acropolis mentioned.

DRAMA AND POETRY
110 ♫ Culture

Unlocks:
* Building: Amphitheater
* District: Acropolis
* District: Theater Square
* Policy: Literary Tradition

more here

 

[Seek]

Hey, stealth_nsk, would you (or have you already and I just missed) confirm what Acropolish exactly is? A District or a Building?

The Acropolis is a unique theater district, I'll post a ss in a bit.

There is also a Colloseum building on games and recreation.

 

[stealth_nsk]

nah, the norse had a rich pantheon that lasted a long time just like the roman or greek ones and Hinduism.

Which was not so different from other Indo-European pantheons. If we consider Viking pantheon to be a reason for them being a religious civs, all other civs should be religious too.

 

[Uberfrog]

FYI, because I haven't found a 100% confirmation. Acropolis IS a District.

Makes sense. It means "upper city" and contains several buildings, such as the famous Parthenon in the Athenian Acropolis.

I'm slightly irritated that they still use "Amphitheater" to describe the classical semicircular theatre. I know it's the current meaning of the term, but "amphitheatre" literally means a theatre that is surrounded on all sides, i.e. an arena like the Colosseum! The perfectly useful term for what they have in game is simply "theatre". Still, easily modded (I hope )

 

[MadDjinn]

Which was not so different from other Indo-European pantheons. If we consider Viking pantheon to be a reason for them being a religious civs, all other civs should be religious too.

except the norse wove their religion into everything more than other did and also resisted the change longer.

Plus, we still have the norse patheons in common culture, spread well past the norse themselves, so it somewhat makes sense.

Most of those 'other' Indo-European pantheons not so much.

Really, it's the norse and greek pantheons that survived best, given that the roman pantheon was basically a rebranding of the greek one.


edit:

Though I guess the Stave Church is a nod to the conversion to Christianity while keeping some style of the old and the fact that at least one is a UNESCO world heritage site.

 

[stealth_nsk]

except the norse wove their religion into everything more than other did and also resisted the change longer.

In this case Lithuania is a winner

Plus, we still have the norse patheons in common culture, spread well past the norse themselves, so it somewhat makes sense.

Most of those 'other' Indo-European pantheons not so much.

Really, it's the norse and greek pantheons that survived best, given that the roman pantheon was basically a rebranding of the greek one.

Roman pantheon isn't rebranded Greek. At some point (not so long before monotheistec religions spread) it became a common idea what different nations actually worship the same gods under different names. Matching Egyptian gods with Greek ones was a pain, but 2 Indo-European pantheons of Greeks and Romans fit nicely, so they become to interchange their mythology. Still there were a lot of unique things in Roman mythology like Janus.

Though I guess the Stave Church is a nod to the conversion to Christianity while keeping some style of the old and the fact that at least one is a UNESCO world heritage site.

This.