Civilization VI ► 10 Biggest Changes in Civ 6!

[@GamerZakh]

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[@Nasengold]

I like every single change. I was convinced that it's nearly impossible to improve CIV 5, but now I'm pretty sure I was wrong. Great changes . They went exactly the right way with this. More individuality, which results in even more replayability. The only thing I'm really worried about now is my college exam in spring.

[@tomaszantochow8391]

Haha, I feel exactly the same. Well, one more thing: my darn laptop isn't gonna run this :(. Hopefully I'll get my new machine running not to late.

[@MrTapelius]

+Tomasz Antochów I wouldn't be too sure. one reason for so new visual direction is that it would require less power to run the game

[@tomaszantochow8391]

MrTapelius How I'm seeing it, the graphics maybe look less realistic, but they are more detailed and the screen is more filled, so I'm guessed it would be at least somewhat harder to run than civ 5. And well, I can barely run that. But well, I'll be getting a new machine soon, so it's alright.

[@MrTapelius]

+Tomasz Antochów its always exiting to get new pc :)

[@xelic1996]

Well V had a lot of problems, the biggest being the AI. I hated being friends with a civ for thousands of years, only to get randomly nuked. VI so far seems to be the best game in the series without a doubt. I don't think I have a problem with any change, aside from how amenities are harder to manage now. But we will see how that plays out.

[@admiralterrinaldscreed2591]

FIRST they ignore you Then they Laugh at you Then they fight you Then you NUKE THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF THEM -Gandhi

[@jennifersharp9713]

Straight from civ 5's artwork section.

[@Beastinvader]

Every game I play, man.

[@pramitbanerjee]

not again..this is not a gandhi quote.

[@xelic1996]

No, it's a Civ Gandhi quote.

[@GodNuVo]

that fucking Ghandi yeah !!

[@beyris]

I think there should be a sort of Riot System, where if one of your cities got too unhappy, the citizens might riot, so you have to react to that. There would be options such as: 1. Ask them for their demands - The citizens give you a list of demands for what they want. This will quell the riot in 1 turn, and the citizens will be a bit happier, thinking of you as reasonable. However, if you don't meet their demands by a certain number of turns, it will create a lot of unhappiness, increasing the chance of another riot. 2. Beg for mercy - This quells the riot immediately, however, the citizens will think of you as a pushover and start making demands from time to time, with the threat of a riot. 3. Deploy the military - This usually takes a few turns to quell the riot, depending on the city population. The military will be deployed to crack down on rioters. This instills fear into citizens, reducing the chance of a riot. However, non-militaristic empires will lose respect for you, worsening your relationship with them. However, you will gain favour with militaristic empires.

[@bladerinfinity1]

Firaxis where are you??????

[@milkymalkum5708]

These.... are actually good ideas. Get on it, Firaxis!

[@zoranhacker]

yeah and then that city might at least somewhat affect the other cities' happiness

[@beyris]

zoranhacker Yeah, I'd like that.

[@Killa66BoyIsGaming]

Great ideas! (were you inspired by EU4 if I might ask? :) )

[@Daniel-lg8yo]

Localised happiness makes so much more sense its not like people in Berlin got pissed when Hitler took France

[@Ares11787]

no but you could argue people in america got pissed when bush took baghdad

[@Daniel-lg8yo]

Plague11787 Maybe local and global happiness could be two different things somehow?? but i feel like local is the best easy option

[@Ares11787]

I would love that if later in the game when you're in the modern era you'd have two happiness gauges for global and local. that'd make it a lot more complex because things that make people happy locally (entertainment places etc) would be different to things that make people happy globally (wonders, civics and diplomatic policies that people like)

[@cow_tools_]

In Civ III, you suffered way higher war weariness when you had the Democracy government, but you didn't when you had Fascism or Communism. So I guess that's the difference.

[@cow_tools_]

***** Hopefully they can reintroduce the corruption mechanic, only a bit stronger, to combat that in that way.

[@SJ23982398]

I like that they are taking risks, potentially making gameplay more complex. Today they dumb everything down, so a fresh change of pace

[@elimalinsky7069]

After they added depth and complexity in XCOM 2, which was sorely missed in XCOM: EU/EW, I have much faith in Firaxis.

[@peeppiip2050]

You don't play a lot of strategy games, do you? There are many games that are difficult to learn these days but not really any games that are similiar to civilization. All 4x turn based strategy games are so easy these days so in that mind, it's a nice change but overall in the strategy genre there are a lot of difficult games.

[@elimalinsky7069]

Ser Pepe The grand-strategy games made by Paradox are a good example of games with a learning cliff instead of a learning curve. The newer ones are a bit more streamlined but still retain their complexity.

[@peeppiip2050]

Eli Malinsky I love that kind of games. :p

[@elimalinsky7069]

Ser Pepe Yeah me too, I like games that train my brain, so to speak :p

[@milkymalkum5708]

The game looks great, but I hope they fix denouncing unless its in a civ's agenda, because in civ 5, if a civ declared war on you and you take their capital/a city, other civs will denounce you for no reason whatsoever.

[@PsychicLord]

Agreed, the Civ 5 denouncing logical was well, often illogical and frustrating.

[@milkymalkum5708]

Glad to know that im not the only one to think that XD

[@sufficient4834]

Especially when the biggest warmonger in the world does it.

[@milkymalkum5708]

Sufficient Genghis Kahn: "Its time the whole world knows of your sins" Well, he would know what a warmongerer looks like XD

[@sufficient4834]

MilkyMalkum George Washington has no right to talk about wanton aggression when he owned Washington, Honolulu, Atilla's Court and Venice at the time.

[@ShirleyCurryTheOlderGamer]

I first started gaming with CivII in the mid '90's and have played them all. Disappointed in the 'space' one though. I like the fact that the cities now unstack and also that the lights are on at night! I'm going to enjoy having different districts and that I won't have workers spending time constructings roads all over the place.

