Civilization VII - GAMEPLAY! - Part 2/6 (Hatshepsut)

[@kyledoran1671]

I love that the road was instantly built. I'm getting very natural growth vibes with all the new mechanics; rural districts and moving people, all cities becoming towns when you age up. The thought seems to have really gone into this game, narratively and mechanically.

[@photinodecay]

Perfect cliffhanger! Barbarians at the gates and army being mustered for a march to the capital. Cue dramatic war music!

[@Grubnar]

**Entry of the Gladiators by Julius Fucik starts playing!**

[@Griffolion0]

Brand new Civ 7 gameplay is the best birthday present I can ask for.

[@MordreadRN75]

Pretty funny to listen to Quill talking at 120 mph during the "live" presentation and then take a deep breath and go back to normal when the timer is paused 😁

[@Plague_Doc22]

The QOL improvements of CIV 7 might honestly be my favorite thing about it. Army commander is such a good idea, so much of civ in the later eras was just micro managing units and stuff that was not fun.

[@thegreatemuwar3677]

So far this looks like one of the most Fleshed out base game civ games I have ever seen.

[@TheLEGENDofTydo]

Looks good besides the utterly boring ui

[@alistairwall5470]

@@TheLEGENDofTydo Yeah the UI is my only real complaint from what I've seen, especially the sans-serif font used for the body text

[@TheLEGENDofTydo]

@@alistairwall5470 Just from the ui and fog of war I won't be buying the game. I''ll wait for a huge sale and mods to not make it look so disgusting.

[@cass7448]

@@TheLEGENDofTydo I like the fog :(

[@TheLEGENDofTydo]

@@cass7448 it's honestly hard for me to believe there are people who like it. The hard cutoff on the edges... And randomly placed glowing vii... The multiple elevations... I hate it all. Hopefully mods can fix it.

[@BiNumLi]

Video 1 "I don't like scouts". Video 2 "Where should I settle? Where should I settle?" 😃

[@Rupertssons]

In Orbital Potato's Civ 7 video he says anything fewer than three scouts at the start feels insufficient. We'll see which approach is more popular.

[@AClockworkWizard]

Nice, in this game you "disperse" a town and get some "production" out of it. Subtle.

[@superguy911]

4X game: Explore, Exploit, Expand, uhhh... Disperse!

[@kred4849]

It's an "involuntary relocation" and a dollop of "urban demolition"

[@MrCopperCutters]

Thank you for the explanation of the resources, towns, and cities. I did not know any of that before.

[@Wildhorn666]

9:00 Does that reinforcement "non-teleport" thing works over water? I mean, if somebody has a city on one continent and a commander on another continent, can they send the units over the sea without having to deal with an enemy "blocade" on said sea?

[@demonac]

Drinking the quillAid with quill18! let''s see some Sevenlization

[@johanness.nielsen3552]

The unit stacking and "fold out" is taken from Endless Legend. It is a nice mechanic which is why it makes sense to implement.

[@IceFire9yt]

The way specialists and towns/cities work sounds really interesting. Looking forward to making a truly massive metropolis.

[@mockduckcompanion]

A noble font embiggens the smallest man ❤

[@eXistenZ15]

not gonna lie, the way commanders and unit stacking is done, looks heavily inspired by Endless Legend

[@jsbrads1]

At least we don’t have to pay to watch Quill 😢

[@StillWorkn23]

I am here with no intention of ever playing and never have played as well. Thxs for the content.

[@PhillipGuyton]

If it was allowed One tactic for this might have been to take a new screenshot anytime you want pause and explain something ; pause the timer and chat about whats on the screen at that moment

[@SIZModig]

You can earn Gold from Medjay units with that Army Commander perk? Sounds like something Spiff would exploit.

[@GadBoDag]

Yeah, what an interesting way to have a standing army and generate a tidy income at the same time.

[@gregchezick7757]

"And that unit cancels its ffff... go to path" it was sneaky but I caught you Quill.

[@RabidHobbit]

The glowing ring around units is quite attractive, but it seriously aggravates me for some reason.

[@Ayane_Ranma]

Dammit Djanet

[@evanfreudig3973]

Wait a minute, all the cities convert back to towns when the next age comes, except the capitol? Regarding the non-Capitol degraded cities, do you keep the buildings you built in them before the age changes?

