Introduction My old graphics card So I have used my trusty MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G[1] for some time now. Let’s be honest, that card is still very good. It runs most games I play on the highest settings or just below that. With some recent games I started to not be able anymore to play on the highest settings. Most notably Mafia III and Sid Meier’s Civilization VI. Luckily for me, I recently got this very nice opportunity to upgrade my card! The new card! The opportunity came true and my shiny new…
As of this time (3am AEDT or 18:00 CEST) the game Sid Meier's Civilization VI is released in Australia. And others in that release-zone, see here for a full map and overview: https://www.civilization.com/news/entries/civilization-vi-pre-load-is-now-live And the map with the times: Which means I can now release my first three mods. These are example mods, but also just functional to play with if you like :-) As soon as I have the time and a way to upload these to the Steam Workshop, I will of…
To save several communities of going through video’s and trying to get the entire tree as a screenshot of some YouTube video, I have made that process a bit easier. In two separate short video’s I show both the Civics and Tech tree completely. Each video is approximately 2,5 minutes. Here is the entire Civics Tree as found in the press preview build in a short video: Here is the entire Technology Tree as found in the press preview build in a short video: Enjoy! Bye bye for now.…
Press Preview, part 1 Along with (presumably) a lot of other youtubers, magazines, gaming websites, etc. I got a preview copy of Civilization VI as well. And I sincerely thank 2K Nederland for that! Some pointers to this press preview copy: * It has 10 leaders out of the 20 in the final game; * It has only 3 map types; * Only one difficulty (Prince) is available; * Three out of six map types are included for me to choose. For two main reasons I will not be doing a series of Let’s Plays. Fi…
I just had the chance to play Civilization VI on the show floor of GamesCom. While being a limited build I saw a few new things that I haven't seen mentioned before. But first let me mention the limits to the build: * 60 turns maximum or half an hour playtime * Only Chinese are payable * Only Prince difficulty * Only quick speed * Only tiny map Another thing was they showed an advanced start button, but wasn't working on this build. New stuff The first thing I noticed was that they now…