Civilization 5 - Wonder Spotting

Filthy looks at the skeletons of wonders under construction.
**Warning, I miss-identify Prora in this game. You can see it on the edge, near the bottom, in the water, NOT where I mouse over** Believe you me, I feel fairly embarrassed about it!
Alhambra 1:25
Angkor Wat 1:33
Big Ben 1:49
Borobudur 1:12
Brandenburg Gate 2:05
Broadway 2:47
Chichen Itza 2:57
CN Tower 3:23
Colossus 3:38
Cristo Redentor 3:45
Eiffel Tower 4:09
Forbidden Palace 4:31
Globe Theatre 4:53
Great Firewall 5:15
Great Library 5:37
Great Lighthouse 5:50
Great Mosque of Djenne 6:03
Great Wall 6:37
Hagia Sophia 6:56
Hanging Gardens 7:15
Himeji Castle 7:35
Hubble Space Telescope 7:55
Kremlin 8:10
Leaning Tower of Pisa 8:36
Louvre 9:07
Machu Picchu 9:39
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus 9:59
Neuschwanstein 10:46
Notre Dame 10:58
Oracle 11:42
Parthenon 12:05
Petra 12:47
Porcelain Tower 13:10
Prora (Fail) 14:05
Pyramids 14:39
Red Fort 15:21
Sistine Chapel 15:45
Statue of Liberty 16:17
Statue of Zeus 16:41
Stonehenge 16:53
Sydney Opera House 17:27
Taj Majal 17:45
Temple of Artemis 18:20
Terracotta Army 18:56
Uffizi 19:42
Closing Remarks 20:08

[@filipstysiak]

this video has some truly amazing moments, namely: - Filthy trying to see software (Great Firewall) built in a forest - the description of Pentagon

[@chedsalvia6270]

seeing a giant server being erected would be quite funny.

[@PatrickT22]

Interesting fact about the Neuschwanstein; If the city building it has already built the Machu Picchu, it's actually impossible to spot. The game attempts to place the skeleton of Neuschwanstein on the exact same mountain, but when Machu Picchu is built, it either covers it up, or overrides it. At least, this is when I know from personal experience playing the game

[@sbot8158]

PatrickT22 Mind BLOWN

[@brandicunningham7243]

PatrickT22 yeah it's a shame. If a city is next to two mountains, it should hit build on the adjacent mountain.

[@dirkstrickland135]

Coming back from the future. If u uses Nvidia 4080 graphics card, u will be able to see both wonders in the same mountain.

[@tomlammerse2186]

I laughed way too hard at the prora part when i discovered you failed to identify it. Hilarious

[@queenoffishpeople9440]

Reason himeji castle doesn't look like a traditional European castle is because it's a Japanese "castle"

[@cryoboy]

Great video but oh man, I could not stop laughing when you were looking for the construction site of the firewall. :D

[@zevun7719]

Dude. The great firewall is a firewall. It isn't physically there

[@lachlan1423]

+Coal Hacks Minecraft there might have been a large server building or something of the sort

[@Folopolis]

+bluey1423 Hardware that runs the most robust firewalls in the world fits in a backpack, something that wouldn't register on a view that shows a whole city.

[@beargrills3508]

Ze Vun that would have been cool though. I mean fuck the great wall of china if you can make a wall of fire.

[@DivyenduKashyap]

Pretty sure he knows what a firewall is, but was expecting an animation nevertheless, because this is a game, a game in which Gandhi nukes.

[@FilthyRobot]

It's not possible to see national wonders building.

[@Keithz0r]

As a previous commenter stated you missed the Prora wonder. It is in the water below the city. It has cranes and stuff popping out of the water.

[@FilthyRobot]

Yep, realized that on the live stream this morning, making appropriate video changes now

[@mvpmvp2980]

i never realized how cool the deer and cattle and stuff looks zoomed in

[@cityassassin]

Himeji is a Shiro, which is a japanese castle. It's meant to look different, because it was built to withstand nature itself, because of their earthquakes. Traditional castles had no such worries to take care of, which is why they don't look like japanese shiro.

[@FilthyRobot]

Super cool, didn't know that!

[@Phlebas]

I'm kicking myself. I've been playing Civ 5 since it came out and I never even thought to use visual cues to determine if a wonder was under construction.

[@FilthyRobot]

+Phlebas Glad to help!

[@DoubIeO]

Actually I think Prora was being built in the south of the city cause I see some cranes in the water. Not completely sure due to me being unable to confirm it with the limited camera angle

[@Adumb_]

You do know the Great Firewall isn't a physical thing, right? It's just code on a computer. Also That's not Prora that's just a city building.

[@Pastshelfdate]

Thanks again, FR. I konw I lack the reflexes and quick thinking ever to join online multi-player, but it's still largely info I can use, if only to keep up in local multi-player.

[@arturasacy8906]

Hey man your im enjoying of urs shared videos and learning stuff. I wanted to ask what modification u use for UI cause its looks a lot different than default. And where could i get it?