[@GamerZakh]

I also started with Civ II Gold Edition and only more recently went back to check out the first game. I expect they learnt some lessons from the space one and hopefully won't make the same mistakes.

[@peaknonsense2041]

I hope Civ VII combines the best of Civ IV(my favorite), Civ V and Civ VI.

[@Sc0ts]

I don't like wonders being their own tile. RIP my wonder spamming capital.

[@henfjo]

I also liked to spam wonders

[@Scrungge]

Lol it annoyed me a bit, a pyramid in every city is too unrealistic

[@Sc0ts]

But pyramids were a special wonder. More unrealistic would have been a Colosseum which could be in every city, or even the fact that each city would span several irl countries or states. And now each wonder takes up what could be the entire state of New York.

[@Scrungge]

Scots Just giving an example, you're right

[@Necroskull388]

The Romans really did build many coliseums, though.

[@elimalinsky7069]

I like the new changes very much. I even like the aesthetic and the colorful graphics, I was first skeptical but the graphical style grew on me.

[@manko4661]

same^^

[@DrunkenScottishMan]

Meh, it is a little bit like color vomit to me. All in all though, the rest of the changes look very interesting.

[@Arkaid11]

Yeah, the only things I really can't stand are the combat animations and the look of certain units like the tank (it looks like a inflatable toy). But I like the terrain design and I had a orgasm the first time I saw the war fog... Gotta love the guys who coded it. It's beautiful.

[@elimalinsky7069]

Arkaïd If Firaxis won't dumb it down further from Civ V in terms of gameplay depth and mechanics (it was a bit dumbed down compared to Civ IV) it will be a masterpiece. By the look of things, they're on the right path, and if XCOM 2 is any indication, which is the improved depth and complexity from the previous game, then we can rest assure. I don't mind if it looks a bit cartoonish as long as it's catered towards the hardcore audience.

[@Arkaid11]

Eli Malinsky Yes, I hope so! I know I will adapt to the artstyle after 2 or 3 games anyway.

[@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse]

Frankly I just hope that this time around other civs will not just shrug off a thousand years of peace and trade and declare war on you. And I would also appreciate if putting down a war monger wouldn't get you labelled a war monger yourself even after centuries of peace. Those eye-roll moments really ticked me off. Interestingly enough, I like the artwork. The design could be better but something about the movements and facial expressions really speaks to me.

[@blades392]

Download less warmonger hate mod

[@XandWacky]

The agendas are designed to do that. There is now more rhyme and reason to the AI.

[@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse]

XandWacky So I understood. I just hope it works :). As so many others I grew up on Civ. It was a damn shame V was so bad... at least in my opinion.

[@XandWacky]

Marco2G In my opinion, Civ V is fun as hell. It's just the AI made no sense.

[@taylorbeckett9686]

I understand the peace forever then war in the sense of it being a competitive game at the core.. but I agree, in the realistic view it makes 0 sense.

[@vast634]

Dynamic weather would be nice (rain, storms, thunder, snow, fog) depending on the area

[@jayparrish1]

kinda hard to have dynamic weather on a world map, lol. It'd just be all over the place and switch every turn.

[@smokeemifyougotem9662]

k then climate. if i am in England i want it cloudy as fuck. and if i am in egypt make it have sand storms every turn on different tiles that give movement delay

[@jayparrish1]

Ayy, that's more like it. I'd like that too

[@vast634]

Yes, linked to the area: snowstorms appearing in the north/south pole region. Sandstorms at desert areas. Tropical storms and rain near equator. And foggy areas near lush climates.

[@YusakuJon3]

Civ3 had the volcanism event that made you decide how close you wanted to put a unit or city to one. I may have had my own Pompeii in one of those games. If they added events like flooding (rivers, hills or mountains), fires (woodlands) or earthquakes (mountains, hills) and tsunamis (coastal tiles) that would pop up every now and then, it might make for a challenging twist in the gameplay.

[@stephenparallox]

I am really hoping Ghandi doesn't behave like a genocidal maniac as a secret agenda

[@austinbuffin8411]

he always will its the in game trope from all the civ games

[@Arkaid11]

Obviously he will!

[@Inucroft]

Gandhi WILL always be insane once you reached the Modern Era. It's an in house joke due to an Error in Civ1

[@Golkarian]

But he said it feels like a Civilization game...

[@cpt.weegeecsgo3910]

Ahahahahah

[@tomaszmagierowski2166]

I think they should let us build roads with workers as well as with trade. Roman roads and today's interstates were NOT built by trade. Also, the roads built by workers should be better as more time was put into them while the trade roads are merely paths.

[@joetheperformer]

They do, when you discover the tech that goes with road building. But I believe that in the early stages, the traders will dictate the permanent road system through the trade routes.

[@tomaszmagierowski2166]

They do let us build roads? I didn't know

[@kato5015]

there is a civic (not sure it may be tech) that allows you to build war engineers, they can build roads and forts

[@reh3884]

Yeah, but he can only build a road on a couple of tiles before you have to create another engineer.

[@kato5015]

***** well builders are the same

[@BrandonLeflar]

"I'm really excited about the religous wars..." You Monster...

[@GamerZakh]

Haha! Doesn't sound nice out of context, does it?

[@KikomochiMendoza]

I prefer secular wars myself.

[@ivanmakrov3323]

I'm going to make a Cthulhu religion based on war.

[@thatsicklypup]

Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!

[@naspro77]

@@Jimmy6845 You cant Nerf the world's second largest religious group,a 1.5 billion players. revise your lessons.

[@funkwolf]

Cleopatra dislike people with small.... militaries ;)

[@AndrewGunner]

not people, governments

[@alceushunterx]

awwww that's so cutee

[@TremereTT]

+Vafium Black She had more than one guy at the same time. So she was a player!

[@AndrewGunner]

so when a woman does it, she's that, but when a man does that, he's a player? If so.... then that's just sexist

[@funkwolf]

oh no, please stop right here.

