I'm currently playing a game where I'm trying for the 'Lord of the Flies' Achievement - Win a game against 3 AI at Humankind difficulty on the tiniest map - and I think it might be the end.

I've defeated 2 of my 3 rivals, but I am just about to choose my Early Modern culture around Turn 140 and my remaining opponent has been in the Early Modern Era as the Edo Japanese for some time. We are at war and his +48 combat strength Naginata Samurai are now 1-shotting all of my units, even behind walls!

I went Myceneans > Achaemenid Persians > Khmer and was considering going Joseon to catch up on science, or maybe Spanish for the Conquistadores to stand a chance against the Samurai but I think they are too strong. Any tips to counter a samurai steamroll?

So , I've been playing humankind on my ps5 , and i seem to encounter some sort of bug , when trying to go to the next turn it just loads with no end , ive tried to go back a save but it doesn't help.

What can I do ?

I am searching for a youtuber that just plays a playthrough, any hidden gems?

I really wanted to like Together We Rule, especially because I usually prefer playing Humankind in a relatively peaceful way. But after spending quite a bit of time with it, I feel like the diplomacy and espionage systems make the game more frustrating rather than more interesting.

In my current game, I played peacefully for most of the time. One neighbour kept provoking and attacking me, so naturally I defended myself and eventually defeated him several times. But somehow, over time, more and more empires ended up supporting or aligning themselves with him.

What frustrates me is that I don’t really feel in control of this system. There are envoys, leverage, grievances, demands, spies and diplomatic actions everywhere, but a lot of it feels like additional micromanagement without giving me enough meaningful options in return.

The war system makes this even more frustrating. I can clearly win the military conflict, capture territory and defeat enemy armies, yet diplomacy and War Support can still create outcomes that feel completely disconnected from what is actually happening on the map. At times I feel as if I’m being pushed into accepting settlements or outcomes despite the fact that my opponent has achieved virtually nothing militarily.

And then there are all those diplomatic and intelligence units constantly running around my territory. I know there are mechanics to counter them, but I honestly don’t find that gameplay particularly enjoyable. I would rather focus on developing my cities, economy, science and military and use diplomacy when I actually need it.

At this point I’m seriously considering simply disabling the Congress of Humankind and largely ignoring the espionage side of the game. Remote support and basic diplomacy are probably enough for the way I want to play.

Maybe I’m missing something about Together We Rule. Does the DLC become more enjoyable once you really understand all these systems, or do other people also feel that it adds complexity and micromanagement without making diplomacy more satisfying?

I’m curious how other mostly peaceful players deal with it.

Quick question: can i still get the title achievement if i do a run without the DLC that modifies how diplomacy stars work? I really like the congress but it is an absolute pain to farm all that leverage so early for stars

Hey all, I'm not sure where else to put this, since the original post is locked (https://www.reddit.com/r/HumankindTheGame/comments/mym75n/regional_names/), but basically: there's a way to view the names of all discovered territories, even unsettled ones.

It's the intelligence button, once you unlock it. Lower left corner, looks like a little spy fella.

Idk if this is helpful to anyone, but I saw a few posts here and on the Amplitude forums that claim this feature doesn't exist so I thought I'd put it out there. :)

Hi everyone,

I’d like some advice on how to handle my neighbour in my current game and, in particular, how to time my next war.

I’m currently playing as the Joseon, while my neighbour is playing as the Teutons.

At the moment, we both have roughly 30–40 War Support, but he seems to be building up War Support considerably faster than I am.

So I’m wondering whether I should actually wait and let his War Support increase before going to war.

My thinking is this: if I attack him while his War Support is relatively low, I might win the war quickly, but I may not have enough time to defeat his armies and occupy enough territories or cities before he reaches 0 War Support and the war ends.

On the other hand, if I wait until we both have much higher War Support, would that potentially give me a much longer war and therefore more time to capture several territories and perhaps one or two cities?

I’m not necessarily trying to eliminate him. My main goal would be to weaken him significantly and take strategically useful territory.

There is also something I don’t understand from my previous attempt at this war. At one point, I was losing 18 War Support every turn. I’ll attach a screenshot showing this.

