The Most Cursed Livestream in Civ 6 History

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[@TheSaxyGamer]

Seems like you took a page out of my book today with the restarts and rage when trying to play an early war Civ XD the RNG can just be so frustrating sometimes.

[@gregcollins981]

i was coming here to say this lol

[@pratikharani3102]

Inb4 Potato plays germany again lmao

[@oops3798]

Aztec vampires? Sounds really bizarre!

[@meatman9099]

Bruh

[@lekanske3816]

Sounds like the perfect plot for a bizarre adventure

[@Brianpuz]

Dresden Files the Blood Court Vampires were the Aztecks

[@rbms3889]

*awakening my masters at distance*

[@raileyti]

@@Brianpuz finally someone else gets it

[@spyroulaki8101]

Was that a freaking JOJO’S REFERENCE

[@samithvarma7109]

it helps when one of the cities is called wamuu

[@lekanske3816]

I wish he'd name some more after the pillar men ngl

[@pratikharani3102]

THATS BIZARRE!

[@nicholasleon434]

Nobody talking about Quentin Tarantino’s Dusk Till Dawn smh smh

[@Buc82]

Wamuu, Wamuu, Wamuu! ;D

[@adoomystiro8726]

Well this was a cursed livestream, couldn't catch a break there... My heart's with you Potato, early wars on diety are so frustrating when you make a single mistake, since it basically snowballs and the rest of the game is gone...

[@NoorAnomaly]

I feel for you man. 💞 Thanks for at least trying as long as you did.

[@Buktu94]

Potato: Restarts game because he does not want to fight against crossbowman. Also Potato: Attacks the guys with archers as strong as crossbowman.

[@joed2871]

Shoulda called them chupacabras

[@thevoxdeus]

Honestly, secret societies should just unlock the first time you meet the requirement. There's nothing fun about it being random. If there's not a mod that already does this, there ought to be one.

[@Lazuli901]

Definitely. It's even more painful if the unlock condition isn't an easy one, like discovering a natural wonder.

[@pratikharani3102]

@@Lazuli901 Was trying to get hermetic order for a game, unlocked them at like turn 100 after discovering the 3rd wonder.

[@aeriawindsor4722]

Yeah, it's kinda not fair when it's very easy to get contact with Owl of Minerva, but need 100 turn to find one natural wonder for Hermetic Order, or if you're really getting badluck and ran out of goodie huts for Voidsingers. Small suggestion, establish embassy with civ that followed its faction should give you its faction contact as well.

[@RCCola979]

The other possibility is to make more events to unlock the orders. For instance, Hermetic or Voidsingers could unlock by building a 4+ adjacency campus/holy site or by earning great people.

[@denniscain7218]

Yeah,the RNG needs to go. Played Hungary & wanted to go Vamp, cracked two barb camps, no invite. By that time my continent had gotten too civized & my only chance to get Vamo was allying with the neighboring Arabs, who had been on the rampage. They had wiped out the Turks & were winning a war against Russia.

[@yuwish6320]

This was legit really humorous to watch. Poor Potato got rick-rolled by RNG for two hours straight.

[@l0remipsum991]

Instead of the Aztecs why not pick the Scythians? Scythia's heal on kills = vampire "lifesteal" Bonus combat strength against wounded units = vampire's "bloodthirst" Also, horse units are very strong, which makes vampires stronger. Edit: Persia and Chad India are nice picks too. Speedy vampires.

[@funnyjojodog670]

Jojo thats why

[@caleblittle27]

Scotland with its own defensive tactics war who also had the additional movement for the first 10 turns (same thing as Cyrus and Chad-ragupta)

[@adolfhipsteryolocaust3443]

Because it wouldn't be a jojo reference

[@l0remipsum991]

@@funnyjojodog670 I knew the memes. Problem is, it's livestream and dependent on RNGesus and when things don't go as expected, the meme somehow loses its value. (Possible workaround is saving the game just before clearing out a barb camp, reload later if you don't get invitation to Sanguine Pact.)

[@unholyxeras8182]

I did that, it was awesome...also, vampire castles - much better than advertised

[@jdog7797]

St. Petersburg my Russian capital got hit by meteor, one tile, on *huge* map totally destroyed all infrastructure, took the wind out of my sails... gonna take a break and reevaluate whether it's worth still playing that playthrough.

[@noobFPV]

That is what Civ 6 is like for me. 2 hours of restarting then giving up. I would rather watch potato do it. Saves money too.

[@poilboiler]

Same.

