Today Firaxis Games and 2K made quite a big announcement for the future of Sid Meier's Civilization VI, and it appears they're nowhere near done with it.
Announcing the New Frontier Pass, which will run from this month until March 2021 it's going to bring in six new DLC packs with six free updates placed in-between their releases for everyone. The free packs will include all sorts of things from balance to new maps. As for the actual DLC, each one will provide at least one new civilization and leader (some have two), new game modes (that might need other DLC), new buildings, new units and quite a bit more.
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Pack list
- Pack #1: Maya & Gran Colombia Pack. Adds two new civilizations and leaders, one new game mode*, new City-States, Resources, and Natural Wonders. Available May 2020.
- Pack #2: Ethiopia Pack. Adds one new civilization and leader, one new game mode**, one new District and two new Buildings. Available July 2020.
- Pack #3: Adds two new civilizations and leaders, one new game mode**, new World Wonders, and one new map. Available September 2020.
- Pack #4: Adds one new civilization and leader, one new game mode, new City-States, and numerous new Great People. Available November 2020.
- Pack #5: Adds one new civilization and two new leaders***, one new game mode, a new District, and two new Buildings. Available January 2021.
- Pack #6: Adds one new civilization and leader, one new game mode, new World Wonders, and one new map. Available March 2021.
*New game mode requires the Gathering Storm expansion to play.
**New game mode requires either the Rise and Fall or Gathering Storm expansions to play.
***New leader requires Rise and Fall expansion to play.
The porting studio and occasional publisher, Aspyr Media, who did the original Linux port of Sid Meier's Civilization VI have been contacted (see update below) about it. They've been pretty silent recently (Borderlands 2/TPS are missing updates) but thankfully 2K have been pretty clear. In their press release they said:
The Civilization VI - New Frontier Pass will be available for $39.99 on Xbox One, PS4™, Nintendo Switch™, Windows PC, Mac and Linux, with mobile platforms arriving later this year.
If you don't want all of it, each part pack will be available individually too the New Frontier Pass is a Season Pass.
You can pick up a copy of Civilization VI on Humble Store and Steam.
Update: Aspyr Media's press people got back to us, and said "For Linux, it will sim-ship." when asking about dates of the DLC for Linux. So with that in mind, we should see same-day support for the DLC.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Mountain Man May 12, 2020
Quoting: Liam DaweWhich is why I said "all but abandoned the platform". They are still supporting Linux but not with the enthusiasm they had early on.Quoting: Mountain ManIf they're getting these DLC up at the same time, as we've been told and quoted in the article, they've clearly not abandoned it.QuoteAspyr Media, who did the original Linux port of Sid Meier's Civilization VI have been contacted about it. They've been pretty silent recently (Borderlands 2/TPS are missing updates)...I've been largely disappointed with Aspyr. They did some good work early on bringing games to Linux and then all but abandoned the platform.
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Nevertheless May 12, 2020
Quoting: Purple Library GuySlightly off topic . . . I've played Civ 6 a bit, enough to make a couple of false starts while I got things figured out and then win a game. And I pushed religion moderately hard, because it was a thing I could do. Maybe if I'd pushed religion a bit harder I could have actually won a religious victory, but I felt like if I could be dominant enough to win on religion I could probably have won with something else first (which I did).
But what I was wondering was, has anyone done some evaluating to see if it's worth it? The religious stuff gives you some perks, if you play your cards right the religious district ends up providing a moderate amount of stuff, whatever kind you're going for, and if you do it certain ways you'll get stuff for everyone that worships the religion yadda yadda. But it soaks up a ton of resources building all the holy this and holy that--not just the districts, but the wonders and stuff. Plus, it takes up space you could put other districts in, and picking religious oriented techs and civics might delay getting secular things you also want. And hey, if you skip it your people might end up worshipping someone else's religion but that won't matter after you conquer their ass. At the end I found myself wondering if all those resources poured into religion were on balance rewarding or a money pit. Anyone have any idea?
This is highly dependable on the civ you play, its bonuses, special buildings, districts, units, starting techs. You might not want to try science victory with the Aztecs, because they are aggressive militarists, you'd probably choose Korea, Sweden, Sumer.. for it. On the other hand you could try with the Aztecs, because it gives you another kind of difficulty than higher difficulty levels, which mainly give you adversary civs with higher starting bonuses...
The difficulty to win a game on the victory type you choose is also dependend from what your AI adversaries are, from their and your surrounding territory etc... I'd say you have to consider all this and find an efficient solution that's compatible with your playstyle and go for it.
But I'd say you're asking the right questions!
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Kimyrielle May 12, 2020
Quoting: Liam DaweAgain, speculation, no one knows and it doesn't help anyone to act like we know and say they have abandoned anything. Don't spread the negativity that's just not needed.
Fine. Let the facts speak, then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspyr
Fact is that Civ 6 WAS their last Linux port. Yeah, I get it, just negativity.
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If Aspyr doesn't want to support Linux ports for whatever reason then then that's their business and fine by me. I buy games that work on Fedora, either natively (preferable) or through wine/proton (acceptable). If Aspyr doesn't make Linux ports that's okay with me as a consumer. I may end up buying fewer of their games, but it's not personal. I just choose to support studios and publishers that make games I can play.
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Quoting: NeverthelessYou might not want to try science victory with the Aztecs, because they are aggressive militaristsFunny, that's exactly what happened--Aztec science victory. In my experience from other Civ games, who has what bonuses largely ceases to matter once you've conquered half the planet. I actually ended up going for science because I suddenly realized another civ was getting there on science and conquering them might have been too slow a process to stop them, so while I started crushing them I built the ship as insurance.
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Nevertheless May 12, 2020
Quoting: Purple Library GuyQuoting: NeverthelessYou might not want to try science victory with the Aztecs, because they are aggressive militaristsFunny, that's exactly what happened--Aztec science victory. In my experience from other Civ games, who has what bonuses largely ceases to matter once you've conquered half the planet. I actually ended up going for science because I suddenly realized another civ was getting there on science and conquering them might have been too slow a process to stop them, so while I started crushing them I built the ship as insurance.
Haha.. of course you can always force your opponents away from victory conditions.. :)
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Quoting: KimyrielleI'm not talking about additional ports. I was talking about updates, they can't have abandoned something if they're going to be updating this with each DLC and update coming. That was my overall point.Quoting: Liam DaweAgain, speculation, no one knows and it doesn't help anyone to act like we know and say they have abandoned anything. Don't spread the negativity that's just not needed.
Fine. Let the facts speak, then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspyr
Fact is that Civ 6 WAS their last Linux port. Yeah, I get it, just negativity.
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Quoting: Liam DaweI'm not talking about additional ports. I was talking about updates, they can't have abandoned something if they're going to be updating this with each DLC and update coming. That was my overall point.
Don't quite agree with that. They can still have made a decision not to do anything with Linux other than fulfilling their remaining obligations. That still counts as abandoning.
We're coming up to a year since the last BL2 DLC was released (also for Mac) and even longer since co-op compatibility was broken. Any BL2 player on Linux has a right to feel abandoned. And to be frank, I don't trust Aspyr anymore. They haven't even said a word about it since then and just left it the way it is. How am I supposed to trust that they won't do anything like that again. So with the information that Aspyr has given me, I conclude that they abandoned Linux. And a few extra DLC for Civ is not enough to change my opinion.
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Okay, fair enough. I won't argue that point. I just think it's good Civ VI will be continuing to see updates and I am glad about that but I agree the situation elsewhere is not good and I hope they eventually say something in regards to the Borderlands 2/TPS situation.
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