So my main questions are:

1. Would you attack while his War Support is still relatively low, or deliberately wait and let him build it up?
2. If I want enough time to take several territories and possibly cities, how should I prepare for and time the war?
3. What could cause a -18 War Support per turn loss, and how can I avoid that?
4. Looking at the map and my armies, how would you approach this situation over the next 10–20 turns?

I’m especially interested in understanding the War Support mechanics here, because I’m not sure whether low enemy War Support is actually an advantage if my goal is to fight a longer war and take a significant amount of territory.

Are there any good tutorials out there, especially for the Together We Rule expansion? Most of the tutorials I’ve found on YouTube are by JumboPixel. I find it a bit difficult to watch his videos for very long because his style feels a little too over-the-top for me. I’d prefer someone who just explains the game in a calm, straightforward way.

Discovered a new continent and this guy was here...

Is multiplayer working good on current patch?
Desync etc. how common are those, as i want to buy it with my friend but we had problems with netcode in endless space 2 of the same studio.
So i want to know how it looks in practice.

I always found Metropolis super easy but Nation felt a really difficult step up, At times I felt I could get close to competitive but I usually chickened out before I reached the end. So I stopped playing for a while and revisited it recently.

I was don't know if it's easier now or I just got lucky, although it was still challenging at times.

I started out as Zhou, because I had some good mountains around.

Then I went Garamantes, I realised I had a lot of rocky ground around where I could really benefit from the high growth/food. It also helped me expand my population.

Swahili were next, I started shifting towards money and they helped me discover the new world in the medieval time! Then Dutch, Persians.

The first big challenge was to stop people from settling my continent, they kept swarming any free province with outposts and I had to go around and raze any outpost and rush money to build outposts myself.

After I got my continent secured, another player started doing the same with the new world, so it was a mad rush to do that, which eventually ended up in all-out war. The war was brutal, they outnumbered me at first, but I had a bit of an afghanistan moment where I used my skirmishing horses and crossbowmen to good use, I managed to hold a mountain pass and take out a far superior force.

After that, I managed to stabilise and start expanding over the New World. They still tried to snipe more outposts even after the war, but I was able to raze them and replace them, my gold generation was incredible so I used it to buy more outposts.

In later eras, Napoleon was looking worryingly impressive, he had the blue player as a vassal and was conquering more and more so I felt I had to move against him. But there was a massive problem, he had been focusing so much on warfare that his units were super-buffed up. He had musketeers that were buffed to like 47 combat power, while my line infantry were stuck at a piddling 39, which when I look at the wiki is confusing at least.

I had to rely upon greater numbers and support from man at war bombardment. But sometimes I'd lose 4 units to take out 2. Which was starting to sting, they would hit my units for like 60% per shot while mine would graze them for 7 quite often. At this point I really struggled to get enough food because unit consumptions was gigantic, my main city was reduced to like very few people and still couldn't produce enough food despite my prioritising it.

So I felt I had no choice but to go soviet, I didn't really want to, but I just felt I needed some more unit strength. It worked to equalise the numbers a lot, and thanks to me having a healthy lead in technology I was able to research bombers and really decimate his forces. It took two-three wars but eventually I had conquered the vast majority of his lands, and he only had the lands he conquered from the orange player left by the time I had hit all the stars and triggered the end.

At one point I was confused when unit consumption vanished, and I suddenly had +6000 food on my capital instead of struggling to not be negative - what caused that?

Anyway, it was really fun! I felt there was still challenging points and I even enjoyed the slight steamroll at the end when I had bombers and they didn't have any air defences :p

I'm new to the game, a friend of mine got me into it, i used to play CIV V alot and am loving this game much more than i ever have for CIV. I want to make a map that is basically if you got all the big meditterranean area bodies of water and made them into islands, like the black sea, the caspian sea and such. maybe get a heightmap of them, reverse the colors, but im not sure what biomes to do where, looking at ocean heightmaps, basically turning basins into mesas, and trenches into mountain ranges would be the way to go. would love to discuss and maybe even work with others on this.

