New video from Destructoid (May, 14th)

[Raiki]

It also means you don't have to incorporate the Shrine into your early build order.

So you can still go 2xscout/granary if you've got the wheat/deer around (tradition build).

Ooh, I didn't even think of how strong a 3 deer/forest tile start would be for them. I'm starting to like the Celts more and more, here.

Yeah, and otherwise there are pantheons which do not rely on terrain.

Yeah, Fertility Rights would be particularly helpful. +10% growth is not to be sneezed at when you've got at least 3 unchopped, unimproved forests at your capital.

~R~

 

[cuc]

Hong Kong is a new CS.

The espionage part of the video is taken from the steampunk scenario, although as we have already seen, the scenario in this media build just uses real world city names.

Hong Kong, nicknamed "desert of culture" as a cultural CS (as some have suggested in the past) would be funny.

 

[Ulthwithian]

Updated 'New Info' post with this information. (Ethiopia's UA was already known.)

 

[apocalypse105]

Sweden - Nobel Prize - +90 influence when gift Great Person to city states. Making DoF with other nations give the parties involved 10% Great People generation.
Ethiopia - Spirit of Adwa - Combat bonus +20% when fighting with Civs that have more cities than Ethiopia.
Celts - Druidic Lore - +1 faith with 1 unimproved forest tile, bonus is +2 if have 3 unimproved forest.

England gets 1 extra spy for sure now.


Kinda WTH with Nobel Prize though why would I give Great People to city states and what do they do with them? o.O

Great artists and they are one of the easiest gto get btw

SO basicly sweden is good at culture victory just fill you're opera houses and museums with artist and spam great artist give 1 if you don't need them at a culture city state

 

[Ulthwithian]

Yeah, Nobel Prize basically reads 'Give a GP to a Neutral CS to auto-ally them.' (Assuming that the influence numbers haven't changed, of course.) This is also VERY effective at keeping CSs allied with you if you have the 'Randomly get GP from CS' policy from Patronage.

This might also be a use for Great Generals and Great Prophets past a certain point.

 

[apocalypse105]

BTW can you actualy enalbe empire of smokey enabling on mods

and then start a game of you're own on the mod menu and choose a leader and try to win on every map you want?

 

[Gintoki89]

Dont know if anyone got the Smoky Skies UAs, but I was able to make them out. Leader/ability names may be off:

Cyrus Rotheron - Tireless Watch - Airship units get +2 movement.
Clinton Alderdice - New World Order - New policies cost 10% less culture.
Ignace Curnaw - Optimized Extraction - +1 production from strategic resources, and whatever uses Uranium symbols in the scenario provide double quantity.
Octavius Cutler - Frontier Markets - +1 gold from strategic resources, and Aetherium gives double quantity. Unique Building is Aetherium Factory.

The last one is named Luther Griggs, but they didn't scroll down to his ability.

Edited with the info from the Czech preview posted by KAVA.

 

[Liex]

Perhaps the last guy has an Egypt like UA.

Quite generic these UAs, IMO.

 

[AriochIV]

I think the Uranium symbol is used for "Aetherium," which I believe is required for the flying units.

 

[Gintoki89]

Yeah, I could tell the names were different, but without knowing what they might be I wasn't able to figure it out.

 

[Haig]

If someone knows what Stele were in history, could there be a possibility for an unique improvement with them, like the Polynesia's Moai? Or is Stele something more complex like a temple, and so a likely building?

 

[Gintoki89]

Well, given the stele has a colored picture and not a white image on a blue background like moais and terrace farms, it's almost certainly a building.

 

[AriochIV]

A stele is just a stone obelisk, but as Gintoki said, you can tell from the icon that it's a building.

 

[Haig]

Allright thanks.
I like when civilizations are represented broadly and their uniques are scattered thru eras, like Stele will probably arrive early and their Mehal Sefaris are after Renaissance.

 

[theadder]

Some interesting stuff there.

What awful, awful people in the video though. That's a terrible place to work.

 

[Raiki]

Some interesting stuff there.

What awful, awful people in the video though. That's a terrible place to work.

Yeah, as someone who self-identifies as a nerd with a significant amount of pride, I didn't much like the sneering attitude towards Civ and nerds in general.

They seemed to be, incorrectly, of the opinion that if it wasn't an XBox shooter, it wasn't really a video game. Who plays those things, anyway? </reverse gaming snootiness>


~R~

 

[theadder]

I particularly enjoyed the attitude and so on with a view count of 303 page impressions for the video at Youtube. We are not the only ones unimpressed it seems.

I saw some of the pre-Civ stuff in that video as I skipped through to find it and they were irritating throughout.

The only interesting stuff was contained in the video, rather than anything that they actually talked about.

 

[Raiki]

Well, the guy who actually *talked* about civ seemed okay...when the other two weren't rushing him or mocking him, that was.

 

[theadder]

Yes; he was fine. I got the impression that he would have given a lot more in-depth information if he had been given the chance.

"Can you eat the fish?"

At this point, I don't think that there's an awful lot more information to release, though. Perhaps Firaxis is hiding some things for right before the release.

I'm a bit surprised that they didn't keep at least one of the civilisations back to hand out nearer to the release.

 

[CYZ]

I wonder if you gift a GP to a CS, will they use it or will it be expended.

If they actually use it, that opens up interesting strategies. Gives a GG or 2 to help them fend off an agressive civ. Give them a GA in the hope they culture bomb a nearby civs resource (actually giving it to you!!). This is good because GG and GA are often the ones you don't know what to do with at some point.

This is not a bad ability all, after burning a few GP on Golden Ages it just isn't worth it so much anymore, a CS ally can be way more valuable then.