[@haloempty]

Great vids, can you do one on the mechanics of tributing from city states

[@mawile3037]

14:37 would be Prora directly south of the city on the water close to the border(I did read the description, just pointing it out for people that didn't)

[@FilthyRobot]

+Mawile #303 Yep!

[@francescoalessandro4385]

Love your vids Filthy :D But I thougt there would appear a sceleton along the borders when building Great Wall and at about 14:30 or so, just before you scrolled to the next wonder,it kinda looked like there was something in the south of the city that could have been Prora instead of those things you pointed at. If you decided to make another one of this it would be great to see similar looking wonders next to each other instead of in alphabetical order :)

[@JKWbarcafan2121]

He acknowledges in the description that he misidentified Prora. It is the skeleton on the coast south of the city.

[@FilthyRobot]

The great wall skeleton is for the owner only. You get no visual clue to enemies in the process of enemies building the great wall.

[@francescoalessandro4385]

thanks for telling me you guys, didn't know neither

[@Luisin88]

I 'wonder' what the piramids will look like? Anyways good video. 4:20 Scaffolding is the word you're looking for.

[@rogerwilco2]

These all seem quite easy as they look like the real thing. They're quite recognizable.

[@mindlessambience6253]

So once you find someone's city with a scout, can you see any wonders being built in that city even when you don't have units nearby to provide sight?

[@FilthyRobot]

Mindless Ambience Except Great Wall and Great Firewall.

[@lukesenseney1045]

Little late to the party, but can you prebuild one turn into a wonder to get the skeleton and then move on to fool other players?

[@FilthyRobot]

Yep!

[@jasoninuk6]

Great video! What's the difference between a hard build and engineered? (I've never played multi-player - just interested). Ta.

[@FilthyRobot]

An engineered wonder generally takes a single turn of production only but consumes the great engineer.

[@jasoninuk6]

@@FilthyRobot Cool, got it thanks. I usually save up my Great Engineers for wonders so I guess it's the same thing. I've been working my way through each CIV alphabetically (by CIV name) and I'm currently playing as Persia. I play Huge maps on Warlord. In the first 27 games, Russia came out 14 times! Celts came out only 4 times. I now choose which CIVs to play against so that I get to play against each CIV the same amount of times (except Russia messed it up by 3) times. Hey ho! Love your vids by the way, they've given me so many tips and tricks even though I still can't win any games beyond Warlord level. LOL.

[@themuffinman8989]

Louvre is also a pyramid shaped woinder if you look closely at it.

[@dpSimi2244]

Thanks for the timestamps

[@Tpwnsu]

Love these videos filthy. Just letting you know Chichen Itza is pronounced Chee-chen Eet-za

[@FilthyRobot]

[@joebailey5658]

Chicken pizza

[@covykiller]

I dunno if you check comments on these old videos, but 'hagia sophia' is pronounced 'ah-yee-ah so-fee-ah'.

[@obbyl6209]

Hi FilthyRobot, very interesting video ! I Wonder if it is possible to see national wonders and especially the national college ? Thx in advance

[@ecopoliticalczar]

I don't think so, but honestly you wouldn't really need to spot wonders like those anyway since every player can build them. The reason why wonder spotting is necessary for the world wonders is because you need to know if another person is also building it, hence needing to step up your production to beat them to it.

[@christianhogue8799]

The Prora is a real landmark in Germany and it looks like a castle in the water, not similar to the Chrysler Building in Manhattan.

[@thad1296]

You know the Brandenburger Tor is not located in Brandenburg right? :D since you said "this is Brandenburg" It's in Berlin

[@FilthyRobot]

I know nothing of the sort.

[@Operative34]

I've been staring at this city for ages and I can't see angkor wat. there goes my american tile buying plan

[@Pushinkanzu]

Great wall is pretty easy to spot actually, theres a huge bloody wall around your borders

[@FilthyRobot]

It's only visible to the owner, so you can't spot others building it.

[@Pushinkanzu]

Woah, I never knew that. I stand corrected.

[@real9270]

Statue of Liberty is totally oxidized before it's even finished. Literally unplayable.

[@diabl2master]

"Neuschwanstein" doesn't have a single vowel or consonant sound which doesn't appear in English.

[@PerfectAlibi1]

New swan stein?

[@Valnotersc]

@@PerfectAlibi1 Literal translation: New Swan Stone Pronunciation: Noy (rhymes with toy) Shwan (swan but with sh) Shtyne (rhymes with mine)

[@PerfectAlibi1]

​@@Valnotersc Yeah, stone. what language is it from? I want to say German, but I'm not sure. XD

[@Valnotersc]

@@PerfectAlibi1 I have no idea where stone in English derives from, given how it comes from a proto Germanic word. Most likely from Old Saxon, but all Germanic languages have cognates of the word (German/Norwegian stein, Danish/Swedish sten, Dutch steen...)

