Next patch anticipation thread

[V. Soma]

I do hope they will release patch before the stream, and the stream will be kind of advertising it

 

[DanteMartinez]

It says "Australian summer", the Australian summer ends Feb 28.

Where is this February 28 date coming from? As far as I'm aware the Summer soltice is Dec 21/22 and the Winter solstice is June 21/22 in the southern hemisphere. That makes Summer run from Dec 21/22 through March 21/22. Are there holidays that end on Feb 28?

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

I'm excited! Anybody know what they meant in their patch announcement about 'obsolete units'?

Does that mean making underpowered units more appealing, or is it actually a tweak to what happens when your units are a full era behind and need to be upgraded? Any thoughts?

I think it means you can produce units that aren't the most advanced in their type in case you don't have the required resource for the most advanced unit. Like you can keep building Swordsmen even if you have Gunpowder tech but no access to Niter.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Where is this February 28 date coming from? As far as I'm aware the Summer soltice is Dec 21/22 and the Winter solstice is June 21/22 in the southern hemisphere. That makes Summer run from Dec 21/22 through March 21/22. Are there holidays that end on Feb 28?

Other countries keep seasons by months. Australia reckons their summer ends on the 28th.

 

[drmuser]

I'm leaning towards tonight or tomorrow.

That would be awesome if it did update. I just finished a game as the Aztecs (the same one as was speed running and starting a new game with the patch would be fantastic.

 

[tekjunkie28]

I think it means you can produce units that aren't the most advanced in their type in case you don't have the required resource for the most advanced type. Like you can keep building Swordsmen even if you have Gunpowder tech but no access to Niter.

I think it mean that they fixed the obsolete units not being upgraded.. Thats still broke

 

[Katakanja]

If we're speculating on the obscure teases for the patch changes now, I want to know what they mean by 'ice caps'. I saw someone speculating that it was something to do with tweaking the map generation scripts so that no continent would stretch completely from top to bottom of the map and block off oceans, but I was hoping for something a bit more unexpected - perhaps they gave them a yield to make tundra cities on the edges of maps more viable? Possible preparation for a future Inuit civ confirmed?!

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

If we're speculating on the obscure teases for the patch changes now, I want to know what they mean by 'ice caps'. I saw someone speculating that it was something to do with tweaking the map generation scripts so that no continent would stretch completely from top to bottom of the map and block off oceans, but I was hoping for something a bit more unexpected - perhaps they gave them a yield to make tundra cities on the edges of maps more viable? Possible preparation for a future Inuit civ confirmed?!

No, I'm pretty sure they had the right of it. When the game launched a lot of people complained about the lack of "Northwest Passages".

 

[Larsenex]

No, I'm pretty sure they had the right of it. When the game launched a lot of people complained about the lack of "Northwest Passages".

Indeed I dislike that in vanilla all the continent generation had ice that prevented travel from one ocean to another. YamGC fixes it in one of his builds but it really needed to be addressed.

 

[DanteMartinez]

Other countries keep seasons by months. Australia reckons their summer ends on the 28th.

Ah, ok so it's a colloquial season. I don't think we can use that to peg them to release by the 28th though. Technically, Australian Summer still runs through March 21/22 from an Earth Science standpoint. Maybe 2k respects the local use of 'season' but they may not.

 

[DJ_Tanner]

I think it mean that they fixed the obsolete units not being upgraded.. Thats still broke

Yes I believe it has to do with upgrading the AI to prioritize upgrading units.

Where is this February 28 date coming from? As far as I'm aware the Summer soltice is Dec 21/22 and the Winter solstice is June 21/22 in the southern hemisphere. That makes Summer run from Dec 21/22 through March 21/22. Are there holidays that end on Feb 28?

http://www.australia.com/en/facts/australias-seasons.html


Straight from the kangaroo's mouth.

 

[Vahnstad]

I dislike the polar caps too.

 

[Gedemon]

I'd rather the devs fix the game themselves rather than provide tools for other people to do their job for them.

Let me try to explain why this patch may be so important for some of us.

I know that "thanks" to some games open to modding people are looking at SDK as something that will "fix" the game, and it makes me sad to have to acknowledge this to a point.

In my case that's not how I want to use the modding tools, while most people buy a game when they buy civ6, I buy a modding platform, something that's going to allow me to make my own version of the game, because I already know before it's released that my vision of a Civilization game is not anymore what the majority of the player base want and what the developers will provide.

And I don't think that any modder want tools to fix a game, that's more like a player request (if you can't "fix" it let "us" do it) while most modders want to add new contents like new civilization (sometime perfectly blending in the base game), others want to change the rules to their taste, create maps, scenario or total conversions, or, in other words, create something new.

So that's why like you I'd rather have a working game at release (and so far on the "working" side I've found civ6 much better than civ5), but not for the same reason, just so that I don't have to "fix" anything before starting serious modding, and that's also why having a perfectly working version of the game without modding capability would be completely useless to me.

 

[agonistes]

In my case that's not how I want to use the modding tools, while most people buy a game when they buy civ6, I buy a modding platform, something that's going to allow me to make my own version of the game... .

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100% agree with this

 

[Piruparka]

At white time were the previous patches released? I believe it was aroung 5 AM, CET. Or am I mistaken?

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

At white time were the previous patches released? I believe it was aroung 5 AM, CET. Or am I mistaken?

They were around 9pm EST which is 3AM CET.

 

[V. Soma]

They were around 9pm EST which is 3AM CET.

I usually wake up at 2-3 times in the night - so I will check things every now and then /CET time/

 

[Piruparka]

3 AM... so when I go to bed at 8 tonight, I would have seven hours of sleep until 3 am, get up, play for four hours and go to work. Seems like a good plan, doesn't it? Now, all I need is the patch and DLC coming

 

[Leyrann]

Where is this February 28 date coming from? As far as I'm aware the Summer soltice is Dec 21/22 and the Winter solstice is June 21/22 in the southern hemisphere. That makes Summer run from Dec 21/22 through March 21/22. Are there holidays that end on Feb 28?

It depends on who you ask. Astrologists (who look at the celestial bodies) say seasons start around the 21st, while metereologists (who look at the weather) say seasons start at the 1st.

So, yeah, your choice. I made mine.

 

[Leyrann]

3 AM... so when I go to bed at 8 tonight, I will have seven hours of sleep until 3 am, get up, play for four hours and go to work. Seems like a good plan, doesn't it?

Nonono, that's 11 hours of sleep. Hours before midnight count double.