Oct 22, 2020 The update is now live. Here are the patch notes.
The Civilization 6 October 2020 update is due to launch on Thursday, October 22, and the devs have provided a look at what to expect from the new content. The new game mode this time around brings back a taste of a different set of classic Sid Meier strategy games in the form of a pirates scenario.
The pirates scenario is a new mode for one to four players, which challenges you to find riches on the high seas with one of four factions, each with unique active and passive abilities: the Dread Pirates, Privateers, Swashbucklers, or Hoarders. British, Spanish, French, and Dutch AI factions will try to take you down along the way. The scenario has new art to give it a tropical feel, and you can play on either a handmade map or a procedurally-generated one.
The mode was directly inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates!, associate producer Kevin Schultz explains in the dev video. "But Sid Meier's Civilization is a very different style of game from Sid Meier's Pirates! Retooling the established rules of Civ 6 to work in this unique setting was an interesting challenge. Luckily, some elements could be adapted to fit really well with Civilization 6's established gameplay. For example, the relic system."
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