HUMANKIND | 8 Tricks you Need to Know - Beginner's Guide

[@PartyElite]

A shorter video today, but one that still packs a punch - there are some excellent tools in HUMANKIND that might've gone unnoticed, and with some of them, some excellent bits of cheeky play. Don't forget to join the discord if you're looking for folks to play with - discord.gg/6Tq3ut5

[@19Burgandy]

Love your channel, keeping strategy games alive with class 👏 🙌

[@dariuswroclawski5521]

why timeline in this game is so bad? 6000 b.e and someone have Medieval era already? it fuck up reality so much

[@starduster12]

Dude how tf do i use the expansionist ability i clicked the ability had them on top if the administrative center im at peace with them and what do i click after that like its not doing anything

[@S.Johannesson]

Before you move on from the Nomadic Tribe era you can merge Hunting Parties that are close to have get a new unit. The food transfers with the party.

[@AlexanderSnow23]

What do you mean? They will be different from the scouts?

[@ClockworkOuroborous]

@@AlexanderSnow23 so you have 2 units of hunting parties, both at 20/40 food on their way to a 3rd unit. If you merge them, it spawns a new hunting party and now you have 5 hunters. If you take a culture first, you get 4 scouts. If you merge first, you get 5 instead. not merging wastes the 40 food you've found.

[@AlexanderSnow23]

@@ClockworkOuroborous ok gotchu. Thank you

[@kap79]

Oh damn of course it does. Fack. Thanks!

[@sneakyghillie4087]

I'd love a video, or a series of 7 where you discuss affinities for every culture in each era. I would also totally watch a series on various stacks of cultures transitioning to various eras and what they set up.

[@igavinwood]

Aesthete cultures have a rep for being difficult to earn the era stars for, however the active bonus is really good. Triggering this for a little gold instantly provides a ton of influence. While this isn't counted as generated influence for the era star, you can use the influence to claim territory by building an outpost, then instant build extractors and harbours and finally attach to the city. This tactic, along with the one described in the vid for Expansionist cultures, are fabulous ways of dominating land grabs and claiming resources.

[@Perzyn]

"Go forth and plant the trees just to cut them back down." Isn't that the forrestry industry in the nut-shell?

[@badbanana2547]

I mean farms plant plants just to cut them down too

[@smithynoir9980]

Something I missed for a little while was the instant build when paying with Influence for Outpost Districts (Extractors and Docks). If you have excess Influence make sure your outposts have everything you want them to have before attaching them to a city.

[@imblackmagic1209]

you can even dettach them to further build strategics or emblematic harbors and reattach, I've found that 3 or 4 territory cities work best, as the cost (money or production) of infrastructure and districts scales by number of territories attached...

[@vidholf]

Would love to see videos on how to play towards different play styles - e.g. peaceful builder, trade hog, win with science, etc. (I see you did a couple playthrus like this in OpenDev, but am more interested in how-to.) Also a video on ways to build up, era by era, toward an end goal - e.g. growth first, then building, then...

[@mattscott4792]

I know auto-explore is like cheat mode, but I really like manually playing the Nomad age and reloading if I make a mistake instead. Something about finding goodies has always been a high point for 4x games for me.

[@GeoPeter]

Thank you for this video! Just started playing Humankind recently and have been loving it! ^^

[@StudioBleenk]

Finally a tips video that isnt the very basics

[@ClavisRa]

I'd advise strongly against auto explore in most all circumstances. At the start of the game, the most crucial thing units can do is kill mammoths, second is gather food, and least valuable is the curiosities. So you will need to navigate having units spread out to cover ground, but also, group up to kill mammoths. This balancing act is how to make the most of your tribes and stockpile hundreds of influence to get two early cities growing in tandem.

[@ElzariusUnity]

my autoexlorers just move in a triangle of hexes all the time.

[@Kinasawa]

Great content! Loving the game so far!

[@bluemagicina]

04:02 the trapped unit tip was super helpful!!

[@RULERofSTARS]

Thanks dude. I'm having trouble on the harder difficulty settings, I seem to fall behind in fame growth around the mid clasical era. Hopefully a few of these tips will help me keep up :)

[@X3105i]

Fell behind on normal lol

[@reywas3153]

@@X3105i same

[@ChristDuque]

I feel like in Civilization.. the IA... cheats. They are not bound with the same rules as us. I see them with huge armies that should be impossible to produce / maintain due to the limited size of their territories.. stuff like that.