[@fuchsiafreud]

Your narration and writing is excellent. Quality stuff mate!

[@GamerZakh]

Thank you!

[@GamerZakh]

***** okay.

[@shadowtoast6294]

What the fuck are you on about?

[@raf4933]

The worst part about civ for me is how even when you're in the modern era there are still tons of unclaimed land that you don't care about as settling there is more of a harm than a help. I hope that this is addressed but from the trailer there is still unclaimed land at the end so i doubt it. :/

[@TheGamingshade]

Well as you normally looked to get happines for placing city's in civ 5 yes some places were left because it wouldnt gain happines etc. But now the happiness is per city and not empire wide. Isnt that the answer to your question?

[@raf4933]

Not really, irl all the land from Europe to Asia was covered by civilisations thousands of years ago. If civ 6 is like that where the AI is just more expansive and the borders grow quicker then that would be more realistic, increase the wars and just make the early game more than just building buildings and rushing wonders.

[@Scrungge]

+Ralph Sydes I know what you mean but instead of building new cities from the start you can now build districts with thesame level of technology as your city

[@raf4933]

Sounds good, except that it's civ 3. People say civ 4 is dated so I imagine civ 3 to be weird compared to civ v

[@gustavokaski]

If you really want expansion play Civilization 3 on the largest map and hardest difficulty, you will die.

[@MrHewlettcraphard]

Nicely presented video. Great job. The thing I like the most is probably the whole districts idea. So many real-life cities began life a bit inland, usually along a river, but later expanded out toward the ocean. Districts encapsulate that really well, it seems.

[@GamerZakh]

Thank you! Yeah I'm really liking the districts. Now that we're seeing more kinds it's getting pretty interesting.

[@jamiejamie9549]

+GamerZakh is their a port district?

[@GamerZakh]

El Guapo Fojar Yes, I talk about it in the video.

[@tensorflaw]

As far a military stacking goes there's a more significant affect than volume or increased "power". If anyone remembers from civ 4, certain units have advantages over others. Cavalry units have a major bonus against siege units, and spear units have a major advantage against cavalry units. So a good combo would be to stack siege and spear. Additionally, adding melee advantaged units (axemen in civ 4) to this stack protects against melee units targeting your spears. I feel like this will play a larger role in civ 6.

[@WillieBeamon8]

Yeah I'm the most excited about this. It was a pain to strategically move a large army in Civ 5 because of the stacking. It'll be fun to experiment with different combos to see what advantages and disadvantages stacking has on Civ 6.

[@dominegem]

+WillieBeamon8 My first Civ was Civ Rev on Xbox and while I did enjoy it it wasn't that good. In that game you could stack the 3 of same military unit to make a bigger stronger unit by fusing them; and that was all I could do because if I sent a single unit it would undoubtedly be killed. I sincerely hope is not like that and it is as you guys are speculating and you can make combos of different units.

[@zyonchaos1818]

I thought that was both a plus and negative for the game, being able to stack and make a stronger unit great, being limited to 3 of the same unit was crap. Would have been better if you could mix and match!

[@Steelwhip2001]

hate the art direction they took. will I get it and play it.....yeah...will I do over 1000 hours like I did civ 5.....yeah more than likely.....just really dont like the new art look

[@Aperki2010]

Same, but the mechanics changes sound great to me.

[@tensorflaw]

why do you care about the art direction. graphics have always (and always should) take second seat to gameplay

[@Scrungge]

wow a thousand hours, I wanna see your world, I myself have 340+hours

[@hikou725]

+micah williamson I agree that gameplay comes first and personally I think this new style of sprawling city will be amazing. However I have to say I do see why people think the graphics are cartoony say so even if I personally like it.

[@Aperki2010]

micah williamson Yeah obviously, but that doesn't mean that graphics can't be criticised, particularly when some feel it's less preferable that the last iteration... it's a style thing not a tech limitations thing.

[@RoeJogan98]

The only problem I have with the game is the art style. Not a fan of the cartoon look.

[@GamerZakh]

Yeah, besides the art style I don't think anyone's had any problems with all the other decisions they've made.

[@MrHewlettcraphard]

It's only been the loud minority moaning about the graphics (which I find merely adds character to the game). Most polling has shown that people are ok with them.

[@Quazgarion]

Nah I'm not really a fan of the artstyle either, quite a bit arcadey for me, but the fact that the gameplay itself sounds brilliant means I can shoulder it.

[@biggmt6832]

@@MrHewlettcraphard right a lot of the same people complaining about graphics, play the Hell out of fortnite!!

[@MrHewlettcraphard]

@@biggmt6832 : ... not to mention those "4-bit graphics-style" games that are coming out now that look like something from 1982. LOL

[@RayGlennYT]

I think i'm going to find it hard to move on from Civ5. This graphics style doesn't seem as appealing to me. I always preferred Civ3 and Civ5's more realistic approach. This is more like Civ4's cartoon approach to the graphics. This is what people wanted though.

[@Fiilis1]

About those roads, if the AI is unpredictable like it's now in CIV V , guess it's better not to trade at all :D

[@GamerZakh]

From what I can tell, the AI is entirely predictable IF you invest in diplomacy and espionage. Everything they plan to do is communicated through certain channels but you only get access to those channels through diplomacy. From trading (gets you gossip about wonders and wars) to spies (updates you on military activity pre-war and specific actions they are taking).

[@Fiilis1]

well i hope so, i'm kinda bored to get nuked from my "best civ/friend" lol

[@GamerZakh]

Fiilis1 Haha the new Casus Belli system will help stop that too. The AI will avoid the warmonger penalties (unless they're actually going for being a warmonger). One of the 6 'justified' reasons to go to war should need to be fulfilled plus the AI's agenda tends to go to war for specific reasons.

[@Fiilis1]

Nice!