[@yigitdemir3723]

Exactly the same. For example, I go as ottomans and restart a few times to get a start that actually has production, only to discover that I dont have a single niter in my 5-6 city empire

[@noobFPV]

@@yigitdemir3723 Game design is really bad, puts too much demand on map generator and it can't deliver. We can go all day about what is wrong, point is core game is crap and these DLC are just insulting - this is what you do when you can't balance game, you shift rules from time to time. ... Game is crap. Would have never started it if it wasn't for potato. Of course I have no intention of buying this crap. Arrrr

[@yigitdemir3723]

@@noobFPV I dont even have fun with it anymore. Even if I win a game, it feels like I wasted 5-6 hours of my life. I wasnt having this issue in Civ 5. Even if I lose the game, the game actually felt like it added me something. Every game in Civ 5 was an adventure and it never felt empty.

[@benwillems8584]

If you already own the game what money are you saving?

[@andreaspeeters5826]

Man, my schadenfreude level was of the charts during the stream. Better luck next time.

[@MrSteroband]

Rough Rider Teddy w/ Sanguine Pact or Pericles w/ Owls of Minerva or Lady Six Sky with Hermetic Order

[@abcpsyroman4954]

If 2020 would be a CIV game

[@lmonasterios]

hehehehehehehehehe That is what 2020 looks like in a civ VI game

[@KingCanada1337]

There were kind of random events in “civ beyond earth “ with the colonizing other planets and events with aliens and lost researchers etc.

[@tonimakkaroni182]

What a splendid start of the stream. As annoyed as you sounded, as delighted was I. ;)

[@Kal4ple]

On days like these I just play immortal, with bad RNG it’s like normal diety regardless

[@FictionJunction.M.]

You deserve credit for trying for as long as you did. I'd have given up way before then!

[@Oleksii.Vakulich]

Glad to see that I'm not the only one being frustrated about early wars on deity. Lately I feel like it is nearly impossible to have consistently successful wars in first 50-60 turns.

[@Jockuptown]

that's what happens when you have the AI cheat instead of programming them better. takes that amount of turns for players to catch up to them which is what makes the war possible.

[@SquireThomas]

It kinda just is what it is. The game's mechanics are just not particularly friendly to early wars. I don't know why people try to force them. Potato would have been a lot better off just smashing her first wave of guys, getting like 5 free builders, then taking just Arnheim and calling it a day. Peace out for a nice bit of cash, and jam like 5 sweet districts with your shiny new builders.

[@AbundantlyLimbed]

Honestly watching this makes me feel so much better about my own civ game play. Even a God can bleed.

[@elimayerson8206]

just subbed to you potato! getting better at civ on the daily

[@Crazytechnition]

I’d did learn a thing or two about early era domination strategies this video. Shame about the vampires but it was still great to watch.

[@juliakovacs4885]

Honestly that's why I use a banlist for some Civ games. Sometimes I have a very specific gameplan and don't want to have to deal with the AI's BS

[@yigitdemir3723]

Sadly, the JoJo Reference Stream has failed

[@TheOfficialMyself]

Had the same issue today. Tried a run as Japan with Hermetic Order for massive district adjacency, found the other 3 societies within around 20 turns and had to wait another 70 or 80 for Hermetic, didn't wanna give up on a good start though so I just powered through like you did

[@MrAndrewaziz]

There needs to be a feature in the game that lets you remove certain civs from the random pool chosen before a game. On diety I never wanna play against Korea, Teddy, Cyrus, John Curtain or Lautaro

[@helstromh]

All you have to do is choose the civs you want in the "advanced" choices section. But, you are correct, there is no "civ exclusion list".

[@MrAndrewaziz]

@@helstromh yea but then it's not random. I actually end up using a custom made rng that gives me numbers and I choose the civs based in those number. If it rolls a civ I don't like I skip over to the next one. Such a convoluted work around but that only thing I can think of

[@SquireThomas]

Do you just really hate Lautaro? It just amuses me that you list off four of the most powerful civs, which makes sense....and then Lautaro :P.

[@MT-sm5nk]

@@SquireThomas Lautaro is really annoying to fight against, tho. I wouldn't want him in any domination game. But yeah, if you're going peaceful, he really doesn't matter as much ^^

[@nguyennhat1263]

Accepting the hardest challenge and also don't want to be contested at the same time?

