I agree and the mechanics feel very intuitive, takes some time getting used to with my brain being wired to handle Civ5/6 lol. But I like many of the idea's they have. Although I do hope they will change the map UI to show what thing cities are building/recruiting on the main map and how many turns it will take.
I like a lot of the mechanics this game seems to have. I even don't mind the look of the world map. But yikes...that battle screen looks like something out of one of those fake mobile game ads.
The Battlescreen needs work indeed, it's really low quality. The map looks very decent, although it would be nice to have a bit more variety when it comes to ground textures. Can't wait to try out Microsofts turn based strategy they are making as well(Ara: History Untold)
@@Xhalph I hope so too, but it seems unlikely. You want to show people your best side when you give them a free demo, so I think they really meant for that to be the final look. Maybe they will re-do it after hearing feedback though.
Nice video! This game looks very promising. Oh, BTW, I looked up the values before "Reap scutage". Linköping had 270% prosperity, the total gold was 542(+20), after reap scutage Linköping decreased to 220% prosperity, the total gold increased to 596(+20). No changes in other values. Thanks for this excellent video of your first impressions of the game.
You know potato, after watching your fellow content creators videos on this game I was kinda checked out. You made a huge impression by taking the time to show off more of the city building and eco stuff that immediately pulled me back in. Good on you for putting in the effort on this
Considering that ages are locked in by whoever "discovers" it first, it seems stupid that requirements aren't shared, if players/civs can't take their own path. I get that for 3 wonders, it makes little sense to have the age of heroes happen, but increase by an extra 2 for each player/civ on the map (I also expect more wonders to spawn in that case) and it becomes more reasonable. Conversely bad ages could have a shared "requirement" as well, which would incentive avoiding wholesale slaughter of another civ, like for the age of blood.
@@PotatoMcWhiskey I think what they were trying to say was that the fact that the person leading tech is the only one who can impact the next age, it makes the Ages feel less like something that is happening the world over, with influence from each civilization impacting it, and more something that everyone who isn't leading in tech is at the whims of.
Humankind forced an obnoxious district hyper-spam this seems to have multiple options of playstyle. Though I share your concern. Humankind touted itself as a civilization rival and it was stunningly mediocre
@@bertdog2119 to add to this: Neither game has something that makes it truly unique, if I showed a casual gamer the current state of Millenia he might as well think this is civilisation VI
@@cooldownboi3890i think the army composition in this game makes it very different than Civ. In civ, each unit takes a hex while this can offer something different
@potatomcwhiskey Unless I am badly misunderstanding what I am seeing on the screen, the "army value" appears to be the combined value of all attack and defense values. I noticed, for example, that a single warband had an army value of 17 and I believe you said it was a 7/10 unit. Also, when the barbarian warlord spawned, you said it was a 22/22 and it had an army value of 44.
Was really looking forward to this game, but I’m not sure why the combat is like an OG Final Fantasy game. It has a lot of potential, but a game backed by Paradox should have more refined mechanics and graphics (IMHO). I will probably still try it out, and I wish the developers the best, but I hope they take the criticism and build on the current product.
Yeah the way they decided to represent combat is, bad. They should mimic Endless legend which I think is the base way to do 4x turn based combat. Or just have it be a roster marching order thing you set up pre battle kind of like EU4 or HOI4, and allow tech and spirits allow how we can influence or introduce new doctrines.
@@austinaragon3110 I don't mind the way the combat works I just wished there was a way to turn off combat animations and just give me a readout of what happened where I don't have to see the animations play out.
I got to try this out today, and it is indeed very promising. It needs polish in several areas, such as diplomacy and general flavour for the different nations, but they seem to be heading in a very good direction with the core gameplay. What makes games like Civ enjoyable to me is all those goals I make along the way: exploring an area, getting a resource, unlocking a bonus, and so on. Often you get a lot of these in the early game, but in the late game, all you get is chores and micromanagement. While I haven't seen Millennia's late game, the mechanics seem promising for mitigating this. I also don't particularly like the art style for the map/terrain, although some of the other stuff is very nice.
The thing is that it doesn't really mean anything if you are the Greek or the Turks, because they are really just names to identify each player in the game, you determine what your civilization looks like based on how you play, you choose starting benefits before you start the game, based on how you want to try playing the early game.
Yeah I agree. Gameplay seems barebones but not bad. Graphics need some work but hopefully that's what they're going to be working on until they launch. Also all paradox games drop really barebones and get better as they do their updates so the game has plenty of potential.
