Humankind Closed Beta available June 13th to June 21st

Great Open Dev again , Thanks ! 

and plz dont forget , Developers , to optimize the Game ! :-) 

For my Problem with starting that Game was, a Firewall Problem. I use Comodo and it was blocking the Humankind.exe. 

After i give the Order to not blocking, and i had no problem with game.

Diplomaty is not good, i would like cancel a Trade. Ai ask me for demand for Fish, and i would like give him, but i can not cancel it.

AI to surrender is good. If you coming with some Elefants the have guns^^.

Terrain is ok, i had no problems.

I would like in Technology search place, to search embarkment, city cap, or some like that.

And bei Alliance, i would like go war with my Alliance partner. If he attack my another Alliance partner, i would like sell my Warriors to them (both) than Mercanary^^.

tingtone wrote:

I linked steam, and pre-purchase humankind, however, beta is not available on the reward page? 

facing the same problem, and seems like the beta test is already over

Following injury I only managed a few hours "closed beta" but are all AI voices American?  They certainly lack any sense of being different cultures.

I also found it very difficult to navigate the map with my armies as they would disappear when I zoomed out map to more than about 6 hexes wide!  A ridiculous limit on a 3840x2160 display, but I couldn't find any settings to change this. Am I missing something?

Will the Twitch Drops Avatars like the one for "Joueur du Grenier" are available in the full game

for those who could not watch the live streams ?

So after three playthroughs, didn't get a chance to review and submit my last feedback/review. Once I understood the dynamics, the game was absolutely flawless. a few AI kinks for sure, but overall the next 4X contender to be absolutely sure!

I just want to suggest an option in the game creation to make it so you can not wipe out a culture completely until late game

the 200 t is not enough  i want more  -,_-,

but I really like that gameplay:)

I couldn't give my feedback after my game so I'll do it here. (Not sure is the good place)

The game is very good, I had a lot of fun developing my civilization.

I have a few remarks concerning the "vassalage" system:

1) I think it is too easy to reduce a civilization to a vassalage, and not expensive enough in points (that is to say that in addition to the vassalage I had to pay a very large sum of money by losing the war)

2) As a vassal, I think there is a lack of a "desire for freedom" mechanism in the nation, which increases the bellicose will against our "master" and resistance.

3) As a vassal, I had to declare a surprise war on my "master" to free myself. I think a cassus belli "liberation war" is missing, unlocked after the previous point.

4) Eventually, I lose the "war of liberation" because my master was too far away, and the other nations did not give me "free passage" to attack. I had to pay a heavy price to no longer find myself a vassal. I think that in the event of a "war of liberation", like the colonial wars, the vassal must liberate and defend his territory, and it is up to the "master" to attack and reconquer the vassal territory. I think that in the case of a war of liberation WITHOUT a fight, the ultimate victory must go to the vassal.

Others remarks

1) Sometimes the AI plays slowly in the battle, especially the Hun cavalry which can move after the attack. I think it's too long, especially to play in multiplayer.

2) I think that the unlocking of scientific advances is too slow ... Or the star gain too fast (change of eras). I don't know, but I noticed a difference of 2 or 3 eras between the theoretical units of the time, and that allowed by science (in my army but also for the bot).

3) The graphics are beautiful, it's nice to see your city grow with new neighborhoods. But for me, there are too many “clone” neighborhoods. Especially the cultural districts which have a certain style. It may be interesting to have a few varieties of skin, or as for the city center, to fix the skin of the main building (or garden) for the cultural districts.

I especially shared the areas for improvement that I saw in the context of the feedback. But otherwise I really liked the game, the battles, especially in siege. The diplomacy is interesting.

Finally got a chance to play and its already over! 

cant find closed beta. id like you to re-check Israel Store ASAP or refund me for not letting me get even in one beta

Been playing the beta, and today when I attempted to log in, it will not let me get past the selection screen. The game load stops at about 75%. And when I attempt to load a previous save game it crashes. Going to uninstall and reinstall.  See if that fixes.

How to get JDG avatar ?

I pre-purchased the game but never got my beta code.  What gives?

CyRob wrote:

We be live!

