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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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smr
Germany4808 Posts
 There is a wonderful Launch trailer. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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ghrur
United States3786 Posts
Note, I loved their Endless Legends game. Curious how HumanKind compares. | ||
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RolleMcKnolle
Germany1054 Posts
For war you are fighting in mini-rounds during the turns with armies that move as stacks but are split up in single units for battles which are fought in battle areas around the place the battle is initiated. And war is more like the end to a means of solving certain grievances you acquired via interacting with other empires. Still has some holes but its more fun than the usual annihilation wars. The pacing is a bit off with progressing in eras without having the tech, but those things are rather minor. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
https://www.games2gether.com/amplitude-studios/humankind/forums/215-bug-reports/threads/43576-humankind-patch-beta-1-0-2-116?page=1 | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18219 Posts
On August 18 2021 00:32 smr wrote: I might only have a small look tonight. Out of time till next monday, but I want to play so much There is a wonderful Launch trailer. https://youtu.be/nGi00HqpmS0If they are only half as good at making games as they are at making trailers, this is one fantastic game! Any trustworthy reviews out yet? I don't buy preorder or beta on general principle, but this is now live, so how does it hold up to civ 6? | ||
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thePunGun
598 Posts
 ). Don't get me wrong, I really do like it a lot, but sadly figuring out how to min max is way easier than it is in Civ. After a few games I've noticed, that all I had to do to" out snowball" the AI was maxing out influence and production early on, while simultaniously claiming as many territories as possible. My usual pick order is Egyptians, Maya, Khmer and then I choose science or money civs, because at this point even at the highest difficulty the AI is so afraid of me they'd rather ally, than mess with me. I'm kinda sad this works so well, the Markabata is way to cheap in production, is easy to get and overall too powerful. Two regiments are enough to shutdown any expansionist Civ early on and once you've done that it snowballs out of control pretty fast. T.T | ||
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Salazarz
Korea (South)2591 Posts
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farvacola
United States18854 Posts
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Salazarz
Korea (South)2591 Posts
On August 26 2021 06:15 farvacola wrote: Good AI in 4x games continues to prove elusive, it would seem. It's so weird, some of the things that happen in game feel like whomever designed the AI behaviors just had no understanding of the game or the rules. For example, units get a bonus in combat when they are defending in this game; but AI insists on attacking with its units virtually every combat turn, even though that just means he will lose the unit and the battle. It's just frustrating. I have no expectations of some amazing artificial intelligence that will come up with creative strategies to beat me or something, but when the AI consistently makes simple moves that put it at a disadvantage for no reason whatsoever... meh. | ||
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thePunGun
598 Posts
I don't think it was a smart decision allowing players to lock in wonders. Because fighting for the best wonders is one of the best mechanics in Civ. Humankind is full of "tiny" decisions, which I really enjoyed in the beginning, but their impact on how the games play out is minor and they seem rather meaningless in the long run. Since they only impact the next 10 turns and only cause a minor ideology shift. And there really isn't a lot of replayability regarding the "big" decisions, considering that some civs are no brainer picks and are clearly the best option for that era, so you end up picking the same or similar civs each game. Overall it's a good game, but not a great game. Simply because it doesn't have as much replay value as other 4x games imo. I really hope future updates and upcoming dlcs will change that though, so I can give it another go. | ||
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Sbrubbles
Brazil5776 Posts
On August 26 2021 06:15 farvacola wrote: Good AI in 4x games continues to prove elusive, it would seem. After playing Old World (a recent top notch classical-age focused 4x game that's kinda gone under the radar), I've come to appreciate that part of having good AI is making game systems that the AI is able to use effectively. In Old World, in terms of unit movement, units can move incredibly far in a single turn, at the cost of "orders" which are necessary for almost every action in the game (technically, by paying another currecy units can move as much as you have orders for). This means that combat is about having your units far away from the enemy then using all your orders to bring them all in at once in a large wave (while you're fighting large battles, you probably won't have many orders to effectively manage workers and your court, but that's part of the tradeoff). After the first wave, battles become this very tactical grindfest where each turn one or two units dies and each side keeps piling in reinforcements, until one sides gives up and retreats. What does this mean in terms of combat AI? I'm no expert in AI, but I believe this all-or-nothing appoach is much easier for the AI to execute that the slow methodical unit movement of Civ, and makes for intense battles. AI in Old World, especially in battles, is damn strong, at least compared to Civ 5 and 6. | ||
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andrewlt
United States7702 Posts
Some of the negative feedback in this thread feels like feature creep is a major issue. A lot of modern games are too complicated with too many features. The 4x genre is one of the worst but it is not the only offender. Every Civ game from 3 onwards has had 2 expansions to flesh out the game. I think it's better to have a solid, more bare bones vanilla game and use expansions to add features to make up for the game is lacking. IIRC, Civ 6 added religion in the first major DLC and global warming/UN in the 2nd. It made for a much better game, imo, even though I got tired of the vanilla game in roughly 100 hours. This game sounds like it tried to have similar amounts of features to a post-expansion Civ game. | ||
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Ryzel
United States545 Posts
