Expansion Civilization VI: Rise and Fall announced for Feb 8th 2018!

[donald23]

UPDATE: After the release of the patch, a lot of mods are acting up. Please follow these steps first to try to solve this:

• Disable all mods. Both from the Additional Content menu in the game, as well as manually installed mods.
  
• Exit the game and delete My Documents/My Games/Sid Meier's Civilization VI/mods.sqlite
  
• Verify game files through Steam
  
• Launch the game and start a new game WITHOUT using a saved configuration

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An expansion is announced for Civilization VI, from the lead designer Anton Strenger.
Here he explains about the expansion:
https://civilization.com/news/entries#announcing-civilization-vi-rise-and-fall

The full announcement trailer can be seen here:
https://youtu.be/IOT9T15mkX0

And here the Steam News announcement:
http://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791454551861/announcements/detail/1465222576769486958

New features from the blog post:

• New civilizations and leaders (8 and 9 respectively)
  
• Golden and Dark Ages, based on loyalty
  
• A new Loyalty system, impacting cities and more
  
• Governors to place in your cities
  
• Enhanced Alliances
  
• Emergency situations to deal with
  
• Historic moments

A video has been released to provide more detail on the new features:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h31myLyc_qk

Release times have been confirmed on Twitter by the Marketing Manager. Here is a summary:
21:00 (9pm) PT, Feb 7th (US pacific coast)
00:00 (midnight) ET, Feb 8th (US atlantic coast)
05:00 (5am) GMT, Feb 8th (UK)
06:00 (6am) CET, Feb 8th (Europe mainland)
16:00 (4pm) AEDT, Feb 8th (Canberra, Australia)

See here for the actual tweet!

FAQ

• Is the XP included in the Digital Deluxe Edition or Anniversary Edition?
  Nope, this is not included in the DDE (and subsequently not in the Anniversary Edition since that's simply the DDE with some physical extras).
  
• Can I pre-order?
  Yes, you can! It costs € 29,99 or $ 29,99. See here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/645402/Sid_Meiers_Civilization_VI_Rise_and_Fall/
  
• Is the UN included in this expansion?
  According to this movie, no. But Emergencies act like a sort of mini-world congresses.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzzohPvrkbY
  
• Where can I find more information on the upcoming features, wonders, etc. included in this expansion?
  Easiest is to check the Steam News section for this game, subscribe to the Civilization Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/Civilization) and follow @civgame (https://twitter.com/CivGame) on twitter. That way you see all the news, streams, clips and teasers announced.
  
• What are the Civilizations and Leaders in this expansion?
  
  • Seondeok of Korea
    
  • Wilhelmia of the Netherlands
    
  • Genghis Khan of Mongolia
    
  • Chandragupta of India (new alternative leader)
    
  • Chief Poundmaker of the Cree
    
  • Tamar of Georgia
    
  • Robert the Bruce of Scotland
    
  • Lautaro of the Mapuche
    
  • Shaka of the Zulu
• Will there be a pre-load for Rise & Fall?
  After checking with the Marketing Manager, unfortunately, no, there will not be a pre-load.
  See here for the tweet about that.

[Cosmophobe]

sounds like more money spent on ♥♥♥♥ that should be in the base game

[fakemon64]

I don't see how you can hate from outside of the hype train. YOU CANT EVEN GET IN!

[Bouncer]

Eh, took Civ V 2 expacs to be good. Expac 1 only made it playable.
Then again, Civ VI is godly compared to V vanilla...

I'm not gonna get hyped over this yet.

[fakemon64]

people forget that historically civ games take at LEAST a year to even begin to shine.
It's just the way firaxis works. They seem to only update the game once per season.

[The Doctor]

I've always been excited when an expansion for any Civ game is announced. Of course, sometimes, I get disappointed afterwards, Civ IV BTS - Corporations {shudder}, but. more often than not, it's been a great experience.

However, I'm going to wait until I see much more before I let myself get excited otherwise the base game becomes unplayable because I want the new features. I'm not there yet and expect to play the base game again over the Xmas holidays, at least once.

And there will always be poosters* who say 'should have been in the base game'. That's not going to change.

*intentional typo ;)

[fakemon64]

The Doctor eredeti hozzászólása:

I've always been excited when an expansion for any Civ game is announced. Of course, sometimes, I get disappointed afterwards, Civ IV BTS - Corporations {shudder}, but. more often than not, it's been a great experience.

However, I'm going to wait until I see much more before I let myself get excited otherwise the base game becomes unplayable because I want the new features. I'm not there yet and expect to play the base game again over the Xmas holidays, at least once.