@@TheSickGman09 you justified of course duh. Its not reality, its YOUR perceived reality. For adults such as myself paradox's latest games don't exist. Imagine a world where children didn't knowingly buy incomplete, broken products.
@@TheBelrick yeah I grew up in it lmao. But when consumers demand larger and larger games with better and better graphics and gameplay as more and more game companies have boards and deadlines they have to answer to has lead us to this market. It sucks but it's reality. Would I prefer it was different? Sure. But how am I gonna affect that change lmao? By crying in CZcams comments? No probably not. I hate the MCU movies and haven't seen one since the second avengers movie but is that gonna change anything? No. They're still making them.
@@KarlKapo i think thats what bothers me, no decision making. Even at the very least Endless Space 2 style where all i do is choose tactics, and everything else is simulated. However if i have no impact on combat, i dont care, do the calculations, show me the outcome and stats, let me get back to the game.
This is a published paradox game not a paradox game in itself. The company making it (C Prompt Games), They've made one game in the past (Heretic Operative) and it sits at a 81% positive score, and to their credit it has some similarities to this game they are making. Most of their marketing is centered around being the devs that worked on other games like; Age of mythology, Starcraft II, Warcraft, Diablo etc. Other than that their website is bare bones, there is almost no information to be gleaned from there. This game according the description in another youtubers video (Laith - The Social Streamer) It's supposed to release this year. I am not a game dev, I don't understand version numbers as well as I think I should. Can someone explain the build number in the bottom left to me? (0.0.286). Does this mean the game is only a 1/4 of what they expect to be the completed project? all depends on the price tag is paradox is thinking about dropping this at 39$ or more you and paradox are insane. Forgive me for being skeptical but with the state of the video gaming market why shouldn't we be at first sight?
The version numbers has nothing to do with getting to 1.0.0, first version of the publicly released game. Each number of that is an increment of the amount of the updates they pushed to the base of the game. So we can guess that they have at least had 286 updates. But probably way more. We don't know when they were happy with what "base" would be, and all updates before that moment would not be counted.
Good bones but not sold one the UI's "powerpoint" animation and the general texture of it, very "It's 2001 and we can't decide if we wanna ape Civ or HoMM"... like Disciples really.
agreed, UI is shaky. Although very hard to do for an increasingly complex game. Although although, what New World brought to the world was tooltip on tooltip should work out very well here as well
mechanics wise something i hope they change is that each nation can pick the tech advancements i know that might result in some asymmetric gameplay but as long as its balances well nothing wrong with that
I was interested in this game when they first announced it, but after seeing the gameplay I'm kind of disappointed that the ages aren't nation specific, so for instance you have several nations going into the Age of Blood, while you go into the Age of Heroes or something. Still looks fun and I may have to try the demo.
I am too... people seem to bash the graphics but I like them and it doesn't bother me. the game seems flesh out ( we'll have to find if its the same in the future eras since no video goes beyond iron age ) and just need some polishing but I'd argue that I'll play this game to the same degree than Civ 6. I'm hyped for this game and I hope that special future era won't be locked behind dlc's and etc since I've played HOI4 and have all the dlc and don't want to spend 200$+ for DLC's... I can definitly foresee Dlcs for future and ancient era culture and domains appearing and that would be a shame...
Got hooked into civ 6 because of you. This game looks like an upgrade from that in some ways. Hope you make another video on this it looks like loads of fun!
Went Raider on my second play of the Demo. It is a really fun angle, fighting to get Raiders to fight to get more, better Raiders is such a fun loop. And the game will give you Archer raiders later, or scarier Raiders if you lean into the strat.
Ahh, TI... IMHO, Perun is the one TI connoisseur to watch; I liked this first video that I watched, very detailed and understandable. But Perun is a military logistics/procurement specialist irl which makes his take on TI of great interest :)
@BoraHorzaGobuchul I like Perun also but 1. I feel his playthroughs are a little slower which is also fine but I like Potatoes/his editors editing style where you see everything but also things are progressing. Also Perun tends to go on decent sized breaks either in between playthroughs are during one which probably isn't his fault idk but that can ruin the momentum and made me stop watching for the most part
@@TheH3LLP3R that is so. Potato is a torrent of activity (Perun, too, but in a more analytical fashion). His wit is priceless though, and having watched his analytical PowerPoints, I am quite used to the drawn-out style)
@BoraHorzaGobuchul I more so like kinda blitzing through the early game. Like I haven't played TI in a couple months but I could still easily get through the early game of getting the countries you want and the companies you want to build up your agents. And all the grind of setting your agents to the same actions 5 turns in a row. Potato is faster at that. Which is nothing against perun it just gets to the good stuff faster
Thank you so much for this. After watching this video I went and played the demo. This game is fun. I appreciate you sharing this game play preview. Thanks and cheers.
