December Game Update Now Available for Civilization VI
Included in this update is the new City-State picker, which lets you choose which City-States you would like to include in your next game and the Searchable Unit List, which will help you search and filter functions in the World Tracker panel to quickly find any unit on the map. Read on for the full list of what’s in today’s free game update.
[NEW FEATURES]
City-State Picker
In Advanced Setup, players can now bring up a new menu to choose which City-States they would like to include in their next game. Selected City-States are not guaranteed to be in the next game, rather, they are part of the pool of City-States that will then be randomly selected and placed. Ones that are not selected will never appear in a game.
Searchable Unit List
Leave no scout, archer, or Giant Death Robot behind. Players can use search and filtering functions in the World Tracker panel to quickly find any unit on the map.
[GAME UPDATES]
Items in the list below apply to the Gathering Storm, Rise and Fall, Pirates, and Byzantium and Gaul Pack ruleset only
[BALANCE/POLISH]
General
- [Gathering Storm] Religious Community: International Trade Routes receive +2 Gold to cities with Holy Sites and an additional +2 Gold for every building in the Holy Site.
- Fixed an issue where Wonder build requirements were being fulfilled by districts owned by other players.
- Drop melee units’ combat bonus against anti-cavalry to 5.
- Reduced Combat Strength bonus from +10 to +5 for Thrust anti-cavalry Promotion.
- [Gathering Storm] Fixed an issue with John Curtin’s leader ability, Citadel of Civilization, lasting for 20 turns when it should last for 10 turns.
Great People
- Einstein applies to Research Labs since Newton already applies to Universities.
- Alfred Nobel’s ability applies 100 Great Person Points.
- Increase Da Vinci’s Culture bonus for Workshops to +3 (instead of +1).
[Gathering Storm] Amenities
o Restoring penalties from Negative Amenities back to their previous thresholds:
Revolt will occur at -7
Unrest will occur at -6 to -5
Unhappy will be -4 to -3
Displeased will be -2 to -1
Content will be 0 to 2
o Increased Happy to +10% and Ecstatic to 20%.
[Gathering Storm] Policies
- Raj: +2 Gold for Trade Routes to City States (in addition to its previous effect).
- Public Transportation: Neighborhoods with Charming appeal receive +3 Food and +1 Production. Breathtaking appeal receives additional +1 Food and +1 Production. All Neighborhoods receive +1 Gold.
- Democracy: The bonus to trade routes now applies to city-states the user is Suzerain of (previously only allied civilizations)
- This was on the previous build notes when we made the checklist, but it is no longer on the list. We have confirmed this update.
- Wisselbanken, and similarly the legacy (and normal) effect of Democracy, apply to allies and Suzerained City-States.
- Frescoes: +2 Great Artist points. +2 additional Great Artist Points for every Art Museum.
- Laissez-Faire: +2 Great Merchant Points for every Bank and +4 Great Merchant Points for every Stock Exchange. +2 Great Admiral Points for every Shipyard and +4 Great Admiral Points for every Seaport.
- Science Foundation: +2 Great Scientist Points for every University and +4 Great Scientist Points for every Research Lab. +2 Great Engineer Points for every Factory and +4 Great Engineer Points for every Power Plant.
- Military Organization: +2 Great General Points for every Armory and +4 Great General Points for every Military Academy. Great Generals receive +2 Movement.
- Symphonies: +4 Great Musician Points. +4 additional Great Musician Points for every Broadcast Center.
- Invention: +4 Great Engineer Points. +2 Great Engineer Points for every Workshop.
- Rationalism: Now requires a population of 15 and an adjacency bonus of 4.
- Simultaneum: Now requires a population of 15 and an adjacency bonus of 4.
- Grand Opera: Now requires a population of 15 and an adjacency bonus of 4.
- Free Market: Now requires a population of 15 (already had adjacency requirement of 4).
- Urban Planning: Becomes obsolete with Rationalism (Enlightenment Civic).
[Gathering Storm] Technology and Civics
- Reduced Boost requirements:
Advanced Ballistics: Build 1 Oil Power Plant (down from 2)
Advanced Flight: Build 2 Biplanes (down from 3)
Capitalism: Build 2 Stock Exchanges (down from 3)
Electricity: Build 2 Privateers (down from 3)
Globalization: Build 2 Airports (down from 3)
Industrialization: Build 2 Workshops (down from 3)
Professional Sports: Build 2 Entertainment Complexes (down from 4)
Refining: Build 1 Coal Power Plant (down from 2)
- Adjusted Information Era Boosts:
Lasers: Build 2 Drones
Nuclear Fusion: Build a Nuclear Power Plant (changed from “Boost through Great Scientist or Spy”)
Satellites: Build 2 Broadcast Centers (changed from “Boost through Great Scientist or Spy”)
Telecommunications: Boost through Great Scientist or Spy (changed from “Build 2 Broadcast Centers”)
[Rise and Fall and Gathering Storm] Ethiopia Pack Updates
- Players only receive a free Governor title from the first Secret Society they discover (instead of every time).
- Diplomatic Quarter buildings receive +1 yield from the Autocracy bonus.
- Fixed an issue where neutral-territory Vampire Castles were not removing Vampire build charges.
- Stopped Ley lines from appearing on Snow tiles.
- Ley Lines provide a Major Adjacency bonus to all specialty districts.
- Reduced the number of Ley Lines on TSL maps.
- Updated Secret Society popup flow upon discovering and joining a society.
- Implemented new names and descriptions for Secret Society popups and notifications.
Pirates
- Chainshot can no longer target non-visible hexes.
- The Dowsing Rod and English Pointer relics now only apply to naval ships.
- Trade ships now spawn less often.
- Shore Parties can no longer use Bury Treasure ability while in colonial city culture borders.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Shore Parties from embarking when placed on a tile adjacent to the map edge.
- Fixed an issue where the starting year was incorrect in the status bar.
- Fixed an issue where randomly generated treasure was appearing on improved hexes and owned territory.
- Flyover text when performing point scoring actions will now appear consistently.
- Removed audio cue for treasure notifications.
- Changed Treasure Found notification icon for consistency.
Byzantium and Gaul Pack
- Biosphère’s Appeal now applies to all cities in the empire in which it was built.
- Byzantium can no longer build the Water Park if they have a Hippodrome.
- Byzantium will no longer receive free cavalry units in captured cities for already existing buildings.
- Mines built by Gaul now provide tourism.
- Fixed an issue where the Sakdina Golden Age Policy Card was not properly granting extra Great People Points.
Heroes and Legends
- Hippolyta is now an anti-cavalry class unit. Previously was a melee class unit.
- Enemy units will convert to player’s units after attacking and dying to Hunahpu and Xbalanque.
- Arthur’s Accolade can no longer be used on naval units.
- Oya’s Storm now affects religious units.
- Fixed an issue causing Hero Antiquity shipwrecks to be placed in ocean tiles.
- Passive ability icons added for Heroes on Heroes & Great People screen.
- Added Hero glow animation for Hero unit flags
Starting today get more gear by playing with friends during the free Co-op Loot Drop mini-event!
