The second of the 2 massive March updates Civilization 7 developer Firaxis revealed could be coming final month has dropped in the present day, March 25. It provides some new options and continues the trouble to fix and change elements of the game of us did not like, such because the UI.
As you would possibly anticipate, the studio’s put out a developer video going via the modifications alongside the proper patch notes, and it is a good watch, although there’s one bit that followers have picked up on for a fairly awkward motive given the entire UI gripes context. Principally, it options some little textual content spacing errors, which are not finish of the world, however are technically UI issues Firaxis hasn’t executed that properly.
Yep, in the direction of the top of Civ 7 artistic director Ed Seaside giving us all of the lowdown on this new replace, there is a textual content field about some modifications to the Railroad Tycoon legacy path, and as gamers on the Civ subreddit noticed, it options a number of situations of phrases not being spaced out as they need to. There are two bits that learn ‘increasedfrom’ and likewise a ‘givesa’. Nothing too dangerous, however yeah, not excellent given the sport’s scenario.
This bulleted checklist being centrally aligned can also be drawing some criticism from civvers, whose confidence in Firaxis’ skill to rectify the in-game UI points that’ve been part of the sport’s combined reception to date hasn’t precisely been boosted by this. “Within the grand scheme of issues, this graphic needs to be a really minor factor,” one wrote, “however it speaks to the better level of Firaxis not figuring out actually something about design.”
That apart, on the subject of what Replace 1.1.1 contains, the previously announced stuff like extra UI enhancements and refinements, Mount Everest, enhancements to how the AI scouts and settles, and the power to provide your cities and commanders customized names like ‘Minecraftmovieland’ and ‘Jack Black dressed as Steve’ are all there. There’s additionally the Fast Transfer setting, which helps you to disable unit motion animations to hurry up gameplay, and a restart button you’ll be able to press from the pause menu if you wish to begin over “throughout the first few turns of a brand new recreation”.
As for what the way forward for the sport seems to be like update-wise from right here, Firaxis added that it is “nonetheless onerous at work on Replace 1.2.0, presently deliberate to deploy in April (topic to vary)”, and stated that “you’ll be able to anticipate lots extra main updates within the months to return”.
When you’re nonetheless on the fence about attempting Civ 7, make certain to take a look at our review of it, which dissects all of the stuff it does in another way to its predecessors.