Ancient Cities | RELEASE 1.0 | Hardcore Realistic Ancient City Building Sim & Civilization Maker

[@ShadowDragon1848]

I'm pretty sure Raptor has a strong PC but it seems to struggle nonetheless with this game. Dear developers, make a game that doesn't need a super computer to run.

[@arena4656]

so i installed the game and then removed it due to performance issue

[@JD96893]

his gpu is actually kind of meh, but it still seems to have performance problems.

[@rocksjoshua]

Graphics are better than ever, but so are CPU's and especially GPU's, its not a graphics problem, its a optimization problem. Same issue with Hogwarts Legacy and Sons of the Forrest, both beautiful games but suffer from poor PC optimization. No way a PS5 or Series X should preform and look better than my PC.

[@klausklautklopapier4679]

@@rocksjoshua hogwarts legacy didnt have a single bug or lag in my entire playthrough at maximum graphics. I know many ppl that didnt have problems on pc either. Seems like the issue is with your pc or something but not the game. Havent played sons of forests tho i dont know about that

[@maxmote23]

@@klausklautklopapier4679 aint no way ur fps didnt go to 20 when you were in hogsmead on day 1 release

[@randomvidsnow991]

one thing i realized about this game is that if you dont make the essential things high priority they dont gather them as fast bcos they tend to gather everything at the same pace, so if u put lets say stones and straw on high priority they will gather those resources faster than the rest which helps, so it is important to use priority in this game

[@Smarty901]

Love your style & learning more about the game Raptor. Lets see an Ancient Cities series please mate as it'd really help my beginners playthrough! Keep up the good work mate!

[@Chevronsam]

So I could be wrong, but based on some google map searching, it looks like you settled your group on Rio Ésera. I couldn’t find that weird river ramp at 18:20, but the land is probably generated by a mix of satellite mapping and topographical mapping. So it’s likely that there was an error in that area

[@deino117]

Yes - please do continue with this save.

[@deino117]

PS - Glory to Raptoria!

[@mikexstad1121]

In this time period, the Levant, Egypt, spain, and north Africa were much more green. They are using a modern map, which isn't accurate

[@naimnoridin1685]

nahhh not really, if you refer to Axial tilt cycle , 10000bc north Africa already a desert. in fact during 6000~8000 bc sahara even larger than today

[@anto8375]

@@naimnoridin1685 Desertification in Sahara started 5600 years ago and ended 2700 years ago, more or less.

[@5h0rgunn45]

My takeaway from this video is that it take 33 years to build a tent.

[@hihosilver1234]

Just like real life

[@noahriding5780]

That looks fun. Hope you have longer videos for it and not just 20 minuters.

[@tomdavidson115]

I am a newbie. Good vibes on nation building. I don't feel overwhelmed with your guidance. Thank you.

[@d33pr0ast]

Performance looks much better with 1.0 Very happy to see that.

[@doreestone4487]

What you call a “notch” in a river is called an ox bow by cartographers because of its shape. I love your videos. I’m really looking forward to Manor Lords. I’m on a fixed income (I’m an old lady, lol), so I have to know any game is worth the cost before I purchase it.

[@ChuntyCops]

Good on you

[@ThatGuy-6669]

"If you wanna subscribe, you can do that too" Hahaha. OK Raptor. You earned my sub.

[@amdl270]

Maybe I haven’t quite figured it out but it takes a lot to make the villagers happy and it takes a lot to build very simple things like a fire.

[@WarLord10]

I love this kind of games , it looks laggy!

[@duphasdan]

Huzzah. I was worried it would never finish.

[@kudablyat]

Thanks to the reviews of this game, I known about Dawn of Man. :) The game is very ambitious and it will be a great project if they get it right in a couple of years of patches (the game is still very unfinished right now).

[@kazukihashimoto183]

dude this game has bin in development for 4 years now and it feels like a pre pre aplha with very little content..... yes im sure it will be a great game in 2085 iff they even stick with it because it isnt realy feasible to keep putting in money into an almost obscure unfinished game. I love the idea of this game bu this game failed like 2 years ago now its just on its deathrattle for a few more years before it fades into nothing.

[@chriswhinery925]

Yeah for $40 this doesn't look nearly finished enough. It's a pass for me at this point. I'll follow it and see if maybe in a few years it's significantly better or I can get it at deep discount.

