Sid Meier's Civilization VII is Steam Deck Verified with the Linux version ahead of release on February 11
Sid Meier's Civilization VII is Steam Deck Verified with the Linux version ahead of release on February 11
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.
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)
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?
Steam deck verified, with Denuvo for extra flavour. Mmm...
I'm not buying it. Civ 6 had play by cloud, and this crashes on Mac every time you end your turn.
Despite acknowlidging the bug, years and years later it's still broken.
I mean, if your trying to play games in your Mac you're going to have a bad time. Not to mention they mostly shipped em all with 8gb of ram so you're forced to upgrade in 2 years.
I game on a PC exclusively because all games are optimized for the PC and everything else is an afterthought.
It makes sense tho.
Mac lacks 3rd party video card hardware support so why would developers try and develop for a system that the company doesn't care about gaming.
CIvs have had lots of Mac players, enough so that they keep releasing it on the platform.
In this case, the bug ruined cloud games for our friendgroup that rarely has time for an active session. I'm a PC gamer, but two of us are not.
If they release an advertize a feature, it should function for everyone who purchased the game.
Their lack of commubication and ultimately not fixing it (at first, they said within 6 months - now it's been nearly 8 years) is the reason me and our group votes with our wallets for what it's worth.
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....
I'll still be playing 4 for the foreseeable future.
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.
Sweet! Now just one more thing... no Denuvo plz and it is a Day 1 (not the pre-launch whatever) buy for me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I played on switch and it was fine.
Does it not have a touchscreen?
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.
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
Rts are actually pretty fun on the deck believe it or not.
just like the previous versions
nice
Any confirmation of linux/windows crossplay?
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...
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.
God I hope it doesn't suck as bad as 6
I prefer Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord these days