And there will always be poosters* who say 'should have been in the base game'. That's not going to change.

*intentional typo ;)

Tooooo true. I love how people will down rate a game because it has dlc. I understand their frustration but this is 2017 and the world is starting to fully realize the amount of profits that video games can bring in. I mean e-sports has it's own channel now!

All we can look foward to in the future is more day1dlc, lootboxes, and ingame currency. It sucks but the sooner we accept it the happier we will be. I mean we cant even get free healthcare but people want free dlc?

[jcp011c2]

Oh yeah I'm hyped. I look at it this way: Civ VI base game was much better than Civ 5's. After the first and even more so the second expansion, Civ V became my all time favorite game. Does this mean that expansions will help Civ IV supplant it? Not necessarily. But there's a good change it will make it even better than it is now.

[jcp011c2]

Charles De Gaulle would be interesting from France, though he may be a bit too modern (was a leader wtihin the last 50 years...not sure what Civ's avoidance cutoff time is to avoid controversy etc)

[BadMojo]

jcp011c2 eredeti hozzászólása:

Charles De Gaulle would be interesting from France, though he may be a bit too modern (was a leader wtihin the last 50 years...not sure what Civ's avoidance cutoff time is to avoid controversy etc)

De Gaulle was actually an alternate French leader in Civ IV's final expansion "Beyond the Sword", so he could theoretically return.

[Bouncer]

jcp011c2 eredeti hozzászólása:

Charles De Gaulle would be interesting from France, though he may be a bit too modern (was a leader wtihin the last 50 years...not sure what Civ's avoidance cutoff time is to avoid controversy etc)

Did a quick google. Haile Selassie, playable in V, died in 1975, Gaulle in 1970. Datewise it should be possible, though I reckon it'll depend on the offspring of De Gaulle if they'll allow it?

edit: or he was actually already in a civ game, that's good proof too, haha.

[Leon Declis]

I can't wait to play it; it should come out for Mac about a year after it does for Windows!

[Martin]

I'm usually quite pessimistic about these expansions, in the past they didn't quite addup, however, this one, sounds pretty decent. 8 new civs all at once.. that alone is worth £25 imo.

The Golden/Dark/Heroic Ages sound great pun kinda not intended..

Not sure about the Loyalty system.. if it works like Civ4 I think.. where culture could flip a city that's not so bad, but if you could do it via spy missions or religion or any active click to win method it could be really bad. I had hoped loyalty system would be between ai and player civs for diplomacy, not a mechanic for taking away your hard earned cities. However, it might be one for taking over low pop cities.. on the border of your lands. In which case.. yeh.. time to absorb the ai spam.

[Azunai]

at least they go for some fresh ideas that sound interesting. they go even further in the "board game" direction. i kinda like the older civ games better that were more simulation than game (up to civ 4, basically), but the new direction also has its charm.

don't know if i'll buy it right away based on the features. but knowing me, i probably will buy it on release day unless there is another game that releases around the same time and catches my attention.

[Grey]

Excited and disappointed.

Excited because new expansion.

Disappointed because the base game still has a lot of problems that haven't been fixed and have been known about since release.(My main problems revolving around barbarians and civ ai)

I'll maintain a cautious optimism.

[ashvandam_uk]

Ideas on the new Features (not including leaders)

1) They Loyalty feature scares me... the only way I find it difficult to win a game, even now (i.e if i build for war someone wins by culture, if i go culture, someone wins by religion!!!) , so the only stratagy i can win a game is playing wide (i actually enjoy playing wide)... but this new feature sounds like its going to take masssive chunks out of my empire. Something i will not find enjoyable!!!

2) Everyone goes on about fixing the AI i already find it too difficult, and would rather it not get more inteligent

3) Governours.... It sounds like te devs have actually been snooping the boards for this idea, I am sure i have seen 5 or 6 fans talk about in the past they miss the City advisors from Civ 2. Is this not kinda like the same thing?? It would be awesome if the govenours did little video clips again suggesting things like you should build market places, city walls or other points of view they have!!!

4)More about Govenours... Do you think govenours would be moree fun, using made-up people, or more fun real people?? i.e you could have people like Joan of Arc, Mark Antony, Spartucus, Issace Newton, Benjamn Franklin, Winston Churhill (only a PM), i.e. lots of famous people that where not actuall leaders as the govenours... this would give the game more character, having famous people pop up?

5)I said this post is not about leaders, but i really want Ancient Judah/Isreal & Ancient Babylon

The thing that really scares me the most is the Loyalty feature... do you reckon that they will include in the game set-up too turn this feature off?? As i wouldnt want to play with this feature turned on, anyone else agree?