[@Cryton12345]

Wow, playing as giants! GASP!

[@allwelikeworms]

Looking forward to the Religion expansion where we can finally get the Black and White reboot we deserve. (just my fantasy, no idea about the game beyond this, but curiousity piqued). Hope performance can be improvied.

[@sillydemonfrog]

On your map comment, same! I wish they could allow us to zoom and adjust the game area, tbh. i also wish we could walk around the whole playable area, like, transition from one gane area to another. But I will settle for esturaries and waterfalls ❤

[@leahdavis224]

Would love to see more!

[@snoo333]

thanks for the intro. looking forward to seeing you play more of this.

[@360milliondollars]

Thought Africa's desert was a bit more green back then... LOL

[@shauriel5140]

this game reminds me of another called sapiens,

[@nspgreen]

The intro music in this game kind of reminds me of Rise of Nations.

[@AlexVictorianus]

The Basques would like this

[@bluthammer1442]

this game got SLAUGHTERED on steam. Never going to recover.

[@BLAZERYT2001]

Raptor never disappoints us, he's an incredible Content Creator and always creates masterpieces. His content is amazing.

[@drAgonheart580]

Best Hair Best Tunes Best Games ..... Oldest City

[@Wabbit_Hunta]

Oh look.. right out of the traps at the start. Say hello to Ötzi, before he pegs it in The Alps

[@T.H.E.O.2024]

Than k yoiu for makling this i had bought it the day it came out and filerd it away as play when ready ,..now i knows its ready ,..thank you

[@Antonin1738]

my gosh, hope they optimized this game

[@Daniel_Jed]

Glory to Raptoria!

[@robbycahyadi9920]

Hello I'm a new follower so I might be missing some context, but advanced civilizations start in the fertile crescent (between the Euphrates and the Tigris Rivers). Can anyone tell me why the starting line is Western Europe instead of the fertile crescent?

[@fakiirification]

whats more advanced than the British? They owned the world at one point before the decline.

[@Valnotersc]

That's quite archaic of a perspective. We are currently finding more and more evidence hinting at lost civilisations all over the world that were destroyed with the end of the ice age. And those were all over the globe. And the latter Indus and Chinese civilisations for which we do have significant data developed largely independent of those in the fertile crescent.

[@robbycahyadi9920]

@@Valnotersc source?

[@sankaplays3098]

@@robbycahyadi9920 Imagine asking a source instead of just Googling what you want to know.

[@angrydoggo7160]

@@sankaplays3098 I have googled it and found info that invalidates your arguments. Check Mate.

[@KitShannon]

I remember being hyped for this and becoming increasingly suspicious as development went on. All of those suspicions have been confirmed. It isn't enough for a game to be pretty, when it has bad mechanics, bad AI and is priced at more than twice its worth. I wish we had more variety of choice but Dawn of Man is superior in every way but graphics.

[@huantruonginh2946]

Was going to say the same, simpler is sometimes better

[@Circiaify]

I was very interested in the game but the price tag doesn't match the product IMO. There a better games for better prices. They built this game engine from the ground up which was probably a mistake. I hope to see smoother animations and better FPS in the upcoming months and if they give it enough love, it could be a great game. Just my take from following the game.

[@TricksterPoi]

Despite an impressive looking game it had mixed reviews, but I guess this video tells it more than that.

[@samuelmontenegroserniotti7146]

22:16 : "E-fish-ent"

[@jaspurrthecat4451]

This game has evolved so much since I first played! It cost me 60$ but it's totally worth it.

[@keyboardoracle1044]

River don’t run well with me… water flows to the lowest point. The rivers are more like aqueducts. Hopefully devs work that out.

[@jamestriplett5854]

man i was on the original kickstarter. Feels like forever ago.

[@ShawnTinez]

I wanna see endgame for this title. There is no endgame videos on KZbin, please reach the end of this game and show us how it is.

[@vipertwenty249]

Have to go out to work shortly so I'll watch this later - but where would I build as my first choice? On the site of the present day city of Belfast. It's on an island so it's harder to invade, it's right next to a large lake with plenty of fish, there were loads of forest in ancient times, drought was almost unheard of and the land was very fertile.