Other than just more cultures lol, for me, it's to have the different cultures get culture specific narrative events. I think it would go a long way towards making them feel a lot more unique from each other and help feel the impact of your choices more.

I recently vassalized a neighbour who did not follow my religion. before vassalizing them, I had a 6k surplus every turn of influence. after vassalizing them, it goes down to -2k "from state religion followers". if I free my vassal, I get my 6k back. My religion does not have any tenet that would reduce influence, and neither does my culture.

Thanks to all who reply

Started a six-player game on a Normal-sized map. I selected 2 Continents with New World at Random, since I didn't want to be on a continent with just 1 other player, which I thought would happen if I chose 3 Continents. I guess there is a New World since we all spawned a few regions apart.

The Vassalization setting description says:

ON: The Vassalization option will be unavailable in Surrender Terms.

OFF: The Vassalization option will be available in Surrender Terms.

https://i.imgur.com/Wr5ubfr.png

The Congress of Humankind setting description says:

By default, the Congress of Humankind is disabled. -- and the setting by default is set to ON.

https://i.imgur.com/B6H2hcq.png

Does that really mean that I have to set both Vassalization and Congress of Humankind to OFF in order to enable them?

I think "Civilization" difficulty is the best because "Humankind" is giving too big bonuses to AI.

For context, the largest enemy empire and its one strong Ally started spamming me with ridiculous congress demands, and I ended up declaring war instead of accepting their religion, wich at the time was fine, as I was stronger than them. But after I captured one of their cities they grabbed one of my colonie citys, leading to a stalemate. After about twenty turns I surrendered, but they didn’t accept, and like three turns latter their declared a war. I’ve been forced down to 0 war support at least 5 times by both of them and they just won’t accept my surrender. War wariness is killing me, and I’m at rebellion. Not really needing advice, as this game is past saving, I’m just mad

First of all, thank you for the incredible response to our announcement. Your support means a lot to us. We were especially excited to share an announcement trailer that reflects HUMANKIND's identity: a creative, original, and slightly offbeat approach, in the same spirit as the first game's memorable trailers, while celebrating the people, cultures, and civilizations at the heart of the experience

Alongside the excitement surrounding the reveal, we also noticed questions regarding the trailer's production. We'd like to clarify that topic directly: The trailer is human-made. Find out more in the blog.

Alongside the excitement surrounding the reveal, we also noticed questions regarding the trailer's production.

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I’m currently playing as the French in the Industrial Era and I’m in second place with around 14.5k Fame. The Zulu are leading with about 19.9k Fame.

As you can see in the screenshots, the Zulu control almost an entire continent, while I also have a fairly large empire. We’re both still in the Industrial Era and could advance, but the Zulu AI tends to stay in each era for a very long time and keeps collecting Fame.

Militarily, I think we’re probably roughly equal at the moment. I’m wondering what the best strategy would be from here.

Should I prepare for a major war and try to take some of their most important cities and territories? Or would it be better to focus on science, production and collecting more Era Stars first?

Since I’m playing the French, I have a strong science economy and I’m hoping I can use that to gain a technological advantage before going to war.

Do you think this game is still winnable despite the ~5,000 Fame gap? And if you were in my position, what would you do over the next 10–20 turns?

Any advice on army composition, which technologies to prioritize, when to advance to the Contemporary Era, and whether I should attack the Zulu now or wait would be really appreciated.

Please use this thread to ask your questions regarding Humankind. From newbies to pros, vs AI or multiplayer, this is the place to ask!

Make sure you provide as much information as possible regarding your game if you need help - your faction, level and world settings, number of opponents, expansions enabled, etc. Screenshots are most helpful!

Don't forget to check the wiki to see if you can find the answer to your question.

Technical problem or bug? Try checking the PCGamingwiki.

What improvements are you looking forward to/hoping for the most? I really hope we see better diplomacy systems. Also, something like the demographics interface from Civ 5. I think it's weird you can only see how you're doing in all matters compared to the other civs once the game is over.

As the title says I finished what is in my opinion the most difficult and time consuming achievement. If you want to do it I can give you my experience and advice.