[@EchoingHorror]

This was the most relatable video I've ever seen. Still wondering how the +12 total adjacency bonus from the campuses in the first video could be something that would carry his science though, since Greece already had 24 more

[@maxjahns9063]

Potato: „I‘m gonna build this Petra, we‘re playing this no matter what!“ John Curtin and Teddy: „Oh, we don‘t think so!“

[@pratikharani3102]

That Sahara+Petra would've been so good

[@fredblues7175]

Sometimes I spend more than an hour before I can even plant my 1st city. Some of the more specialized civs just never seem to get the land that suits them, like Canada getting desert start after endless desert start and Ethiopia on the flattest lands ever. Some days I get that golden start, most days the crappiest start imaginable. And we won't talk about the days when I get planted next to a civ that will spend the whole game at war with me, unless I take them out of the game.

[@fredblues7175]

It is not just Civ6. In Skyrim my new character went against Mirmulmur (I am sure I am spelling it wrong), arguably the easiest dragon in the game. The darn dragon 1 shot my character 4 times before I just decided to stay away and fling arrows at him. Some days the npc's decide enough is enough I guess.

[@sordel5866]

Fred Blues I never do Bleak Falls Barrow until I've developed my character ... not because I'm scared of the difficulty (who cares in an SP game?) but because it's nice to be able to unlock the fast travel points without having dragons attacking all the time. For the same reason I always finish the Dawnguard MQ as quickly as possible because the random vampire attacks are a pain.

[@venturamack]

When you opened up the trade screen with Greece I couldnt see the screen where you were negotiating money right before you bought the battering ram.

[@AlanShieh]

That’s a bug with OBS & the new Civ patch

[@Nixolas_Zinn]

he literally mentioned in the stream that it was an obs issue

[@venturamack]

@@Nixolas_Zinn and I commented that before he addressed it how ever it's good for the algorithm

[@yanchoho]

I’ve been trying to play with the Cree.. so unsuccessfully it’s sad...

[@pratikharani3102]

Same! I was gonna go full alliance mode with them and then pull up a sneaky culture victory, but alas, the RNG fucked me

[@hc6157]

They’re kinda my guilty pleasure. Slow in the early game, but better at settling aggressively in the mid-late game. That said, I’m still on emperor/immortal 🤷‍♀️

[@yanchoho]

H C I want them to be my guilty pleasure too! Not having a starting bias makes it really difficult to have a decent start. Also, recently in my games the barbarians have been CRAZY. I’m talking full armies by turn 15-30, is it just me???

[@ekki1993]

PotatoMcBitey would've been a good name for your first vampire ngl.

[@Coldheart322]

I've had similar experience with trying to go for the vampire society as well. Have yet to have a good game, but will keep trying. Void Singers on the other hand... the world will worship the old ones, oh yes they will!

[@brettgabriel664]

I tend to restart by the third barbarian camp if I don't get vampires, especially if I'm looking at an early war. So much missed potential growth for the unit and your capital via the vampire castle starts to feel bad.

[@Steve_Keen]

Step away to make lunch and of course it's over :D Better luck next time, Sir Spud.

[@Darkry]

I love how Potato actually started roleplaying :D

[@Dutch_is_a_Weird_Language]

I'm not gonna lie, when you trapped that barbarian Scout, taunted it, and then flipped when it decided to go out with a bang by destroying the Jade mine, I spat out my tea.

[@jordantrimon3142]

Potato i know this is a bitt to much to ask but can you do a unique tile improvment/unique district tier list?

[@elimayerson8206]

also that was extremely painful to watch :(

[@stewartgames6697]

I watch this channel for the deep potato lore.

[@gulfwulf3597]

Hah! Now you know how I feel when trying deity. I had a Mayan game I gave up on because Egypt decided to attack me four times. Scotland was about to launch a moon landing while I was still 10 turns or so from researching spaceports.

[@sproga_265]

Jesus that was brutal.

[@alrown7476]

Was fun while it lasted Potato

[@joefjunior]

This stream was awesome. There are tons of streams of people winning games of civ. Watching a pro struggle in real scenarios is way more engaging.

[@pratikharani3102]

Yeah! Makes me relate, and feel ok for restarting 4 times lmao

[@eduardo3652]

I saw Marbozir play a game where he used a mod to exclude specific civs from an otherwise random start.

[@arnabsaha9778]

*Pillar Men Theme Intensifies*

[@Jose-xf7kq]

Thank you for your service

[@Paul-qj2hc]

I wonder if some of the bad RNG was related to lower sea levels, so more spread out spawns on average making early war hard? But still horrendous luck especially with vampire spawn.

[@laurafrazer5776]

As a Californian, I'm definitely not offended that you hear California in Arnie's voice. Did you know that while he was Governor of California we mostly referred to him as the Governator and he almost had a comic book series of that name published? Also, love your content! Keep it up! My game is definitely improving! Thanks!

