How are you supposed to play Civ without a mouse and a keyboard?
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.
I have the same question as thread starter. Do you move cursor with a joystick or use something else to select units, waypoints, etc.? I am a keyboard-mouse person and find using keyboard much more convenient than gamepad even in games that have gamepad as recommended input (like Castle Crashers and some platformers).
Used to successfully play shooters with keyboard only before mouse era (the last I remember vividly is Project IGI). But now I’m terrified at the thought of playing shooter or RTS without mouse.
Also curious how (if) people play DotA2 with controller.
Right touchpad for mouse, triggers for left and right click. Then just bind other things as they become annoying.
The real question is if there was enough backlash to the spyware crap with Civ 6 that they learned their lesson or not.
Do we know who is making the Linux port? Is it Aspyr again?
£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.
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.
If you want something Civ 5-like on mobile, check out Unciv. Its an open source and using Civ 5 as a template. https://yairm210.itch.io/unciv
Isn’t it based on CIV4?
I played both so maybe I’m confusing the rulesets but I thought it was Civ V. Totally possible I am wrong though.
It’s also possible I’m wrong, I never played the games before CIV6 (or not enough to learn them), but on Fdroid it’s described as an “Open source 4X civilization-building game” which I assumed means it’s a CIV4 clone.
Either way, it’s a good game - one of the best open source mobile games for sure.
I’ll still be playing 4 for the foreseeable future.
Will it have AI worth playing with, no spyware, and stability though?
It’ll be chock full of kernel level anticheat, crash every 20 minutes, and have the best AI LLMs can produce.
95% of my desire to play Civ (and there’s a lot of it) is to play super long single player games, ideally modded ones that extend it further, neither Civ V nor Civ VI were able to give a REALLY good experience for that. Civ V was too unstable and Civ VI was also a bit unstable and the AI was somehow even worse at playing in an interesting fashion in that context (ie. Trying to play through a world history with shifting borders and diplomacy)
i really wish i could find a game that is just Civ altered to be a fun singleplayer game to keep playing forever
i don’t want to win the game, i just want to keep building and exploring and make number go up
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.
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.