[@viktorzhang4209]

Im confused. Evrytime im building the great wall there is this skeleton of a wall on the boarder of the city. It stretches for 5 tiles i think so instead you need to look at the boarder.

[@FilthyRobot]

+Viktor Zhang If you read through the comments you'll see that has been asked an answered several times here. The skeleton is only visible to the player building it until it is totally complete. You cannot "wonder spot" an opponent building the great wall because it isn't visible to you until it has been finished.

[@rheiagreenland4714]

I wonder what they're building in their capital...

[@R.Ratkus]

a good trick to make someone think youre building wonder: build it for a few turns, get something else when it appears. and you will get some cash for it

[@Thorwartm]

Noy-Shwan-styne would be the castle one

[@correctorer]

+Andi Bachem Americans can`t pronounce shit. Maybe thats due to the fact, americans almost don`t learn other languages.

[@Folopolis]

+Игорь Шмыгун Most Americas do sort of learn either Spanish, French, or German in school, but then promptly forget it because we never use it. 7 years ago I was quite proficient in German, but now I could barely remember my colors.

[@correctorer]

Folopolis Yeah. Thats all due to the unique properties of the English and the lack of borders with other language speakers. And mostly people around the world orient on the American culture, and americans don`t really give a fk about other countries. Even the brittish ppl have some use with French or German.

[@konplayz]

NewSwanRock in english.

[@OneOfFail]

It's pronounced No Treh Darm. Not No ter Dame, just for your information.

[@LastLightgg]

Nick Archer There is a college in America which is always refered to as No ter Dame. That's why all Americans say it that way :/ Not saying its right, but thats why.

[@FilthyRobot]

Salocin097 On an unrelated note, that college is 2 hours from me.

[@LastLightgg]

FilthyRobot Hey so, just wondering, how often do you stream? just going through some of your stuff, now. Like the where to settle, etc. nice content

[@FilthyRobot]

Salocin097 5 days a week

[@rogerwilco2]

Nick Archer Sigh, yeah.

[@ShopSongs]

Nush - Win - Stein :)

[@karavalenge]

ShopSongs No, it's Noish- Von- Steen.

[@cryoboy]

karavalenge No, it's Noi (like in "moist") Shwan (like "swan" but with the s-sound from "shackle" and the a sounds like the u in "fun" or the o in "money") Stine (like in "mine"). Or simply [nɔʏˈʃvaːnʃtaɪn].

[@Boxsteam]

I thought there was a skeleton for great wall, it is usually whiteish.

[@FilthyRobot]

Read through the comments, that's addressed, a lot, there.

[@Boxsteam]

FilthyRobot sorry for being repetitive

[@FilthyRobot]

Justin Norman np

[@alarik95]

I can see great wall when people build it?? You can't?

[@alarik95]

Robert Downey Jr. correction: while people are buildING it

[@disappointedfather9394]

Robert Downey Jr. It's only visible to the owner, meaning other players can't see someone else building it from seeing the skeleton. If you're desperate on finding out, using a spy is the only way. Then again the walls aren't that strong of a wonder to build unless you're using a weak early civ and your neighbor is running a strong early warmongering civ.

[@erichvanloon933]

Robert Downey Jr. [removed]

[@isak2209]

+Erich van Loon The fuck are you even talking about? They mean WHEN ITS BUILDING

[@Jerrycourtney]

_The Great Firewall_ *Donald Trump has entered the chat*

[@michaelthebishop5290]

6:50 The skeleton appears around the cultural borders of the city it is being constructed in

[@FilthyRobot]

+michaelthebishop Only for the player building it. The skeleton isn't visible to other players.

[@michaelthebishop5290]

Are you sure?

[@FilthyRobot]

michaelthebishop Yep

[@billlupin8345]

You're incorrect about the great wall, by the way. A skeleton goes up around the border of a city or three, it looks very much like the completed great wall.

[@FilthyRobot]

+Bill lupin ZZZ. No it doesn't. It only shows for the player building it. That skeleton is not visible for anyone else.

[@billlupin8345]

FilthyRobot Ah, gotcha. ... Could've sworn I'd spotted it on another civ, though. Maybe it was singleplayer?

[@FilthyRobot]

Bill lupin ... Same on singleplayer. You can't see other players building it, you can only see yourself building it.

[@billlupin8345]

FilthyRobot Huh. Maybe an error, or something? I seem to recall it being the huns, or the mongolians building it. I think I was montezuma at the time.

[@joehoe222]

Don't know what you're saying, but you actually CAN see the great wall area building zone, it's just around your border tiles until 5 hex blocks from the centre

[@FilthyRobot]

+joehoe222 zzzz. I've probably said this 100 times since I posted this video. You cannot see other players building the great wall. Before you come back and tell me you can, go test it out. Create a hotseat game starting in the medieval on a duel map and play both sides. You will not be able to see your opponent building the great wall until it is totally finished.