[@RuSosan]

This time we have a narrator who's destined to die in the game, because... Well that's what Sean Bean does. :D

[@elimalinsky7069]

Leonard Nimoy was the narrator in Civ IV, Sean Bean is an excellent choice for Civ VI.

[@williamladine7591]

I like the V intro guy.

[@Spaesmic]

Think that's Sid Meier himself, isn't it?

[@vijaymehra3906]

+Pillerparty Richard Nimoy fools

[@elimalinsky7069]

Pillerparty Sid Meier was the narrator only in the tutorial.

[@MetzMan562]

I'm not going to pre-order this game like I foolishly did on Beyond Earth.......BUT, with more information. I still plan on buying it within a week or two of release. It looks like they have made a lot of changes and they're for the BETTER. Maybe now we won't be denounced by the entire world for winning a war that wasn't even declared by our Civ in the first place!!! lol Because god forbid you defend your homeland from Ghengis or Ghandi and NOT be hated by even your closest Allies :P

[@theposhdinosaur7276]

yeah seems weird that the game doesn't have "morally correct" wars also i might wait until the world congress DLC for buying it but we'll see

[@cfbigmac1]

I really love the time-lapse of wonders being built after you finish construction. This game is definitely on my wish list.

[@PsychicLord]

Are Firaxis considering 'ice breakers'? This could be a technology that once gained allows a player to build ships to break through 'shallow ice' allowing better access to the poles (that is if ice will reappear in Civ 6). 'Deep ice' of would mark the physical game boundaries.

[@smokeemifyougotem9662]

ik i hated how some city's were unassailable from water do to it and i have to end up building a new city to build ships to attack them

[@YusakuJon3]

Civ5 had ice. Sometimes that was a pain in the ass because I ended up with a homeland that was unable to gain access to coastal water tiles beyond this little hex of ice that would block any movement from my naval or embarked units prior to Astronomy. Since I'm big into sea exploration, that got frustrating quick.

[@ruripurwandani110]

It'll sink if you have GS

[@GeorgeChali95]

Seems too weird for me..... but i remember when i first saw Civ 5 and hated it for non stacked units, no monuments presentation etc. i thought that i would continue to play Civ 4 And now i love 5 and i amk willing to love civ 6 and try it too...

[@theposhdinosaur7276]

i am just a bit worried that with congress victory gone for some time there will just be culture, military, science and time victory but i do hope they add a faith victory! it seems odd that a feature that big isnt something you can win with

[@MrTapelius]

+frederik vedersø I wouldn't like faith victory... religion should be degrading after mediva times... these days religion is more culture than actual belief. in western countries at least. higher education kills religion.

[@theposhdinosaur7276]

MrTapelius i guess but its not like the usa became world leader by sending a rocket into space so the realism argument is sort of invalid besides this is not our earth so history could go another way

[@dazimizer9119]

+SteelRodent1456 I like the Board Game :P

[@MrTapelius]

frederik vedersø yea but but... u donno...

[@LocoAapje]

Very informative. Nice. Learned more from this than I did from the vids from the devs itself.

[@GamerZakh]

Glad you found it useful!

[@GimpedUpNoodle]

Good job with the writing and narration. It was very informational. Subbing to see what else you can bring!

[@GamerZakh]

Thanks! I've got a Civ 6 video on Civilizations right now and another one about cities is going up in about an hour if you're interested.

[@lovasz1084]

It would be cool if the UI would change to fit the era you're in.

[@lovasz1084]

Things look too futuristic and polished for an ancient era start

[@smokeemifyougotem9662]

id like if the leaders of each civ would change era to era. i know that does not work for america. but i guess you could start with washington and change through each era.

[@daniels4742]

I'm so hyped! Going to be great! It's gonna be a bit harder to decide whom to trade with since roads are produced. Which might mean trouble later on. Awesome! Your videos on Civ VI are really good, good layout, nice and fluid points and commentary and it's making me wanna play now!

[@EvilScrooge]

Seems cool but what I don't like is how map is constantly uncovered. Looks like they are taking away some fun out of exploration. I hope there is an option allowing you to completely cover the map making its shape a surprise (and in case of Earth amp discovering where you are) The rest (especially districts) looks just great. I love building stuff all over the map!

[@GamerZakh]

Oh no worries there. Some of the footage we've seen has a blank map where you haven't explored. In the videos I think they reveal a lot just so it doesn't look too blank.

[@EvilScrooge]

GamerZakh That actually made me feel a lot better. Exploring is something I always cherished in any video game. Another thing I'm worried about though, is the smaller number of tile enhancements. Does that mean less resources? Removing number of resources in sequels to strategy games seems to be a common practice these days. Another thing is the map size. With unstacked cities I surely would expect an increase in map sizes from Civ 5. I also hope they will let me play on the actual continents of various sizes (i.e large Europe or Africa only)

[@EvilScrooge]

GamerZakh And even another issue I have after watching a bit of the demo! Seems like guy managed to improve half of his tiles and build a second city way too quickly! (I see its lousily sped up to make game look worse) I really hope this doesn't mean we will be able to build ourself thriving civilization in a short time! Either that or map is incredibly humongous in size. That could mean we will go through all the eras even quicker and in even less turns than Civ5!!!!! Would that mean we won't have a chance to destroy all other civilizations without even getting to industrial age? I don't like when game goes too fast! Nukes are not for me... Now I'm worried.

[@GamerZakh]

EvilScrooge Don't worry too much about the gameplay footage they've shown. Ed Beach has said it's not entirely representative, that it's been sped up, and many things that happen in that video aren't realistically portrayed-like sending out a settler so easily or that unit that was artificially levelled up to go and own barbarians.

[@MrClaudiuzz9]

Great video mate! quite informative and well explained. Can't wait for the release.

[@GamerZakh]

Thanks! Glad you found it useful!

[@zcrib3]

I hope it doesn't feel too streamlined and they actually have added depth.

