My notes from the livestream: (I tried not to duplicate items from my previous notes from the earlier video)
I was typing as I watched it, and didn't go back to watch frame-by-frame, so I probably missed some things
that showed on the screen that they didn't talk about.
- They said the full patch notes are some 12 pages long. Lots of bugs fixed.
- UI:
- Mini-map on load game menu
- Settle recommendation tool tip shows reasons why spot is good
- Stats on diplomacy ribbon (score, military strength, science, culture, gold, faith, diplomatic favor)(more than CQUI!)
- Gossip now moved toward right side of screen (collapsed to one item by default)
- Combat notifications to left of that
- New gossip report (with filters)
- Pantheon chooser is now a menu on the left so you can see the map
- Production panel now defaults to production queue if in use
- Bodies of water are now labeled
- National parks named and labeled
- Power Lens explained:
- green = powered
- no color = doesn't need power
- red = needs power and is not powered
- Also shows range of power plants (white border lines)
- Pantheon rebalance
- Goddess of the Hunt now +1 Food +1 Production from Camps
- Goddess of Fire (+2 Faith from Volcanic Soil, +2 Faith from Geothermal Fissures)
- Oral Tradition gone
- Goddess of Festivals +1 Culture (was Food) from all Plantations
- Fertility Rites now also gives you a free Builder
- Religious Settlements now also gives you a free Settler
- Goddess of the Harvest is gone
- Earth Goddess now +2 Faith from Breathtaking tiles (was +1 from Charming and Breathtaking)
- God of Craftsmen now +1 Production +1 Faith from all Strategic Resources (was +1 Production from Strategic Resource Mines)
- Culture
- Nerf Great Works of Writing from +4 Culture/+4 Tourism to +2 Culture/+2 Tourism
- Still doubles w/Printing Press
- Great People Points that can't be applied (e.g. Great Prophet points after all religions founded) now converted to Faith points
- Districts
- IZ
- +1 for every 2 adjacent Mine tiles (was +1 each)
- +1 for every 2 adjacent Lumber Mills tile (new)
- +1 for every adjacent Strategic Resource tile (new)
- Mined Strategic Resources count toward Mine bonus too
- +2 for every adjacent Aqueduct, Bath, Canal, Dam tile (new)
- Buildings
- Workshop buffed from +2 to +3 Production
- Policies
- Diplomatic
- Music Censorship
- Rock Bands from other players may not enter your territory.
- -1 Amenity in all of your cities with 10 or more Population.
- World Congress
- Diplomatic Victory now requires 20 points (on Standard?)
- Vote for Diplomatic Victory is now +2 or -3
- Potential +5 in one session: +1 ea resolution +2 for voting for self, +1 winning vote for self???
- Statue of Liberty +4 DV points
- Potala Palace +1 DV point
- Mahabodhi Temple +2 DV points (was +1)
- Competitions give +1 DV point to winner
- Aid Request Buffed from +1 to +2 DV points
- Aid and Military Requests now give the aid given to the target
- Units
- Upgrades no longer loose bonus abilities of previous units
- Combining units (into corps/armies) now combine special abilities of all units (no duplications)
- Rebalanced which units require which strategic resources (particularly horses, iron and niter, but no details given)
- Battering Ram no longer effective against Medieval and Renaissance Walls,
but now upgrades into Siege Tower
- Siege Tower no longer effective against Renaissance Walls
- Movement increase for Mobile SAM, Rocket Artillery, and Modern AT (not detailed)
- AI
- City/district defense
- Tactical maneuvers
- City settlement decisions and aggression
- Ranged attacks vs districts
- Operational movement around mountains and such
- Diplomatic Trading
- Leader tweeks to make them play their own game
- Noted that Firaxis QA does a lot of smoke testing and gameplay testing while 2KQA does a lot of detailed testing on multiple platforms, hardware configurations, etc.
- Holding patch release until it is ready for all platforms (and cross-platform multi-player), so no release date announced, but "soon"
- Dennis ended by saying they're NOT done with Civ VI, there is more to come after this patch!