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Is that character a variant? (I just love getting asked that in channel.) - Charis |
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Civilization 5 Announced
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Sciz Wrote:After seeing this stream i'm a more positive towards the game. The one-unit per tile looks to be working out better than i thought it would, and the game just has a good feel overall imo. We'll see for sure soon i guess. Huh, really? The only really new thing in the video was the apparently not-that-great combat AI, which kept suiciding against his trebuchet. Pretty much everything else has already been clear from scripted demo videos and preview articles. Not saying it's bad - the game looks absolutely awesome to me - but this demo didn't help with that! SevenSpirits Wrote:Huh, really? Well i guess i haven't been paying a ton of attention then, because a bunch of stuff was new to me. But I wouldn't say the AI was suiciding against the treb, it had just been setup in a good choke point. One thing you could complain about is the fact that Napoleon for some reason didn't transport troops over the red sea.
Darrell, you can still watch it if you like.
http://www.ustream.tv/2kgameslive (See the recorded videos near the bottom.) About the trebuchet, it was basically parked in Egypt in an Earth-type map and kept shooting at units that tried to squeeze in through the choke point from the middle east. It was ridiculously well-promoted, with a ton of damage increase promotions, march (healing while doing stuff) and Logistics (basically bllitz, letting it attack twice a turn, which was just about enough to kill a unit every turn) by the end. Greg always kept a unit in front of it to protect it, and a great general behind it for a combat bonus to both. I'm pretty sure he was playing well there.  Someone pointed out on civfanatics that the AI he was fighting, Napoleon, actually conquered one or two other AIs while attacking Greg. So maybe my comments about its tactical mismanagement were wrong, and it just wasn't focusing many forces there. (He was playing on Immortal and Napoleon had 4 times his score.) mostly_harmless Wrote:Watched the stream and I am now more inclined to buy the game. Don't worry about the huts, from the advanced game set-up it was evident that it is possible to "turn off ancient ruins" i.e. no huts  Generally looked like the options when starting a new game a very similar to what we are used to from Civ4
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
- Mohandas Karamchand "Mahatma" Gandhi, 1869-1948.
How long between game available and first event?
It appears that Epic 1 opened about a month after release. Cuban Isolationists opened two days after release? Wow.
We can always have an event based on the demo, I guess.
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"You have been struck down!" - Tales of Dwarf Fortress
--- "moby_harmless seeks thee not. It is thou, thou, that madly seekest him!"
early game and late game recordings are up
Basically, for those who don't know, they started playing from the beginning and then halfway through switched to a later save of another game to show some cool stuff. 2nd part is a must see imo.
mostly_harmless Wrote:We can always have an event based on the demo, I guess. Demo's out on game release date, isn't it? Can't remember off the top of my head if that's US release or worldwide release, but those are only 3 days different iirc. Spotted the big PRELOAD button on my steam library last night, it's nearly time! 
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. I can't imagine a terrain advantage that would make a trebuchet a good defender...