[@CerpinTxt87]

I both like and dislike the unstacked city idea. It kind of messes with my head though, because it seems to make the scale of the maps weird. A tile in a Civ game usually represents a pretty sizeable amount of land, but now it would seem that cities take up hundreds of km. The military and naval district though is amazing.

[@JonatasAdoM]

Oh man this music that you uses before the new greek theme sound REALLY like something out of the MIB movies

[@GlassTopRX7]

I think all the city stuff is fine what worries me it's making the world seem a whole lot smaller. Unless the maps are 10x the size which by the looks of the videos so far they actually seem to be smaller. Moving stylized graphics is a huge red flag as well from my experience. So far I haven't seen anything that makes me think this is the right direction, it reminds me a lot of what happened to sim city and rail road tycoon series.

[@unholywolf1945]

think the demos have been on either tiny or duel maps so naturally they look small, and they game looks great to me, besides have you played the older civ titles, 4 had stylised graphics but was great. Don't think you need to be worrying just yet.

[@tomaszmagierowski2166]

Yeah considering that cities take up so much space now the world size should at least triple. We don't want London to take over all of Southern England

[@unholywolf1945]

Tommy Mag they take up the same space just function differently so you're pushed towards building wider which I think is good as it'll lead to more war

[@tomaszmagierowski2166]

But earlier cities took up 1 space. Now if they take up 5, we will be needing a lot more tiles, or there will be hordes of giant cities, if you for instance play on an "Earth" map"

[@unholywolf1945]

Tommy Mag nah mate cities where comprised of the centre and the tile radious

[@desertrose0601]

This sounds super cool! I've always loved the Civ series, although didn't get as much into 5 as I did some of the earlier ones. It sounds like they've made some interesting changes to the game to make it both more realistic and more unique to each player, which I'm really looking forward to!

[@DJMavis]

So never, ever trade with Ghengis Khan?

[@YusakuJon3]

You can trade ─ just don't treat his merchants and diplomats badly.

[@khash8556]

if u are gonna behead his diplomat then dont send the body back

[@mggthebest]

Art animation looks more like they are going for Civ Revolution art style. Hopefully this game will be good though.

[@WarzValzMinez]

I mostly hope that planes now do stuff. In Civ 5 you could have a crap ton of bombers which could not kill a unit of knights...

[@smokeemifyougotem9662]

ik i am like what the fuck you telling me 21 attack bombers can not level a city. and i hate how if you bombard a city with ships you cant cap it unless a land unit goes in

[@ChestOfDoom]

dude, 21 bombers is nothing for bombing a city

[@smokeemifyougotem9662]

ChestOfDoom yes but a compact city built ontop of it self coukd

[@mjairam90]

+ChestOfDoom It is for Civ where you can take a city with 5-6 units

[@DooblesGoDoobles]

the units look so cool! that artillery with the little guys shooting? that looked cool

[@smokeemifyougotem9662]

the art-style besides the map looks gay. civ V at least had nice art

[@13375HI74NDN347F337]

Kinda disappointed that while talking about districts, roads and local happiness you didn't mention Endless Legend, because these three things were clearly taken from it (although local happiness was also a thing in previous civ games). Especially the districts which is probably the only significant change from Civ5 - all other changes mostly either come from the districts system or are just the evolution of already existed mechanics. Don't get me wrong, It's ok to take ideas from other games to develop them in your own way, but I still think that EL at least deserved a mention here.

[@GamerZakh]

I never played Endless Legend so I didn't want to mention something I wasn't really familiar with. I've since had more time to have a look at Endless Legend.

[@Strothy2]

Excelent Video mate subbed! I want this game SOOOO hard!

[@GamerZakh]

Thank you! And Welcome!

[@HANSMKAMP]

I am trying to find out when it will be released. But without success until now. It looks extremely good!

[@johnjiggler1824]

Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Disney Princess Edition. Thanks Firaxis.

[@Phlebas]

Alright, here's my take: 1. Unstacked Cities - Neither here nor their. This adds some interesting complexity to the game but I didn't really have a problem with stacked cities. 2. Localised Happiness - Yes! Good move! 3. Roads by Trade - Depends on how trade routes are handled. If I have a sprawling empire, will I have to focus on internal traderoutes just to get a decent road network? Do roads disappear if a trade route gets cancelled? I'm not opposed to this new road system, but I'd like to learn more details. 4. Agendas and Gossip - Cool. This seems like a huge improvement over Civ 5's diplomacy. 5. Unit Stacking - Good. I'm glad that it's limited to a degree to stop people from building stacks of doom, but one unit per tile was just a pain in the ass. Moving an army across the map in formation felt kind of tedious. 6. Eureka moments - I like the idea. 7. Civics - This one is always kind of tricky. You want to make civics powerful enough so that they have a significant effect on strategy but not so powerful that people feel they need to use certain civics to get a certain victory. I guess we'll see. 8. Religion - Interesting way of implementing it. I'm optimistic. 9. Multiplayer - I prefer to play against the AI, but if I did play multiplayer, I'm glad that there are options. 10. Viable Playstyles - All civ games brag about having multiple viable playstyles. That's usually true at lower difficulties but on higher difficulties, it seems like there are a limited number of viable strategies - there's just no room for error. I'm not sure how Civ 6 will fix this. Overall, I'm happy with five of these new aspects and neutral/undecided about five. But I'm not opposed to any of them. I give it a 7.5/10 on my game-hype-o-metre.

[@GamerZakh]

Nice take! I think it's just the right amount of caution on your part.

[@Nitesco]

For the record, they have mentioned that there is a tech you research, probably classical era but uncertain for now, that allows you to build roadways without trade routes. Also the way they've been talking about them makes it sound like the roads are permanent (because trade routes to other countries could be used against you if that country then uses the road to invade which wouldn't make sense if they disappeared).

[@tomaszmagierowski2166]

They should let us build roads with workers as well as with trade

[@Inucroft]

Local happiness was in Civ1-Civ4.

