Search for ' DefaultKeyDownHandler' to find the function we want to edit. Now navigate to Civ 6's UI directory (\Base\Assets\UI) and open the file a with a text editor (WordPad works fine). First, unbind W and A in the settings so you don't accidentally attack when you mean to move the camera. Reddit user Xacius has the details on this tweak.
Select the whole Civilization 6 install folder-if it's installed to the default Steam directory, that'll be: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization VI. Select 'Add an Exclusion' and choose to exclude a folder. Click on 'Update & Security' and then select 'Windows Defender' in the side menu.
To create a Windows Defender exception in Windows 10, open your PC's settings from the Start Menu. It definitely was for me: before I added an exception, loading the menu took ages and it would hang if I alt-tabbed. But if you've done all the standard troubleshooting and just getting to the Civ 6 main menu is still a long process, or it hangs on the way there, Windows Defender may be causing your grief.
(Also read our Civilization 6 review if you haven't already-we like it a lot.) Fix slow loading or freezingĪs always, update your video drivers if you haven't recently. Mostly thanks to the eagle eyes of the Civit subreddit, here are a few ways to customize Civ 6 to your liking and get it running better.
Why take it away? I already heard the matchmaking argument but there’s enough people playing this game with many diff options not to have to worry about that.We're still waiting on word from Firaxis about when we can expect mod tools, but all the loose Lua and XML files hanging out in Civilization 6's directories already give us the opportunity to do some good tweaking. Case and point: we had the ability to play ranked games with fast speed for HD on Steam. It’s not right or wrong…it’s just preference and I prefer when games allow for flexibility, not rope u into something needlessly. It’s like saying Mike Tyson and Oscar de la Hoya aren’t both great boxers because they fight in different weight classes and that de la Hoya is better because u prefer his weight class. Even still, there should be an option to play competitively at fast speed and other options.
And–as I said before–if the freaking lobbies worked correctly and u could get games, it wouldn’t be as much of an issue for me…but they aren’t working correctly. You’re right in that I don’t care as much about ELO I’m more in it for the overall gameplay. U want to wipe your unit’s butts and micro all day because that’s how you’ve played it for 20 years and got a 2k+ rating and I want to keep all the things that make AoE great (civs, era, graphics…) and just improve and modernize it so I can focus on the overall and not the minutia. Maybe stop trying to force your narrative of why we like/think certain things on us by the way, makes you seem very narrow-minded, even though you try to act as the open-minded one here. If you don’t wanna play the game how everyone else plays it, ELO doen’t really matter to you either does it? Ranked Queues should cater to the mass and not to every single person, with the smallest differing preference.
There is one default speed that is used by nearly everyone: Normal. If you don’t like that, there are other RTS games out there. Is it what most people playing AoE define as the “core experience”? Definitely not.įor good reason: This game is at its core a more micromanagement intense game than many of its genre. Is it possible to play on another speed? Certainly. You’ve been institutionalized to think that way in your AoE mind
I myself struggle to do no mistakes at normal speed.Īll you have done this entire thread is say: Umm okay then, would you mind showing us how easy it is to get a good early game then, maybe in a video, I am very interested in learning. It doesn’t have anything to do with anyone’s skill level… What exactly are you doing here then? Allowing for small QoL features doesn’t mean that we want to reinvent the entire way the game plays. I don’t like all the minutia of micromanagement anyway and i thought that’s what future versions were trying to mitigate