New Venture Beat Article 5/10/12

[Eagle Pursuit]

http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/10/civilization-v-gods-and-kings-preview/

Swedes!
monuments make faith
Screenshot from smoky skies

WOOO Prophet improvement!!!! Also more reasons to build Scouts early for Faith bonus from ruins.

 

[Glassmage]

WOOO Prophet improvement!!!! Also more reasons to build Scouts early for Faith bonus from ruins.

 

[The_J]

Screenshot from smoky skies

-> what's that south east of the city? First thought it could be airships, but the icons look more like normal ships.

 

[Pouakai]

Bit dissapointed by what I'm seing from the Smoky Skies scenario. They've had so long to do this, and they're reusing icons, colours and city lists. I believe SE of the city is definately an airship, seperation from the shadow

 

[shaglio]

I know there are going to be new ships, but did we know there was going to be one at Navigation?

 

[comatosedragon]

"It still takes time for the computer to resolve battles and move through turns, but it is faster than the base game is now. That is an important improvement because I used to get a little pang of boredom each time that I hit the turn button. I almost felt like I could get up and get a snack and then come back."

This is awesome, and something nobody else has mentioned, as far as I know. I was hoping for a snappier, faster turn time, and it looks like it may actually happen!

 

[MadDjinn]

"It still takes time for the computer to resolve battles and move through turns, but it is faster than the base game is now. That is an important improvement because I used to get a little pang of boredom each time that I hit the turn button. I almost felt like I could get up and get a snack and then come back."

This is awesome, and something nobody else has mentioned, as far as I know. I was hoping for a snappier, faster turn time, and it looks like it may actually happen!

some optimization will be very very nice to get. But we'll never get to a point where there's no timed break between turns, given that the AI does actually need some time to think.

 

[CivilizedPlayer]

The military units now include World War I-era tanks, planes, machine gunners, and artillery

Does this confirm a new artillery unit, or does it just mean that the previewer is mistaken? To my knowledge, there's been no mention of a new arty unit, but it would be welcome. However, he did demonstrate that he's not familiar with all the nuances of the game, so it's possible that he made a mistake, and he's just referring the the arty we already have in-game. Thoughts?

 

[Guandao]

Most of the work for the scenario was prolly done on Into the Renaissance.
Smoky Skies's scenario map doesn't look too interesting, just a bunch of islands

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

The artillary we already have seems pretty WW1 style already I think. He probably got a little carried away.

 

[MadDjinn]

Most of the work for the scenario was prolly done on Into the Renaissance.
Smoky Skies's scenario map doesn't look too interesting, just a bunch of islands

all new units, not just renamed versions of current ones, plus a completely different win style? That takes some effort.

The map *is* likely just a random one though, since that one doesn't look like anything iRL.

 

[Gintoki89]

Oh hey, GPs have a terrain improvement! I remember there was questions as to whether they'd have an ability like that.