[@Phlebas]

03germas Yeah, which is why I feel like Civ 5 took a step back by implementing global happiness. Though I do get the reasoning for why Civ 5 implemented it. In previous games, the Civ with the most cities generally won, so spamming settlers was a major part of the strategy. Civ 5 discouraged that strategy and also made building tall (rather than wide) empires a viable strategy. The only problem was that the system felt way too punitive.

[@jeremybasset9041]

I literally have NO problem with the cartoon graphics, but the fact that the soldiers in a unit have gotten larger and fewer puts me off. I don't enjoy seeing 4 gigantic pikemen looming over everything and one single tank that looks like an inflatable balloon. also the combat animations look way too fucking cartoonified it's cringy

[@gustavinus]

I DO have a problem with the graphics... they suck

[@RenegadeHero13]

I'm most excited for the switch to 6, because saying "CIVVI" sounds cooler than just saying "CIVV"

[@MegaRugster]

Dumbed down for stupid people, 1 turn instant builds.. alot more sleeping now whilst nothing happens for a 100 turns. As for your note on trading with other civs, they can also trade with you.. thus you might not build a road to them, they can still build a road to you. Then march their soldiers directly to you through that previously difficult jungle or over those hills you builts behind. Ability to wipe out the soldier production area or research etc.. just means you'll need more defending soldiers and have less to attack with. Could almost imagine Civ6 was made by the same morons that made Civ BE. Such a shame, Civ Rev Meets Civ Be.. Only 2 improvements I've seen so far, impassible cliffs on shoreline and a day/night cycle. No World Congress.. yep, they don't want their new players to have to think too much about diplomacy.

[@GamerZakh]

But the instant build is a specific change to reduce 'waiting around' as explained in their blog post. We all used to wait around for improvements to be built. You mean because we aren't watching the builders build we'll be waiting more? We haven't seen how much there is to do each turn early game but with districts, early game trade, and a bigger focus on building new cities for expansion, those are more things to do each turn. Nothing else you said supports the idea that we'll be waiting around more compared to how much we already wait in Civ 5, so I'd be interested if you could elaborate on that. We don't know if you can just trade with another Civ without permission and diplomacy is said to become more complex as the game progresses. At the start of the game, your borders won't even count because people who can't read or write won't be able to recognise national borders. Preventing trade with a civ could likely be an option, but admittedly both of us can only guess at this point. Yes, defence now needs to be deployed to protect your districts but we have no idea on the balance, how long it takes to build units considering civics, or how unit stacking will really work. Plus the military district adds extra defence for your tiles away from cities and we've seen relatively early game ranged units shoot 2 tiles away. There are also civics that can improve your defences and we've seen fortifications but not how they work. This all can balance out how defence works now. Civ 6 development is led by Ed Beach, the guy who led the development of the Civ 5 expansions that made Civ 5 a good game. He's also ensured that Civ 6 will launch with things like proper religion and archaeology in place, so we won't be waiting for a DLC for those. World Congress was not in Civ 5 at launch either and the fact that it relies heavily on the meta game once millions of people are playing means that it would be horribly unbalanced if it was in at launch and they would risk it being game breaking. Considering the changes to diplomacy getting more advanced over time, the stated 'very formal' diplomacy of the modern world compared to the 'wildwest' of more ancient times, and the gossip system to discover opponents civics/government/agendas to play people against each other, I don't see how diplomacy is any more simplified compared to previous Civ games. I'm all for scepticism and concern over how unreleased games are turning out but what you've said so far doesn't really support your concerns. I'd be interested if you went into more detail so I could better see where you're coming from.

[@Nasengold]

Enemies building roads, via trading with you, is a good point tho. I'm more the builder type of player and I already see me hating certain warmonger enemies for trading with me.

[@GamerZakh]

Sure, but as I said, there might be ways of stopping this or it might not even be possible let to open trade with someone without their consent or enacting some kind of foreign trade policy. We can only guess at this point and there's no point getting upset on a guess.

[@MegaRugster]

They've dumbed it down.. there's no point hoping for common sence being added to a game that's being made so simple preschool kids can play it. I think it's horrible what they've done to the Civ line of games.. if this was coming out on a console it'd be alright, expected even, but with their latest pc releases it's almost as if they're insulting people on purpose. There's also another big issue with trade built roads, since the entire road is now built within a single turn, that allows almost instant ambushes, send a scout, wait for army to leave to attack someone else.. then trader in, road, wipe out. Even if you just hammered their science you're gonna effectively remove them from the game whilst they try to make repairs. Before you could see someone running workers out towards you and declare war on them or even just block them, now, you have no chance. Ai will trade with you however they can, so you'll have an indefinite crisscrossing of roads between nations. Ai wars will be suicide armies to destroy your provinces then run away or die. And this isn't just guessing.. it's "educated guessing" ;) You can see it happening.. graphics aside.. you can see how entire games will play out and yet never own the game.

[@Nasengold]

Martin Booth lol what are you talking about? This game is obviously harder to master than CIV 5 with these changes.

[@19dec1981]

take a minute and just think how much civ have changed through the years. i have played all of them and it's amazing to see how it evolves i cant wait to play civ 6

[@jennifersharp9713]

I'm okay with cartoony graphics, but this is a little too cartoony.

[@humana673]

For the unit stacking, if you had played the D's civilization version, you'd get to test out what they are trying as you can make a limited amount of units permastack and be a mega unit. It was very fun.

[@rnavashen4635]

All I want to know is whether or not we have map trading

[@christianb3093]

Yogs?

[@rnavashen4635]

yup

[@christianb3093]

to be fair it was a great feature and pyrion is right to want it back.

[@rondenenea]

+GamerZakh There should be a outpost which is like a city but doesn't have a civilian population, kind of like a district not connected to a city, but there for resources only. Like the south pole research facilities, because you want resources, but not unhappy cities.

[@gieslebt]

Yeah, but what about making multiplayer ... playable? :-( I've always had friends disconnect, games crash, save files be difficult to pick back up... etc.