The Caster of Magic mod in particular is a masterclass of redesigning aspects of the game to play to strengths more easily utilized by an AI, and it makes such a big difference. For those not familiar with Master of Magic, it’s a 4X that instead of utilizing things like governments and religion to add complexity (although there’s a basic tax system), you research spells depending on which magic school you specialize in that provide troops, aid you in combat, boost the efficacy of your cities or harm cities/resources of your enemies. The game initially had several spells that trivialized AI because there was no way they could use them as effectively (instantly teleporting your unit to any of your cities was a big culprit). Among many other things, the mod removed all those problem spells and replaced them with ones that could be coded into AI combat logic. It ends up being similar to that one gif of rock/paper/scissors/lizards/bears/etc where there’s so many interactions between different mechanics that to a player it still feels dynamic and interesting, but a programmer can make an AI work with it. Great stuff. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
It’s been almost two months since we put Humankind in your hands, but that was only the beginning of our journey together with this game. The response was enthusiastic, but the enthusiastic players are often also the most critical, and we received a lot of feedback through Games2Gether, the Steam forums, and even Steam reviews in the first couple of weeks. This feedback is vital to us, not only to see what you like about the game and what problems you want to see addressed first, but also to get a picture of how you would like the game to grow in the future. Today, we want to take a look at the improvements we have already made, the feedback we’re seeing, and what we’re working on for the next patch. Initial Patches After launch, a few subjects quickly emerged as frequently discussed by the community. Many players found that they were unable to fully experience the Contemporary or even Industrial era, as they could not find enough resource deposits on the map and many times pollution ended their game prematurely. We have since increased the amount of late game resources, raised the limit of pollution, and added some additional options to reduce it, to allow our players to savor the last eras, though we know many of you would like to see further improvements. We also fixed a problem with naval assaults on cities, which led to unassailable island fortresses. In addition to these frequently discussed problems, we’ve made some improvements to other parts of the game. For example, we’ve started work on the user interface by rearranging the terms in the Surrender Screen to make different territories easier to find. We’ve also been working on the AI, particularly how it handles armies and battles. Furthermore, we’ve added better validation tools to the map editor. Of course, we have also been working hard to improve the stability and performance of the game and addressed many of the bugs reported by our players. Ongoing Work However, we know we have yet to address all of your concerns, and while our team may not be able to respond on the forums as much as they’d like, we watch your discussions with interest. We’ve been following many fascinating conversations about a variety of topics, from Neolithic population growth to end conditions, culture balance and affinities to overall game pace, line of sight and unit balance, religion, and even improved quality of life for personas and the new game lobby, among others. We have already fixed many crashes and stuck turns, but there a still some major concerns that are among our top priorities — for example the Mac version, multiplayer stability, and the reports of crashes and turns not ending properly. These issues have a wide variety of potential causes we need to tackle one at a time, and similarly, multiplayer connection issues involve a great number of variables that can make it difficult to reproduce them in our testing environment — in other words, these issues have proven more difficult to address than anticipated and as such have slowed down both the investigation and testing phases of some fixes. We want to apologize to our fans on Mac for the long delay of the official Mac release. While we have made good progress on the Mac version of the game, creating an M1-compatible version has proven surprisingly difficult. Unfortunately, we did not have access to sufficient information and hardware in advance, so we could not start work on compatibility before release. We are sorry that we did not foresee this long delay. We’re currently finishing our examination and will update you with more details next week. In the meantime, we will continue to work on the Mac Beta currently available for opt-in on Steam, and we hope to officially release this version soon. We hope to address these issues as soon as possible, but we cannot give you an estimate of when they will be fixed yet. Future Features We don’t just want to review what we’ve done since the release today, we want to take a look at the future. We know many of you would like us to expand certain parts of the game, like religion, diplomacy, cultural influence, and pollution, with more options for the player and stronger interactions with the other game systems. While we agree that many parts of the game could be expanded, these are substantial changes and additions that require careful consideration and time to implement. We are working on various improvements we think you will be excited about, but we are not ready to share details about them yet. Additionally, rest assured we are keeping a close eye on your discussions to take into account where and how you would like to see the game grow. The Next Update Finally, some news we know many of you have been waiting for: We are aiming to release the next big update on October 28th. This patch will improve your options when creating your game with new settings for resource abundance and end conditions and try to address the rapid increase in the game’s pace in the mid to late game discussed by the community as well as some of the most discussed concerns about balance between cultures, among other things. We’ll talk about this patch in greater detail next week. Thank you for your support - The Amplitude Team Source | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
Hello everyone, Unfortunately, we have some bad news to share about the upcoming “Fabius Maximus” update. While testing it, we discovered some major issues that we are not confident we will be able to fix in time for the intended October 28th release. Consequently, we had to make the tough decision of delaying this update by a week into the first week of November, which also pushes the follow-up patch with the end condition options and unit balancing closer to mid November. We know many of you were excited to try the improvements brought to the game by this update, but we think that delaying until these issues have been resolved is the better option. However, we may be able to provide a beta version through Steam for those willing to give it a try. Frankly, with a nickname like “Fabius Maximus,” we should not be surprised by this turn of events, but we still want to apologize for the additional delay. Thank you for your patience and understanding - The Amplitude Team Source | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
https://www.games2gether.com/amplitude-studios/humankind/forums/168-general/threads/41945-humankind-release-notes?page=1#post-344968 | ||
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