Played twice, filled the survey twice. Yet some thoughts in here:

1. I'm a casual player, prefer to play the games "for the story", so I don't choose high difficulties. "Town" and "Megapolis" were good enough for me. This said, the difficulty seems to be appropriate - everything ok with it.

2. Diplomacy. Either I didn't find it, or lacking options. For example - gaining control over neighbours territory is only possible through war, if you haven't received the option to "demand" it? 

3. Religion. Looks interesting, but I didn't find uses for it. Just some extras for receiving influence and demands. Any crusades? Any pilgrimages? Any religion mixes, creating new religions over time with other perks?

4. Combat. The only bugged part of the game through my two gameplays. In the first game - after victory the "preview" icons were stuck on the map until I reloaded the game. In the second playthrough - vice versa, my units disappeared from map after combat. They were there, I've seen them in the list, I even could select them - but they are invisible... 

Apart from the bugs, the combat seemed OK.

5. Techs. Yeah, a bit slow compared to age advances. The "star" advance to the next age is an interesting idea, yet I'm barely researching seafaring in the end of industrial age. How's that? Shouldn't there be at least a required tech requisite for advance? Or may be significantly lower the tech price for the techs from the previous age, so the player would be able to match the science level to his age?

6. Districts. Is there any AI governor for the city? I haven't found one. And placing lots of those common district became rather annoying...

7. When you select a perk for "ability to purchase a territory with money instead of influence", I thought it meant either gold, or influence? Instead of that - only gold option was available. So the influence became really useless. Having built all available wonders, I've accumulated tons of influence not having any options to spend it...

Overall - very satisfied with the game, hoping to play longer than 200 turns in the future. 

And yeah - I played on Geforce Now, and even on it's hardware the "quick load" is really far from being "quick". Would be damn slow on my computer... Any possibilities to speed up loading, or at least cache "quicksave" data for quick load?

So I have prepurchased the game yet I still don't have access to the beta. I have re-synced my account too... what now?!

I really wish that the end game survey would have allowed me more room to give back feedback on my experience with the game. I am going to do a breakdown of everything I could at least experience while playing the game into its own category.

Tutorial

I did feel like the tutorial was lacking a bit when you load up the game. It almost treats you like you are an already experienced player of turn based strategy games, which I am not. I have tried to dabble in games like Huamnkind before, but not enough to understand what I am suppose to do. I guess in settings you can change the tutorial level but the default is set to advanced. I understand that there is a need to not bore people who know what they are doing, but you shouldn't have to hunt down a setting to make it so you can have an enjoyable experience. I would propose, and maybe it will be in the final version, a tutorial menu option with either one tutorial going over everything or broken down into smaller tutorials for specifics such as moving around the map, outpost construction, city expansion and ect. It sounds like handholding, but it will make players like me appreciate the game more because we will know what we are meant to be doing.

Game Difficulty

Maybe this is in part of me not knowing how games like this work and what I am meant to be doing, but I had to really downgrade the AI  just to have fun with the game. I tried playing on default and one step down, which is meant to be the normal playing level and was just getting my butt handed to me left and right. I hate that I had to dumb down the level so far just to feel like I could enjoy the game without feeling like I was going to lose everything I had worked hard to build. This could be because I really still have no idea what to do and maybe I am just not expanding my cities enough. I will say my cities look nothing like what I see in game photos and again that could be cause I am not building enough farms or building enough districts in my city to really make it grow.

Outpost & City Expansion

While it is pretty easy to to understand the grasp of building an outpost and getting cities starting, that is the extend of what the game holds your hand about. It may have told me how to attach outpost to a city that then allows you to build more of the other city expansions in more areas than what is near your city. My frustration lies that once I figured it out and was attaching outpost to cities, it eventually would not let me attach things and I couldn't figure out why. I am not sure if there is a limit on how many you can attach or if it was too many tiles away to attach. I guess most of my problems would have been less of a problem had I known how these games worked or had a more in-depth tutorial for it. 

I think I am going to try once more with the tutorial settings adjusted more and see if it helps improve my understanding, but I still feel like I don't nearly enough to play at a level that won't make me feel like I am dumbing it town to the level where a child could play.