[@RULERofSTARS]

@@ChristDuque Yes, that's what I see too. It's expected, we are smarter than the AI, I can stomp the AI's military with superior tactics, that's quite straight forward though. We just need to learn the intricacies of the game to keep ahead on the fame score ...or maybe the ballance needs tweeking? We'll see.

[@jonathandavis277]

This is good stuff! Got here by looking for 'tips'. Would like to see more in the same vein of 'Wish I would have known...'. Thank you.

[@Cramblit]

Wow, I've played this for 3 days now, and was not expecting to learn anything new (Rarely do). But you gave alot of great advanced tid bits the game simply does not explain or suggest, such as disbanding units into another city to up its population. Thanks for the great video!

[@wmredwine]

Looking forward to a full playthrough of final release.

[@eroll2]

6 months from now

[@mrvad3r198]

Really hope u can do a full walk through for this game

[@lasvista2tech]

Great guide, this games lacks much needed guides online

[@JDuel100]

Wait... so, in Ancient Era sometimes, I have something like 8 scouts. While I do use them for scouting, couldn't I just add them to my base city for an early pop leg up? ...holy crap.

[@dsreaver7738]

Its not that easy. You are typically not able to serve enough food for more than 2 extra people early on. Though these 2 extra help a lot. Also I think you know all that by now. :D

[@TheNzFox]

One thing I have noticed, burn sanctuaries down on sight, the damn things spawn faster than rabbits and if you don't get rid of them they evolve into independent cities. Counting on this for or or two extra cities is a bonus, but it can lead to huge issues when 5-6 are stacked ontop of each other as irreverent of how you deal with them you can't merge cities for a very long time and even when you can it costs huge amounts of influence to do so

[@imblackmagic1209]

worse still if they are lairs... those are priority number 1

[@PedroHawk1]

God knows how grateful I am on the clarification of the expanionist ability and train usage.

[@jogzyg2036]

The expansionist ability is actually pretty terrible, explained or otherwise. It's usually much better to just go to war in my experience. If your raid is interrupted, you lose all the money you spent on it, if you go to war you can grab multiple territories at once, you weaken your rivals and as if that wasn't enough, you work towards the militarist stars and the expansionist stars at the same time.

[@PedroHawk1]

@@jogzyg2036 you can do that without going to war. Skirmishes are a thing. But there are a few reasons as for why you don't necessarily want to go to war. One of them is that war support isn't trivial to get. And if you're not in a war, you don't need to bother with it. Another one is that you might not want other players to know that you're fighting a neighbor.

[@martinkis2000]

Thanks for the video, finally something with some useful things

[@switchedup5312]

Excellent tips!

[@cankar6315]

Thank you for the things which are hidden from our eyes

[@Ajax-wo3gt]

Wonderful! Thank you. Keep them coming.

[@happylion1859]

Could you go over the other active affinity abilities. Some of them either don't seem to practical or in not using then right 🤔

[@slaughter81]

Great tips, thank you!

[@tarnim80]

these where some very solid and helpful tips, thanks! :)

[@boquanerwinchen5198]

Any tips on district placement? I recently found out that wonders collect resources around it, but holy sites don't.

[@realitylime4896]

Enjoy your vids. Great info. A few questions: 1. Is there any way once out of the Neolithic age to generate units other than city production? 2. Is there a turn number sweet spot for changing eras? 3. Pros/cons for attaching outposts and when to do it.

[@PartyElite]

Thanks! 1 - yes, but that's specific to certain cultures. Off the top of my head, I believe the Assyrians can recruit units from outposts, and Huns and Mongols have emblematic units that multiply like tribes do in the neolithic era 2 - I'm sure there is but to be honest, I haven't identified it yet! 3 - Cons are the hit to stability, and the need to queue extractors and harbours rather than being able to instant-build using influence. Some cultures can also use outposts as spawn points for adjacent cities, which can be huge! Pros are - everything else! The exploitation of those tiles, the use of regular districts, the ability to recruit regular units, the ability to build land unit spawn point buildings anywhere in the region. The perfect time, imho, is once extractors have been insta-built using influence, unless you're low on influence, and urgently need said resources, in which case I'd go sooner rather than later. Be careful though because population *and* exploitations get immediately added to the parent city, so you might get some boosted numbers, but you might also see some famine if the numbers add up in such a way! I hope that helps!

