First it was IKEA, then it was BLOODLUST - Humankind Overexplained Tutorial Let's Play ep.9

[@InquisitiveOtter]

We really need a line of sight mod that shows what units or tiles the ranged units can hit when selected.

[@brandonzzz9924]

It is pretty annoying that gunpowder units have less effective range than archers because they need line of sight to fire at all

[@RiotBrosGaming]

When you move a unit and hover over a tile it shows a red outline around every unit it can attack from that position

[@josephshearsmith1055]

Fun fact for those unaware, there is a documented engagement between the Dutch and French where a French Cavalry unit surrounded a group of 14 Dutch vessels at anchor due to the sea freezing around them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_the_Dutch_fleet_at_Den_Helder

[@gregorarmstrong01]

From the nation that ate its own pm once that doesn’t sound too unlikely

[@axiezimmah]

I was going to post this but of course someone else already posted it lol

[@Lou-Mae]

I swear almost every game I've played has ended in unrecoverable pollution. It's pretty interesting how once it gets going it's practically impossible to stop.

[@BeaverChainsaw]

Kinda like real life pollution and climate change. Also I feel the devs didn't flesh out the pollution mechajic

[@alphawolf1919]

You have to be verying sparing with your industrial era buildings if you want to keep it in check, once you get into the pollution reduction tecs in the modern era it's pretty easy to reduce your output to zero

[@whirlywhirly5758]

hydroelectric dams, solar farms, ...

[@sebastianmartinez2022]

Really? I find that I have so much production by the late game that I don’t need to build the polluting buildings

[@alcatraz160]

Attain scientific godhood and just rush fusion.

[@GTXanatos13]

"The Swedish are coming, the swedish are coming" "I wish they'd stop changing grandpa's medication"

[@Pierre-gk5ky]

It’s unfortunate that it’s clear the late game hasn’t been tested very well. The pollution effects are incredibly punishing, which means it’s best to really stay away from it entirely, and yesterday I played a game where there was only 2 oil on the entire map, you need 3 to launch the Mars colony, so I had to click end turn a bunch to research every tech instead. Not great, but a really fun game otherwise.

[@sholmen1872]

Or you could have pouloted the world and ended the game that way instead of going for tech or space ending.

[@brandonzzz9924]

I would say that the resource requisites are the most untested thing. Why do I need 2 copies of horses to make one horse rider unit? It makes zero sense

[@KingOskar4]

Surprisingly fun to watch. What I like about Humankind is how the leaders of these nations/cultures are just... regular people, and your avatar so therefore you. My avatar looks like me so it's like I am involved IN the world. Thank you for this great and simple video.

[@MyPrideFlag]

in actual history it was actually first bloodlust then IKEA.

[@MrMolova]

"their war support... Is TAHNKING" ❤️ Thank you again for such an entertaining and informative series

[@VirulentGunk]

In the late game I like to try and take a few territories and not attach them to cities, rather I spam trees with my leftover influence to help fight the pollution. It works fairly well if you can find a decent island chain, or a 'new world' continent.

[@gray_wolf1058]

Potato be like: Quickly, quickly conquer the world before We die to the pollution!

[@kevinkevin9525]

I never had bad pollution in my games. At one point, I had thought 1,000 was a lot so I had decided to take matters into my own hands and cover every tile I could with trees. My right hand no longer exists.

[@Afronautsays]

Did the same thing, I didn't think it did anything but now that I see how bad pollution can get I made the right choice.

[@neostar3417]

FYI: Wien is the german name for Vienna

[@slirbajs]

Ahahaha bruv no one can make me laugh like you, sounding completely calm in a state of panic. Youre the best man dont ever stop

[@TheKokopelli24]

Pollution is dealt with forest all over the place.

[@pr0duct1v1ty7]

I had no idea pollution got so bad lol, in my run I ended up researching green and nuclear energy before coal power stuff lol

[@Madmuli]

Yeah me too; if your research output is high enough, you can reach techs like renewable energy fast enough to counter the negative pollution effects

[@BoliceOccifer]

The pollution mechanic really needs to be nerfed. A few train stations and a coal power plant are all it takes to turn roughly one sixth of a continent into a wasteland devoid of all life.