[@micahedelblue]

I also tried this and was frustrated by the rng. I found that by the time I had vampires and had located a nearby civ, they had teched past me. Maybe a later unique unit like Nubia's would be better for this strat.

[@theclimbto1]

They REALLY need to make seeing your Vamps Strength easier.

[@venturamack]

Please dont give up on the aztec vampire I really wanna watch this clusterfuck be successful

[@malataur]

Sorry Potato, I can't watch this b/c the KZbin app on my phone is messing up your video big time. I'll try to watch it tonight when I get to my laptop. Right now it's mega lag. The UI is not responding, and the picture is about 30 seconds being the audio - when it plays at all. :-(

[@pratikharani3102]

Yeah, thats on KZbin's processing.

[@WilliamLimao]

When Australia appeared I LOL'd so hard. Omg.

[@WilliamLimao]

OMFG TEDDY TOO LMAO

[@pratikharani3102]

@@WilliamLimao lmaoo ikr, that restart was just painful. Sahara+Petra would've been so good

[@unholyxeras8182]

No idea if you know this but it came up0 while I was messing around with vampires...they get the +1 combat strength when *anything* dies adjacent to them. Including religious units and support units and including your own units. Doesn't matter who does the killing either. Germany picking on a city state? send your vamp on over to have a close look at something dying. It can pile up real fast... Edit: also, the base strength is equal to the strongest land or naval unit you've made, and the +10 or +17 for corps/ armies *does* get transferred. Has to be a corps you make yourself though, the auto corps/fleet/whatever admirals and generals create doesnt work for it for some reason

[@dukeveli]

Vampires get buff when they do the kill also. I've played a game with RR Teddy it was awesome. Over 100dmg when I hit gunpowder.

[@lukebrunner1548]

That RNG was painful to watch. Hope you have better luck the next time you try it and stop getting turned into a baked (or steamed) potato. :p

[@joshandrews5408]

Does anyone know how I can play my own created maps? I got the game through the epic games launcher not steam?

[@sealclubberlang5960]

Poor Potato got boiled, mashed and stuck in a stew. :(

[@fireharp2353]

My favorite Civ. Player, Playing my fav Civ with my favorite Secret Society!

[@Chaddyp100]

*Insert thanks for trying Simpson gif *

[@johnpaulbrebonia9106]

This is some sad stuff

[@KJeIdoran]

Was watching Marbozir then I was suddenly brought here automatically lol... Im not complaining its a nice treat... xDD

[@NYCCamper]

How do you flip the aztec kills into a builder. When I play, this does not always happen.

[@pratikharani3102]

It's a 90% chance when killing warriors, 40% or something like that when killing archers. Only works with eagle warriors though

[@trishjensen9558]

3:04 looks exactly like the dude from "road to el dorado"

[@stewartgames6697]

Ironically the Maya actually did worship a Turtle God. The Maya head deity was the Maize God, and after this god died they were reborn out of a turtle shell. So their main god took the form of maize growing off the back of a turtle's shell.

[@zholm5842]

From what I understand, the more civs that have discovered a secret society the lower your chances for discovering that same society. In that case you have to raise your diplomat visibility with other civs to discover those ones.

[@pratikharani3102]

This wasn't mentioned anywhere in the patch notes though, was it? Would seem eccentric of Firaxis to put something so drastic and hide it, but then again, its Firaxis we're talking about

[@richardmorris8902]

"Psychos? Is that what they looked like? Psychos? Let me tell you something. Psychos don't explode when sunlight hits them. I don't give a fuck HOW crazy they are!" Sorry. I see "Aztec vampires" and I can't resist.

[@viliusvaisvila4510]

Hey Potato your videos helped me a lot to play vs deity I'm currently 60% done in game you trying to play. My advise add more AI. I'm playing standart map size with 11 AIs and my vampire has +15 from luxury resourses and maybe +53 from kills 6 AIs remaining. p.s. if vampire kills unit that counts p.s.s. I permanently adjecent great scientist that heals 20hp.

[@antarcticchilli936]

Does anyone else want to see PotatoMcWhiskey do a game where he only has chiefdom throughout the entirety of his civilisation?

[@stewartgames6697]

PSA: I just went and tested it in game, and the Vampire kill bonus for units dying near the Vampire does happen if the Vampire makes the kill. Still not worth letting the Vampire do the kill because they get no experience, but worth knowing that it isn't necessary to have another unit do the kill if the kill counter is all you care about. Do note that they can only get up to +10 kill counts off of Barbarian units, though.

[@KatabaticPlays]

Hey Potato i was wondering how rare is Paititi in Civ 6?