[@realitylime4896]

@@PartyElite thanks! Here’s another if you don’t mind…does additional ‘unused’ influence guard against territories being converted to a neighbors civ?

[@adavis5926]

The default landscape makes the Grand Canyon look like a ditch. Seriously, the default maps are a maze of choke points. On my next play, I'm reducing the hills and mountains to something more like planet Earth.

[@dragonlloux]

I think that was an interesting decision because of the way that combat works on this, it is 80% terrain and control over advantages e disadvantages, like one unit can reeeeally out duel a copy of itself if it uses even just one of the terrain advantages. So I think that’s why there are so many different elevation and barriers and such. I found them very interesting but also very frustrating at times, like once that my units could not be deployed beyond the 1 unit because the deplorable area was just 1 tile, but I’d prefer have to deal with that then just smash units agains each other in a plain field

[@crash_hunter8659]

Try randomize everything. That is wild and funny.

[@kocoffgames4144]

the expansionist passive is kind of insane.

[@MannenFromNorth]

Not sure if this is common knowledge or no here, but what I have figured is that you don't need huge horde army to take a city, it's just a waste of time and you'll be more inclined to use the auto battle option which will waste resources. Better to optimise your units for both scale and to counter what you're are up against, having 8 spear units is wonderful against another unit that uses horses for en example. Also very important thing for conquering another nation, focus on smaller skirmishes, draw the enemies units out by ransacking smaller towns and resources areas first. you can get a better upper hand in terms of placement and you take control over where you're fighting and what units to use to counter. Doing seiging it can be good to take your time and just hold it under seige till they surround, collect what you took and then start start another seige with better and healed units and seige weapons. The enemy will also be much weaker and you'll have more control over and resources, pluss a much closer spawn point if took over a smaller city for units, healing and upgrading. Together with re enforcements being extremely close and constantly in the make.

[@ChristDuque]

That's some nice tips! I really dislike how the war system works in this game.. even if I understand why they did it... It's very infuriating to conquer every single city of an opponent and being able to only keep 2 or 3... Feels like you worked for nothing in the end.

[@whitenoise509]

@@ChristDuque I've got the same frustration for sure. Being forced to accept their surrender is a very odd mechanic. Why not just let us actually conquer fully?

[@MannenFromNorth]

@@ChristDuque Same, it's really restrictive, but it also makes it alot more satisfying once you learn to have patience and take alittle at a time, It rewards strategy with taking resources and good positions. Something that works better in pvp then if you just play against AI for fun.

[@Crowbar]

Another great video!

[@pumpkinqueen3776]

But…but…party 🥺 this is all great and informative but, are we not getting a real let’s play? Not just mini versions? Please?? 😢😢

[@Ciaossuuu]

First time playing this kind of games and holy shit I’m so lost LOL

[@futureprogress]

Same but it all start to make sense, just keep at it.

[@jogzyg2036]

It took me a few games to grasp the mechanics of this one and I've played tons of 4X like this before. Can only imagine what it's like for a complete beginner but keep at it and you'll get there.

[@chastermief839]

the video tutorials in-game are pretty handy but they do leave a few things out... best way to learn the basics IMO is to just play through the first couple eras and reset if you feel like the game is stagnating or you're not sure what to do. Playing on blitz speed with easy AI makes this more bearable. The nature of games like this is that your options expand and decisions get more complex the longer the game goes on, like a branching tree. A poor decision early on can have huge impacts later. So if you just practice the basics of getting out of neolithic and into ancient, you'll learn a lot more easily IMO because there's less to think about. Just play through the early game and try to find the best ways to earn era stars, earn fame, and advance your empire as you move into classical and maybe even medieval. When you repeat these early stages of the game its much less stressful, you can start messing around with how you arrange your districts, and some basics of interacting with independent cultures and diplomacy / skirmishes etc. and you can experiment with prioritizing different technologies and playing with different cultures. Experimenting and starting over is the best way to learn. If you feel like a playthrough has potential and you're routinely setting goals and meeting them, stick with it and go for the win. But generally when I'm just practicing the game and trying out different strategy I'll just reset a run if I don't know where I'm going next. There's not much to be gained from dragging out a game that I'm clearly going to lose.

