[GS] Future Update?

[AntSou]

I think we can do without generalised disease/health mechanics, it's specifically pandemics that the game could benefit from imo.

Besides, it's only on the nose if you're not wearing a mask!

Spoiler :

Ba-dum... etc.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

There is now a Smoke B, formerly pdreview. Runner is not running yet.

 

[RohirrimElf]

There is now a Smoke B, formerly pdreview. Runner is not running yet.

Could this mean that the first Smoke build is stable enough. For firaxis to experiment with more content on smoke B without fear of crashing Smoke A.
This is progress right?
Or is it more important to look closely at what runner is doing?

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Could this mean that the first Smoke build is stable enough. For firaxis to experiment with more content on smoke B without fear of crashing Smoke A.
This is progress right?
Or is it more important to look closely at what runner is doing?

I think we just need to watch Runner.

 

[WillowBrook]

Could this mean that the first Smoke build is stable enough. For firaxis to experiment with more content on smoke B without fear of crashing Smoke A.
This is progress right?
Or is it more important to look closely at what runner is doing?

I think this is additional confirmation that they are working on something, but provides no new info on timing, content, etc.

 

[leandrombraz]

I think this is additional confirmation that they are working on something, but provides no new info on timing, content, etc.

Where there's smoke, there's fire.

Wildfire as a new disaster, confirmed!

 

[josgre987]

A lot more updates to the depots recently. I see pdreview was updated. Does anyone know what this means?

 

[josgre987]

I think this is additional confirmation that they are working on something, but provides no new info on timing, content, etc.

The lack of a date worries me as it would take a while after the initial announcement for the actual release. Hopefully we will know something soon. If the old Boston Marathon rumor was true, we could see a July release, which feels like an eternity.

 

[Krajzen]

It turns out next content pack was hugely built around health and disease. In order not to be disrespectful regarding recent events, Firaxis decides to postpone release until the end of the outbreak - seven months later.

But they don't say it, there is just more silence, so this thread devolves into insanity so bad it becomes bigger news story than recent pandemic ever was.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

2kqa_c did its nightly duty. Runner still not running.

 

[Kwami]

It turns out next content pack was hugely built around health and disease. In order not to be disrespectful regarding recent events, Firaxis decides to postpone release until the end of the outbreak - seven months later.

But they don't say it, there is just more silence, so this thread devolves into insanity so bad it becomes bigger news story than recent pandemic ever was.

Can we stop repeating this nonsense? There's absolutely no evidence that any of this is true.

 

[MAHRana]

Hopefully the new expansion is the DLL source code

 

[Vandlys]

Can't it be that they are being told not to give out any information until Humankind announces its release date? It might very well be that 2K wants to compete directly by bringing out DLC in the same time frame.

 

[Deggial]

Can't it be that they are being told not to give out any information until Humankind announces its release date? It might very well be that 2K wants to compete directly by bringing out DLC in the same time frame.

Again this reference to 'Humankind'.
And I still don't understand the reasoning behind it.

Why should a company actively seek to compete with another developer? Why endanger the own sales numbers by launching at the same time as another games company?
If at all, an earlier launch would be desirable!

The only reason for a synchronized launch would be the desire to financially destroy the competitior and get rid of him for good.
But I don't think that a) Firaxis/2K has enough market power to do so sucessfully if they wanted to and b) they don't even have the intention.

 

[Gyrofalcon]

All these branches of Civ6 makes me wonder. I listed them under. But "pdreview" (last updated 17 October 2019 – 20:26:08 UTC) was replaced with "smokeb" now recently. Why replacing, and not creating new? Firaxis uses Steam as a free cloud-storage
If they needed to replace, why not an older one, like from 4 years ago?
So why the need to rename pdreview to smokeb? What could the advantage be by doing so? Other then to mess with my head....

Edit: ...and branch "streamer" (last updated 7 February 2019 – 18:13:02 UTC) was the predecessor to 2kqa_c that was updated 8 days ago... Could there be any streams coming up soon?

