The Weekly eXchange is dead. Long live The Weekly eXchange!
In its place is a new, non-scheduled 4X gaming podcast, “The 4Xchange”. This podcast is already seeing a total revamp of its format. Instead of just news, each week we’ll have a topic we dive deep in to.
This week, we discuss the eXploration mechanic in-depth and give our very humble opinions on how it could be improved, too.
Outline
The Newsworthy Stuff:
- Old World, Formerly “10 Crowns”, Formally Announced: Huge news out of Mohawk Games was the announcement of Old World, which was formerly introduced as 10 Crowns. While it plays eXtremely well and has a huge amount of potential, some players have been very open in their dislike for Old World‘s Epic Games Store eXclusivity. Early Access coming SOON!
- Age of Wonders: Planetfall – Invasions Announced: A full-sized expansion is coming to Planetfall, featuring world events, invasions, and a new race, the Shakarn, a lizard-like alien race bent on revenge! Expect more as we’re able to reveal more!
- Galactic Civilizations 3 v4.0 Dev Diary: We’re finally getting information on what v4.0 has in store for us Galactic Civilizations 3 fans! Lots of changes to how the early game will work, planet management, and more! Check the notes!
- Interstellar: Space Genesis Patched to v1.1.2: Some quality of life improvements and other bug fixes have made it into this quickly-improving game.
- Speaking of Let’s Plays, we’ve recently got our hands on the upcoming Shadow Empire, a pseudo-4X/Grand Strategy hybrid, and “Battlemode” Ben has been giving it the tutorial series!
- Alliance of the Sacred Suns v.9.1.2 has dropped: A pretty good summary of the additions can be found right here:
Fairly large patch uploaded – .9.1.2. Fixes a bunch of military-related UI and logic issues, and adds some additional functionality. Also rebalances the economy so it doesn’t crash so hard early. Check it out! #indiegame #games #gamedev #indiegamedev #unity #gamedevelopment
— KatHawk Studios (@KatHawkGames) April 16, 2020
- Godking: Master of the Rituals entered Early Access: Released into Early Access on April 8th, Seniga Studios has been busy updating it already! A few minor patches and a pretty large content patch has been released. Expect more in the future!
- Jon Shafer’s At the Gates Update on v1.4: Jon has a rather detailed Google Doc of what he plans to add to v1.4 in the way of diplomacy. Development on AtG is glacially slow, but it’s still good to see that he’s working on it, still. He expects it to reach us by Summer.
- A couple of popular mods were updated, namely the Renaissance Mod for Warlock 2 and the Caster of Magic Mod for Master of Magic. Stay tuned for both of these mods to be featured in our “Modify Playlist” feature very soon!
- Last, but certainly not least, Remnants of the Precursors beta has reached Beta v1.6.
This Episode’s Topic: eXploration
Why is it so important?
Why is it so fun?
Good eXamples:
- Distant Worlds
- Galactic Civilizations 3
- Stellaris
- Interstellar Space: Genesis