[@LordBrozart]

I picked the wrong color for my first play through. How do I change my characters empire color?

[@Ggdivhjkjl]

How does standing on a railway track stop a train?

[@doodly_1234]

One simple thing that was hard to figure out was how to destroy a city

[@jasonbaird1645]

I had to look that one up too because it wasn't obvious. To those who are wondering, you have to ransack the city after you conquer it. It works well once you know to do it, but the game should have told us how. A minor flaw in a game with several minor flaws that will hopefully be patched out, but still a very enjoyable game worthy of the 9/10 ratings it's getting imo. Once the minor flaws are fixed, it could even be a 10. The combat is so good.

[@SteinCodes]

Same, I was just liberating them instead.

[@whitenoise509]

@@jasonbaird1645 Thank you!! I seriously thought the only way was to liberate them. Super annoying being over the city cap non stop

[@EgzAguilar]

@@whitenoise509 Dont worry about City Caps. You can exceed them to the cost of influence penalty. Just make sure you have loads of influence.

[@apewithwings6752]

Hey man, thanks for these videos! I have a question about army costs, is there any way to lower them in the early game. I like to play with the huns but i always end up making negative wealth and therefore leading into a bad spot.

[@lisgraa82]

Auto explore, is SO much better in Humankind, than CIV6. I use it A LOT, after I founded my first city. Almost all my units get set to auto explore.

[@HansAlRachid]

Now that the game has been out for a bit and people have gotten somewhat of an impression of how it plays - which would you recommend more at the moment: Endless Legend or Humankind?

[@jogzyg2036]

Humankind has much better balance and mechanics objectively speaking. But EL is still the more fun. Truly asymmetrical factions which have to play the game completely differently to each other is just a more interesting experience. Besides.... I do miss my money knights........

[@HansAlRachid]

@@jogzyg2036 Hey thanks for the feedback! Honestly, so long as no faction is genuinely broken as such, bad balance in a 4X game - especially an asymmetrical one - doesn't _necessarily_ bother me all that much personally, so long as it's fun. One more question though: Would you consider any of EL's DLC essential? At a glance it looks like most are pretty straightforward and add new factions, right?

[@wardogkinggaming7486]

I didn't know you can change the BUILD QUEUE

[@wardogkinggaming7486]

For cities

[@LawHawk-pu3is]

More please!

[@Ragehaven]

Struggling to enjoy this game the rush to get the the culture you want at the beginning is incredibly irritating Also never trust auto explor, unit go endlessly back and forth over the same area

[@shaneintheuk2026]

Hi. Thanks for the great content and interesting videos. Please can you gather all your Humankind videos into one playlist? Ta Shane

[@Gnomkiller2000]

Question finished a game and was called a mythical leader is there any higher title achievable in the end scene?

[@joaoabegao2888]

Excellent video PE. Got me a question that I was hoping you would have addressed. I have had a couple of games completely ruined by war resolutions and independent peoples' assimilation. When the territories are added to ours, they come directly in the form of cities. Sometimes I have gone beyond the limit of addressing this with influence tweaks and set myself on a spiral of losing influence. I just wanted to know if there is any way to get territories from conquered enemies or independent peoples in the form of outposts instead of cities so we can add them at our leisure. I think there is an option to "liberate" a city but I haven't tried it.

[@PartyElite]

You can actually ransack any city under your control to get rid of it, and then you can replace it with an outpost you establish. Keep in mind, though, that none of the districts in the region that have been previously built will be worth anything until this outpost is attached or re-evolved into a city, but the tiles don't get destroyed either, so you'll have immediate access to them when said attachment/upgrade is done! I hope that answers your query =). Let me know if not!

[@joaoabegao2888]

@@PartyElite I had seen you do that in your older videos, was just making sure that some trick hadn't slip my radar. Considering ransacking and building from the ground up or being less ambitious in territorial gain, wouldn't you say that accepting money and one or two territories at at a time would be better, and just launch a new offensive afterwards? The thing that breaks the expansionist tendency is the exponential loss of influence, so maybe it is good to temper our ambitions. Accept one or two new territories, leave them as stand alone cities or absorb them, and when the situation is under control,rinse and repeat.