[@JeffreyGoddin]

The manly menacing ghostly Boudicca in a sharp Swiss suit avatar is epic, lol! @4:27 Mexico's leader is clearly your sister!

[@Burred11]

It feels weird that having only some of the low pollution buildings in a big city is enough to ruin it.

[@radred609]

"haha, i have infinite stability" Nek minut...

[@jeffhopp1575]

So anyway, I started blasting!

[@jaydenliberty9536]

I’ve never had pollution issues…although this is after day-one patch, unlike Potato. I just planted forests on tiles with no FIMS (it’s more common than you think!) But yeah, forests start out with 0 FIMS when you plant them but they grow Industry as time passes (just like actual forests, I managed to end the game with a few of the ones I planted first growing to the “Huge Forest” that I think gives 4 Industry at the start of the game)

[@juicertron]

Great vid again bud! "Yes, I am switching between them to try and trigger as many people as possible. Is it woooorking?" :D

[@gabri-immortale]

Could you do a video about all the military units and their special bonus?

[@zuralani1]

Of the two games I played one was on a small map, the other on a normal map. There was only 1 oil on the small map and 2 on the normal map. Kind of makes it hard to get anything that requires oil, and impossible if it needs multiple.

[@bonniedan123mc]

Potato might’ve just demonstrated the true cause of the world wars: The great powers of the world were suffering from pollution so bad they decided on a quick military victory.

[@JakeSezz]

Something you don’t hear every day: “And we got Trench Warfare. Awesome.” 😂😂

[@JeffreyGoddin]

The manly menacing ghostly Boudicca in a sharp Swiss suit avatar is epic, lol!

[@bardet123]

Playing myself, LOS calculations are painfull and artillery (the direct fire ones like howitzers) are useless since they need to be in the front lines. 8 range but cant shoot over the heads of friendly infantry...

[@JohnM-ci2uk]

Too bad you can't fight laser raptors in the Neolithic

[@johnemmanuelmarcaida7022]

you could move your units that blocking the heavy weapons back and forth as long as their vacant tile. by doing this you could attack first with your heavy weapons and then still attack with your line infantry/cavalry.

[@Kage-Yami]

"Get rekt, Colonials" - ahhh, I was very much missing Morbus (?) in this series. :)

[@diggoran]

Your nation fully wraps the map!

[@tomasmugicamoreno8499]

They say the sun never sets on the Swedish Empire.

[@victor28lee]

They threw the whole IKEA at that one 3star line infantry

[@blacktuner64]

everything changed when the Meatball nation attacked

[@sslelgamal5206]

Charles Martin Hall salutes you my friend!

[@Jacob-qr8pl]

Potato: Aluminium :D Me: Armory :-]

[@blacktuner64]

It may be too late for me, but you can shift-key building districts

[@Guderidin]

Italians give you insane amounts of stability

[@FyreMagyk67]

You know, it's funny because technically, aluminum and aluminium are both correct spellings. In fact, both of the names were coined by English scientists and because of the cultural divide between England and America, the use of aluminium died out and aluminum became the norm. So, like with Soccer, the Brits made up the name and dumped the blame on us. Big OOF.

[@swedishmetalbear]

As a Swede.. I approve of this message....

[@roberthart281]

You can plant forests to reduce pollution

[@FrshChees91]

You look great in a suit.

[@francescorumiz4167]

Guys please help me. I don't understand how to unlock the merchant badge. If anyone know exactly how to get it let me know!

[@renano95]

I've noticed the ai doesnt upgrade their units as much, like I'll be using machine guns against swordsmen

[@zuralani1]

Yeah, I steamrolled 3 empires with just 4 howitzers and 3 machine gun elephants. I was one-shotting almost every unit.

[@TheEnecca]

are forests a good way to help against pollution? i built them everywhere in my game and sometimes they helped and sometimes they did nothing.

[@dinz4062]

Forests only give-10 for 2 turns.

[@dinz4062]

And don't stack

[@TheEnecca]

@@dinz4062 so just -10 for 2 turns and thats it? its not every turn?