Branches

NAME DESCRIPTION BUILD ID TIME UPDATED
2kqa_c 4760025 about 9 hours ago
smokeb 4759524 about 12 hours ago
smokea 4746714 5 days ago
smoke 4734454 8 days ago
linuxbranch ASPYR REQUIRED: Linux Test Branch to send builds to 2KQA 4486201 3 months ago
macbranch ASPYR REQUIRED: Mac Test Branch to send builds to 2KQA 4483449 3 months ago
macinternalqa ASPYR REQUIRED: Mac Test Branch for Internal Testing 4483449 3 months ago
linuxinternalqa ASPYR REQUIRED: Linux Test Branch for Internal Testing 4481543 3 months ago
2kqa_a 4377304 4 months ago
2kqa_b 4290657 5 months ago
legacy the last live build 4187575 6 months ago
public 4183639 6 months ago
preview Press Preview 4129631 7 months ago
aspyrlegacy ASPYR REQUIRED: Internal testing for legacy checks 3965687 9 months ago
capture 3855833 5 months ago
ltest 3492615 about a year ago
marketing 3467198 about a year ago
maclegacy ASPYR REQUIRED: Internal testing for legacy PC comparisons 3458130 about a year ago
gs_rtm_donotmove Gathering Storm ZBR RTM 3457964 about a year ago
agerating3 3441319 about a year ago
compat 3286296 about a year ago
agerating1 2368975 2 years ago
day0_donotmove 1390931 3 years ago
rtm_donotmove 1320898 4 years ago
agerating2 1260481 4 years ago

 

[Vandlys]

Again this reference to 'Humankind'.
And I still don't understand the reasoning behind it.

Why should a company actively seek to compete with another developer? Why endanger the own sales numbers by launching at the same time as another games company?
If at all, an earlier launch would be desirable!

The only reason for a synchronized launch would be the desire to financially destroy the competitior and get rid of him for good.
But I don't think that a) Firaxis/2K has enough market power to do so sucessfully if they wanted to and b) they don't even have the intention.

I'm sorry, I didn't realise it was already discussed prior I also meant earlier when I said "the same time frame". I can imagine Civ losing some players to Humankind when it comes out, even if only for a while. By announcing new DLC around the same time, I could understand people want to stick around.

If Humankind is released in October and it turns out to be great fun, I will probably not play Civ that much anymore. If there is a Civ DLC around the same time, I might be convinced to buy that instead and leave Humankind for another time since I already know I enjoy Civ. But that's just me : )
If there is more of a spread between Humankind and Civ DLC, I will probably purchase them both. So yeah, when it comes to profit there might not be a huge difference, but if Humankind is as fun as Civ was for me, it might very well be that I will not play Civ for 2000 hours after Humankind is released. So from that moment on, Civ might lose me.

That's what I was thinking, but that might seem dumb to others, and I'm not in any way, shape or form involved in marketing : )

 

[WillowBrook]

Can't it be that they are being told not to give out any information until Humankind announces its release date? It might very well be that 2K wants to compete directly by bringing out DLC in the same time frame.

Possibly, but if they're waiting to know the release date of humankind, I'd say it would be to avoid marketing interference. Keeping history- inspired 4x games in the spotlight as long as possible is good for both companies, so I'd think they'd want to spread out releases.

 

[Deliverator]

If Humankind is having an effect on Civ VI it seems more likely that it is making 2K even more wary of sharing the details of features until release is imminent so that Humankind can't take inspiration from new Firaxis ideas.

 

[SammyKhalifa]

If Humankind is having an effect on Civ VI it seems more likely that it is making 2K even more wary of sharing the details of features until release is imminent so that Humankind can't take inspiration from new Firaxis ideas.

Man, if HK is still adding ideas it hears off of another company's press release and seem like a good idea at the time, the thing is going to be a train wreck.

 

[Deliverator]

Man, if HK is still adding ideas it hears off of another company's press release and seem like a good idea at the time, the thing is going to be a train wreck.

I'm not suggesting Amplitude would do that but HK still might create even more reluctance to share information early.