[R&F] Rise and Fall General Discussion Thread

[Vahnstad]

WOW

is the release date 8 february. I thought it was 11 february all the time.

What a pleasant surprise lol.

 

[SammyKhalifa]

Timur the lame aka Tamerlane, yes.

I think he's listed as Tamerlane though

 

[SammyKhalifa]

Technically less for some of us on the West coast. Though I can't play until at least 9:45AM on Thursday, so it's more than 2 days for me.

I probably won't be able to play until Sunday.

 

[God of Kings]

I won't be available to play until R&F is available on the Mac App Store.

However, I don't mind waiting.

 

[Giskler]

I think he's listed as Tamerlane though

 

[Timothy001]

I just realized, All of my ethnic backgrounds are (or soon will be) represented in CiVI. My fathers side was German/Dutch, while my mothers side was English/Scottish.

 

[God of Kings]

I just realized, All of my ethnic backgrounds are (or soon will be) represented in CiVI. My fathers side was German/Dutch, while my mothers side was English/Scottish.

Not just that, but Sudbury is close to traditional Cree territory.

 

[SammyKhalifa]

Haha. Feels good to be wrong though.

 

[Jewelrunna]

So we now have all the niches that the expansion Civs add to the game.
Korea: Turtling science based around weird adjacency bonuses.
Mongolia: Aggro mounted Civ that combines trade with conquest
Netherlands: Naval & trade based Civ with a focus on culture & loyalty.
Cree: Trade, early scouting & border growth, with an extra helping of alliance-based diplomacy.
Georgia: Golden Ages, defense, and faith.
Chandragupta: Same India we know & love (maybe), but with an extra helping of domination.
Scotland: Science & production bonuses centered around amenities.
Mapuche: Cultural turtle that bites back. Also potentially an empire killer.
Zulu: Corps, armies, & impi, oh my!

Though we all have a right to be a little salty over the omission of some fan favorites (Ottomans & Inca when?!), I think we have ourselves some very interesting inclusions that should be a lot of fun to play as!

 

[Cerilis]

Now that the leaders for Civilization VI: No shirts Edition are complete, what do you think of the combined leader graphics?

Should they have added some amazonian armoured-bra queen for balance?

Mostly kidding here.

 

[Giskler]

Now that the leaders for Civilization VI: No shirts Edition are complete, what do you think of the combined leader graphics?

Should they have added some amazonian armoured-bra queen for balance?

Mostly kidding here.

Would only be fair

 

[Katakanja]

Now that the leaders for Civilization VI: No shirts Edition are complete, what do you think of the combined leader graphics?

Should they have added some amazonian armoured-bra queen for balance?

Mostly kidding here.

It does raise the question as to what the theme for the second expansion will be.

Vanilla was Civ: Hats Vs. Beards Edition.

R&F is Civ: Rise of the Shirtless Leaders and Fall of everyone else.

 

[RohirrimElf]

Does anyone have an idea if there will be a list of patch notes before release?
I’m eager to know if there will be improvements made to some erea’s of the game that have not gotten much attention so far.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Does anyone have an idea if there will be a list of patch notes before release?
I’m eager to know if there will be improvements made to some erea’s of the game that have not gotten much attention so far.

Good question. I will hit up Sarah on Twitter and report back if I get an answer.

 

[Giskler]

Hopefully they'll release the patch notes tomorrow so we get something to tide us over for the last day

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

https://twitter.com/sbar713/status/960905226202042368

It looks like patch notes will be out before the expansion. "Soon"

 

[Amrunril]

So we now have all the niches that the expansion Civs add to the game.
Korea: Turtling science based around weird adjacency bonuses.
Mongolia: Aggro mounted Civ that combines trade with conquest
Netherlands: Naval & trade based Civ with a focus on culture & loyalty.
Cree: Trade, early scouting & border growth, with an extra helping of alliance-based diplomacy.
Georgia: Golden Ages, defense, and faith.
Chandragupta: Same India we know & love (maybe), but with an extra helping of domination.
Scotland: Science & production bonuses centered around amenities.
Mapuche: Cultural turtle that bites back. Also potentially an empire killer.
Zulu: Corps, armies, & impi, oh my!

Though we all have a right to be a little salty over the omission of some fan favorites (Ottomans & Inca when?!), I think we have ourselves some very interesting inclusions that should be a lot of fun to play as!

I'd describe the Netherlands more as a river/coastline focused civ (the culture and loyalty bonuses seem fairly minor, especially with the expansion's reduced trade route availability), and Georgia partly as a city-state focused civ (conditional envoy doubling is far stronger than any extant CS bonus), but otherwise this seems like a good summary.

 

[SammyKhalifa]

https://twitter.com/sbar713/status/960905226202042368

It looks like patch notes will be out before the expansion. "Soon"

Going through patch notes is almost as fun as the game itself.

 

[Timothy001]

Patch notes tomorrow morning? Followed by live gameplay just after midnight.

 

[Anno]

I would be mildly surprised if they didn't have streamers start playing tomorrow in the run up to release.