Ah, 2010! Lady Gaga and Beyoncé have been tearing up the dancefloor with Telephone, Inception was fuelling a million drunk ‘philosophical’ conversations, Jackass had gone 3D, and Civilization V had but to succeed in that time in each Civ game’s lifespan the place it’s declared superior to its successor. If you want to social gathering prefer it’s 2010, you may take pleasure in a brand new Civilization VI mod made by precise Civ 6 artwork director Brian Busatti. It goals to make Civ 6’s panorama, buildings, and models look extra like Civ 5, much less vibrant and extra ‘realistic’. Yeah, however like, what if we’re nonetheless dreaming we’re taking part in Civ – does the game ever cease or will “one more turn” hold going without end? Makes you suppose, maaan.
“We challenged one of our artists to dig into the SDK tools and create an example environment skin using only the tools and off the shelf modelling software (no internal dev tools) to help the tools team continue to iterate and improve the SDK,” senior producer Dennis Shirk defined on the CivFanatics fan site forums. “He went full nostalgia…”
“This example mod changes the visuals of the game to better match the colours and tones of its predecessor, Civ V,” Busatti detailed on the mod’s Steam Workshop page. “Changes include multiple terrain texture modifications with more Civ V like details, a colour key that puts the buildings and units into a more neutral palette, along with a number of other small changes.”
It’s meant to reveal and discover what’s potential with the mod instruments, and as a bonus we get to play with it too.
If you need it, hit the Steam Workshop and subscribe to it. That web page additionally will get extra into the nitty-gritty of what precisely it adjustments. The mod doesn’t require any enlargement, and may work with all of them too.
Let’s meet up once more in 2022 to want for mods which make Civ 7 appear like Civ 6, and to reminisce about how that is nonetheless a stone-cold banger.
God rattling.
