pre-release info New First Look: Catherine the Great

pre-release info
finding an Italian who speaks French with an accent is easier than finding a German who speaks Russian badly

This is almost certainly the case. France and Italy have lots of cultural exchange, French is often taught in Italian schools and Italians who learn fluent French (but naturally maintain their Italian accent) aren't unicorns.

Now, Germans speaking Russian is also a bit of a special case due to the GDR having been a thing. Russian was mandatory in school so anyone who completed schooling in GDR would be able to at least speak some Russian. Though as far as I know, most GDR citizens wouldn't actually interact with Russian culture or native Russian speakers much, so unless the person was particularly dedicated to language study or was in a position to liaise with Soviets, the typical German from GDR would remain at a very basic level of Russian. It doesn't help that Soviet-style language education was formal and not conversational. You'd study a lot of grammar but there was very little attention paid to letting the students become conversational.
 
Catherine has a tundra starting bias. Thus, selecting her will provide a safe setup for Russia, I presume.
Other leaders might struggle or need to rely on finding and expanding into tundra.
Given that there should always be tundra near the poles—north or south—it does not seem too difficult to establish an antiquity or exploration path for it.
 
The X /Twitter reception of Catherine is...something, the word "horse" appears many times
to be fair, that’s to be expected. besides the fact that most intelligent ppl have left twitter, it’s always been more of a place for pop intellectualism because of the limited character count
 
The Mai gameplay trailer for SF6 was just released and it seems like something like 80% of the YouTube comments are some variation of degenerate. The internet is pretty abhorrent, on the whole.
 
Could also be that youtubers seem to have a partial emargo lift on Thursday as well. Sarah liked a comment about it being a packed week for reveals, so just maybe we see something tomorrow and Wednesday too.
I believe we can expect another civ guide and a dev diary, based on the Steam News recap from last week.
 
Maybe they've moved everything forward because Nintendo is doing a big thing on Thursday
is it a direct, or the prospective switch 2 launch?

perhaps we’ll get more civ reveals either way
 
is it a direct, or the prospective switch 2 launch?

perhaps we’ll get more civ reveals either way
Why not both? I can see them revealing some of the launch titles (including third party support) along with the Switch 2 reveal.
 
What if the last leader is Elizabeth, with a Gloriana persona and a Good Queen Bess persona? :mischief:
No more Copium for the Britain predictors please, they have been through enough.

So I guess we will expect Fred and Prussia any day now. I know that leaders and civs don't link in this game but the appearance of Fred makes me believe even more in Prussia/Germany.
 
No more Copium for the Britain predictors please, they have been through enough.

So I guess we will expect Fred and Prussia any day now. I know that leaders and civs don't link in this game but the appearance of Fred makes me believe even more in Prussia/Germany.
Not to mention I feel like Catherine might also synergize with Prussia/Germany as well.
 
Cathy and Pete. Two of the most favorite Leaders of Russia.

and two were Reformists. I don't know what reforms did Cathy do in Russia. I only remember Pete who ended Swedish dominance over Baltics with his immense reforms, Also he's a rival to Emperor Kang Xi of Qing China.
 
To be fair, the language of the Russian court at the time was actually French (so much so, that the entire first chapter of War and Peace, where Russian nobility discuss Napoleon’s military advances, is written in French). So if FXS really wanted to lean into historical accuracy, she would be speaking French, but that’s one of those cases where historical accuracy should probably take a back seat in favor of “layman’s immersion”.
If Frederick II is to join too. he too. a Francophone. and even educated by French phillosophe--Voltaire.
 
Man, I somehow knew that Russia was going to be brought back. I was really rooting for Joseph Stalin but I guess Catherine again is okay since most people found her more popular and had better values I guess.
 
Man, I somehow knew that Russia was going to be brought back. I was really rooting for Joseph Stalin but I guess Catherine again is okay since most people found her more popular and had better values I guess.
I'd like to see Ivan Groznui included in expansions. alongside Muscovy.
 
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