The game/animation speed is far too slow for me as to make the game unplayable. I have this problem with most Amplitude games unfortunately (Humankind and Endless Legend especially, ES2 is fine). And yes "Battle Animation" speed is cranked to 3, that's not what I'm talking about. And no it's not a technical/system-performance issue; my system is pretty beefy and I know the difference. It's mainly the walking speed and general animations, even things like UI popups that faded in and out are just SLOW.

It's like the whole game is covered in molasses. Or in an RPG when your character gets a slow spell cast on them. Or being stuck behind someone driving 5mph under the speed limit. The whole thing just makes me anxious to the point that I can't play it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIAzalQUui4&t=133s

This seems to be a somewhat recent trend in games... I have the same problem with Civ6, but not to the same degree as Humankind and EL. Civ6 is at least playable. Civ5 was fine.

I will agree that it gives the game kind of a chill feel and some/many people may like that, so please just makes this an adjustable setting.

+100 to all this

I just started a new game of Civ6 for the first time in awhile, and yea, the fast-move and fast-battle options are the only reasons I can stand to play it. I'd still prefer an adjustable animation/overall speed setting (to speed up UI animations, and everything else), but a fast-move option at least would be a decent stop-gap.

I think it's just an OpenDev problem with limited settings. At the release we will have full settings with a different game speed and animation speed.

I play at 2x animation speed and quite like it. The relaxed atmosphere is a big deal for me.

We need instant moving animation, and turn off personas animations

Exactly my feeling. The game is sluggish.

Special mention to the WASD map scroll.

Why not options to move units at 2x, 3x, instant speed on the global map?

Same for scrolling. 

+1. 

Same with scroll speed too, even at fastest speed, it takes too long to trigger the scrolling, forcing you to constantly pan which annoys me to no end.

Yea, nobody cares about animations when you play it again and again :/ if we can speed up battle, we should speed up walking animation on world ;c