Watching that felt like a non-stop whirlwind of not having a clue of what was going on or what anything actually did. lol I'm intrigued by the game, but worried that it'll drown me in analysis paralysis. I wish the demo period was longer than a week so I actually got a chance to try it out.
This game has a lot of good ideas, the towns one is brilliant. So is the fact you can't traverse forest with armies early on, only scouts. Love the natural barbarian city settlements too.
i saw multiple videos about this game and thought it looked kinda bad. Then i played it and it's really fun!! I'm totally adapted to the UI and can read it just fine. 60 turns was so short for the demo i need more!
@TorIverWilhelmsen out of the currently serviced games, I only see that with HOI4. EU4 DLC has all been excellent for the last several years. I can't speak for CK3, but I hear good things. Vicky was borked from the start, sadly. Hard to fix poor design choices.
I was really hooked on this video, I lost my sense of time and wouldn't have been able to tell if I've watched this for half an hour or 3 hours. That's pretty rare for a game I've never seen before. I'm definitely ready for more of this, really hope to see you play more, especially once the game is ready to show the later stages.
I'm going to try this in the free trial but what new things does it bring to the table? I can't currently see anything that makes it stand out above the other historical 4x games already out there.
I downloaded the demo and was just going to try out a bit of it but ended up playing the whole 60 turns. It's really good. Looks like a by-the-numbers Civ VI clone at first glance, but under the hood, it's a completely different game.
the game looks super fun and as a person whos getting bored of civ 6 is a game i would love to try but i do have one question and that is does the game have background music?
my only real issue is that they dont have a proper alpha you can buy yet. I have tried it out now playing a few games but that 60 turn limit bs pisses me off a lot. Also you I dont know where to leave feedback. Putting it here in case they see it. Battle: Honestly the graphics are not that big a deal though they could use few upgrades. Otherwise I think they need to increase the clarity on what each troop does. Main map: Looks great, could use a bit more resource diversity but not bad. Main thing is units need to move a LOT faster on the map because of how short the era's are. Building: Building buildings and whatnot needs to happen a bit faster given how short the Era's last. building units, buildings and war stuff happens WAY too slowly. Improvements: This stuff accumelates WAY too slowly and it NEEDS a tooltip i cant find how much i have ANYWHERE. Research/era's: I love how you only need so many techs to get between each era but how fast you research each tech needs ot be lowered plus they should let you go back and get older techs in later eras (at least up to the previous era or even the one before that.)This is to let you access certain resources that are only revealed through certain techs. or if you dont pick up mining and move to the next era or whatnot. Culture: I love the idea behind how culture works here but I think this bar should be moved into some kind of secondary progress bar maybe for Free enterprise or something? Like your people doing something to imrpove their lots in life without their rulers input kinda like the innovation thing but less tech focused and more economically focused. Then Culture should be turned into something like how Civ 6 has it where you can put things like religion or other such techs that don't really belong in the knowledge era advancement thing and make it so you need a culture tech or two on top of the 3 knowledge techs to be able to advance an era. Could balence out the pacing a bit even. Pacing: Currently the pacing is VERY poor. It needs some major improvement in the area of how fast you build up towns and troops move vs the era speed. Plus barbs are way too quick to spawn early game. Starting: The whole already created city thing is a MAJOR issue for me and I have had to restart games because of garbo city placement. They need to make it so you start with a settler like civ does and also increase how often you spawn near oceans. Realism: VERY good in some areas VERY poor in others. The value of water especially fresh water is WAY too low and it is way too uncommon on the map. They need to add rivers and lakes into the game properly if they truly want to compete vs civ. However I love how buildings and resources can chain together like they do like grains->flour->bread with improvements. that is a MAJOR plus to me. Just one more turn: This game ALREADY has the just one more turn quality that 4x games need to truly succeeded. I love this game already though it needs a LOT more polish before its truly ready to compete with civ 6 though with that polish its likely to outshine civ6 for me.
Have Paradox Interactive been playing Mousechief's "Seven Grand Steps"? it seems to be so, especially since there too are crisis events in that game, too.
Hi there Potato! I have a request... Can you try out a few of the older CIV Games, like a count down to Civ7 where you go and try to play the older games in increasing more difficult settings! Love
Most people who I've seen play have said they didn't like the graphics, but... I kinda like them? Am I the only one? My worst UI/graphics gripe is that it's hard to see armies and units in them
@@PotatoMcWhiskeyI wasn’t interested until watching this vid, now I’m actually excited. Seems like it has a lot of interesting systems to play around with.
