Sid Meier's Civilization VI - Page 50

Mansa Musa, Arpad, Simon Bolivar, Atahualpao, Tāwhiao, Roxelana, Arawrahta, Midgegooroo, Eleanor.
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Civilization 6's next expansion, Gathering Storm introduces global warming as its central mechanic, asking players to weigh up the impact their actions have upon the planet. Burning coal or oil may be easier and cheaper than relying on renewable energy, but you'll risk increasing the global temperature through your actions and losing favour amongst the international community.

Let's start with the rivers! Unlike in the base game where you may choose to settle a city next to a river and view its floodplains as a static bonus to your food production, in Gathering Storm you'll need to weigh up the potential risks involved. Those floodplains now actually live up to their name and flood.

"There are three different severity levels," explained lead designer, Ed Beach. "When you start a new game, players can decide what their natural disaster setting is going to be: minimal, light, moderate, heavy or hyper-real. They'll pick what they want and if they slide this setting all the way over to the most intense amount, they'll be much more likely to receive severe levels of flooding throughout their game."

But what happens if you start your game in the middle of a continent, far away from any river floods or mountain ranges? To ensure these players also need to grapple with environmental effects, there are also droughts to consider, as well as a variety of storms.

"There are four different types of storms," said Beach. "These can start in different sorts of biomes on the map. We can have blizzards that start in the tundra area or hurricanes that start at sea. Introducing these helped balance everything out so that the effects were nicely balanced across the map."

On top of this, the most widespread environmental concern in Gathering Storm is easily the rising sea levels. If things are going badly, entire tiles can be reclaimed by the ocean, which could prove disastrous for a civilization relying on coastal cities. Most interestingly of all, the amount by which the sea levels rise is determined by the actions of every civilization across the entire map.

"We've added a new climate screen which offers a sort of global weather report for you to look at," said Beach. "There's a part of that report that shows you exactly where you're at with CO2 emissions, so you'll be able to see which civ has been polluting the atmosphere the most heavily. You'll see whether or not deforestation is running at expected levels and you can also see how the global temperature has been affected by all of this, based on our modelling of climate change."

On November 21 2018 04:33 farvacola wrote:
I don't see how they could possibly balance all that, but if they pull it off, it sounds pretty awesome.

On November 21 2018 01:02 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:


>new civs are Sweden (Kristina), Hungary (Matthias Corvinus), Inca (Pachacuti) , Ottomans (Suleiman), Mali (Mansa Musa), Maori (Kupe), Phoenicia (Dido), Canada (Laurier) + alt leader Eleanor (Fra/Eng)

On November 21 2018 23:26 hitthat wrote:


Darn, Canada and Hungary

But I want more Asians. Like Vietnamese f.e.