[@OwenRhodri]

*Late reply* I am Welsh, and it is a shame that we humans have got rid of our forest for sheep farming, etc. through the centuries. In one of the national parks, we have one of the few European temperate rainforest biomes. I can imagine that with the excessive rain we have, the rainforest would be all over the land. Large parts of Ireland also have the same rainfall as Wales, so I can imagine that it would have been the same.

[@StreetSoulLover]

It's called an Oxbow (The Notch you mentioned)

[@jontython]

I'm not sure that's correct mate. An oxbow isn't a bend in the river, a bend is a meander. When the meander eventually erodes enough of the bank the river will then run straight and the meander then becomes separated from the main river flow and eventually forms a separate body of water called an oxbow lake. 👍

[@mattiOTX]

Tbf I thought it looked like a hairpin...

[@StephMcAlea]

Do the paths just appear where the people walk the most, like in Foundation?

[@Raptoria]

Yep, exactly!

[@blaizellee4441]

Turn the shadows off, that should help with the lag.

[@EUart34Soz]

There is dozens of banished clones.. yet we need banished 2.

[@emersonberania3997]

does it lag on rtx 4090?

[@Reyajh]

Beautiful game. Looks cool except, too dark at night and too heavy and frequent on the rain. I hope someone makes mods and the price is reasonable.

[@ThatGuy-6669]

I've been to Switzerland. It DOES look like that.

[@hihosilver1234]

Dawn of Man's great, my gf bought it for me for my birthday

[@_NoName_314]

it's been so long since the kickstarter 👵😆 Btw last time i checked Raptor i was following Wargame Red Dragon Japan defense 🤣... Sorry i lost your channel and coulnd't remember the name 🤦‍♀🤦‍♀🤦‍♀❤

[@123evilwolf]

I would've love it if my mid tier Rx 6600 pc could even run it.

[@dlscorp]

Looked like 15 fps

[@chunkle_bunkle]

Is the performance as bad as people say? steam reviews are blasting its performance

[@snackgames13]

i like it but seems even a monster rig is struggling to run smoothly. ill just go going medieval for now 😅

[@JulioAbel90]

Is still laggy af ?

[@arena4656]

this game seem challenging like css exam or like rocket since

[@pappy5204]

Raptor have heard of BOC, Birth of Cultures or Birth of Civilization?

[@JD96893]

looks very promising, but the steam reviews are pretty bad. Looks like the game still needs another 6 to 12 months of dev, balance, and QoL improvements. Hopefully they stick with the game that long, because i want to buy it, but not in it's current state unless its on a good sale.

[@JamesPascazio]

First time seeing this game. It looks very very slow, is that just the video?

[@ionicafardefrica]

honestly, I don't like the overall aesthetic of the game. Everything is small, gray and units clip inside each other in a way it's hard to tell what the hell is going on without zooming in. It's a common problem in recent economic strategy games, so the criticism is not limited to this game. Look at the footage at minute 27:09 for example - how many workers are in there? How much grain is left? Why are the rocks so visible compared to everything else. It's just a big no

[@arnelll]

Dude only needed 20 min to start playing lmao

[@jd-foo]

I remember the first time I heard about this game. I noticed that they were developing their own engine, despite having a single person working on code. I immediately knew it was going to be a total failure.

[@diederikveldhuizen4014]

is there any combat like in dawn of man btw. i like to have to fortify for that and not only for the looks

[@xb1llboswagginsxgaming550]

How do you rotate the building?

[@Hubris423]

R

[@ChuntyCops]

Monasteries weren’t built yet???

[@DrCharlesPAdams]

10 years later. 😂😂😂😂

[@artur39111]

What's wrong with optimisation? Why is it so laggy?

[@lolaka1313]

If they don't add Mesopotemia I will riot and I don't even own the game!

[@edgeeusebio8285]

Hi Raptor, would you or anyone in the comment section know if this is better than Dawn of Man? Thanks!

[@Raptoria]

More depth and apparently a big update for optimization.

[@edgeeusebio8285]

@@Raptoria Thank you! I got really intrigued when I saw a video of you playing that. I also wish that the Dawn had an update or make Dawn of Man2. Keep the awesome vids coming!

[@edgeeusebio8285]

@@Raptoria oh wait, i thought i replied. i didn't know if i hit enter or what lol. Anyway, thannk you! more awesome vids!

[@larsii100]

why is it so much lag..