There’s potential here for an indie hit at a lower price point. The alternative history ages is a cool idea with a lot of DLC and modding potential. That said, I’m ready to see a Civ 7 with modern graphics and a unique take on the historical 4X genre.
There are 2 things I miss in CIV6: 1. You go through the ages so rapidly that you barely get to enjoy the warfare differences each age has to offer. 2. Units lacking depth. No army compositions etc. This game seems to progress quite fast too, too fast for my liking, but at least you get to enjoy way more warfare and army compositions. Also the depth of building towns outposts and expanding seem more realistic. Worth a try.
I wish the UI and stuff looked better. One thing I love about CIV6 is how their UI is so minimalistic and have no information clumps. And they simply look good! Millennials' UI on the other hands... looks quite off somehow.
@@miketucker9801 lol I know right, there has literally been 1 game released since civ 5. That is 1 data point from which you derive the franchise is going downhill
Try out the game, I think it has some really interesting ideas: millennia.paradoxinteractive.com/PotatoMcWhiskey
I agree and the mechanics feel very intuitive, takes some time getting used to with my brain being wired to handle Civ5/6 lol.
But I like many of the idea's they have.
Although I do hope they will change the map UI to show what thing cities are building/recruiting on the main map and how many turns it will take.
I like a lot of the mechanics this game seems to have. I even don't mind the look of the world map. But yikes...that battle screen looks like something out of one of those fake mobile game ads.
It honestly look like Combat from the old Civilization: Call to Power game. I am not surprised if mobile games have copied it.
The Battlescreen needs work indeed, it's really low quality.
The map looks very decent, although it would be nice to have a bit more variety when it comes to ground textures.
Can't wait to try out Microsofts turn based strategy they are making as well(Ara: History Untold)
I hope the battle screen is just a placeholder.
@@Xhalph I hope so too, but it seems unlikely. You want to show people your best side when you give them a free demo, so I think they really meant for that to be the final look. Maybe they will re-do it after hearing feedback though.
Yeah, that was my biggest complaint in the demo.
I'm impressed by your pronounciation of Linköping. You got it absolute perfect!
Nice video! This game looks very promising. Oh, BTW, I looked up the values before "Reap scutage". Linköping had 270% prosperity, the total gold was 542(+20), after reap scutage Linköping decreased to 220% prosperity, the total gold increased to 596(+20). No changes in other values. Thanks for this excellent video of your first impressions of the game.
You know potato, after watching your fellow content creators videos on this game I was kinda checked out. You made a huge impression by taking the time to show off more of the city building and eco stuff that immediately pulled me back in. Good on you for putting in the effort on this
Shouldn’t be that hard to sell someone on watching a games potential. This thing looks 15 years old
Considering that ages are locked in by whoever "discovers" it first, it seems stupid that requirements aren't shared, if players/civs can't take their own path. I get that for 3 wonders, it makes little sense to have the age of heroes happen, but increase by an extra 2 for each player/civ on the map (I also expect more wonders to spawn in that case) and it becomes more reasonable. Conversely bad ages could have a shared "requirement" as well, which would incentive avoiding wholesale slaughter of another civ, like for the age of blood.
The different ages change how everyone plays
@@PotatoMcWhiskey I think what they were trying to say was that the fact that the person leading tech is the only one who can impact the next age, it makes the Ages feel less like something that is happening the world over, with influence from each civilization impacting it, and more something that everyone who isn't leading in tech is at the whims of.
The leading player getting to basically dictate the next age also makes snowballing easier i think.
@@Aiqeamqo or the ages have much less impact on the game then people are thinking 🤔
@@drakhoon sure, thats a possibility as well
Yooo new game! Excited to see how this plays out.
im a bit afraid that this game might end up being another humankind
Humankind forced an obnoxious district hyper-spam this seems to have multiple options of playstyle. Though I share your concern. Humankind touted itself as a civilization rival and it was stunningly mediocre
@@bertdog2119 to add to this: Neither game has something that makes it truly unique, if I showed a casual gamer the current state of Millenia he might as well think this is civilisation VI
@@cooldownboi3890i think the army composition in this game makes it very different than Civ. In civ, each unit takes a hex while this can offer something different
@@cooldownboi3890 As a casual gamer it's actually exactly what I thought. 😅 Well, I knew it's not, so it was "Meh, just another Civ VI".
Nothing wrong with Civ being a genre as well as a game but those entering the genre need to try something different.
