Quite a nice surprise! Sid Meier's Civilization VII from Firaxis Games / 2K has been given the green tick of approval from Valve, as it's now Steam Deck Verified ahead of release.
  • Narauko@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 hour ago

    The real question is if there was enough backlash to the spyware crap with Civ 6 that they learned their lesson or not.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    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.

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    21 hours ago

    £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.

    • orgrinrt@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      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.

    • Tattorack@lemmy.world
      4·
      14 hours ago

      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.

      • AWildMimicAppears@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        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

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    8·
    14 hours ago

    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.

    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
      3·
      14 hours ago

      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.

  • warm@kbin.earth
    95·
    1 day ago

    Cant wait to try this in 6 years when the full game is released for a reasonable price!

        • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world
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          15 hours ago

          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.

      • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        41·
        1 day ago

        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.

        • Pringles@lemm.ee
          7·
          1 day ago

          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.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    40·
    1 day ago

    Sweet! Now just one more thing… no Denuvo plz and it is a Day 1 (not the pre-launch whatever) buy for me.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      21 hours ago

      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…

      • v_krishna@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        19 hours ago

        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.

        • faith@lemmy.mlEnglish
          5·
          18 hours ago

          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.