[@Urbrainongaming]

You're the man.

[@Warden1992]

Any tips for single city challenge?

[@phaserra]

A bit unclear with the expansionist affinity. Do I have to also control the culture of a region before claiming a territory? In my xp I was only able to claim unattached outposts.

[@PartyElite]

From my experience thus far, no - you should be able to take any outpost or administrative centre (outpost that's been attached to a city). Cities themselves are the only thing I've seen that can't be annexed in this way!

[@adamaa39]

Roll up to an administrative centre (close enough to see it outside of fog) but don't stand on it, then click the special affinity button. Action will highlight the tile and you can confirm, move in and wait (turn timer will show up).

[@starduster12]

Dude how tf do i use the expansionist ability i clicked the ability had them on top if the administrative center im at peace with them and what do i click after that like its not doing anything

[@PartyElite]

After clicking on the ability, are you clicking on the administrative centre itself? It doesn't activate when you click on the ability, you have to click on the centre/outpost after as well. Then it takes a handful of turns to execute. You'll see a small turn counter above the unit that's doing the work. Let me know if that helps! Hit me up again if not!

[@starduster12]

@@PartyElite yeah I click the center but nothing happens no money is taken and i tried moving them off of it and then trying to make them walk with the ability and with them on top but I think it might be because im playing the gamepass version we cant even change city name the icon isn’t there and we cant have more than 15 friends or we cant play multiplayer

[@mikemalone2184]

I just want to say. Auto explore is trash. Find mammoths early, one Hunter him if you can!!!! Very huge early boost if you are lucky. I didn’t start out on most difficult, but I started on standard. I didn’t know you shouldn’t attack a mammoth. I did and found out you can kill one early, very early with one guy. This propelled me. Easy culture troops.

[@craftsmenMC]

I think the expansionist ability needs to be buffed. It takes up so much of my money, and as soon as I use it to initiate the annexation I’m attacked and the money is wasted. In all my playthroughs I’ve never been able to make the ability work.

[@NguyenTran-hb5oe]

I played for a bit, then get a surprise-penetration from behind by POLUTION. Do not in any circumstances get high pollution per turn in any city. You have been warned.

[@LucasOliveira-dj6gg]

I'm trying so hard to enjoy this game, but it's a UI hell to me

[@Dro250]

Im getting stomped and idk why. Stability is rough, idk wtf im soing wrong

[@PartyElite]

To tackle stability you'll want to import/acquire luxury goods, build infrastructure like fountains and aqueducts, build buildings like the garrison, and make sure not to attach too many outposts to a city too quickly. Every attached territory makes a huge hit to stability, as does every district you build (unless specified otherwise). I hope that helps!

[@MrHellknightimp]

They need to fix the auto explore

[@dragomirdanut2451]

i love your chanell!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jamesmclips]

I came from Civ VI and this game makes no sense to me at all, everything seems backwards. Feel like I waste money on it, please restore some hope for me lol

[@joeykenyatta8953]

I like the gameplay and the system, Humankind is more modern and dynamic compare to Civ.6. However these bugs I can't stand, I already try the beta and it is the same: 1. when I have like 10 Nuclear Missile Silo with 90 nuclear warheads, the AI is freeze, can't proceed to turn 2, After restart so many times, sometimes can proceed the turn, but all combat must be manual combat 3. After I launch the 1st wave of 9 nukes, the second wave will freeze the AI, can't proceed to turn Please don't buy this game yet, maybe wait for a few more months

[@mariahkelly2249]

A whole month party… 😭

[@PartyElite]

I know ;-; I'm sorry Don't worry, though - we should be back this week, if all goes according to plan (which it looks like it might)!

[@samrussell2103]

What about Bannerlord?

[@jeffreyes6938]

I might be too dumb to play this game

[@jrodger4]

Game is buggy hard crashes all around

[@danielharvey8627]

I would suggest instead of making videos, you should go and watch some beginner videos and learn the game yourself. I doubt you could beat Civilization, let alone Humankind setting up the way you do.

[@danielkjm]

*Hunnic Horde is Broken, Ruined The Game For Me*

[@almiser]

You're the ruin now.

