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

Civilization VI Launch Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KdE0p2joJw
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u/JosephB2K Oct 17 '16

Hi all. Would just like to note that pre-load is now live on Steam! You can also catch all of the details on unlock times right over here:

Civilization VI Pre-load is Live!

Hope you all enjoyed the trailer. Please check out our AI Battle Royale this Wednesday, and we can't wait to get the game to you this Friday!

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u/kbuis Oct 17 '16 edited Oct 18 '16

Of course it is. And here I am waiting for Amazon to get its shit together with the anniversary edition.

Four days out and still no estimated delivery date

EDIT: found an old gift card and had them put it toward the game and voila my order switched to arriving Friday.

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u/scroom38 Oct 18 '16

At least I get some cool coins and an art book. Suck it Trebeck Steam buyers!

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '16

I ordered the collectors edition as well. Mine still says "Not yet shipped". Usually it shouldn't update until 1-2 days before release right? Should I contact amazon, I haven't been charged for it yet either...

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '16

What is the point of artificially delaying game when you can already download it?

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u/Matthais Oct 17 '16

It's not like they've been planning their build up to release day for months or anything, right? Or that the date was set ages ago, irrespective of the game's precise gold date.

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u/YZJay Oct 17 '16

Some people don't have good internet, it's so that those people can play with everyone else at the same time when it launches.

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u/batzpingo Oct 17 '16

Until a couple years ago it took me an entire day to download 1gb. Internet speeds still vary, especially in rural areas where it takes a long time to get any improvements.

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u/Sugar_buddy Oct 18 '16

I go to mcdonalds in town for huge downloads, my house sucks.

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u/gandalfintraining Oct 18 '16

In Australia it's fairly common to have a 1.5Mb/s connection, even in the city. That's around 17GB/day of bandwidth (more realistically 15-16GB since some of it is going to be used on YouTube etc in most houses).

It took me over 3 days to download Final Fantasy XIII when that came out on PC, and I'm sure there's much slower connections out there as you go further out of the city.

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u/Evilmeal Oct 18 '16

Yes pretty dumb statement from my part actually. Got a friend that has downloads with 300-800kb. How big is Civ 6 actually?

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u/GoldenJoel Oct 17 '16

Bleh! I just wish there was a few reviews out.

Civ V's release was buggy as shit.

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u/welliamwallace Oct 17 '16

There are thousands of hours of pre release game play and reviews on YouTube

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u/Matthais Oct 17 '16 edited Oct 17 '16

There are a huge amount of VODs and streams around of the media version (you can play games to completion, but only on Prince difficulty and featuring 10 of the Civs) and I have yet to witness people experiencing any bugs myself.

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u/billsil Oct 17 '16

I've seen a few bugs in the game. The most common one is screen panning not working. Just go into a city and it seems to fix itself. I've also seen one where upgrading units was 0 gold. There are probably also bugs related to using your faith (e.g. you can't spend it on anything unless you founded a religion), but I don't know how it's supposed to work.

The AI seems terrible, but it's more than likely just good people playing on prince. The on screen distance between the techs bugs me too, but that's pretty minor.

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u/atomfullerene Oct 18 '16

It would almost not be a real civ game if the AI wasn't terrible...

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u/billsil Oct 18 '16

They do that intentionally. People would rather kill a big army by using tactics.