£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.
Sid Meier's Civilization VII is Steam Deck Verified with the Linux version ahead of release on February 11
Submitted 6 days ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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Narauko@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The real question is if there was enough backlash to the spyware crap with Civ 6 that they learned their lesson or not.
Commiunism@beehaw.org 5 days ago
This would be nice to hear if Linux versions on Civ games weren’t always complete garbage
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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 terms, 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.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
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.
Link@rentadrunk.org 4 days ago
Do we know who is making the Linux port? Is it Aspyr again?
kerrigan778@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Will it have AI worth playing with, no spyware, and stability though?
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’ll be chock full of kernel level anticheat, crash every 20 minutes, and have the best AI LLMs can produce.
kerrigan778@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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)
Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 5 days ago
God I hope it doesn’t suck as bad as 6
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Steam deck verified, with Denuvo for extra flavour. Mmm…
Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
How are you supposed to play Civ without a mouse and a keyboard?
orgrinrt@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
Gremour@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
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
MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I played on switch and it was fine.
leftytighty@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
just like the previous versions
Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Does it not have a touchscreen?
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Rts are actually pretty fun on the deck believe it or not.
v_krishna@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Any confirmation of linux/windows crossplay?
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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…
v_krishna@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
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.
red@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
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.
jaschen@lemm.ee 4 days ago
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.
red@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
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.
skozzii@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
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.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 5 days ago
nice
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 5 days ago
I prefer Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord these days
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Sweet! Now just one more thing… no Denuvo plz and it is a Day 1 (not the pre-launch whatever) buy for me.
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Steam page says Denuvo :(
Also $70 for the base game, ouch.
normonator@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Well scratch that one of the list of interesing releases. Fuck Denuvo.
UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
$90 here in maple syrup land + denuvo = yikes
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Does Denuvo work on Linux?
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 5 days ago
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.
UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 5 days ago
Was wondering the same