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2 years ago Apr 21,2022, 14:15:48 PM

The DaVinci Event and Vitruvian Update

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When we launched Humankind, we already knew we wanted to support the games for a long time with free updates. Today, we are releasing the next of these, the Vitruvian Update. As a recap, here are the main improvements included in this update:

Notifications can now be set to not automatically expand even if the ribbon is open
Improved the tenet screen to make picking a Historic Religion easier and enabled the AI to do so
Restricted Builder and Scientist active abilities to one city at a time, increased payout of Aesthete and Merchant active abilities

You can read the full patch notes here.

In addition to the update, we are launching the DaVinci event, another set of in-game challenges that let you unlock a new persona to play against: None other than Leonardo DaVinci himself! Since DaVinci was a remarkable artist, engineer, and “natural philosopher,” the challenges are focusing on these themes.

The event runs until May 16th, and on this occasion you will have both chapters available to complete from day 1.

Chapter 1:

Science and Industry: Own a city netting over 1000 Industry and 1000 Science per turn
Machines of War: Destroy the fortifications on 10 tiles during the same game.
Flight of Birds: Own a Biplane as an Early Modern Era Culture.

Chapter 2:

Live with Passion: Max out all 4 Ideology Axis, on either side.
Eternal City: Own a city with Cultural Wonders from all six eras
La Serenissima: As Venetians, trigger the Science End Condition

As usual, completing each chapter will unlock player symbols and decorations for you to use, while completing both will earn you the Leonardo DaVinci persona.

We hope you will enjoy this new challenge, and the improvements of the Vitruvian Update. If you want to know more about what else we have in mind for Humankind in the next few months, be sure to check out the post about What’s Next. We’ve already started working on many points on that list, like the improved War Support and Surrender system for example, and if you look closely at the previews for the Vitruvian Update, you might even spot a few teasers...

Have fun,

The Amplitude Team

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Dale_K

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Dale_K

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2 years ago

Apr 22, 2022, 2:04:49 AM

So, for the people like myself who are waiting for you to fix the game first before playing it again, will we get access to these events later?

Because if not, that's pretty god damn dog. And why I hate these types of FOMO event.

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USSER

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2 years ago

Apr 22, 2022, 6:30:13 AM

Do literally anthing except these random FOMO, GaaS events. Your game is NOT a live service!

Let this slide, and ya'll are gonna be bying skins in teh next Endless Dungeon game.

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2 years ago

Apr 22, 2022, 9:33:23 AM

TheCivEngineer wrote:
Just to confirm - the
Live with Passion: Max out all 4 Ideology Axis, on either side.
This requires that you are either entirely to the left or the right on all 4?

As far as I know, you have to max the 4 axis but it doesn´t matter which one to which side.
So you can have left, left, right, left / left, right, right, left etc

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2 years ago

Apr 22, 2022, 9:34:58 AM

PhoenixStriker wrote:
Are these achievements locked when playing with mods? I'd like to try for these goals but the current balance definitely requires mods to make the game enjoyable.

Last time I saw people using mods and still got the challenges, so it shouldn´t be a problem, but I can not assure you on this on a 100%

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2 years ago

Apr 22, 2022, 10:02:53 AM

As a Stadia player, I'd like to have a chance to get the Da Vinci persona too. If we can't take part in the community event, perhaps the persona could simply be granted to Stadia players to make up for being a few updates behind?

Alternatively, please could flags be added to the Vitruvian update so that the Da Vinci event is available to Stadia players on alternative dates when that update does eventually arrive?

Updated 2 years ago.

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Apr 22, 2022, 10:10:54 AM

TheCivEngineer wrote:
Just to confirm - the
Live with Passion: Max out all 4 Ideology Axis, on either side.
This requires that you are either entirely to the left or the right on all 4?

That's right. You need to go all the way to right or left on all ideology axes. All four don't have to be on the same side, of course.

"You have reached the end of an ideology axis! Of all the epithets other empires may use for you, "wishy-washy" won't be one of them."

EDIT: Sorry, I didn't see Daarkarrow had already replied your question.

Updated 2 years ago.

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Apr 22, 2022, 1:29:21 PM

The update isn't starting for me, the game is still in the old version and no mention of the Da Vinci event. i've tried restarting Steam a few times, but no luck so far.

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Apr 22, 2022, 1:48:17 PM

USSER wrote:
ya'll are gonna be bying skins in teh next Endless Dungeon game.

To be completely honest, this whole event saga with Humankind is starting to make me really worried about Endless Dungeon. They already ditched the pixel art style of Dungeon of the Endless in favor of something that resembles the style used in some of the more the trendy microtransaction-laden PvP games that are all the rage amongst the casual/eSport crowd these days, and they also replaced the turn-based strategy concept with a more action-oriented twin-stick approach. So if this Humankind event stuff is just a clumsy warmup for adding even more live-service elements to Endless Dungeon in hopes of taking advantage of the "teenagers buying cosmetics using their parents' credit card" segment of the action shooter market, then those of us who have been here for a while are going to be in for quite a disappointment.

