Multiple leaders confirmed? [Source: Reddit] [Hoax]

[zwei833]

https://m.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/4uph0e/my_german_friend_sent_me_this_told_it_was_from/

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

Ha! Beat me to it, was thinking of posting it.

The "source" seems fishy (Gamestar.de has a video picture despite being a magazine)?

But the quality of it does seem fitting (but it could be hoax).

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

It would be nice to see the whole image for context.

 

[sukritact]

I was about to start sculpting him. Good thing I saw this first.

I seriously wonder how alt leaders will be handled. Just a LA/LU change?

 

[Metecury]

Great news! I'm guessing we will see Louis XIV for France and both Phillip and Isabella for Spain. Perhaps we will get a male and a female leader for each civ thus making everyone happy?

 

[Cerilis]

England having multiple leaders although it was said there were no multiple leaders at launch?
I call organically processed bullfood.
Typical blurry monitor photography with only a small part of the actual image shown-fake leak.

 

[lorrydriverjr]

He could have taken a better picture. Kinda fishy.

 

[zwei833]

I was about to start sculpting him. Good thing I saw this first.

sculpting? What do you mean?

 

[DarkAlabaster]

Well then I hope for no Catherine de Medici but let a wild Roi Soleil appear!

 

[Metecury]

England having multiple leaders although it was said there were no multiple leaders at launch?
I call organically processed bullfood.
Typical blurry monitor photography with only a small part of the actual image shown-fake.

It can easily be part of the DLC included in the deluxe edition.

 

[Cerilis]

He could have taken a better picture. Kinda fishy.

Those "leaks" are always like this.

It can easily be part of the DLC included in the deluxe edition.

But why would they have that first look video ready already? (Besides, a first look video for only the leader would be veeeeery short.)

 

[Kouvb593kdnuewnd]

Well remember the leak of Civ V on youtube, not exactly the best quality. It is possible that somebody took that picture with a hidden camera but it could be a hox as well.

 

[Sonmi]

Heh, not really buying it.

If it was real, I'd be ecstatic though.

 

[stealth_nsk]

Not buying it, honestly.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

There's too many flaws in the connections for this to really be "real"

- If they had Henry, why wasn't he uncovered on the leaders board that we now know is real.

- That list had 22 leaders on it, so it containts leaders for the first 4 DLC civs/leaders.

- If we have multiple leaders why not at least announce that it's a thing? They could say that they plan on down-the-line having that, just the way they plan on having more TSL variety down the line.

- Civ 4 also came with 18 civs and 8 of those civs came with two leaders.

 

[Metecury]

Those "leaks" are always like this.



But why would they have that first look video ready already? (Besides, a first look video for only the leader would be veeeeery short.)

They obviously made these videos quite some time ago, in todays video the Egyptian pikemen models were the same as the european ones even though we have been shown the middle eastern variant of the pikemen in a previous video thus leading me to think they shot the latest one quite some time ago. They probably have them all ready and have had them ready for a while.



Although I concede the video would be short we have no idea what could be in it. Anyway it is too soon to tell, I want this to be true but ut could also be a fake.

 

[DeutschDachs]

With how heavy they portrayed Teddy and Qin, I'd have to imagine that Henry VIII would have to be overflowing the screen wouldn't he?

 

[TPangolin]

FilthyRobot said there was a press event this week, so maybe this "leak" is some non-public press content before the embargo is lifted in early August?

Seems really risky to take photos on something that covered by a mountain of NDAs. Maybe that explains the poor picture quality.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

Filthy Robot said there was a press event this week, so maybe this "leak" is some unseen content before the embargo was lifted in early August?

Seems really risky to take photos on something that covered by a mountain of NDAs. Maybe that explains the poor picture quality.

The event is in two days on the 28th of August. So it's unlikely.

 

[Kouvb593kdnuewnd]

Seems really risky to take photos on something that covered by a mountain of NDAs.

Somebody did exactly that for Civ V and provided alot of info on the tech tree amongst other.

Maybe that explains the poor picture quality.

Likely taken with a smartphone while standing in a crow with video journalist. Maybe taken at a moment then the speaker did not look at the person who took the photo, that person probably just had a few moments to take it given that the person probably was in the front row.