I love the multiple ways to improve the cities and the different upgrade xps
Your enthusiasm is what makes the videos fun to watch, keep fighting the good fight.
I would love to see another video on this game! Love these showcases of up and coming 4x games.
@potatomcwhiskey Unless I am badly misunderstanding what I am seeing on the screen, the "army value" appears to be the combined value of all attack and defense values. I noticed, for example, that a single warband had an army value of 17 and I believe you said it was a 7/10 unit. Also, when the barbarian warlord spawned, you said it was a 22/22 and it had an army value of 44.
am i the only one that thinks this game looks like it was a browser game way back when??
Looks really cool, would like to see more videos of this one.
Thanks for showing us a different strategy for this game. So far I've seen mostly raiders spam, but this is fun too. Can't wait to play this game
The biggest probelm with these civ killers is that they feel more like total conversion mods of civ 5 and 6 than legitimate rivals.
Old is awesome and feels completely unique.
Was really looking forward to this game, but I’m not sure why the combat is like an OG Final Fantasy game.
It has a lot of potential, but a game backed by Paradox should have more refined mechanics and graphics (IMHO). I will probably still try it out, and I wish the developers the best, but I hope they take the criticism and build on the current product.
Yeah the way they decided to represent combat is, bad. They should mimic Endless legend which I think is the base way to do 4x turn based combat. Or just have it be a roster marching order thing you set up pre battle kind of like EU4 or HOI4, and allow tech and spirits allow how we can influence or introduce new doctrines.
@@austinaragon3110 I don't mind the way the combat works I just wished there was a way to turn off combat animations and just give me a readout of what happened where I don't have to see the animations play out.
tried the demo today an I can say for certain that I'm hooked 😊
will definitely be grabbing this one
I got to try this out today, and it is indeed very promising. It needs polish in several areas, such as diplomacy and general flavour for the different nations, but they seem to be heading in a very good direction with the core gameplay. What makes games like Civ enjoyable to me is all those goals I make along the way: exploring an area, getting a resource, unlocking a bonus, and so on. Often you get a lot of these in the early game, but in the late game, all you get is chores and micromanagement. While I haven't seen Millennia's late game, the mechanics seem promising for mitigating this.
I also don't particularly like the art style for the map/terrain, although some of the other stuff is very nice.
The thing is that it doesn't really mean anything if you are the Greek or the Turks, because they are really just names to identify each player in the game, you determine what your civilization looks like based on how you play, you choose starting benefits before you start the game, based on how you want to try playing the early game.
i'd like to see more on the economy and city building mechanics if another video on this is in the books
I feel like this needs a lot of polish but the ideas behind it are pretty cool.
Yeah I agree. Gameplay seems barebones but not bad. Graphics need some work but hopefully that's what they're going to be working on until they launch. Also all paradox games drop really barebones and get better as they do their updates so the game has plenty of potential.
@@TheSickGman09 please dont justify or excuse paradox's anti consumer habit of selling broken products
@@TheBelrick did I justify it? Or just recognize the reality?
@@TheSickGman09 you justified of course duh.
Its not reality, its YOUR perceived reality.
For adults such as myself paradox's latest games don't exist.
Imagine a world where children didn't knowingly buy incomplete, broken products.
@@TheBelrick yeah I grew up in it lmao. But when consumers demand larger and larger games with better and better graphics and gameplay as more and more game companies have boards and deadlines they have to answer to has lead us to this market. It sucks but it's reality. Would I prefer it was different? Sure. But how am I gonna affect that change lmao? By crying in CZcams comments? No probably not. I hate the MCU movies and haven't seen one since the second avengers movie but is that gonna change anything? No. They're still making them.
I like a lot in this game, but that whole viewing battle thing just throws me off so much is there a way to disable it? does any one know?
lmao yeah the jrpg style taking turns is very awkward
Yeah, agree. It's HoMM style but without decision making
@@KarlKapo i think thats what bothers me, no decision making. Even at the very least Endless Space 2 style where all i do is choose tactics, and everything else is simulated. However if i have no impact on combat, i dont care, do the calculations, show me the outcome and stats, let me get back to the game.
9:30 Watching the city millita run out of the gate, stab the warriors and then run back into the city felt pretty stupid to me.
@@drakhoon agree. It's just useless animation and not that good either.
I'm likely to miss a stream of this, but I would love to see more of your explorations of this game! Maybe you'll have more of it on the channel? 😄
Looks very interesting. Would love to see more.
I always enjoy watching you play 4x games. This one is very promising!
Demo was super fun, a lot deeper than it initially appeared. Really hope to see more.
