Apparently there is no pre-loading for Civ 7 on PC, but there is for consoles. What is this madness?! I want my game pre-loaded so I can boot it up the second Advanced Access starts \s. Any reason why PC misses out?

Been looking to get Civ 5 and DLC, not sure if to buy now or wait, any thoughts or guesses?

I’ve been going through & listening to reviews on YouTube today. Whenever there’s a negative review people in the comments become absolutely vicious. The manner in which they speak sounds way too serious for the reception of a video game. It reminds me of cultish behavior I see in communities like certain celebrity fans & politics.

More so than anything it reminds me of the culture keyboard warriors that have become an obnoxious sub culture within gaming, championing an immature conservatism to go off on all things that provoke the insecurities of their identity politics. I first saw an up tick in this kind of behavior after the Harriet Tubman video, it reminded me of the assassins creed response.

It all has me wondering, how much fanboying of the game is genuinely about real "features" such as AI, UI & business models - and how much these factors are being amplified by these obnoxious perpetually online demographics for the sake of their sad crusade against perceived ‘woke’ games.

Hi there !

Is there any review for the consoles version of the game ? It seem it only have been reviewved on PC on metacritic and even youtube...

Not having a PC able to run the game, I'm mostly curious for the ps5 version of the game.

Although I feel like the art style is amazing and the cities and map look fantastic I feel like whoever lead the UI team TOTALLY missed the mark.

Symbols and emblems look soulless and a lot of them look like something you could’ve taken from clip art and put in. It feels like a cheap mobile game if you were to take them out of context.

City names and background feel like uninspired default font on country color not to mention the health bar for cities looks like it was edited in.

There are so many things that look just so clunky and incredibly sloppy for a high caliber studio.

Truly I love the art style by itself it looks great but oh my god whoever did the UI seriously missed the mark and I will be praying for a UI overhaul asap modded or otherwise.

Am I alone in this? I feel like I haven’t heard anybody talk about the lack of soul in the stuff you look at literally ALL GAME.

I see a lot of discussion here about how some big-name Civs are missing (yup, I’m looking at you, tea-sipping Brits) or how the choice for a modern African Civ was a lesser-known one (Buganda? Really?). And yeah, I can’t argue with the fact that dropping a game with DLC just a month after launch is… questionable. One month! You won’t even get to fully experience half the leader/Civ combos before they start charging for more.

But here’s the thing—this is exactly why marketing teams exist. Their job is to maximize revenue. So, if you want the all-conquering Brits? Pay up, sucker. It’s a classic tactic: hold back something highly desirable, package it separately, and sell it as an add-on instead of including it in the base game.

Am I surprised or disappointed? Nope. Gaming is a business, in case you haven’t noticed. And while you might think of yourself as a dedicated Civ fan, to the corporate side of Firaxis (not the devs, the suits), you’re a Civ consumer. Their priority? Making sure you spend more money.

But let’s take a step back—is this inherently evil? I’d argue no. Making games, especially one as complex as Civ, takes money. If you consider the years of support and content they put into Civ VI, it’s clear that development isn’t cheap. Plus, as far as I know (haven’t fact-checked this, but fingers crossed), Firaxis hasn’t had major layoffs, which is a good sign.

TL;DR: Yeah, it’s annoying when they slice up the cake and sell the pieces separately—but the baker needs to make money to keep baking. So, your options? Buy in now or wait until the hype dies down and the baker starts tossing cakes around like he’s Steve Aoki.

I am not even talking about lack of console reviews, but we have pretty much no console footage outside of those two short showcases released a few months ago for PS5 and Switch. Which means not a single video or screenshot whatsoever of a recent console build. No info on performance (resolution, frame rate, general equivalency to PC settings), except some notes on Switch limitations. For all the talk about simultaneous platform release, how it's now developed fully in-house, the lack of parity regarding the release is baffling.

I was primarily interested in PS5 version cause I'm sure it should run the game much better than my laptop and was ready to go for the Founder's edition but I cant justify the preordering the game without actually seeing it. It worries me that all of the review outlets stated that they only had PC version available at the time, so apparently no one got the keys to any console version yet.

It reminds me of what happened around Cyberpunk 2077 release - all reviews, which were pretty positive, were based on the PC version. Then people got their hands on the console versions and we remember how well that went. I know we're talking about wildly different games but stil...

I want to play a Seven Seas and naval-oriented map with a leader among Ambiorix, Basil II, Ludwig/Barbarossa, Harald Hardrade, or Peter. Peter and Ambiorix don't seem great for that. Germany has U-Boats+Hansa, Byzantium has dromons and Norway is obviously very focused on naval raiding, but seems to not be very versatile and a bit lacking in other areas.

Thoughts?

Civ 7 a game that which is already $70 pretty pricey, has the audacity to already be working on dlc that’s going to come out pretty soon. They are literally selling us an expensive unfinished product and marketing what they took out as DLC ?? Why is nobody talking about this ?

