Humankind Game by Amplitude

[CivLuvah]

Imgur album updated to include the Maya:

https://imgur.com/a/4cPjGSY

 

[God of Kings]

I refuse to go to Catalina for a while, since it will require Upgrading several sets of software I use constantly, in turn requiring some substantial costs. Also there is nothing that Catalina does that I am interested in. This is not new for me - I stuck with Mac OS 9 for about 6 years until too much software simply wouldn't work with it anymore and I had to upgrade to OS 10.
Luckily for me, the bulk of my work is Word Processing, which is does not tax memory excessively. Of course, downloading thousands of pages of archive documents from the Russian Ministry of Defense and several obscure websites in the past few years that are all graphics (Preview/JPEG files) files is starting to eat into my file space, but I'm a long way from maxing it out.

I use Catalina on my iMac, primarily so that I can use my iPad as an alternative to a Wacom Cintiq graphics tablet.

My MacBook Pro is at Mojave, since it has plenty of 32-bit software that don't work on Catalina.

 

[Catoninetales_Amplitude]

Great info. Couple of things I'm curious about here:

1) Will biome actually have any effect at all on gameplay? I understand that it doesn't affect base tile yields, which is cool and will help with balance, but it would still be cool if there were certain effects in the game that were impacted by it (religion, wonder construction, culture bonuses, whatever else) - I can see it affects natural wonders, so this makes me think it will impact other things in some ways as well.
2) Lack of "dust" is very interesting. Is this just because it's not called that? Will gold be a resource? Gold/dust has generally played a fairly core role in the way 4x gameplay works.

No, the biomes to not influence the basic yields of the different terrain types by individual tiles. Instead, the biomes control how much of any given terrain type spawns in a territory, which natural modifiers (like the little oasis in the desert) and natural wonders can spawn, and as far as I recall which resources can spawn.

On the note of "no dust:" There will of course be some form of "gold," but I don't know if we have settled on a German word for that resource yet, so I answered around giving it a name.

 

[Siptah]

Do we already have a hint what the topic of the next feature focus video, which is hopefully released later today, is?

 

[Catoninetales_Amplitude]

You want a hint at the next feature focus video?

Well, alright, here's your hint. (Spoilers: It's the full blog and video.)

 

[VermelhoRed]

Is that crater next to the stupa a natural wonder or a random crater tile?

 

[Catoninetales_Amplitude]

It's a not a natural wonder. More like the anomalies were in Endless Legend.

 

[CivLuvah]

Imgur album updated to include Persians

https://imgur.com/a/4cPjGSY

 

[Cat-du-fromage]

It's a not a natural wonder. More like the anomalies were in Endless Legend.

Wait does it means there will be some sort of events/crisis like stellaris? So maybe the "mongol horde" we saw in the tech tree is one of them?

 

[Catoninetales_Amplitude]

Wait does it means there will be some sort of events/crisis like stellaris? So maybe the "mongol horde" we saw in the tech tree is one of them?

"I am the Senate Endgame Crisis!"

Jokes aside, we already confirmed the existence of Events back during a presentation at Pax.

 

[Krajzen]

"I am the Senate Endgame Crisis!"

I like when video games deal with contemporary real life problems!











Jokes aside, Vive La France and may Humankind's release arrive after we all come victorious from the great struggle

 

[CivLuvah]

Imgur album updated to include Romans

https://imgur.com/a/4cPjGSY

 

[Siptah]

16th week of 2020, 41 more cultures to go.
To me, this looks like a late 2020 release, and not like an autumn release.
I also wonder when Amplitude will step up the reveal speed to get it all done - there might be a break over summer as well.

No "live" gameplay footage or beta yet, which also makes it look like a later release. Not that I want the game to be rushed out in a bad state.
Still hopeful to see something soon though, as Writing Bull announced that it wouldn't be an eternity until his first gameplay preview two weeks ago.

 

[Catoninetales_Amplitude]

It may not be forever until he gets to see it, but remember that the first time he gets to see it is not the same as the first time you get to see it.

 

[conorbebe]

Just want to echo what Siptah said - Please do not rush! What we've seen so far of Humankind is incredible, so it would be a shame if the final product was not up to the same standard of quality. Take all the time you need

 

[Zaarin]

Just want to echo what Siptah said - Please do not rush! What we've seen so far of Humankind is incredible, so it would be a shame if the final product was not up to the same standard of quality. Take all the time you need

Amplitude has an excellent history of supporting their games after release, both in content and in patches. They patch much more regularly than Firaxis.

 

[Hawke9]

Do you guys think we can expect another feature focus video today?

 

[Catoninetales_Amplitude]

No, there won't be a new video today. There may be a screenshot, though.

 

[Siptah]

Interesting screenshots, but I seem to be blind and cannot find all the differences...

 

[aguaacrobata2]

- There are some changes in the natural environment (rainforest at the lower left turns into a forest, the oasis in the upper right and the mountain next to it)
- The Three Horsemen turn into Two
- The Statue from the bulding in the centre desapears
- There are less houses in the neighbourhood in the centre left of the image

That is all I can see, don't know if there is anything else