This is a published paradox game not a paradox game in itself. The company making it (C Prompt Games), They've made one game in the past (Heretic Operative) and it sits at a 81% positive score, and to their credit it has some similarities to this game they are making. Most of their marketing is centered around being the devs that worked on other games like; Age of mythology, Starcraft II, Warcraft, Diablo etc. Other than that their website is bare bones, there is almost no information to be gleaned from there.
This game according the description in another youtubers video (Laith - The Social Streamer) It's supposed to release this year. I am not a game dev, I don't understand version numbers as well as I think I should. Can someone explain the build number in the bottom left to me? (0.0.286). Does this mean the game is only a 1/4 of what they expect to be the completed project?
all depends on the price tag is paradox is thinking about dropping this at 39$ or more you and paradox are insane. Forgive me for being skeptical but with the state of the video gaming market why shouldn't we be at first sight?
The version numbers has nothing to do with getting to 1.0.0, first version of the publicly released game. Each number of that is an increment of the amount of the updates they pushed to the base of the game. So we can guess that they have at least had 286 updates. But probably way more. We don't know when they were happy with what "base" would be, and all updates before that moment would not be counted.
Good bones but not sold one the UI's "powerpoint" animation and the general texture of it, very "It's 2001 and we can't decide if we wanna ape Civ or HoMM"... like Disciples really.
agreed, UI is shaky. Although very hard to do for an increasingly complex game. Although although, what New World brought to the world was tooltip on tooltip should work out very well here as well
I buy everything you review. You got me again potato.. you got me again.
Available to play free Feb 5-12.
I liked it. Do more please. Looks like it opens for us in 2 days, 2/5/24. Thanks.
I'm late here and missed the free play period, but there is a 60 turns demo on steam now and I tried it last night. I was really impressed!
mechanics wise something i hope they change is that each nation can pick the tech advancements i know that might result in some asymmetric gameplay but as long as its balances well nothing wrong with that
Thanks for the intro to this game!
I was interested in this game when they first announced it, but after seeing the gameplay I'm kind of disappointed that the ages aren't nation specific, so for instance you have several nations going into the Age of Blood, while you go into the Age of Heroes or something. Still looks fun and I may have to try the demo.
Really looking forward to this game
I am too... people seem to bash the graphics but I like them and it doesn't bother me. the game seems flesh out ( we'll have to find if its the same in the future eras since no video goes beyond iron age ) and just need some polishing but I'd argue that I'll play this game to the same degree than Civ 6. I'm hyped for this game and I hope that special future era won't be locked behind dlc's and etc since I've played HOI4 and have all the dlc and don't want to spend 200$+ for DLC's... I can definitly foresee Dlcs for future and ancient era culture and domains appearing and that would be a shame...
Got hooked into civ 6 because of you. This game looks like an upgrade from that in some ways. Hope you make another video on this it looks like loads of fun!
I played the raider civic thing and it was like Civ6 Basil level of broken, so much fun.
Went Raider on my second play of the Demo. It is a really fun angle, fighting to get Raiders to fight to get more, better Raiders is such a fun loop. And the game will give you Archer raiders later, or scarier Raiders if you lean into the strat.
Not to comment about another game on part 1 of this but im really curious.
Do you ever plan on revisiting Terra Invicta for a playthrough?
Terra Invicta is about to get some major overhauls, going into the 0.4 cycle (it's still Early Access, remember) so should be a lot of fun
Ahh, TI... IMHO, Perun is the one TI connoisseur to watch; I liked this first video that I watched, very detailed and understandable. But Perun is a military logistics/procurement specialist irl which makes his take on TI of great interest :)
@BoraHorzaGobuchul I like Perun also but 1. I feel his playthroughs are a little slower which is also fine but I like Potatoes/his editors editing style where you see everything but also things are progressing. Also Perun tends to go on decent sized breaks either in between playthroughs are during one which probably isn't his fault idk but that can ruin the momentum and made me stop watching for the most part
@@TheH3LLP3R that is so. Potato is a torrent of activity (Perun, too, but in a more analytical fashion). His wit is priceless though, and having watched his analytical PowerPoints, I am quite used to the drawn-out style)
@BoraHorzaGobuchul I more so like kinda blitzing through the early game. Like I haven't played TI in a couple months but I could still easily get through the early game of getting the countries you want and the companies you want to build up your agents. And all the grind of setting your agents to the same actions 5 turns in a row. Potato is faster at that. Which is nothing against perun it just gets to the good stuff faster
Looks great honestly. Excited to see more and how it all develops into later ages.
