Civilization 7's latest update has "hit mods harder than usual", but for a good reason

As it delivers a clump of satellite wonderment tweaks

Not agelong earlier the large Geoff-fest kicked disconnected yesterday, Civ 7's latest update arrived. Dubbed 1.2.4, it's delivered the likes of satellite wonderment rebalancing, but has besides impacted mods much heavy than your mean Civ update. Firaxis person since explained wherefore the second was the case, arsenic determination was a method to the mod breakage.

Updates to the polarising 4X strategy sim person settled into a bully monthly cadence pursuing the barrage of changes that followed its launch, erstwhile the likes of the idiosyncratic interface had folks ordering improvements similar they'd conscionable tally crossed a farmless tile. If you privation a refresher arsenic to what was successful July's patch, determination you go.

Before I get into the contents of update 1.2.4, here's what Firaxis person said astir its sacking of modstantinople. "We wanted to admit that this update deed mods harder than usual," assemblage manager Sarah Engel wrote connected the game's Discord. "With 1.2.4 we moved our UI workflow to a caller system. It makes the interface much reactive and easier for the squad to physique on, but the downside is simply a batch of UI files were renamed oregon bundled differently. Mods overriding those files stopped lining up, which is wherefore truthful galore broke astatine erstwhile with this update."

Hence an update that the developers accidental was "rougher than most", but owed to the benignant of heavy changes that you tin expect remaining a uncommon occurrence going forwards. There's besides the enactment to rotation backmost to the game's "legacy" subdivision via Steam's betas if you'd similar to support your existent load bid moving without having to hold for mod updates to lucifer 1.2.4. "This was a large displacement down the scenes, but it besides lays down a instauration that should marque the UI amended successful the agelong run. More info connected that beforehand to come," Engel concluded.

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As for the update's non-backend changes, it boasts wonderment tweaks galore. Erdene Zuu's present disposable earlier, the Colossus and Monks Mound person been pushed to antithetic civic branches, and you tin instrumentality pyramids successful places that aren't sandy. The pointy mummy buildings are sadly inactive banned from snowy tundras, though. The Gate of All Nations and House of Wisdom person been nerfed successful bid to guarantee past Persian doorways and Abbasid-era libraries aren't casual routes to victory. Meanwhile, the likes of Petra and the Eiffel Tower person been nudged successful the other direction.

Age transitions erstwhile you've got continuity enabled volition present spot alliances and much of your accrued gold/influence rotation over, with the devs besides looking into the wide equilibrium of games with the mounting turned on. Aside from that, the AI opponents person gotten immoderate tweaks aimed astatine toughening them up and having them marque less weird moves, specified arsenic accepting your plea for relationship erstwhile circumstances mean they'll person to ditch you consecutive away. Plus, a clump of interface improving that you tin cheque retired the afloat notes for.