Video about Civ6 on speedrunning/cheating yt channel

[dusters]

As an old school Civ 1- 3 player I'm both disgusted and amazed.

Starting resources are huge bonus in all Civ games so manipulating them should be immediately noticeable.

On the other hand, I can see that Civ series will never (never say never) have good anti-cheat engine for MP games.

What do you think? Is cheating common in MP?

 

[Duke William of Normandy]

I think this guy was cheating by using that play by play map mod thing, which would allow him to find villages and city states faster.

 

[Klaus Hergersheimer]

Yeah I figured he just ran the same game on another machine somehow

(Sort of what online chess cheaters do: match the opponent human's moves in another instance of the game, then reproduce what the computer does in response.)

It wouldn't be so pathetic if he didn't put out some short novel about how he could accurately predict tribal village placement based on map type...
Just goes to show you, the only real competitive versus games should be in-person only.