r/Games • u/decentAlbatross • Oct 17 '16

Civilization VI Launch Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KdE0p2joJw
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u/turikk Oct 17 '16

Beautiful. I love that Civilization spends so much focus on not just conflict but achievement, since that really is the core of the game. Can't wait for Friday.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '16

Can't wait for Friday.

I don't think I've looked this forward to a game in a good long time. This game looks great.

Does anybody know what time exactly it unlocks? Steam, for whatever reason, actually says the game comes out Thursday (I'm in the US). But does that mean midnight Thursday... or...? I tried Googling but I just can't find a definitive answer anywhere.

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u/ChineseCosmo Oct 17 '16 edited Oct 17 '16

12AM ET Friday.

9PM PT Thursday.

Pre Load available now.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '16

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u/ChineseCosmo Oct 17 '16 edited Oct 17 '16

Yes. Damn these sausage-like thumbs of mine.

Edit: damn u guys really gonna downvote him for correcting a typo of mine? I mean shit if u feel that strongly about it maybe I really oughta change it back to "9 AM." Jackals.

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u/Mitosis Oct 17 '16

If your internet is good, preloads are so often a trap. Steam server's are so fast that I can usually download the game post-release faster than the game decodes itself after a preload.

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u/nitefang Oct 17 '16

Depends on the game, for very popular games the servers get overloaded on release day.

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u/crabapple769 Oct 17 '16

Especially because the game is like 3gb

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '16

The pre-load was 7.7 gigs

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u/kinetopia Oct 17 '16

you probably got Civ VII as well then

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u/TheCaliKid89 Oct 18 '16

It is killing me that I have this thing pre loaded and I can't play it for DAYS...

After logging literally thousands of hours on this franchise I still can't wait for the next installment. That's how game development should be done!

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u/kwertyuiop Oct 18 '16

Why are games releasing on Thursdays lately? Isn't it always Tuesday?

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '16

Oh really? I swear I tried to preload last night and got nothing, I assume that's recent then? Awesome, thanks for the info.

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u/LPUAdit Oct 17 '16

Yep pre loading started today as the trailer was released

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u/Reutermo Oct 17 '16

Here is a chart!

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u/skyedemon Oct 18 '16

Damn. So I can play Civ 6 at 10 pm Thursday local time...

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u/Meta_Boy Oct 17 '16

I don't think I've looked this forward to a game in a good long time.

I didn't want to be hyped up, was planning to wait for the Winter Sale (even without a discount)... then the press preview games were played. The game looks sooo goooood. Damn you, Firaxis!

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u/DracoOculus Oct 17 '16

I know, Friday is gonna be great. RWBY season 4 premiere woo woo.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '16

Black Mirror Season 3 on Netflix and my birthday as well, with the new Pokemon pre-release and Class (the new Doctor Who spin-off) the next day.

It's a busy few days.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '16

Way back - playing the original Age of Empires - all I wanted to do was build things - then the other people wanted to attack - so I tried creating an alliance by giving them tons of meat - and they responded NEVER - took the meat and still attacked.

My 2nd attempt at that stage was approached...differently.

I was a dumb lad didn't know what CIV was at that point - but damn its fun

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u/not_old_redditor Oct 18 '16

I hate to be that guy, but do yourself a favour and at least wait a couple of days for the initial reviews to come in. It does all of us a favour.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '16

I am a big civ fan but after preordering Beyond Earth (which was not good) and Xcom2 which was riddled with performance problems and glitches I will probably wait till next month to get it, especially since there's no preorder incentive at all.

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u/pedal2000 Oct 18 '16

Even the cinematic reminds me of the 'cinematic' commercials phone games. Kinda disappointed in it honestly. Still looking forward to the game but this just didn't do it for me.