[@cheesyflyhigh8294]

Hermetic Order Peter is pretty insane. You can get upto 20+ culture ley lines.

[@pratikharani3102]

Yeah ley lines are amazing for adjacency.

[@jordanwalker416]

what a trainwreck

[@christophergunn7668]

Deity AI be like "Today, I will rush crossbows because we have little to no deviation on our research path unless we have a unique tech we rush as well" 𝙍𝙪𝙞𝙣𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙜𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣

[@naturescall2002]

You can abuse the healing ability of the religious governour

[@vishve]

So much struggle to get a good game going, hope it's going to be better next time!

[@YetAnotherCakeAccoun]

vampire spawn rate needs a buff or mechanic to spawn after x number of camps cleared. I am trying this style of game and just can not get a vampire proc.

[@pratikharani3102]

Vampires spawn by promoting the Sanguine Pact society. It's pretty balanced imo, judging by how op vampires are.

[@cndungu]

😂😂😂😂😂 Sometimes the AI just AI-s.

[@gjits5307]

on a relevant note, I seem to be addicted to restarting to get the "good start." I don't think any RNG is intrinsically bad, but map generation seems overly mercurial. I like a fun challenge, but too often it seems like I am confronted with an *unfun* challenge. And it has made starting new games feel like a chore.

[@yurisoares2596]

I saw another streamer doing the samething, does really need to the vampire exclusively be adjacent to a unit that died ? I mean why can't the vampire kill the unit and also gain the bonus attack point, as I see the enemy did died adjacent, and that should trigger his trait, because only after it for defeated (killed) your unit will move to his tiles.

[@SquireThomas]

The vampire absolutely gets the attack point if he kills the unit, I think some people are just confused.

[@rungus24]

For what it's worth, it was an enjoyable stream. Enjoyable to watch, at least, if not to play.

[@taufiqidr]

This is the longest JoJo Reference video on youtube

[@naturescall2002]

The AI city placement is making me cry

[@Nextempus]

I know its way late now haha but you can just set yourself to busy status on steam if you want notifications on at other times

[@Johnb2112]

If it makes you feel better Potato, I decided to do an Aztec vamp run for fun after having a shite game with Rome as my first try when Sanguine Pact. Rolled Gran Colombia as my neighbor, gave up as war ran on and on and rerolled. Nearest neighbor? Australia. Almost rerolled then beyond all hope he declared war on me. 🤣🤣🤣 Also, if it makes you feel better for real, it was really good content. 🤣🤣🤣

[@nosh3691]

I think they need to look into the societies a bit in terms of spawns. I had a game where I never got one. I did everything needed for any of them to spawn and it never happened .

[@Yuri_630]

This sounds like a From Dusk Till Dawn prequel.

[@pratikharani3102]

lmaooo

[@Erionar]

This stream is the definition of downward spiral.

[@arthshukla]

Not sure if Potato or Saxy. Enjoyed the first war though

[@joelpierce1453]

BTW Potato the vampire will still receive the bonus to his combat strength if he kills the unit.

[@pratikharani3102]

Yeah, a lot of people were mentioning this in chat.

[@jrm78]

Civ 6: The Vampire's Curse

[@lukeblake91]

If only you kept that seed for the petra location

[@fili0938]

Aztec Vampires? ゴゴゴゴ

[@1989someguy]

It looks like it wasn't a good day to be a potato...

[@Leonardo.BoxxyT]

You should have gone for the god war civ. Gran Colombia

[@waynethegreat23]

I wonder if he has a chihuahua like me!

[@Nextempus]

I don't know if this didn't work on stream either but the civ trade stuff didn't show at 1:00:24 EDIT: oh its diplo screen bug with OBS

[@AlanShieh]

Fun stream! Not sure I'm commenting early enough for you to see this feedback, but I have some observations from watching many of your streams: 1) Every time I scrub to the end of a 5-8 hour stream, I start worrying about your mental & physical self-care. Maybe have a cut-off rule like other Civ streamers and compensate with other content / slightly more frequent streams? 2) I know you have been reluctant to get moderators in your streams, but I think chat could use some management. Is there a way to flair or badge certain channel members so that they're more noticeable by people in chat / are semi-deputized to do stuff, but don't get full moderation privileges? Totally up to you whether you feel you want things to go a certain way in chat [if so, it might be good to have rules written down -- that's pretty common practice on Twitch]

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

Don't worry, its performative frustration, I'm fine.

[@AlanShieh]

Oh cool... though it kind of sounds to me like 70% performative and 30% real. Anyway, something to think about if you want to make it 10 years in this business