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Do we know who is making the Linux port? Is it Aspyr again?
Steam deck verified, with Denuvo for extra flavour. Mmm...
The real question is if there was enough backlash to the spyware crap with Civ 6 that they learned their lesson or not.
I'm not buying it. Civ 6 had play by cloud, and this crashes on Mac every time you end your turn.
Despite acknowlidging the bug, years and years later it's still broken.
I game on a PC exclusively because all games are optimized for the PC and everything else is an afterthought.
It makes sense tho.
Mac lacks 3rd party video card hardware support so why would developers try and develop for a system that the company doesn't care about gaming.
Civ 5 was cool but they burned me with the Gold Deluxe edition which did not include commerce dlc and broken civs.
Fuck any game company that sells tens of DLC and packages them like so.
£60 before adding all the DLC 😵💫
In fairness, it's always been one of those games that goes on sale a lot and is priced low when it does. Patience is a virtue.
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How are you supposed to play Civ without a mouse and a keyboard?
I played on switch and it was fine.
It’s surprisingly easy and comfortable. Steam controller was a revolution on this regard, at least for me. It sounds wrong but feels just right.
Rts are actually pretty fun on the deck believe it or not.
Track pads, and the trigger buttons are LMB/RMB. I've set those controls up on my Deck for Civ6 and it's honestly very comfy to sit on the couch playing civ on the deck.
and keyboard commands can easily be mapped on either back buttons or onto a virtual menu on the other trackpad - with mode shifts you can define a huge amount of keys which are easily accessible
just like the previous versions
I just want to know if you can automate workers again, because I always get to a point with a worker where I'm like, "okay, I still need you but not for anything important right now, so you go off and do your thing and I'll come get you later" and just stopping them from doing anything seems pointless when they can build you a massive road or rail network without you having to worry about it. I stopped playing 6 when I realized I was going to have to either minimize my number of workers, have ridiculously long turns, or just create a bunch of spare workers and have them stay in one place until I need them and I really didn't like any of those options. I gave up on 6 pretty quickly specifically for that reason. It was just too much of a grind.
Civ 5 auto improve/auto road/auto railroad function was so useful that I miss as well.
I have gotten used to micro-managing my workers and sleeping them when not needed, and using two Military Engineers to build a railroad quickly. I am curious about how it will be for 7 since we've seen a steam train in the trailer.
Cant wait to try this in 6 years when the full game is released for a reasonable price!
Literally, I see this, oh, 7 is releasing? I should start playing 6....
Tried 6, ended back up on 5. I prefer the simplicity of 5.
Yeah, it took me long enough to get used to the changes in 5, I like the game and am somewhat inclined to stick with it.
I'll still be playing 4 for the foreseeable future.
6 was free on epic games a few years back and it was recently on sale on steam for just a few dollars.
I picked it up on steam for the Linux version and it was pretty addicting. I never get games dlc and I don’t think I’m good enough at the base game to take advantage of the different things the dlc adds.
If you want to get good at civ games, you can check Marbozir on youtube. The guy is a genius at it and you quickly pick up the way in which you should think about the strategy and resources. And he's very entertaining to boot.
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Sweet! Now just one more thing... no Denuvo plz and it is a Day 1 (not the pre-launch whatever) buy for me.
Steam page says Denuvo :(
Also $70 for the base game, ouch.
$90 here in maple syrup land + denuvo = yikes
$90? Fuck. Isn't the Canadian dollar fairly close the the US dollar?
Edit: Not really. $70 USD to CAD should be just over $100 CAD. Despite the number being bigger, it's actually cheaper in Canada. $90 CAD is $62 USD.
Well scratch that one of the list of interesing releases. Fuck Denuvo.
Fuck Denuvo
Does Denuvo work on Linux?
Denuvo supports Linux. Most of the time, the publisher does not enable this support, but if Civ VII is compatible with Steam Deck, then it's different in this case.
They might ship the game without Denuvo on Linux which has happened before.
Was wondering the same
This would be nice to hear if Linux versions of Civ games weren't always complete garbage
Proton then
Any confirmation of linux/windows crossplay?
If it's anything like 6, yes, but the Linux version won't get quick updates so effectively no, since players have to be on the same update.
There's no reason the Proton version won't work, though, I suppose.
Here's hoping the Linux native version fares better this time around...
Good to hear thanks. And proton has worked well for 6? (Steamdeck i assume is using proton not native linux?). We still play V, when they broke mac/windows crossplay I had to install bootcamp to continue playing with my friends. But the family iMac I did that on definitely won't run 7, so was looking into building a linux tower I could use instead and would strongly prefer not to deal with windows.
Yes, the VI Windows version via Proton is superiour to the native linux build. Steam Deck likely defaults to the native version, but that can be overridden with 4 clicks.
Civ 6 steam proton version works great in my experience.
God I hope it doesn't suck as bad as 6
I prefer Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord these days