[@JG-yk6ny]

This also threw me. Like what is the thematic reasoning for this? If you lose buildings it will be the most frustrating thing ever.

[@Earendel4]

may I ask, since cities base yield is the same regardless of terain and since there is no housing system now, what exactly fresh water benefits in placement of new cities or towns?

[@tangeu]

Does the commander reinforce ability basically prevent any form of blockade? Like I won't be able to create a defensive choke point to prevent reinforcements if they are "not-teleporting" to a commander already on the other side?

[@thadreimagined9391]

So can those units that are instructed to travel to the front automatically not be intercepted? That seems like it could be abused.

[@zhivik]

Regarding doom stacks - it is the feature that absolutely turns me away from Civ IV, even though I love most of its other features. It is mostly the way it is implemented, if you will be fighting with armies, I expect at least some tactical element, ideally accounting for terrain as well. A much better way to do this can be seen in Call to Power II, where you had armies, with a limited size (I believe it was up to 12 units). There, you could have a combined army with melee and ranged units, and melee units would first attack other melee units, while at the same time ranged units would bombard. The biggest downside was that battles took too long, so most people clicked on the autoresolve button. From what I have seen in Civ VII thus far, it appears the commander feature will improve combat considerably, as commander units have some very useful traits. I believe some of these depend on civilization type and techs (or leader traits), which is even better.

[@ZalymBiscayn]

Next Video! It's going to be a fun evening.

[@shesh2265]

so if you get medjay filled commander with quartermaster you print money ?

[@orckingi1208]

Is the commander a replacement for the military engineer from Civ 6 or is this a brand new unit all together?

[@GastonGenta338]

It's replacement for Great General

[@dontnormally]

the videos are in the wrong order in the playlist

[@bunisher3409]

Squiggly Squaggles! \o/

[@bluecat318]

Do I see it right - Hatshepsut has only 4 fingers?

[@Duiker36]

The fifth is where the hidden blade goes, you see.

[@Einomar]

Ofc she only has 4 fingers... just like everyone else. 4 fingers and a thumb.

[@rorysmith9857]

Ah, the tyranny of dates...

[@IKerensky]

Does Civ7 use larger armies like Civ6 or rather smaller battlegroup like Civ5 ?

[@tobytylam]

Think you forgot to add the timestamp when gameplay ends!

[@iamspamus8784]

about 22:05

[@nickgollins9352]

Mechanically, I love how the game is looking. The map is beautiful too. The UI looks *awful* though, I really hope its not finalised. Especially the loading screen. The intro text about the leader and civ is so dry compared to Civ 6 as well. Hate being negative, but it really struck me

[@neonicecube908]

is it just me or does the guys armor at 1:33 move like jelly.

[@ksrichy008]

Not sure how much I like the units vanishing from the map to reinforce. I like the idea of auto-reinforcing to the army but when it's off the map you lose the ability to scout and see enemy reinforcements coming or attempt to ambush them.

[@woytaz]

Being able to ambush enemy reinforcements is a neat idea, but either (1) you have to micro every unit of reinforcements across half the world or (2) let them walk to your army automatically, which will inevitably result in pathfinding taking them through the middle of an enemy empire and that's just unbelievably annoying. It was the same in Stellaris at first --- the reinforcements flew as normal across the galaxy to join their fleet (yes, dying stupidly on the way) --- but they changed that a while back and now Civ 7 does the same: the unit gets built, disappears for a time, and then appears at the fleet/army being reinforced. It's *immensely* more convenient and pleasant to play.

[@danilooliveira6580]

you can still just move the unity by hand, reinforcement is just an option if you don't want to micro the reinforcement.

[@haukikannel]

The reduction of micro management is just a big upgrade, that I don`t mind losing some wisibility. I would just use scouts as watch towers when actual scouting is done.

[@alexp7984]

It also allows AI to focus on more interesting aspects of unit placement, aka actual front-line maneuvers and fighting

[@haukikannel]

@ Yeah… and AI has always been bad at moving units. So this definitely help AI to do better!

[@KotMaciek]

I checked if the playback speed is on 1...

[@FromIdeologytoUnity]

I saw you in a dream the other night, you were playing squash. Just felt like mentioning that.

[@LongStrider42]

Pacifist Quill. Go!

[@RayofSunshine5519]

Wow! Game looks great! Time to refinance the house so I can afford all parts of the game taken out to upsell me later.

