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I'm enjoying the heck out of this game, but like everyone else mentions, the graphics are brutal. Love how I just tried the Explorers national spirit, and was blown away by how much knowledge that generated - zoomed right through the Age. Hate the fact that for the life of me, I can't tell the difference between the Trash Heap, Foundry or pretty much anything else it could possibly be. But llike PotatoMcWhiskey says, it's quite fun despite all that.

Is this better than Civ 6?

We want better AI and not them starting 8 settlers and +500% recourses but still be competitive like paradox games.

So funny half the people are wahmen, very few < 1% of great people in history (just look at nobel prizes, war leaders, great leaders) are wahmens, the male bell curve is flatter and wahmens will just die in the army. These are just facts whatever toxic feminists lie about. End the wokeness for truth.

I have no issues with the graphics or the gameplay, the deal breaker for me is simultaneous comng soon... I rarely play games single player and after attempting a multiplayer game with what you can manage currently I quickly stopped playing. I'm disappointed it isnt even on the road map, yet marked as coming soon?

One thing I also have a major issue with is if you are allied with two nations, and one goes to war with the other, you are automatically pulled into their war and forced to break your alliance with the other

I love that it was misreable until he chose MURDER!

New nation is a flag, a name tag and a city names list... They can keep announcing new nations as much as they want that's meaningless...

You know where the game is going ? Right to the sales bin. They have to release the 2 DLC people buyed to avoid trouble. Then they would be able to totally drop this useless poj nobody ever asked them for. With Civ 7 incoming in a few years we have more important things to wait for than insignificant minor updates to a deeply flawed game.

I feel a bit bad, as the very FIRST community img uploaded on steam... was my Shrek meme complaining about the Ai always causing Age of Plague

Danke

Not that well explained for a newbie, IMO, rushes through a lot of random things without explaining.

Hahahaha every streamer pushing this before launch, then stopped streaming it...yeah, I guess it says a lot. Just be honest in reviews. New nations? Doesn't matter. It's just a placeholder. Game sucks. It plays like a Tencent mobile game. The ideas of different ages are nice, but it isn't implemented well. Everything about what sets this game apart from other 4x is beyond broken.

As a fellow citizen of Poland I officially tell you you are pronouncing Polish city names wrong:)

What difficulty is this on?

Paradox developers only keep games up to date if they get to sell DLC. Once they cant sell DLC anymore they stop squashing bugs.

Fucking thank you for for mentioning that Paradox only published the game. I feel like that gets forgotten in all of the foibles of the game. I agree with your closing statement too - Also feel like there should be follow-up ages to variant/crisis ages as well. For example, Age of Visitors - Humanity fights off an invading alien force and then... nah we're back to our regular ol' victory ages.

The UI is kind of odd. Parts of it work fine--good, even. Then you have screens like the "tiles being worked" screen for cities and it's like, who came up with this? It's just so weird and unintuitive and really feels like it would have been better as a toggle-able overlay on the main map. That said, I actually think the Civ VI UI isn't particularly great, either. I'm so used to it that it's pretty easy to navigate at this point, but a lot of Civ VI's UI screens are just a hot, disorganized mess.

First time seeing your face!

I'm old enough to remember when CZcamsrs said this game was great and that they were playing waaaay more of this than civ 6

insane. I was still using horses at move 168 lol

Wasn't there for the stream, but i'll ut my suggestion here. "seasons"

With stream reviews i treat any thing at 60-65% review score as "its good, just has issues or improvements that can be made", i really wanted to like Millenia, while i was playing it i really wanted to like it and i could tell there was something real good there, it just needed improving on, so hopefully these patches do that

Millennia is a good game bordering on great but probably not quite there. I do really enjoy it but I have to admit it feels less exciting and less balanced than Civ 6. One standout piece is Civ 6 really makes you feel like you are playing a unique civ. In Millenia, I conquered India, but honestly I have no idea what civilization I'm destroying. Maybe I'll notice all the samurai slowing down my attack, but I'd never notice that I killed the Olympians turned to inventors. In that sense you play a unique custom chosen civ in Millennia but it feels and looks generic which disconnects people from the game. That's one the big problems and I'm not sure if there is a fix for it.

Every update definitely made the game better. A very important change was nerfing the Forced March/ Reinforcement spam, by having the affected army temporarily drop 20% combat strength. Still, Warfare is just too damn strong in this game. For all of the alternative winning conditions, none of them really works without some major world domination first, and by that time you might as well carry on the momentum. Also, some balancing is in order, especially when some events are meaningless while some can be insanely damaging (the UFO invasion is crazy, they easily had more military strength than over 10x the entire world just to crush my strong, expansive nation that easily dominated the Adept AI).

I’m afraid you are to deep in the pockets of Paradox. This game has interesting elements but is a total flop. Hope Firaxis will take some of the interesting elements and build them in to Civ

This game would have benefitted from going in the mechanic direction of old world since it's fairly flat. I still wish that game would be blown up into a world forex. The choices and meaningful social system is the evocative layer that a top forex contender would run away with if they implemented it. Maybe not the same complicated level of royal lineages, but definitely room for advisors and sub leaders to have more map interaction. Millennia, at this point, still feels like someone hit a shuffle button on forex mechanics. The things that millennia does bring feel like they're so minimal they don't justify the price. I sort of wish the developer to give it the rest of the year, pull the plug, and go right into a "Millennia 2". The experience they would carry forward would be great, especially if they concentrated on style, both visual and mechanic.