[@GamerZakh]

Well that's going to be impossible to know until the game releases. Unstable multiplayer isn't exactly an intended feature.

[@deamongimli]

What? I thought that was Civilizations best selling point! :)

[@justgettingby7725]

Localized happiness is the feature I miss most in the newer games. I started playing with Civ II, which had localized happiness. I think it's the better way to go, and I'm happy to see they're bringing it back.

[@Oxillious]

EVENTS PLEASE.

[@davidking6242]

since cities have separate happiness from each other, perhaps a revolution system can be implemented so cities can become independent if too unhappy and become city states.

[@Zyragonn]

i hate civ 5 world congress, i cant refuse to what they decide -_-

[@theposhdinosaur7276]

really it should be more like this: a civ discovers printing press new diplomacy option becomes available "join congress" get more culture with people in congress get to vote on shit can only leave peacefully at a great cost of happiness and culture additionally gets embargoed by congress if leaving otherwise only way to leave is war which will produce double the normal unhappiness in other words there can be multiple congresses which work like EU styled alliances and can get polices to make forcible defense pacts and such while a city state can be a civ's ally it can also join a congress they don't belong to and if in the same one will just vote for whatever they do

[@Zyragonn]

frederik vedersø but develoopers are too lazy for it and they dont care, maybe you can send them this idea? i wish there could be option like that

[@theposhdinosaur7276]

***** well i guess i can suggest it after all the devs did say that the world congress will be a DLC

[@Zyragonn]

frederik vedersø god bless them

[@samw5924]

+frederik vedersø someone will make a mod for that eventually

[@malataur]

I've played Civilization (and it's sequels) since the original first released and wasn't going to get any more of the Civ games, but I think you have talked me into it with this one.

[@GamerZakh]

Glad I could help you make a decision! It's definitely different but I think it's still good and it's more popular than Civ 5 now in terms of number of players.

[@chrisbedwards]

I seriously don't understand. If all of your important buildings are outside of the city itself, doesn't that make them super exposed to attack? I already have to deal with attacking armies fucking up all of my mines and farms with sieges as it is, now I'm deliberately putting all of my buildings outside of the walls??

[@Darkpumpkin21]

That's the point. It is supposed to make things more complex when you attack a city.

[@GamerZakh]

To balance this, your military district is also outside your city and can fire upon the enemy once walls are built. We've also seen fortresses but haven't seen how they function specifically. There should also be civics that help defend your lands too. We also don't know how repairing tiles work now that there aren't any workers.

[@tomaszmagierowski2166]

In my opinion they should just make city walls around the entire city, and units have to "breach" them.

[@Darkpumpkin21]

That'd be cool. Expands around your territory Not sure how breaching would work though.

[@tomaszmagierowski2166]

Breaching can basically be when either a melee unit "attacks" the wall (like laying ladders) or siege equipment bombs it from afar. Once the wall is breached units can move through it while earlier they were stuck outside them.

[@timeistheenemy]

thanks for this video. Now i am really excited about Civ 6!

[@GamerZakh]

You're welcome! Glad you found it useful.

[@Peizxcv]

Hopefully the game is now 64-bit and can utilize multi-core. There is nothing like waiting 2 minutes for AI on a top-of-the-line PC.

[@smokeemifyougotem9662]

i think they do but not all of us have a pc master race ivory tower to play on. so its best if it looks good and runs fine then looks amazing and only runs fine on people with 2000 dollar computers

[@Peizxcv]

+Vadium Black It had nothing to do with look, it is about speed. The old Civ games are slow on top of the line machines and not much slower on older machines because they didn't optimize the game well.

[@darthpotato3566]

I love the new animations: the horses running away after their riders getting shot; the people exploding when bombs get dropped on them; the pillaged tiles; etc

[@ivatio]

So you can just spam cities now with no happiness penalty?

[@thomasfazey5755]

Pretty much, city management would become a problem, maintaining each cities happiness and making sure the are functioning. Works without compromise.

[@tomaszantochow8391]

I presume there is going to be some riot system or something. ANd well, other than that, yes you can, but what's the benefit? If the city isn't happy, you won't get shit done anyway The only thing I'd use such a city for is to station my armies and to grab resources.

[@thomasfazey5755]

Well this civ removes the happiness penalty from rapid expansion and city placement and instead each city has its own happiness. Endless legend did this to good effect and its still balanced. I haven't played other civ besides 5 so i don't know if it has been done before.

[@FernandoSV]

this game looks amazing... the only thing missing would be something like dynasties , where your leader keeps changing based on things like civics and eras

[@herobrinesblog]

i dont like the aesthetics, it looks like im playing with some playmobile tanks. speaking of units, they are gigantic and the amount of units per tile is too low, its more like watching a duel than army vs army

[@nawnomadnan9874]

Great explanation and easy to understand, well done !

[@GamerZakh]

Thanks!

[@lambrexofficial1937]

So basically the game will be shit until we get the two expansions, just like Civ V

[@GamerZakh]

Why do you say that? The things in the Civ 5 expansions, like proper religion and archaeology, are in vanilla Civ 6. What features do you consider missing? The world Congress could be horribly unbalanced without knowing the meta game and including some things right away could make the game shit until expansions.

[@lambrexofficial1937]

You raise a good point, I take it back :)

[@normanofthetempest7347]

One of the coolest mods I had on Civ V was one where research time is slowed across the board by 50%. But independent of the build time of buildings or units. I kinda hope we get that by default as part of the options. I'm just wish listing here tho. All my old Civ V timing is going to be off, so maybe I wont even need it.

[@NRCompositions]

YES

[@0Roach_]

The Historic Pace mod, I believe?

[@Trusteft]

Are they finally going to give the option for atheism?

[@GamerZakh]

A lot of people seem to ask for that but I'm curious on your opinion, how would you implement that mechanically into the game?