[@deni3605]

If u dont wanna wait a week for construction just dont put so much buildings at start ;)

[@zhenhuanliu5485]

what is it with dawn oof man kind

[@edeefiggs4232]

Is the game actually playable now? I know at release it was like...eh?

[@laylen245]

can you go to war in it?

[@eganrabiee627]

Will this game be on ps4/5?

[@j1nz007]

Cool game, but not worth the hefty price tag with that much lag

[@dirk7816]

After my Farthest Frontier disappointment I am definitely not jumping into another prematurely. I think what ruined FF was the word "brutal" in there description. The devs had no clue how to make it brutal other then worthless inconsistent traders, spoon feeding you settlers, resource scarcity issues and the nonstop changing imbalance of everything else you had to deal with as they pivoted from one idea to the next in there attempt to keep it a "brutal" survival game.

[@EpikNyan]

wasn't the sahara supposed to be green 7000 years ago?

[@papascurveys7728]

The game seems improved but the blurriness is off the charts I fill like I need glasses even sharpened to the max it is blurry 4 gigabytes seems low for a game like this. I believe it will run on my old 486 Pc. The graphics are too hard on my eyes.

[@pr1gaming27]

Frames look like ...

[@LeemaxxLyrics]

It has better graphic but Dawn of Man is more fun

[@hihosilver1234]

I like Dawn of Man myself

[@Ramrider69]

👋

[@ezequieltellez9082]

like

[@markbolam1383]

mixed reviews on steam

[@JHolderman0]

Yeah I would pass the game up. 40 hours in and the performance is terrible and the game balance is very rough. I was curious to see how raptor was going to start as so many people are having a hard time and the I got to the part where the devs game him a save game and im done watching.

[@christopherr.561]

@@JHolderman0 just so you know he didn’t use the save to play/start his game, he used it to show what is possible. So he started from nothing. With that said I backed it but haven’t played it at all. When I tried it was very frustrating. Hopefully they can bring it all together but it’s been a really slow development. Hopefully one day I can play it.

[@davidthierie5462]

"1 hour gameplay''. Build 3 huts.

[@hihosilver1234]

I love slow progress, I play Surviving Mars on the slowest time frame and get soooo much done in a short amount of time.

[@lavignesbeats]

Will this game run on a lenovo pc?

[@shogunhk]

Well it depends on the specs as always. The game isnt optimized though.

[@FlintsHouse4992]

ну чисто life is feudal mmo

[@stefanpleyer8861]

why the didnt add balkans?Lepenski Vir,Vinca ,Starcevo 12000+ BC

[@ChuntyCops]

It’s release version bro. It’s fine Portugal is a Balkan nation

[@edwardkenworthy7013]

A clone of Dawn of Man.

[@mollyannSmyth]

Love your videos, thanks. Just curious but 1) does this game have raiders and can you turn them off? 2) Does it require religion of any kind to play and if so, can it be avoided or ignored?

[@Jakeurb8ty82]

Dawn of man was a half baked mess that got more frustrating as you played it. After watching a bunch of the UK's Time Team I learned its also quite inaccurate as far as settlement functions go. Don't understand why they added the later ages and changed it into a bad rts.

[@hihosilver1234]

I liked Dawn of Man, I played one game but put 20 or so hours into one civilization before my society collapsed bcs I couldn't feed my large population lol

[@mikalcobbs9402]

I want it to succeed, but the AI is broken

[@PlayGamesToRelax]

The gameplay is so laggy. 😮

[@NIGHTMARE70777]

[@TheGamingGhost_Roblox]

💓💓

[@justCezarMe]

too much visual clutter on the screen when in the village. But hey..

[@JohnWick77k]

Dawn of man is better than this carp

[@hihosilver1234]

More like trout

[@Hubris423]

Never seen a game's shader system be so terrible, takes a long time to render the shaders on first load, then you get into game and it just stutters like crazy, doesnt matter if its on low or high setting. I got a Ryzen 9 5950x, 32GB ram @3200mhz and a Rog Strix 4080 OC edition lol. Roughly 35FPS on high, 50-60 on low. and just stuttering all over the place.

[@Olli-kay]

Man, this seems to run like crap, and really looks quite bland. Saw someone mention that it runs badly even on a 3090... That is some shoddy optimisation. Guess I'll wait for a sale on this one, as it's currently AU$60. Might grab a "demo" in the meantime to test its performance.