I love Millennia (and Humankind) so much. But I completely agree with everything you said. On the graphics, case and point was the map in the video, it seemed so flat / bland. But what really disappointed me was the alt-eras. I LOVE them so much, but esp. the ones like Age of Aether where you had steam-punk techs, when you progress out of that era it's as if the world just completely forgets it ever existed which I think is a BIG shame. I'd love to see esp. unique resources/units/buildings have some sort of continuity in future eras (Aether-charged tanks etc?) so it feels like my decision to go into those alt-eras has a lasting impact on my empire and the world beyond it was cool, it was unique or it just helped me win etc I totally get why they didn't, because esp. for earlier-eras the more alt-eras you have like that, the more branching occurs and exponentially adds a LOT more work for the devs. And tbh it may not be necessary for all eras, earlier ones are fine I think like Age of Blood, but where special resources or gameplay is added like Age of Aether I think some sort of continuity would be REALLY amazing I'd love to see aether-enhanced fighter jets if I go through the age of aether...gives even more of a (meta) reason to take those eras

I miss the cool scenarios of Civ 5. I played into the Renaissance a million times.

Looks like Civ.

I don't find Millenia visually attractive to me, good mechanics and gameplay in all its glory, but I will be using my eyes for hundreds of hours so I expect to be visually pleased.

These days you don't need to be a Triple-A game studio to produce a stunning looking game. Just look at Manor Lords initially designed by a solo developer (not even a company, just a one guy and few of his friends helping him) which looks absolutely amazing and really immersive. Yes, 4X games never were famous for a beautiful graphics, but in 2024 when most of GPUs can handle a good level graphics without breaking a sweat it becomes one of the aspects of the gameplay which ether drags you into the game or pushing you away. For example, Humankind looks amazing, and I've enjoyed playing it (and still playing from time to time) despite of some of the game mechanics flaws. But man, despite of enjoying Millenia gameplay in general, I can't force myself playing it because it looks so ugly. TBH, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw battle previews for the first time... It might sound harsh, but it looks like someone who just started to learn 3d and motion graphics made a raw draft of their first test project. There is no excuse to have such poor quality in 2024 no matter how small your developer's team is.

I have to say graphic and ui is fine for me - but the gameplay with the eras is far to shallow… After 3 playthroughs even on hardest difficulty I lost my Motivation in the game… I hoped for far more complexity in the ressource system but got utterly dissapointed 😢

Millennia became my main game since its launch. Just recently switched back to AoW4 in preparation for its Cthulhu DLC so I'm letting Millennia rest for a while now. To me, Millennia should have been labeled Early Access when it launched. Just looking at the updates made, it's clear it was far from finished. I'm guessing that would also have saved them a lot of negative reviews. It's a game that clearly has potential and it'll be interesting to see where it goes with future updates.

Wait wait wait. The keymapping, you are telling me that AZERTY users where still on WASD and not on ZQSD???????

It's wierd the things different people like and dislike. I have no problems with the graphics. Alliances forcing you into war i don't like. I like the special ages, i kind of think every one should have something to do to achieve/trigger them(in the 3 tech type time frame) or a normal default age only happens after all sciences. The ages are the game's point of difference but higher difficulty takes the variability out of the equation and narrows decision making completely.

Idk, something about the game always feels off

Combat Viewer: Zoom in ++ on the units. Place them closer to each other. Do not have them walk at all.

Hi potato, do you really feel "ok" with how diplomatic system work? I mean, there are a few options and ther are not deep enough in my opinion. Is the aspect of the game i most hate. What do you think about this?

Paradox needs to hire them a better artist for their key art. Their logo and non-model art just look like any other tiny Steam dev.

How do you feel about the impact of picked ages have on a game, and how important it is to be nr1 in tech so that you get to be the one picking ages? Seems like it narrows down the number of feasible play styles - if you play to win.

I love this game. It has much more depth than Civ6 but not too much, like in EUIV and the game guides you through all the new stuff when they introduce it through the ages. Only downside compared to Civ are the empires themselves. You would think that a game with so much depth would give that also to the empires you play, but no.

Millennia has some good ideas. It has potential, but with PDX 's policy of slow content addition through dlc and lack of brand name it will be an uphill battle to remain relevant, especially when civ 7 stuff start getting revealed. The game should have cooked for half to a year more, but PDX. They can't release a finished product anymore.

The window for these Civ clones to be successful is rapidly closing now that Civ 7 is on the horizon.

Navigable rivers would be so good... like the realism factor is so high that moving stuff up and down rivers is like a pillar of all societies pre like 1970?

How do we get potato to play more old world…

Great job!

I want them to get rid of the resource icon once I put down an improvement on it. They are so ugly late game. Also - it's super hard to tell one improvement from another unless it's a farm, plantation, or pasture. And I want to see my towns look different based on their specialization.

Did they add Multiplayer Yet ? (No HotSeat is not Multiplayer. HotSeat basicly is when several People pass around the controller for a Singleplayer Game) Otherwise I really dont care.

Im surprised they havent nerfed feudal monarchy a bit, it is objectively a great move in high dificulty games to just stick to it instead of changing to any advance goverment