[@Trusteft]

GamerZakh A bonus to science and lack of religion bonuses sounds about right.

[@GamerZakh]

Felix6031 There are already religious bonuses that give science a boost.

[@Trusteft]

GamerZakh The issue is not the bonuses...

[@Trusteft]

GamerZakh Besides, so what? Would the game be destroyed if there is something other than religion which gives sci bonuses?

[@MaurofdVzla]

Instant subscribe for awesome voice and sound quality!

[@GamerZakh]

Thanks! I spend a lot of time refining quality, so glad you like it!

[@imperiald3864]

Fix the AI that's really the most important thing that needs to be worked on. If it's the same ai as in 5... this game will be useless..

[@smokeemifyougotem9662]

1. ignore you 2. demand you to assist in wars on everyone 3. when you actually go to war they denounce you 4. repeat step 3 1000 times 5. wont trade with you and when they do they want ridiculous amounts of your shit. 5 when you actually beat them they act like you are God even though they denounced you for the last 10,000 years.

[@chilamtruong8819]

This video is very informativ. Thank you for telling us these new features of Civ 6. :)

[@GamerZakh]

You're welcome! Glad you liked it!

[@98Dreadboy]

Not a big fan of the graphics, this looks more like a mobile game which is a shame because CIV 5 looked great.

[@highwayblowout]

I really like the cartoonish approach on fogged areas.

[@Uther1313]

Nice overview for what we know so far! Thanks!

[@GamerZakh]

You're welcome! Glad you liked it!

[@heydude1112]

hope rivers can also provide trade... not just roads... and also rivers can also have docks in them for naval usage, not just on the sea... as well as airports... being also a trade route... and random events I miss random events...

[@heydude1112]

also can use mountains... like a penalty (type based) movement when a unit tries to climb it (foot,vehicle) and then when u reach industrial you can create a tunnel for railroads... or excavate it to discover random materials or nothing at all and also can convert the mountain into a very strong fort of some kind...

[@briancowan4318]

Woohoo, stack able units... Maybe we'll actually be able to have combined arms tactics, Armor/Infantry/Artillery as one stack.

[@SpunkmeyerSnr]

Truely amazing; the Civ dev team make a video then you come along and simply repeat everything they say. Thanks for nuthin

[@GamerZakh]

Which Civ dev team video has all of these points in 1 place? Also, pair this with my latest video on concerns and you get a pretty complete picture.

[@THE1gameaddict]

One thing I'm really hyped for is that the addition of districts seems to imply that the maps are going to be much bigger than they were previously, which sounds fucking awesome, as someone who almost exclusively plays on earth type map

[@GamerZakh]

Maps are said to be 20-30% bigger this time around.

[@squareroots6003]

unstacked cities will make 1 city playthroughs (moded if needed) more fun.

[@hiseval4281]

Did anyone else notice that there are small icons of the leaders up in the top right corner? Seeing how the Demo is as China, I think this might show a male leader. I can't really tell who it is though.

[@tadeastuma6262]

I just hope they fix multiplayer crushes and are gonna enable reconnecting.

[@madmanproducer]

My main concern: I wish there was a canal district. Think of it this way, devote one tile to a canal district. This will allow you to expand on sea based commerce and it can allow you to move military units through land. The limits would be that you can only build a canal district on a beach tile or adjacent to another canal district. The canal district should only be built within your civ's borders. Perhaps it can also act as a buff for production or gold. You could also make it unique to Teddy Roosevelt (Panama canal) or at least give a canal building buff for America.

[@jonavuka]

this is very fluid i like it. It adapts to wat ur doing

[@MrMaefiu]

Very good explanation!

[@GamerZakh]

Thank you!

[@Jekyll_Island_Creatures]

What's the maximum AI you can play against? Maximum multi-players?

[@yazbuhid8581]

love this guy's voice! so soothing. do audiobooks!

[@GamerZakh]

Haha thank you! I'm not sure what book my voice would be suited to though.

[@normanofthetempest7347]

Liking the potential for replayability. Hope it encourages me to try diff play styles.

[@Amadeu.Macedo]

Greetings. I have been playing civilization since its inception, and became a fairly active player at Civ-5. After watching the new features being introduced for Civ-6, I was very disappointed that Sid Meyer did not re-introduce my favorite features which existed in CIV-4, namely, the ability to trade technology (which in civ-5 existed only in a MOD). As such, I would like to know whether there is any chance that my favorite feature may perhaps be later re-introduced into the main game. Cheers.

[@benji7662]

Only thing i don't like so far are those red flashes when you defeat an enemy. Still syked.

[@lcg3092]

This might be the first game I ever preorder, even though there isn't any great advantages of pre ordering...Civ 5 did some damage on my faith of Firaxis, but just knowing that they won't make the same mistake again, of releasing a game with less content than the previous one just to have it added through expansion is great news to me... Keeping all the good stuff of civ 5 and then expanding upon new features is enough to get me hyped, especially since it means expansions might actually add new features, instead of old ones (like religion on G&K) Well, just watched the number 11...I guess my comment wasn't 100% correct, but I'm still satisfied

[@Reedamaster]

The fact alone that there are now different seasides, cliffs and beaches, blew me away

[@SenseiPong]

Great informative video -- I quote, "Having religious wars, for example; is something I'm really excited for." lol--out of context gold.

[@GamerZakh]

Haha! Thanks! And yeah, that line is a risky one.

[@marlonrodriguez7556]

Holy crap, Civ 6 sound amazing! My only gripe would be that the game looks way too cartoony for my liking and with the technology we have, it would be more than possible to have ultra-realistic terrain and leaders. But that's just my opinion, and I'm still buying the game anyways.

[@chungga94]

From what I've seen, it looks as though Civ VI will become an even more polished and integrated form of Civ V. My excitement for the game is continuing to increase.

[@rubekomusic]

Looking forward to this game! I hope the policies / religions will have more impact. Also the gossip system sounds interesting.