Pardon me if I'm arriving late to the conversation but, I just realised that the Devs probably have been hinting the next and probably final civ of the base game in the modern era , the logo under Xerxes resembles a lion with a sun behind it? It coul be Ethiopia or modern day Persia/Iran ? We currently have 30 out the 31 civs that are supposed to be in the base game, we also have only 25 out of the 26 six leaders counting personas , what do you think (this my first post on Reddit lol)

Holy Roman Empire for exploration age is mine

Edit:

I was more going for civs you would like to see in the game

With the launch coming in days, I decided it was time to polish off the basic win achievements for every Civ. I had seven left, so today I did a blitz and spent the afternoon getting them done. It's remarkably easy; just play on Prince difficulty, duel map, online speed, and go for a religious victory. The opponent will have at most five cities by the time you start pumping out apostles and may even not have a religion yet. Two or three apostles will convert the two or three cities you need and it's on to the next. See you all in Civ 7!

https://preview.redd.it/j1sy0p7i82he1.png?width=1012&format=png&auto=webp&s=009369d761f5fef85a34f6ad740ffd147827f3c1

There's a disparity in the yield display for this tile.

The tool-tip version seems to be the "real" one, which I can verify by switching worked tiles around to see what their resource contributions are, and the display and the tool-tip match in the cartoon view.

How can I trust other map yields now?

Just from the look it looks like it thank god

Civ 5 was a masterpiece

What do you reckon?

It messes up my strategy

I appreciate that the floodgates are opening - we're getting lots of videos!

I prefer the ones that aren't edited to be fast / frenetic and include the whole game/session in one contiguous take

Do you know of anyone making those?

I am tired of there being major differences between games. The same feature sucks in one game, and not in another.

Instead of experimenting and being "brave", they should just ask us which feature was implemented best in which game, and then combine them all into one GLORIOUS CIV.

So, I’m hyped to play (ofc) and was thinking about the distant lands mechanic and how it seems to influence map generation. I know it kinda forces maps to be multiple landmasses divided by water in the current state, but how would people feel about a map where the water barrier was replaced by snow or desert, a more harsh version than the normal terrain that couldn’t be traversed in antiquity but was slowly made navigable in exploration with the same damage mechanic we see for rough seas? I think this would allow for some cool dune/ice age type maps and potentially also a future TSL map where the ocean, desert and snow combined could create the distant lands functionality.

So I've watched a couple of YouTubers and i read here quite frequently. One thing in my strategy that I haven't seen or heard much about has me wondering if I'm doing something frowned upon or blatantly dumb for other reasons. Basically, if I'm at war with some AI civ, the first thing I do is send in my great people that aren't activated for whatever reason. A good example would be if I have a great writer but I'm going domination victory, or a merchant who gives a low gold reward with an envoy. Maybe a crappy great admiral. Anyway the point is the AI loves to go after them and will blow critical turns pushing them out of their territory. Nothing happens to the GP they get sent to the closest city and you just send them back out to war. Rinse and repeat. Meanwhile I get free strikes and moves to turn a battle in my favor. Ive turned many dire situations around because the AI can't stop hunting some useless great person. Is this a form of scumming and I'm doing something dumb everyone figured out so long ago it's not talked about much any longer?

(assuming it works at launch 🤞)

Hello there!

Technically my first Deity win was as Brazil on TSL Earth Huge, and got an amazing roll with rainforest fires and Maya being the only other civ in the Western Hemisphere.

But I don't count that, that was easy mode.

So, my first REAL Deity win!

Khmer!

standard Continents map
Legendary start

Barb Clans, Monopolies and Corps, Secret Societies, Sukritact's Oceans

No Turn Limit (didn't matter)

No Diplo Vic (didn't matter)

everything else normal settings

did NOT get first pantheon despite being khmer, due to Arabia AND Indonesia being in the game. Still got first religion though, immediately grabbed FTW (Feed The World, Feeds (me) The Win - potato puhtato)

to my south was Kandy and then Indonesia, to my North was Chinguetti (and then a Barb Clan which became Cahokia) and then Aztec. To my west was the ocean, and to my east was very minimal room to expand (and it didn't help that Indonesia forward settled me to my east. thankfully, once I got some cities down my pop growth was way too much loyalty pressure for them to handle). Nearly got my religion wiped out early thanks to Indonesia, but luckily was able to start the Inquisition in time.

Getting Voidsingers early guaranteed me the win. It took a while, and took a lot of diplomatic navigation, but through Grand Master's Chapel I managed to deter Germany and Aztec from attacking me, and Indonesia (now struggling to survive my loyalty pressure - their Capital flipped to me on its own before the end of the game) and Norway never stood a chance.

Culture Vic in the end, although I was already building thermonukes. One Last Turn saw me shredding through Aztec quickly with GDRs (and two nukes and a thermo), and preparing to thermo Germany into oblivion before I decided I had had enough and I wanted to bask in my first Deity win.

Thanks for reading.

On to Mythic difficulty!

And if not, do the big map modders plan to make one?

With all the discussions around the map generation and how unnatural the recommended Continents Plus seems to be, has any reviewer covered what the Terra Incognita looks like? What makes it different?

how do you prevent someone from getting the nuke? and is it gg once they have it?

also what happens if two players get the nuke