CIV 7 DEV Exclusive Interview - CAN WE PET THE DOG?, Balancing, AI changes and the Paradox of Choice

[@boesthius]

ALSO I woke up at 6am for this so if I sound a little stuffy and not as excitable that would be why!!!

[@sophiequests]

Great work Boes! Really good questions

[@FiraxisGames]

Glad we had the chance to sit down and talk Civ - thanks for the great questions, Boes!

[@oufukubinta]

Rubber banding awful players and AI to catch up with you discourages me from trying to play well since whether you're good or you suck you still get the same outcome which sucks

[@Mistshock]

​@@oufukubintawhat a sore loser/poor winner mentality. The worst part of previous civs was every other player just quitting because one person had snowballed so much that they were undefeatable - which history has shown has never been the case. The Romans fell or transformed, the Chinese were wiped out and rebuilt multiple times, the Egyptians fell during the bronze Age collapse, the British declined. Just think how pax Romana became pax Mongolica, pax Britannica, pax Americana etc. This is a much more nuanced and interesting mechanic. Especially if crises can become overwhelmingly difficult to survive.

[@petemagyar1445]

Make civ swapping optional

[@benjaminwiedel6366]

the potential for better AI is super exciting

[@woodysmith2681]

Commander Types: I saw them talk to Potato about this and their answer led me down a different path. NOW, it sounds like the old military commanders, aka the front-line generals, get supplemented with additional types. Age of Exploration sounds like it has roving/exploring commanders more like Super-Scouts with the old CIV 3 "Patrol" ability to help you explore new areas AND watch over them. Modern Age, that'll be probably be the Strategic Commanders, ones to improve units speeding, training and coordination in moving about a larger but interconnected map (aka "Logistics"),

[@ianadams2566]

I honestly think it’ll be even simpler. Exploration age will have naval commander and modern age will introduce Air Force commander

[@ebrim5013]

It’s really hard to build a strategy AI that doesn’t take full advantage of it being AI while also being asymmetrically disadvantaged by a player who can save scum. Like you can build a really good AI that isn’t fun play against. But I feel like one aspect of difficulty in these games has to be limiting the player’s ability to do things like save scum that the computer opposition can’t.

[@jyutzler]

Honestly though, good players almost never save scum. The real AI issue is that there are usually too many degrees of freedom, especially by endgame.

[@Kazihirom]

I hope they put in a way to make the ancient era last 1500 turns

[@lmarsh5407]

Same! I love to play in ancient era. I always wanted a technology cap in civ Vi. And now with civ 7 I imagine it would be easier to do that in a custom game

[@Glider324]

Notice how they don't say the AI is improved because of this or that reason, they just say the mechanics are easier for the AI and that the AI needs to be aware of them.

[@omygandhi157]

Very Nice questions. Thank you for the content

[@TylerAndToast]

Their talk about ai made a lot of sense with the changes in the game but I'm worried that will those same changes dumb down the game for the players too?

[@peterfrancis9838]

I'm excited but I also agree. I think some of the elements that made Civ 6 impossible to write AI for, were also the elements that gave it that secret sauce that made empire-building so satisfying

[@marklentz1095]

You and Potato did really nice job asking questions. Kudos!

[@Cruor34]

No they didn't, lol. They were softball pre-approved questions. We learned nothing new. If a developer let someone ask questions they didn't want to answer, or were forced to answer very specific, hardcore questions I would be so impressed I might just buy an extra copy of the game to support them just for that. I WILL admit, although I am not a fan of this guy, he did ask better questions than Potato did. The AI question was ok but needs to follow up more and grill them harder on it.

[@petemagyar1445]

@@Cruor34 Potato's was embarrassing

[@JuanGarcia-gy8vl]

First question: Who is the best Civ 6 player? Second question: Was there any other option than Boes?

[@wxcvbndu51]

I wish at least one of the content creators who got an interview asked them about Denuvo, but I guess they couldn't just ask any question and give Firaxis bad press

[@boesthius]

It was one of the questions I had but I ran out of time

[@ContaVelha02]

if you mean to ask if the game has Denuvo, the Steam page says yes

[@gooper3644]

@@ContaVelha02I imagine they probably wanted him to ask “why?” or “can you not?”

[@Ultrue87]

Really hope denuvo just last for years and then they remove it like most other game who using denuvo, cause you now denuvo literally hogging performance

[@petemagyar1445]

@@boesthius Suuuuuuuuuuure bro lol

[@SebiSuper9mil]

Boes gonna watch the vid when i get home but was my message delivered to Civ HQ?

[@monkeytime9851]

I would like them to focus AI more on making the game a better simulation and a better world, and less about trying to "win" the game.

[@SirTayluh]

Do we have any idea if they will remove Denuvo after an amount of time like with other games after initial sales have passed? I want to try this game despite being hesitant on the changes but I refuse to touch malware.

[@Mistshock]

What i would love to see isnt every leader available to every civ, but leaders being shared across multiple related civs - a what if kind of scenario. A mongolian China, or a Manchu Korea, or a Chinese Japan, or a persian india are all fantastic choices, but a French led african empire or an african led english empire feels inconsistent and immersion breaking.

[@Kazihirom]

Potato mcwhiskey also did one of these

[@manicpixiedckgirl]

give me spiffing brit mode (no civ unlock system)

[@SleepWavezzz]

Idk. Civ 7 shows a lack of passion and a lust for glitter. Something was lossed.

[@samuelmeisterw]

Hello boes

[@Mistshock]

High quality aluminium Cut cut me

[@512TheWolf512]

PLEASE don't tell me yall ask the same lame ass questions... at this point you'd be firaxis pr team employees, not youtubers

[@funpolepel]

Angry person

[@imnotcj]

PLEASE don't tell me yall ask the same lame ass questions... at this point you'd be firaxis pr team employees, not youtubers

[@rohangondor6250]

Yeah… a little disappointed

[@etienne8110]

Same, felt it was a bit disappointing.

[@danielcook6582]

Lame interview brother, nothing about the ui which you were critical in an earlier video

[@boesthius]

I ran out of time unfortunately, I had that as well as a few other critical questions to ask

[@GreenAppelPie]

I think you meant ‘Mankind 2’

[@liamhardigan6607]

eh this franchise is over shits been ass for decades

[@orangepuffs6796]

you're going to new jersey

[@radiofrequency5801]

new jersey for you

[@ebrim5013]

You can still play the older games. 👍

[@FlamingZombie567]

New Jersey.

[@JamesC1981]

what happened at 23:42??

[@boesthius]

their video cutout for half a second