Thank you so much for this. After watching this video I went and played the demo. This game is fun. I appreciate you sharing this game play preview. Thanks and cheers.
I really enjoyed this demo. Looking forward to the release.
The game seems quite interesting. Would love to see another Video on it, with a different start.
After playing the demo I gotta say this game is very fun. A bit complex with all the different UIs but I can see myself buying it when it comes out.
Watching that felt like a non-stop whirlwind of not having a clue of what was going on or what anything actually did. lol
I'm intrigued by the game, but worried that it'll drown me in analysis paralysis. I wish the demo period was longer than a week so I actually got a chance to try it out.
the full game is going to be SO FUN ... am already multiple playthroughs with the Demo
Not on next fest yet. Looks like Feb 5.... but, im starting to worry. I really hope this is amazing
Hoping for more of this
This game has a lot of good ideas, the towns one is brilliant. So is the fact you can't traverse forest with armies early on, only scouts. Love the natural barbarian city settlements too.
Super excited for this game
i saw multiple videos about this game and thought it looked kinda bad. Then i played it and it's really fun!! I'm totally adapted to the UI and can read it just fine. 60 turns was so short for the demo i need more!
potato, art style is a MASSIVE deal, considering we are supposed to stare at this game for 1000 hours
Ooh, a Paradox game!! Looking forward to a shit tonne of DLC.
... that is expensive and invariably breaks previous features of the game.
Excited to spend more money?
Its only published by Paradox so probably not that much DLC.
@TorIverWilhelmsen out of the currently serviced games, I only see that with HOI4. EU4 DLC has all been excellent for the last several years. I can't speak for CK3, but I hear good things. Vicky was borked from the start, sadly. Hard to fix poor design choices.
I was really hooked on this video, I lost my sense of time and wouldn't have been able to tell if I've watched this for half an hour or 3 hours.
That's pretty rare for a game I've never seen before. I'm definitely ready for more of this, really hope to see you play more, especially once the game is ready to show the later stages.
Really Nice, i feel it has more potential than humankind
Agree similar to humankind and civilisation but seems very interesting - can’t wait to have a go
I can't believe its another PDX game with mana!
just finished work clicking the steam page on refresh
I would recommend a video on Civ 6 next but you already covered it at 1:28.
Dang I want to play!
Number next to units is attack+defense combined I think
I'm going to try this in the free trial but what new things does it bring to the table? I can't currently see anything that makes it stand out above the other historical 4x games already out there.
Right looks just like Civ 5 but with slightly worse graphics.
The improvement points and battle screen kind of remind me of Call to Power, that Civ knockoff from ages ago.
It's a little wild to me that you can get to the Bronze Age without knowing how to mine...
I downloaded the demo and was just going to try out a bit of it but ended up playing the whole 60 turns. It's really good. Looks like a by-the-numbers Civ VI clone at first glance, but under the hood, it's a completely different game.
Look like a Civ Dev looked at Humankind and said, “Oh, that’s cute, hold my beer.”
the game looks super fun and as a person whos getting bored of civ 6 is a game i would love to try but i do have one question and that is does the game have background music?
the only thing that this game has to it in my eyes is the intresting production chains
Nice play-through.
Map is Civ III like, war animation thing is weird, but I'm installing the demo now. lol
I think you couldn’t build units because you had them turned off in the filter at the top of the city screen.
Most other CZcamsrs I can listen to on 1.25-1.5x… Potato I have to put on 0.75x lol
If this video does well there'll be more?
Well, here's me typing another comment because it definitely did very well for me!
Can’t wait, take my money.
my only real issue is that they dont have a proper alpha you can buy yet. I have tried it out now playing a few games but that 60 turn limit bs pisses me off a lot. Also you I dont know where to leave feedback. Putting it here in case they see it.
Battle: Honestly the graphics are not that big a deal though they could use few upgrades. Otherwise I think they need to increase the clarity on what each troop does.
Main map: Looks great, could use a bit more resource diversity but not bad. Main thing is units need to move a LOT faster on the map because of how short the era's are.
Building: Building buildings and whatnot needs to happen a bit faster given how short the Era's last. building units, buildings and war stuff happens WAY too slowly.
Improvements: This stuff accumelates WAY too slowly and it NEEDS a tooltip i cant find how much i have ANYWHERE.
Research/era's: I love how you only need so many techs to get between each era but how fast you research each tech needs ot be lowered plus they should let you go back and get older techs in later eras (at least up to the previous era or even the one before that.)This is to let you access certain resources that are only revealed through certain techs. or if you dont pick up mining and move to the next era or whatnot.