[@helderalmeida3417]

£50.00 No thanks

[@Imcomprehensibles]

its honestly just civ

[@Lickerdrink0594]

Can't join your discord channel :(

[@aloharay]

1:57 Yes and no. Early game the autoexplore is crazy effective, as if fog of the map doesn't exist for its algorithym. Super cheesey. I suspect this is why ai players are good at claiming so many outposts early. I reccommend you MONITOR AUTOEXPLORE UNITS FREQUENTLY. Many times I have had auto explore units simply go back and forth between two or three hexes in a loop. Super ineffective. Midgame I had a land unit deploy into vulnerable transports and get stuck in a loop on ocean tiles.... SIGH.

[@revrndcast3918]

You're lucky. I had several land units deploy with a Man of War, only for the units to disappear mid journey. Talking something like 4 knights and 2 heavy swordsman. Man of War got to the destination, but all units with it just did not exist any more. Happened a few times prior, when I followed the Man of War I managed to confirm it. So clearly they weren't embarked, they must have had their own transport (Caravel or Carrack - that doesn't show up at all) that gets swamped or lost at sea. Guessing that although I was in the era of Caravels, and Man of War, the units I had only utilised their respective era transport and don't get "loaded into" the Man of War or Caravel itself.

[@G4M5T3R]

This is due to 2 things. 1. Auto-Explore only knows where spawns are possible. 2. Spawns are only possible at static spawners that are outside all empire vision. As empires expand, spawn tiles that are visible get disabled, and since Auto-Explore only cares about the closest possible spawn the feature completely breaks mid-late game.

[@revrndcast3918]

@@G4M5T3R unfortunately several things tend to break mid-late game. I've had units disappear completely (things like helicopter rotors are still visible.. but everything else disappears for all units) and military units disappear mid-journey (possibly sank but with no warning - and shouldn't have been possible given the tech unlocked). But will definitely keep your suggestion in mind next game if I consider auto-explore.

[@kap79]

Oh yeah, finally played through using auto explore first thing, it is like they can see through the fog; cheesy efficient - basically necessary, honestly. Doesn't seem like the AI has any problem dealing with the randomness, seems like they walk straight towards the food/science. I was always in dismay to the RG gods as I watched the AI already picking a culture and still had a unit or two. And second the auto explore later on - I watched my stupid Cog basically go in circles. Definitely need to babysit.

[@steeneugenpoulsen8174]

Word of warning while auto explorer seems to work in the Neo Era, it's basically broken with auto explorer unit just running back and forth between two tiles.

[@kirbyduay]

What you need to do is use the remaining moves of the unit before setting it to auto explore.

[@imblackmagic1209]

so true!! even in neo era, the thing is almost cheating... i had a hunting party going back and forth in a path, because the game kept spawning that food collectible in the same spot as soon as it went into the fog of war... totally not broken

[@FromScratchToFF]

Am I the only one to have problem with vision of range units? After recruiting there vision is being reduced to 2, what makes them useless in battle

[@_natalie]

No, no, no, at 2:32 that there is a treeck ;p

[@PartyElite]

I was going to include a 'sorry Natalie' on that title card, too =P

[@jokro7978]

Hi PartyElite, I got a question. When you generate a your character and you put strenghts in place - where do they count? Like i did Pathfinder (+2movement) but my foot-troops still got just 4 movepoints, same with the +6 production on smithery: it still shows the normal amount. Didn't see any effect of any strenghts @ all. is the effect hidden or does it come to play in later stages? (didnt see that on my playthroughs either)

[@john-zm8uc]

A quick question if anyone knows the answer. Playing my first game and a city l took from the Huns periodically migrates population to the Hun empire. Is this an affinity, can l prevent it somehow or tech to mitigate it? It was fairiy early in the game so no idea if it will continue. Thanks in advance.

[@el.Fakir.]

If you are referring population stolen from your cities that is an agrarian culture affinity action. However, Huns are not agrarian. The affinity action of militarist cultures, and the Huns, is Iron Reserves that allow instantly raising militia armies (like citizens who defend their cities under siege) I'm not sure but I don't suppose Huns can use this affinity action on cities occupied by enemies during war times.

[@cvexreos]

slightly late