I really hope I'm wrong here, but Amplitude refuses to listen to fan feedback on these limited-time events despite the facts that they make no sense in the context of 4X, positive comments about these events are rare both here and on Steam, and these events are definitely not boosting the player count. So it's starting to feel like there is another more sinister motive behind all of this.

Updated 2 years ago.

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Apr 22, 2022, 2:27:46 PM

As many have already stated, instead of focusing your efforts on these events to artifically boost player numbers, you should work on a major upgrade of the game. I too have the game sitting in my Steam library and waiting for your to do something radical to make it worth playing.

Player counts will improve if you release a meaningful DLC addressing, not one, but all major complaints players have brought up so far. The game is dull and lacks depth (depth is not about having repetitive content). This must be fixed somehow, and nobody can really help you out with this, other than your own imagination. EL and ES2 had something special (the last 2 ES2 expansions don't count) and it kept players playing no matter the flaws. Unfortunately HK roadmap doesn't inspire confidence, we have yet to see some really creative and deep content (economy, pollution, diplomacy, dynamic/evolving terrain all need major expansions).

Updated 2 years ago.

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Apr 22, 2022, 3:52:57 PM

Picrasso wrote:
The update isn't starting for me, the game is still in the old version and no mention of the Da Vinci event. i've tried restarting Steam a few times, but no luck so far.

Is it possible that you've opted before to use a beta version under Game Properties>Betas section?

Also, did you try verifying game files? It usually solves a lot of issues after updates of any game.

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Apr 22, 2022, 5:18:30 PM

Verifying the files solved the issue!

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Apr 23, 2022, 4:50:56 AM

JerrievanHidermand wrote:
Does "destroy fortification" include ransacking,or bombardment only？And does it mean garrison district only？

Any answers?

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Apr 23, 2022, 4:51:47 AM

Any way to see the event status within the game?

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Apr 23, 2022, 7:42:49 AM

verdebloom wrote:
JerrievanHidermand wrote:
Does "destroy fortification" include ransacking,or bombardment only？And does it mean garrison district only？
Any answers?

Machines of War: Destroy the fortifications on 10 tiles during the same game.

I too would like to know?

I have ransacked 3 fortifications (Strongholds) and the bar is not progressing for this achievement in the menu?

Can anyone elaborate on how this is done/if you have done it? It seems very vague...

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Apr 23, 2022, 8:04:53 AM

Pretty sure destroying fortifications counts only dropping it to 0 during battle, via Siege Weapons or heavy ships, not destroying a tile that also happens to be fortified.

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Apr 23, 2022, 12:09:55 PM

SimKlay wrote:
verdebloom wrote:
JerrievanHidermand wrote:
Does "destroy fortification" include ransacking,or bombardment only？And does it mean garrison district only？
Any answers?
Machines of War: Destroy the fortifications on 10 tiles during the same game.
I too would like to know?
I have ransacked 3 fortifications (Strongholds) and the bar is not progressing for this achievement in the menu?
Can anyone elaborate on how this is done/if you have done it? It seems very vague...

I used Aerodromes with Biplanes and then used the "Air Strike" action to destroy some enemy districts. Very easy.

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Apr 23, 2022, 12:27:41 PM

I just sailed some battleships to coastal Independent People, which reminded me that units with ability to destroy fortifications still can't target units standing on destroyed fortifications.

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Apr 23, 2022, 2:21:52 PM

This event was (thankfully) much easier to complete than the previous ones, took me about 3 hours on blitz to do all challenges.

Some things to note:

"Machines of War" requires you to destroy fortifications during battles, such as when besieging a city, and is most easily done with siege weapons.
"Flight of Birds" requires that you pick a science culture to able to research the techs of the next era, as the Biplane tech is in the industrial era.
"Live with Passion" is easily done by enacting the civics furthest out on the civics screen as they swing the Ideology Axis the most.
"Eternal City" requires that all the wonders are within ONE city, and can therefore not be spread out across your empire, but this can be circumvented by absorbing cities later on.
"La Serenissima" requires that you be the Venetians, which is an Early Modern Era culture, so you must therefore transcend twice, in the Industrial Era and Contemporary Era respectively, in order to achieve it. The "Science End Condition" in this case is researching all techs in the tech tree, not building the Mars Colony national project, so to make things easier it is beneficial to pick science cultures before you reach the Early Modern Era to reduce the amount of grinding to produce science later in the game.

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Apr 23, 2022, 7:34:01 PM

Qscaxz wrote:
"Flight of Birds" requires that you pick a science culture to able to research the techs of the next era, as the Biplane tech is in the industrial era.

I can confirm that you just need an Early Modern Era culture (transcended), as I got it as Industrial Venetians.