[@robives9155]

Did they bring back the throne room and proper filmed advisors?

[@tomasalem]

Ara History Untold has ruined any possible Civ experience for what im seeing so far

[@j.j.r.6075]

Comment for Algorithm!!

[@GalaxyXYZ888]

You play at 4k but record at 1080... What a criminal.... 😂

[@iamspamus8784]

Smoooooooooth Criminal...

[@General12th]

Hi Martin! This game seems so promising. I can't wait!

[@wwlaos]

Here's the thing: I love having 6,000 cities. No, like, actually 6,000. Or more. How many hexes are on the map? Let's just make every one of those a city. ...obviously that's hyperbole, no city would actually function in that case. But I want to put down a full, proper, micromanagement-intensive city in every location that reasonably can support one. I want to conquer, consume, and convert every opposing city that draws my army's attention. I want the entire map to be dotted with my cities. Not five cities and a bunch of "towns" or "districts" or "sectors" or "outposts" or whatever other terminology the game in question decides to throw around. Settlement limits are not fun for me. Not everybody is the same. A lot of people have this entirely inconceivable-to-me desire to "play tall." I have no problem with that being an option for a game. You want to have just a single city and win the game that way? Be my guest. But please stop trying to bury my fun under settlement limits because somehow I'm "not supposed to" play that way.

[@01talima]

love how only the tame tubers got codes id def wait for actual unpaid reviews on this one

[@xxacidmv]

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[@CraigNull]

[10,000 salty words on how a historical battle central to my personal identity, that hinged on one army strategically intercepting another army en route to help reinforce something somewhere, cannot be replicated with these infantilized Civ VII reinforcement mechanics smh smh] Just joking, sounds good. Hope the UI for these ghost units makes it easy to redirect them if needed 10:57 Land boat shenanigans 15:35 What is the logic of specialists consuming happiness? If I didn't know better, Civ VII forwarding provocative claims about the happiest types of societies

[@matti8633]

The game ends around 1960´s. I am nervous that they make the following age/ages paid DLC. I do not mind paying for extra civs, leaders and new mechanics as DLC if they seem interesting. But if they try to sell the base game in pieces then i will wait for discounts in the future.

[@General12th]

I'm not sure there's _really_ much point in the Information Age from a gameplay perspective. Most games are decided if not done long before then.

[@matti8633]

@@General12th True, and if no more ages are coming then it is fine. But if there are more ages coming then they should be free updates because the age system is a core mechanic in the game.

[@KingdomGII]

@@General12th GIANT DEATH robots

[@forestcaine]

Think 1440p is the new video game standard now. to be frank

[@adamwolsey8589]

Quill I'd love to hear your thoughts on how videos like this are ruining the video game enjoyment of so many people. I'm obviously not trying to keep you from doing your thing, but I strongly believe that peoples' inability/unwillingness to play games blind is a huge reason why many people feel burnt out on games after 2 playthroughs. I think people shouldn't watch any video like this (if you need to make sure the game is playable then a light review is probably reasonable) but in-depth videos of existing mechanics, do this, do that, here's all this and that, makes the game feel bland, not a wonderful exciting new thing to be experienced and enjoyed. If you want to support Quill leave the video on while you're in the shower, give him a 'view' but play the game for yourself. If you watched a video about Mario 64 before it released, you wouldn't have the fond memories you do now. Honestly not trying to bring you down Quill, but this is actually important if people want to enjoy games again. Take care.

[@vladprus4019]

You know what the problem is?: the price. It's really high. I don't blame if someone wants to check it out that way before making decision to actually purchase it.

[@bootowalny]

I know it's not your fault, but just another screw up by Firaxis marketing team. It's really not a great experience to watch you being forced to rush through gameplay. I did not finish this video and I'm not sure at this point if I will watch rest of this series. There is no way to comfortably get any information from it in this form. Idea to limit youtubers by time in a turn-based strategy game was the most braindead idea someone could make. From first video I gather you will still be able to give us some more relaxed/usual play-through closer to release. I'm looking forward to it. I commented on one of your Beyond Earth videos, that I'm currently alienated by this game and you're the last chance to convince me back to idea of buying it. In case of few games in recent years you were my main source of knowledge if game will fit my needs. But because of the above this series is not it. It's not your style of presenting a game. You're forced here to do it Firaxis style.