Culture: I love the idea behind how culture works here but I think this bar should be moved into some kind of secondary progress bar maybe for Free enterprise or something? Like your people doing something to imrpove their lots in life without their rulers input kinda like the innovation thing but less tech focused and more economically focused. Then Culture should be turned into something like how Civ 6 has it where you can put things like religion or other such techs that don't really belong in the knowledge era advancement thing and make it so you need a culture tech or two on top of the 3 knowledge techs to be able to advance an era. Could balence out the pacing a bit even.
Pacing: Currently the pacing is VERY poor. It needs some major improvement in the area of how fast you build up towns and troops move vs the era speed. Plus barbs are way too quick to spawn early game.
Starting: The whole already created city thing is a MAJOR issue for me and I have had to restart games because of garbo city placement. They need to make it so you start with a settler like civ does and also increase how often you spawn near oceans.
Realism: VERY good in some areas VERY poor in others. The value of water especially fresh water is WAY too low and it is way too uncommon on the map. They need to add rivers and lakes into the game properly if they truly want to compete vs civ. However I love how buildings and resources can chain together like they do like grains->flour->bread with improvements. that is a MAJOR plus to me.
Just one more turn: This game ALREADY has the just one more turn quality that 4x games need to truly succeeded. I love this game already though it needs a LOT more polish before its truly ready to compete with civ 6 though with that polish its likely to outshine civ6 for me.
Have Paradox Interactive been playing Mousechief's "Seven Grand Steps"? it seems to be so, especially since there too are crisis events in that game, too.
the deep government and improvement system reminds me of Call to Power 2. This is very interesting
Hi there Potato! I have a request... Can you try out a few of the older CIV Games, like a count down to Civ7 where you go and try to play the older games in increasing more difficult settings! Love
Had to lower the playback speed. I don't recall you talking so fast in the past. All good now.
This game looks like alot of fun!
Most people who I've seen play have said they didn't like the graphics, but... I kinda like them? Am I the only one? My worst UI/graphics gripe is that it's hard to see armies and units in them
This game looks amazing.
You are MVP, literally savjng my impression of this game since other players arent good at it and the alpha footage is ass. Thanks Potato
Always come to me for these kinds of games, I put dozens of hours in before launch.
@@PotatoMcWhiskeyI wasn’t interested until watching this vid, now I’m actually excited. Seems like it has a lot of interesting systems to play around with.
This presentation reminds me a lot of that Masters of Magic… Remake? That came out about a year ago.
Edit:
Except with better graphics
I like the suggestion that your starting area will affect your direction noticeably. I feel that is something Humankind could have benefited from.
wow.... the battle screen...........
There’s potential here for an indie hit at a lower price point. The alternative history ages is a cool idea with a lot of DLC and modding potential.
That said, I’m ready to see a Civ 7 with modern graphics and a unique take on the historical 4X genre.
“Where’s my Celts? I’ll be Rome!”
There are 2 things I miss in CIV6:
1. You go through the ages so rapidly that you barely get to enjoy the warfare differences each age has to offer.
2. Units lacking depth. No army compositions etc.
This game seems to progress quite fast too, too fast for my liking, but at least you get to enjoy way more warfare and army compositions. Also the depth of building towns outposts and expanding seem more realistic. Worth a try.
The combat just looks like Master of magic
I wish the UI and stuff looked better. One thing I love about CIV6 is how their UI is so minimalistic and have no information clumps. And they simply look good! Millennials' UI on the other hands... looks quite off somehow.
"And we actually don't have to attack them" He says as he's playing Rome.
did the roads between your first city and the barb city build automatically due to proximity or because you kept walking that path with your troops?
I think it's due to proximity.
I am still sad to this day that Endless Legend never quite took off
Looks very nice and promising, looks like a game i wanted Humankind to be :) . Will check it out definitely.
Babe wake up new civ inspired 4x game dropped
Hi potato✌🏻 what you think about Ara history untold🤔
Singidunum. Ancient name of my home city of Belgrade. Serbia. I love Civilization and alike games.
civ 4 stax are back baybeee
Bro is saying that about every new 4x game lul
To be fair this is a paradox game, but civ is still king lol
@@DonDensho bruh, Civ has been going downhill since 5.
@@foreng3095 So you just didn't like the most recent one?
@@miketucker9801And 5 is also bad without mods. 6 hasn't even got enough mods to be improved/has bad mod support. It's so bad.
@@miketucker9801 lol I know right, there has literally been 1 game released since civ 5. That is 1 data point from which you derive the franchise is going downhill