[@dinz4062]

@@TheEnecca yeah. Found that out in my pollution win

[@TheEnecca]

@@dinz4062 thx

[@hzt_rzkyi]

I have played this game.. needless to say, everything is good but need better polishing.. oh well, I'll revisit the game in a few years after they fixed and tweaks it until it gets better. BTW, does anyone has a recommendation for 4X game like this? I'm thinking of the endless legend but from what I've seen on youtube they don't have tooltips or advisor like civ 6/ humankind? I believe it will be very hard to learn then..

[@burstcity3832]

I played a game yesterday, was winning very nicely then I was forced to settle a war because their troops didn't want to fight. I was forced to give back all their cities by the game as there was no option to keep them or continue fighting. I wasn't impressed, did I miss something? lol.

[@leandroTRA]

you need to start the war only when you have high war support, it turns into points . every city costs some points when the war ends to keep. 200 points turns them into your vassal

[@burstcity3832]

@@leandroTRA Cool! thanks. So to wipe out an opponent they must have good war support too or only take a few cities per war, That feels right after what hapened.

[@leandroTRA]

@@burstcity3832 yeah war support is basically how much your own population hates the enemy, they wont let you wipe out a nation that they don't hate. gotta fill that hate bar

[@someonlinepersona]

How do you fight pollution? Obviously place a bunch of forts, not trees. :)

[@gregorarmstrong01]

And Volvo. and Ericsson and h & m.

[@harjutapa]

They CLEARLY need to fix the pollution mechanic. It's horribly overtuned.

[@josesucks69]

I’ve never had a problem with it

[@whitenoise509]

The line of sight mechanics on this game are absolutely awful. Its so difficult to stage correctly when you can't know where your los is going to work.

[@davidbodor1762]

Naaah they're not communicated well. Once you realize how they work it's like seeing the Matrix. The game did make it so that if you hover over a tile that you want to move to, it highlights all enemies you can shoot from that location to make these rules a bit easier to interpret. The rules offer a really vast potential for foresight and tactical movement and put importance on the order of actions, bearing in mind you can move all your units and attack with all of them after they all moved if you want. In fact you get +1 strength from being near a friendly unit, so it is incentivized to move melee units first then attack with both. As for line of sight: Basically units and forests block line of sight. Both yours and enemies. Trees are a height of 2, so if you have a really big cliff you can shoot over them, but one level of elevation isn't enough. If you're good at strategy you can move your own units in specific orders to maximize your effectiveness. You can move your archer, shoot with a clear line of sight, then move your swordsmen in front blocking sight and protecting the archer from melee combat and the swordsmen gains the +1 bonus on the attack from being near the archer.

[@TheDanielsSk]

@@davidbodor1762 Yea, you're 100% correct, when I figured it out was like seeing the matrix lmao

[@RagdyAndy]

when are we getting some more CIV videos

[@gib3946]

wow

[@boringperson1]

Hi

[@justinwhite2725]

IKEA didn't really dominate the world until after they left Sweden because of socialism. It's now in the Netherlands. Sweden is the the only example we have of a socialist country going 'this is a bad idea' and changing course without bloodshed.

[@danielmeelhuysen]

the impact of pollution is not realistic in any capacity.

[@GeneralTotoss]

makes the game unplayable late game. sad.

[@TheKingOfTheHaters]

next time speed run ruining the world with pollution

[@elzed2667]

Murder

[@tjhc2397]

That unclaimed wonder is really distracting me.

[@eclipse6859]

Its spelled aluminum REEE. Otherwise it would be spelled alyoomineeum

[@SImrobert2001]

Its a British pronunciation. There's more than one country on Earth.

[@eclipse6859]

Plus potato is Irish

[@ChrMuslimThor]

Spotted the colonial.

[@StarShadowPrimal]

Great job picking Sweden... this is what happens when you let Greta Thunberg design your game's pollution mechanics.

[@osi_ossi-9062]

dont like that you lost CIV mentality

[@KoldKay]

Any Potato is good Potato, I'll watch anything he does. I'm enjoying the Humankind content

[@JGuitaristJones]

Strategy content is good content, as long as I'm watching Potato

[@konokiomomuro7632]

Why having civ mentality when you play a different game